Milford chronicle., 1929-08-30
Our Weekly
Washington Letter
Observation-Disclosures Y ! =.
Shall We Change the CaIendar9

| OAAh5O eAO OdlCUudllS
George Eastman is one of the mel
in America in class by himself. Ht
is an example of poor boy becom
ing a rich man. Other poor boys
have become rich in this million
!, aires country. But Mr.. Eastman
, gave away most of his millions
about sixty of them-in a few years
r and then started to hunt lions in AT.
: RIGA, and to come back to America
to help reform the calendar. While
he was engaged in telling America
that there was "a picture ahead" he
was trying out a thirteen month
calendar in his own business. That
experiment convinced him the world
ought to do likewise. So he really
has been the big backer of the new
calendar plan which has Just been
presented to Secretary of State Stim-
son, and which urges that the Uni
ted States participate at a confer
ence under the auspices of the
League of Nations to consider world
action. Mr.. Eastman is not a talker,
but he has supplied the "sinews of
war" for a committee composed of
men like Doctor Marvin, Chief of
the Weather Bureau, Doctor Bur-
CESS, Director of the Bureau of
Standards, David Lawrence and
others well-known. There was an
eighty per cent favorable answer to
the QUESTIONABLE of the committee
for a change in the calendar. But
the committee does not recommend
that the United States Government
should enter an international con-
ference committed to any special
plan. 1t hopes, however, that some
definite decision may be reached be-
fore 1888, so that any change may
be inaugurated on January first of
that year. The chief alleged reason
for a change is to secure more ac-
curate accounting and divisions of
business life-a four-week-month.
R%a
Mrs. Coolidge Read Papers to Find
Policies of Cal
The traditional Coolidge silence
which was so often emphasized to
the public, extended into his own
home and Mrs. Coolidge was often
obliged to read the newspapers to
find his attitude on public affairs,
she declares in her first published
article in The American Magazine.
Even Coolidge's announcement
that he did not choose" to run came
to her only through "hearsay" sew
eral hours after he had set the ma
ton buzzing with his brief message.
On the morning of the day the
statement was given out, August 2,
1927, Mrs. Coolidge relates, Coolidge
left for his Office in Rapid City, near
the Black Hills summer White
House and remarked: 81 have been
President four years today" Soon
after one o'clock he returned with
two Senators as luncheon guests
and afterward went to his room for
nap, leaving the guests with Mrs.
Coolidge. Conversation ,lrifted
along lazily until one Senator re-
marked: "Quite a surprise the Pres
ident gave us this morning." Seeing
that Mrs. Coolidge realized that
something unexpected had taken !
place, the Senator added: "Of course
you know all about it."
1t was the first inkling Mrs. Cool
idge had received that her husband |
contemplated laying down his poll
tical career. 81 am rather proud of |
the fact" she says, that after near
ly a quarter of a century of marriage |
my husband feels free to make his |
decisions an dact upon them with
out consulting me or giving me ad-
vance information concerning them.
what knowledge 1 had of public
affairs I obtained from the daily pa
pers or other sources of information
open to everybody. Consistently I
declined to plead anyone's cause, ad-
vising them that it would be to their
to take the matter up di-
rectly with the President"
$50
Look For a "C' or an "NC"
Assistant Secretary of Commerce
says licensed aircraft
must contain the Department Of
Commerce license card inside the
cabin or cockpit, and must have a
C" or INC" painted on the wings
Ind rudder. BY carefully noting this
'act and using your eyes you can es-
innate the flying qualifications of
)lane. Those marks indicate a plane
las been approved by the Govern
nent. While this does not assure a
afe trip, for many factors are in
rolved in flying, there is a positive !
isk in an unmarked plane. Uncle
sam marks your beef, your weights E
nd measures, and now he is en- $
eavoring to bring the highest de- {
rec of safety in the air. /
R#S +
IanSas and Nebraska Preparedness t
In sections of the West-notably /
1ansas and Nebraska-where there v
re more rivers and less water"
han in a number of other localities, a
ounty engineers are getting ready a
nd set for freshets when dry river I
eds must take care of roaring tor l
ents following heavy rains. This I
consists of blasting a
18th dynamite to correct the courses v
streams that have eroded the
anks in a manner to threaten the Il
butments of bridges. Then, when a
ry rivers become really wet ones,
leir ability to do serious financial 4,
amage will have been removed. In y
Kansas county dynamiting was q
one at a cost of $400 and has in L L
lred the safety of bridge erected L
t an expenditure of between $12,- =,
DO and $4,000. ~
Coordination in Power Policies W
Look at the bigger field, try to get Il
II the facts, and then lay out uni n
ed program, if possible. That is W
resident Hoover's idea of piece of t;
of any kind of work. He Il