New Britain herald., 1928-01-27

NEW ] nscksrchisf and hb lasss sssTin0. or the old banaaA De4dlee. Today 'we have no bananas.'
 "But that typs has passed. The Italians e . group are . great race. They gavs the world Columbus. Marco Polo. Garabaldi. Michael An gelo and many others.
 Tho Jew with the long beard and the skull cap has disappeared. Now they arc the philanthropists I and bankers. While the Gentle .s still learning his alphabet the Jew II speaking in seven lansuages. The Jew is the only man who ever was allowed to stand in tho presence of omnipotence with his hat on. ''Cheap Patriotism" We pride ourselves on our patriotism. but we also have lot of cheap patriotism. We think other countries have no patriots. I have . friend who was . United States con- gressrnan and a very prominent one. He went to Africa ono time and visited the Sahara desert. Climbing on top of ono of the Pyramids he waved . small American flag. danc- ed and sang Yankee Doodle. l should think even that stern old face n,, tho nnh}ov rsr ,.S< AAvo nrtnn ad Fnvs the first time in centuries and said Cheap patriotism
 'The founder of . large industry told me that when he was learning his trade he worked from 1t to 16 hours . day. He didn't own . pair of boots until he was IF years old. They worked in those days. Work fs good thing for us. When tho na- ton gets out of work we are lost. But those old fellows never thought of recreation. They did not know that tho same omnipotence that makes the world 90 round. also makes the sun beams dance and the clouds play hide and seek in the sky.
 When Chauncey Jerome started making clocks he cut the wheels out with his jack knife. He sold the first 12 clocks at t12 apiece. That started the New Haven clock works. An old deacon at that time told him he wouldn't sell 200 clocks in a life time. He started sending them south with peddlers and today we are turning out 10000 to 12,0oo clocks each day.
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 'That old deacon died of a broken , heart and . broken prophecy. Had he lived until today he would have seen the telephone. the telegraph. tho automobile. electric lights and many things he would not have be- lieved possible. Just the other day I had the thrill of speaking on . tele- vision apparatus and seeing the young lady l was talking to 120 miles away.
 ''If you want to have a good illus tration of how times are changing, think of the electric signs you saw along Broadway in New York as re. gently a. 1920. There were such plays advertised ~ The Bad Man. Ladies' Night in a Turkish Bath Scrambled Wives Crooked Gamblers Scandals of 1s20.' Tho Midnight Rounders' and others.
 Returning to the immigrant, from 1910 to 1920. during the World war and tho influenza epidemic the population of the United States in creased IS per cent. At that rate ex- perts figured that by the year 2.040 the United States would have as many people aA tho entire world to- day"
 1 Kiwanians were advised to ''take more cognizance of small things by Benjamin c. Allen of Hartford. dis trict governor.
 A humorous address was deliver ed by Rev. Ernest F. McGregor who referred to the anniversary of Rob- ert Burns and his own Scotch ancestry. He said most Scotch jokes are made in America "The only time l ever saw the Scotch beaten was by Scotch. Scotch within is too much for Scotch without" he added.
 Referring to his home club at Norwalk. he said. We have all the religious faiths there are. We have Protestants, Catholics Jews, Gen. tiles, unclassitied and under i privileged.
 This cosmopolitan gathering sometimes leads to embarrassing situations. he explained He said the club had been fed pork chops for three meetings in succession. when Mr. Greenstein moved at the third meeting that future meetings be held on Friday 70 that everybody got an even break. We still meet on Thursday but we don't get any more pork chops" he added. Papc Says 1t With Breyity The attendance prize was given to Mrs. E. R. Hitchcock. Elmer w. Pape, newly elected president, was toastmaster. MT. Paps was on the 1 program for an address of welcome, His address consisted of the follow. ing:
 We want you all to have a good time and to come back next year, and this Is the extent of my ad- dress"
 Mr. Pape presented Kiwanis l jewels to J. M. Ward and Frank Rackliffe for having perfect at- tendance records for 1927 and to William R. Fenn and Arthur Berg for perfect attendance for the past