New Britain herald., 1928-03-10
THE OBSERVER. Makes Random Observations
 On the City ano Its People

Il Clergymen hereabouts seem to l l. going legit.
 6 Rev. Samuel A. Fiske. pastor t. = the Berlin Congregational lhurrh r, }. gently appeared as a character in = sketch at the Lions club frolic an s even a professional viewing hil !, from the cash customer side of tn n footllghts would admit that he coul . get job with the Shuberts any tim
 he applied.
 Now another minister, Rev. Will liam H. Alderson, has stepped int l the spotlight in the same field, hay ing been cast for role in a one act play to be given for the beneti of the proposed East Side commun lty house. The play in which h. Will have an important part, wa written by Robert Middlemass of thi : city whose name is widely known il
 professional dramatic circles ant who recently appeared in a myster,
 play at Parsons theater, Hartford.
 It would not be a difficult menta
 feat to imagine a few Puritans turn
 ing over in their graves at the idea
 of ministers going on the stage fol
 any purpose other than to preach the
 Word. But there is no reason wh.
 ministers should not succeed in the
 drama. Their lives are spent in con-
 veyins messages to their public, in
 painting verbal pictures and holding
 the attention Of the auditors without
 the aid Of scenery or atmosphere artiticially created with stage settings and property They are not only the principals in the cast-they are the entire cast.
 Not so many generations ago peo- pie would question the propriety of a minister taking part in any drama which was not of a religious charac- ter. Clergymen themselves would have been mortified at the sugges- ton. But the world and ideas are changing and there seems to be no good excuse for barring ministers from the stage-if they are good actors. Rev. MT. Fiske proved that he has dramatic talent. Rev. MT. Alderson, his friends believe, will
 
 Member when you were a kid and you used to get up at daylight and your mother would pack some sandwiches for you and you'd light out for the blueberry lot and pick berries all day and then walk home with bruises all over your bare feet and sell the berries to the neighbors for ten cents a quart after you gave your mother as much as she wanted? Member those days. If you don't you missed something.
 Blueberryin' was great sport You'd pick a while and then get drink out of nice cool brook and at noon you'd eat your sandwiches that loving hands had carefully put up for you and sometimes you'd milk a COW if you could find one and get chased by the farmer and as the day drawing to a close you'd hustle to get your pails full ana then you'd peel off your clothes and hop into pool stark naked if there was ct pooi dedibS, dllu--ou, gee, lHlS IS | beginning to make us weep.
 Picking blueberries is a serious , in Maine Income to { Maine farmers from the 1927 blue berry pack was $756,S51, compared with $Clo.5Sl, the receipts for 1926. The crop jumped 10000 bush els over tine preceding season.
 This report, according to Frank P. Washburn. Maine commissioner ot agriculture, is based on returns from 96 per cent of all concerns which put up blueberries. It also in licates that Maine's annual blue perry crop is exceeding if anything Is estimated value of S1,OOO,Oo0, with Washington County we'll ahead IS holder of the worlds record in ,lueberry production. As evidence of he increasing enterprise of pro- lucers. the Maine development com- mission points to the fact that the Income of growers rose $145,o7O in he last year despite a drop of 45 ents in the average price paid per. . ,ushel.
 It is considered significant that V nc of the premier industries of :. Iainc has been able in a period of ' our years to increase its product o canners by more than 143 per ent