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New Britain herald., 1930-03-05
BACHELOR DINNER

X bachelor dinner attended by about T5 men was held last night at the Elm Tree Inn, Pennington, in honor of Louis Sablotsky. who will wed Miss Alice Baggish of Hartford next Sunday. Attorney Harry GinsburG was toastmaster. The speakers included Constable Fred Wrinkle and Attorneys Albert A. Grecnberg and Yale Sable.
New Britain herald., 1930-03-05
YOUTH NEAR DEATH

Danbury, March 5 (UP)-Fred
 Echlund, IS. was reported in a criti- cal condition at Danbury hospital today after being accidentally shot in the abdomen by his 16 year old brother, Isuno. while they were play ing with a .22 calibre rifle yesterday.
New Britain herald., 1930-03-05
DEIGGIST ARRESTED

Hartford. March 5.-Thomas r, Parsons. 2S, druggist, and Mrs. Elsie Hall, 50, a waitress, were brought to city court today charged with adultery. They were arrested in an apartment at 1Sl SiGourncy street yesterday afternoon.
New Britain herald., 1930-03-05

What is Bone-Tone?" is a ques- ton often asked by those not fa- miliar with this marvellous remedy. Bon-Tone is a remedy scientifically compounded from herbs, roots,
New Britain herald., 1930-03-05
BLACK LEAVES kARACHJ

karchi, India. March P-Nan Lear Black. Baltimore publisher, hi. in continuation of his England to Tokyo flight. .... -.-
New Britain herald., 1930-03-05

barks and leaves selected for their therapeutic value in the treatment of ailments arising from disorderel stomach, liver, kidneys and bowels.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-11
America Wins at Polo.

Whatever results from the meeting Of
Enterprise and Shamrock v in the in
ternational yacht races this month, the
United States keeps one of the inter-
national sports trophies that has been
In competition for many years. Yes
terday an American polo team beat a
team Of British challengers in the con-
GLIDING and deciding match of the tri-
ennial engagement for the Westchester
Cup, putting this country well ahead
in the series, seven to four, from the
start in 1885.
There Is a certain likeness between
the Anglo-American polo competition
and the yacht races. The sailing con-
test began with an American invasion
OF British waters, when the schooner
America went over on invitation to
participate in a contest with English
craft. She won and later was awarded
q cup that has become world renowned
as the most significant sporting trophy
in existence. Polo. a distinctly British
game from its importation in 1869 from
India, where it gained its modern prac-
ttce after 1868, was virtually unknown
In this country until 1885, when it
was started as an experiment by some
Americans who had observed it abroad.
So keen an interest was developed In
the sport here that a cup was put up
by some New York enthusiasts, known
as the Westminster Cup, as a challenge
trophy and overseas went a bid for
q contest. The next year, in 1896, John
Watson, one of Englands foremost
players. accepting the challenge,
brought a British team over here and
won the match, which was played at
Newport taking home the cup. In 1900
an American team went over to seek to
regain the trophy. losing at Nottingham,
and again in 1902 an American chal-
longing team lost at the same field.
Then there was lapse of seven years.
In 1909 an American team crossed the
Atlantic and at birmingham took the
trophy by winning two straight matches,
bringing the Westchester Cup back
home. The next three contests were on
American soil, at Meadowbrook, Ions
Island, in 1911, 1918 and 1914, the
ttree-year interval not yet having been
established American success was
scored in the first two of these con-
tests and British success in the third
each by two matches straight.
The war interrupted the internationaI
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-11
The Transition Period.

Decision has been reached not to re-
construct the building known as Tenn
porary No. 4, which housed the Federal
Trade Commission and two bureaus OF
the Department of Labor. The fire
which attacked it about ten days ago
damaged it to such an extent that
restoration would be unwarranted This
is wise conclusion. The reconstruction
of one of these temporary buildings
would be really an invitation to disaster.
With the exception of the two which
stand on the south side of B street in
Potomac Park, all of the wartime con-
structions are nretraps, and no rebuild
ing process could make them less dan
gerous.
Indication was given the other day
that greater speed than was expected
will be made in the institution of work
on the remaining buildings Of the great
program. In few months the sites fol
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-11
The Theater Labor Troubles.

Habitual patrons of the motion pic
ture theaters of Washington are con-
Siderably puzzled over the prospect of
continued entertainment at those places.
AS the case stands now musicians re-
fuse to amend their contract, and I'M
less an arrangement is effected between
now and Monday they will leave the
theaters, and if they so out the pro-
lection operators will, in sympathetic
action, likewise leave. Yet the theater
owners announce that their houses will
continue in operation and there will be
no interruption of the showing Of Aims
Just how they are to keep their shows
running without the services of the
union projectionists is q mystery that
Is not unveiled. Perhaps the local
union of projectionists, which has re-
Gently obtained @ favorable new con-
tract and is content to carry on as far
as the Washington members are con-
cerned, will disregard the order of the
national organization to quit if the
musicians are not retained. Or that
order may be rescinded between now
and Monday. Many of the public are
a little puzzled over this action of the
national union of projectionists. They
do not quite see the relationship be-
tween the men who work the machines
and those who make the music. Yet
evidently higher up in the union or
ganization there is q close cooperation
between the mechanical and the musi-
cal units of the entertainment business.
Should the theater owners undertake
to operate their houses in defiance Of
the unions they will be confronted with
serious difficulties. 1t is possible to
foresee in such circumstances q lively
war for and against patronage. So great
are the interests at stake, so large is
the amount of money involved that
it would seem doubtful whether the
theater owners would risk such
competition. As 1t is, regardless
of the action Of the projection
lists there would probably be many
people abstaining from patronage on
the score of the lack Of human music,
out Of sympathy with the musicians or
because they do not like mechanical
music. Again, there are those who will
sympathize with the contention Of the
musicians that the show business as
now operated in Washington is q heavy
drain Of local funds into alien pockets.
Or again there may be pronounced
reaction of public sympathy for the
theater owners on the part of those who
feel that the musicians should not die
tate the size of the orchestras and have
no real equity in their other demands
and that there should be no obstruction to
continuous public entertainment through
cooperation between unrelated units of
the theater organization. Yet, even with
such a sympathetic attitude, it is hardly
likely that the audiences under the con-
ditions indicated by the owners an
nounced intention to carry on regardless
of opposition will be as large as in the
past.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-11

, contests, and it was not until 1921 that
an American challenging team crossed
the seas. At birmingham it won two
straight matches and brought the cur
home, other teams defending 1t sue
cessfully in 1924 and in 1927, and
again this year.
Polo Is rated as the most ancient OF
all games played with ball and stick
its earliest records being found in Per-
STA. From that country 1t seems to
have spread throughout Asia. In India
it was the chief sport of the people for
centuries, the records ceasing there in
the seventeenth century. Then a Brit
ish Army officer brought the game back
to India, by the organization of two
native teams, giving an exhibition
match at Calcutta in 1853. Six years
later the sport reached England, and
in 1885 the United States.
In polo perfect coordination of man
and horse is required, and the training
of ponies is as important as the train
ing of men. A polo stable is an expen-
sive outfit, usually consisting of ten or
a dozen ponies for each participating
player of team. In the course of the
match ending yesterday the four Amer
lean players rode, in all, twenty-five
different ponies. The necessity for an
extensive stable makes the sport a
costly one and thus limits the range
of participation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-11

several Of these structures will have
been cleared and the foundation opera
tons will be in progress. 1t Is likely that
at least three more OF the major units
OF the Mall-Avenue triangle group will
be actually under way within six months.
These viii house many Of the bureaus
now located in the temporary buildings
on the Mall and elsewhere. Meanwhile,
1t is the part of discretion to lessen the
chance Of loss to place some of these
bureaus, which cannot be moved TO
their permanent homes for at least two
years. in privately owned buildings
which will afford better accommoda-
tions than the best of the wartime con-
structions.
Just at present there are ample &C
comnnodations for Government ofices
in the private business structures in
Washington. This condition will not
long continue With the revival Of bust
ness in general and with the settlement
Of the Government in its own perma-
nent housings, space in these business
structures will be in greater demand.
That demand will probably absorb all
of the room left vacant when the Gov
eminent moves out of now rented quar-
tiers into its own accommodations. The
greater use of this space in the private
ly owned buildings during the next four
or five years while the public building
nropran is Under wav will not only be
a deserved boon to the owners of those
structures, whose enterprise has here
tofore greatly served the Government
in its straits for Office quarters, but will
afford safer and more effective accom-
modations for the departmental workers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-11
The Taxicah Hearing

II the taXicab hearing before the Pub
lie Utilities Commission yesterday did
nothing else it brought cut the fact that
much dissension exists between the
owners and operators of the various
types Of vehicles now on the streets
and that the rate war is likely to con-
tinue for long time. The public, how
ever, is not particularly interested in
this phase of the situation, although it
does derive small monetary benefit, of
course, from any rate war. The public
Is primarily concerned with the ques-
ton Of safety and it is obvious that
there can be no real security against
hospital bills and funeral expenses that
will wipe out any supposed profit that
the victim has received from lower fares
unless every driver Of public vehicle
carries liability insurance.
That and the number of cabs to be
permitted on the streets are the really
important questions. Certainly there
should be no usurping of the city's
thoroughfares by taxicab companies or
individual hackers, but the situation is
aggravating in the extreme when the
Public Utilities Commission finds itself
unable, to date at least, to provide
financial security on the part of taxicab
drivers for the hapless victims of
negligence and recklessness. There may
be some dispute as to whether Wash
ington streets, with their more than
three thousand taxicabs, are not being
turned over to private interests, but
who can contend that with the ma
jority Of these three thousand oper-
ators unable to pay single cent toward
damages to persons and property the
situation is not one of grave concern to
every right-thinking person?
OF course, 1t is convenient to be able
to hail a public vehicle Immediately
upon appearing on the street, and it
Is equally easy on the pocketbook to be
enabled to ride a long distance for a
small amount. That is the ideal con-
dition. But combined with this ideal
must be the knowledge on the part
of the passenger that he is riding in
q safe vehicle, that his driver is COM
petent and that in the event Of acci-
dent the driver or his company will be
able to compensate him or his estate
for injury or death.
washington is the only city of its
size in the country which apparently
cannot regulate its public utilities, and
the responsibility must be laid solely
on Congress, which at the last session
failed utterly to take cognizance of the
situation ard provide the remedial
measures that were suggested. Action
on this important requirement in the
National Capital should not be further
delayed, and when Congress reconvenes
one Of its first moves should be to pro-
vide the Public Utilities Commission
with the authority 1t needs to correct
q situation that no other city would
tolerate for q moment.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-11
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN.

| voir she was the constant companion
OF her father. Following her fathers
death she continued writing as q means
OF support. She was graduated at Karls-
ruhe in 1881 and confirmed in 1884.
Daughter of Confederacy" was her
title. She died at Narragansett Pier
and was buried in Richmond, Va.
Q. Who wrote Tales from Hoffman?
When was it written?-M L.
A. Les Contes d'Hoffman," comic
opera, was composed by Jacques Often
! year and considered 1t his masterpiece.
1t was first produced at the Opera
Comique February 10, 1881, and played
lo1 nights in the first year Of its pro-
duction.
@ What is the meaning of the
knight on the GrahamPaige carr
p. K.
A During the early medieval period
of England, France and Germany, the
| ideals and standards of the nations
were largely intrusted to the knighthood
of the nations to maintain. For this
reason the use of the figure of knight
as an insignia indicates that the product
Will be maintained at high standard
and above reproach.
@. What is lanolin?-L. A.
| A Lanolin is wool fat or wool grease
in purified condition. 1t is a sub
stance consisting chiefly of the esters
of cholestrin with certain higher fatty
acids. Prepared commercially from
wool as a yellowish white, unctuous
mass, it is miscible to certain extent
with water. It is used widely Is
basis for ointments.
@. Please describe the building pro-
n
A. The building activities OF Pope
Plus XII include a new railroad station,
an electric power station, picture gal
lery and other works of lesser impor-
lance. The picture gallery covers APP
proximately one-half of an acre. Its
principal facade, $50 feet long, consists
Of two floors, each about IS feet high.
Subdivided into large halls, 1t will house
the most famous pictures in the Vail
can collection, which will be grouped
according to the various schools. The
principal hall will be reserved for works
of Raphael. Many other large build
ings are being erected on ground which
is not actually part of the Vatican City,
but which enjoys the right of extra
territoriality IN accordance with Lat
eran treaties. Among these is the new
seat of the Congregation Propaganda
Eide situated on a hill high above
Rome.
@. Is it true that in some places this
Summer the sun cooked the apples on
the trees?-E. L. G.
A. One such instance was in Penn
sylvania, where a plant pathologist
from State College had on exhibition
collection Of partially cooked apples
that had been picked from trees IN
Franklin County.
@. How long is the Pacific Highway?
C. H. j.
A. The Pacific Highway from Van
couver to the Mexican boundary line
south of San Diego is about 1,675 miles
in length.
@. What is a paddy bird"?-F. d.
A. Paddy bird is the name given in
India to a bird also known as the pond
heron. The name Is also used by
whalers to denote the sheathbill.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-11
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES Z. TRACEWELL.

"It has not the arrogance OF wine, the
self-consciousness of coffee, nor thu
Simpering innocence Of cocoa. THE
Book of Tea"
Those who think and talk only Of
spirituous liquors have a childlike belief
that every one in the world is inter-
ested in what they are interested in.
They would be amazed to know that
millions of persons prefer tea to beer
coffee to whisky, cocoa to wine.
Yes, actually.
The fine thing about tea, coffee, cocoa
is that they do not cause their devotees
to talk about them all the time.
The world is given rest.
They are the art drinks. THOSE VINO
drink tea like cats, those VINO Drink
coffee love books. those who take their
breakfast cup OF cocoa can 30 ni ~
raptures over a glorious sunrise OF
sunset.
We are aware of the fact that these
are generalities. that many who drink
strong LIQUOR also love dogs and cats
and fine paintings.
But. in the main, we believe these
distinctions to have meaning, and TO
be true. One should not refrain from
saying something just because tnere
may be exceptions.
Tea is a universal beverage which
has suffered somewhat during the past
half century through the onslaughts OF
coffee. ,
The book from which We quote speaks
of the self-consciousness of coffee, as II
the bean had character of its own.
Well. 1t has. as any one knows who has
drunk 1t, and most people have, at some
time or other. It is not called the
universal drink for nothing.
No doubt part of this attitude OF
Importance on the part of coffee is due
to the "go-getter" tactics Of the coffee
trade, which during the past so years
has put coffee ION the map" in real
and poetic sense.
There Is so much cof1ee grown TO the
south of us today that nobody knows
what to do with 1t, hence the drastic
reductions in the price per pound, which
have pleased and slightly amazed the
American consumer.
Housewives today can get a better
coffee for IS cents than they could FOR
65 cents few years ago. Despite these
changes, largely economic, coffee re-
mains what the tea enthusiast called 1t.
The self-conSciousness OF coffee Is
one of its charms, especially In an ar
rogant busting age. We Of the United
States, as a class, demand something
of self -suficiency, even in our daily
beverages.
Coffee can be served and drunk in
enough ways to make 1t incumbent
upon every drinker to announce his
preference to the server. Some like 1t
hot, some like 1t lukewarm, some want
1t dark" others light" some plenty
of sugar, some little, some none at all.
Even the different brands call forth
their champions, and one coffee topper
no sooner names his favorite than all
the others at table spring to the de-
Tense Of their own choice.
We have never recommended = cot-
fee to friend without the other say
ing, "Oh, we use So-and-So, and think
it perfect" In coffee, as In books,
every man to his own taste, and there
is no arguing.
The peculiar thing is that those who
have made no study of taste, as such,
set themselves up as authorities. The
old familiarity, 1T suits me-" will not
suffice.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-11
A Strange Motor Accident.

With all the variety of tragic hap
penings in motor transportation there
has probably never been one just like
that which is reported from Sanger
hansen, Germany. A sightseeing bus
was being driven on highway near
that town at high speed. Without the
slightest warning Of weakness the driv-
ing shaft broke and flying piece Of 1t
tore hole in the floor of the bus, 80
extensive that four Of the passengers
fell through to the roadway and were
crushed to death beneath the wheels.
It is doubtful if there is a parallel for
this mishap in all the history of mo-
toring. The broken driving shaft might
have killed one or more members of
the party outright. Or the break might
have caused the bus to be wrecked in
collision or by oyerturning on the road
side with heavy casualties. But to tear
hole in the floor big enough to let
four people fall through to their death
Is one of those things that could not
possibly be foreseen. What has hap
pened once. however, may happen
again, and this accident would seem TO
suggest the wisdom of sheathing the
floors of motor buses in such way as
to prevent their puncture and the
spilling Of their passengers to be ground
to death under the wheels.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-11

hitherto managed to sidestep this issue
rather effectually in their conventions
X X
With the Massachusetts, primaries
only a few days away, Mrs. Constance
Williams, daughter of the late Senator
Lodge of Massachusetts,, has written a
letter to Eben s. Draper, wet candidate
for the Republican senatorial nomina-
ton, declaring that his opponent, the
dry William M Butler, was always q
bitter political foe of Senator Lodge
and that he bad caused Senator Lodge
to be treated like a pickpocket" at the
Republican National Convention in
Cleveland in 1924, shortly before S n
ator Lodge died. Hers is an appeal for
all old Lodge supporters to vote for
Draper and against Butler.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-11

What is your question? Whatever
It may be, unless 1t be a request LOT
legal, medical or financial advice, 1t
will be answered without cost to you
and you will receive the reply in per-
sonaf letter. Write your question clearly
and briefly, inclose 2-cent stamp for
return postage and address The Eve
ming Star Information Bureau, Frederic
j. Haskin, director, Washington, D. G.
@. What is the name of the tele-
vision station in Chicago? Is 1t operat-
ing successfully?-T. E.
A. W9XAL Is the visual station in
Chicago operated in conjunction with
WNdAO, the Chicago Daily News sta
ton. More than 5000 experimental
listeners in the Chicago area are said
TO be receiving the programs with
clarity. The station was designed and
constructed by the Western Television
Corporation and transmission is &C
complished in a special studio equipped
with two televiSion scanning machines.
While ordinarily the transmission of
images persons has been confined
to the cad and shoulders, the ap-
paratus used at W9XAL gives a full
length Of several artists at once.
G. Was Longfellow's "Hiawatha" writ
ten for any particular purpose?-B. q.
A. Under date of June %, 1854, the
poet wrote in his diary: II have at
length hit upon plan for poem on
the American Indian which seems TO
me to be the right one and the only.
1t is to weave together their beautiful
traditions into a whole"
@. What is the salary of an airmail
pilot?-G. K.
A. In q survey of pay schedules of
q representative group Of operators
conducted by the Department of Com
merce the average monthly salary Of
airmail and passenger pilots in the last
six months OF 1929 and the first six
months Of this year is shown to be
$3.50. Pilots received an average base
pay of $189 monthly, but this was in
creased by addition of sums paid for
miles flown which varied with condi-
tons and depended upon day or night
schedules.
s., 2; Do most people in India go bare
A. OF total population of 500 000.-
900, at least 2eo,oo0,0oO go bare
footed.
Q. Is Sing Sing the oldest prison in
New York;. H.
A. Sing Sing was first called the
Mount Pleasant Prison and is histori-
cally the third in order Of New York
State prisons. The first is Newgate
Prison, built in 1861. in New York City.
and the second Is Auburn Prison, built
in 1916. The Sing Sing cell block was
built entirely by prisoners with stones
taken from the prison quarry. 1t was
started in May, 1925, and was completed
in 1928.
@. Please give a short biography OF
Jefferson Davis youngest daughter
F. C.
A. Varina Anne Jefferson Davis was
born June 81, 1864, and died Septem-
Der 1S, 1896. She was born at Rich
mond. during the earliest days of the
Confederacy. While Jefferson Davis
was a prisoner at Fortress Monroe, she
and her mother were with him. She
had a remarkable love of books. At
Is years of age she was taken abroad
and left at Karlsruhe. She remained
five years and then went to Paris. She
spoke French and German. At Beau