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New Britain herald., 1924-06-07
,os,ERNI>G MYSELF
BY ]. r. McENoY y,.s.--.. r 4s.fst. f.-.4.ss

f-rN1tor or 'lhc lotters
 don't knop how quite 10 began this. suppos. should take of with tho statement that aaa born in 1895 and that had t-o parents who accepted me with patient rCsig- nation. and that often turing my you h my mother would sigh and say 'No croes no crown: th.' my father wore out three lilac bushes and tNo yards or paling fence on my southern exposure and that later ! left the village nf %cr Burnside. IH.. without one dissenting vote.
 And nov you see nnc 2 handsome youth of twelve years nOrkiug my way through school st the Christian Brothers college. in s;. Louis. which Is in Missouri. In return For lot Of useless information and sn appalling accumulation of facts which have since discovered aint so. made 1gn beds day. and once wcek-thp holiday. of CoaTs4--1 scrubbcd Gor- mitory feor slightly smaiie' han 2 subdivision. Iu hr EPriuE Fs BseJ 1T my triumuhsl march Iorn Tho road oy isarnins 70 scurrv hack home and put in Inc rorn rrop. isorsut. taa dog Rcod r-as then in tfoonI and. gs everybody trOas ~1n knoa7s an. taIur. ihats the time 10 plan corn in Southern 1tIinois.
 In inc faH I returned fo co'lrz. pnd my sophomore yrar ta in7rr trs' l had bosn promoted from rnicr f,aI- n1a*Nr 10 combination gtu8rnf ~aiter and dIshfsehor. Tlis .ear -as etentful iu my iifc Tor tuo rea- sons: first. l organized strikr of our three student walters al supper t.nIt one night and was promptly thrown out on my ear. and second. ! swiufd two books from fhn St Louis public Iibra.y. This was the beginning uf my csrcer Of crime which eulrninatrB in "T'he Potters.- featHra ! am pleased in my Joking uay 10 refer 70 as comedy in print and csr-Son.
 Ny next educational sIttsitufe --as iH the University of NOtfr Dafut. where ! found scope for uy as- talents in the job of htina !, stadcrt v-stsr rho waited cH trs strfaII. -zifers This ! -c csrsrfru1'r zrhrar ss Ire lo7est far- -f -ssaz ,- 'i7r A. nIgat I -ofksd as crlcs bor CT
New Britain herald., 1924-06-07

-Four years of nullification by the
 democratic and republican officials have demonstrated the sonndness Of tho philosophy Of the prohibition party, that a law comforting a right will enforce itself, but a law pro-
New Britain herald., 1924-06-07

hibiting A wrong, financially and po- litically entrenched, requires . party thoroughly committed to it's main tenance and enforcement. Little or no improvement can be expected SO long as the friends of the prohibitory
New Britain herald., 1924-06-07

law divide themselves among political parties, seeking the votes of the law ylolators and the nullifcationiets, whose votes are regarded ss neces- sary to the political parties as the votes of the law ablders."
New Britain herald., 1924-06-07
PA OF 'POTTERS'
 REVEALS HIS PAST
Comic Wiz, Creator of New Comic
 Strip Tells About Sell

Americas latest great comic feature The Potters' which will be pub lished in this newspaper beginning Monday, June 2, is the brain product. of J. r. HcEtny. most recently famed for bringing 10 Rroa1WsS the most laushable comedy Nit in years written around the characters which are making "The potters' popular national institution.
 Not trusting any Boswell or Who's rho st this stage Of his career nor thc cr,ator Of "Th. Trottcrs' dates from iIa5b, Mir. Icl, oy himself nrote the following sketch Of his ogr hisior,. some hitherto unpublished details of mich reveal the seeds that fopers into nation. i1c smiles and laughter n "1he Tottors."
 Here arc the high lights of hi5 his- tor. from feH Eurnside and St. Louis to Greenwich Village and Ne1 York
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-11-07

MIR. l. K. RUSSELL member Of the American Chemical
Society, has written book entitled The Romance
~ Of the Holes in the Bread
He says that all lives have been accustomed three
times day since began to todde to holes in the
bread and perhaps Of have wondered what caused
them. If we had known might have been on level
with the greatest scientist in the world.
This scientist named Louis Pasteur who called
the father Of modern medicine.
He declared voting contest in France, to be the
greatest Frenchman who lived Most Of would have
voted for Napoleon
Pasteur noted that when heat applied to dough
and passed above certain point it broke and changed
in the nature and function of its particles.
He applied the function of the bake to other things
in life
There was cholera which had swept over cities of the
middle ages every winter taking thousands Of victims
There smallpox which almost universally prevalent
and typhoid fever which swept in great epdemics the face
of the country.
Besides these there certain fevers which, in maternity
hospitals carried off eighty Of every hundred
admitted
Pasteur when only young man. asked that the doctors
lend him their bandages and instruments that he might
bake them or pass them through flame to kill any
particles them The doctors let him take the bandages
and the sheets used by the and the death rate
dropped to twenty out of hundred
He demonstrated that the dough of bread contained
yeast which away its sarches and sugar and gave off
carbon dioxide and alcohol.
From this he extended his studies to prevent wine from
turning vinegar and to preserve some thirty or forty
per cent of the which the brewers had been in the habit
of throwing rotten to the plague that had
been ravaging among the silk to prevent cholera
among chickens and anthrax among herds OF beasts.
Pasteur tied all these instances of human, animate ana
nanmae experiences together and applied to Them one
after another his great discovery and thus protected h
manly and the animals In measure, from ther enemies
1e Copyright 1874 by The Newspaper syndcate>
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-11-07
GARRETT P. SERVISS CITES
CLAIMS FOR ESPERANTO
Proponents of New Language Overlook Its Lack
of Real Roots and Patchwork Design.

exactly what / said. In fact,
Esperanto has no roots" OF its
own: it only has its own way OF
manhandling the roots that It
takes by wholesale from authentic
languages. A genuine language,
by its very origin, is a source OF
knowledge; it contributes to the
mental store of mankind. But
Esperanto brings no such contribu-
ton; it has nothing that 1t can
call it's own.
Time of Learning.
In learning Esperanto you
are merely acquiring a patch
work Of pieces cut from real
languages, sewed together by
machine, and filled out with suf-
fixes and prefixes (all Of sim
liar origin) as may be seen by
the following statement:
There is a word for every
possible purpose in Esperanto.
and words expressing the finest
shade Of thought may be created
at will by the use OF prefixes and
suffixes. No other language has
this quality"
Ana InlSs
Esperanto is not intended ito
supplant any language, BIZ ITO
afford a common medium be-
tween them"
But since Esperanto only ex.
lists by virtue Of the languages
from which 1t derives it's roots
and its grammatical basis, why,
IL they are not to be supplanted,
learn Esperanto at all? If you
already know the mother Ian
guages you do not need to study
Esperanto.
II you tackle Esperanto with.
out any knowledge of the Ian
guages from which its roots are
drawn you have to learn the
meaning of those roots from the
start. That is not any easy job.
as anybody having no previous
knowledge of Latin and Greek,
will find out, Notwithstanding
the confident statement Of my en-.
thusiastic Esperantist, that:
1.-THE average men, scientist or
layman, could learn Esperanto in
six weeks intensive study"
Very well, let anybody ignorant
of Latin and Greek roots try to
learn Esperanto in six weeks!
/ have no objection to Esperan.
to, except that i think that the
time used in acquiring it could
be better employed in acquiring
the natural.born languages for
which it is supposed to afford "a
common medium" ! do not stand
with the hunaniZers of science
who would even so so far as to
straightjacket 1t with a machine.
made language.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-11-07
Blaming the Parents

The Moral and Social Committee of the Lutheran Church
says parents to blame for the foolshness and the i'm
morality of their children mothers French dresmaers are
responsible for ndecency in the clothes by young girls
and fathers not booegger responsible for their sons
conduct
That is not ENTIRELY. true. ENVIRONMENT and had
example powerful sometimes than parents especially
If the parents be weak and too indulgent.
should be understood however that whipping and harsh
not the for youthful fooshness The best cue
is GOOD EXAMPLE SET BY THE PARENTS. mother
inhalng cigarette smoke father Dragging about his pre-
war bootlegger in position to preach morality child
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-11-07

A GENTLEMAN in Chicago
N who has been reading,
4 - writing and speaking rs
peranto for fifteen years, and
with constantly increasing salts
faction" is displeased by what /
recently said about that artificial
language in connection with a
proposal to put it on the air" as
an aid to the diffusion of scien-
tific information. He offers to
bet that / cannot read. speak, or
write Esperanto, for If / could.
he says, / would be an enthu-
siast for it,"
pass his bet. I have looked
Esperanto over, but have not
swallowed it. However, | am
quite willing to quote what he
says in its favor; this for in
stance: ''I am receiving every
day letters and publications from
all parts Of the world, written
wholly in Esperanto, ard entirely
understandable. and. expressing
every phase of thought more clear
ly and definitely than could be done
in any other language"
Such a statement shows the
force Of enthusiasm. I admit that
ESPERANTO is Understandable,
but so il ''hog Latin" As to its
expressing every phase Of thought
more clearly and definitely than
could be done In any other
language. / must be allowed to
refer to common sense for judg-
ment.
A ROOtIess Language.
Every phase Of thought" IL q
very bold phrase, which does not
indicate, as here used, any evil
dent appreciation of scientific
exactness. am afraid that the
best linguists would pass 1t by
with q smile. Will anybody but
an enthusiast believe that Esper-
anto is more expressive and
richer in the power to represent
thought than Greek or Latin. or
English, French, German, Italian
to mention but a few of the
great languages that humanity
has produced by thousands Of
years of incessant striving to OBJ
tain competent expression for it's
reasonings, its emotions, and its
beliefs?
AS to Esperanto being made
up, as / affirmed, 'from mixed-up
pieces Of other (reaD languages"
my director replies that "only
roots are taken into Esperanto
from other languages, and these
the roots in most common use."
But that seems to me to be
only a different way Of saying
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-11-07
Encouraging Bad News
Or cts Darkest Before Dawn. 2

Scientists that the perfected flying machine not be
expected for long time.
In about twenty years machine that everybody can
handle may be made for about $780,"
That's encouraging for when people begin to say that
thing CAN'T BE DONE FOR LONG TIME it's usually done
very quickly.
When the first automobile began running around with
young Mr. Vanderbilt stepping the gas Of his white
Ghost nobody dreamed that would be turning
out two or three million year. But Ford doing it.
ana selling them and old ladies and young children drive
them.
Flying win be safer than driving buggy some day; the
air road is wide. =,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-11-07
Freeing Province
From Weeds

EXPERIMENTS are being con-
~ Quoted this fall on a machine
which has just been perfected in
Alberta, Canada, which II found
successful will result in freeing
the entire province from weeds.
1t will also, II successful. nave
the effect Of freeing for use in
stock feeding the screenings which
now under provincial and Do.
minions legislation can only Under
the most stringent nf regulations
be used for this purpose. accord.
ing to the provincial minister Of
agriculture.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-11-07

HAVE YOU EVER MOVED SINCEP
Have you rebelled and struck out for yourself
Have analysed your equipment and substituted
for oldf
Have turned in that Odashoned gear for this
years model2
Have you left that line Of sleek respectable parked
personality and gone adventung rskng the deours and
rocky places and Drawing the scOrchng and sudden
storms2
What do you know of deserts where sickness and pomp
stripped from your bOnes and your soul, like so much
sodden sue and you face the God that made you
What do you know Of the mountain top and the staress
lence where soul is born againf
What do you know of pounding mile upon mile in dust
dimmed service to your fellow MANI t-.
WHAT DO YOU KNOW OF GLORY AND AGONY OF
PERIL AND REWARD, OF REALLY LIVING2
HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN PARKEDf
WHAT WILL YOU SAY WHEN THE GREAT OFF,
CIAL COMES AROUND AND ASKS YOU WHY YOU
NEVER LEFT YOUR STATIONf
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-11-07
Sap and Salt
BY BERT MOSES

by DENT MUoES--
Nothing is something that the
more Of it you get, the less of 1t
you have.
Hot water, soap and clean
towels are among the master
pieces of civilization.
What you do and what YOU
don't are the cause of health;
also the cause of disease.
Hez Heck says: Everybody has
some ability. and all that's needed
is to use Il where II fits in"
A truth is generally unpleasant
the first time you hear u,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-11-07

he who with the eyes believes in his heart.
To love is human it is also human to forgive
There is wisdom like frankness.
friend is worth all the hazards we can run
Quarrels would not last long the wrong were only
one side. .. i. -
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-11-07
Try Hot Milk

Belgian woman to cure her husband Of drinking fed
him powders bought from sorcerer She did stop
his drinkng-he ded The powders killed him. Good cook
ing better remedy for drink Give man food that he
likes and he digess easily Persuade him whenever he must
have drink Of whiskey to take, instead half glass Of
hot milk.
Bad cooking has caused much drunkenness. Almost as
much % bad tempeA
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-11-07
DR.. FRANK CRANES
DAILY EDITORIAL
By DIR. FRANK CRANE.
Holes in the Bread

MR.. K RUSSELL member of the American Chemical
M Society has written book entitled, "The Romance
ne a. HI a.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-11-07

Gain accompanied by i'll report may be called loss
Every gift possesses implies obligation to the
less gifted.
A great mind is a great fortune.
We may concede any right without doing any man
wrong, but we can favor one without njuripg some
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-11-07
' "s4:ss s;' C.: By ELSIE ROBINSON

A human goes ahead by explosions Of
thought above the ears
HOW OFTEN DO 700 DEToNATE IN
THAT PARTICULAR CHAMBERa
You landed in life with ready-made set
of features
You landed in life with ready-made set
of ideas.
You mother and father and the long line
of people from whom you came arranged
your like and dislikes, your tastes and
talents.
They gave you religion place in So
ciety-a liking for blondes-a prejudice
against brunettes-a leaning toward a po-
Gtical party and possibly an instructive dis
taste for communists.
On the day you moved into the skin they
chose for you, you moved into the psychology
they chose for YOU
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-11-07

UeSerV6 no credit aCo
Your father and mother handed you that job ready made
and paid for the upkeep.
And that is fine motor you have-penty of strength
there-plenty of potential pep--..t..se.4 ....~ .
You could go long way with that motor. s
You could climb tremendous grades you could cross far
horizons and achieve flaming visions
Your life could 60 zooming down trails, establishing
records carrying to triumphant achievement
BUT, INSTEAD-HOW LONG IS 1T SINCE YOU
MOVED FROM THAT PARKING PLACER
Vest, know it, nice parking place. Pal
It's perfectly respectabeyoure earning dividends while
you squat there
The police won't get you, for there forty minute
ordinance when life decides to park
But OH Pal there's terrible penalty for such parking
You still don't understand why you Of parking
do you3 TEL
Well, here's what mean.
An automobile goes ahead by explosions of gas in the
cylinders.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-11-07
LISTEN, WORLD!
rTOW LONG H. We YOU BEEN
- PARKED2

A4 No, l am not referring to the
forty minute ordinance which regulates your
Lizzie on the public boulevard.
How long have YOU, yourself, been parked
in the highway of Gfe2
How long since you stepped on the gas
and shot aheadi u.s..
Have you ever shot ahead, Pali
Or are you squatting where the stork
dropped you on your birthday
Wait minute before you begin to con-
tradict.
Stop-think things over.
How much real progress have you ever
made under your own poweri
Look yourself over.
You've pretty fine chassis there. Nice
lines, fine modelling, classy finish.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-12-26
TO HONOR
PIGOTT
Seattle Man to Be Decorat-
ed for Orphan Aid

The Italian government, thru its
seattle representative. Alberto Alfani.
acting royal Italian consul. VIII on
Saturday. December 81. decorate With
the order % the Cheyaiicr Of the
Crown Of Italy. William Pigu,t. vice
president Of the Pacific Coast Steel
Co. in reception % his generosity
In connection with the new orphan.
ago building OF the Sisters Of tho
Sacred Heart.
Mr. Pigutt. who waa 20 rccelvn the
decoration in company with Patrick
A. Henry and Judge George Don.
worth. on January :. found Il ncccs.
snry 70 be absent from the city on
that date. 40 viii receive his honor1
alone Tho tentative time set ia 2
.. m. December q. but deferrinE to
the desire OF Mr. Pigott that his son
be present. presentation viii wal,
upon the arrival Of Piggot,. Jr,, from
California.
mfr. Pigott and Mr. Heney have
conferred great service on the ltal
ian government, MS It was greatly
duo 20 their efforts that the new
building Of the Sisters Of the Sacred
Heart was completed. and Il IL most
~ Italian sisters and orphans who
benefit thsrefrom." said the Italian
consul Friday. we are planning n
banquet. under the auspices of the
Italian Commercial club. represent
Ing the Italian colony, NJ the Olym
pic hotel January Z TO honor Mr.
Hency and Judge Donworth. and
greatly regret the inability OF Mr.
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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-12-26
ICY PAVEMENTS
CAUSE CRASHES
Sound Country Is Warmer
While Other Districts Freeze

Fog blanketed the north end Of
the city carly Friday morning.
dampening the pavement and caus-
ing the streets to be covered with
a thin layer Of ice.
Scores Of automobiles skidded
crafty on Esstlake and Westlake
avenues. and many we're damaged
in accidents. The police traffic de-
partment found Friday morning one
OF their busiest days owing to the
icy streets No one was injured
seriously In the crashes, but scores
Of automobiles were disabled or
wrecked.
Northwest Washington Sound
country-and the Missouri river val.
ley. were tho only two places in the
entire United states where there
was any moderation In the nation.
wide cold wave Friday Southeast
winds, bearing down on Seattle
from southern Idaho and Utah.
where record low December temper.
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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-12-26
F. |. BESSELMAN
is SUICIDE
Manager OF Carman'S Kills
Self on Christmas
SUFFERED POOR HEALTH
Shot Rings Out as Family
Visits Downstairs

CHRISTMAs galety wnt turned 10
" tragedy Thursday evening when
Fred !. Besselmnn. prominent hufl.
ness man aud manager Of the Car
man store slipped away from bis
family and sought an upstairs bed
room IN his home. 9fg redsral ave-,
and fatally wounded himself with 4
revolver lie died Ia tho Swedish
huspitai Al 1856 p. ~
tinftelnltn rid tpsen SPENDING
Christmas evening with his wife. bis
mo,hsr.in.law. Mrs Miriam Crowley,
and Nirs. Besssiman's sister. Mira
Marie Pierce
Leaving the women quietly talk
Ing. Besslmsn went upsihlrr Two
shots rang out lie had fired pis.
toi purchased recently as q protre
ton against burglars shooting him.
SELF twice IN the head.
Besselmen'a act was that OF a man
unable longer 10 continue 20 labor
under an Illness which had pursued
him for years. according 10 T. ID.
Dakcn. head Of the Dalcu Advcrtls.
ing agency. and a friend Of tho fam.
rs.
Duksn was called 20 tho scene OF
tho tragedy by Mn Bcsselman. lie
made arrangements FOR tho Injured
man 10 be taken TO the hospital.
Bessclmgn came TO Seattle In
1906 as manager Of the Bon Mar.
che. lie left in 1917. when he was
forced TO retire by Illness.
Thinking he had recovered. after
a years vacation, Beaseluan tool,
over the management Of the J. $.
Graham Co. where ho remained Tor
four years, His til health again
forced him 10 retire. He could not
stand inactivity and resumed his
relations with tho Bon Marche. re.
Gently he was appointed manager or
the Carman store.
Besolman was one OF the most
widely known OF seattlo's business
executives, lie was active In Ma.
sonic affairs.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-12-26
SUSPECT
sure OF
FREEDOM
Police Say Form err
Detective Has Es-
tablished Alibi in
Holdup Case

L'OttAiER DETECTIVE ROSS
Il &. WATSON may be re-
leased. ihoroIy oNoncratod Of the
$4,000 holdup Of the Royal Bank
Of Canada branch nj Nanaimo, u
WAS admitted Friday by Police
Chief Scveryns and Detective
Captain Tenant, insplie Of the
fact that he has bern Identified
by witnesses 10 the robbery n
ono Of the bandits.
Watson has been held IN the city
jnil since his arrest earlier in the
week. with five other suspects. Sew.
eryns aud Tenant expressed them
selves Friday AZ being convinced OF
watsonu innocence In this holdup.
Watson however sim faces trial on
a charge OF completely in the Bon
Marchc holdup last summer.
Friday Watson outlined part Of his
alibi 10 tho chief. Several OF Seat.
Ties most responsible business men,
according TO Watson. will swear that
they took dinner az the Watson home
on tho evening Of December IL. a
Friday. This was the day or the
Nanaimo holdup.
Dobonnir and entirely uuworried.
Watson told how, on that Friday he
had met Detective Harry weedln al
noon and later had taken lunch al
the California oyster house near the
courthouse. He declined TO give the
names OF his witnesses, but said there
we're four families AT his home for
dinner that evening. One OF the mon
present IL connected with taxicab
firm here and another is head Of "A
local lumber company, Watson said.
Scyeryns said that Watson
would now he ut liberty were Il
not for Canadian officials. who
are trying 10 cNtradite five OF
the. suspects, including the
former detective.
They'll turn me loose" Watson
asserted. "ns soon as they bring
down the EaraEemnn az Victoria
who says l rented an automobile
from him. which was used in the
stichup, and also the man who says
u bought two tires from him for
the car after the holdup. have
no fear that when they see mo
they win eNoneratc me"
Deputy Prosecutor T, H. Patter-
son declared Friday that he and
Ross WIN fight every effort 10 free
Watson and the four other men
held for the Nanaimo robbery on
bond before the extradition proceed
ings have been completed. II is not
usual. lie said. under tln law tc
admit a prisoner to bail pending dc.
cisioh on an extradltion complaint
\. new complaint, charging com.
plicity in the robbery on December
IL Of the Royal Bank Of Canada
branch at Nanaimn. was filed FRI,
day against II, {. James, He, Pat.
tcrson says, has been identified as
the johnson" against whom q
similar complaint was filed Wednes.
day.