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New Britain herald., 1927-08-09

Peter Rabbit still doubted if Jim my Skunk would eat such a hairy fellow as Woolly Bear. the most hairy of all the hairy caterpillars. In fact, Woolly Bear is so very hairy that he fairly bristles. Peter simply couldn't imagine anybody eating Woolly Bear. Yet Jimmy Skunk had said he would eat him if he were hungry. Peters curiosity was great ly aroused. Jimmy Skunk had said that if he were to eat Woolly Bear there wouldn't be any hair on him when he ate him. Peter leased and leased to tell him how he would get rid of that hair. But Jimmy would not.
 So it was that whenever Peter happened to run across one of the Woolly Bear family he would re- member what Jimmy Skunk had said and wish that he could find out how Jimmy would get rid of all those prickly hairs. Woolly Bear never seemed to be afraid. You see, among caterpillars he is very much what Prickly Perky is among ami mals. But even Prickly Porky isn't safe always. There is one animal who has learned how to kill a Por- cupine despite the thousand little spears with which Prickly Porky is armed It is the same way with Woolly Bear. His bristly coat pro- tects him from most of his enemies, but there is one who has found out how to get rid of that briskly coat. and that one is Jimmy Skunk. But he wouldn't tell Peter how he did II.
 It was in the fall that Peter fin ally dicovered how the trick was done. Woolly Bears were travelling in all directions. seeking places to spend the winter. Grasshoppers were no longer plentiful. It wasn't so easy for Jimmy Skunk to keep fat. He had to roam about a little more for living. Occasionally Peter started down the Lone Little Path and half way down he met Jimmy skunk coming up the Lone Little Path. Good morning, Jimmy" said Peter, how is the world using you?"
 Pretty we'll. pretty well Peter" replied Jimmy.
 You look it." said Peter. If you were any fattcr. am afraid your skin would burst
 No danger replied Jimmy. As matter of fact, 1 could eat . title more without any discomfort This cool weather has put an end to q lot oi grasshopp When grasshopu.,a are plentiful it is easy to keep fat"
 Suddenly IimAys eyes bri.htensd. A look of ea2rrncss came into them, He was gazing past Peter up the Lon, Little Path. As live" OK claimed Jimmy I believe there goes one now"
 Do yotJ mean glasshoppcr "-' asked Peter, turning to look.
 "l do not" replied Jimmy | mean q Woolly Bear There is one thing about WoolIy BesU- that sppreci- ate"
 Meaning what? impaired Peter.
 They cannot jump like grass hopper" replied Jimmy "1,Ncusr me. Peter, I mus @"t tatb Woody Bear before he has a chance 10 hldo."
 Peter stepped aslde and Jimmy Skunk actually hurri,d AuyWay. ho called if hurryins. Peter followed When Jimmy reached the Woolly Bear the Woolly Bear curled ul, as IS he way Of Woolb Bears, Jimmy reached out q little black paw and pulled the Woolly Bear to him Then, with those little black paws of his, he began to roll him. He rolled that Wooliy Bear and he rolled that Wooly Be2r back and forth and b. rubbed him this way and he rubbed him that way. and when he got
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-09

The air is clear and fresh Streets, sidewalks
and buildings-all somehow look cleaner than usual
if the night had in some way taken away the city,
CRIME and SCOT and refurbished them that they
might greet the sunrise properly.
The city-bound worker suddenly discovers that the
city which rises before him is not the eity he knows.
1t has changed, grown more spacious and airy, un-
dergone some strange kind of publication. The win
dows in the tops of the most distant buildings catch
the sunlight and greet the dawn with myriad spar
kles of reflected radiance, shining like beacon lights
over the narrow streets below
For the moment reality is gone. The downtown
district so noisy and unromantc by day, is trans
figured and turned to cleaning mirage from beyond
the horizon It's prosaic skyscrapers become tur
refs and dazzling towers built for beauty and not
for profit.
This lasts but for few minutes Presently the
sun higher and the colors of dawn lapse into the
ordinary lights and shadows Of day. But the vision
has been there, and it will again. reminding the
earth-bound toers what fair cities they some day
will build when the dawn reaches their hearts.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-09
JUSTICE HOLMES. Sc

Today the country has reason to be pleased by
the kindly manner in which time has dealt with
one member of it's United States Supreme Court
Oliver Wendell Holmes. Mr. Justice Holmes became
Sc years young yesterday.
1t is not in empty compliment to the word
young is used. The mind which still sees clearly,
remembers accurately reasons acutely and retains
sympathy for fellowmen and women is still young.
Such is the mind of Mr.. Justice Holmes. If you
doubt, read Monday the decisions handed down.
Perhaps-quite likely in fact-there will be dis
senting opinion by Justice Holmes. in which Bran
deis joins. Or dissent by Brandeis in which
Holmes joins. And that is the real thinking of the
court; and the real speaking. In decade or so
it will be- like other dissents, the majority opinion
Of the court
He likes to be called Colonel Holmes. And who
would not who had been shot through the chest at
the battle of Balls Bluff back in the early sixties
and who had been shot through the neck at Antetam
and through the foot at Maryes Heights, and had
been everything military from first lieutenant of
Massachusetts volunteers to aide de camp to q gen.
eral.
He might be called by some title indicating au-
thorshp. He has published shelf full of law
books, things like the twelfth edition of Kents
commentaries, early English equity and on. And
he has degrees from all the fresh water colleges like
Amherst and Williams, we'll from Harvard,
where he taught in the school of law. He served
the Supreme bench Of Massachusetts before Roose-
velt appointed him to his present place.
Once in a while he seems to forget that he is
Mr.. Justice and talks in way to recall the memory
of the poet who his father. AS in an address on
law mo has earned the right to intellectual
ambition until he has learned to lay his by
star which he has never seento dig by the divin-
ing rod for springs which he may never reach"
Let us hope that Mr.. Justice Holmes is spared
until such time may feel certain the successor
named by the President will be, not his equal per-
haps but of the same breed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-09
SUNRISE IN THE CITY

fitting at old, wellesablished traditions is
RISKY business Yet today feel impelled to break
lance with the time-honored saw which has II that
nature is more easily to be enjoyed in the country
than in the city
TO be sure, the city parks and lawns can never
compete with the rolling fields and wooded uplands
OF the countryside. Nor can the city offer ANYTHING
Ike the broad rivers and quiet pools of the omen
spaces when the wind is whipping up little rpples
IN the water and the sun is high overhead
But early in the morning the city can meet the
country on footing
Morning in the country is time of delight In
the city it is a time of TRANSPORTATION
This is best observed by the fortunate man
whose journey to his place of work takes him due
west, SO that the sun rises behind him.
This man, if he has eyes, sees his familiar citv
in new light
Before him stretches the street cutting
geometric line through the buildings on either hand
Inc buildings in the foreground are of medium
height, with the piled terraces Of the downtown
once buildings and department stores rising behind
them step by step. The morning light briehtens
them strangely magnfying their height SO that the
arthest seem to stretch upward unbelievably.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-09
THIS HELPS SOME

millions of dollars TO certain taxpayers recent
years. These taxes said to have been wrongully
assessed There has been check whatever on
these refunds and during the recent session of Con-
gress effort was made to require the controller
generals k any refunds $4,000 This leg
isation failed of enactment.
The next Congress may take up the matter.
In the meantime, Chairman Green of the House
Ways and Means Committee, makes statement that
may useful purpose:
ANY member of either House who desires inves-
tigation of any refund other matter connected
with the administration of the internal revenue laws
has only to call the matter to the committees at
tention. The committee will make thorough inves-
tigatiOn'
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-09
CHICAGO,S SHAME

Chicago has been hit by scandal that hurts
worse than gunman terrorism.
About three years ago great farmers cooper
ative concern was organized to take over certain
Chicago grain elevators At the time there was
much discussion of the nerve Of the farmers leaders
in thus entering into business competition with Chi
cago's shrewdest traders. There predictions
that the ambitious enterprise would fail. 1t did
fail within year. Now the reasons for the failure
are becoming known
Certain Chicago business men were too slick for
the farmers, just predicted.
One of the properties taken over by the Grain
Marketing Company, the Farmers Cooperative, was
the Armour Grain Company, the latter company with
a name almost synonymous with Chicago, operated
the largest grain elevator in the world Now it is
publicly announced by Edward E. Brown, vice presl-
dent of the First National Bank Of Chicago, whose
word is accepted by any Chicago business man, that
the Armour company guilty of plain thievery, in
its deal with the Grain Marketing Company.
Not shrewd business, not clever trading, not
any of the things in which Chicagoan might take
pride. Just simply dishonesty.
Brown, arbitrator of the dispute between the
two concerns has made this his official finding and
awards $3,OOoOOO damages to the Grain Marketing
Company
He relates a number of acts by the Armour
company that only be called crooked. One will
suffice for illustrations:
There some millions of bushels of wheat
in the elevator bins when the property was sold to
the Grain Marketing Company. Brown finds that the
value of this grain falsifed. Inferior grain
listed on the books as good grain After board of
grade examiners had taken samples from all the
bins for appraisal Armours superintendent substi-
tuted other samples
He did this in the dead Of night, with four
illiterate employees TO help him. When appraisal was
made next day, the examiners reported the wheat
of good quality, shown the companys books
This fraud, Brown holds, cost the Farmers
Cooperative $24OO,OOO directly.
Business men of Chicago seriously con-
csrned They should be.
The reputation given the city by the Armour
Grain Company will not be lived down in long
time
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-09
A BOY THAT WILL SUCCEED

12-year-old boy in New Jersey wanted to buy
S. dog kennel.
His savings bank contained just few cents
over 3d. And he simply had to have that dog kennel
So the lad trudged to bank and told the presi-
dent he wanted to borrow ST.
The president, no doubt suppressing SMILE
asked him what security he could give. The boy
gravely replied that he going to get a Job
working in store after school. So the president
made out regular three-months promssory note
bearing per cent interest the lad signed it and the
So was given him.
Industry and sincerity are security enough .
the banker remarked.
We think the banker was right And also
think that this boy is going to be real success later
in life. Somehow, he sounds as if he were made
Of the right stuff
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-09
WE CAN'T DUCK OUR
RESPONSIBILITY

Most of our ma jor ills, says a Moscow professor
are due to sun spots
These spots, he adds run in cycles and have
profound an effect on mankind that wars, revolu
TONS famnese, social and political upheavas of all
kinds follow in their train
This sun :rsot business apparently is something
that science hasn't quite made up its mind about
yet, and the ordinary is entitled to believe it
not, as he wishes
It's comforting doctrine, in way
1t relieves us of responsibility. When some
mentions the World War or the present uprisings in
China we can blame these terrible tragedies on the
far-distant sun, which can't back, and alb
solve ourselves and our generation of all blame.
But somehow it seems just little bit too easy
to be true.
For all we know the sun spots may as it is
Gained, have profound effect on all of our activ-
ties.
Yet might we'll remind ourselves that all
of the spots between here and the pole star
would never bring about World War if mankind
had net already planted the seeds.
The World War, to cite single world upheava1
the crop of the seed that many generations had
1t the fruit of blind greed and autocratc
selfsecking and natonasm and bitter trade
rivalry. AS the word had planted SO did it reap.
We may talk about spots until we are blue in
the face but that will not enable to look on the
World War something for which no one was to
Eamc.
Nor will it enable us to sidestep responsibility
for what may be ahead of us.
What we, as Nation, will determine
what is going to happen in the near future If
We are blind and reckless and selfish and material
fstc as the nations of Europe were before 1914 we
may rest assured that we will garner crop similar
to the one they garnered.
Fortunately, on the other hand, if we make JUS
tlce our daily ideal and work forever for the estab
hshment Of the kingdom of righteousness, in its
broadcast sense, rest assured that certain
tragedies will be spared u.s.
But, either way we mustn't try to blame tho SIM
spots for all of it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-09
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Double of One Bid After
Bid by Partner Is
Business.
BY Milton Q. Work
The pointer for today Isi

"A double of bid of one Is usually
informatory. but when made after a
bid by the partner it is business.
AT one time an exception was
made to the rule that a double after
bid by the partner Is business, in
the case Of the double of a suit.bid
of one. After bid by partner. the
double Of bid of one No Trump has
always been business; but in the
case of-let us say-South one Club,
West one Diamond, North double;
North's double at one time was
treated as an exception and consid-
cred informatory. 1t showed the two
unnamed suits and directed the part.
ner to bid whichever he preferred.
This worked satisfactorily when
North was strong in the two I'M
named suits; but It did not work
well when North had great strength
in the adverse suit and was looking
for profitable business double. In
order to keep the penny and have
the cake too, the exception has been
eliminated and that double again is
considered business according to the
general rule. Now. when South and
West have bid one Of a SUIT. and
North has a strong two-suiter which
he wishes to show by single bid,
he bids two of the suit named by
West; in other words. South bids
one Club, West one Diamond and
North holds.
Sp: A-Q-J.9.x lit: A.K.J-9.x Di;
K CT: Ok BY bidding two Dia-'
monds, North instructs South TO bid
the Major in which he is the longer
This bid could not confuse South if
he understood the convention. II
North had Diamond strength he
would double the one Diamond, as
that double. if made, would be bust
ness; il strong in either Spades or
Hearts, he would bid his strong suit.
With a hand only suited to assist
Clubs, he would bid two Clubs; but
when in a position in which a dou-
BILE. If made, would be business, he
bids one more of the adverse suit.
His bid Of two Diamonds shows that
he cannot have that suit as with it
he would have doubled, and IL there
fore shows the two unnamed suits.
1t is better than bidding first the
higher-valued suit with the expecta-
ton OF subsequently bidding the
lower because. with such North
strength and South strong enough
to bid, the second opportunity for
North to bid is not apt to arise;
partner may prefer Hearts and not
be able to show his preference.
Copyright. John +. Ollie Company
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-09

DISDAINFUL
OF HYPHEN
Americanized Italians Draft
ed for Army While in
Native Land.
Times Washinoton Bureau,

1873 NCO 1OFh AB6UuC
WASHINGTON, March 9.-ItaI-
ans who have become naturalized
Americans are thinking twice these
lays before visiting their old coun-
Try.
Many complaints are reaching
Government officials that such citi-
zens have been drafted into the
Italian army.
The most recent cases have just
been cited to Secretary of State Kel.
logg by Representative Clyde Kelley
Of Pittsburgh, to whom relatives of
two naturalized citizens appealed FOR
aid. One, Leo Liberto, a wilkins
burg farmer. was drafted while Wis
ting his mother. though he had
been an American citizen almost ten
years.
Kelley said he has been informed
the second draftee, Joseph Laberde
IF Swissvale, had been a citizen since
1913.
Secretary Kellogg advised Kelley
our Government is practically help
less to aid him because Italy does
not recognize our naturalization
laws as taking away their claims on
subject through birthright.
Kellogg said, while the United
States objects to such drafting, it
can give no assurance of relief The
department has issued pamphlet
advising naturalized citizens who
come from countries not having
naturalization treaties with the
United States, to ascertain in ad-
vance, from foreign officials, wheth-
err they will be immune from mill
tary service should they return for a
visit.
Representative Kelley believes the
many complaints against Premier
Mussolini's actions will result in
steps to conclude such a treaty with
Italy.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-09
TEN THOUSAND PIES

Western gentleman has just been awarded a
medal by somebody or other because he has baked
his ten-thousandth apple pie.
We don't know just what kind of medal he got
but it strikes the reward was all wrong. The
who has baked 10000 apple pies deserves either
more than that or far less.
If they were good pies-wel hardly any is
too great to be given the who has spread that
much joy in this sorrowful old world. And if they
bad pies-by the same token, he who would pro-
fame the of apple pie with soggy, pasty con-
coction, and repeat his offense 10000 times over,
should be flung at once to the lions.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-09
Law and Ignorance

Ignorance Of the law availeth no
man." we say, yet the basic prin-
ciples of law find no place in our
educational system.
We teach our children how to
weave baskets, though the art has
long since gone out of date. We
do not teach them the rudiments Of
justice, though justice is coming to
play more important part in life.
1t was ignorance Of the law, of
justice, of the right and wrong of
thigs, that led to the tragedy in that
cold, dark basement where a mother
slew her own child
1t was the same kind of ignorance
that made possible the oil scandal,
the conflicting decisions of the
Sinclair trial.
If the law has become a game Of
technicality and red tape it is
measurable due to ignorance on the
part of the public.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-09
Blind Morality

A 1G-year-old girl lying on the
floor Of a cold. dark basement at
midnight, with a newborn babe
cuddled against her breast; a gun
in the trembling hands of a dis
traught mother. who stood over her
it was blind morality at grips with
blind infatuation.
Mrs. Christine Stoble, SO, and the
mother of ten children. is now in
New Jersey prison facing a charge
Of murder.
She couldn't bear the shame her
hayward daughter had brought
upon the family, so she sought to
correct it by the greater shame of
homicide.
Free love brought one life into the
world and straightlaced conviction
took two to prove it wrong, for the
baby died as well as its unhappy
mother.
How would you decide the case IL
you were on the jury?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-09
Teaching Justice

The old Persians taught their
children justice in much the same
way that we teach ours arithmetic.
They gave them problems to solve
that illustrated and revealed the
underlying principles.
The Persians brought up race of
people that did not lie or steal. They
had little need for an elaborate legal
structure, because Of their intelligent
understanding of what was right and
wrong.
If we were to adopt similar
method we would soon get rid of the
hypocrisy which confuses our system
Of justice, which makes 1t possible
for group of highly trained lawyers
to play tag with life and liberty,
and which breed crime, because a
vast portion of the people have no
clear conception of what crime is.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-09
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i tracy
Scripps : Howard New
York Paper Starts
Radio Innovation.
By M. e. Tracy

The New York Telegram, recently
acquired by the Scripps-Howard in
terests, has inaugurated a policy of
full and complete news with regard
to radio programs.
This is something new for the
metropolis.
Hitherto, New Workers have had
to tune in to find out what was
really on the air.
For some inscrutable reason, the
great metropolitan dailies singled
out radio artists as unworthy of too
specific mention. They were more
than glad to give not only the
initials but the nickname of pugil-
lists, golf players and ham fat"
actors. When it came to performers
on the air, however, they seldom
went beyond pronouns.
The poor radio fan couldn't tell
whether he was going to get jazz or
grand opera by reading in his paper
that such or such a station would
broadcast music"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-09
Policy Explained

In announcing the kilograms new
policy over stations WIZ and WEAF
last Tuesday night, George 8.
Parker, general editorial executive
of the Scripps-Howard newspapers,
said that ut grew out of a belief
that the several million radio listen
ers of the New York section were
being compelled>by New York news
papers to grope in the dark"
THE New York Telegram con-
tends" he went on, that it is the
simple duty OF a newspaper to tell
the news. 1t believes that the news
of radio has not been told under the
system of merely labelling the Hap
piness Boys as entertainers, or the
"A. and P. Gypsies' as stringed mu-
sic"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-09
News Values

Radio is a peculiar institution. AS
a commercial venture it includes
more than the sale of receiving sets.
Owners of these sets are within
reach of more free entertainment
than any class of people ever was
before, but only If the newspapers
tell them where and when they can
get it.
In view of such a set-up. it is
strange that New York newspapers
should have conceived the idea that
radio programs were less deserving
of free publicity than a baseball
game or prize fight.
Editors in other parts of the coun-
try have certainly shown a better
sense of news values.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-09

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