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New Britain herald., 1928-10-01

"Checr up. old fellow. We lIad . little stranger come to our house last week. tool"
 Persistent! kimball How did you find the place to take that drunken man to-" Ferguson: 'I made a souse-to- house canvass!"
 --Bernard Melville FUN SHOP FOI.LIES
 MEETING ROAD Keeping to the Left of the Road.
 SKIN
 Sister
 Sister
 Sisters Under the Skin
New Britain herald., 1928-10-01
pENIALs BY A POWER TRUST

With considerable amusement we read the other day of the denials of a power committee In New York of the statements attributed to Al Smith regarding the activities of the so-called power trust. Not content with making the denial through the newspapers, a few days later | handsomely mimeographed copy Of the denials. arrived in this oface. They went into the wastebasket un. read. f -'+
 Governor Smith need apologize to no power trust for any statements made. In fact, he isn't. The record is quite clear. Smith may have men, tioned the wrong committee. but that no doubt was due to the fact that there are 50 many power propa- ganda committees that nobody with out a pack Of secretaries can keep track of them. ,.-.. ..
 The three national utility organi- zations which have been most active in the dissemination of trust propa- ganda in the schools, in influencing book publishers, and in smothering the country with hired speakers. have been the National Electnc Light Association, the American Gas Association, and the American Elec- tric Railway Association.
 The first public utility informa- tion committees was started by Samuel 1nsull fin 1879; active inter- est in school matters in that state started in 1922. Since then they spread elsewhere. Books reviewed" totalled 105, and objectionable sec- tons were listed on a memorandum. The books were dubbed good. fair. unfair, or bad.
 The propaganda spread. Publish- era of school text books were com- municated with. and in 1928 the N. E. L. A. had . committee to "co- o-operate" with educational in- stitutions. Chairman Hanlon of the Iowa committee of the trust-there was public relations" committee formed in each state-in 1925 wrote a letter which said "a great deal of success" had been achieved in set- ting the books corrected"
 J. B. Winston ( Co.,, book publish. CTS, of Philadelphia, agreed to avoid pitfalls in the future" it was testified in Washington. Ginn ( Co.,. it was testified. had agreed that books discussing public utilitiea should In the future be submitted to an N. E. L. A. committee for criti- cism, although 1t was stipulated that this agreement should not be bind- ing upon publisher or author.
 In 1925 Fred l.. Jenkins, chairman, of the Committee on Cooperation withe Educational Institutions. wrote to M. L. Aylesworth. then managing director of the N. E. L. A. and now president of the National Broadcast Ing Co.,, as follows:
 'I feel that We have made q
 good start in getting the largest
 school book publishing house.
 who printed 12,000,000 books
 last year. with us, which will
 be tremendous leverage on any
 other house should opposition
 occur which l doubt"
 But since then there has bee, plenty of opposition-likewise pub licity. The Federal Trade Commls sion has been holding it's hearing and though so far only the one sid, has been heard, it is unlikely tha the power trust will be able {, nullify the force Of its own letter and its own date already placed il
New Britain herald., 1928-10-01

In the immortal words of Patrick Henry: Gentlemen, may cry pacts, pacts. but there is no pax" ..
New Britain herald., 1928-10-01

Fouche. Napoleon's prefect of po- lice. built up an index of criminals that has been the envy aud despair of the gum-shoe world.
New Britain herald., 1928-10-01
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Govesnnaent for, ef. aad by the
 Fun kRopl We may not run for Congress, nor to Parliament be sent. And yet we like our system for 1t guarantees content, We all may run for Fun-Eress and in Cheerliament make speeches, For jolly tricks. not politics, the Good Old Fun Shop teaches!
 Cold Proposition! Hotel Manager: Gan you shave ice?"
 Kitchen Applicant: Sure. I Wal private banker to | banker once!"
New Britain herald., 1928-10-01

Americanism: Kicking about high taxes: kicking because el.s0o of- fees don't attract $15,000 men.
 The Literary Digest frankly caters to those who have telephones. People on party lines should enjoy q magazine that gives all sides of the story, ... ...-... ......
 A happy medium must be some- thing between loud-mouthed oratory and whispering campaign.
 There isn't much wrong in & coun- try where the winning candidate is elected merely because of his op- popent's faults.
 In the old days there were pie lures like those in the magazine ads. but not in ads. Newsboys sold them to naughty men on trains.
 Sales indicate that the Bible belt scorned by MT. Mencken is 8 rather wide one encircling a planet called Earth.
 Mir. Ford appreciates quantity production methods, and his experi- ments in that South American jungle will teach him vast respect for the mosquito.
 If a defeated candidate bears no malice. he probably thinks the peo- pie are sufficiently punished by being denied his services. Why don't good men run: We'll, why endure the insults and ridicule of a campaign to win the privilege of serving thankless people for ht- tie pay:
 Correct this sentence: "she keep, 6 thermometer in the child's mouth, q said the gossip, but she is a very sensible woman"
 Copyright 1928. Publishers 1 Syndicate
New Britain herald., 1928-10-01

We'll, the steadily increasing col lege enrolment is good news for tho manufacturer of white collars.
New Britain herald., 1928-10-01

Of course helium is nice and safe around fire. but what we need il . gas that is safe to step on.
New Britain herald., 1928-10-01

Poor Old Gram!
 Mother told little Martha that she must go out and play with the other children because Grandmother might not like the noise.
 She's not used to little children making . fuss about the house." ex- plained mother. gently.
 That night after dinner little Mariner was unusually attentive to their guest. Standing before her, she rested her wee arms on her knees and smild sympathetically into Grandmother's eyes.
 "Poor old Gramna!" she sympa- thized. And you have NO children in your homer"
 TX. l.. Smith
New Britain herald., 1928-10-01

! You can tell 2 moron by the joy ous look on his face when he has sucoeeded in gliding the conversation with the one foreign phrase he knows.
New Britain herald., 1928-10-01
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New Britain herald., 1928-10-01

Americanism: Kicking about high taxes: kicking because 3l.SO0 off, fees don't attract $15,000 men.
New Britain herald., 1928-10-01
MY TINY RIVAL!

MY TINY NlVALS
 By Arthur K. Hensley There's . dainty little widow just across the street from me. With baby whose stepfather ! am striving hard to be: But that infant in her cradle has 2 grudgc against my sex, And l caRnot woo the mother lest the daughter it shehld vcx. Do I go there. blSndly smiling. for an hour of rare delight?- Then the baby rises grandly. how'll ing till I'm put to flight! Do I so there on tho morrow ?-Oh, Great Scott. 1t makes me weep!-
 Then the widow whispers softly: Hush, the baby ii asleep" So, it matters not. she's potent. whether siumbering or awake, To balk the utmost efforts that my fervency may make; -- -- And I'm SURE that souls CAN mi. grate from the regions of the bad.
 For it's very clear this infant has the spirit of her dad!
New Britain herald., 1928-10-01

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New Britain herald., 1928-10-01

The Literary Digest frankly caters to those who have telephones. People on party lines should enjoy . magazine that gives all sides of the story, ...-..
New Britain herald., 1928-10-01
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Fletcher: ''So you're shadowing the attorney for the defense Wilson: "Yes, it's a game of fol- low the pleader!"
 Rosalind Stark
New Britain herald., 1928-10-01

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New Britain herald., 1928-10-01

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New Britain herald., 1928-10-01

A happy medium must be some- thing between loud-mouthed oratory and whispering campaign.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-09
UNITED STATES
I'm WORLD WAR
Ten Years Ago Toda,

In the face of the stiffest machine
gun IRE since the Americans crossed
the Vesle in force, American infantry
men today advanced at certain Ioints
~ curved line extending from
Glennes to Vieil-Arcy. Indications are
that the Germans intend to cling to
every foot of ground south CT the Aisne
as long as possible, using machine
guns until their gunners are Blasted
from their positions. News from
the battlefield. reaching Paris thus aft
ernoon indicate that the German ar
ttllery has begun to react 60 a marked
extent along the whole line of the
front from east of Arras to west Of
Reims. The thunder of artillery is
greater than for several weeks past.
The German retreat is slowing
up as the enemy stiffen their defense
on the old Hindenburg line Rein
foreements, which have been manning
the Hindenburg line, reach Jtle cnemys
battle-tired rear-guards and strengthen
them Washington military OBJ
servers look for IN early eounterstroke
by the German at PerSlnngs Army
SO as to relieve pressure from allies.
+" Seven hundred and eighty-fou
casualties on lists released today--l36
dead and killed in action, 462 wounded
and 1876 missing.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-09
Captive Apes Fear
Open Door as Trap
Ely E. E. FREE. PHI. d.

How two great apes in the London
Zoo remembered so viyidly the traps
by which they had been caught in
native forests that they refused to
venture through the door Of their house
into the air and sunlight outside, EVIL
IDENTITY believing the door an entrance
to some possible trap, is described by
DIR. p. Chalmers Mitchell, secretary OF
the Geological Society of London. in
discussing recent criticisms OF the
cruelty of keeping these animals in
captivity.
Many specimens of the kind of great
ape called the orang-utan have come
on the European animal market re-
Gently as the result, it is reported, of
new way of capturing these apes in
vented by natives of Borneo and Ma
laySia. The trees in which the ape
families build their nestlike homes are
cut down SO that they fall into nets.
whence the unfortunate apes rush into
boxlike traps. Many orangs have been
captured, especially mothers handi-
capped by trying to save the babies car
ried on their backs.
The captured creatures usually be-
have much as human beings might were
the circumstances reversed. They sell
dom recover from the fright and dis
may. Most of them soon die. The
geological Society of London has de-
cided. DR.. Mitchell states, to buy no
more of these apes unless born in CAP
tivity or caught IN infancy, SO that they
have grown up accustomed to prison
life and able to be happy in the COM
Portable cages and with the good and
plentiful food which modern Zoos pro-
vide
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-09

he travelled much in third class rail.
way coaches where he could .observt
children away from the stern eyes Of
the teachers. All the time he nevei
saw fight. He saw little boys and girls
divide their candy without a single sigr
| of bad temper, because such had been
| their training as group members. He
very seldom encounteredra child playing
alone. He never saw one in tan
trlnm." The eight-year- talked and
behaved like adults-although the
application of mental tests showed them
no further advanced than American
children of the same age.
Such a condition would be very pleas
ing to a drill sergeant or a Victorian
Sunday school teacher. But to nearly
every one else it presents an extremely
depressing picture. It means future
of narrow, fanatical, drab mediocrity-
long step backwards from the goal of
worldwide brotherhood of man. 1t
constitutes our most potent reason for
being thankful that in these troubled
times we live under the Stars and
Stripes which symbolizes, if anything
free development of the individual.
The good little boy whose whole
education has been to act blindly and
automatically as a member of a group
and never to raise himself above the
level Of the group is in many respects
a pathetic figure. He becomes the good,
viSionless man who kills other men and
dies blindly himself for a cause he does
not understand but which he knows is
holy because his group leaders have told
him So
There is brighter side to the picture
Bad manifestations of individuality are
killed with the good There is no OPP
portunity to develop within the group
Snobbery based on clothes or parental
wealth. There is no opportunity to
cultivate special favor with the teacher
Some of the means used to bring this
about. DR.. Sherman believes, may be
studied with advantage by American
educators
The group education policy very likely
will produce a race of sober, industrious,
patient, patriotic, moral adults. But at
what a price? Is the stability of any
state, communistic or aristocratic, worth
the price?
These countries of eastern Europe
just now are places of direct poverty.
But even if their streets we're of gold
and every peasant had an eight cylinder
Limousine they still would be undesira-
BILE places to live in so long as they
remained the habitats of improbable
children.
Young clans, young oysters and
young ants, for all ever heard to the
contrary, are models of good conduct
But We Americans prefer to rear our
children as nlischievous puppies rather
than sedate clamlets. The puppy, after
all. seems to mean more in the scheme
of nature.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-09
The Speech of Man.

Sir Richard Paget. who was dis
tingui- he'd visitor at the meeting of the
National Academy of Sciences here last
May, explained with mechanical DEM
onstrations the origin and evolution of
human speech before the British Asso-
citation for the Advancement of Science,
in Glasgow, Thursday.
With reed and a cork he was able
to produce sounds with a curious SINH
larity to simple spoken words, illus
trating thus the lowly foundations OF
those sublime structures of language
which man has reared through the
ages.
The birth of speech was both re-
suit and a contributing factor In the
emerging intelligence of the brute. The
growing brain found new interests in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-09
Training for Flight.

Announcement Of a plan to establish
near Washington in Maryland flying
school and airport atteStS to the re-
inarkably rapid development of aviation
in this country. This virtually local
enterprise is on large scale, with an
extensive acreage which will be
adequate for all the activities of an
instruction field and a commercial
airport as well. The principal promoter
of the project, himself an accomplished
pilot and widely known as a radio
expert, states that 1t is expected to OBJ
tain from the Department of Commerce
a class A rating for the airport, the
highest granted by the Government
under the provisions of the air COM
nlerce act. A corps of competent in
etructors is being organized and a COM
plete course of training will be
established.
There is, it is stated, a great demand
today for capahe pilots for transport
and passenger service. Various schools
have been established in different parts
of the country and it is proper that
there should be one of this character
in the neighborhood of Washington.
This city indeed should be a center of
aviation activity. There are now two
Government flying fields in the District
and a project for o municipal airport
Is in development. The addition Of q
commercial air school with facilities
for handling air traffic on q large scale
will complete the equipment Of the Cap
ital in respect to this new and rapidly
developing means Of transportation.
Upon the quality of the personnel in
aviation depends its success. There are
many makes of planes at present, prac-
tically all Of them based on scientific
principles and dependable as air car
riers. Numerous factories are at work
turning out quantities Of planes Of all
sizes and for all uses. There must be
equal activity in the turning out Of
competent pilots and they can be
trained only at extensive and we'll
equipped aviation schools such rs that
which it is proposed to establish near
Washington.
After Tagging in commercial aviation
while European countries were advanc-
ing steadily, the United States is now
under headway in the promotion of
this means Of transport for practical
purposes, for passenger service and for
the carrying OF goods. In another
decade the transportation situation in
the United states win be transformed.
There viii be thousands Of accomplished
pilots where now there are hundreds.
The standards of personnel as well as
Of plane will be definitely fixed. It
requires no prophetic vision to see ships
of the air awning at all hours In the
conduct Of business.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-09
MERCURY COMBINE ABROAD
OF INTEREST TO THE II. s.

try. Home production, therefore, is on
the increase, but much of this addi-
tlonal production Is from dumps where
ore originally mined was cast aside
as baing too low in quicksilver con-
tent to justify reduction. This glimpse
at the situation is sufficient to indicate
how dependent this country Is on for
eign sources of supply.
X " X X
There was time when calomel and
quinine were part of the daily diet OF
the people in certain sections of the
country. Science, overcoming the caus-
es OF malaria and advancing other
wise to prevent and cure the Ills of
man, has done much to reduce use OF
both OF these medicinals, but they still
are prescribed often. Calomel, which is
about 85 per cent mercury, is, however
only one of the sources of medical
preparations of which quicksilver Is an
essential ingredient This is not to
mention corrosive sublimate, Or mer-
curry blchloride, which is used not only
IN professional medicine, but is one OF
the outstanding antiseptics. There are
many antlSeptic preparations important
10 The surgeon and to the sarlitarian
N>HANN sSNASNo VA AlCu4Cultl Snaps WHICH
contain mercury, which, incidentally
is one OF the most poisonous substances
known to science and must be con-
sumed, or used otherwise, only under
expert advice.
X !. X
Here is the mercury situation in a
nutshell: The United States consumed
over 80 per cent of the mercury pro-
duced In the world. 1t has been pro-
duclng, recently, only about a third of
It's aconsumptive requirements. italy
and Spain. combined, produce approx
mately 80 per cent of the worlds out
put, and, because their ore contains a
higher percentage of quicksilver. they
can do 1t more cheaply. In Spain the
government owns the principal mine;
In Italy the principal producing area
is owned privately and the government
owns the secondary holdings Sales in
Spain have been controlled by q
privately owned society while In italy
they have been through the separate
producing agencies. Now, the Spanish
and Italian interests have reached an
agreement for unified control of output
sold at a uniform price Full details
OF this international cartel have not
been received in this country, and are
awaited with much interest
Experience with other governmentally
supported trusts controlling essential
raw materials abroad has not been
happy for American consumers. Ship
ments OF mercury have been declining.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-09

terests which required the use Of the
hands, and, at the same time, involved
ideas too complicated to be expressed
by gestures. Necessity created spoken
words-which, in their turn, by max
ing communication easier led to a
broadening of interests responsible for
more words.
Thus language was born--which re-
mains to this day mans greatest in
vention, his most magnificent triumph
/ over nature. 1t has been vital factor
in all his other triumphs. It sometimes
has been possible to demonstrate very
clearly the evolutionary origin of Ian
guage in gestures. In mental pathology
there are eases of persons unable to
speak when their hands were tied.
Notable results have been obtained in
improving the speech of the allegedly
feeble minded by improving their facil-
ity of movement.
What a difficult hurdle the conquest
Of speech formed in the upward path
way of evolving man may be appreciated
from some of the experiments of DR..
Yerkes of Clark University with CHM
panzees. These advanced a-thropoids,
he has found, can initiate man very
creditably up to the point where use
of words becomes necessary. There
they stop. Their advance over other
mammals in this respect has been very
slight They have encountered a hurdle
which they cannot cross-and without
crossing 1t they can advance no further
in the direction of man.
But the creation of language is pro-
greSsive. 1t moves slowly through the
long centuries No human tongue is
as yet an entirely adequate medium
There are thoughts which fit across
the consciousness of all of us which
no man ever has found words to ex-
press, simply because such words and
combinations of words have not been
created. Sometimes they can be ,ex-
pressed vaguely in music, or too precise
ly in mathematics.
Considering the lowly origin and the
magnificent possibilities of language
one may apply to it Brownings charac-
terization of music In Abt Volger;
And ] know not it. save in this, such
gift be vouchsafed to man,
Out of two sounds to form, not third
sound but star"