New Britain herald., 1928-06-02

during the horse and carriage era
on Fifth avenue. Our foretathers
! were thrilled by the spectacle OF
the elite looking as snoopy as pos
sible riding up the avenue with
flunkeys to the right of them and
flunkeys to the left of them, their
heads adorned with the product OF
the silk hat manufacturers.
But America has been organized
into reception committee. No one
knows Just when visitors will drop
in from the skies via Greenly
Island or New orleans or some
other outpost Of this grand and en-
pansiNe union OF commonWealths.
And think how bourgeois it would
be to extend the right hand OF well
come if one didn't have a silk hat
in the left hand. it would be fran
tically emharra ssins, something
not to be thought Of without a
shudder.
Since the end of the war distin-
guished Europeans have crashed our
gates to listen to the huzzahs of the
populace. The need of supply of
silk hats has been increasing apace.
Jimmy Walker, for example
wouldn't be the real Jimmy Walker
without silk hat any more than
what is sold nowadays for Johnny
Walker is the genuine stuff. Even
Al Smith has been known to brush
off his brown derby with the sleeve
/ !. nd Low tho
shelf in his bedroom closet while
he donned the tall, shiny plug
which one simply must wear if one
is to be picked out OF crowd. The
radio man told us during the recep-
ton to the German-1rish filters held
on Boston common during an I'M
usually heavy rainstorm. heavy even
for Boston, that a gross or more OF
silk hats We're reduced to pulpy,
gluey mass by the elements. But
that made no difference TO the
owners because they could frame
the headpieces and prove TO poster
ity that they actually did have silk
hats once.
The six hat is becommmg an
official necessity. In a few years a
candidate for office will not be
asked regarding his qualifications
but whether he owns the requisite
sartorial adornment for the recep-
ton of strangers. 1t would not be
stretching the Imagination too
| much to predict that many a cam
didate will be ignominiously defeat
ed Just because he does not possess
that great need for distinguished
serrice--the plug kelly
The glowing spark of American
ism which earnest patriots have
famed into flame during the past
decade was in danger Of being ex-
tinguished early this week. The
place--the U. S. Senate.
| Certain gentlemen of the senate
were opposed to the enactment of
certain legislation and in their Gag
erness to win their point were re-
sponsible for one OF those filibuster
farces which are occasionally stag
cd in the highest legislative body
in the nation.
a log of the proceedings as COM
piled by the United Press associa =
lions included the Following signifi-
cant items:
| 8 p. m.-S"nator Blease. dem, S,
g.. reviewed his former filibustering
speeches on the outcome Of the Civil
war He compared Jefferson Davis
with Abraham Lincoln for one
hour and fifteen minutes.
.05 a. m.-Sergeant- at-arms re-
ported he had discovered quorum
sleeping in committee rooms.
2.37 a. m.--Johnson motion
passed to compel attendance of alb
sent senators.
8 a. m.-Only three senator's.
Barley, Ky. Reneen. H.. ami
Copeland. y. y. rounded UP on
the threat of arrest.
$50 a. m. Sergeant at arms
Barry reported epidemic of Sudden
illness among absent senators pre-
lventing immediate attendance.
3.24 a. Ex-senator Steck, dem.
Iowa. appeared making Al present
although only three were in the
!chamber.
4 a. m.--Blease initiates birds.
435 a. m.--Only johnson and
Ashurst in chamber Ashurst fast
| asleep.
: q. m.-Barry reports no rccoveries
from the sudden illness of absen,
senators.
AID nanseam.
OF what use is it for seriou:
minded citizens to promote the
spirit Of Americanism when the
United States Senators INDUCES ir
buffoonery? The senate is frequent.
ly referred to as an august body
Why not call it an April body anG
set Apral / as the day for conven.
ing?
Our candidate for the senate i:
still Major Hoople.
That length of average public
school training maintained by {
community bears definite relation
ship to the earning power of tina
community il indicated by figure
published in the Biennial Survey o
Education in the United States
These figures show that states hav
ing the longest average publ
school life are also the states hav
ing the highest per capita incom
and the lowest percentage Of litter
ates.
The New England boy or, cir
spends on the average Of 'abou
eight and half years in the publi
schools. while the average youth j,
the United States spends less thar
seven years. Average per capita in
,conne in New England is estimated
at approximately 1926. compared
Henry" she announced. "Y OF
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