New Britain herald., 1925-03-28
THE OBSER YER Makes Random Observations
 On the City and Its People

The bulletin referred to above describes the situation thus:
 "Mr. Willard insisted that because his faction was recognized by tho state organization that his group grould have the privilege of nomi- mating the judges of the city court and also of appointing the prosecu- tors and all other court officials. Protests made to the governor. by a group of highly representative men, were nnheedcd, the intent of the city charter was ignored and the governor proposed Mir. Farler and Mir. Whitaker, tho Willard nominees for the judiciary. The relative per- sonal qualifications Of tho candidates for the offices did not enter into the issue. The men were approved by tho judiciary committee and elected by the legislature.
 Tt can be reasonably affirmed that these new judges cannot take their oath of office without making mental reservations. because they cannot use the best of their ability. . The first act required of them, is to relegate to the Willard machine, the exceedingly important duty imposed on them by law. to appoint the prosecutors and other court offices. The slate Is now being made up for them"
 In the view of the Anti-Saloon League, and the Connecticut Council for Law Enforcement, Governor Trumbull was not swayed by the high ideals which he says a man aspiring to office should have when he puts on his official robes in the interest of public service. We have no quarrel with the post office department for Its plan to issue a series of stamps in com memoration of the 150th anniver- sary of the battles of Lexington and Concord, but when, after producing sets for the settlement of James town, the landing of the Pilgrims and the arrival of the French Huguenots and Dutch Waloons, il sets about providing one to celebrate the dangerous voyage" of the first Morse immigrants in 1925. we think it is about time to stop. If not there will have to be an issue fol every nationality in this country and if that comes about collectors will wish that the Indians had be. gun the restriction of immigration.
 We shall have a set for the first Irish bricklayer In New York, an. other for the first German police. man in Cincinnati, third for tho first Jewish pawnbrokcr in Brook lyn, a fourth for the first Russian ballet dancer, and so on down to tht first temperamental Bulgarian plan ist
 Again. if importance is to b' measured Quantitatively, even thu Lexington stamps should be bannet and an issue to commemorate th' selection of the twelfth Chapman juror substituted, for certainly thu minutemen summoned by Paul Re we're are outnumbered by the venire man called by the country sheriff while people who could recite th' entire list of Chapman's alleged crimes still believe that Lexington common is college dining room.
 If a voyage made 100 years ago when steamships were coming int use, is deemed worthy of place or our stamps. surely there is much t' be said in favor of issuing sheets il frustrating todays news. Each staml different, with pictures of tornadoes chorus girls, criminals, divorced nobewomen, fires. missing heiresses corrupt government emHloyes. ant new additions to the zoo. Wouldn' that he exciting? A series with tn new batting kings and golf cham pions would go big with the men while the women would go simpl! mad over stamps giving the lates dope on ParlSlan 1ngcrlc'
 A year ago we would have sug gested that each sheet of stamp contain a complete set of nah jongi tiles. but today there Is no recours but to offer the idea of having eacl stamp in the sheet form one squar of a cross word puzzle, the defni tions being printed on the backs o the money order blanks.
 Truly, if we are to have stamp commemorating the first Canadia rum runner, the first Mexican raid CT, and the first fake French count it will be no time at all before W will have a commemorative stamp L celebrate the first American designe of the first commemorative stamp.
 Gerald Chapman, now on trial To murder in the superior court, is dlt ferent from any other prisoner eve presented before jury in Conecti cut, according to veteran crimina lawyers who have watched him dur ing the trial this week.
 Chapman has many distinguish ing features. Although he is on tria for his life, he apparently does no take the situation too seriously. A times his mind concentrates keenl on a witness. At other times h seems to be having as much fun a a boy at a picnic where the lemon ade is free.
 In court yesterday he displaye, one side of his many sided natur