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New Britain herald., 1926-08-12
Dissertation On Tie Weather

Washington, Aug. 12.-Forecast for Southern New England: Prob ably showers tonight and Friday; not much change in temperature; moderate east and southeast winds.
 Forecast for Eastern New York: Probably showers and thunder showers tonight and Friday; not much change in temperature; mod crate southeast and south winds.
 Conditions: The areas of high pressure are moving rapidly across the country and producing frequent and sudden changes in the weather in the northern districts. Showers have occurred during the last 24 hours from Montana to Maine and on the Gulf and south Atlantic coasts, The greatest amount of rain reported was 2.96 inches at Atlanta, moderate in all the northern dis tricts.
 Conditions favor for this vicinity partly cloudy weather and not much change in temperature, probably followed by local showers.
New Britain herald., 1926-08-12
THE PENDULUM OF THE
 STOCK MARKET

The bear raid" in Wall street was 10 be expected. Stocks so up and then go down; have been doing that since before we were born and will continue to act that way to the end of time. The only troublesome and vexing point at issue is, when they will so up and when they will so down?
 But the impartial observer has noticed one thing that has occurred with intending regularity these many years: When bull movement has progressed far enough to get the general public in on the up- ward swing. when speculation has been stimulated 10 the point where every amateur practitioner thinks he is getting wealthy, suddenly there comes an unexpected swing in the other direction.
 After the smoke has cleared away it is generally found that the pro fessionals" got out from under just before the slip occurred.
 The latest little setback i'll Wall street was blamed upon the fact that the thrilled orders of the Steel Corporation did not come up to expectations; and then some- body changed the money call rates.
 By the way, how would you like to be in the position to manipulate those call rates, and thus know what was going to happen ahead of time?
New Britain herald., 1926-08-12
VACCINATING FARMERS
 WITH POLITICS

At the present time all over the United States farm organizations are holding annual meetings, or picnics.
 The farmers idea of a good time is 10 meet in a picnic grove under the auspices of a farm organization and listen to some senator, con- gressman or politician.
 The men who have been active in Congress are all back home" filling dates to speak before farm CTS gatherings.
 Senator Bingham is getting his taste of it right in Connecticut. Every county farm bureau is hold ing its meeting and the supply of ready speakers is heavily taxed.
 The Connecticut junior senator touched upon the procliviues of farmers in his comparison with city folk. The soil-tillers have not lost contact with politics; they
New Britain herald., 1926-08-12
SEVEN YEARS OF DEMOCRACY

France has its Bastile day and Germany has its Constitution day. Both days mean something in the history of the world.
 The seventh anniversary of the adoption of the Weimar constitu- ton was celebrated in Germany yesterday, and it is a pleasure to note that Chancellor Marx talked as if the monarchists were defin- itely hors de combat in their ne- farious underground methods 10 bring the kaiser back on the throne.
 Reading a summary of his ad- dress furnished by the Associated Press it is clear that the kaiser and the royal family will never "come back"
 Despite political differences, the conviction is growing that the Weimar republican constitution is platform whereon the building of Germany could be achieved" were one of his pointed sentences.
 One of our slogans in entering the war was to make the world safe for democracy. Whatever has occurred to shake our belief that democracy has been materially strengthened, it is a beam of sun shine in the sky 10 realize that democracy was clamped upon one of the nations involved, even if the nation was on the other side of the fence during the conflict.
 That's something, anyhow.
New Britain herald., 1926-08-12
Borrow S3,0O0 and Build
 1t Up to Over Million

New York, Aug. 12 P(-Three men in Sing Sing prison have re- vealed a scheme whereby they and others are alleged to have built up Ia S1,466, SIS credit from a s3,000 purchase on credit, by means of juggling diamonds and bank &C., counts.
 The disclosure was made by Harry A. Cohn and Harry and Alexander Arnow, who were sent to prison for their connection with an alleged iewelry swindle. The New York American says today that Assistant United States Attorney George J. Mintzer induced them to tell their story to the last grand jury. through his efforts to trace s500,O00 of, the assets of Cohn now in bankruptcy. Four others were indicted by the grand jury. e.. -..
New Britain herald., 1926-08-12
UNLICENSED DRIVERS


 The estimate of the state motor vehicle department that there are 10000 drivers of automobiles in Connecticut who are operating their cars without operators licenses is rather surprising, and points to intellectual control of the situation somewhere.
 It can easily be realized that it would be vastly unpopular if the state and city police were to begin forcing multitudes of autoists to show their operators licenses. yet there sems to be no other method in sight.
 One way to cure the situation would be stiffer fines to unlicensed drivers after they get into accidents and are found out.
New Britain herald., 1926-08-12

still like to listen to stump speak CTS; want to see and hear their representatives; wish to weigh what he has to say.
 The city man, as the senator said. has been inclined to become apathetic. He doesn't discuss pub lie issues with the same frequency as the farmer and doesn't give evidence of being as vitally inter- ested.
 The country store. with its gathering of tobacco -chewers and champion penknife whittlers sitting around a keg Of nails, is often the object of funny pictures in the city journals. As shrine of democracy and intelligent discus sion of vital issues, however It IS hard to match it in the city
 A city bowling alley, pool room or cigar stand may furnish city charms to the city man. but as a disseminator of trenchant and sound opinion about the state of the nation it cannot remotely com- pare with the country store.
 That is perhaps one reason why the typical farmers journals are so crammed full of strong opinions about political questions. The farmer behind the blow has time to think, and when he foregathers with his fellow soil-tillers at the country store he is chock full of thoughts that he is willing to swap with his neighbors.
 His language may not be the current style in Cambridge, Mass, but he has his ideas and the poli- ticians are bound to take note of them.
New Britain herald., 1926-08-12

In this city. during the years pre- ceding the Civil war. lived a man named James Lewis Pettigru.
 Pettigru harbored notions which in that day were extremely un- popular in the south He was op- posed to slavery. He was opposed to secession. West of all, he was {. wit, a mocker of solemnity. a butler of noses and a tweaker of whiskers. As things grew hotter and the war broke out, he retreated not step. He stuck by his guns and loudly denounced what he held to be the folly of the course his native state was pursuing.
 If this happened in our own day. say during the recent war it would be easy 10 imagine what would have happened to him. He would have been persecuted until his life was not worth living. per haps arrested, perhaps thrown into jail for obstructing war.
 But not in the Charleston of 1861. A spirit of tolerance prevailed there at that time which was stronger even than the spirit of war.
 It protected Pcttigru from perse- cution and left him free to say what he pleased.
 And then suddenly it had a chance to expres itself still further with dramatic effectiveness. For in the middle of the war Pettigru died.
 Was he laid to rest as though he had ben a traitor? He was not. He was accorded all honors. The whole city took a day off to attend the funeral; the speakers were not his friends. but his political enemies. great services he had rendered the state.
 Finally, when money had been raised, he was given a fine tomb stone on which the inscription paid tribute to his eloquence. his wisdom and his wit, and also 10 the fact that:
 UNAWED BY OPINION,
 UNSEDrCED BY FLATTERY . UNDISMAYED BY DISASTER. HE CONFRONTED LIFE WITH
 ANTIQUE COURAGE: AND DEATH WITH CHRISTIAN
 HOPE. IN THE GREAT CIVIL WAR HE WITHSTOOD HIS PEOPLE
 FOR HIS COUNTRY: BUT HIS PEOPLE DID HOMAGE
 TO THE MAN WHO HELD HIS CONSCIENCE HIGHER THAN THEIR PRAISE:
 AND HIS COUNTRY HEATED HER HONOURS ON THE GRAVE OF THE PATRIOT
 TO WHOM. LIVING, HIS OWN RIGHTEOUS SELF
 RESPECT SUFFICED ALIKE FOR MOTIVE AND RE-
 WARD.
 Tolerance could hardly go fur ther than this. The episode has deeper significance than it's charm as a story, for 1t shows that toler- ance can become a great public concept; that the ideal for which We now struggle can be attained. l The Charleston of Civil war days indeed represented one of our highwater marks in civilization, but if we got that far once, is it utopian to hope that we can get that far again?"
New Britain herald., 1926-08-12
EIGHT TO ONE

If the Democrats are looking for strong man to nominate on their presidential ticket - provided they will not do the obvious and nomin- ate Al Smith - the returns from Ohio still look good for presiden- tial timber.
 Governor Donahey, running for renomination on the Democratic ticket, defeated his opponent al- most eight to one. That he will be reelected governor is as certain as that Governor Smith can be re- elected governor of New York as often as he cares 10 run.
New Britain herald., 1926-08-12
CRITICIZES REPORT
Catholic Priest Declares That Good Willers'" Statement Is Not Ac- curate One.
curate One.
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Washington, Aug. 12 Pl-Father John J. Burke, general secretary of the National Catholic Welfare con- ference in a statement here took issue with a recent report of the religious controversy in Mexico by pr. Ava w. Taylor, editor of the Christian Century.
 TayIor's report set forth in a resolution adopted by the Goodwill mission, which he heads, was said by Father Burke to give no reliable or informative survey of true con- ditions" and is for the most part occupied with repeating the anti Catholic tirade of Gales"
 The report is sectarian in the worst sense of the word," Father Burke added. Tt is certainly in- furious to our own American tradi- tions and to our institutions of gov ernment, when a committee of Americans will voice defense of the denial of those rights which we held alienable-liberty of worship, lib- erty of speech and assembly, liberty of education, the right to hold prop erty, and the right to trial by jury
New Britain herald., 1926-08-12
TO FLORENCE l.. ALIENS
 CREDIT

The battle for the Democratic senator nomination waged by Judge Florence E. Allen of the Ohio state supreme court has turned out more of a success than the forecasters predicted. Although defeated by Atlee Pomerene, former senator, she was distinctly in the running, and this ought to be gratifying to the advocates of women in office.
 Miss Allen got her high position in the first place because the women of Ohio were swept with a determination to see a woman in an important office. This was shortly following the passage of the 18th amendment. It was an entirely legitimate emotion, and many men helped in voting for the feminine supreme court justice.
 And it can be stated she has made good justice of the states highest tribunal, having proved a credit to her sex and the court at the same time.
 Had she defeated Pomerene for the nomination that would not necessarily have meant she would have reached the U. S. Senate, as Senator Willis is a hard man to defeat. But it would have meant the running of two drys on the sena- torial ticket, instead of as at pres ent, one dry and one wet.
 The senatorial battle in Ohio will be as good a prohibition ref erendum as the state could wish.
New Britain herald., 1926-08-12
TO RESTORE PARTHENON
Prominent Americans Donate 1 to Pay For Reassembling of $ | eral Columns.


 New York, Aug. 12 P)-Funds having been contributed by a group of prominent Americans, work will soon be resumed on reassemblins several columns of the PaHhenon at Athens, it was announced today by Dr. Edward Capps, head of the Greek department of Princeton uni versity.
 The work of replacing in their original position the fallen segments of the Parthenon columns was be- gun about a year ago. pr. Capps said, and recently discontinued on account of lack of money.
 The columns were blown from their places by the explosion of the Turkish powder magazine within the temple by a Nentian shell in 1869.
 Among the contributors to the fund for continuing the work of putting the columns segments back in place were Elihu Root, former secretary of state; George w. Wick ersham, former attorney generals Paul Cravath, Harrison Williams, Cass Gilbert, president of the Na- tional academy, and Mrs. Gilbert; William J. Wilgus. engineer; Louis Tiffany and Dr. and Mrs. John H. Finley.
New Britain herald., 1926-08-12
nIEEN GROWS WEAKER

London. Aug. 12 Pl-Queen Vic toria of Sweden has been weaker during the last few days says an Exchange telegraph dispatch from Stockholm quoting medical bulle- tin issued yesterday. Her heart ac- ton has been camer and stronger, and her sleep has been good.
New Britain herald., 1926-08-12
KRAZY KINDERGARTEN {Cond,lcted Inv Dusfvl

Fletcher: "Petey, will you ixplane why it is so difficult for you to lend me your attention?"
 Pete Titan: I'm Scotch on my muthers side, and it's hard for us to lend anything" Fletcher: "In that case. Petey, I must ask you to exem-exempl-l-l -oh, darn it, use benevolent Pete Titan: "I went to- Uncle Ben to borrow sure wuz in a pickel. But l discovered to my sorrow, Benevolent nickel"
 Frank Muielers. Copyright. 1926. Reproduction
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New Britain herald., 1926-08-12
IN kLASS AT KRAIY KOLLEGE
 (Conducted by M. F. J.)

Teacher: Mrs. Black, l under stand you made fortune with your invention to dekink the kinkiest hair. You certainly have some gor- geous clothes. Tell us how you do it, not forgetting lesson. Vera Black: Tn winter An drapes nah form wifi
 furs As An lolls in nah numerous auto
 mobiles, But in summer nah clothes drapes
 de furniture, Cause de lesson Ah wears de bettah
 Ah feels."
New Britain herald., 1926-08-12
TEXAS PALMER

Governor Ma Ferguson Of Texas now says her opponent. Dan Moody, never accepted her offer to resign.
 Evidently by this time Dan has quit arguing.
New Britain herald., 1926-08-12

Tn respect to tolerance, consid- cred not as a private code but as public institution, a philosophy which can become part of the morals of whole people, it is nat ural that even the most hopeful citizen should at times lose heart and ask himself if the thing is ever possible.
 1t is possible, of course, when the wind is blowing fair, when nobody cares what ones neighbor does, when it costs nothing to be tol- erant
 But when the pinch comes, when the factory has been idle for six months, when the boys are in the trenches and the list of dead grows longer every day - when 1t costs much to be tolerant - was there ever a race of men so TO- mantle that they placed an ab- stract principle before the passions of the moment?
 Of hand one would say no. Yet there comes to hand evidence that such a race has existed, and has ex- isted not in some remote spot in Asia but within the boundaries of our own country.
 This evidence is contained in an article by Langdon Mitchell, pub lished in the current Atlantic Monthly. Mir. Mitchell, discussing the tradition of an earlier day, tells of a remarkable event which took place in Charleston, s. c.
New Britain herald., 1926-08-12
BRIDGE COLLApSES

Tokyo. Aug. 12 LP)-The bridge on the Najiromachi one of the main thoroughfares of Akita, in Ugo province. collapsed late yesterday. Thirteen bodies have been recover ed and fifty persons still are miss ing
New Britain herald., 1926-08-12

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New Britain herald., 1926-08-12

Another Hot Weather Hint, Folks! These days when the sun beats down
 so hard, Whatever else we may discard Let's not lay off our smiles. or
 jokes They really keep the heat out,
 Folksi
New Britain herald., 1926-08-12
s. O. S.
A LETTER FROM MRS. TRAPROCK

Ed. Fun Shop, dear Sir,
 This is an open letter, not open ed by mistake, either, but wide open on purpose, my object being, Mir. Editor, to request you to inform that lazy loafer, my husband, Walter F. Traprock, whom you have sent off on that fool expedition to the Nrth Pole, that if he desn't show up at home by noon of Monday next Standard time, he'll get in a peck of trouble and I'll do the peclling!
 ask you, Mir. Ed, is it fair? He left me two months ago. saying that he was going down to the store to get some spavin cure for J. Pierre pont that's our horse, we call him J. Pierrepont because he has a streak of Morgan in him. Well. he never showed up and the next hear is a postal-card from the Pole say ing wish you were with us"
 l read those bulletins of his about starting a hotel up there in that un- Christian climate where it's so cold they have to milk the COWS with corkscrews. The idea! I'll bet he hasn't laid an ice-cream brick in the foundations yet. the big liar.
 And he's so crazy about women that he'd chase a petticoat as far as he could see it and, from what ] hear. those eskimice women don't wear any. the hussies. Who is this Aurora Borie-eyed Alice that he is leading wild night-life with? And don't forget that the nights Up there are six months long!
 In the meantime, what happens to me? Tve>got poles of my own to at tend to. bean poles, to say nothing of getting the hay in. l need a man round the place. You tell that hus- band of mine to be back here by Monday or I'll knock him so cold that the Pole will seem like Nogales in August!
 Yours,
New Britain herald., 1926-08-12
Figured Out

Englishman: How is your Pro- hibition working out?" American: Great! We spend $10,- GOO to get s5 worth of evidence to use as the basis of a trial that costs $25,000 and results in a fine of SIO0."
 Mother R.
New Britain herald., 1926-08-12

You may have heard him in the lunch room. He can talk plain. enough himself, but he makes the soup lisp.
New Britain herald., 1926-08-12

It is remarkable the amount of
 work a colony of ants can do in q short time without any loafers to stand around and watch the pro- Iceedings.
New Britain herald., 1926-08-12

By the time he has reached mid dle life a man has learned that it is safe for him to go to bed and leave the hero to take care of the villain.
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New Britain herald., 1926-08-12

Weather is a good subject for con- versation because everybody knows something about it.
New Britain herald., 1926-08-12

In describing her symptoms a woman can be entertaining. All a suffering man can do is groan.
New Britain herald., 1926-08-12

To settle the bet the most beautiful women in the world are the brunettes and blondes.
New Britain herald., 1926-08-12

It is suspected that the devil gets some of his ideas from human be- ings.
New Britain herald., 1926-08-12

Prophets are not so wise. Not one of them. twenty years ago, foresaw the elimination of the left turn.
New Britain herald., 1926-08-12

Socrates said he married for dis cipline. Other men less philosophical. have done the same thing but didn't know it,
New Britain herald., 1926-08-12
Facts andFancies
 BY ROBERT CULLEN

Vesuvius is in eruption. Mussolini
 may have ordered it.
New Britain herald., 1926-08-12

The college in North Carolina that has endowed a chair in Matrimony made mit ake. It should have en- doWed a porch swing.
New Britain herald., 1926-08-12
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New Britain herald., 1926-08-12

Argus had a hundred eyes. But the people of today are seeing more than he ever saw.
New Britain herald., 1926-08-12

Jack Dempsey has the most wide ly advertised nose in the world. The question in the popular mind is what will happen to it.
New Britain herald., 1926-08-12

The Herald is on sale daily in New York at Hotalings Newsstand, Times Square; schultz's Newsstands. Entrance Grand Central. 42nd Street.
New Britain herald., 1926-08-12

And when young people can sec each other while telephoning the line will be buster than ever
New Britain herald., 1926-08-12

Whiskers may come back, as pre- dictted. They will, if men quit shaw ing or forty-eight hours.
New Britain herald., 1926-08-12
F @. .: |2

The boss of the family is the one that gets sarcastic when the other fails to miss a rock.
New Britain herald., 1926-08-12
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New Britain herald., 1926-08-12

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New Britain herald., 1926-08-12
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New Britain herald., 1926-08-12

- Nobody enjoys spooning except
 the spooners.
New Britain herald., 1926-08-12
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Send all communications to Fun Shop Editor, care Of the New Britain Herald. and your letter will be forwarded 10 New York.
New Britain herald., 1926-08-12

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New Britain herald., 1926-08-12

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New Britain herald., 1926-08-12
The Age of Tolerance
Charleston S. G. in Civil War Days Refused to Perse- cute Dissenter and Honored Him With Remark able Tombstone Inscription At His Death-An Object Lesson For Today.

The age needs tolerance. Toler- ance of the other fellows views, of his actions, of his beliefs, of his religion, of his politics, of his personal character.
 Are we as a people as tolerant as we used to be?
 Some will say we are; others that we are not.
 But 1t scarcely can be denied that since the war there has been less tolerance shown than was the case before that epochral event. Perhaps this is merely the result of the aftermath of that war psychology" we have heard and read so much about.
New Britain herald., 1926-08-12
THE CHALLENGE ACCEPTED Throwing the Gauntlet Back to Sunny. My Princess Charming!

Dear Sunny:
 You no longer need To wonder whose loves greater; In figuring a thing like that Pm quite an estimator! The farthest star is not too far To have my love reach to it; The deepest sea would quickly find That my love would go through it! So much, dear, for the depth and
 height Of my affection for you; Tn width it blankets all the earth That's how much l adore you! There's naught for you I wouldn't That goes for now or later, And goes a long way toward the
 proof Thta my love is the greater. However here's the final proof: When I am working. Sunny. I put aside all thoughts of you And think of naugh but money! There's SOME denial for your sake! Were I to think of you. dear, I'd do no work, I'd be discharged- And THEN what would we do, dear?
 $. O. s.
 Higgins: Lawrence went to the state fair and lost his shirt betting on the races, so ne sent home an s. o. S"
 Hartley: What does SOS. stand for?"
 Higgins: Send other shirt
 Marion T. Potterton.