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New Britain herald., 1924-04-03
Fail to Indict Slayer
 Of Land in MiddletOwn

Middletown, April s.--The grand jury in the superior court here yes- terday failed 10 hnd a true bill of murder in the first degree and refused to find true bill in the second degree in tho case Of James McArthur. me- gro, charged with the staying of Julius Land, negro, on March 8. Tho jury was out about five hours. States At- torney Ernest A. Inglis stated he will decide today whether McArthur will
 be tried on a charge of ntarslaughter
New Britain herald., 1924-04-03
SHIP AFIRE, t,@0 SAVED
Frangeetan Is Abandoned In Rcd Sea Passengers Transferred To "Cian Maciycr" At Sea
By The Associated Press.

By The Associated Press.
 Alexandria, Egypt. April 5.-Tbs British steamship Frangestan has been abandoned on fire in the Red sea and the 1900 pilgrims aboard her transferred to the steam Clan Maciv. CT. says message to Lioyds agent from the latter vessel. The Clan Ma, ciyer is proceeding with the passen- gers to Port Said.
 The Frangestan was first reported afire early yesterday. Dispatches last night said the flames, starting in the cargo of cotton. had spread and that the whole forward end was blazing fiercely.
 The pilgrims are bound for Jed- dah, the seaport Of Mecca, the Mo. hammedan Holy City.
New Britain herald., 1924-04-03
R. R. WORKERS STRIKE
Difficulty is ENpected to Become Gen. eral Throughout Gernany-Many Quit Work Today.

London. April S.--A general strike Of railvaymcn threatens throughout Germany. according to an agency dis patch from Berlin which says sev- cral thousand men have already ceased work in Elbcrfeld. Magdeburg, Mannheim and other important indus trial centers.
 Strikes are expected 10 begin at Hamburg and Bremen tomorrow, 1t is added.
New Britain herald., 1924-04-03
Dying Mother Smiles at
 Son Who Caused Fatality

Montreal, April s.--Rudolphe Tru- deau, Is, accidentally killed his moth- CT yesterday when pistol he vas examining wa sdischarged. The bullet wounded the boy in the hand and sped on entering Mrs. Trudaau's body. She died in few minutes.
 Young Trudeau told detectives that his mother smiled faintly at him as she died and this he interpreted as a desire on her part 10 assure him that she knew the fatality was an acci- dent.
New Britain herald., 1924-04-03
aDAYIIGHT" TIME ON R. R.
New Haven syseem Adopts echAduls so Conform With Changes in Busi- ness Hours April 25.

New Haven, April s.-An official announcement sent out by Gen. Man. ager Bardo of the N. r.. N. H. and H. railroad that daylight saving time would be observed on the system ef- fective Sunday. April 27 at 2 a. m. 1t was stated here that canvass of the local situation indicated that daylight hours would be generally adopted in this city though the state law pfe- hibits the public display of any but standard time.
 The railroad notice went out to all mayors, wardens, selectmen, grapges, board of commerce and other persons or organizations. affected in this state, Rhode Island and parts of Massachu- setts and New York on the railroad lines.
New Britain herald., 1924-04-03
U. 5. Enters Three in
 Gordon Gun Balloon Race

Brussels. April s.-Entries for the Gordon Bcnnttt cup bsllon race have closed. with three each from the United States. Spain. France and Bel giBnl. and two each from Great Brit ain. Italy and SHitzerlsnd. Most of the countries decided to nominate tli'ir pilots later, as allowed under the rules.
New Britain herald., 1924-04-03
Storm and Tidal Wave at
 BuenOS Aires Destructive

Buenos Aires, April 3.-A heavy storm, accompanied by tidal wave, swept over the coast of Mar Del Plata last night. Several bathing cs- tablishments were seriously damaged and 32 fishing vessels were carried away, but there was no loss of life.
New Britain herald., 1924-04-03
ANDERSON IS WINNER
Takes Six Out of Nine Games From Bud Fisher in State League Bowl ing Match Here.

Eddie Anderson, who with Fido O'Brien is reported negotiating for q $1,00o match game with Spinella Brothers of Brooklyn, defeated Bud Fisher of Hartford in the state in- dividual bowling tourney last night, taking six out of nine games. In winning, Anderson hit an average of 116.s. Fishers average was 112.3. The scores:
 Anderson-1ls, 1i3, 153, Ill, 1So, 1oS, 1e4, 1o9, 117-1,o5..
 Fisher-1o7, 1s1, 1o7, 127, i:., 1i4, sS, 1o., 105-1,o13.
New Britain herald., 1924-04-03
UNION LAUNDRY INSURES
 ITS FIFTY EMPLOYES
o. S. Bennett Takes Out Blanket Policy for Benefit of Men and Women Workers.

A group insurance policy under which all employees of the Union Laundry Corp. are protected in the matter of death and illness and acci- dent, when s10 a week benefits will be paid over period of 13 weeks.
 The insuring company is the Metro politan Life, and insured workers will receive other benefits in addition to. those involving the payment of death and other claims. A welfare division is maintained which pro- vides a nursing service for the sick.
New Britain herald., 1924-04-03

A 12-round decision bout between Rancho Villa. flyweight champion, and Carl Tremaine, Cleveland ban tamweight, here April a3 was ap- proved today by the Cleveland boxing commission. No permit for the show will be granted, however, until the full card of four bouts in approved.
New Britain herald., 1924-04-03
s p e akin g of Sports

A match game of billiards between Hanlon of Bristol and soccoli of this city at the Rogers billiard parlors Friday afternoon at o'clock. These two are fighting for third place in the state tourney.
New Britain herald., 1924-04-03

The Kaceys and the West Sides okay the concluding game in the Hartford league tonight. They arc fighting for second place.
New Britain herald., 1924-04-03

The Central Board of Basketball of- ficials will meet Sunday afternoon in Hartford to organize for the coming year.
New Britain herald., 1924-04-03

James J.. Jeffreys. former heavy weight champion Of the world, has returned to the hcmpen square, but as manager. not as a fighter. He will manage Tommy Richards, heavy weight, of Van Nuys.
New Britain herald., 1924-04-03
COMMERCIAL ALLEYS -.-..

COMMERCIAL TWO MEN LEAGUE ,aly S7 io5 so s3 as- iSs
New Britain herald., 1924-04-03

Services of Allen Elliott, first base aspirant of the Chicago Nationals, will be lost to the team until July or Au- gust as n result of a broken ankle suffered in a slide 10 second base against the Pittsburgh Pirates at kingman, Ariz., yesterday.
New Britain herald., 1924-04-03

Crashing The Pins
ROGERS ALLEYS

sPEIIAL MALCH Joseph Arbour's Stars,
New Britain herald., 1924-04-03

There is a letter at the Herald sports desk for The manager of the Pirates baseball team.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-24
STATE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION

Members of the Alabama Library Associa'
tion assemble In Birmingham today Tor
three-day session. Birmingham must soon
expand its library facilities to meet the
increased demand. On May Ii the people
OF this city will vote on whether to issue
six hundred and fifty thousand dollars
worth of bonds with which to erect library
building. So urgent is the need, ana so pro
ductive has been the public service Oh tne
central library that there seems little doubt
that the vote will favor the proposition.
Next in Importance to the public schoois
and closely affiliated with them is the pun
lie library. There are thousands of people
in every large community and distributed
throughout the state who are unable to at
tend schools or colleges, and many aduits IN
professions, in business and in other ac-
tiyities, who find the library service OF great
value. Where there are good libraries the
standard of education is usually higher, ana
the productive capacity greater. The library
is one of the most useful of all public IN
stitutions 1t has conspicuous part In IN
dustrial development while contributing TO
the mental stimulus and breadth OF OUTLOOK
An interesting and helpful program mas
been arranged for the associations meeting,
Including an address from one OF the most
distinguished librarians in the country.
There is promise of far-reaching and con-
structive results from the meeting, not only
through interchange of ideas and experiences
in the work, but through the encouragement
of broader vision and wider influence Ill ad-
yancement of that service
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-24
Colors In Hospitals

Signs multiply that hospital authorities
are becoming more and more interested in
the possibilities Of using color effects to In
duce various emotional moods in patients,
and through these moods to promote resto-
ration to health. This growing interest is
natural enoigh in view of the steadily ac-
cumulating evidence of the comparative uni
forrnity with which different colors induce
different moods.
The latest proof of this that has come to
my attention is contained in, the results of
an interesting experimental study of the
well-known specialist in color and in light
ing, Matthew Luckiesh.
For the purpose of his experiment, Mr..
Luckiesh asked more than sixty persons,
men and women to note their emotional re-
actions to a number of colors. In order to
avoid vagueness Of response, each person was
given list Of twenty descriptive adjectives
and instructed to select the adjective most
appropriate to the mood or sentiment created
The twenty came definitely under one or
other of t hethree classifications, exciting,
tranquilizing and subduing. The uniformity
Of emotional response TO the different colors
displayed--twelve in ail-was most inn.
pressive ~
OF the sixty.three persons tested, no fewer
than fifty-nine found deep orange exciting,
while orange yellow was noted as exciting
BY fifty-five, yellow by fifty-three, scarlet b.
fifty-six, and crimson by forty-one.
viblet was stated by fifty-four to have a
subduing effect, purple was found BY forty
eight and violet blue by forty-five. Greens
and blues led all other colors stated as hav-
ing tranquilizing influence.
These findings are similar to the findings
Of earlier experimenters. 1t is small wonder
that they have compelled the interested at
tention of physicians and others connected
with hospitals.
In every hospital, are patients much in
need fleeing stimulated to confidence and
cheerfulness, patients chiefly in need of be-
ing tranquilized, and patients so excited that
they need to be not merely tranquilized but
Quilted. BY placing these different types Of
patients in rooms Of appropriate coloring it
would theoretically be possible to obtain the
emotional mood desired.
= Here and there, in few hospitals, this has
been shown to be actually as well as theo-
retically possible in certain cases. There are,
of course, economic difficulties in the way Of
any large-scale- application of the principles
involved. There are some technical difficult
ties, too, as pointed out by one writer on the
subject, NJ. Rea Paul, in a recent issue Of
the Modern Hospital
Before color scheme can be decided
upon" Mr.. Paul comments, '.it is necessary
to determine height and size Of room. amount
o illumination received, use to which the
room will be put, etc., as all these factors
have bearing on the color solution
Still, if continuously favorable, reports
come from hospitals making trial of the
color cure on however small scale, it would
seem safe to predict that both the economic
and the technical difficulties viii eventually
be overcome, and hospitals in general be re-
decorated with view to increased curatiV
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-24
CHEAP DOLLARS

Irving Fisher, writing in the March Har-
per's on stabilizinE the dollar, says:
Widows are also lenders. They inherit
loans in the form of bonds-very gilt-edge
bonds indeed. The law insists on this Yet
when a certain trustee boosted to me how
thrifty he had been on behalf of widow
whom l knew, l gently pointed out to him
that he had, after thirty years of diligently
going through all the motions of thrift, left
his unfortunate beneficiary $4,000 in the
hole. For her capital and interest together,
though nominally more, would actually buy
$4,000 less of goods than when her dying
husband had very carefully put her into the
very careful hands of her trustee.
Heavens! said the latter, that's not my
fault! 80
No | said. its the fault of the law
which compels the widow to accept cheaper
dollars than she lent
The story is told of Polish clothier who,
after the World war; retired from business.
selling out his stock of hundred suits of
clothing for 100000 Polish marks. He then
lent his 100000 marks at 10 per cent inter
est. When three years later he was repaid
not 100000 but 10000 he found that with
this apparently augmented sum he could buy
himself exactly one suit of clothes This is
what diluted or depreciating money does to
the lender and to the employee
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-24
NAH long VERSUS CRAPS

Some idea of the increasing popularity of
Nah Jong may be had from the report of
Consul General Cunningham of the depart
ment of state, showing that in the list of
declared exports from Shanghai to the United
States last year Nah Jong sets stood sixth
in value. Only exports of silks, laces, skins
and tea exceeded the costs of winds, dragons
and seasons, which in 1923 were valued at
more than a million and a half dollars and
will run far ahead of those figures during
this year, judging from the growth of the
craze, if such it may be called.
1t has long been a subject of complaint
that American missionaries find one of their
hardest tasks in persuading the Chinese to
accept American virtues as readily as they
do American vices. 1t seems that the angu-
lar-eyed Orientals prefer to adopt the sport
ing elements. and hence, while there has been
some grumbling in this country that the
Chinese put over Nah, Jong on Americans
the latter had already been responsible for
the introduction OF craps on an extensive
scale in China.
Only recently twenty-three Chinese were
arraiGned in New York for gambling with
dice. The judge thus lectured the prisoners
We want you to accept our civilization, but
we want you to take the better part only.
Shooting craps is not the best we have to
Offer Thereupon the spokesman for the
offenders replied: Well Nah Jong not
best part Chinese civilization. Neither fan
tan. We like fifty-fifty. Mellicans take
Nah Jong we take dice. ATellicans busy
with seasons. dragons, winds; we learn
% Baby Sweet Mama y Come Seven ="
1t appears from warnings by American
missionaries in China against Nah Jong
that it is dangerous proposition. and that
sometimes millions of dollars are lost over
nights lH the game. Craps seldom attans
slch records; for comparatively few million
aires sappcar to take to this medium of
gambling. Thus, it would seem that Nah
Jong, aside from the various diseases which
it is claimed might develop from persistent
| indulgence in the game, carries possibilities
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-24
Theology.

There is great deal of unreasonable
prejudice against theology.
Theology is the science of God, and God is
simply ones theory of the universe, of the
purpose Of life. and Of the. meaning of des-
tiny. ~
Every living man has a theology. His
God is either somebody or something, or else
nobody or nothing. In either case it is the
fundamental idea Of all his thinking.
The questions, "why was born" "What
il 10 become of me when / diey What re-
accessibility is upon me in my life?' What
lis good and what is bad and how are they
binding upon me?' are the very deepest
questions one can ask.
And they are questions every human being
does ask, is interested in and seeks light
upon. T Ill
A persons character is determined by the
way he answers them. w,
: He may take refuge in some creed ana an
swer them in the formula of others, conscious
that they are too much for him. SO he may
be a Christian, Jew, Buddhist or Mohamme-
dan. ALI Of these institutions rest upon the
ever green desire Of men to solve In some way
the problem of existence and its significance.
Or he may Danish these questions entirely
and give himself to science or amusement
Or he may evades them and call himself
an agnostic.
Rut whatever he does he must locate him
self in some relation to, them, he must take
some point OF, view in regard to them.
And whatever his point OF view may be,
that is his theology.
The Agnostic, infidel, or wastrel has ex-
sctly as much theology as the Presbyterian
or the Bahist
The theology of omars "Rubaiyat" is as
distinct as that of Calyin's Institutes \;
even more, for the former has but one point,
and the latter has five.
To say II don't know nor care where
am going when ! die or whether / shall
survive bodily death at all" is quite as posi-
tive an opinion about the meaning of life
as to say II am going to heaven because
am a good Catholic q
At the present stage Of the worlds devel-
opment these issues are still possessed by
partisan spirit. 1t is hard to discuss them
without raising the question, (Which set do
you belong tor"
Hence they are not subjects of CONVERSE
ton ordinarily in polite society.
And 80 we lose much. We should be
helped if we could argue calmly and honestly
about what life and death mean, without
chopping the head of every discussion by
saying II believe SO and So" and being Of
Tended If a friend, or an enemy, undertakes
to reason with us.
essayist says. of philosophy, that it sis not
OF theology itSmay be said, what modern
the concern OF those who pass through d.
yinity and greats, but of those who pass
through birth and death. Nearly all the
more awful and abstruse statements can be
put in words of one syllable, from "a child
Is born to a soul is damned If the ordi-
nary man may not discuss existence, why
should he be asked to conduct it."
D q
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-24
Watching The Parade
BY JOHN PILGRIM

Last time / heard of Tommy Henderson
he was a candidate for election as district
attorney somewhere out West. This morn
ing he wandered in to give an account of
himself He said that he had been as we'll
beaten. as any young man could hope to be.
You see,' he said 1.-The law was against
me-
Tommy is an odd sort in these days. His
father was one of the old-fashioned lawyers
who put law above everything else. He
might attempt to prove law unconstitu-
tional. He might regard a law as unwise
and unjust But while it was law he rev.
,erenced it and obeyed it. Tommy learned
from him and added to his oddity by being a
rank, fanatical teetotaller. raj
Not a prohibitionist, mind you," he said
frankly. Il think the Volstead act an unfair
one. Time alone viii tell whether it will
stand. The sentiment of the people is the
final test. 1t overrides or supports courts.
If it is found by the people to be a good
law will stand
When Tommy became a candidate he made
his campaign ON platform of law enforce
ment. He told the drinkers that he would
do his best to dry his county up like the
Sahara He told the prohibitionists that
they must obey the law. The Bill of Rights,
he said is still in existence, even if it is neg
lected now and then.
Seizures must be made according to law"
he said. The law prescribes the manner in
which mans domicile may be entered for
the purpose of search That law has been
as openly violated by the revenue officers in
our county as the Volstead act has been vio-
lated by the drinkers. Officers who violate
the law are as much law-breakers as, are
the criminals who violate another law. They
are more reckless law-breakers, for while
the drinker brings one law into contempt,
their ruffianly acts creates dislike and
contempt for the whole structure of our
laws. And civilized people can only live
by law" .I
He said that both drinkers and prohibit
tionists fought him. The one said that he
was dry and the other said he was wet.
The truth is, he said, that he fought for the
enforcement of law and because of that was
distasteful to both sides.
An unpleasant indictment-if true. Be
cause it indicts people
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-24
THE WORD "nAMsEI."

'Damsel,' with its obsolete form, "damo-
sell is familiar to many soldiers who re-
turned from France, as the last part of the
word frequently used by them, "mademai-
sele."
Formerly. however, "mademoiselle' had, a
specific meaning. 1t was the title given to
the oldest sister of the king of France.
Then it was given TO all unmarried women,
SO that it required a good knowledge of
family trees. with all their branches, to en-
able a Frenchman to use the term "mademoi-
selle' correctly. In English the term dam
SCI was applied to young unmarried women
indscriminately.
In France itself the revolution made the
term "mademoiselle" applicable to all un-
married women:
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-24
Brief Nature Story
By j. OTIS SWIFT !.

Purple martins returning to their castle
in the yard this month evict the English
sparrows; cliff and bank swallows inspect
the Palisades and caving near the. edges
least flycatchers. black and white creepers,
black throated green warblers and oven-birds
fit along wood roads; catbirds are noisy in
marsh bushes and the house wren scolds the
family feline out of the garden. Where the
downy poplar breaks into catkins along the
brook, trout fishermen tread the velvet green
of young grass.
Hiking clubs pause in little valleys in the
wilderness where Everything seems to be
springng into life at once, and wonder
mystified, whether the sweet perfume, the
subtle suggestion of an unseen spirit about
MAY not mean that Astarte, goddess of fer
tility and love, has waited here but lately
for her lover Adonis.
Where the young leaves of violets hide
dainty buds the lovely feet of the Nature
Mother have trod. When Adonis was killed
by wild boar, violets and buttercups sprang
from the spot. Buttercups stand in the
meaning of flowers for spiritual riches, and
violets for love and faithfulness.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-24
WHEN is A NUT NOT A NUT?


The Kansas City Star says that the busy
season for the alienists is on again. what
ever it is they do when they are not testify
ing as to what they think is in Harry Ihaw
head, when the lawyers decide 1t is time
to tap the Thaw nut again, or the ThaW
r,ocketbook, the aliensts drop their otner
work and come flocking from all quarters
to join in the guessing
OF course, the alienists differ in their
theories and hence in their opinions, II
this were not true, the sanity of Mr.. Thaw
might have been decided long ago. 1t would
appear. however, that many alienists are
chosen to give favorable testimony as to
how much of nut defendant is, it nut
At all, while certain number are selected to
prore that he is real, bona fide nut with
out any doubts or notifications. Ihen
the hypothetical questions are sprung all
over again One alienist answers in the at
fitnative. while another replies in the mega
tire. This comes Immediately after the
aIieuists are sworn and declare, that they
have been living by examining nuts of
which, of course, there are any number OF
types and degrees.
r LAWYERS flock around to analyZe what the
aIienists explain, and the fight goes merrily
on so long as the Thaw pocketbook holds
out, The score appears to be about even
after many years of that sort of thing. How
much longer it will remain even will depend
possibly on the extent to which the finan-
ciaI feature may be figured on; for the
Dollar mark frequently has preponderant In
fluence upon such matters.