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New Britain herald., 1927-12-09
WOMAN GOES TO JAIL
Stamford Resident Gets Years Sen tencc on Charge of Theft and Forgery.

Bridgeport, Dec. 9 Pt-Mrs. Eliz- lbeth Bennett, 4, of Stamford, was antenced to a year in jail by Judge :. r. Waldo Marvin in superior court today when she changed her plea of not guilty to one of guilty 10 charges of theft and forgery.
 Her husband, Edward, 35, also of Stamford. Was sentenced to from 70 months 10 five years in the same court yesterday when he pleaded guilty to like charges.
New Britain herald., 1927-12-09

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-12
UNITED STATES
in WORLD WAR
Ten Years Ago Today

Navy now has 131, 013 men Of it's
necessary 10000 war strength. Ma
rine Corps within LIZA Of it's 10000
limit. Arizona sheriff ships
LOO I. w. w. agitators out of Bisbee
in cattle cars to get rid of those
alleged to have curtailed copper pro-
duction through strikes. Last
sites selected for National Guard
training camps. Pershing in.
spects largest ammunition plant in
the Paris district. Secretary
Daniels asks Congress for an addi-
tional 100000, 900 for new emergency
fund to build destroyers and U-boat
chasers. American Red Cross
takes over French relief stations from
our base to American section of the
front. President wants food
bill simplified to control only foods,
feeds and fuel. Incumbered with too
many amendments. Asks Congress
to accept prohibition responsibility.
President gives Gen. Cocktails
full power to go ahead with building
cargo ships to the extent of the
$500, 000,0 900 recently appropriated.
Steel companies accept price
fixing by Government. Cotton
to be put under export ban because
Government learns that Germany has
obtained tremendous quantities for
making Of explosives through neutral.
countries. Startling develop.
NETS in Germany. German Chancel-
lor Hollweg resigns and the Kaiser
orders equal suffrage bill drawn for
Prussia.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-12

In the midst of a discussion OF a
proposed educational reform. radical
in its rather clean break with many
existing arrangements, my mind went
back recently to an Autumn day on
a Missouri farm some 25 years ago.
In the great barn that seemed vast
to me then, rich with the alluring
smells Of the fruits and grains that
had been harvested, an old farmer
was sorting ears of corn.
He was porting over them as an
old jeweler might run his selective
eye over a handful of gems trickling
through his fingers.
'"What are you doing, Uncle John?"
I asked.
I'm separating the seed corn from
the feed corn, sonny" he answered.
Feed corn would be eaten by the
cattle: 1t would make flesh and blood
and bone for time. and, then, it's
place would necessarily be filled by
still other feed corn.
Seed corn would not be quickly
transformed into flesh and blood and
bone, it would not be eaten, 1t would
be planted. it's special vitality and
reproductive power would produce
still other ears of corn.
The feed corn was practical.
The seed corn was immortal.
I am not sure but that the essence
of education may be put into this
question: Shall education deal in feed
corn or in seed corn?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-12
Airport Figures.

Computations have been made as
to the cost of a municipal airport for
Washington OF a size suitable for all
present and Immediately prospective
| purposes, working out to $765,000.
This is based upon a plan to take
five years for the completion of the
| field and its equipment. If under
taken on a two-year basis. the cost
would be $9S5 900. Maj. Covell, AS
sistant Engineer Commissioner, who
has prepared these trough estimates"
points sout that the five-year plan
would make it possible for the Dis
trict to meet the expense out of it's
own funds without undue stress. He
adds, however, that the Government
should bear it's share Of the expense.
There is no basis for contemplating
u municipal airport for the District
save on the shared-cost principle. The
Federal Government should, of course,
carry it's proper proportion of the
expense of this facility. 1t should
however, not be put in the category
of the ordinary appropriations, which
are borne on the lump-sum plan,
whatever may be the future regard
ing that method of Federal participa-
ton in District maintenance. A Dis
trict airport will be a Government
utility as we'll as municipal. The fact
that the United States now has two
aviation fields on the south bank of
the Anacostia does not affect this
proposition. Those fields are for the
military and naval services. The mu-
nicipal airport. wherever located, will
be the Capitals aerial gateway, and 1t
should be developed as such and not
put in the category of a strictly local
establishment.
This matter will be undoubtedly
presented to Congress at the next
session. 1t should be included in the
estimates, with a special proviso for
cost-sharing differing from the
lump-sum arrangement which has for
several years affected District appro-
priations and viii presumably affect
the coming District budget in the alb
sence of a survey of the District Fed
eral equities, which is hoped for and
which will furnish the foundation for
a new adjustment.
1t is not to the point of immediate
question whether the airport expense
should be spread over five years or
two. The factor of greatest impor.
lance is securing the authorization,
the selection and acquisition of the
land and its preparation for aviation
uses. The figures that have been
worked out roughly by. Maj. Covell
and his associates are valuable in es.
tablishing the general basis of com.
putation and afford a starting point
for the estimate which should 60 to
Congress in December.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-12
SEED CORN AND FEED CORN
BY GLENN FRANK
and

Shall our schools deal with facts
that can be Immediately memorized
and marketed or with ideas that
sprout and spring up into continuing
new vitalities of mind and spirit?
/ give you this story of Christian
Kold, one of the great teachers of
the Danish folk high schools. those
delightfully."- informal institutions that
concern themselves more with educa-
ton than with credits and diplomas.
II am glad to listen to your talks"
a young man once said to Kold. "but
sorry that / cannot remember them"
Don't worry about that" said
KoR1. at would be another matter
il it were a question Of acquiring
ordinary information. But 1t Is like
that which happens out there in the
fields. If we put drain pipes into the
ground, we must mark the place in
order to find them again. But when
we SOW grain there Is no need to
drive in pegs, for it comes up again!
You may be sure that whatever you
have listened to with pleasure, what
Fever has really found good soil in you,
will certainly come up again when
you have need for it."
1t Is not surprising that Kold would
never allow his pupils to take notes
while he was speaking to them. He
did not want reporters; he wanted
learners; he wanted them to come to
him for seed corn, not for feed corn.
(Copyright 1927
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-12
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

Ones sympathy goes out to all those
who 'just sit'-the old ladies in
homes and institutions, elderly gentle.
men in watchmen's jobs.
Those who sit gracefully and do
not fidget--of such is this peaceful
kingdom composed.
Looking at them. the restless are
ant to think they must be bored with
life, but nothing could be further from
the truth. for boredom is just as likely
to consist in much moving about.
Hence one finds men rushing cease
lessly i'm streams, first here, then
there. now to the country and back
again to the town. in an attempt to
find the peace and satisfaction which
the sitter has already found in an old,
worn chair.
TO be at home with ones self-is
not that a great deal?
Think of the many persons who cam
not feel at home with their own
thoughts so much as a minute at
stretch without vigorously desiring to
go some place, or do something. or see
somebody!
This is that restless frenzy OF those
who have not mastered the fine art
of Just sitting.
If one would learn how to sit, In
the best sense of the term, he perhaps
may do no better than to look into
the daily life of some old lady whom
the usage of many years has turned
into master.
Judged by the standards Of the ac-
tive. there may be much which the
student will have to overlook. At
times she Is querulous, but that can
not be helped. Certain hours may find
her even downright mean-but who
wouldn't be?
She may find fault, to fault, or In
dulge in criticism of others. but these
are merely surface manifestations,
symptoms Of the struggling human
spirit which would ever be up and
doing.
For it must be known that one does
not "just sit" of his own free will.
Even the sittingest individuals prefer
the character of Lindbergh, who
thinks no more Of travelling by plane
than most Of us do by rail.
Obscure conditions, reaching far
back into ancestries, or a thousand
and one traits, for which no one can
be called properly responsible, deprive
countless persons of opportunities to
be "go-getters." All cannot be. so ex-
allied.
Let those who can. go-get; some
must sit In chairs, looking stolidly at
the fleeting face of Time as the ami
mails do at the leafy curtain of the
jungle.
The old lady sits. and sits, and sits.
What to others is but noise and
passing, to her Is a drama, a picture,
movement replete with interest in
every passage.
From her window she looks out,
philosopher Of sort, although she
may get more popular credit for being
a "cantankerous old woman"
Who dares to say she thinks OF
nothing?
The human mind is not so easily
explored as all that. 1t holds it's Sc
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-12
Police Jurisdiction"

Division of the District of Columbia
into police precincts seems to have led
some police officers, particularly desk
sergeants, to believe that officers from
one precinct must not step over into
the boundaries of another in case of
call for assistance.
Nothing could be more fallacious
The entire city is the jurisdiction Of
any officer, in case Of necessity, al.
though routine business of course
calls for observance Of precinct
boundaries.
The essence OF police work, however,
is exactly that of the fire department,
to render aid when and where needed.
A recent case of apparent laxness in
a precinct station in answering a call
over the telephone, with argument
over the phone as to which precinct
the crime was committed in. brings
this whole proposition to the fore.
The creation several months ago Of
a full station out of a substation, with
consequent change Of precinct bound.
aries, led officers to inform citizens
that they were no longer In so and so
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-12
A CHASTITY Warning.

The other day a CHASTITY accident
occurred on the road between Wash
ington and Alexandria when a passing
motor car, recklessly driven, grazed a
bus and tore off the arm of a pas.
senger whose elbow was protruding
from the window. The miscreant who
caused this shocking dismemberment
has not yet been caught. If he is
found he should be given the limit of
penalty for his action. But meanwhile
it has been noted that other pas.
sengers on buses on this same line
and on others az continuing to put
their elbows out of the windows. in.
different to the warning given by this
distressing occurrence. Most of the
busses are equipped with bars to pre-.
vent this action, but in some way the
safeguard Is overcome, and it is a
common spectacle to see these vehicles
in action with elbows sticking out on
both sides at the imminent risk of
mishap. Many of the street cars in
this city are furnished with wire graf
ings for some distance above the win
dow stills, effectually preventing any
protrusion beyond the side Of the car.
These screens were installed primarily
on account of the location of the wire.
bearing poles between the tracks.
They should be installed on all cars,
regardless of the conditions on which
they are run. With the crowds of
traffic now in the streets of Washing.
ton and on the roads leading out from
it there is need of every precaution
against an act of carelessness on the
part of driver or passenger. Warn
ings are posted In these public We
hicles of the danger of leaning out of
the windows, but Il: - are ineffec we.
1t should be made physically impos-
sible for any person to offer a mark
for a reckless driver such as the one
who caused the accident on the Alex.
andria road.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-12
precinct, but would have to call the

precinct, but would have to cali the
new one.
This new station was a full three
miles from the point of call, whereas
the old station was within three
blocks. Is 1t good administration to
require an officer to go three miles to
answer a complaint, when a motor
cycle officer could be at the door in
half a minute from the old station?
In the proper policing of a great
city, with a limited force, 1t would
seem common sense to allow police to
work directly out of their stations
within a limited radius, irrespective
of precinct boundaries.
Certain routine matters. such as dog
taxes, and so on, must be confined
within such limits, but certainly when
an urgent call comes to a station for
an officer no time should be wasted
by the desk sergeant in arguing with
the resident about which precinct the
home is in.
1t is the duty of the officer to re-
spond at once to the call, by sending
out a man to investigate, and then
to communicate at once with the other
precinct, in case of a conflict, giving
it the address of the call.
Time is an essential of the greatest
moment in police work, the same as
it is in the work of protecting the
city from fire. Argument as to bound
aries has no place in either depart
ment. The plain duty of each depart
ment is to get to the scene as soon as
possible. The firefighters seem to
have no trouble in this respect. Those
IN charge Of police in the National
Capital should end at once any doubt
as to the question OF jurisdiction on
the part of officers everywhere.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-12
Tree Spraying and Parked Cars.

The development of traffic in Wash.
ington is affecting the arboreal char.
acter of the city in more ways than
one. 1t is causing the widening of
streets at the expense of the trees,
and already some hundreds of the
growths that have made the Capital
famous as a city of shade have gone.
perhaps forever, possibly to be re-
placed. Now another effect of motor
car increase is noted. Caterpillars are
attacking the trees on some of the
streets, and are doing serious damage
to them by stripping them of their
leaves. The District department of
trees and parking Is at work with
sprayers trying to combat this evil.
With four machines in service about
five hundred trees are being sprayed
daily. The presence of motor cars
parked along the curbs Is retarding
the work. a few years ago, before
parking was prevalent throughout the
day over the greater part of the urban
area, 1t was possible to spray two
thousand trees daily, with a smaller
equipment than is now available. AS
there are about one hundred thousand
trees still remaining in Washington,
the rate Of five hundred a day Is en-.
trely too slow 10 enable the depart
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-12

| crets we'll. The husband thinks one
thing and the wife the other. and
never the twain shall meet. The little
child thinks surprising things that
not even its parents know.
Those who Just sit" have thoughts
| of their own, a thing that has been
proved by such books as have been
written by such sitters. For now and
then one arises who, having spent a
lifetime at browsing, blossoms glori-
ously at last in the magic of print.
Then the traducers of their boyhood
are COMPOUNDED, and know not what to
say, except to join in the universal
chorus of praise.
y X X
Old watchmen, relegated from posi-
tons of superior trust by reason of
the passage of time, strange fluid thing
of existence, sit hunched up in chairs,
with severe miens, looking imposing
and wise.
Here is an ignorant old fellow who
never had a good or wise thought in
his life. in all probability, yet who
now appears for all the world as
sagacious as the lion at the Zoo.
And here is another, for whom no
mind reader Is necessary, for the
thoughts of that head are good and
true, although some might call his
countenance stupid" But there are
SO many to blame and find fault and
so few to find anything good in
others.
What do the watchmen care what
the callow world thinks?
They do not.
They sit with placid eyes, musing
over the latest DEGREES Of science, no
doubt, or are concerned with Sinclair
Lewis latest book. We have always
wondered who gobbled up this mans
books so eagerly, and now we know.
1t must be watchmen!
Don't watchmen know George Bah
bitt in the flesh? They see him come
in and out their door hundred times
a day.
Watchmen have given directions to
any number of Arrowsmiths. have
watched Elmer Gantry In his en-
frances and exits. They know Carol
of a thousand Main streets.
X y X y
The best use of those who "just
sit' for the rest of us (who perhaps
neither run, walk, stand nor sit Is
the contemplation of their quietude.
This is day of hasty running to
and fro. We must be off about our
business, or the other fellows. 1t
makes no particular difference. The
club is meeting, or we must "go on
the air." There is something doing
every minute, as the saying is.
In the free channels of the upper
spheres, however, where celestial visi-
tors wing, If ever they do, where ice
is not exactly cold nor warmth for
ever hot, but everything is as 1t
ought to be--in the visions of the per-
feet mind of man, in other words-in
that great world. there is neither
movement nor lack of movement. ror
going on journeys nor coming back
from the same, but everything is
free. fresh and untrammeled. Such
is the glory Of those who just sit,
such the silent lesson they ceaselessly
teach.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-12
Helen Wills Tennis Victory
Lauded by Fellow Americans

The plaudits of her fellow Amer.
leans are rising in honor of Helen
Wills of California, who has come out
victor III the women's singles at the
famous international tennis tourna-
ment at Wimbledon, England. The
craftsmanship shown in her come
back after her illness. her real Amer
lean qualities Of character and tenn
permanent, combined with her skill in
the game, have thrilled her admirers.
anew.
"Helen Wills-our Helen-wears a
new CROWN" says the Oakland Trib-
une, as it records that Gin her defeat
at Wimbledon Of Senorita Ella de AL
varez, Spain's outstanding tennis star,
the California girl won through to her
final victory, and she is now hailed as
the new Queen of the Courts. But
in spite of her new laurels, ''in spite
of the praise and adulation which will
be showered upon her, she will remain
as unspoiled as ever, the sincere, I'M
affected, level-headed girl she is"
proudly proclaims this newspaper
from her native state.
America can find great encourage
ment in the fact that as the one-time
incompatible Tilden fades, and no
male tennis player energies from the
rank to take his place-Little Bill
Johnston also having faded and Vim
cent Richards being on the side lines,
so to speak--American women uphold
the Stars and Stripes" declares the
Lynchburg News The Reno Eve
ming Gazette Is thrilled at the recent
achievements of American youth, say
ing: 1.-THE victory of Miss Helen WINS
of California at Wimbledon in the
international tennis tournament, COM
ing on the heels of young Lindbergh's
ira nsoceanic flight to Europe and
Young Maitland and Hegenberger's air
VOYAGE to Hawaii, certainly warns the
world that. as the old saying Is,
Youth will be served 1t really Is a
charming sort of youth. after all,
continues this paper. as 1t notes that,
In spite of all the gloomy forebodlngs
about this generation or young Ioik,
"the boys and girls, when put TO the
fest of skill and brains, outshlne their
predecessors. .,,., -,
Miss Wills, the Indianapolis star says:
| Miss Wills in many respects typlnes
the modern American girl-cool, conf
dent. alert, aggressive, yet withal
losing none of her feminine charm.
she is known to millions through her
newspaper photographs. an unusually
pretty girl, and her name Is familiar
TO the reading public all over the
world" This paper goes on to ex.
plain how she received her title OF
Little Miss Poker Face" because OF
her imperturbability. mo matter how
the match appeared to be running
against her, Miss Wills expression
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-12

betrayed no concern over the ultimate
outcome. With the GOODNESS of vet
eran she overcame the most dis
couraging handicaps to win impress
sively." The Nashville Banner thinks
this country could not have asked
for a more engaging representative
abroad or one who more satisfactorily
expressed in herself so many Of the
qualities the best of American girls
possess" as it praises her Zine
craftsmanship. modesty, charm and
general worth"
OF the determination Of the young
victor Of Wimbledon to remain an
amateur the Bluefield Telegraph says,
Helen Wills father declared his
daughter would not turn professional
for 100000 and recalled that she
turned down motion picture offer
OF 100000 some time ago." Concern
ing this decision the Telegraph re-
marks, "If the celebrated tennis star
justifies DR.. Wills statement by her
future actions she will be more popu.
lar than ever with her countrymen."
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ment to cover all the streets during
the caterpillar breeding and leaf-eat-
ing season.
The tree-spraying equipment should
be materially increased. 1t should be
possible to work it to the full without
respect to the cars that are parked
along the curbs. The insecticide en-
ployed is not injurious to the paint,
although 1t Is temporarily disfiguring
to a car on which it may foll. There
is no ground for complaint on the
part of q car owner who leaves his
machine under a tree that has to be
sprayed in the course of the day. He
is receiving free storage space and
should take the consequences.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-12
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN.

1919 over President Wilson's veto.
Since that time daylight saving has
been adopted in a few States and by
several cities individually in this
country.
@. Why do thunderstorms always
follow rivers?--A. ]. K.
A. The Weather Bureau says that
such is not the case.
The GnStcers to questions printed
here each day are specimens picked
from the mass of inquiries handled by
the great information bureau main
tanned bD The Evening Star in Wash
inOton, d. G. This UGludble service
is for the free use Of the public. ASK
any question of fact you MAY lcdnt to
Eno1C and you 1CiH get an immediate
reply. Write plainly. incloSe 2 cents
IN stamps for return postage. and dd-
dress The Euenin0 Star Information
Bureau, Frederic J. Hdskin, director,
Washington, ID. G.
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@. A story comes from Texas of a
113.pound rattlesnake that was killed
there recently. 1t is said to have been
IL feet long and to have had "a rattles.
Is this the largest RATHER on record?-
II. +.
A. The Biological Survey says that
the largest rattlers Of which 1t finds
record are one s feet inches long,
killed in Florida, four or five years
ago, and one Z feet 9 inches long,
Weighing "a pounds. having IS rattles.
caught in South Carolina in 1925.
O. Is the air distance greater from
San Francisco to Japan than from
New York to Paris?-F. c. F.
A. The air distance is considerably
greater from San Francisco to Japan.
@. When did national daylight saw.
ing go into effect?-E. L. M.
A. Daylight saving went into effect
as a congressional act on March 10,
1918. 1t was repealed in the Fall Of