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New Britain herald., 1930-03-29
German Makes Candy
 From Wood Shayings

Vienna, March 20 (P>-They are making candy out of sawdust and wood shavings in the laboratory of Friederich Bergius. the German chemist who makes gasoline of coal, and coal from wood.
 Bcrgius turns shavings into sugar, which he says is good enough, mixed with 30 per cent of cane or beet sugar. that it makes candy and artificial honey.
 The candy making experiment is Q development of his process for making wood into sugar for feeding to pigs. For the animals, the sugar is mixed with potato cake and bean flour.
 By the synthetic process 65 per cent ot the wood is turned into sugar, a coarse. yellow powder. This IS the substance used in pig iced. Hut licrgius says it can be rcflncd over again and improved
New Britain herald., 1930-03-29
HEALTH AT THE BOYS SCHOOL

It is nearly beyond belief that a public institution such as the Merl- den School for Boys should have had such a decrepit medical depart ment as the latest report of the states health board would indicate.
 That some Of the drugs in the medicine cabinet had been ther. for more than 50 years, and that tn. smallpox vacinnatc was stamped with an expiration date in 1922 are indices IS 10 the laNity that domi- mated the institution,
 The Governor, his special board and the health board arc entitled to credit for energetic action after the subject was brought to their attention. But what about the pre- vious inability of the state to dis cover this manifest malfcasance O.
New Britain herald., 1930-03-29

New York, March 29.-The ma gican rides a top wave again. For a number of years he was in al most total obscurity and his only engagements were at parties for children. Concy Island side shows and the fly by night carnival cxhi- bitions at the cross roads.
 Today his opuloncc compares 10 the days when fashionable audi enccs in evening attire flocked to Herman the Great. The late Hou- dini. master illusionist, brought a temporary revival to magic. but with his passing another decline set in.
 During the past winter the high light of two musical rcvuCs was Fred Heating, a suaNe and soapy fellow with aWing room manners and danliacal flamboyance, who amblcd in and out various scenes
  and making dinguses disappear with mysterious abandon.
 He later appeared with his tricks in a two-man show for q brief run on Broadway. A supper club, in the same manner, featured another prestidigatatcur who picked pockets of patrons at ringsidc tables while they watched the performance, re- turning the lifted loot at the end Of bis act.
 The new type of magician does not. however, sport a thin mustache, pointed goatec or brush his hair in the Mephistopholea manner. His cVanishments are performed to the accompaniment of sophisticated batter He must bewildcr but not take himself seriously. A show hit has 19 girls intcrspersing dance steps with feats of magic.
 With the renaissance, a number of toncy magic shops have opened in contrast to the dinsy little holcs- in-thc-wall that used to struggle for existence on Sixth and Tenth avenues. One is q private house m the East Sixties where buyers are received culy by appointment.
 Strangely enough. one of the largest manufacturing distributing points for magic apparatus is of all Oshkosh. Wisconsin. IL has q depot from which most of the professionals are supplied, Oshkosh also furnishes most of the necessary
New Britain herald., 1930-03-29
THE OBSER VER- Makes Random Observations
 On the City and Its People
Reflections on the
 

Reflections on the
 Republican Primary
 After a mild campaign, the re- publican primary came to a close last night and the result is already tucked away in the minds of vot- CTS. Now that citizens registered with the party have expressed their preference, it is definitely known who will sprint against r. r. Me- Dcnough. the democratic nominee. in the biennial political Derby.
 Candidates Bartlett and Quigloy were slow to get into action. They Galled along until the last moment. hesitating to say anything which would offend the other. But the temptation was too strong to be re- sisted and patience worn thin would not be gainsaid At first the candidates gently pecked at each other Then they became boldcr and their parting repartee was in the form of grapeshot and can- ister. MT. Bartlett remarked that Mir. Quigley would not be able 10 reduce the taxes because while he vas mayor he was unable to stein the rising tide. Mr. Quigley's final shaft was that Mir. Bartlett did well to stand on his record because, by doing so, he could hide it. The party was beginning to get rough.
 Bartlett and Quigley were handi- capped by the fact that no real is pealed on straightforward plat form of ability in public office. Tie latter adopted familiar tactics of hammering at alleged eXtravaganc2 and a promise to reduce the tax rate if elected. But neither of theee issues were what the boys in the newspaper offices call hot" They were artificial stimulants for q moribund campaign with a kick that savorcd of Andrew Nolstead, the father of the noble experi- ment." That part of the public which takes no active part in . contest for office, little realizes the difficulty of carrying on without an issue The line of cleavage between two contestants can hardly be dis cerned. The proletariat believes tbat the only purpose the candi- dates have in running is to get in- to office and interest lags.
 Both candidates climaXed their drives with spectacular attempts to get out the vote. MT. Bartlett, back GU by the regular republican or had 200 automobiles st his beck and call. MT. Quigley, fighting a lone game with only his personal organization to support hlm, had l25 machines to carry his admirers to the voting places. It was a blazing finish, topped off in a cloud of carbon monoXide.
New Britain herald., 1930-03-29
sary-when we all become sophisti-

sary-when we all become sophisti- cated.
 The flesh and blood drama, even though it has been confined to the larger cities, is too great an institu- tion to be killed off altogether. Probably this will never happen in spite of the talkies. The great stars can go to Hollywood; but there are always others to take their places, and it is surprising how quickly some of them become top-notchers. Shakespeare Said that 'the plays the thing" It is too great a thing, in facts to have its future entirely within the keeping of the atars that perform in 1t. Let the names" go to Hollywood; there will be other names to take their places.
New Britain herald., 1930-03-29

nationwide consumption. Conse- quently the talkies are able to un- dersell the legitimate stage in the large cities and at the same time give a performance that differs from the real thing only in lacking the visual presence of the cast. Of course, the legitimate stage is bet ter; but what the public is inter- ested in at least to some extent is the price of the respective shows. Large numbers, it seems. are slow about paying a top of $5.50 or more for the privilege of seeing a flesh and blood drama when they can ob- tain a satisfactory presentation through the medium of screen and words at a top of one-third those figures, if not less. There, in the last analysis, is where the shoe pinches.
 The signing up of innumerable stars from the legitimate stage to appear in sound movies is an indi- cation of the trend of the times. The stars that are lost to Broad ways legitimate drama are gained by the nations cclluloid drama. The gain seems to outweigh the loss.
 The ratio Of failures in the legti- mate thcater, too, has a bearing upon the price that the public must pay to see the successes. Every season sees approximately three failures to one success. Producing q legitimate drama has become more of gamble than betting on horses. The producers, many with years of experience, cannot tell in advance what particular offering will succeed. The commercial man. agers blame all this upon the ficllle public; but in recent years the Theater Guild and similar organiza- tions have come forward with out noses of the commercial managers. Indeed, whatever happens to the commercial managers of the lcgiti- mate stage: due to the competition offered by the talkies, it is not like ly to affect the organizations of drama lovers who somehow show greater perspicacity in their pro- auctions, and who gain the public favor by not trying to please every moron in the big city.
 This high ratio of failures, exist ing in the commercial legitimate drama, does not exist in the cellu- Ibid drama. There have been screen plays that have been comparative failures, but their number has been comparatively few. Most screen plays always have made money. as the financial strength and power of the leading film companies abun- dantly tostitics.
 Now the talkies have changed the technique and vastly increased the radius of popular appeal by inject ing more art into the movies. No longer is it necessary to achieve the happy ending in order to please the lowest common denominator of mental assimilation. That is an- other point of competition with the legitimate stage. The time is al- ready practically here when it will TO longer be possible to say that real drama can only be seen in the flesh and blood theaters; the movie are getting around the by manufacturing two edi- tions of plays. one milk and water edition for such small towns where the real thing would not be success full, and another edition for the centers of sophistication. This seems to be a good idea. In time there again will be only one edition neces-
New Britain herald., 1930-03-29

The debonaire Heating astonished Broadway by holding a cage contain ing a live bird in an outstretche hand to the audience. He explains what he is going to do and asks that all watch closely. The bird and cage vanish in thin air to the accompaniment of a collective gasp. This trick complete costs s9.75 at the magical supply houses, yet it won for Heating innumerable col umns of speculative wondering in New York newspapers.
 As an earnest student of magic for years, l have noticed the most mystifying feats are invariably the simplest. One trick to me bordcrcd on the spooky. It was performed in a music hall near Oxford Circus in London. Sitting down front-and l suppose. looking sappy-thc magi- elan asked me for some article in my pockets. I gave him q souvenir Columbian half dollar, being the type who carried a pocket piece in a snap purse. He tossed it in the air and it was gone. Later an usher came down the aisle with basket of lemons. I was asked to select one and cut it in halves. took one from the bottonl-cut it open and there was my pocket piece.
 Shortly before Houdinis death l told him of the incident. He pledged me to secrecy and revealed the secret. l was so simple it was laughablo. There are two chances in 50 of it missing fire.
 Tn other days spats were worn chiefly by broken down actors and pseudo counts and were known as poverty tops.' A fashion expert dis covers that out of a selected list of 30 stage and screen stars 39 are was spatterdashes and the first actor 10 appear on the streets wearing them was the late John Drew.
 Can anything he done" in quircs Tom D., about those old fos- sils who insist upon dancing the old fashioned waltz and nearly run the ladies off their feet with those quick backward dashes?"
 Let LIS alone. We don't mean any harm. you weasel.
 Copyright, 1880, Mcknight
 Syndicate, Inc.)
New Britain herald., 1930-03-29
MORE ON HECKLERS

We don't like this idea of candi- dates threatening to put the law on so-called hecklers at public meet ing. Of course, it is against the law | for anyone to disturb a meeting, but the intent of the law manifestly is to safeguard church gatherings, school gatherings, Sunday school affairs and such like from the un- ruly tongues of heclllers. Who ever heard of politicians being particu- lar about who asked them questions, provided they were in a position to | answer them? And what candidate, in his right senses, would risk losing scads of votes by clamping the law on a questioner?
 Of course, citizen asking a ques- tion from the person on the plat form should have one or two in point, and not attempt to utilize the opportunity to spill propaganda for some pet idea of his own. That is the mistake Communist made the other day; but then, Communists are always making mistakes
 Let nothing but dignity and statis- tics be In attendance at a political meeting and where is the audienceo Citizens who devote their spare time to attend such events are entitled to more than dignity and statistics.
 Unquestionably, at least so far as We can judge, the most unpopular editorial we printed during the past year was the one which saw print recently and which tended to en- courage hecklers if they had any, thing substantial to heckle about; we mean unpopular with the candi- dates. That being nothing at all to hoii J duOut, hO"c CT, "c IuSii llllO print with another on the same subject, regardless of the law against heckling. The law. No. 634o Of the general statistics, cited by Mir. McDonough, refers only 10 per sons who "wilfully interrupt or dis. turb' a meeting, which d hcckler does not necessarily need to do. The gentlemanly modus operandi IS to obtain permission to ask "a few questions" Then, if the candidate knows his onions, he will welcome any questions" although in his heart he may feel like having the citizen arrested on charge of mayhem and disagreement of the atmosphere.
 The candidate is in a "ticllish position" at such q moment. If he refuses to permit the citizen to ask his questions the audience concludes he fears the questions; and when he smilingly grants permission he may find himself chin to jowl with some item or issue that he would prefer not to have mentioned.
 The only publicity worth traz2le of type regarding the recent primary rallies" according to city editors, was that provided by few heclllers, who by the way were decidedly be- low par m the manner Of going about it and in relation 10 the quos- tions they asked. If it had not bech for even these weak opponents O. Inc hccklcrs art the headlines, il appears 70 us, would have been in smaller type most of the time.
 Some of these candidates, despite the plethora of managers, assistant
New Britain herald., 1930-03-29
Future of the Drama Pressing Problem of Present

Perhaps it is not without reason that the friends of the legitimate stage view the constantly increasing cncroachmentS of the talking films with alarm. Not only do the talkies offer spirited competition in a field hitherto exclusively adapted to the flesh and blood" drama, but the competition is also within the realm of economics. While the legitimate plays in New York and other large cities must charge what many re- gard as high prices in order to avoid losses, the talllies arc not pro- duced merely for big city consump- tion and their cost is met through
New Britain herald., 1930-03-29
QU1GBEY'S VICTORY IN THE PRIMARY

The close victory Of Mir. Quiglcy in the Republican primary is indi- cative of his political strength and IS hamburger of a hotly contested election campaign between the Re- publican candidate and Alr. Me- Donough.
 MT. Quigley's large lead in the first ward and the disappointing to- tai given Mr. Bartlett in the third ward, with the remaining wards yielding fair leads to Mr. Quigley, tells the result of the scramble for the Republican nomination.
 The result means definitely tha so far as the rank and file oS Re- publicans is concerned, they prefer the hard-knocking independence of MT. Quigley to the organization finesse of Mir. Bartlett.
 Much as the Republican organiza- ton may proclaim that it will back the nominated Republican candidate, it still remains question whether this will be done in a half-hearted manner or whether it will be sub- 'limated lip service.
 MT. Quigley has been operating solely upon his own personality. record and knowledge of public af- fairs. He has shown quite effective. ly that the Republican organization Tn this city is not as powerful as it has been thought to be. He will be grateful for it's support in the en- suing election campaign, of course, but even without it he will be able 10 put forward strong battle for mayoralty. Democrats will, when they are frank, admit as much.
 It is significant that in the third ward, where the Republicans are reputed to have the strength of a mountain, MT. Bartlett failed to ob- tain anything like the total expected. This must mean that of the army of Republican voters in this ward there is a feeling of independence this year; or that a goodly portion of them are not so sure whether they care to be numbered within the Republican ranks this spring. Upon the general supposition that a citi- zen does not wish to vote in a primary if undecided as to whether he will support the primary winner, the result in the third ward would indicate a sterling enhancement of independent political thought.
 The Republican primary contest was vel! fought, except that the two leading contenders did not bring forward the best platform argu- ments until near it's very finish, probably too late to swing many Republican votes from an already preconceived choice. Citizens now adays make up their minds consid- erably in advance of the closing days of campaign, and there can be lit tie doubt that they will do the same thing during the election cam- paign now starting.
 The city now faces one of the most spirited local elections in it's history. Now that Mir. Bartlett has been pushed aside. Mir. Quiglcy will have the opportunity that he has long sought, and Mr. McDonou-h Tlrilc, straightforward. confi- dence-inspiring candidate. will have to keep step with d most energetic rival.
New Britain herald., 1930-03-29

public trust over the lives of unfor- tunate boys?
 The state unquestionably has been lax in its system Of supervision Of such institutions. In addition to re- habilitating the Mcriden institution let there also be an improvement in the manner in which the state oversees public institutions.
New Britain herald., 1930-03-29
CHOOSES BASEBALL

Torn with the desire to lurl tho JaVel'n on the track team and to eaten on the baseball team, Oscar Nelson, University of Iowa, finally cast his lot with the diamond can- didatcs. His best javclin throw Of l92 feet stands, as state interschol- astic record.
New Britain herald., 1930-03-29

He is a unique character - the only Byrd that is coming back from the South to get warm.
New Britain herald., 1930-03-29

We cant expect perfect officials, but surely it is possible to find some who won't need fixing" so often.
New Britain herald., 1930-03-29

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New Britain herald., 1930-03-29
Facts andFancies
By Robert Quillen

What does it profit a prince to get rid of his horses if q mosquito can throw him?
New Britain herald., 1930-03-29
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New Britain herald., 1930-03-29
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New Britain herald., 1930-03-29

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New Britain herald., 1930-03-29

Let's be fair. The only thing that keeps Congress from saving every body isthe fact that it doesn't know how.
New Britain herald., 1930-03-29

Perhaps the new way of singing wouldn't seem so objectionable if they wouldn't call it singing.
New Britain herald., 1930-03-29

We cant expect perfect officials, but surely it is possible to find some who won't need fixing" so often.
 Let's be fair. The only thing that keeps Congress from saving every body isthe fact that it doesn't know how.
 All that's necessary to enrich the cotton planter is to make other countries quit growing 12 million bales year.
 The land of the brave. Some 120 million having night sweats because 6O00 Communists make considerable noise!
 At 20 she thinks a mans wife should outrank his mother: at 60 she thinks his mother should come first.
 The plain people could get as much as lobbyists do if they would be as specific instead of bowling "Gimme.'
 Americanism: Men laboring to make women happy; women dissat- isfied because they have nothing to do.
 The old things destroyed in the White House fire evidently didn't include Mr. Wilson's watchful - waiting policy.
 A writer isn't really famous until he can make the folks back home pay for the nice advertising he gives a winter resort.
 Greece also had difficulty in en- forcing her laws. Else why was that old fellow so eager to find an hon. est man.
 Cigarette lighters make life more pleasant for the house holder There are no match streaks on the plaster in the guest room.
 All our life we've heard of Mrs. Grundy's criticisms, and it's pleasure to see a member of the family getting paid back.
 Perhaps the new way of singing wouldn't seem so objectionable if they wouldn't call it singing.
 At times you have some hope for the race, and then comes the reflcc- tion that somewhere a dance mara thon is in progress.
 The rich don't always get away with it. The Farm Board with its millions can't break the law of sup ply and demand.
 Correct this sentences: "I know you're famous" said the magazine editor. but a big name cant get bum stuff in my publication"
 Copyright. 1880. Publishers
 Syndicate
New Britain herald., 1930-03-29

Cigarette lighters make life more pleasant for the householder. There are no match streaks on the plaster in the guest room.
New Britain herald., 1930-03-29

All that's necessary to enrich the
 cotton planter is to make other
 countries quit growing 12 million bales a year.
New Britain herald., 1930-03-29

The rich don't always get away with it. The Farm Board with its millions can't break the law of sup ply and demand.
New Britain herald., 1930-03-29
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New Britain herald., 1930-03-29

Greece also had difficulty in en- forcing her laws. Else why was that old fellow so eager to find an hon. est man.
New Britain herald., 1930-03-29

All our life we've heard of Mrs. Grundy's criticisms, and it's a pleasure to see a member of the family getting paid back.
New Britain herald., 1930-03-29

At times you have some hope for the race, and then comes the reflcc- ton that somewhere a dance mara thon is in progress.
New Britain herald., 1930-03-29

A writer isn't really famous until he can make the folks back homs pay for the nice advertising he gives a winter resort.
New Britain herald., 1930-03-29

Correct this sentence: "I know you're famous" said the magazine editor. but a big name cant get bum stuff in my publication"
New Britain herald., 1930-03-29

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New Britain herald., 1930-03-29

The old things destroyed in the White House fire evidently didn't include Mir. Wilson's watchful - waiting policy.
New Britain herald., 1930-03-29

Copyright. 1880. Publishers
 Syndicate
New Britain herald., 1930-03-29
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New Britain herald., 1930-03-29

Americanism: Men laboring to make women happy; women dissat- isfied because they have nothing to do.
New Britain herald., 1930-03-29

The land of the brave. Some 120 million having night sweats because 6000 Communists make considerable noise.
New Britain herald., 1930-03-29

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New Britain herald., 1930-03-29

The plain people could get as much as lobbyists do if they would be as specific instead of bowling "Gimme.'
New Britain herald., 1930-03-29

At 20 she thinks mans wife should outrank his mother; at 60 she thinks his mother should come first.