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New Britain herald., 1927-06-01

No meeting has yet been ar ranged with Mir. Tibbets engineer of the Connecticut Co. and the se- lectmen Of Newington in regard to the raising of the trolley tracks at the corner of Maple Hill avenue and 1 Robbins avenue. It has been pro- posed by the town that the company raise the tracks about three feet at this point before the town does any work on resurfacing Maple Hill av- | cnue. However. yesterday. several men from the Connecticut Co. were surveying the tracks at this point. 1 It is expected that after this work has been completed, some definite action will be taken. The tracks will probably be raised for a dis | tance of 15O feet Mir. Tibbets es- 1 timated that the cost would be ap- ploXimately Sl,o00 q foot. which would make the total costs about $3,00O.
New Britain herald., 1927-06-01
DENTISTS OFFICE
 INSPIRED 'LINDY'
It Was There He Got Foundation
 for His Career

BY MORRIS DE HAVEN TRACY United Press Staff Correspondent Copyright 1927 by United Press)
New Britain herald., 1927-06-01
Does Net Dance

Lindy was surrounded by fair dancers when he appeared at the charity ball, and he had hard time convincing them that he really did not know how 10 dance.
 T am terribly sorry he told the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-02-09
A LAW BREAKING LAW
From the speech by Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler
-President of Columbia University)-

The prohibition question reaches to the very foun
dations of governments structure. Many excel
lent persons seem to think 1t has something to do with
the liquor traffic If its relation traffic
be very slight.
Never before in the history of the country has
that traffic been widely extended so profitable
as now 1t is believed to rank to the automobile
industry and the steel industry in amount. since
its profits. being Illicit, unreported and untaxed
it is perfectly satisfied with present conditions. H.
deed the most defenders of the present terrible
system are the bootleggers and the grape growers.
Truly, for them prohibition has ushered in an era
of prosperity. In reality, however, the question of
prohibition is one that deals with the structure and
functions Of government, particularly the Govern.
ment of the United States.
The Eighteenth Amendment has no place in
the Constitution 1t does deal with the structure
and functions Of government. 1t is nothing but an
ordinary statute directed to the life activities of
the individual citizen.
its own content, it conradicts every principle upon
which the Constitution for this reason that
saw OF it AS Abraham Lincoln said of the Nebraska
act:
Il look upon that enactment not as a law but as
a violence from the beginning. 1t conceived In
violence, is maintained in violence and is being exc.
cuted in violence"
The Eighteenth Amendment must come out of
Constitution and the States must each in its own
way deal with the evils of the liquor traffic and the
saloon Those States that believe prohibition can
continue to try 1t until its folly is manifest even TO
them.
The States that do not believe in prohibition such
as the state OF New York, then learn from the
example OF Canada and adopt system that will sun
press the liquor traffic abolish the saloon promote
temperance and leave off invading the civil liberty of
the individual and the violation Of every fundamental
law of God and man.
1t is no use to ask for law enforcement You can
not enforce lawbreakng law by of lawless.
ness Already We have law enforcement lead to
murder and there appears to be limits to which
fanatics will not to enforce the one single law in
which they believe.
In 1928 no candidate for President can escape
making known with deiniteness and precision his
attitude toward prohibition. Unless he is against if
he can not in my judgment be elected on any ticket
II he endeavors to avoid committing himself to pussy.
loot and to please all elements then he will be even
worse beaten than II, like brave man. he comes
out for what believe to be this wrong and immoral
policy
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-02-09
SOME CONTRAST

Perhaps the measure to provide three millions
of dollars for bridge at Evansville is very meri-
torous one but there not be other than interest
in the contrast between the haste with which one
of the judiciary committees handled this and the
delay in the matter of the Barrett law funds
OF course, if the present law is not amended the
county of this county will continue to draw
more money as interest funds for public i'm
provements than is paid to President Coolidge as a
salary.
There is no pretense that the treasurer earns
this money. There is no claim that any one does
any service which would entitle them to take any
considerable part of these thousands of dollars
There happens to be a doubt in the law to
where the interest should go and so the treasurer
gets it,
That is what makes the job Of county treasurer
so very attractive to the political machines.
1t might seem that the Legislature and its COM
mittees would not delay in giving effect to the pur
poses of the people which that the funds be safe
guarded and the interest them go to the benefit
of the public.
But this seems to be serious problem and one
which requires long and careful consideration
Taking away seventy thousand dollars a year
from official who does nothing to deserve it,
seems to be difficult thing to get accomplished
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-02-09
AGAIN THE SOUIBBS

Once more the people have demonstration of
the peculiar conditions which prevail in this city
Prohibition Director Winker, probably with
great wisdom, refuses to place the 900 worth of
whisky which he confscaed in the Federal Building
He remembers what happened to that other
stock of whisky which was stored there
He remembers, the people remember, that
thousands of dollars worth of it disappeared and
that finally three Negro ianitors spent few months
IN jail on confessions that they had taken part of it.
He probably remembers as the people remem-
Der, that it was openly charged that there were
higher ups" involved in the theft of that whisky
and that no has seriously attempted to trace it.
1t is true that it has been openly charged that
much of this other whisky used to influence gov
eminent, to gain votes for favorites of the machine,
given for control Of precincts and in turn the
control of political machinery.
What striking was that the disappear
ance of this Squbbs whisky would never have been
made public, that no official protested or ap-
parently discovered it, until a Congressman from
New York told the Nation about it.
The disappearance of the Squibbs whisky was a
scandal in that it revealed condition that was
shameful.
1t meant that the Government had failed to
prevent the very thing for which it arrested indi-
yiduals and confscated their stores.
It meant that the Government having taken
whisky from private individuals because they in
tended to permit it to be used as beverages did by
proxy that very thing.
1t will always be a shameful incident until all
the facts are dragged into the light and the real
story of its disappearance told
Small wonder that the prohibition director
takes precaution against similar scandal.
The futility of enforcement of the present laws
is demonstrated by these incidents in which officials
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-02-09
New Era Near

Humanity approaches the dawn of
a now and fateful era. The East
and West have come to face each
other from the opposite shores Of
earth great ocean.
1t is the supreme test of human
intelligence.
We move toward fratricidal war
that would set civilization back
5000 years or toward new con-
ception of human rights that will
lead to a better order.
Events of today are but symptoms
of what can be. The future is not
being shaped by bandits, jingoes and
strutting politicians, but by what
hundreds of millions of children are
being taught.
Are they being taught to quarrel
and kill as cayemen did, or to use
their intelligence as wise men
should?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-02-09
AneriCaniZed

They tell wild tales of what San
F'rancisco's Chinatown used to be,
but always with the reminder that
the fire wiped it clean.
Whatever it might have been, it
is nothing like the visitors expect
now.
The peculiarities of dress have
gone, along with hop joints and tong
wars.
The Chinese flapper asks no odds
of her American sister when it comes
to bobbed ham, short skirts and
other accessories of a swanky APP
pearance.
Those who come to see queer
things finds themselves entranced
with the beautiful and artistic dis
plays.
The narrow door has been replaced
by a plate glass window and the
weird cellar has become thee bargain
basement.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-02-09
MELLOW Peril"

Asia produces many things that
America needs, and America pro-
duces more than Asia needs, but are
we thinking of business, or a fight,
especially in what we teach our
children?
A Chinese editor told the Adver-
Using Club of San Francisco some
weeks ago that the yellow peril
was what we made it.
That, in my judgment, is precise
ly true.
Because of our advanced position,
our leadership, our financial and in
dustrial strength, we are shaping
world events more distinctly than
any other nation.
Through its foreign policy, through
it's attitude, as expressed in every
day conversation and especially
through the ideas it is developing in
young and plastic minds, the United
States is writing history for the next
few hundred years.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-02-09
By Walter ID. Hickman

My own library now includes
about the most fancy and complete
collection of frst-class criminals
and crimes of all description.
This is true since Houghton Milf.
lin Company sent me a copy of
Scotland Yard. Its History and AS
sociations" by George Dilnot.
Any history of this splendid or
ganization in running down crime
and keeping the peace in London is
bound to be a collection of great
crimes, of criminals who committed
them and a fine study of the men
who brought them to justice.
This may sound like dull reading
to those who read for pleasure and
pastime only, but the truth is that
this history of crime in London and
the development of the Metropolitan
police and detective forces is cork
ing good reading.
1t seems to me that none Of us
are any too familiar with the history
of the detective and police forces of
the world. The real value in this
book is that the real science and
thought behind the police and detec-
tive forces is fully and humanity ex-
planned.
In this day when the detective is
made a target of fun upon the stage
and even upon the screen and when
every detective is expected to be a
Sherlock Holmes, II is a relief to
pick up a book that is historically
and scientifically correct.
Early History
That Dilnot, the author of this
Yard history, was broad enough
not TO forget the influence of
Charles Dickens upon the develop
ment of the police system in Lon
don, is, additional proof that this
book is complete work as far as
the subject matter is concerned.
Dilnot in the beginning really
starts at the actual beginning of the
formation Of Scotland Yard.
ITO tell in all its detail the full
oSolJ "a oSOIidhu IdIu, ne WHITES,
would be task sufficient to daunt
the most indefatigable, the most dis
Greet historian. For the evolution
of the police of Londonsi is largely
the tale of modern civilization. Scot
land Yard has marched to it's pur-
poses in an era of social reform in
so many shapes, that it is difficult
to imagine any step Of progress
which has not had its reaction on
crime and public order, and so d.
rectly and indirectly upon the af-
fairs of police"
And in this book we look back
nearly hundred years and study in
modern fashion the relation of crime
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-02-09
What Future Holds

There are ten, fifteen, perhaps
twenty thousand Chinese in San
Francisco.
Without losing their identity they
have adapted themselves to the
American mode of life and business
with surprising success.
There are great merchants among
them. great capitalists, and great
scholars.
What has occurred here is a vivid
illustration of what will occur when
occidental civilization once gets a
real foothold in China.
Let us have no illusion as to what
the present chaos. or what the last
1000 years of lethargy imply.
II YOU would visualize the kind Of
a China with which the world will
have to reckon a century hence, go
to san Francisco's Chinatown and
multiply it by ten million.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-02-09
Times Readers
Voice Vices

To the Editor of The Times:
Some time ago I purchased piece
of property in Marion county. In
diana.
Have just returned from Indian.
apolis, and am considering locating
in your city.
have been sheriff two terms in
our county and have been in the 20
lice department of this city for fiji
teen years. Just resigned from the
police department a short time ago
Naturally, / notice the variations Of
laws in different states, and find
some laws in your State that do not
appeal to me. One of your laws that
I think should be improved is the
governing of your police and fire
departments. In .1ny mind, these
boys should be put under civil ser
vice so that they could not be re
moved every time a mayor is elected
just because his political views differ
or perhaps because the new mayor
has q friend to fill the place.
1 believe after man has had ex.
should be kept at his post as long as
he fills the bill.
In our State in order to discharge
a fireman there must be a charge
preferred against him, and he COM
mands a fair trial by the courts.
With this protection our men Away
have something to work for, and -
puts them in a position where they
do not have to be afraid to do their
duty. We get real service from them.
Another thing l find in your State
is women and girls working twelve
hours a day seven days in a week
l think this is brutal. In our State
if an employer works a woman OF
girl over eight hours day he is fined
anywhere from $50 to $500 and can
be sent to Jail for six months. We
feel that it is a misfortune that a
woman has to make her own way
but she is protected to this extent in
connection with the eight hours a.
day. She caneonly be worked forty
eight hours in seven days. These
are only two items / noticed the
short time / was in indianapolis. ]
have heard other comment on some
of your laws. I am told that your
city is making drive to increase its
population.
| believe your city would have
greater success il your Legislature
would get busy and make some new
laws and amend Il lot of the old ones.
/ feel most sure / am going to 10.
cate in Indianapolis before long. III
I do / hope to sec some changes
made along these lines.
CHARLES II. SWANK, m
173 w. Locust St.
Newark, Ohio.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-02-09
Useful PreSS2

One San Francisco paper gives
more space to the fact that the
Prince of Wales stumbled while try
ing to walk in his royal robes than
TO King Georges speech from the
throne.
That is the kind of Journalism that
makes people doubt the usefulness
of the press.
King Georges speech was a mo-
mentous uttcrance, It not only clari.
fies British policy. but puts that
policy in accord with what the
United States has always protested
to stand for
II carried out, this policy will
guarantee the Pacific against such
useless tragedies as have stained the
Atlantic.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-02-09
SOUND CRITICISM

President Coolidge, through his spokesman, has
sharply rebuked Senator Shipstead for offering
outon calling for a federation of Central American
republics to promote harmony.
Such idea, said the spokesman, should ema-
nate from the nations most interested and not from
the United States Government.
This is sound criticism
But just how much of our present Latin-Ameri-
policy can be said to have emanated from the
nations most interested?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-02-09
You Have Been Waiting for In a Little
Spanish Town on This New Record
BY Walter ID. Hickman

Since Paul Whiteman did so beau
tifully In a Little Spanish Town"
at the Circle in person, l have been
asked to hunt up a record that has
this same beauty.
Brunswick has submitted for re-
view a copy of the Castlewood Mar
iplba Band playing this Spanish
Town" number. too. To me it is so
full OF moonlight and soothing eff
fects that even myself at my age be-
come romantic.
Really, l think this number is one
of the NEST beautiful OF the modern
tunes. l have been playing this
record SO much at home that it has
been limited to me by friendly neigh
bors that they are willing to have
this Spanish town wiped off the
map.
The marimba orchestration and
arrangement of this tune actually
bring out the soothing beauty of
the melody. A vocal trio puts over
the chorus. There is a tune that is
a tune and Brunswick has a winner
in this one
On the other side, you will find the
.marimba band pldying another
soothing affair. still Waters"
waltz.
Found at Last
a reader of this department some
days ago wrote me and asked: mfr.
Hickman. please find a record that
has an old fashioned straight and
square dance on it,"
/ started to work because I want
to be accommodating and before
long Okeh sent me a record includ-
ing 1.-THE Lady Washington Reel"
q straight dance as played by the
Plymouth Vermont Old Time Barn
Dance Orchestra with Uncle John
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-02-09
i raCV
If FirecraCkerS Scare
Devils Away China
town Is Safe.
By NJ. L. Tracy

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. g.
America 5 greatest Chinatown wound
up its New Years celebration yester.
day.
If devils are scared away by the
popping of flrecrackers, as Chinese
tradition has it. there will be little
to fear from them during the next
twelve months.
So far as noise and smoke went,
some of the streets were like what
the western front must have been.
While the children contributed this
feature of the entertainment, the cid
folks consumed vast quantities Of
Canton cells, Pekin duck, and other
Oriental delicacies.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-02-09
WEEKLY BOOK REVIEW
Leading Crimes of the World Now in One Volume

to society and to the agents Of law
and order.
Scotland Yard touches more than
London because it really encircles
the globe.
Concerning the present day power
of Scotland Yard. Dilnot writes:
1.-THE value of property stolen in
London is largely above half a mil
lion pounds, and of this roughly a
quarter is recovered. Unsolved
murder mysteries are of infrequent
occurrence. That is why London
has fewer murders in a year than
some American cities have in a.
month. The more certain you make
detection the fewer crimes you will
have"
or Real Value
Probably as interesting a chapter
as Dilnot has in his lengthy book is
hat devoted to the creation and the
necessity of the Bow. Street Run
ners.
This book is in no sense a defense
of a glorification of Scotland Yard,
but an accurate and an honest ac-
count of the development of crime
detection and protection of rights in
London.
Dilnot has collected a number of
some thrilling detective stories all
ture, which rival anything that has
been spun in fiction. 1 was par
ticularly interested in the Doctor
Crippen case.
The chapter entitled "a Detec-
tive's Tragedy" is such a splendid
example of what a. detective actual
ly suffers in running down crime
that / wish 1 could publish it in full
so that men and women Of today
would be kinder and more just in
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-02-09

How can / cut the top of large
round bottle to transfer il into a
lamp base?
The most practical way to cut a
bottle is to wrap it with wire
through which an electric currenM
can be conducted so that it will hea
the wire to redness. After the part
of the bottle under the wire has be.
come heated remove the wire quickly
and drop 81 few drops of water along
the line of heating. Another method
is to wrap around the bottle wor-
sted thread dipped in spirits Of tur.
pentine and set fire to it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-02-09

all demands for those who want to
dance the old steps in their home.
The old-fashioned orchestra that
plays these tunes on the Okeh rec
ord is composed of John Wilder, two
fiddles, clarinet, piano and drums.
Ma and pa, if they be aged, and
grandma and grandpa, will have a
great time doing the old-fashioned
steps to this music.
And in speaking Of Okeh, I rec
ommend modern step record,
Wouldn't You" from the Green
wich Village Follies, and Sunday"
played by Harry Roderman's Red
Hooters. Here is a good up-to.the-
minute stepping record.
! must list several fine classical
records, just released by Brunswick
Marie Morrisey singing az Love
You Tuly." and Long, Long Ago."
two really beautiful numbers done
by a real artist and magnificently
recorded; the Minneapolis Symphony
playing in two parts "Freischutz
Overture" by Weber-here is fine
orchestral playing-and Claire Dux
singing "Morgen" and "Mondnacht,"
both in German. 1.-THE Morgen'' or
Tomorrow number has the violin
services of Max Rosen.
Have a lot more new records to
tell you about next week.
Indianapolis theaters today offer:
Blossom Seeley at Keith's; Kelly and
Forsythe at the Lyric; In China"
at the Palace; THE Red Mill at the
Ohio; Ford and Glenn at the Circle;
new show at the Uptown; THE
Wrong Mr.. Wright" at the Colonial;
Paradise for Two" at the Apollo;
new show at the Isis and hurlesque
at the Mutual.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-02-09

This coincidence has an unusual
first name. Her name and the
answers to the questions appear on
page IA:
Who is shown in the. accom-.
panying picture?
2-Who wrote the novel, The
Winning of Barbara Worth?"
S-Where is radio station WTAM?
4-Who is manager of the New
York Giants baseball team2
5-What was the result of the trial
of Rev. j. Frank Norris, charged
with murder of d. Z. Chips?
6-Does Douglas Fairbanks wear
a moustache?
7-How many days are there in
the year 1927?
S-What was Peaches" Brown
ing's maiden name?
9--Has Vermont an ocean port?
loon what important river is
Littls Rock, Ark?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-02-09

giving the right value to the work Of
the modern detective.
Here is a book that is Of great in
terest to all students of social prob
lens, the judges. doctors, detectives,
the heads of any great city and to
all citizens who really desire to
understand how crime is and should
be treated
Houghton Mifflin announces that
Scotland Yard" sells for So copy.