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New Britain herald., 1926-01-06
$4,000 Worcester Fire.

Worcester, Mass, Jan iPl-Fire
starting in the storeroom OF a phar-
macy on the first floor Of a six story
office block on Main street early this
morning swept through the drug
store and filled the entire building
with dense smoke, causing damage
estimated at s5O,O A second alarm
was sounded.
Five women sleeping in their Of
flee apartment were reused by cry
Of fire and were led to the street by
police, Rumors that still more occu-
pants were trapped in the smoke
sent firemen breaking through win
doWs and walls in a frantic search
OF the building.
New Britain herald., 1926-01-06
Bombon France, Has Re-
ligious Orgy That Re-
sembles the Brutality of
the Middle Ages-Curate
Stripped and Scourged
in Own Church.

Bombon. France, Jan. s P.-Abee
Des Meyers. the parish priest, to-
day still was suffering intensely from
the scouraging he received at the
hands Of members Of the fanatical
"Order OF Our Lady of Tears while
he lay stripped and gagged IN the
sacristy OF his church. The priest
himself is declared to be q member
Of the sect, and the scourging Of
him is said to have been carried out
in order 10 expel from his body
the spirit Of evil which possessed
It."
Aged Non.>n Take Part
A dozen persons from Bordeaux,
some Of them aged women, are as
serted to have comprised the party
which, in a manner savoring OF the
dark ages, rendered the priest help
less and flayed him with cords and
left him In such a serious condition
that it is asserted he will not be able
to resume his priestly duties for a
month.
Janitress Is Accused
Marie Mesmln, janitress, OF
bordeaux. founder OF the "Order of
Our Lady Of Tears" has been cited
TO appear before the authorities and
explain her act. She claimed after
the priest had been belabored that
he was casting a spell over her, She
and Albert Froger are being held by
the authorities. The others con-
nected with the affair were permit
ted TO go their way. Froger's father
is described as a wealthy farmer. He
said he had taken Job as a street
sweeper ito mortify my pride"
The prosecutor was surprised to
find that all the members of the
attacking party belonged to the up
per-middle class and were of indie
pendent means. Some were stu
dents,
Father Des Meyers related to the
authorities that he had met the
Mcsmin woman during a pilgrimage
and that she instigated an attack on
8 Syrian archimandrite, similar to
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New Britain herald., 1926-01-06
@DOESN'T WANT JOB

Quincy, Mass. Jan. Up - In
spector David Doran Of the local
police force would prefer 10 do a
Red Grange" than take a Job as
chief at Braintree. I'D rather
drive an ice wagon" he declared
in answer to reports OF the possi-
BILE change.
New Britain herald., 1926-01-06
TOG LIFTS AT LAST

Norfolk. Vt. Jan. 6 tP-The thick
curtain of fog that covered Norfolk
and the entire coast from Boston 10
Charleston for two days lifted here
today and scores of ships that had
sought safety in harbors moved out
of port.
New Britain herald., 1926-01-06
L. n. PENFIELD CRITICALLY Ill.

Loren n. Penfeld. for many years
town clerk of New Britain. prior TO
Col, A. L. Thompson succeeding TO
the office, is reported today TO be
critically III at his home, $50 Stan
ley street. Mr.. Penfeld has not been
in good health for months
New Britain herald., 1926-01-06
Advocates Measure Permitting
municipalities Helping in
This Construction Work
LIKEWISE COMES OUT
FOR TAX REDUCTIONS
New York Executives Inaugural
Speech Advises Biennial Sessions
Of State Legislature And Asks Re-
peal of the Motion Picture Com
mission Law--Places Resources of
the State at About $2O1 ,03O,22S.

Albany, n. Y. Jan. 6 Pl-Gov-
ernor Smith went on record today
IS favoring municipal aid in tene-
ment house construction, biennial
sessions of the legislature, tax re-
duction, and in opposition to spend
ing for personal service any of the
$40, 0,000. 600 available from the re-
Gently authorized s1OO.000,0O0 per-
manent bond issue.
Tenement House Suggestions
TO solve the tenement house prob
lem, he urged in his annual message
delivered In person to a joint session
Of the legislature today that the
state should pro"ide by law for the
Incorporation Of limited dividend
corporations clothed with the power
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New Britain herald., 1926-01-06
Proposes Eight Amendments
to Criminal LaWs--Urges
Vigorous Prosecution
ALSO URGES BUILDING
PROGRAM FOR THE STATE
Inaugural Message Likewise Rec
ommends Payment OF Taxes BY
Checks Made Out to state, Rather
Than to individuals, TO Curb Dis
honesty Among Oficials-TOuchcs
On Public Utilities.

Boston, Jan. S PS-Eight amend
ments to the criminal laws designed
to reduce the crime wave were rec
commended by. Governor Alvan 7.
Fuller in his opening address to the
Two branches of the legislature to-
day. The law OF stage coach days, I"
the governor said. should be re-
placed on the statute books by mod
ern legislation capable of handling
twentieth century conditions.
"Misdirected sympathy and the
highly developed expertness Of pen
ologists. reformers and parole ad-
yocates who have lost sight of the
rights and protection Of the public
and concentrated on the rights and
reformation of the criminal have
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New Britain herald., 1926-01-06
TWO PERSONS DIE
IN WORCESTER AS
fire WRECKS home
Two Others Seriously Burned.
Family Of Seven Is Trapped
by Roaring Flames
TWENTY BOSTON FIREMEN
HURT IN HUB CITY BLAZE

Five story Warehouse Burned Early
This Morning and Loss Is Put at
Si0.0O0-WOrccstcr Has Another
Bad Blaze and Amherst, Mass,
Clinton Mass. and Providence Also
Report Serious Conflagratiuns.
Worcester, Mass, Jan. Rt-Fire
that trapped seven members Of the
household Of Wilfred NORM Of Au-
burn, on the second floor Of their
home just before midnight last
night resulted in the death Of two
women and dangerously severe burns
to Mr.. MORN and two of his sons.
Mrs. NORM received slight burns and
the youngest children escaped unin-
jured.
OH stove Starts Fire.
Starting from an overheated oil
stove at the foot OF the front stairs,
the only stairs in the house, the
flames quickly engulfed the lower
and upper Railways and blocked es-
cape. The family with the excep-
ton of Mrs. Martin. escaped through
front bedroom windows to the roof
Of the porch and were taken down
by ladders. Mrs. Martin jumped
from a rear window.
Dead and Injured.
The dead and injured are:
Mrs. Adeline Poudrette, 81, aunt
Of Mrs. NORM, died at hospital
this morning from second degree
burns.
Mrs. Nadia Martin, 81. mother Of
Mrs. NORM, died at hospital this
morning from burns and injuries re-
ceived when she jumped fom a sec.
ond story window.
Wilfred NORM, Jr., 4, and Edgar
Z, on the danger list at a hospital
with first and second degree burns.
Wilfred NORM 80, pronounced out
of danger at a hospital.
Corinne, rs, mother Of the NORM
family, and two Of her children,
Leo, 3, and Lucille, ., are at the
home OF her brother Arthur T. Mar
tin Ia this city. Mrs. NORM received
first degree burns on face and hands
and was treated by Police Surgeon
Cassei. The damage to the house
will not exceed $1,000 as the blaze
was quickly quenched by the fire
0epartment.
New Britain herald., 1926-01-06
CORMICAN ACTION
APPEAL IS ARGUED
Former Claims He Was Nc,
MahOn Enploye When Injured
RESPONDENT DENIES IT
Widow OF Former Local Theatrical
Magnate Says That Cormican
Was Guest at Hotel, Not Entitled
10 Compensation.

Hartford, Jan. 6 LPl - Argu-
ments we're heard today by the su-
preme court OF errors, sitting here
for the January term Of the first
judicial district, in the case Of the
receivers Of the Middlesex Banking
company against the Realty In
Vestment company Of New Jersey,
involving a motion for Judgment
declaring settlement final under
contract covering cropping opera
tions on western lands for the sea-
son Of 1915 and for injunction
against various banks.
The case was appealed on writ
Of error from the superior court.
The defendants are Silas A. Robin
son Of Middletown and John L.
Dover of Hartford, receivers Of the
Investment Company and as re-
ceivers OF the Middlesex Banking
company.
Banks interested are the Central
National bank of Middletown, the
First Bridgeport National bank of
Bridgeport, the Hanover National
bank of New York, the Chaplin Ma
tional bank Of Springfield and the
Springfield National bank of that
city.
Cormican-MCMahm Suit
The case OF James Cormican OF
Hartford, against Margaret McMa-
hon, respondents appeal from the
decision of the compensation COM
missioners was argued this after.
noon. Cormican, actor, was a close
friend Of the late Patrick S. Nc
Mahon of New Britain, husband Of
the respondent. The claimant con-
tends he came to her hotel in New
Britain to attend mass in memory
OF Mcmahon and because the man.
ager had left. he served in that
capacity on agreement with Mrs.
Mcmahon and that while perform
ing his duties he fractured his
right leg.
Mrs. Mcmahon contends he was
a guest and not an employe. His
injury occurred on June 4, 1928.
While chasing a boy from a re.
frieerator, he fell through an open
doorway. The appeal OF Mrs. Nc
Mahon was not sustained, but the
case was reverted to the compen-
sation commissioner, but he re-
fused to add to his finding and
Judge Brown in superior court dis
missed the appeal.
New Britain herald., 1926-01-06
THE WEATHER

Hartford. Jan. 6.-ForeCast
for New Britain and vicinity:
Unsettled tonight, Thursday
cloudy somewhat colder
tonight
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Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1926-01-14
WILLOW RIVER

; Messrs James and Whiting
went to Sandstone for a trial
there Monday.
Little Joe Zimmerman was
accidentally shot while out hunt.
ing with his brother Sunday af-
noon.
Sunday forenoon, January 3,
baby boy arrived at the R. b
Wood home. Roy wears smile
that won't come off ever snice
the wee laddie came.
Mrs. A. R. Kenny stopped off
here enroute home to Shove
Lake from Hutchinson Thursday
to spend until Friday forenoon al
the home of her sister, Mrs. j
F. Dubie.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1926-01-14

Cooperative marketing Of farm
produce is the greatest stride
forward in the history of agricul-
tural marketing. However, the
system is still in it's infancy, and
one cannot expect the system to
be a perfect working machine
set up in a day to solve the far
mer's marketing problem. But
as further legislation favorable
to its progress is made effective
and we perfect a more efficient
personnel In the conduct of the
affairs of the various organiza-
tons, this system of cooperative
marketing of agricultural pro-
ducts will become so strong and
efficient as is humanity and law
fully possible.
If, we were to face the problem
of surplus squarely, and in mat
ter-of-fact manner, we would
find, in the last analysis, that it
would be at least more logical to
apply our remedies to the cause
of surplus than it would be to
apply the same to the condition
of surplus. Prima facie, the
cause of agricultural depression
is that the total number of farms
and farmers and their resultant
production is too large in relation
to the demand for such produc-
ton. Surplus then, is a con-
dition of agricultural depression
and not the cause of the same.
And the late tendency of aban-
donment of farms does not only
bear out this truth, but it is also
the normal way of correcting
this difficulty. If a manufac-
turer finds that his product is
not in demand and not selling at
profit, he shuts down. 1t
might be contended that the far
mer cannot do that, because he
is both operator and owner of
the farm. his family must live
and his interest and taxes must
be paid; but the same argument
holds for the manufacturer, and
there are many cases on record
where manufacturers lost. mil
lions by coming face to face with
just such dilemma as agricul-
ture faces at present. The man.
ufacturer takes his losses, does
something else in the mean time
and when business improves he
is back on the job. But, if the
farmer were out on a desert and
unable to secure water for irrl-
cation, he would apply. to his
government to instigate vast
irrigation project costing mill
ions, and if, by that means he
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1926-01-14

were enabled to raise crop that
lis already adrug on the market,
he would again petition his gov
eminent to create some kind of
artificial means to handle this
newly created surplus, and he
would have no trouble in finding
experts on economics that could
advance all sorts of far-fetched
theories to prove that such newly
created commissions and their.
work would be an economically
sound venture and even neces-
sary to national welfare. 1t is
nothing short of imbicility TO at
tempt to secure a high price for
something that is not in demand,
and if it should be attempted,
through legislation, we shall find
In the end that someone is going
to pay for it, and the farmer
will not carry the smallest bur-
den of this cost. The boomer
ang of surplus, which he got rid
of so nicely, will return, only to
hit the farmer when he isn't
looking.
There is no further need of
dwelling on the defects or on the
merits of the plan to take care of
the surplus of agricultural pro-
duction, because they have been
pointed out by economists on
both sides in an able manner and
widely printed in the press.
Finding the remedy for agricul-
tural surplus is like finding a
Mares Nest, that is, it seems
important, but doesn't amount to
anything. When prices and de-
mand for the farmers product
are so low that he cannot conduct
his farm in business-like man
ner, it follows as plain as day
does the night that he must find
some means by which he can re-
duce his production. That GER
tainly is true. But what do we
find under such conditions? We
find the farmer disposing of his
hired help, working longer hours
himself, driving his children and
wife to hours of labor that would
put. the sweater to shame and, if
there is any old father or mother
living with him, he even takes
them out to the field. And for
what purpose? To produce still
more. And then he complains
of agricultural surplus. There
is something wrong somewhere,
and | leave it to the discretion
of the reader to discover where
the trouble lies.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1926-01-14

The usual chatter about reduc-
ing taxes which eminates from
Washington, is filling many news
columns of the daily press these
days. Those receiving yearly in
comes of $500, $4,000 or more
are not so much to be pitied and
the general public is not much
interested In the reduction of
their tax one or two per cent or
whatever it may be. When a
man has an annual income of
$4,000 he can well afford to pay
: an income tax of two per cent
toward the support of his govern
ment and who would not rather
have an income of $4,000 an
nually and pay four or five per
cent or whatever the rate may
be? The bigger the income, the
higher the rate, but it is very
probable that the high rate on
big incomes is'not OBTAINING any
one from trying to increase their
income. Talk along that line is
only chatter and can be passed
up as pure and unadulterated
bunk. Ford goes right on manu-
featuring cars and increasing his
output and income in spite of the
income tax. Haven't heard him
moan. Congress wants to make
it appear that they are saving
the public money by reducing in.
come taxes. Numerically those
with incomes of less than $4,000
outdistance those with higher m
comes greatly so very likely the
public-meaning most of the
peoples not so very interested
in income tax reduction.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1926-01-14
FOR
AGRICULTURE
By KARL R. Won scHENK

In late years much thought has
been devoted to methods where
by welfare of agriculture might
be attained and assured. Much
good work has been done by the
various agencies directly con-
cerned with agriculture, such as
our government, the department
of agriculture, our local expert
ment stations and our local,
state and national organizations.
There is no difference of opinion
concerning the necessity. of a
prosperous and contented agri-
culture for national welfare.
There is agreement also in other
respects among leaders of agri-
cultural thought, namely, that it
must have the same opportuni-
ties as other industries; that it
must be better organized; that
there is opportunity for improve
ment in the methods of produc-
tion and marketing of agricul-
tural products and that the IT.
regularly arising surplus of farm
production leaves in it's wake
not only depressing prices on the
farm, but its influence is also
felt ON other industries to a
marked degree.
There seems to be no end to
the various plans which have
BEEN advanced, the recommen-
dations that have been made to
deal with farm problems and the
remedies applied, or about to be
applied, on an industry that has
been reported dying ever since
the year one, but still is able to
be around, and is standing on
it's own legs without such props
as are of questionable value.
The problem which holds the
center of the stage in agriculture
at present is that of surplus.
The depression of farm prices
in 1920 brought about by a large
production plus a lack of buying
power among domestic and for
eign consumers brought many
unhappy results to both agri-
culture and business generally
1t is the aim of all to avoid a rep
etition of this demoralizing eff
feet which is still felt to some
extent. The plans advocated to
remedy this condition of surplus
vary from scheme whereby CO.
operative marketing can absorb
this surplus to a wild plan max
ing arrangements to buy this sur
plus and dump it into the sea-
Most of the intermediate plans
are those advanced by econom-
lists, statesmen and other leaders
of agricultural thought. But it
is to be regretted that the major
ity of those men, who ought to
know better, invariably call for
government control in some
form.
It seems to me that any plan
which provides for government
control and subsidy is beset with
innumerable difficulties and the
results would be disappointing if
not disastrous. The effort and
thought, which men give who are
interested in agricultural prob
lens, and whose said efforts
and thoughts are sincere, never
theless, is very commendable, for
the reason that it draws public
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1926-01-14

Well finally after much debat-
ing the U. S. Senate by a vote
of Al to 80 decided to seat Gerald
P. Nye, appointed by Governor
Sorlie of North Dakota to fill the
vacancy caused by the death of
Senator Laid. 1t looks very
much like it was not the right of
the governor to make the ap-
pointment nor other TECHNICAL
ties of the law that concerned
the old warehouses; in the Senate
so much but it was the governors
choice that they did not approve
of. The two Minnesota senators
voted in his favor.
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the other hand, these virtues may
and often do degenerate into
vices: love of soil becomes land
worship, thrift avarice, conser-
vatism fear, and industry cru
city.
If most plans so far advanced
for the relief of agriculture are
to be disregarded as of little
value and possibly of harm, what
are we going to do to help the
farmer? In response to that ques-
ton / ask the question: Why help
the farmer? Have we arrived at
the stage where the world owes
the farmer a living? The advo-
Gates of government subsidy evil
IDENTIFY think that the govern
ment owes the farmer a living,
otherwise they would not always
look to the government to insti-
tute artificial relief measures
The government owes the far
mer square deal, and by that
| mean equality of opportunity
with other industries, as far as
this is applicable to agriculture
Our present economic system
rests on a sound basis and that
applies to agriculture as well as
to other industries. True en-
ough, our system contains many
defects, and it contained many
more in the past, but these have
been gradually reduced and
through a natural evolution our
entire system of economics is
steadily improving.
The business side of farming
embodies two large divisions,
namely, production and market
ing. There is where the gov
eminent as well as other bodies
interested in agricultural well
fare can give their aid without
bringing about a revolution and
disturbing our present economic
system. Efficient production
and efficient marketing is the
key to better farming and to
greater profits on the farm. 1t
goes without argument that the
farmer is himself the greatest
factor in contributing toward eff
ficiency in production. He can
accomplish this by soil improve
ment, culling of the flock and
herd, better and cheaper meth
DDS of feeding, good seed and the
like. He must eliminate much OF
the present waste on the farm
and, in short, he must have an
open eye to see where he can re
duce the cost of production. It
is in aiding the farmer through
education and demonstration to
reduce his cost of production that
the government and others in
terested in agriculture can be of
real and lasting service to the
farmer. The government can
also aid in reducing the cost of
production on the farm by estab-
fishing lower interest rates on
land and on personal securities
and extending credit over long
period of time, by a protective
tariff, by lowering the taxes, reg
ulating transportation facilities
and like measures coming with
in it's legitimate scope. These
services have been rendered in
the past and if those services
have not been, rendered salts
factorily in the past, it is all the
more necessary that we apply
our efforts to these improve.
ments which are the cause OF
our high cost of production thar
to attempt remedy of the re
s.