New Britain herald., 1926-04-24

News that ex-Mayor Orson F. Curtis had been given one-way ticket to oblivion by the republican powers-that-bo a few hours before election day was the most delicious political tidbit of the week, Perhaps no one would have known that there was a sour note in the campaign or chestra had not MT. Curtis himself told the press about it.
 Gossip hath 1t that the managers of MT. Weld's campaign believed that the presence of Mr, Curtis would hinder rather than help. For quite while before election day MT. Curtis had been closely identified with affairs and had spent the great CT part of his time at Weld head quarters extending the right hand of fellowship and beaming bounteously, as is his wont, on all and sundry who dropped in for q chat or to pass the time O day. Whether those higher up in the republican party heard the murmerings of discomfort from the rank and file is not known. But the fact has been revealed that they in- vited Mr. Curtis to absent himself until after the ballots had been counted. Prior to that time it had been publicly announced that MT. Curtis would be Mir. Welds cam paign manager. Then there was a sudden shift, an overnight shift to be truthful and Mr. Curtis was forced into the background and sup planted by eX-Senator Richard Covert.
 Apparently one of the oldest war horses has been read out of the party and finds himself stranger among old friends. It is 0 curious situation He forms the third faction, an isolat- ed group consisting chiefly of Mir Curtis. His old faction won't have him, to the Quigley faction he is poison, so there's nothing left for him to do but to play solitaire and wait for the political pendulum tc |
 Among the amazing achievements of the age which are given common place consideration is the possibility of forecasting the weather. This was brought forcibly to mind early in the week when the weather bu. reau declared with emphasis that spring weather would envelope New England on Wednesday. The prog, notication was published in the newspapers on Monday, forty-cight hours earlier The public waited fol the result with curiosity and hope mixed with skepticism. But ever hardened skeptics smiled broadly when Wednesday morning dawncd and they hreathed in the balmy air which had been waited overnight from sunnier climes.
 This is the day of science. Mech. anical scientists are continually pouring new wonders into our laps ! They have given us the airplanc dulD, duNOlllODlle anu SttJliIttl lllt But nothing is more startling thar the precision with which the stu. dents of weather conditions car i forecast conditions. They are some. times incorrect, but that is due C the vagaries of climatic conditions They assemble certain reports iron all parts of the nation. put them to- gether much as a mathmeticial would add two and two, and tel what the result should be. Unlike the mathematician they are iandi capped. Their twos sometimes tur1 to threes and then the public grumbles. But they arc approNi
 mately right most of the time anC precisely right frequently. If yo' don't believe that, stroll throuEl Walnut Hill park. listen to the birds see the buds and grass and inhal
 the fragrance of spring,