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New Britain herald., 1928-05-03
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The funeral of Joseph Jakonski of 55 Myrtle street was held this afternoon at 2 o'clock at the funeral parlors of Frank r. Duffy, under taker. on Main street. Burial was in Fairview cemetery.
New Britain herald., 1928-05-03
BANKER GOING TO BERLIN

Paris. May S.-(UP)-Governor Moreau of the Bank of France was en route to Berlin today to con- fer with President Schacht of the Reichsbank. Mereau was accom- panied by bank Of France official who recently conferred with New York bankers.
New Britain herald., 1928-05-03
RUNNING GUN FIGHT

Erie. Pa., May (UP)-One man was shot and seven others were cap- tured today. IF miles west of here when three prohibition agents en- gagged them in a running light from four automobiles. The men were accused of transporting liquor.
New Britain herald., 1928-05-03
EXCHANGE OTTER

For the bsnent of the holdsss ef tAsss bonds who may wish to rstain aa invnt- ment in the Associated oas aAl Elsetsis System. the priviless s sGsesd sf sx. changing their bonds for Ceavsstibis D. henture Certificates of Assseiaas1 Gas and Electric Company. lafoeAatlea e to tha terms of these Debenturs Certificates aad the basis of exehaaes nay be sStainsd by application to Associated Gae cad Electric Securities Company. Inc. q DroaAvay. New York City.
 Bonds may bs deDositsd ct cres fer exchange for new Debsnturs CsrtiAsoGss, with National bsnk of CsMasese h Nsw York. Sl Nassau Stsest. Nsv Ysek Ctey, or with the Conpany st Roea 3elS. q Broadway. New York City. Rsgisasssd bonds deposited for excAanes nssA as4 be assignsd.
 Dated April %. 1893.
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New Britain herald., 1928-05-03

TREASt'RY BALANCE Treasury Balance. s20o,6lo,oS6.
New Britain herald., 1928-05-03

a2o is the H.rald's classified ad number.
New Britain herald., 1928-05-03
Associated Gas and Electric Company
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REDEMPTION NOTICE 6rc Convertible Debenture Bonds Series A of 1925

Notice is hereby given that. in seeosd- ance with the provisions of the Dsbsntars Bond Agreement dated September l. ls1S. between Associated Gas and Electric Con. pany and National Bank of Comnssee in New York. as Trustee, and the agreement supplemental thereto. dated Ssptemher 1. 1925. creating tho bonds of the above nsn- toned series. Associated Gas and Electric Company has elected to exercise the right to redeem and pay oil on June l. lsze. all of it's 6eo Convertible Debenture Roads. Series A of 1925. issued under said De- benture Bond Agreement. and that on said date there will become and bs due and payable. st the principal ofaes of National Bank of Commerce in New York. No. o1 Nassau Street. Borough of Manhattan. City and State of New York. the principal of all of said bonds. together with accrued interest thereon to said date. From and after June l. 1928, interest on seid bsods will cease to aosrue.
 Bonds surrendered for payment sAoull have attached thereto all eoupons nssuSinG on and after September l. ls1S. DsaAs registered as to principal must bs ases0. panied by instruments of Assignmsnt aAd transfer properly executed in blank.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-05-31
Navy Program Lost

The most spectacular failure of
Congress to do what was expected
of it, came in connection with the
naval program.
1t not only failed to authorize
the seventy-one ships and $740,-
100000 for which Secretary Wilbur
first applied, but shelved the bill
after it had been reduced by more
than one-half.
The true nature of this slip-up
becomes apparent only when it is
recalled how inSistent the admins
tration was for big and immediate
increase in the Navy and how pro-
feSsional patriots flocked to its sup
port. Scores OF perfectly good cit
liens we're reviled, blacklisted and
Inundated in other ways for no
better reason that that they dis
approved the naval program as I'M
wise and impractical
More than one critic was pillored
by such societies as the d. A. r. and
The Key Men of America because
he dared raise his voice against
the construction of twenty-five
light cruisers all in a lump, not to
mention thirty submarines, which
stood good chance of becoming
obsolete before half of them could
be put in commission.
The joke of it is that Congress
killed the naval program not be-
cause Of any we'll considered
opinion regarding it, but because
it got lost in the usual last minute
rush.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-05-31
Filene's Idea

When you find rich man who has the inclination
and ability to think for himself, watch out for him.
He is apt to influence the nation rather deeply
Edward A. Filene, Boston merchant is such a
man. He now is putting forward new idea He
wants every employee in his big store who cares TO-
to take trip to Europe Employees of ten years
standing will be given six weeks vacation with full
pay employees of five years will get five weeks with
full pay.
I'VE have found that European travel increases
the value of an executive to the business. Now we
propose to make such trips possible to all grades OF
employees" says Mr.. Fiene.
But it is not solely to benefit our employees ana
the business that we encourage European trips 1t
is nv belief that if the United States is to hold It's
own in international trade if are to develop mar
kets to which we can export surpluses, world
wide economic conditions to be stabilized and II
international relations to be established on the
basis of good will, the voters and workers of the
United States must know at first hand something OF
what other nations actually are like and as much
as possible of what they doing and thinking
Mr. Filene has ideas and likes to put them into
practice. Watch out for him.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-05-31
With Other Editors

erhbarrass and shame the Repub-
lican party.
There is no doubt that this
would have been the fact if COM
ing about as it was arranged to
come about. But who were they
that feared embarrassment and
shrunk from the reproach of rec
ignition of and fellowship with
Ed Jackson?
One of them was Arthur r.
Robinson, by grace of Ed jack
son now Senator of the United
States.
Of all the men who bore a hand
in the dirty business of insulting
aand outraging Governor Jackson
Robinson stands confessed the
most unworthy and contemplate.
While Senator Robinson was
conspiring with Senator Watson,
State Chairman Rogers and otG-
erS to rebuke ard defraud Gob-
ernor Jackson, his excellency was
preparing the latterly suppressed
speech in which he paid Senator
Robinson as high a tribute as
though that creature had been a
paragon Of craftsmanship and the
most effulgent character of man
Then Robinson abated his own
right to similar honors. And in
all this which was wrought in the
false appeal to rectitude of be-
havior and fraudulent pretense of
concern for appearance of virtue,
there was nowhere throughout the
transactions of the party conclave
so little as solitary word in ut
tered speech or written declara-
ton admitting the truth and de-
nouncing the fact of those things
for which Governor Jackson was
condemned and punished. There
were no confession, no repentance,
no plea for remission, no pledge
that the scarlet sinners no more
would sin.
And of all men in the human
race that one who should have
been last to heap insult and inflict
injury upon Ed jackson was
among the first to lay effort
against him and lend hand to
cruelty him.
Art Robinson is despicable for
many things, but so despicable for
nothing as for that.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-05-31

cares himself to the contrary Hoover in fact is in
xdamned if he does and damned if he doesn It"
position.
Failing to speak, he subjects himself to just such
criticism as Butler advances. Speaking, he
throws himself open to the charge of bad faith from
his Administration associates.
Hence the expedient course for Hoover is to say
nothing.
Governor Smith had the impulse, but didn't obey
it. Having expressed himself believing declara-
ton of principles should be made he has been ured
by later developments to let we'll enough alone.
He is winning anyway Things couldn't be better.
The nomination is inevitable unless somebody spills
the beans So why go forth with a lot of pronounce
ments about prohibition and farm relief and this
and that? Any one might be dynamite.
Whatever is said can't do any good and might do
harm Thus does the siren voice of expediency wills
per into the ample of Al
The public in the meantime is left to its own
speculations TO the position of both Hoover and
Smith on most of the problems that one of the two
will have to face, President.
The term disheartening therefore is none too
strong.
The unfortunate fact is that politics breeds
evasiveness.
We like to think statesmen as courageous
militant, outspoken leaders.
But they not.
If they are going to win, they have to play the
game.
And that means an electorate left in the dark
It would indeed be thrilling to see both Hoover
and Smith come forth and proclaim themselves.
But, much as we hate to say it about two men
whom we regard as the best available presidential ma
teral we don't believe they will
That sort of thrill doesn't come in modern-day
politics-not even once in a lifetime.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-05-31

were worked out from about 1888 on
The next great discovery about the compass was
made in 1876 by Robert Norman, a navigator and in
strument maker in England.
He discovered the dip of inclination as it is tech
nically called.
Norman found that if needle suspended by
means of an axle so provided that the needle could
swing in a circle in vertical plane, it would come
to rest in an inclined rather than horizontal
position.
needle mounted in this way is known as dip
needle. Sometimes it is equipped with a graduated
circle. It then is known dip circle
The accompanying illustration shows the first dip
circle which Norman constructed
Norman made the discovery that the amount OF
dip of the needle depended upon the way in WHICH
the needle placed and cautioned users of the dip
circle to place it that the circle in the same
plane that indicated by the position of the ord-
nary compass needle for the locality
From his discovery of the dip needle, Norman
drew the correct inference that the compass was
responding to some influence in the earth and not
previous thinkers had supposed to the attraction of
the north star
Norman also wrote of what he called the virtue
of the magnet using the word in the of power
nature, and hazarded the guess that if this
virtue" could be made visible to the eye it would be
found surrounding the magnet in circular FORM
Today we know that the magnetic field of force
does surruond the magnet in much the fashion which
Norman 'SurmiSed
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-05-31
The Price of Patriotism

+ All over the country yesterday bands
played, flags waved and veterans marched.
Homage was paid to the dead of three wars.
Among memorial services was one on the
battlefield of Gettysburg, at which President
Coolidge spoke.
The respect in which the United States
holds its service men is indicated by something
more substantial than lip service, he said.
Between six and seven billions have been
paid out in pensions and "gratuities " to vet
Grams Of the Civil War, he said, and veterans of
the World War already have collected five,
billions
Our people do something FOR their service
men and them dependents besides giving them
kind word while they liye and placing
wreath on their last resting place when they
are gone, -" the President said The countries
Of the earth 'all put together" haven't done
as much for tloir fighters as we have in the
last fifty years, he said.
We wonder if the gray old men who stood
among the graves of their comrades did not
marvel bit at this speech, and recall an adj
dress made on the same spot three score years
ago by another President.
This is "a materialistic age, but there are
some things for which money is not the meas
ure, some things which are not for sale.
Please God, man love for his country is
one Of them.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-05-31
Bootleg Money In Politics

The career of Frank j. Hale former prohibition
agent pictured to the Senate committee Investigate
ing campaign expenditures is interesting for two
reasons.
First because of the insight it gives to the inner
workings of the prohibition bureau Second, because
of the indication that money derived from the liquor
traffic is playing its part in national politics
During the five years he was in Office, according
to the testimony of Mrs Mabel Walker Willebrandt
Assistant United States Attorney General Hale
steadily was advanced, although he under sus
picion and was being investigated by the Department
OF Justice
Several Investigations we're blocked, according to
Mrs. Wilebrandt, and she was able to get Hale out
of the service only by appealing personally to Secretary
Mellon.
Soon after Brigadier General Andrews put in
charge of enforcement, she testified friend wrote
him from Atlantic City saying that Hale was good
soldier" and adding, huff said"
Thereafter the fortunes of this friend improved to
such extent that he was able to bank $15OOOO in
year whereas his income previously had been
$4,000
lawyer who connected up" with Hale was able
to increase his income from $4,000 to $4,000 year.
Hale himself paid $l23 month rent in 1923; last
year he paid $500 month
Other testimony concerned a mysterious safety
deposit box ana linked Hale with the collection of
money from liquor runners and with alcohol manu-
factWers At one time he had the title chief of al
cohol and brewery control"
The committee was trying to find out where Hale
got the money to sustain a loss of 1920 week in
the publication of an ant-Hoover weekly, Politics. the
losses totaling $4,000 so far this year.
Hale testified that he was standing the losses per-
sonally and this about all the committee could
get out of him Discussing the private fortune" to
which Hale referred Mrs Webr ndt pointed ont that
he had paid in income taxes during four years a
total of only $72.43
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-05-31

GONE thirty years ago, Speaker
~ Reed waved aside complaints at
what was then looked upon as the
widest kind of extravaganza with
the remark that I'VE have a bill
lion dollar Congress because this
has become a billion dollar country"
BY the same rule, this has now
become a four billion six hundred
million dollar country, rince that is
the amount appropriated by the
session of Congress just adjourned.
There are some who think the
rule is not to be trusted on the
ground that Federal expenditures
have increased faster than the
growth of population and the coun-
trys earning capacity.
In one sense of the word they
are right. Government expenses
have grown somewhat out of line,
but it is only fair to say that much
of this is due to the fact that we
have grown to expect more Of the
Government.
Thirty years ago, we had no
World War debts to pay, no
Eighteenth Amendment to enforce,
no flood control, and no revolving
fund for the Merchant Marine.
When one recalls that more than
one-third of the congressional APP
preparation is for fixed charges and
interest, and that something like
10 per cent is for the Mississippi
and ships, the total loss not seem
SO alarming.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-05-31
"Disheartening" Is Right

When he describes as disheartening the silence on
public questions that has prevailed in the presidential
campaign Nicholas Murray Butler touches tender
spot in both parties.
And curously Butler in May stresses the identical
point that none other than Al Smith himself
phaszed in January and, having emphasized failed
to follow up
Says Butler now.
Despite the economic and political situation in
the world and our relation to it, and despite our
pressing and insstent domestic problems there has
been almost no discussion, indeed no reference to
any of them"
Said Governor Smith last January in his message
to the Jackson day dinner:
ct venture to say that the declaration of party
PRINCIPLES well might be drafted tentatively at the
earliest possible moment I believe we have erred
in the past by waiting for the national convention
to undertake the entire task of preparing platform
I'm the heat and rush of a convention, the plat
form when finally written, is, to my way of thinking
not sufficiently understandable to the masses of the
people.
There is too great tendency to speak Of the
evils that beset us and to fail to suggest any specific
remedy Party platforms of recent years have been
too general in their terms and important questions
have been neglected by platform builders in the spirit
of compromise with great principles
I'VE can not carry water on poCh SHOULDERS Lie
Democratic party must talk out to the American
people in no uncertain terms"
Conditions surrounding the two leading candi-
dacies are peculiarly conducive to the strategy OF
silence.
Hoover is a member of the Coolidge cabinet That
fact in itself makes for reticence. So long as he is
cabinet member what he might say that would be
in conflict with Administration policies would be
spoken in poor taste.
Accordingly whatever Coolidge does implies by
inference Hoovers consent-regardleSs OF whether
the inference be correct or not.
For example, if Coolidge vetoes the Muscle Shoals
bill, Hoover's approval is presumed, unless he de-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-05-31
Produced One Issue

Such effect as Congress may have
produced on the political situation
results from the one important
measure which President Coolidge
prevented it from writing into law.
Veto of the McNary- Haugen bill
appears to have furnished an issue
not only for, the campaign, but for
his party. Others are not so sure.
The industrial East has been
needed at the risk Of alternating the
agricultural West.
Administration supporters profess
to believe that the risk was not
serious and that the noise means
little, while again others are not so
sure.
Everybody will be a little wiser
after the Kansas City convention,
and a little wiser still after the
election.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-05-31
Economical Congress-

BY and large, this has not been
a particularly extravagant session
of Congress, even though it would
have raised the ante to more than
five billion dollars but for President
Ccolidges veto of the McNary- Hau
gen bill It's approval of Govern
ment operation of Muscle Shoals
and its partial approval of Boulder
Dam we're matters of policy rather
than money. These two measures
probably will be adopted in the end,
even though the President may veto
the former, while the latter must
wait for future consideration.
Both these measures have to do
with the power problem and with
the more general question of
whether the American people are
prepared to abandon great projects
and give up valuable resources for
the sake of letting private enter
priseS reign supreme.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-05-31
THE STORY OF CIVILIZATION -
Jubilee Brings Thousands to Rome
Written for The Times By Will Dmant

dress to Christian Nobility of the
German Nation" appealing direct
ly to the electors and the princes
He described the plundering of
Germany by ecclesiastical taxation
and the immortality of that papal
court which Germany helped to sup
port by sending three hundred thou
sand gulden a year to Rome.
How long, We noble princes and
lords, will We leave your land open
to such ravening wolves? If
Rome is not a brothel above all othr
err brothels imaginable, I know not
what brothel is" (The last phrase
rather remarkable for a Dominican
monkO
Copyright. 1923. Will DuranO
TO Be Continued
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-05-31
This Date i'm
u. S. History
May 81

May 81
1778-Ethan Allen was returned to
the American Army after 80
months Imprisonment.
1919-Birthday of Walt Whitman,
Poet.
1832-First Democratic convention
at Baltimore nominated Jack
son and Van Buren,.
l889-Johnstown, Pa, flooded; 2,142
drowned; $2,912,000 contrib
uted for relief.
1892-Chicago corn corner" broke;
price dropped from 81 to 40
cents bushel.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-05-31
NIuncie Press
Republican,

1t is a matter of regret to those
seeking the redemption of the
Republican party in Indiana that
Thomas Adams, the doughty Vim
cennes warrior who was response
BILE for the exposures that have
resulted in a partial cleaning-up
of political conditions in Indiana
(and when partial" is said, that
did net receive more consideration
is the very most that can be said
at the hands of the delegates III
the Republican State convention.
Adams sowed the seed of better
things; others will reap the bene-
fit, if any benefit is to be reaped
by the Republican State ticket in
Indiana, this year, which is open
to debate.
The ticket as named is better
than might have been expected
with political conditions as they
are, but it is not yet of that high
est type throughout that the peo-
pie of Indiana who are striving
for relief from the old order, had
a right to expect. -
The party can not get away
from the fact that when it came
to a showdown while the corrupt
bosses of the party were not al
ways able to name their first
choice, they were able to say who
should be nominated among the
others.
It took several years and severar
elections for Illinois Republicans
to clean up their party. Maybe
it was too much to expect Indi-
ana to do a complete job this
year.
So, perhaps, those Republicans
who are in earnest about this
matter of restoring Indiana's good
name shall have to content them
selves with having made some
gains and with looking forward
to other years and other elections
for the complete vindication of
their position.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-05-31

heard; heard, and f1ared up in
wrath. and almost alone opposed
himself to the most powerful inSti-
tuition the world has ever seen.
Who had given this right of sell
ing divine forgiveness to the pope?
And if he had it, why did he not
empty Purgatory forthwith for
Christ's sake, instead Of cautiously
for gold?
The theses were written in Latin.
but soon they we're translated into
powerful German, and sent across
The country. Leo protested to Fred
erick, Elector of Saxony, and spoke
of Luther as Child of the devil"
forgetting that in an earlier COM
munication he had called him Deaf
SON"
Luther countered with an "Ad-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-05-31
Plaques Republicans

What the farmers are entitled to
by way of relief, or whether the
McNary- Haugen bill was the best
measure that might have been pro-
posed, is not the immediate question.
The immediate question is what
the farmers wanted, how sore they
are, and how far they are prepared
to go.
If Lowden were an aggressive
campaigner, or if he had any con-
siderable following in other sec
tions of the country, one would be
fairly safe in predicting serious
trouble.
The weakness of the farm move
ment lies in the lack of command
ing leadership There is no Theo-
dore Roosevelt to take charge Of
this incipient revolt which means
that it is likely to remain incipieht.
But President Coolidge has made
the Republican party take a long
chance, a chance so long that it
will continue TO plague the Re-
publican party, until that party does
something definite and constructive
for farm relief.