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New Britain herald., 1928-09-28
GRAIN MILL BURNED

Belieh, Mass, Sept. 2S.-tR1The
grain mill of Ryder and Warren,
located near the railroad station
here, was burned early today with
loss estimated at 5000. The cause
is unknown.
The contents included Is carloads
Of grain and a considerable store Of
lumber. The elevator az well a. the
mill were destroyed. The buildings
were in flames before the fire de-
partment arrived.
New Britain herald., 1928-09-28
ASSESSED HEAVY FINES
Two Danbury Men Penalised For
Violations of the Federal Liquor
Laws In Court Today.

Danbury, Sept. rs R1Charles
Setaro and Maurice Bloom Of this
city. were each fined $500 and costs
in the city court today for violations
Of the liquor law. In addition .
sentence of 50 days was imposed in
Setaro's case but the operation Of
the sentence was suspended. The
men were arrested september 20 by
state police.
In 4 secret closet in setaro's
home the police found liquor esti-
mated worth $4,000. Bloom was
followed by state policemen from his
place OF business a live poultry
market. to Setaro's home. where he
secured the liquor which he sold to
an Investigator for the state police.
New Britain herald., 1928-09-28
Woman's Hospital Board
Annual Meeting Tuesday

The annual meeting of the Wo-
mans hospital board will be held
next Tuesday afternoon at ) o'clock
at the Nurses Home on Hawkins
street. Directors will be elected and
the annual dues of Il will be receiv-
able
New Britain herald., 1928-09-28
Ellen Terry's Estate
Is About $4,000

London, Sept 2S.-tF-Dame
Ellen Terry, the noted actress.
whose will was made public last
night left an estate whose gross
value is estimated at f22.2S1 zap
proximately s11o,0o0). The value OF
her personal property was estimated
at f19,697.
The estate was left to the imme-
date family including a beQuest OF
5000 to James Carew of Chicago.
her husband "as token of good
will"
New Britain herald., 1928-09-28
NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER =, 1928
ITALIANS PLAN RALLY
Smith Democeattc Club In New
Haven WIZ Have Zig Time SUM-
llay Eventne


New Haven. Sept. Is M-A list
of speakers for the dinner In Music
hall Sunday night OF the Italian.
Smith Democratic club OF New Ha-
ven announced today brings here
Judge Francis Mancuso Of the court
Of general sessions, New York city,
end Ferdinand Pecora. assistant
United States district attorney In
New York. Other speaker 7ill be
National Committeeman Spellacy,
Augustine Lonergan. Charles g.
Morris, and Nicholas Noseley and
Edward Mascolo Of Waterbury, each
of whom u ON the democratic state
ticket. The toastmaster will be
George d: Cenzo. and the invocation
will be by Father Leonardo Quaglia.
The welcome to guests will be given
by Pietro Diana, president Of the
club and the greetings to members
by Edward Nicola, committee chair
man.
New Britain herald., 1928-09-28
HOLY CROSS CHURCH MASSES

beginning Sunday masses at the
Holy Cross church will be said at Z,
$50. 10 and 11:45 Eastern Standard
time. according to an announcement
made by Rev stephen Bartkowski.
pastor
New Britain herald., 1928-09-28
$50 AT TEACHERS TEA
Senior and Central Junior High
School Faculties Act As Hos
tess4,s at Pleasing Social Function.

4 successful tea and card party
was given yesterday afternoon by the
New Britain Teachers club in the
club rooms in the Walnut Hill school
when over $50 members attended.
The hostesses We're the teachers of
the senior and central junior high
schools. The new teachers were the
guests of the club. The tea table.
presided over by Mrs. Louis P. Slade,
stone, was decorated with fall flow
ers.
Miss Katharine Clark was chair
man of the social committee in
charge Of the tea.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-08
Abuse of the Mails

The efforts of Representative Henry w Watson,
Pennsylvania, to outlaw the sending of unsolicited
merchandise through the mails will be appauded by
hundreds of Indianapolis residents who have been
annoyed by receiving some package Of cheap and
unordered goods with request that money be re-
mitted for them or they be returned.
If the recipient exercises his perfectly legal right
and throws the stuff in the wasebasket, he usually
is bombarded with a series of followup letters prac
tically accusing him Of dishonesty and eventually
threatening to place the matter in the hands Of
attorney"
Not knowing that he is not obligated legally to
pay for return any goods he did not order unless
Beginning small scale of sending out neck
ties and handkerchiefs, this unsolicited merchandise
ing business has grown to point where the country
is being flooded with travelling bags jewery rain
coats and numerous other articles by this method.
1t is estimated that the business runs into millions
of dollars year. forcing people under tricky appeals
to conscience threat of prosecution to pay for goods
they did not order or go through the annoyance
Of sending them back.
Congress and the Postohice Department have
established all sorts of postal regulations protect
the sender of mail. There should be some sort Of
protection afforded the recipient in this matter of
unsolicited merchandising.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-08
Germany's Budding Time

An American publisher recently announced that
he going to introduce to American readers long
list of German authors whose work worth
knowing.
The books will be worth watching for. German
literature today is better worth knowing thai it has
been at any time since the great days Of Goethe,
Schiller, Leasing and Heine The smash Of the
monarchy, the freedom from the grip of the junkers
and the miltarists seems to have given German
thought budding time.
Men breathe in freer and cleaner air. In re-
public they dare to say and to write what they
never dared under a monarchy. They are depicting
Germany 1t is not as the bosses wanted it painted
They telling the truth about their former rulers
They are showing the rottenness of the old bureau
crazy
They revealing how deep seated the
hatred of the common German soldier, not only for
the long continued war, but also for the officers who
Jared we'll while to the men fell all the hardships
and all the poor food and clothing Germany today
is producing literature that can not be neglected
by any educated man.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-08
Ten Greatest Men
BY BRUCE CATION

John Haynes Holmes, pastor of New York's IA
nous community Church undertook the other night
to draw up list Of the ten greatest Americans.
The Surest way to start an argument is to make a
list of "the ten Observation-Disclosures it be list of
men, books, plays or race horses. Mr.. Holmes. linn
iting himself to men who born after the adop-
ton Of the Constitution in 1889, and refusing to
consider any who now are living, selected the fol-
lowing names:
Abraham Lincoln Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry
David Thoreau, William Lloyd Garrison, Theodore
Parker, Robert E. Lee, Walt Whitman, Mark Twain,
Charles w. Eliot and Eugene v. Debs.
His list is worth studying, even though all OF us
probably would like to amend it here and there. The
variety Of activities represented on it is rather sur
prising There are two philosophers, president
one soldier, one poet satiris theologian one
educator, two-well, perhaps we can lump Debs and
Garrison together as 1.-TWO agtatorS."
On what basis do you suppose this list was select
edP What quality, if any, did these ten men have
in common?
To begin with, each of them lacked the great
American instinct of conformity. Not one of them
swayed in his actions by any fear Of what
people might think or by any consideration of the
effect on his own fortunes. From Garrison, who was
often in danger OF lynchng, to Lee, who spurned the
highest Office Lincoln could offer him, these men
were independent; they thought for themselves and
could be moved from their set course by power
on earth.
Perhaps we can express the matter best by say
ing that these ten were, above all, brave men.
And bravery is virtue worth pricing hghly-es-
pecially in this age when who seek high Office
walk on eggs for fear of offending Of us.
Undoubtedly you could amend this list A great
many left off that could be put in with
perfect justice Roosevelt and Bryan will have many
supporters and will Daniel Webster and jefferson
Davis and John Hay America has had many great
men.
Some day, when you're looking for something to
read, go to library and draw few books these
Get MaurceS Lee the Soldier" SandburgS
Abraham Lincoln" Carmans 1.-THE Heart of Emer-
sons Journals" and Brooks THE Ordeal of Mark
Twain" Add to them few such books as Thoreaus
walden" and Whtman's Leaves of Grass"
Or, better yet, buy these books; they're worth
keeping. Then read them. Study them closely
absorb them. You'll find it most worth while
experience; and you'll understand why Mr. Holmes
put these men on his list.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-08

treaty with France. AS early as 1874 signed an
arbitration agreement with Britain. 1t is true that
only three cases arbitrated under that agree
ment and we baked at two results while the third
met with British objections, but the idea there
nevertheless
And so things have gone since We entered
into similar treaty with Mexico at Guadalupe
Hidalgo, in 1S4S, but though we have been on the
verge of war with that neighbor number of times
since, the idea of arbitrating differences never
seems to have occurred to us.
We took the load in helping establish The Hague
court of arbitration the League of Nations and the
World Court, but while others have rallied to the
support of these institutions, in the main, we have
held strangely aloof.
Which is why even such Slight advances as those
of Monday will be welcomed by those who have the
best interests of the Nation at heart.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-08
Something Wrong, Some Place

Substitute clerks in the Indianapolis post
Office appear to be the boys that Uncle Sam for
got when he took steps to improve the economic
conditions of postal workers year or so ago.
Between seventy-fve and eighty Indanap-
oils substitutes are waiting, moreSor less hope
lessly for steady jobs. Meanwhile, they bare
ly keep their families from actual want with
the $500 to $1,000 year they are able to exc
out by part time employment at 65 cents an
hour.
Postmaster Robert II. Bryson says that the
substitutes were warned before they took ex-
aminations that they might have to wait two
or three years before they we're given regular
jobs Some of the substitutes say they have
waited four years.
Postal clerks are trained workmen. The
Government sees to that by requiring that they
work the equivalent of six months at eight
hours day before they are eligible for regular
appointments
Either through the red tape Of postal regu-
lation, which changes little more swiftly
that the Constitution or through lack of adj
ministrative foresight, the substitute list has
been allowed to grow until it has tied up
large group of productive, intelligent work
men who might be supporting themselves and
their families and adding to the general eco
monte welfare in other lines had they not be.
lieved that they would benefit by faithfully
waiting for the opportunity for which they
had trained themselves
If the postmaster carefully has informed
all applicants for substitutes jobs that they
might have to wait long time for jobs--and
he says emphatcally that he has-no one can
deny that they walked into the situation with
open eyes.
On the other hand, someone ought to
prevent certain correspondence schools from
advertising the glorious opportunities for
steady employment and advancement in the
postal service.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-08
- THE STORY OF CIVILIZATION -
Rome GiUeS Lac Code to World
Written for The Times BIZ WM DMrant

THE great influence of Stocism
Il had now produced a type of
Roman almost Christian; only the
principle Of succession by selection
could have raised such a man to
the leadership of the Roman state.
Antoninus Plus turned his back
on military glory; and when the
Parthians made trouble in the East
he merely smiled.
His reign" says Gibbon. "is
marked by the rare advantage of
furnishing very few materials for
history"
1t was he who established the
principle that an accused man must
be accounted innocent until his
guilt is proved-one Of the most
precious legacieS that has come
down to us out of the ruin of Rome.
The development Of law had pro-
ceeded through all the chaos of
political events, and reached under
the Emperors a consistency and per-
lection characteristic Of the Roman
sense of order.
The civil law of the old republic
had been formulated in the Twelve
Tables about $50 B. c.; but as life
became more complex in It's
economic and social relationships,
these simple regulations had proved
inadequate, and a class Of juristS
had been slowly developed from the
priests, to interpret and develop the
law as advisers, or counsel, to client
and judge.
Some of these jurists put their
decisions and interpretations into
written form, and elevated the
Roman code by trying to bring it
into harmony with the Stole con-
ception of natural law; in this way
the legal relations of parents and
children. husband and wife, master
and man, we're greatly improved.
Finally. under the Antonines, the
full protection of the Roman law
was extended to the lowlieSt slave.
Law schools we're established,
and prospective councillors were re-
CURED to pass through six years OF
rigorous instruction.
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In 529 A. d. the Emperor
Justinian ordered a codiflcation of
all existing Roman law, eliminating
contradictions and obsolete regula-
tons; this Justinian Code passed
down through Byzantine law and
the Canon law Of the Church to
form the legal basis of social order
in western Europe. and remained
without a rival until the establish
ment Of the Code Napoleon.
Roads and laws were the great
requests Of Rome to the modern
world.
2. THE PHILOSOPHER KING
YIN the year ISL a. D. Antoninus
l. Plus died, and left as the heir
of his power a young man whom he
had trained with loving care for the
tasks of government, Marcus Azure
Illus.
Never had the principle of selec-
ton worked to SO admirable a re-
suit. The reigns of Antoninus and
Aurelius, says Gibbons, ARE possibly
the only period of history in which
the happiness Of great people was
the sole object Of government,
IF a man were called to fix the
period in the history of the world
during which the condition Of the
human race was most happy and
prosperous, he would, without hest
tation, name that which elapsed
from the death Of Domitian to the
accession of Conmodus"-i. e., from
the accession Of Nerva to the death
of Marcus Aurelius.
"Antonius Plus. says Renan.
would have had without competi-
tor the reputation of being the best
of sovereigns, had he not designated
Marcus for his heir
His Golden Booll" OF Medita-
tionS, which Aurelius composed
more in the manner of prayerful
contemplation ta els heauton,
thoughts for hmiselD than in the
quest of literary fame, recalls with
gratitude the virtues and abilities
of his teachers, and their care to
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-08

give him every advantage of in
struction and example.
Associated with his foster-father
in full enjoyment of the imperial
Office while still youth, he had
maintained a modest retirement,
accepting all the burdens and re-
jecting all the honorS and emolu-
mentS of power.
Hardly had he succeeded to un-
divided authority than he devoted
himself, from early morning until
the latest hours Of the night, to the
laborS Of government.
Il n
HE regarded himself as being,
i Il in fact, the servant of all.
The registry of the citizens, the
suppression of litigation, the eleva-
ton of public morals, the care of
minors. the retrenchment of public
expenses, the limitation of gladi-
torial games and shows, the care of
roads--the appointment of none but
worthy magistrates, even the regu-
lation Of street traffic-these and
rumberless other duties completely
absorbed his attention"
He aspired to give to the people
of his vast empire the equal pro-
tection Of just laws wisely admins
tered, and as much liberty of action
and speech as could possibly be rec
onciled with that social order WI ich
in his reign became the supreme
gift of Rome to Europe.
"All administrators are Stoics,"
Dean Woodbridge has said. Marcus,
as if foreseeing the righteousness of
er administrator (Napoleon) that
chose who govern, slave" had
adopted the philosophy of the Stoa
in his twelfth year. and to the end
of MS life, with one single exception,
be adhered to its Hottest precopts
with the fidelity and devotion of a
saint.
He followed" says Tacitus, "thc
teachers of wisdom, who counted
virtue as the only good, and dis
honor as the only evil"
ITO BE CONTINUED
Copyright. 1928. by Will Durant
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-08
Inching Along
Half an inch, half an inch,
Half an inch onward.


Into the idea of world cooperation against war; the
Government at Washington slowly is feeling its way
Two moves, neither in any way startling, but each
with a certain Importance all its own, we're made
in that direction Monday.
One was the signing Of new arbitration treaty
with France. The other was the introduction in the
Senate of resolution suggesting to President Cool
idge the ACCESSIBILITY of further toward joining
the world court The significance Of the latter lay in
the fact that the resolution offered by Senator
Gilett, Republican, Massachusetts,, close friend of
the President.
The text of the new treaty with France has not
been made public but its general lines have been
known for some time. And while it is understood to
be little broader in scope than the Root-Jusserand
treaty which it suppants, it owes its Importance
principally to two things, both moral or psychological
rather than material
First, there is a preamble denouncing war as an
instrument for settling disputes of any kind which
might arise between France and The United States,
and expressing the hope that in time all Nations will
see the light and outlaw war as means of disposing
Of their quarrels.
This preamble, as Secretary kellogg already has
taken pains to point out, is not binding but even
at that the inclusion of such sentiment in such docu-
ment represents an advance, however slight from
the position have assumed in international affairs
Second, france mas seemed TO attach much Sent1-
mental Importance to the negotiation of this treaty
Exactly $50 years ago Monday and the United
States signed the first treaty this country ever en-
Nered into calling for nvolabe and universal peace
between the two countries.
And, as the present arbitration treaty with France
automatically expires Feb a. France at least felt it
would be particularly fitting if new and stronger
bond could be entered into the anniversarysof the
original. M
Purely as a gecture of friendship and good WILL
therefore, the new treaty is distinctly worth while
Incidentally it is curious fact that while the
United States generally is regarded as the daddy of
modern arbitration and world cooperation for peace
it harder than pulling teeth to get us to ac-
cept the idea for ourselves.
We began it in the vpry middle of our fight for
Independence, when we szSgned perpetual peace
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-08
Hue and Cry for Probes

This is just another example of
the inefficient way we do things, in
spite Of all the departments, bu-
reaus and expenditures.
Every corporation in the country
is not only obliged to take out a
charter in some State, but to make
more or less detailed reports re-
garding its business.
Further than this, it literally is
beseiged with Government agents,
inspectors and tax collectors for
more particular information, yet
ever so often we wake up to find we
do not know anything about it, and
there is hue and cry for another
probe
More discouraging STILL the probes
usually lead to nothing, except the
accumulation of an additional
amount of data which is seldom put
to practical use.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-08
Questions and AnSzUe7rS

thick at the top; and more than
twenty-five feet high, with towers
more than tEirty-five feet high at
intervals of 200 to 300 yards.
What is the direction of the
Panama Canal?
About due north and south from
the Atlantic as far as Gatun Lake,
and from there to the Pacific Ocean,
southeast.
How many Of the acts passed by
Congress have been declared un-
constitutional by The United States
Supreme Court?
In the whole history of the Su-
preme Court only fifty acts of Con-
gress have been declared unconsti-
tutional.
Is there anything in the COnstitu-
ton to prohibit man from serving
three terms as President?
George Washington declined to
serve a third term as President be-
cause he felt that to do so would
subject him to criticism for seeking
too much power and tend toward
monarchy. Presidents since that
time have followed that precedent,
but there is nothing in the Con-
Stitution to prevent a President
serving anV number of terms
When was the order of the
Knights of Malta founded?
In Jerusalem in 1048 and in
America in 1889.
What part does Lon CLANCY play
in the motion picture 'NIr. Wu"?
He plays the roles Of son, father
and a grandfather.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-08

Senator Walsh Of Montana has a
bill before Congress to investigate
the so-called power trust.
Like many other people, he feels
that the Government is not suffi-
GENTLY informed about what is go
ing on; that study of power de-
velopment, especially from the
financial end, is desirable, and that
the knowledge thus obtained would
be Of some assistance.
1t is surprising that, with all athe
facilities we have provided for OBJ
tanning and recording the facts, the
Government never seems to know
what big business is doing, and
that every so often Congress has to
knock off and institute a probe.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-08
BRIDGE ME
ANOTHER
Copyright, 1923, by The Ready Ref
erence Publishing Company
BY w. w. WENTWORTH

Authorizations: A-ace: liking; O.
queen; Jack; X-any card lower than
l. Partner not having bid, what
do you lead against a no-trump bid
when you hold K @ 10?
2. When you hold K x x x x,
how many outside quick tricks are
required to bid it iniNally?
3. In determining whether to bid
f1ve-card suit when you hold A K
x x x or K @ x x x, should you
bid it if outside quick trick is di-
vided in two suits?
The Answers
l. K.
2. Three.
3. Yes.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-08
Sensible Combines

So far as the public is concerned,
it believes not only that power
combines are being formed but that
the very nature of the business
makes them desirable.
To the average man it appears
we'll nigh impossible to provide an
adequate, dependable supply Of
electricity without a general hook
up Of plants.
Though they realize that such a
hookup involves consolidation and
a degree of control that must be
curbed in some way, the people look
upon consolidation of power in
terests as not only sensible. but
inevitable. Their experience with
the railroad problem has taught
them the folly of trying to prevent
such consultations, and that the
most practical way to protect pub
lie interest is through regulation,
rather than trust busting"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-08

/. The idea of letter golf is to
change one word to another and do
it in par, or a given number of
strokes. Thus to change COW to
HEN, in three strokes, COW, HOW,
HEW, HEN.
2. You can change only one let
ter at a time.
3.You must have complete word
Of common usage for each jump.
Slang words and authorizations don't
count.
4. The order Of letters can not be
change.