New Britain herald., 1930-09-11

ed and discussed by our distinguish ed chairman. To these questions I will return in addresses to the cleo tors. It Is now clear where the re- sponsibility lies for the unsound pol icy of the federal reserve system which in spite of repeated warnings, led to financial explosion which shook our business structure to its foundations and turned five millions Of men and women out of their jobs The present national administration has learned nothing from its imme- diate predecessors. It has already ret out on the old path which, # con- tinued, will lead to another explo- sion few years hence. Unemploy- n,ent is the most serious question which confronts the state and the nation. The old pretension that re- publican administration. means rla- tional prosperity has been forever exploded by the present widespread industrial depression, business stag nation and agricultural ruin. Assails Prohibition
 Prohibition under the Eighteenth Amendment and the law enacted by congress for its enforcement has likewise collapsed. You cannot re- form nation by sending respectable ckizens as fast as the courts can act to jail or prison for doing what they and their ancestors for generations have regarded as a matter of pri- vate concern. President Wilson ve- toed the Volstead Act, and congress passed 1t over his veto. The demo- cratic party of Connecticut stands for the repeal of this law and for the real of the Eighteenth Amendment. that the control of distilled and fer mented liquors may be restored un- der the most rigid regulations to the states where it belongs. We declare expressly against the return of the saloon. Action is imperative if the people of the United States are to be kept from degenerating into a nation of gin drinkers with all those bioloSis, social, and economic dis asters which are certain to come in the wake.
 Different phases of this question I will take up at the earliest oppor- tunity. In the meantime I ask every one who drinks as well as votes dry to consider the question impartially I conclude with a renewal of the appeal to all citizens. whatever their political affiliations, to join with tha democratic party in the restoratid of the government of the state of Connecticut to it's former dignity and l honor.
 Life Long Democrat
 Prof. Cross has been a student teacher, literary writer and critic during all his manhood years Po- litfcally he is described by his !, friends as "an old-fashioned Holland county democrat" By tradition and choise he is democrat, and cast bis | first ballot for Grover Cleveland. z Educationally, Prof. Cross Mas long been big figure, information ally known as an editor and author and one of the English faculty al Yale university. He long has been ar authority on English literature Sanc the English novel, and his particular
 liking has been for 18th and 19tl
 century authors. He wrote tht
 Works of Laurence Sterne," Eng
 fish author, in 1904, bringing ou
 much unpublished material, followed
 with Life and Times of Laurepc ! Sterne," adding these to the classics
 and later history of Henry Field
 ing. He was editor-i in chief of | series of English classics and of } Yale Shakespeare. As editor of tn
 Yale Review. which he founded il
 1911. he attained international .,
 quaintanceships Through this me ! dium also his friends say, he ob
 tained those contacts which hay
 enabled him to study political gov
 ernment and economies.
 Descendant of Settler
 Prof Cross on his paternal sid comes from William Cross who too' up lands in Windsor in 1644. On hi mothers side he comes from tn , Curleys, who migrated from North 7 ampton, Mass, to Coventry, Conn about 170O. and the family late ) spread to Mansfield and were neigh
 bors of Nathan Hale. His father wa : farmer and MT. Cross as bo { worked in a village store. He va 5 born in Mansfield. April 10. 1862. H , went to Yale from Nauchau8 .hig 7 school at Willimantic, and hfte gleaning many honors for scholar . ship and work. began his career a ? a teacher as principal of Staples hig f school at Westport. Then he went l Shady Side academy, Pittsburgh, an . while there lectured each year 0 g literature and brought out a boo : on tho English novel GS99).
 : He went to Yale as an English ir s structor in Sheffield. became an as . sistant professor in 1897, full pro y fessor in i9O2, dean of the Gradual f school in 1916, Sterling professor ( s English in 1921, acting provost e 1922-23, and was retired July e He&wice received degrees from Yal