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New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1927-04-07
bURR|TTS TO Plan
FOR BALL SEASON
Club to Discuss Prospects at
Meeting On Friday Night

Tho Burritt 4. c. will hold the
first baseball meeting at the club
rooms on Grove street Friday eve
ming at 100 O'Clock. The Burritts
COPIED the championship OF last
years City league and all members
Of last years team and new candi-
dates have been anXiously awaiting
the first call,
Burrirts will have two teams in
the field this year following the
same plan as last year and some
new restrictions viii be made for
players on other teams. The rules
made at the meeting Of the club last
Sunday forbid a member of one
team from playing with the other
team. This ruling was not in force
last year. The players on the City
league team will not be allowed to
play with the road team. l. was also
decided to have only two club
members on the baseball squad.
Friday nights meeting has been
called for the purpose Of elccting n
ilA'i''H'i ttIti ~ - fAlttlti lllil
stan Budnick, who has been
chosen as the clubs coach this year,
will be heard from. Plans will also
be made regarding the place where
the team will play and practice.
This will be the clubs third wear
in baseball and II promises to be n
better one than either Of the two
preceding ones.
The following mon are asked 10
attend the meeting Friday, men,
hers of both teams being urged 10
he present: Johnny Rose, Stanley
Budnick, Andrew Grala. Leo Dali
kowski, Steve Dalkowski, Joseph
budnlck. Vincent Ahram owicz,
Bruno Zcmbko, Stanley Zaiko,
Marion Zalaslli. Joseph Jarnot.
Charles Gadomslli, John Klepercki,
Raymond MonkieWicz John Hotcz-
ia. Joseph Luty. Lucian Budnick.
John GWorck Edward Storrs,
Charles Laskowsliy, Giel, Bruno
Gaida and any others who are can
didatcs for places on the teams.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1927-04-07
Racing Pigeon Club TO
Stage 500 Mile Event

At meeting Of the Capital City
Concoursc Association which CONF
prizes the Nutmeg Racing Pigeon
club of Hartford, the Manchester
Racing Pigeon club and the Rock
Vile Racing Pigeon club, held Tues
day evening April s. it was voted TO
hold a five hundred mile open race
from Chatham, Va, on July 8. This
race viii be open to any reputable
racing fanciCr in southern Massa-
chuselts and Connecticut There
will be limit of four birds to a
loft. Birds must be banded with
seamless registered bands. Appll-
cations and entrance fee will be ar
copied UP TO and including May 81,
The disposition Of diplomas and
prizes will be arranged later. For
further particulars address Frank
a, Dunn. l0s Allen Place. Hartford,
Conn
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1927-04-07
SCH0OLB0Y Makes
new Swim RECORD
George Kojac Gives Weismalleg
Most Decisive Beating

Chicago. April pa New York
schoolboy. Georse kojac, II years
old, has given Johnny Wcismuller,
worlds champion. spring swimmer,
the most decisive defeat OF his
career kojac won the National a.
4. L. title in the 150-yard back
stroke here last night from Weis-
muller by fully four lengths, and
the youngster broke Weismuller's
record by nearly lrce seconds. The
new mark is 1888 is and the old
one was 1912.
The only other swimmer ever to
defeat Weismuller in competition
was Warren Kealoha, Hawaiian
backstroke star, who beat the Chi
cagoan at l00-yards in 1922. The
Judges declared Weismuller the vic.
and eventually the Hawaiian was
awarded the race.
The terrific early pace set by
Wcismuller helped to create the new
mark, and also wore out the cham
pion. He blew up" in the last
length of the 6o-foot pool and both
koiac and George Fissler of the New
York A. C.. who had hung on grim
iy three yards behind, passed him at
the finish.
With six Of the ton events in the
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1927-04-07
BURRIT7S PLAY TONIGHT
Locat Basketball Quintet TO Meet
Independents of South Mdnchcs-
ter in Preliminary.

Tho Burritt A. G. basketball team
OF this city Will meet the South
Manchester High schoo! lndepcnd-
cnts in the preliminary to the Ma
tional Guards-Eristol Endces game
1T the Melidcn state armory tonight.
The Burritts will be out to sceE
their 18th consecutive victory whilo
the Silk Town quintet will entcayor
to give them q tumh bic.
The visitors have formed a strong
combination for tonight's game
against the local club. In the for
ward berths, they will have Tommy
Faulkner of the Elmwood Endecs
and Holland. star OF the Manchester
High quintet this season.
Quish will be at center forming
what Is considered great offensive
combination. The guard positions
will be occupied by Mantelli OF tho
EImwood Endees and Farr OF tho
High school team. Since this Is an
other Manchester New Britain
struggle, a great battle is anticipat-
ed.
The probable lineups OF the teams
are as follows:
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1927-04-07
FALCONS TO PRACTICE
Candidates for aBschail Team to be


The Falcon baseball team VIII
hold lis first practice at st Mary'a
field Saturday afternoon at :
o'clock, it was decided at meeting
held IN the club rooms last night.
The team is planning to get away
busy season and the candidates
FOR the team VIII be put through
their PAGES under the Watchful eyes
Of Frank tChuck) NoJach who Will
do the coaching this year.
Manager John Cabay outlined the
plans for the year TO those present
last night and although he did not
dewell on the possibilities OF the
team makeup, ne has number OF
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1927-04-07
H0RNSbY'S STOCK TO BE-
DISCUSSED BY OWNERS
National League Club Owners Face
Problem at Meeting to be
Held Today

New York, April G1p---Rogers
Hornshy, New York Giant second
haseman. and the l,167 shares Of
stock he holds IN the st, Louis
Cardinals. together form a problem
which will engage the combined con-
centration of all the National league
club owners tomorrow morning,
Meeting at II o'clock at the Will
liam Penn hotel in Pittsburgh, at
the call of President John a. lloyd
Ter, they will cndeavor 10 decide
whether he is right in ruling that
so long as Hornsby is financially in
tcrcstcd in a rival club he cannot
play ball with the Giants.
Hornsby had the stock last year
when he was manager of the Cards
and retained it when he was traded
to the Giants. His lowest price ask
ed for the stock has been sos a
share while the highest Sam Brca-
don, president of the Cards. has Of
fercd is $50. Ueydlcr's plans for
have not gone through.
II the owners back up their pres
ident and the Giants persist in their
intention OF playing Hornsby the
possibility Of an injunction by the
New York club against the league is
seen. McGraw has stated that step
would be taken as last resort
Another possibility is that the
n ~ "a l.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1927-04-07
COMMISSION DECIDES
ON VALID CONTRACTS
Contract Is Not Valid Unless Signed
BY Two Combatants, New
Ruling States

New YORK, April pl-Thc
h'Shiy techilical ana puS.ls1lc ques-
'loh Wheh Is contract not a con-
tract Is settled once and for ali
'itlo so lar as inns states athletic
COMMISSIONERS are concerned.
a learned OPINION handed down
yesterday rules mat unless the docu-
h'cht pears the signatures OF two
coihpatants, 1t Is not contract,
no matter how much 1t may look
IKE one. IN other words, the popu-
lar practice among light promoters
OF taking blanket options on the
services OF boxers has received a
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1927-04-07

,''''ha' '''''i9 ''>''t ''i''''N
1!o,''ah ''.''''' III '''''' rtit''iaA
NuoehSIeih .''. II $500 .dalcoIih
<-"N~e" aNi '''''' '''' ICul'oS tNe
nH'e""h '''''' - 5000 NaI'.'i''9
H'"iIi '''''''' Is -''' -"@' ''''"eN
All roads for basketball fans will
lead to the state armory in Mcridcn
,or,c,,+ r.1or .na So,;o,,,, crords
anu '''0 ''' i7'o' '''1e'"' ''''' Nv as
OF the most bitter sort. meet to de-
terln!ne when team VIII be the
state basketball champions for tn"
coming year The teams stand tied
in the number Of games won in 4
final series Of three games 10 de-
termina tho ultimate winner OF the
coveted court tue and tcniEhts
battle, being staged rs it IS Oh a
neutral floor, Will decide the quvS-
ton
bo'h teams are reported to be
IN the best possible condition. The
ehlFe squads OF each quintet nave
been taking things easy awaiting
the Dig hishl ana every payer ~
ready TO give the best that IS IN nm
to win the one victory On which so
much rests,
The t'ndces ana the Guards have
met SIX times IN all this season and
'each team has won three games.
The qulntets ended the first series
tied with two wins each and anoth-
er series OF three games was settled
upon by tho managers 10 decide
definitely the championship quintet
or the state. The winner tonight
Wlli receive all the p,auilts while
the loser VIII nave no alihls TO Of
Ter IN excuse Tor defeat Iohlgitt'S
gam" VIII settle the question de-
llh!'eiy until next season.
HE manner IN which the rcserV-
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1927-04-07
MEETING CALLED OFF

abandonment of meeting of In
ter-Church league managers called
for last night was forced by small
attendance. only four members of
the managerial board being present.
President George H. Hamlin called
another meeting for 1850 o'clock
Monday night at the Y. NJ. c. A.,
and al organizations interested are
urged to make special efforts to be
represented at that time.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1927-04-07
LOST ROY JD; Nd

EShriIge. Mass. April I P)-A't-
or n party OF 30 high school boys
and mill workers had searched for
four hours today. Edward Clarke,
., who had disappeared from bis
home was found in a swamp, waist
deep in mud and exhausted. The
child wandered away from home
while playing out OF doors and when
he got into the swamp could not ex-
tricate himself. -..
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1927-04-07
RIGE AND KEPPEN READY
FOR BOUT HERE TONIGHT

Nebraska "Cowboy" and New York Polish Battler to
Furnish Thrills for Fight Fans-Jean Borde of
France and frankie Mack of Hartford to Meet in
Final-Jim Bones of Bridgeport and Lew
Goldberg to Fight Eight Rounds
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1927-04-07

Curtain Raiser, 4 Rounds
stan Rogers vs.. Tony b"Ialrna
Meriden. New Haven.
The producers news., 1927-12-30
RAILROAD UNIONS Pom
DER REDUCED JOBS

The spotlight is again turned on
the problem of stabilizing railroad
shop unemployment by the recent
agreement between the shop craft
system federation on the Seaboard
Airline and the management of that
road guaranteeing steady Jobs to at
least 2l7O shopmen during 1928. AL
though this will mean an increase of
about 800 in the number of shopmen
employed on this road it falls at least
That much short of the number on the
payroll prior to recent layoffs which
reduced the force from about 5000 to
somewhat over 1900.
lntertate Commerce Commission
statistics covering railroad operation
IN August suggest that prior to the
signing of this agreement the Sea
BOARD Airline was ready to sacrifice
the condition of its equipment TO its
determination to reduce the number
OF shop employees. The figures show
that in August, 1926, only 2.4@S of
the Seaboard's freight cars were in
unserviceable condition but that bv
August, 1927, the figure had iumped
to 649o. Similarly the percentage
of bad order freight locomotives had
Jumped from 1O.819 in August 1926 to
lS.l%o this August and of bad order
The producers news., 1927-12-30
100 is THOUSANDS
(By Leland Olds, Federated Press


Behind the $4OO,OOOOOO in special Christmas
dividends which the capitalist Santa Clans is sti
outlng to the privileged owning class is a hack
ground of poverty. If you doubt it, if Won dopbt
hat there are thousands of outcast children of the
working class to whom this Christmas meant NOT
extra dividends but unsatisfied longings. turn to
Che pages in which the New York Times makes
ItS annual appeal for the Hundred Neediest Cases
l'ead these typical cases of working class tragedy
Each year there are 100 cases. They are called
the neediest. But they are in reality samnles
chosen from thousands for which the present in
dlvlduallst order is responsible. The records slow
how these families with their little children suf
tered hunger and want before organized charity
found them.
Today any worker family stands on the brink
of poverty Unemployment, the normal accidents
OF machine civilization, Illness old age the death
OF the breadwinner, any of these may plunge the
family of wage Garner into the abyss.
Here is one of the cases pictured in the Times
IL is not unique Without material change it could
be duplicated in almost any city in the land
The doctor ordered him to stop work because
OF his heart The man shook his head 4 can't
stop work, he said. IF I did my family would
starve AS long as | can stand I'll work. I don
want charity He did work until he collapsed and
was carried home He is now in bed and must
stay there for two months. 1t will be several
months after that before he can do even robt
work.
The speed Of the modern machine is breaking
the hearts of thousands of workers This one had
wife and children. Here is another:
Mary and Peter clung to their aunt in the
small dark room, weeping bitterly; Ida, Sam and
Ben had just been committed to the orphan asy-
lum and baby Julia taken to a foster home. Their
father broken by his hopeless struggle to sun
port family of on the S22 week he earned as
an unslded factory worker had tried to kill him
sell and had been taken to the hospital for insane
In few months their mother died of pneumonia
Too many children, you say. But men and
women are arrested for teaching birth control
So the stories run. A longshoreman described
as capable worker, broken down with overexer-
tlon, 40 years old, finally found job running a
freight elevator but is unable to support his fami
ly on the pay. A mother struggling to support her
children by making artificial flowers at SIS week
An ex-soldier in Jail for trying to supplement his
The producers news., 1927-12-30

large or small. According to reports of the in
ternal revenue department wage earners who pay
income taxes less than 100000. Included in
this category thousands of high salaried ex-
ecutives whose income places them economically in
the small capitalist category. Of actual wage
workers who pay income taxes there are no pre-
else figures, but it is no exaggeration to state
that they must be below the half million mark.
TO be sure Coolidge does not even refer to the
classification of individual ncome-tax payers but
Jumps them all together, big bankers, merchants
lndustrialists professional classes, and the we'll
paid workers who receive wages far above the
average Including all these, only one person out
OF 46 in the United States pays income taxes.
Out of his own mouth the president proves that
his prosperity talk is baseless
The producers news., 1927-12-30
COOLIDGE CONTRADICTS OWN
PROSPERITY TALK

graph of which the repetition of the banalities
about our 'unexamped prosperity President
Coolidge had occasion to refer to the Mellon tax
program, wherein he inadvertently contradicted
himself.
Speaking Of tax exemptions Coolidge said they
had increased "untn 115,OOO,OOO people make but
2,5OOOOO individual taxable returns" Let us pause
here and briefly anayze this statement in the
light of the much-vaunter prosperity the republi-
can propagandists claim for the country All in
comes of married heads of families under $3,5OO
are tax exempt; incomes of single persons are ex-
empt up to 81, 1,50O
The vast majority of the two and a half million
who pay individual income taxes are capitalists,
The producers news., 1927-12-30
MERCHANT THOUGHT

A big New York merchant, doing a yearly
business of $125,OOO,OOO in four American cities,
said last week on his return from Europe, "Some
Americans do not realize what it means to do
business in forty-eight great States with the same
money, laws, credit and language everywhere.
when l was last in Cairo l saw big wagons Of
Paris Bon Marche going through the streets |
looked up the head of their Egyptian branch and
found that they had come three thousandd miles
from Paris to do business of $1OOOO a year.
A successful American business man wouldn't go
100 miles for that much business
"I travelled back to London with an Englishman
managaing six British houses in Cairo and other
Eastern points, involved in revolutions, different
laws and currencies.
"Here an American can operate in forty-eight
States, one of them, Texas, as big as several
European countries, and everywhere the same
money, laws, language, business methods, sound
credit.
The producers news., 1927-12-30
MANY BILLIONS FOR
WAR; COST IS HIGH

The tremendous price which the
workers and farmers of the country
are paying for a war, sold them un-
der false pretenses, is an outstanding
feature of the annual report of Sec
retary of Treasury Mellon to con-
gress. According to Mellon the ac-
tual cost to the United States to date
of the war to end war has amounted
to S35, ,l19, ,622, ,144 and yet the coun-
try's 1927 expenditures on military
functions totaled over $1,2OO,0O0, 900,
a record for years Of peace.
Melons figures show that the Unit
ed States has actually expended a
much larger sum on the world war,
but he assumes certain assets re-
manned after the war which he de-
ducts to obtain the net figure given.
The gross figure is SAT 7,957,2 1893. A
study of the detailed figures sug-
gests that in the end the cost of the
world war to the American people is
much more likely to approximate this
huge total than the $35.OOO,OOO. 900
set down by Mellon.
The assets resulting from war ex-
penditures include $7,47O,OOO,OOO as
the present value of the war debt of
the allies to the United States.
Whether this will ever be paid in
full is an open question. On the 9th
er hand the expenditure total includes
interest paid on the war debt and the
cost of the veteran bureau down ia
June 30, 1927, only. In the next fiscal
year interest on the war debt will to-
tai S12O,OOO,OO0 and expenditures on
the veterans bureau at least S414.-
100000. These expenditures will run
on Tor many years to come, so the
actual cost of the world war will con
tlnue to mount.
The final cost of the war, MELONS
figures indicate, will be about 81 200
for each gainfully employed person
IN the United States or somewhat
more than $4,000 for each family OF
.. And, as pointed out by ex-senator
Il. l.. Owen, close to Wilson during
the war, this enormously expensive
war was sold the American people as
a result of more than $50,00O.OOO
worth OF lying propaganda.
MELONS report also calls attention
TO the high percentage of current
federal expenditures going for wars.
past and future. In the year ended
June 30, 1927, war absorbed more
than 80 per cent of the total of S4.-
lz9,394,441 expended by the federal
government. In other words the
people of the United States last year
expended about S3,375, 900, 900 on ac-
count of war. About ST, 200, ,OOO, ,OOO
or 3l:8 per cent of the total went for
actual military functions, the balance
going for the enormous war debt.
The producers news., 1927-12-30
THE OFFICIAL REASON FOR LIND
BERGH'S LATIN AMERICAN
FLIGHT
(From the Daily Worker)

ATplanes IN war are used not only for dropping
bombs but for locating enemy positions and man
ping out the lines of adavnce for attacking forces
The efficiency of airplanes as weapons of of
tense ana against peoples the Wall Street govern
lneht wants to conquer and rob has been shown in
nicaragua, and an impressive total of murdered
Nlcaraguans, men, women and children has been
plleo up by heroic aviators who drop high explo-
slves on defenseless villages and on rebels armed
only with rifles
Inc more important task of mapping out the
INES OF turther conquest has been given to Coin
mel Llndoergh, the smiling young man who saved
wan street millions of dollars in publicity exnenee
Oy popularlzing military aviation.
lhe New York Evening Post has published the
following semi-official dispatch:
washington, Dec. 20.-There is more be-
hlnd the extension of Colonel Charles Lind
oerghs flight from Mexico City soutbward in
20 central America than appears upon the
surface 1t has been learned from official
sources.
The dispatch then goes on to relate the activities
OF German aviator who has established airnlane
INES IN South America and quotes from the Cool-
ldge message to congress as follows: owe are
particularly solicitous to have the United States
take leading part in this development"
President Coolidge has seen what aviation
means to the countries of Central and South
America Colonel Lindbergh is his dem
onstratlng agent and incidentally the advance
eagle OF probable scores of American eagles
VINO IN the course of the next few years will
oe 1lylng over Central America maintainino
american prestige. 49,.
90 mere 1t is-not in nut shell but in tho cocl
PIT OF Llndbergh's spirit of st. Louis"
The good will ambassador" as we have contend.
ed IS nothing more or less than a Wall Street
agent whose non-violet spying mission in Central
America, now greeted by the cheers of peoples who
do not know the future, will be followed bv mill
tary expeditions whose airplane bombs, hurlinp
Latln-Amerlcan workers and farmers to tbei,
death, will take the place of the cheers which now
greet Lindbergh and will maintain american pres.
tige" p 70
Llndbergh's trip is further preparation for i'm
perialist conquest in Latin America and Latin
American anti-imperialist bloc, supported by the
American workers and farmers must be the an
swer to it.-Daily Worker.
The producers news., 1927-12-30
MECHANICAL POWER
ON u. S. FARMS PRO-
DUCTION LEVELS

Technical changes are revolutioniz-
ing American agriculture at a rate
which corresponds with the extraor-
binary progress of industry since the
war, according to the annual report of
secretary of Agriculture Jadine. More
mechnlcal power, specialization.
greater productivity per worker and
per unit of land are features stress
ed in the report.
Jardlne holds it a reasonable infer
ence that farmers, through increased
efficiency, are reducing the cost of
production and so offsetting to some
degree the effect of mfavorable rela-
tive prices.
Inc purchasing power of farm pro-
ducts, IN terms of nonagricultural
goods, according to the report, is not
yet up to prewar. On September IS
IL was " per cent compared with 85
per cent for the year 1926 and 100 per
cent representing the average for the
D years preceding the war. .Jardine
says:
Since June, 1921, when the depres-
sion was at its worst the unit bnvino
power of farm products has increased
more than 35 per cent. This means
that agriculture has regained more
Chan three-quarters of the buving
power lost per unit of its products in
the postwar price decline"
Jardlne summarizes the far-reacb-
ing changes which have increased tbe
productivity of the farm worker about
10 10 per cent compared with the 1917
Il average. He says:
tractors have replaced MANY
horSes and mules, releasing Is. 600 600
TO zO,OOO,OOO acres Of crop land for
oother uses than the production of
iced and forage. Improved harvesting
machinery has come into wide use
Inc size OF the average farm has in
creased. More productive crops have
oeen planted. Livestock Of Increased
productivity has become widely dis
persed. Farm management has be-
come more efficient, a better balance
mas been established among agricul-
Sural enterprises and progress has
Deel made IN adjusting production to
market requirements"
Jardlne sees as one probable re-
SUIT OF the application of power ma
chlnery to agriculture "a process of
geographic specialization in the pro-
ductlon OF crops adapted to mechanic
ed farming" Discussing this he
says:
In manufacturing industries great
progress IN reducing production costs
mas n5 been made by mass production.
Ihls method, which is essentially one
OF JOB specialization, has its counter
part IN certain branches of agricul-
Vure, particularly cotton and wheat
growing. 1t has been possible by spe-
greatly to reduce the cost
o1 producing these crops. The system,
however, suffers the disadvantage of