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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-26
The I'm Alone Affair.

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Dispassionate review of the full facts
will be required before considered judg-
ment can be passed on the affair OF
the I'm Alone sinking by a United
States Coast Guard cutter. For the
moment the position of this country is
clear and well founded. The Canadian
British schooner, as Secretary Melons
statement makes Individually plain, is
notorious rum-runner, built for the
high seas bootlegging trade, and when
sent to the bottom of the Gulf of Mex
ico was loaded to the gunwales with
liquor.
The nature of the I'm Alone's cargo
Is not disputed by her pugnacious skip
per. It's intended destination is not
hard to guess. Even the manner Of its
proposed delivery is dramatically limited
at in the narrative Capt. Randall sup
piled to the Federal authorities at New
Orleans when describing some Of his
earlier exploits in the smuggling trafhc
of American shores.
What remains to be determined by
careful investigation is whether our
Coast Guard was strictly within its
rights in firing at the British rum
runner far beyond the so-called treaty
waters" Those waters were defined in
the special liquor treaty entered into
between the United States and Great
Britain in 1924 for the purpose of en-
abling this country more effectually to
control smuggling operations adjacent
10 our coasts.
The treaty extends the ordinary
twelve mile limit to distance equal
10. the radius which a suspect ship
would be able to traverse in one hours
steaming or sailing. The British agreed
10 that extension In return for certain
concessions by the United States with
respect to liquor aboard British ships
temporarily in American harbors be-
tween voyages.
Canada, because of the I'm Alone's
Canadian registry, is understood to be
by way of identifying herself with any
hction the British government may
eventually institute at Washington.
Pending entertainment of the facts, no
diplomatic action of any kind Is to be
expected. When these are in hand We
shall know whether our Coast Guard
cutters guns went of in full accord
with our treaty rights, or whether the
rum-runner, even though she was sent
10 Davy Jones locker liquor-laden. was
entitled to the refuge of the high seas,
having in fact committed no actual Of
Tense against our smuggling laws.
Meantime alarmist suggestions OF
brave complications with Great Britain,
or with Canada, can be put aside. II
1t should turn out that the Dominion
government is to bear the brunt OF any
ensuing diplomatic conflict. that would
of itself be sign that the incident is
less tragically taken in Great Britain
than the scare" headlines in London
newspapers would seem to indicate.
Downing Street will, of course, Icy
ally support Ottawa, but an American
Canadian controversy would obviously
be far less redolent of gunpowder than
b controversy with Britannia over q
question grandiloquently described by
the rum-runner's skipper as involving
the freedom of the seas"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-26
Lies Driftwood.

An astonishing and pathetic picture
is provided by the Jail records of the
District of Columbia. They show that
the city has constant and increasing
population Of "repeaters men and
women who serve from eight to twelve
Jail sentences year and who repeat
this record year after year. Some have
as many as seventy tricks" to their
credit in Washington alone, to say
nothing of the number of times they
may have been picked up by the police
of Baltimore. They are released at
the expiration of one sentence, arrested
two or three days later and sentenced
to from ten to ninety days, and the
same process is repeated.
Many of these. of course, are chronic
alcoholics without money-and probably
without much desire-for treatment.
Jail is home" from which they take
few forced vacations every year. It
is likely that some fundamental char
acter defects are behind the chronic
alcoholism. They are inadequate to
cope with the world. They are bound
to 60 under in the struggle for
existence. Drunkenness with them is
little more than q subconscious mask
of this inadequacy.
But the fact remains that, under the
present system, they hardly get fight
ing chance to stay out of Jail, even if
they treasure liberty. They are taken
from Occoquan to Washington and set
free at the Seventh street station. Usually
they are penniless, friendless and home
less. They have nowhere to 60. There is
nobody to whom they can turn for
work, food or bed. They are driven by
the unmasterable craving for alcohol.
Consequently they beg passersby for
money to get supper, finally are given
few cents, and expend it Immediately
on some cheap form of alcohol, such
as bay rum. That same night the re-
leased prisoner is again in the hands
of the police and two or three days
later is back at his old job in the work.
house. He never had a chance, even
If he wanted one.
A bill for presentation to the forth
coming special session of Congress now
is being drawn up by the Board of Pub
lie Welfare which is designed to rem
edy the worst features of this situa-
ton. Judge Michael M. Doyle, men,
Der of the Board of Public Welfare,
who. is writing the proposed measure,
is studying previous proposals In the
same direction.
The bill, Judge Doyle expects, will
make some provision for an indie
terminate sentence with considerable
discretionary powers vested in parole
board, and will ask for the establish
ment Of receiving home in Wash
ington where released prisoners may 20
voluntarily until job can be found for
them. This might not be very effective
with chronic offenders whose repeater"
records are sensational, but it might
save some from being launched into a
career of continual convictions.
The indeterminate sentence is a diff
ficult provision to write into law, al
though some States have done so with
apparent success. 1t violates the popu-
lar notion that one who breaks one of
the rules of society pays a fixed price
for the violation, after which his record
is clear again. 1t lays emphasis on
the concept that the purpose of i'm
prisonment is to protect society and
redeem the prisoner, rather than pun
ishment for itself.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-26

putting the question, that is full of
color and pith and movement. Now. II
you cannot take all of this big book
and it is big-don't fail to study that
part of it which. discusses the United
States, since the Spanish-American
War. in respect to its attitude toward
imperialism. Monumental is. I think,
what this sort of study Is called prop
erly by those using the term. However
that may be, 1t is a triumph of work
upon an important, even upon . vital,
matter
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-26

Next Summers beauty contests are
already in preparation. There may be
problems of farm relief, but there will
be no chorus girl shortage.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-26

oficially, Mount Weather is OF the
map and tie yacht Maydower is of the
waves. It is a new administration by
land and sea.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-26

The typical German pipe is an elabo-
rate affair. The simple stubby smoke
apparatus favored by Mr.. Dawes may
suggest valuable economy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-26

New territory has been found In
Antarctic regions. 1t Is in the hands
Of the scientists and not yet interesting
to the realtors.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-26

Every President is expected TO be an
enthusiastic fisherman. The poor fish
remains the universal object Of COM
niseration,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-26
SHOOTING STARS.
~ PHrLANDER JOHNSON

Great Holiday.
Lazy Day is DRAWN nigh.
Happy New Year passes by.
Valentine and April Fool
Follow up the annual rule.
When the sun dispels the gloom
And Forsythia is in bloom,
Well 60 fishing, down the bay,
Celebratin' Lazy Day.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-26

In Mexican politics there is still a
lingering tradition which enables a
firing squad to cast the deciding ballot.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-26

A fight in Tammany Hall looks bigger
to a real New Yorker than any con-
troversy in Congress.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-26
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Belief.

Belief.
do you believe everything you see
in print?"
Sure" answered Senator Sorghum.
I'm busy man and have only time
to read my biography in the Congress
sional Directory"
Jud Tunkins says beauty contest"
often looks to him like a sad, shivering
reminder Of the old song, "Out in the
Cold World, Out In the Street."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-26

RiOtous Rhythm.
I heard a bird sing In the tree,
AS happy as a bird could be,
To send, with notes Of .jazzy cheer,
The music OF the passing year.
The birds revise the same old songs
With skill, which to their art belongs.
And, with the frogs, sound forth each
tone,
From bass UP to the saxophone.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-26
Rural Autocrat.

The farmer still some favor begs,
Although his hopes grow dim.
If you don't want cold storage eggs,
You've got to go to him.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-26

Oar would be many Sunday dinner
spoiled" said Uncle Eben. IF chickens
could be crossed Wit parrots an learnt
70 talk" : :
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-26

Mileage.
"How many miles can you travel on
a gallon?"
Cant say, exactly" said Mr.. Chug-
gins. IT am unable to figure the dis
lance have to cover to the next filling
station when run out of gas"
HE who is WISE" said Hi Ho, the
sage of Chinatown, may often find
unmolested content in appearing to be
foolish"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-13
Run Check Full
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Stockings
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$1.95

Women come back again and again
for Run Check hose, for they find
them satisfactory in every way. Serv-
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always the new shades. Pewter, Gun
Metal, Black, Allure. Pecan, Sable,
Clean, Tan Glow, Radiance, Tropic,
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Hosery--Street Floor
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customers can expect during
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matter how low the price, they
may be sure all of our specially
priced merchandise measures up
to our standard of Fashion
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Our buyers do not experiment
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-13

Dinner, Dance and evening frocks
street and afternoon frocks-in such
variety of fabrics and styles-you can
pick up several in just your size. We
can't describe each and every one-but
they'll all be hanging on the rack to-
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-13
New COlOrs>>New
Styling Brighten
Midseason Hats
$3.50

Smart combinations-of straw with
felt or felt with satin-but it is the
manner in which they are combined
that make them of Paris! The model
illustrated is interestingly slashed at
the peak of the crown and inserted
with cellophane straw. Other models
of all felt or satin show the new down
ward movement-or the smart one-ear
effect. Colors and black.
Millinery SnoD-Seeond Floor
New Britain herald., 1929-01-19
Today's Features

Saturday as usual affords a splen-
did list of radio entertainments and
one never has "a kick comm. SO
to speak. Beginning at $50 with a
dinner concert over WEAF and
VITO. which includes such num-
ters like selections from Falls The
Dollar Princess" Dvorak's Indian
Lament Machett's "Forget-Me-
Not and Mendelssohn's March Or
the Priests" from alfalfa. we
next come to the regular Saturday
evening concert OF the National
Orchestra under Walter Damrosch
at s O'Clock over WEAF and VITO.
At 9 o'clock We take a musical
journey with Lew White to the
oasis of the Atlantic. Havana. and
we hear among other numbers.
Southland, Carolina Noon, Down
South. Deep River. Florida. MAN.
Shore, Beautiful Isle OF Golden
Dreams Sailing. Havana and a
group Of three tango numbers.
Popular broadway numbers Of
recent years will contribute to the
regular nation wide dance music
program st 10 O'Clock over the
same stations, including such num-
bers like Along Came Sweetness,
Missouri Waltz. Don't Hold Every
thing, I Can't Give You Anything
But Love, NV Heart Stood Still,
Once in a Lifetime, Magnolia. a
medley Of Cohan hits, Chocolate
Soldier waltz and Tales from Wen
na Woods
Wagner's 'Siegfried Idylee.'
written as birthday gift to the
composers wife. will be played as
the second number during the
slumber hour program at ] o'clock
over WIZ. The opening number is
New Britain herald., 1929-01-19

gases through the chilly spray in
time to see . sedan swing outA .
driveway.
Forgetting the road was coated
with ice I jams on the brakes with
the muttered' passwords. If your
head and your brakes are any good.
prove It," Both proved about as re-
liable A. a false alarm because in
stead Of stopping the flivver seemed
to skid forward as though taking on
on skis and began cutting up capers
like dixsy blond stepping back
wards on = trolley car. Control was
what craved but the one thing I
had nothing of. Luckily the sedan
picked up speed or my steaming "a
diator would of crashed through the
back seat and pushed some of the
upholstery down the drivers coat
collar.
The flivver slurs from side to side,
taking up more room than a new car
in the hands Of q nervous driver.
misses a parked truck by the length
of a fountain pen. bounces over the
curb. waltxes on the sidewalk unde-
cided in which direction to go and
doubtful II It'd get there, slides side
ways over a lawn and bumps against
tenement bay window. removing
part of the flivver side curtains and
all of an empty flower box. and
then heads gleefully back to the
road. BY this time the bus is prov
ing as popular with all concerned as
an epidemic which is rapidly spread
ing ard just as tames it a bit
finds myself going down small hill.
In an effort to straighten out SOS
I wouldn't skid more than one way
at time eases up on the brakes
but jams ELL on again as ! begins
picking up more speed than darby
passing a haunted house. The rear
end, deciding that the front is get
ting more than its share Of atten-
ton, slurs wickedly in an attempt
to pass 1t out and succeeds. Lizzie
and me were now facing the hill We
tried to leave behind and were 80
confused We didn't know whether we
were coming or going. Acting quick
New Britain herald., 1929-01-19

" I releases the brakes. steps ON the
gas but all got outa the buggy was
spinning wheels and tohoggan ride
backwards, stopping only when
tree massaged 1t with a playful wal
lop that crumpled : tenders and
made q body dent that you couldn't
hide with nothing smaller than
horse blanket.
Climbing outa the bus ! reviews
the mess and solemnly swears that
the next time I'm dumbell enough to
flivver on icy roads I'll carry 2 bags
of sand. a chain for every tire. in
Guiding the spare. II any, and also
one for the steering wheel.
ANDY DALE.
New Britain herald., 1929-01-19
MANY CRASH GATE
At PUBLIC AFFAIRS
Manage to Get Past Ticket Taker
on Their Nerve

Gate crashing - that ancient but
not SO honorable plan of getting into
places and seeing attractions without
having to pay for the privilege will
live on forever. apparently.
Just when the custom took hold
on the American people or the world
Is not known. but people who con-
duct attractions In the theaters or
sporting attractions In and out of
doors are aware of the fact that the
custom Is still popular.
The greatest obstacle which faces
the man in the box office is the num-
Der Of people who pass him by and
then work" their way past the
ticket taker. Police have no control
over some OF them. They 90 to the
place with a determination to get
in and they sec to it that they do.
Not a stone Is left unturned. On
some occasions they are ''newspap per-
men," They arrive early. They know
the newspapermen will not arrive
until Just previous to the start of
the program. This plan Is usually
tried out at an athletic event FL
nally the reporter arrives and with
the confidence which usually accom-
panies one of the profession. he
starts to walk in the gate.
Here, here" Where do you think
you're going?" the gateman yells.
When told by the reporter that he is
a newspaper man. the gateman an
swers:
Its old stun, young man, that
paper has a reporter in there al
ready" After much argument in
which officials Of the teams are
called In the reporter is identified.
Real Reporter Hurled Down Stairs
In a city not far from Boston
where gate crashing was carried to
an extreme, a reporter approached
the entrance to a hall where a
grand ball was In progress. He
started to pass the policeman.
where's your ticket?" asked the
cop. "Ticket?" laughed the scribe.
I'm a reporter" "Oh, SO you're =
reporter" said the bluecoat with
thinly yelled sarcasm. And what
paper do you represent" I'm from
the Tribune" the reporter answer
ed. "Oh, SO you're from the Tri-
New Britain herald., 1929-01-19
NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD SATURDAY, JANUARY Is. 1922

admission on would wait until the
alumnus would arrive. Not only
would he get In himself but he would
get six or seven others In with him
He never had to repeat ON his meth
DDS.
Every method u used to get In.
but Of late years the ''One Eye Con-
nelly's" use the return passes taken
by people who leave. Ono place In
Massachusetts. In an effort to COM
bat this practice. used to stamp the
hand Of the person leaving and when
they returned they showed their
hands and entered.
New Britain herald., 1929-01-19
ANDY'S FlIVVER
HAS AN ACCIDENT
Icy Road It's Downfall, He
Explains
(COntributed)
Dear Mary Ann:

Dear Mary Ann:
Received your post card saying
you were disappointed when ! didn't
call the other night to take you to
see the guy 60 down in the sub
marine at the Capitol and II fails
you again or doesn't give an explain
alton ! will find the easy chair in
your parlor filled by some other
Romeo. Well. Mary. being indepen-
dent and not the kind Of a guy who
explains his every move to the girl
friend I'll merely say l was headed
your way when my fiivver runs into
hard luck and stuck with 1t like a
piece of adhesive tape.
I'd gone about city block when
a tire celebrates with blowout and
having no spare I loses time In find
ing room to place a patch where it'd
do the most good without interior
ing with the other 6. The tire re-
paired ! rattles along only to find
the plumbing fixtures inside the ra-
diator had frozen until they'd burst
and was handing out more steam
heat than a janitor does on a holiday.
Not being a plumber I continues
after opening tho windshield and
New Britain herald., 1929-01-19
HOW 10 Fight
EXCESS FAT

Thers arc hard ways like staEvasioa.
but fewer and fewer employ them. These
is = pleasant way. modern and seientihc.
which combats the cause. A vast number
Of people now use it. And the slender
figures now seen everywhere arc largely
due to that.
That method is embodied in Ma1mola
prescription tablets. People have used
them for 20 years-milions Of boxes OF
them. And everybody. in almost every
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health, new vitality.
Each box Of Marmola contains the
formula, also the scientific reasons for
results. So users hsve no fear of harm.
Learn the facts about Marmola. because
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gist-now-for Z q box with tho book
Then decide.
New Britain herald., 1929-01-19
Rheumatism Overcome
By Walking

1t has been found that an especially
constructed and treated pair Of heel plates
Zone zinc and one copper) placed In the
shoes Of . sufferer. quickly rids the wear
er Of rheumatic pains. sciatica and stiff
joints. as we'll as tones up the system In
general. Thus the sufferer literally walks"
his way to health. Experiments In hundreds
Of cases prove these heel plates to be =
boon to the sufferer in most severe cases
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New Britain herald., 1929-01-19

selves
10:15-'Still Water Run Deep"
l1:O0-Slumber music
8lO-WpCH-S7O
1:00-Harmonica Players
1:30-Van Ess orchestra
2:00-Wilson Family concert
2:45-The Songsters; Lloyd, ad-
dress
3:15-Woods, songs; Melody Kings
4:00-Ensemble: Alright Singers
5:15-Bob Schafer. songs
5:30-Apollo Instrumental Trio
6:00-Reid-R aymond-Ray Trio
S8O-WABC-S19
6:00-Dinner music
7:0o-Chimes; program summary
7:05-Sport-o-grams
7:30-Musical Cocktales
S:00-Commercial discount hour
9:0o-"Tramp, Tramp Tramp"
9:30-The Vaudedrome
10:30--Dance music
11:00-"Makers of Modern Melo-
dies"
11:30--Dance music
1O1O-WRNY-297
S:00-Studio ensemble
S:S0--Rooseyelt dance orchestra
S:45-kennedy, song; piano duo
9:15-Louise Vermont. contralto
9:30-konevsky. violin: Rogers.
baritone
1o:00-Marian Kaye, uke
10:15-Thrift Week talk,
13OO-WEVD-231
5:0O-Childrens stories
5:20-Stone. violin: Ingerman. pi-
ano
6:0O-Dr. Gladman's Counsel
6:20-kay. uke
6:40-Herting, political talk
7:o0-Negro Art Group hour
11:00-Cassese's Entertainers
New Britain herald., 1929-01-19
LECTURE AT 7. W.

On next Thursday. January 2lth
at 1880 at the Y. w. C. A. E. Wall
lace Bradley of the L and H. elf
craft Corp, Hartford. wih give .
free lecture on the history OF fly.
ing. its development and growth. to-
gether with the possibilities OF ava.
ton, All interested are invited.