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New Britain herald., 1926-12-31
MELONS LIQUOR
 STAND UNCLAIMED
He Won't Permit Poison in
 Industrial Alcohol

1 Washington. Dee. 3l tFl-Undcter- cd by sharply pointed verbal darts flying over their heads from vets and drys, federal chemists. under or ders from the nations highest dry chiefs, are working over time to turn out a process for adultcrating indus trial alcohol that will render this product useless as a bootleg article
 Under the guiding hand of Secre- tary Mellon and Assistant Secretary i Andrews, they are now cndoaVCrng Ito find a substitute for the formula effective January 1 which will reduce the poisonous ingredients to the low est possible point but at the same time making the product so obnoX,
 ious as a beverage that the thirsty
 will be content to let it flow it's natural colrse to the body-rubbcra and heat and light users.
 i The formula to be used after Jan iuary l provides for four per cent wood alcohol content as against the two per cent now used, but with py- Irodine eliminated. For this reason, Secretary Mellon is not alarmed oyer l the application Of the new formula. { He would like to see, however q 1 denaturant entirely n-poisonous
 but which would make industrial a1- cohol so distasteful after being treat 1 cd that drinkers would see the danger signal long before it got to
 their lips.
 | Chemists are doubtful though, whether such q formula could be
 found, since if the product is to be
 made sicilening as a beverage, it
 must contain at least small DOT
 tion of wood alcohol. They do not ! believe this ingredient very iniuri-
 ous if used in small quantities, ! however, and have so informed the
 treasury head.
 | Nr Mellon, who made known his
 views yesterday on the latest flare
 up in the prohibition discussion, like
 his chief prohibition chemist, James M. Doran. does not believe the re-
 cent liquor deaths were caused by i denaturcd alcohol, but rather to eN-
 cessiye drinking.
 1 ATr. Doran has gone 10 New York and Philadelphia, but it is not known
 whether his visit has any connection
 with the holiday fatalities from all
 cohol in those cities.
 The Anti-Saloon league and the
 association against the prohibition
 amendment continue to voice opin-
 ions on the alcohol question. Wayne
 B. Wheeler, in q statement last night. said the solution of the "Mhole
New Britain herald., 1926-12-31
FLASHES OF LIFE: CAT WHINING ON
 STAGE STOPS METROPOLITAN OPERA

By the Associated Press.
 New York-There's so much new talent in the Metropolitan Opera, that Teddy, coal black cat who has spent nine years of his first life in the Opera House boiler room, is jealous. He went on the stage dur ing a performance of "Turandot and stopped the show.
 Belgrade-Ganna Walsla is quite realistic in opera. In "Tosca' she wielded the dagger so vigorously on Baron Scarpia that she broke it. Then there were some curtain calls.
 New York-John Langley, who has a brogue, thinks it strange that it has been noted that for ten years he has owned a Kosher poultry shop in Long Island City and that his daughter Norah manages it. A Rab bi is an employe. Don't they sell crucifixes in the East Side push carts?" asks John.
 Totteridge, England-Harry Var don has followed the example of a younger old master of golf-Francis Ouimet. who jumped to fame when he beat Vardon, Ray and Braid at Brookline in 1913. Harry now wears horn trimmed glasses, and as was the case with Francis when he remedied his sight last year. he is back on his game. He has just shot a G6, taking only 29 butts.
 elphia-Sergeant Elwood J. Carroll of the finest has declined the gold bar of lieutenant because he would have to part with his horse-Coal Black Dick from the Blue Grass, broken by the sergeant himself nine years ago.
 Jacksonville, E'la.--1f the girls pictured in the Florida ads would a swimming go just now they would need some of Mrs. SchoemmePs grease. The mercury has been in the forties and less lately.
 Los Angeles-At least eleven wo men are prepared to brave the dan gers of sharks and shivers in Wrig-
New Britain herald., 1926-12-31

that stage twice." he says, and I hardly knew where I belonged" ." His wife was unable to attend as her hip was broken in a fan on an icy sidewalk several weeks ago. A radio set at her bedside was useless for the occasion as Metropolitan performance are not broadcast. Friends gave her bulletins of the debut by telephone.
 Among other native singers who had their chance on the Mctropoli- tan boards this year are Marion Talley, daughter of a Kansas City telegraph operator. Mary Lewis, adopted daughter of Little Rock preacher, and Louise Lerch, of AL lentown, Pa.
 Miss Talley made her debut las, February. Giulio Gatticasazzi said at the time that she and others were his answer to criticism that only foreigners had a chance at the Metropolitan. Miss Talley's manager recently refused to let her sing in New Rochelle because only part of S3,00O agreed upon was ready be- forehand.
 Miss Lewis won her way to the Metropolitan via q church choir, a Hollywood bathing beauty cast and Ziegfeld's follies. Miss Lcrch ap- roared on concert program last month.
New Britain herald., 1926-12-31
EX-bALLPLAYER|S
 IN METROPOLITAN
Two Others Also Have Chance
 to Make Good
Nf~

New Yorh, Dec. 31 Ao}-A year of triumph for home crown operatic talent reached its conclusion today with additions arranged for q 14- year. old Florida girl and the daugh- ter of a South Dakota farmer.
 With the laurels of Metropolitan debut fresh on the head of man from the baseball sandlots of Nash vile, Robbye Sock, soprano prodigy" from Pensacola and Mrs. Emma Chladek Janousek, daughter of Czech immigrants and widow of a Nebraska lawyer, were down for vocal tests this afternoon.
 Robbye was discovered" by Miss Rosalie Sellers, Pensacola radio fan, who heard her broadcast three weeks ago. Miss Sellers wrote to Otto Kahn, chairman of the Metro- politan Opera company, and he sug- sested a hearing in New York. RobbyeS father, a dry goods sales man, did not have the ready money for a trip to New York so neighbors and Florida radio fans raised the funds that brought Robbyc and her aunt, Mrs. Norma F. Pough, here yesterday for the addition today. Mrs. Janousek, whose addition was arranged to precede Robbye's, first sang old Bohemian songs as child. She became acquainted with the classics in a Minnesota convent. She gave up her musical ambitions when she married Joseph Janousek, an attorney of Yankton, Nebraska, but resumed her vocal studies after his death seven years ago. She has two children, Joseph 4 and Mary 12.
 She has never been abroad but said she would go to Italy for addl- tional training of her mezzo-soprano voice if this afternoons verdict proved favorable.
 Joseph MacPherson, who first sang publicly in an amateur minstrel show to earn money for a Nashville sandlot baseball team, overcame the Metropolitan Opera House jinx" to win favorable comment today from musical critics.
 He sang yesterday as the be- whiskered Egyptian king in Verdi s Aida, in a benefit performance un- der the auspices of the Smith Col lege club, after a failure to make his debut Dec. because of a cold.
 The Hcrald-Tribune says of him today: MT. MacPherson did prom ising work. His voice is of very good quality, we'll produced and even, with ample depth. Verdi's King can hardly be called a fat part, but what it disclosed about MT. MacPherson's voice was enough 10 make us wish to hear that voice again."
 The Times says: His voice Is per haps bass baritone rather than a bass, smoothly produced. of good ranged and sorority His bearing, while not that of seasoned opera singer, had the clements of good stage presence"
 MacPherson made his debut with out a rehearsal "Id only been on
New Britain herald., 1926-12-31
ANOTHER GHOST IN
 BASEBALL SCANDAL.
Chicago Tribune Carries Article
 About Crooked Players

Chicago, Dec. 31 LP)-The Chicago Tribune today brought another ghost to sit at the banquet board with the skeletons of the 1919 base ball season, and pick over the bones of scandal.
 The new spectre at the table was anonymous in the Tribune account. but from his quoted remarks appar- cntly was one of the players ban ned from organized baseball after the uproar over the throwing Of games in the 1919 world series be- tween Chicago and Cincinnati,
 T could toll q lot if l thought It would do any good" this player was quoted as saying. Tn fact, I've told Landis in the past Of at least 10 cases where baseball players were involved much worse than Cobb or Speaker have been. Their case is q joke"
 He was asked if he could tell any thing about crooked world series games.
 Could I??" the Tribune reported him as replying, If those fellows arc digging up old scores, why don't these baseball investigators ask about that 1917 scrics?"
 What do you know about that?' the Tribune reporter asked
 Enough" he was quoted as an swcying, and 1 will tell Landis about it if it's an open hearing and 1 am convinced the baseball chiefs are sincere in this business. They weren't when I got into trouble be- fore. They admitted they had noth- ing on me, but they wouldn't stand the gaff.
 What's the use of talking now. ! if all you get is tho raspberry and baseball, to save its face. hushcs up your story"
 | Commissioner Landis was 'out' to reporters last night, So no com mont was forthcoming from him on this development in the scandal pre- cipitated by Dutcn Leonard's s charges that Ty Cobb Iris SD akcr and Smokey Joe Wood had guilty ! knowledge of q liked" game played between Cleveland and Detroit Sop tembcr p, 1919.
 l.andis was equally uncommuni- cative e,ricr in the day concerning a closod-door conference he held with Frank Navin, president Of the Detroit Tigers, who slipped into town yesterday morning was closet cd with the commissioner for some time, and then departed apparently for home.
 The commissioner, however, has accepted the challenge Of Charlie lSWcdc) Risbcrg, On" Of the White SioX ostr2cized as q result of the 1919 world series lurorc who in formed Landis, through the ncwspa- pcrs, that he could tell him some things about crooked baseball, Landis wired Risbcrg, who l. opcr- ating a farm near Rochester, Niun., to come to Chicago and tell what h. knows
 "Tha earlier, the bettor," said the commissioners telegram, which of tercd to pay Itisberg's expenses and flair compensation" for his time.
 1tisbcrg said he would take ad- vantage of Landis' offer to hear his story. He plans to come here in two or three days" he said.
 At Detroit Cobb. Speaker and Joe Wood, the three mon most vt- tally affected by the latest charges of baseball dishonesty planncd to meet in a general, secret conference
New Britain herald., 1926-12-31
Looking in" by Radio
 May Soon Become Fact

London. Dec, 31 P)-"Loolins in' by radio may soon become as familiar as listening in,' ]. l.. Baird believes. Baird, inventor of q telcvision machine, demonstrated his invention yesterday before Q gathering of scientists. It was i'm perfect, he admitted but he express cd confidence that the Introduction of certain technical improvements would overcome the defects.
 Already tho vision of a person has been radioed ten miles, he said, but when the invention is perfected tolcEision theaters will bn added to inc lisr of public entertainments and it will be possible in England 10 watch a baseball game in Amer ica or a cricket match in Australia.
New Britain herald., 1926-12-31

po-son problem is a more effective enforcement of the law" w. H. Stayton. national chairman of the opposing organization, said there was a definite movement away from the fanatical restrictive legislation, especially in the field of prohibition enforcement" and claimed the drys were clinging to a stand which "con- tributes to the death of an untold number of Ambericans annually"
New Britain herald., 1926-12-31

A. Grassi, of Fl Greenfield road. died at St. Vincent's hospital, Bridgeport, yesterday afternoon shortly after he i shot himself with a pistol.
 1 The boy with three other chill ! dren was playing in a bedroom when 1 he discovered an automatic pistol owned by cousin which had been ] hidden under the mattress. A cart
 ridge exploded while the boy was i handling the gun and the bullet passed through his body, entering l just below the chest. He died on his way to the hospital
 Police of Fairfield with Medical Examiner H. H. DeLuca of Bridge port are investigating. but it Is be- lieved that it is an accident.
New Britain herald., 1926-12-31

leys wriggle. They have entered that Catalina Island swim without stipulation as to raiment.
 Beverly Hills, Calif.-The Hon. Will Rogers is all set for that first class murder by beautiful woman which he said in his inaugural ad- dress the city needed. He has asked Bebe Daniels to run out some eve ming and do him the very great favor of shooting somebody.
 Fairfield-John Grassi, 4, shoots self while playing with gun found under mattress; dies on way to hos pital.
 New Haven-Yale defeats Holy Cross, 2S to l in final game of four team basketball tournament.
 Waterbury-Polico raiding place conducted by John Mitkas find 12 year old girl tending bar in old fa@h- toned bar room while father van dered about among customers. Hartford-Hartford Bridge port and New Haven, with 55, 45 and 3S respectively. lead state in number of automobile accidents for week end ing December 25.
 Middletown-Chairman James J. Walsh of democratic state central committee pledges Connecticut to Governor Smith for democratic nominee for president in 1928, at dinner of MiddlescX county demo- cratic club.
 dletown-William NT Citron, representative elect from Middle town, announces candidacy for r-i in ority leader Of the 1927 house; Representative elect Joseph T. St. Louis of Waterbury and Richard Dudkowski of Griswold his oppo- nents.
 Hartford-Three Hartford men, Washington Doolittlc, Jr, NJ. T. Riley and another passenger have narrow escape when closer car breaks through ice of kency cove.
New Britain herald., 1926-12-31

A canal five miles in length and sixty-five feet wide, connecting Mar Seilles with the Rhonc canal and the French inland waterways syS- tenn, has been completed after fir teen years and an expenditure Of more than S70,000,000.
New Britain herald., 1926-12-31
Playing With Pistol;
 Fairfield Child Killed

Fairfield Dec. 3l LP(-John Grassi, four. son of AIr, nd Mrs. Nicholas
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-05-04
Public Guardian for the
Districts Insane

REPRESENTATIVE Zhlman chairman the Committee
on he District submitted bill for public administrator
for the insane in the District Of Columbia.
Committee Of the House viii undoubtedly in
painful disclosures insane exservice
IN the Hospital for the Insane here
present and push bill providing for the removal Of these
unfortunate from the clutches Of professional guardians
who find this work gold mine.
Congress- because of the intense feeling Of former service
win at least things: Provide public guardian who
will the financial interests Of insane exsrvice men, as
well give them humane and kindly attention. also provide
by which be committed to an insane
asylum through careful judicial procedure In which
the mans rights win be fully protected
Raroadng Of exservice to insane asyuns without
due Of law isn't going to appeal to
people This unjust practice is going to remain long IN the
victims.
Just what changes should be made in the District law
peeg civilian insane of the District will be determined by
Congress after the hearings In progress have been completed
and after conferences with court officials and noptal Of
fca1s
The existing law contempates that guardians Of local
shall be persons closely related to the afflicted
persons having strong desire to aid them at all times
These guardians also charged with proper
Of tie Estates Of the unfortunate
cubic guardian for exservice men, far away from their
relatives and friends would be less human and thoughtful
charges than professional guardians and would nqus
for granted that such guardian should be expert in
disorders and alive to modern methods Of treating the
sane he would be Of additional value to those under him
IS public guardian for the civilian insane one benefit
Estates this guardian would be attorney whose
would attorney fees In the OF those with
small this would be of Importance. Relatives and
friends Of the patients would have access to them and continue
their sympathetic ministrations and kindly attentions
become public charges and SUCH public ad
ministrstor for them seems fitting.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-05-04
DIR. FRANK CRANES
DAILY EDITORIAL
HOl0 TO Be I1,terest ting
n DR., FRANK CRANE

yYoU would like q be interesting will tell you the
secret Of it.
There's is something about you that al the vOrId'
wants TO SOMETHING that will attract the interest Of
every one
It is-Yoursef 81
When God made you He something different from
every other creature That what personality means It
is dsnctiveness.
your real self a
This hard for us to believe because self very
tive. We nstinctivey conceal it, guilty thing We
Of Of skin Most of our culture results
in thoroughly Disgusting oursef II were to reveal
frankly his genuine in high society he might be
rested for indecent exposure.
The wicked conceal their vices; the good conceal their
virtues as carefully We love Masks veils clothes dis
guses Life is masked ball Who knows his neghbor?
Or his wife?
&c. to be interesting influence to draw praise
put o the traits of others.
We play this that person assiduousy
children play papa and mamma and soldier.
And in the world of mines, who has mastered the
of elfexpression is fascinating he different
Even the actor presumably player of roles is success
full in proportion reveals through all his various parts
his own self Mansfield always Mansfield in every
thing he did and Irving could shed his rvingness
No actor ever became great except as himself We go to
see John Drew for the John Drew in all he acts
Playing part trick, though it may be very clever
and amusing; revealing ones self is art
All there good in book is what autobiography seeps
through Gioto carvings the betower in Florence
immortal because they individual and individuality
and inspiration akin And that something in all
Wagner's music is-Wagner.
Nothing is so great wonderful original compelling as
personality.
How then can I express myself fully?
BY concentrating the thing done. BY forgetting
self In art (and in the difficult art Of life most of alp
it is true she that loseth his life shall find it,
You will notice that the orator strikes fire, and
kindles you with the divine spark until he has lost himself
in his theme. Similarly painting, statue, piece of
music bit of writing, begins to glow the moment the
makers eye has lost sight of self We him when he
longer himself When he is conscious of himself he is
affected and repes
The viruoso, the MASTER differs from the amateur in
that he has got rid of himself.
Very young children interesting because they have
no sefconscousness And finished for the
reason The beauty of the beginning of life and the end
of art the
This is the peculiar psychology of unsefshness. We
begin why it is divine 1t is because only when
attain unsefishness become purely human the naked
soul appears and the SOUL of all things, is of supernal
beauty
To conclude you would be interesting forget yourself
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-05-04
THE OPERA GLASSES
By GARRETT 3. sERyISS

FEW days ago. while rum
- maging on the top shelf Of
q corner bookcase among
congeries Of microscopes, opera
glasses, stereoscopes photographic
appliances and amateur drawing
paraple ala, my eye was caught
by a garlet velvet opera.
glass tease 81 bag. and pounced
upon il like a boy grabbing
butterfly for II instantly remem-
befe0 what lit contained. i drew
out the neglected treasure with
almost trembling fingers. for in
an instant it carried me back
nearly forty years to the time
when i was preparing TO write
my first book
tt was the old opera glass with
which / surveyed the heavens
from Aries round to Pisces and
from the North Polar star to the
southern horizon Of forty degree
north latitude. in order to see fof
myself what so simple an instru-
ment could reveal OF the celestial
wonders.
As / carefully brushed and
WlpCu tIlc ICuSGS t1lCIC SpA aAAes
into my mind a vivid picture OF
the purlieu in which brought
the instrument. 1t was an old
Chatham street pawnshop; for 1
had more knowledge than money.
was not to be cheated about
such things, but could not afford
to buy OF the quality that
wanted at regular dealers prices.
A glance at the fascinating
heap OF everything that the shop
window contained showed me
plainly mounted opera glass that
had a look of distinction, and
entered the shop and pointed it
out to the dealer. He handed me
in succession several inferior
specimens. which / refused to
touch.
Let me see that" said,
"Four-dollars-an he al.
most shouted. handing it out.
The moment 1 looked through
the glasses / rendered him the
price. Regretfully he took it.
keeping his eyes on the object UNI
til / slipped it into my pocket.
"Y' en- see twenty miles with
them glasses" he said, with
tone which seemed to me to
iii try TO see farther than
that" I replied as I left the shop.
1t was pair of good English
ley, 1875 Strand, London" Many a
time afterward / positively felt
twinge of pity for the original own
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-05-04

er who mad put so excellent p0n.
session in hook t. reclaim IT.
That glass, as / have said. fur
nished me with the material for
my first book. And looking at IL
again now, recalling the delight
fi1l, though simple, knowledge thai
ii brought to me-lxnOWledge that
was equivalent to discovery, since
i obtained Iii AZ first hand-I am
led to advise everybody who has
an opera glass to try II on the
stars.
You should not stop disappointed
IL at first you see nothing to won
der at. TO the unframed observer
first view even through q great
telescope II often disenchant-
ment. You must know how to look
and what to expect. OF course the
size and power of the glass have
much to do with the result. II
your opera glass has achronatic
object-lenses not less than an.inch-
and .a-half in diameter with achrO-
matte eye-lenseS giving magnifi-
cation OF between three and four
diameters. it Will answer perhaps
as well as the one used
Let me be specific. Try the
full moon, comparing carefully
the naked-eye view Of it with
that afforded by the glass. 1t win
show you, as they say in New
Jersey, quite some" lunar seem
cry on a large scale. For the
Pleiades and the Hyades, most
glorious clusters. you must wait
until winter; but Bernice's Hair
is shining near the zenith on
May evenings, every thread tipped
with a minute diamond, and Spica
in the Virgin and Arcturus in
Bootes, both first-magnitude stars.
show their contrasted colors--
pure and white and rich topa8
with beautiful effect. Look
back and forth from one to the
other several times.
Later, in the summertime, you
will have Scorpio with fire-red
Antares in his heart. and the
long, crooked row Of double bril-
liants that mark his curved back
and up-bent tail ending with two
stars in the string And, still
more attractive, you will have
that rich region Of the Milky
Way, compact of starry clouds,
that pours like a torrent over the
southern horizon in Sagittarius,
and rises like a silvery thunder
head in Sobiesl1i's Shield, to the
east of serpent bearing. Ophiu.
chus. But the whole celestial
stage is filled with beauties for
those who know how to use their
opera-glasses in the sublime the.
alter.