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New Britain herald., 1927-11-08
'CHARGES CALDWELL, YALE'S GRID STAR,
 VIOLATING RULES
Providence Bulletin Says Player
 Forfeits Right to Play by
 Eligibility Regulations
AGREEMENTS DISBAR ATHLETES WHO TRANSFER

Yale Athletic Officer. Astonished
 at Charges and Immediate Inyes- | tigation Has Been Started. No
 Statement Will Be Issued Until All
 Phases Have Been Thoroughly
 Investigated.
 Providence, R. l., Nov. 8 Rt- Bruce Caldwell, of Ashton, R, l.. former Cumberland High school star and today rated as one of the lead ing candidates for honors as the outstanding player on the Yale foot ball team, appears to be violating one of the eligibility regulations at Yale in playing on the varsity eleven the Evening Bulletin says today.
 The Bulletin says:
 "The former Rhode Islander en- tered Brown in the fall of 1923 and played in two Brown freshman games for which he was awarded numerals, the freshman insignia. The Evening Bulletin files show that he started in the Dartm outh fresh- man and Harvard seconds games, played respectively at Hanover, Nov. ,, 1923, in which the Dartmouth first year men defeated Brown l4 to 0, and at Cambridge on Nov. 16, 1923, in which the Harvard seconds were defeated, 19 to 0. He is credit ed with making a point in the lat ter game, when Zabriskie passed to Caldwell for the extra point.
 "The Yale regulation on this point debars a man from varsity athletics who has ever been in either fresh man or varsity athletics in the sport in question at any other college. Caldwell in playing football at Yale, the same sport in which he partici- pated at Brown. The same rule is observed by Princeton. Next Satur- days ale-Princeton game not only will decide the championship of the east. but will go a long way to de- termine whether Caldwell or Witt mer of Princeton will pull down pre- lnier honors as back"
New Britain herald., 1927-11-08
Meriden Pool Room
 Man Fined and Jailed

Meriden, Nov. 8 R>-Moe Levine, proprietor of a pool room on State street, was fined s200 and sentenced
 to jail for Go days when arraigned
 before Judge Thomas r. Dunne in
 police court today. as q second offen- der of the prohibition laws. Gam- bling counts with punch boards and
 q slot machine as evidence, were also included in the warrant.
 The state police obtained the evil dence under which Levine was con-
 victed. An appeal was taken.
New Britain herald., 1927-11-08
OBJECT TO GAS STATION
Property Owners On Glen Street Protest Against Petition Filed By Schultz X Costello, Inc.

Protest made to Mayor Weld to- day against granting a permit for installation of a gasoline filling sta ton on Glen street in the rear of old Turner hall will be repeated at a meeting Of the board of public works tonight. Schultz & Costello, Inc. appear as the applicant for q license to sell gasoline and oils on the premises, but owners of neigh boring properties Insist station To- cated almost directly opposite is adequate to serve the needs of the district.
New Britain herald., 1927-11-08
MACHINERY PULLS MANS ARM OFF
 AND POSSES HIM INTO ICY WATER
Ralph MlImer 40, Faint From Pain, Struggles Long
 Before He Is Noticed by Captain.

Devon, Nov. s R(-Ralph Millmer. 40, of 25 South street, New York city, lost his right arm and narrow ly escaped drowning all within g few seconds here today. Millner, a boathand. was operating hoisting machine on the steamer Mohawk which was unloading barrels of oil at local dock. when his arm caught in the machinery.
 In d second. his arm had been pulled from its socket and he had been tossed overheard by the pow erful pull of the hoisting engine.
 Unable to swim because of the loss of his arm and faint from his
New Britain herald., 1927-11-08

experience, Millmer struggled in the icy water for several moments be- iore his plight was noticed by Cap tain Hazard and Steward Burns, who succeeded fin rescuing him.
 Millmer is now in Milford hos pital in a serious condition.
New Britain herald., 1927-11-08
FAMILIES RETURN TO HOMES AS FLOOD
 WATERS RECEDE;; H0RDES DRIVEN AWAY AGAIN BY FEAR OF INJURY AND DEATH
Danger Lurks in Dwellings Weakened by Swift Running Water, Damaged Gas and Electrical Service, and Damp Houses Which May Not Dry Out Until Spring Casualty Lists Mount as More Fatalities Are Reported.

Hartford Nov (AP)-Falling with increased momentum the Conneccut nver stood at 25 feet at II o'clock this morn
 ing and was dropping at the rate of little than an inch an our Fames were able to reclaim their abandoned homes duns the day. and more and more of the who occupy business sites the river section and of those who run small stores on the east side opened their doors again and be- gan the work of checking the damage done to their buildings their equipment and their stock by the food
New Britain herald., 1927-11-08
FOUR BOYS LOST
 IN CONVENT FIRE Nun, Trapped by Flames, 0Yer-
 come by Smoke RUNS HALF MILE FOR AID
Many of Eighty Children In Orphan age Jump From Windows as Blaze Levels Wooden Dormitory-Sistcr and Nine Boys Carried Out.

Bernardsville, x. J., Nov s P- Four children were reported missing this forenoon after fire of undeter- mined origin destroyed a large wooden dormitory occupied by 80 young boys Of Roman Catholic or phanage conducted by the Baptistine sisters Of the Nazarene, at Peapack Telephone Cut or The fire had burned through the telephone connections before it was discovered and one Of the boys in the dormitory was reported to have run a half mile to Gladstone, where the alarm was rclayed to the Pea pack fire department, another half mile distant.
 When tlremcn arrived the building was in flames and the nuns in charge believed all the children had es- capped Many Of the boys were forc- ed to jump from the windows of the low. two story building, but none was injured. A later check found four unaccounted for. Known as Villa OConnor the dor mitory was part of a school conduct ed for boys from about three to 10 years old. The place is on the es- tate of George R. Mosley. and the boys and nuns were sheltered in the mansion after their escape.
 Fire Traps Nun
 One of the nuns, trapped with l2 of the boys. of whom four were later missed. was overcome by smNsse. The woman and nine of the boys were carried out by rescuers, and authorities believed that the other four became confused and wandered into another room or made their escape and were lost in the woods nearby Search for the boys was made impossible during the forenoon because of the smouldering ruins.
 The names of the missing children were no, learned.
 In the confusion no one knew who discovered the fire, although every one seemed to awaken at the same time to find almost the entire place in flames.
 Morristown. N. J., Nov. s P}-An appeal telephoned to the local head quarters of the Red Cross by the Baptistine Sisters at Peapack today, said that four of the so children made homeless by the fire which destroyed large dormitory were missing. The names of the children were not available.
 The Red Cross was asked to rush clothing to Peapack. as most of the boys effects were destroyed.
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Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1927-08-25
HAS A GOOD TIME

Judging from the editorial column
of the Mile Laos County Times of
last week Editor Cravens must have
enjoyed the recent Northern Mime
sofa Editorial Association meeting at
Two Harbors and other towns, as
much or more than any others pres
ent His sense of humor is good.
When others were being talked to
sleep Mr.. Cravens was enjoying it to
his hearts content which is revealed
from the following in his column:
1--WE notice that lot of the editors
who attended the meeting of the
Northern Minnesota Editorial Asso-
citation are limiting that they got
almighty tired of hearing long
winded speech on farm problems at
the banquet. 1t was a good Repub-
lican speech, and to us it was the
most enjoyable bit of the session. To
see bunch of stand-pat editors COM
PEELED to sit still for a couple Of
hours and listen to lot of stuff they
have been trying to force down the
farmers Threats for years, was about
as laughable and entertaining fea-
ture as could have been devised. We
almost suspect that Editor Murphy
put up a job on them to see just
how long they could stand it."
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1927-08-25
"SYNDICATING' THE DAILY PRESS
(L,abOr)

\4dUOIJ
Gradually the ownership of the
daily press of this country is concen-
trating in a few hands.
Last week William Randolph Hearst
purchased two Pittsburgh papers and
Paul Block picked up two more.
Mr.. Hearst exchanged one of his
papers for one of Mr.. Blocks and then
the four were consolidated into two.
Now Pittsburgh has only three pa
pers, where it had at least half a
dozen few years ago. The same
process has been going on all over
the country for some time. The num-
Der of papers is being reduced and
the survivors are passing into the
control of syndicates.
None of Pittsburgh's papers is now
owned by local men. Perhaps that is
not an unmixed evil. The old owners
seldom used their power to protect
the community. Generally they were
on the side of Crooked Politics and
its twin brother, Crooked Business.
But even selfish, and sometimes cor
rupt, individual ownership is to be
preferred to monopoly of the press.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1927-08-25
PAID THE PENALTY

Sacco and Vanzettf paid the penalty
with their lives, the execution taking
place shortly after midnight, Tues
worldwide attention, having run along
with appeals, delays, and other legal
technicalities for over seven years.
There was some direct testimony and
also circumstantial evidence charg-
ing them with the cold-blooded MUIR
der of two men seven years ago. It
went through the courts of Massachu-
sets and they were convicted. FL
nally a commission of three eminent
men were appointed by the Massachu-
sets governor to go over the case once
more but they found that the courts
testimony the stories of the accused
men were found to be contradicting
This is simply another case of where
the truth should be told.
Claud d. Ritter, a we'll known at
torney of Birmingham, Ala, comment
ing on the matter, said: 81 have every
confidence in the well-known intelli-
gence, legal learning and patient fair
ness of the courts and the judges of
Massachusetts; also in Governor Full
Ter and in the committee of three
noted men invited by the governor to
review the case"
Senator Borah Of Idaho, said in
substance that court decisions in
America are not to be determined by
foreign clacque or clamor. If this
were not so, the lawless would mount
to places of authority and anarchy
would supplant the present peace and
the orderly government here, which,
in affording haven for worthy i'm
migrants, has allowed some of the
lawless to enter.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1927-08-25
SWEEP OUR OWN DOORSTEPs

Occasionally one reads comment
about the terrible condition of chill
dren in some distant land, especially
Russia For those who think every
thing along that line is serene here,
it might be we'll to read what Secre-
tary of Labor Davis says about chill
dren in the United States, as follows:
I'VE have in this country 100000
children who lead lives of utter neg
lect and the direst poverty. If these
are allowed to grow up ill-nourished
and ignorant, they will be the wards
of charity tomorrow, if they are not
the criminals who fill our jails;
whereas If properly helped, they
might be useful or brilliant citizens.
eff we have not humanitarianism
enough to save these little ones from
lives of hatred and bitterness, we
ought in selfish devotion to our own
interests and safety prevent them
from growing into the menace they
are sure to become.
1--WE cannot have too many people
preaching this gospel. If enough OF
us keep at it, we may yet persuade
our people that the adjustment OF
child poverty Is as much their duty
as the adjustment of child ignor-
ance."
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1927-08-25
XVIII. Windshield Must Be Kept
Clear.

The new traffic law makes it I'M
lawful to drive any vehicle on a high
way with any sign, poster or other
non-transparent material upon the
front windshield, side wings, front side
windows or near windows, other than
a certificate required to be displayed
by law. In the latter class would
come visitors permits and permits
for. driving while waiting for license
plates.
The law also requires every motor
vehicle to be equipped with device
for cleaning rain or snow from the
windshield. The device shall be so
constructed as to be controlled or OPP
Grated by the driver.
Obscured vision often results in ac-
~cidents. It is dangerous to fail to
obey these two paragraphs in the law.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1927-08-25
FARM BUREAU DAY
THURSDAY, SEPT. 8
AT THE STATE FAIR


Members of the Minnesota Farm
Bureau Federation will celebrate
Thursday, September 8, as Farm
Bureau Day at the Minnesota State
Fair.
President j. F. Reed, Secretary ].
S. Jones and other officers of the big
organization are arranging a highly
interesting program for Farm Bureau
Day, which will open at 10 a. M, In
Pioneer Portrait Hall on the fair
grounds.
A number of notable speakers from
other states will address this meeting
at Pioneer Hall, including Lucius
Wilson of Illinois and Mrs. Charles
w. Sewell, director of Home and Com
munity work for the American Farm
Bureau Federation. Names of addi-
tional speakers will be announced
next week.
Farmers are being urged by Presi-
dent Reed to make Thursday their
day at the fair. They can attend the
meeting in the Pioneer Hall In the
morning and have the afternoon free
to inspect exhibits, see the races and
visit with friends.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1927-08-25
YOU ARE INVITED

Next Thursday, Sept. 1st, the last
day of the Askov-Sandstone Fair. is
the day that United States Senator
Henrik Shipstead will be at Askov
and deliver an address,. -.-..-..
1t will be his first appearance here
and his first appearance in the county
for some time, so undoubtedly many
will avail themselves of this oppor-
tunity to hear Minnesota's popular
Senator. AskOv welcomes the Sem
ator and everybody here that day.
Just what subject Mr. Shipstead
will speak upon has not been made
known, but he is the type of public
men who do not have to fish around
for subject matter. There are live
issues all the time and always some
thing to be bettered. He is not
afraid to come out with the messages
as has been so plainly demonstrated
by his record in the Senate.
Askov extends a cordial invitation
to you to come. see, hear and get &C
quainted with our senior United
States Senator, Henrik Shipstead.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1927-08-25
A LITTLE TALK ON THRIFT
BY S. w. STRAUS

President American Society for Thrift
Save, and teach all you are in
terested in to save" wrote Thomas
Jefferson, thus paving the way for
moral and material success"
The people of this country owe much
to the teachings of Jefferson, who
practiced thrift consistently through
out long and useful life. 1t was in
keeping with the sound simplicity Of
Jefferson's mental processes that he
appraised moral success as one of the
fine fruits of thrift.
What Jefferson had in mind was
that the plain, sturdy practices of
thrift not only develop material re-
sources but they keep us out of ha-
bits that are harmful to the develop
ment of good character Jefferson,
we imagine, would be loath to account
any man a success who did not pos
sess a good code of morals, and he
probably considered that no brilliant
gifts of mind or other advantages of
any kind could outweigh the damag-
ing effects of dissolute life. To him,
character or moral success were i'm
possible of attainment without thrift.
1t is thus that thrift exercises a
two-fold protection to us. The young
man who becomes imbued with the
thought of saving money, conserving
his health, improving his time and
making himself as efficient as pos
sible in his work or studies, will have
little time and small inclination to
indulge in habits of dissipation. y
Thrift does not mean alone the saw
ing of money. Your handbook or your
investment stronghold tell only part
of the story. For thrift puts some
thing in the heart and in the brain
that are even of greater value.
Practice thrift, not alone because
of the rainy day or for the period of
old age, but for all it will mean to
you in the days of activity and up
building.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1927-08-25
XVII. Rear View Mirrors for
Drivers.

The following section in the state
traffic law is. often neglected, but the
safety of all highway users requires
that it be observed and enforced:
"No person shall drive a motor We
hicle on a. highway which motor We
hicle is so constructed or loaded as to
prevent the driver from obtaining a
view of the highway to the rear by
looking backward from the drivers
position, unless such vehicle is
equipped with mirror so located as
to reflect to the driver a view of the
highway for a distance of at least
two hundred feet to the rear of such
vehicle"
A highway" is every way or place
of whatever nature open to the use
of the public, as a matter of right,
for purposes of vehicular travel"
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1927-08-25
OBEY TRAFFIC LAW:
PREVENT ACCIDENTS
XVI. Lights on Tractors, Tractor
Engines.


The state law requires every motor
vehicle on the highways at night to
have lighted lamps, front and rear.
Motor vehicles include every vehicle
which is self-propelled."
There have been some accidents
and numerous close calls, due to
threshing outfits and tractors travel
ing on the highways at night without
lights. A motorist blinded by the
lights of a car coming in the oppo-
site direction, is unable to see a
dark, unlighted tractor or threshing
outfit.
The number of lights is not spec
flied. For trucks and passenger
cars, the law requires two lighted
head lamps, mo more no less"
Even for vehicles where lights are
not required, consideration for your
own safety would dictate that on
roads where there is even moderate
travel, lights be used at night.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1927-08-25
ABOUT HEREDITY
BY william Feather.

No speculation is quite so interest
ing as the comparative influence of
heredity and environment in shaping
character.
The advocates of heredity assert
that heredity controls character in
an overwhelming degree-at least
seventy-five per cent of what we are
or may become is determined by the
kind of parents and grandparents we
sprang from
When this statement is made the
advocates of environment instantly
bring out the Jeffersonian phrase,
written into the Declaration of In
dependence: All men are created
equal.
The proponents of heredity answer
that Jefferson merely meant that all
are created equal in rights, privileges
and opportunities. They declare that
no other equality is conceivable, that
the one sure thing is that men
are created unequal and unlike in
mentality, temperament, and physique.
Those who favor environment ask
for an explanation of the innumer-
able distinguished Americans who
have sprung from stock which had
previously given no indication of con-
tanning seeds of greatness.
How" they ask, "can you square
these statements about heredity with
Emerson's law of compensation"
This leads into other interesting
channels of thought.
1t might be argued, for instance,
that despite innate capacity, no hui
man being will exert himself unne-
cessarily. If man has a splendid
heredity the chances are he is born
with silver spoon in his mouth, and
is thereby relieved of the necessity
Of intense application. I have heard
the argument made that the son of
rich man is handicapped at the
start because he is not compelled to
hustle and develop and discipline
himself. The poor boy, coming from
good stock that has been under econ
omic pressure for several generations
may suddenly find himself in a favor
able situation for the development of
his talents. The prize is appealing.
He will do anything to escape the life
of poverty into which he was born.
He works hard, makes the most of
what he has, and achieves an out
standing success. >~~.. 49,.
The truth probably is that all, of
us have more ability than we use or
need for moderate success. We are
not held back by lack of intelligence,
but by lack of application.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1927-08-25
FLYING CIRCUS SEEN
AT THE COUNTY SEAT

A flying circus visited Pine City
last Sunday afternoon, the chief at
traction being an auto polo game be-
tween two polo cars manned by some
daring young men. On one or two
occasions the cars ran wild getting
away from their drivers who cap
tured them with difficulty. One car
crashed into the fence in front of the
grandstand but aside from breaking
through the fence did no serious dam
age. One airplane was with the cir
Gus with an acrobat who did some
thrilling trapeeze performing from
beneath the plane. The crowd was
somewhat disappointed when the par
achute jump was called off on &C
count of the plane throwing a propel-
Ter blade and being forced down be-
fore the circus was complete.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1927-08-25
THROUGH WALL STREET EYES
marshall County Banner)

(Marshall County Banner)
The Wall Street Journal, a publica-
ton the scope of whose interests is
accurately indicated by its title, has
never been conspicuous for it's sup
port of rural interests; but in a re-
cent issue it appears to have gone out
of its way to take a slap at farmers
and small town financial institutions
as we'll.
The Wall Street organ processes to
see in the agitation for the passage
Of farm relief bill a carefully or
ganized propaganda on the part of the
rural bankers to delude their farmer
friends into the belief that the farm
relief bill is aimed to be of assistance
to the tillers of the soil. 1t is not
easy to credit the sincerity of the
Journal in intimating that the far
mers are not clamoring for relief of
their own volition.
The farmers of Wall Street may
not be particularly interested in get
ting help from the government or
elsewhere but If the editor of the
Journal would leave his native haunts
for a week or so and take a trip
through the Red River Valley or any
other representative farming area, he
would, if open-minded, be convinced
that the farmers, in their campaign
for favorable legislation need no in
spiration from the banks or any other
interests.
The New York paper, just now so
sedulous in its concern over the in
terests of the government as against
the banks, did not, so far as we know,
exhibit the same attitude toward the
proposal to create the War Finance
Corporation, a few years back. AS to
the relief extended by this organiza-
ton we quote from speech made
in Congress last February by Senator
Henrik Shipstead Of Minnesota:
what would have happened to the
large banks connected with the Fed
eral reserve system If the Govern
ment of the United States had not
formed a corporation which had prac-
tically all the powers of a Government
banking corporation-the War FL
nance Corporation-with millions OF
Government money to go out into the
larger -centers and help out the big
banks and relieve them of their frozen
assets. Otherwise they would have
gone out of business with the small
banks-the Government had to step
in and meet the situation, but they
only saved the big banks"
If this is a fact-and In this in
stance we believe Senator Shipstead
had hit pretty close to the truth-then
the Wall Street Journal must have
opposed the creation of the War FL
nance Corporation on the ground that
it would be of help to the great finan-
cial institutions of the country. If
on the other hand, 1t approved of ex-
teRdfng aid to the large banks, while
now opposing the same treatment OF
the small ones. 1t lays itself open
| to the grave charge of inconsistency