New Britain herald., 1928-05-26

would be pleasant to coast breezily from Monday to the present without making any stops but tourist who whizzes along the highway misses q great deal of interesting scenery and an observer who leaps from one weekend to another without pausing for reflection or analysis Of events would find himself up against a stone wall for subjects come Saturday.
 Politics this week was a fizzle. The mayor apparently has lapsed into that condition described so graph ically by William Howard Taft as innocuous desuetude. 1t has been a bland week in city hall with no commissioners feeling the boot. True, politics had it's inning for a brief moment when the board of finance and taxation had under considera- ton the purchase of new voting ma chimes. It was suggested that the wards be divided into precincts, which would be a step forward. tn- u'l pi SGcIll SOlidllictio NoeSio etAS Aii- convepienced by being forced 10 toddle from one end of their wards to the other to exercise their great prerogative of voting. Splitting the wards into voting precincts would rectify this situation.
 While voting machines were under discussion, someone thought it would be a good idea to establish three wards, in place of two, in the north end. But this might react to the benefit of the democratic party, which has had a fair measure of success in the fifth and sixth wards, by giving it five more cprcsentatives in the common council if the present system of having an alderman and four counCilmcn from each ward were maintained. So it is doubtful if there will be any realignnent ot voting zones because the republicans are in power and wish to stay there It would create an interesting sltu- alton if the project were carried through and the democrats carried ward, and then swept to victory in the fourth, as they have been threat cning to do for the past few years This would give the democrats 2l representatives in the common coun. cil as against 15 for the republicans No. there probably will be no change
 Senator Alice P. Merritt startled the League of Women Voters with the directness of her speech. She said. in effect, that females are de- voting so much of their time tC avoiding physical fatness that the, are becoming fat in the head. Quito the most interesting political incl. dent of the week.
 Mrs. Merritt, in technic at least ! resembles the late Teddy Roosevelt | Sha could have risen at the meeting and uttered an endless string 0 platitudcs about how wonderful i was for women 10 have the vote an' how they should endeavor 10 use i so that the home would be preserved ] against vicious influences and how women should always strive 10 re main clean, clean, clean and no s,llly their fair hands and more 0 that. But she preferred to strik' from the shoulder and her aim Wa perfect. She told her audience that i ! ;s thpir ltlf She didn't give three long cheer for Charming Womanhood, as s' many speakers who address audi once of this type prefer to do. Sen ator Alice went to the core of thing and, perhaps. aroused a few of he l listeners from their cOmplacencA Come again. Senator, and next tim address your remarks to the me and tell them where they get of If you promise you'll do it. the Oh server will use his influence with tn editorial powers and see that you talk gets first page position so tha your message may be driven home. 1 There's q great deal of Al Smit talk heard on the street. Hoover at present, isn't very strong. Con necticut repuhlicanism is sitting o the fence, where it is frequent found, ready to hop onto the ban wagon the minute any candidate q the national election shows any UT usual strength. J. Henry Rorabac
 cannot be dislodged from his ros
 tion. He professes to believe tha
 President Coolidge can be prevailo upon to accept renomination i tspite Of the presidents assura nc that he does not choose to run an
 that mention of his name in connet
 sing. Meanwhile the democrat
 throughout the state are making il
 most out of the situation and seel
 to be progressing in the campaig
 to line up support for smith.
 or interest to the man who owl
 his own home was the letter r.
 ceived Thursday by Mayor Ta'
 nessa from Chairman Thomas Y
 Linder recommending a rcNi "
 "certain classes of properties vii
 a thought in mind of a downwal trend in values It would be
 greater interest to know what M
 l.inder has in mind. The hon
 owner hopes he was meant becaus
 what with employment conditions
 they are, he isn't any too hap
 as mortgage interest dates con
 near and relief from financial bu
 dens would be received with reli'
 But he should not be too optimis1
 because New Britain has certa
 overhead expenses which must
 met through taxation and if asses
 ments are reduced it is possiI
 that the tax rate will be increase
 There are the matters of n' p schools to be built and large SUI