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New Britain herald., 1930-01-17
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EV Robert Ouillcn

By Robert Quillcn
 + America is as foolish and weak and evil as our great critics say it is, why is Europe so envious?
 It is a free mans right to oppose any law if he is careful not to sup port thugs who oppose it with guns.
 A cant may indicate vanity, or it may mean that Junior got a toy electric train at Christmas.
 If America won't trust a, Chinese court, why trust one composed Of many nations
 It's awful to shoot rum runners. but they just won't stop when an officer says: Tut. tut"
 \ fine car doesn't mean much in this era of installmcnts, but YOU can't miss the significance of a slo,O00 bath room.
 Freedom is that inalienable right you lose when you are old and the children take care Of you.'
 It's queer state of affairs when Mir. Borah can make the first page by saying what everybody knows.
 Work while at s10 week, dear girl and matrimony will be q blessed state that affords three squares.
 Americanism: Breaking The laws that cramp your style: thinking the other fellow should be jailed for breaking the laws that cramp his style.
 A free man must suffer little when he takes a stand he can main- tain only by shutting his eyes 10 the truth.
 G. O. P. leaders haven't fully ac- cepted Hoover, but he doesn't worry. Being unaccepted is what makes an orphan able to stand alone.
 Woman's new freedom is especial ly enjoyable if at night she can re- turn to a house where some mere man gives assurance Of safety.
 The pioneers shuddered when the wolves hoWled at night. but thev never heard neighbours boy prac- ticins on a saXaphone.
 Truth really is stranger than fc ton In fiction the detectives al- ways find out who committed the crime.
 Psychological biography is the art Of telling what great man thought assuming that his mind delighted in dirt as the writer's does.
 The Chinese government is trying to make itself solid by encouraging hatred of foreign influence. Appar ently thenews Of AIS defeat has reached there.
 A naturalist informs us that the bear family always increases while the big bears are holed up for the winter. This will be sad news for Wall Street.
 Correct this sentence: Much knowledge has made me cynical" said he. but I never sigh for the faith of my childhood"
 Copyright 1880, Publishers
 Syndicate)
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M.mber AndiI hurean of Circnlnlinn

The A. B. c. is d national organization which furnishes newspapers and adver- tjssrs with q strictly honest analysis of circulation. Our circulation statistics are based upon this audit This insures pro. lection against fraud in newspaper dis tribution figures to both national and local advertiserk
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Nowadays parrots must feel as un- easy as do turkeys the week before Thanksgiving.
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The Associated Press is exclusively en- titled to the use for re publication Of all news credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also local news published therein.
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The Herald is on sale daily in New York Tt Hotalins's Newsstand Times Square; Schultz's Newsstand, Entrance Grand Central. 4-nd Street.
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of North China to tho American public.
 Very truly yours, ALFRED D. HEININGER.
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Did anybody asks Virgil G. lever catch his head in one ot those collapsiblc music racks in your town and have to be filed out?'
 No. but l couldn't tell you how many dear old ladies caught their fingers in the platform rockers.
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One of the young debutantes. aft CT doing Harlem, awakened in the late afternoon 10 find a bird tatoocd on her wrist. She, according to a re-
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Member ot tue Associated Press

The only profitable advertising medium in the City. Circulation books and press room always open to advertisers.
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It is free mans right to oppose any law if he is careful not to sup port thugs who oppose it with guns.
New Britain herald., 1930-01-17

X cant may indicate vanity or it may mean that Junior got toy electric train at Christmas.
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A chatty taxi chariotcor also told mo today he found that fares depoS- tied at the Grand Central station lh- variably tipped more than those at the Pennsylvania.
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By Robert QuilIcn + America is as foolish and weak and evil as our great critics say it is, why is Europe so envious?
New Britain herald., 1930-01-17

If America won't trust a, Chinese court, why trust one composed Of many nations?
New Britain herald., 1930-01-17

Many buyers read the Herald Classified Ads every night.
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\ cop at Broadway and 42d street is known as "the hack drivers pol son." It is his job nightly to chase cruising and empty taNicahs out ot the theatrical zone and he does II with a jerk of his thumb without saving a word. None is able 10 crash through.
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Correct this sentence: Much knowledge has made me cynical" said he, but I never sigh for the faith Of my childhood"
 Copyright 1880, Publishers
 Syndicate)
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naturalist informs us that the bear family always increases while the big bears are holed up for the winter. This will be sad news for Wall Street.
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TELEPHONE CALLS Business Office ..... ScS Editorial Rooms .... 926
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It's awful to shoot rum runners. but they just won't stop when an officer says: Tut tut"
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I enjoy the floWcry what-nots in the advertising of modern apart mcnt houses. This one caught. my eye today: "DupleN maisonettc-Wltn open fire place and glass enclosed loggia. Ground floor serV'ce quarters and revolving wall library bar. Root top terrace with electric fountain. Sounds almost like something by Michael Arlen. You know, like his; q am young and l love women.
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The prize namc for the current season to this observer is Bcdook Bcdikcs. Mr. Bcdikcs is in the wall paper business and came to New York from Canada.
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Entered at tho Post Otf7ce At New Britain
 as Second Class Mail Matter.
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You can get an answer 10 any question Of fact or information by writing 10 the Question Editor. New Britain Herald, Washington Bureau, 1922 New York avenue. Washington. b. C., enclosing two cents in stamps for reply. Medical, legal and marita, advise cannot be given. nor can ex. tended research be undertaken. All other questions will receive per. sonai reply. Unsigned requests can- not be answered. All letters are dental.-Editor.
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work while at sl0 week. dear girl and matrimony will be q blessed state that affords three squares.
New Britain herald., 1930-01-17

The Chinese government is trying to make itself solid by encouraging hatred of foreign influence. Appar enly thenews Of AIS defeat has reached there.
New Britain herald., 1930-01-17

It's queer state of affairs when Mr, Borah can make the first page by saying what everybody knows.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-21

is turned out of the class room and
pastured in the college library.
The old conception of a college
course as so many compartments of
this and that study he has been al
lowed to discard for a new sense Of the
unity and continuity in mems lives in
the past and the present. He has
learned to go at studies as he goes at
athletics. And the rating which comes
with the examinations that cover his
two years Of independent study is a
real milestone in his life. not a mere
summary of separate courses spoon-fed
to him, not mere monument to his
powers of memory. He has been rec
ognized as a sort of equal by his tutor,
and he has gained confidence through
this confidence reposed in his maturity
Of mind and in his sincerity of purpose.
II education is sitting at the other
end of a log from Mark Hopkins, then
we are beginning to put ourselves into
a fair way of giving our students the
chance to get it And the thing works
both ways, Seneca said, 1000 years ago.
in that those who teach are those that
learn. The truth of that axiom is evi-
dent today. For there can be no bet
ter discipline for the college professor
than close and friendly association
with fresh mind.
Where one brings experience and
training and tn, other zeal and youth,
there is bound 70 come a new attitude
toward study that will make the COL
lege even more the schoolroom of the
Nation than it has been.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-21
Irish Free State Bans
All Forms of Gambling

Lotteries are illegal in the Irish Free
State and even whist drives and all
sorts of games of chance have been
prosecuted by the police. Yet the
Parliament of the state has recently
authorized sweepstakes on scale
which rivals the Calcutta Sweep. The
reason is the perilous financial posi-
ton of the ID Dublin hospitals They
have tried every device to keep going
and to maintain modern efficiency in
treatment. But the deficits grow and
1t was decided as last resource to ap-
peal TO the government to permit the
organization of a huge sweepstakes in
their aid. The government was divided
on the point and left the matter to a
free vote of the Dali. President Cos
grave voted against the sweepstakes
and some of his leading colleagues in
the cabinet voted for them. The bill
passed through both houses of Parlia-
ment and is now in operation.
The sweep depends on the result OF
a horse race and the race is to be the
Manchester November Handicap. The
hospitals are to get one-flfth OF the
value of each eicket.
The hospital authorities have shown
the same division of opinion as was
manifested in the cabinet The Prot
estant Archbishop of Dublin de-
nounced the whole scheme as an en-
couragement of gambling and the five
principal Protestant hospitals have re-
fused to take any Of the money.
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haps for years, and might never have
been what it is.
Now, through causes in which labor
has no part, we are passing through an
other of the temporary periods of low
demand which we thought we had con-
Quered. Again we have had unemploy-
ment in a volume that has been subject
to bitter dispute and difference of opin-
ion. For the first time a United States
census, the only real means of counting
the unemployed, has so far borne out
the estimates of the Bureau of Labor
Statistics. The number is not so high
as the pessimists have insisted but it
has been at level which we must re-
duce and keep permanently reduced I'M
til we attain the vanishing point.
Yet in another period of business re-
cession and unemployment and in the
face of the demonstrated contribution
of restrictive immigration to the pros
perity we have had and shall have
we hear recurrent arguments for its re-
moval. There has been criticism in
overcrowded countries which have al
ways looked to America to relieve them
of excess population. They have want
ed It's same relief that we have assured
foIS ourselves, from job competition and
its economic results. Abroad, our atti-
tude and the conditions which have
forced that attitude may not be COM
pletely understood But to me, at least,
arguments arising here at home against
restrictive immigration are hard to COM
prehend.
A friendly foreign observer, Sir Henri
Detarding. has lately supplied these
critics with line of reasoning that
no doubt many may take to be sound
especially as he gives 1t an economic
turn. In a recent interview he raised
the point that while restrictive immigra-
ton keeps out competitors of American
labor, it also keeps out prospective Gus
toners of American products, consumers
Of our shoes and clothing, our foodstuffs
and household goods. And this, he
added, we are doing at a time when
overproduction or underconSumption
has brought about business recession.
Reasoning Loses Weight.
Such reasoning it seems to me, loses
weight at the first glance of examina-
ton. The whole purpose of restrictive
immigration is to admit only so many
aliens as we can be fairly certain shall
find employment. Experience has taught
us that we cannot admit more and be
sure to find them places in industry.
And the unemployed man is not con-
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people came in droves Just to look
at that house. I've often seen this
whole street blocked with cars, from
every State in the Union. In the Sum-
mer tourists cars came by hundreds
every day. They'd stop and stare.
When Coolidge came back from the
White House to live again in the same
old duplex house the crowds increased.
Chronic Porch Sitter.
People came, thinking, I suppose,
that they might get a glimpse of him.
And they often did, for Mr. Coolidge
is chronic porch sitter, like nearly
all the rest of us on this street. He
loved to sit on his porch in the eve
ming and smoke, and tourists found
that out and they'd jam this street
and just stare at him. believe that
Comey house and went there to live
last May. There he has nine acres of
land, with a fence all around 1t, and
a back porch on which he can sit and
smoke, all by himself, where nobody
can stare at him"
AS we talked another neighbor joined
us, and at this point he interrupted to
say: II think that was partly why he
left; yes, he hates to be stared at and
he wants to be let alone; but that
wasn't the only reason he gave up a
house for which he paid only $3.50 a
month rent to live in house that he
paid $4,000 for. The main reasons
were that having lived in the White
House so long he couldn't accommodate
himself again to the cramped quarters
Of this duplex house, and he had ac-
cumulated library of 5000 books that
couldn't go into this old house.
Huge Writing Income.
''But the main reason of all was that
this old duplex house wasn't dignified
enough to be the home of the only
living Ex-President of the United States.
1t didn't look exactly right for man
who had filled the highest elective Of
fee in the world to be living in one
half of an old yellow frame two-family
house, so he bought the finest house
and grounds in Northampton and paid
$40, 900 cash. He could afford it. They
say he makes 100000 year out of his
magazine and newspaper writings.
saw in the paper the other day that he
received $150,000 in one check. We all
thinks it's big thing for Northampton
that he has come back here. to his old
home town, to live in such fine style"
AS those two men, one in the musical
instrument business and the other a
dry goods merchant, started to resume
their walk downtown. one said:
You'll ind that although Mr.. Cool
idge is retiring and silent and unsoci-
CONTINUED on Fourth Page)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-21
Tutor System Seen as Making Roadway
In Many Latin-American Colleges
BY ROBERT p. TRISTAN COFFIN,
Anna Adams ptYttI profaxrnr ~ pe,gl,.h

BY ROBERT P. TRISTAN COFFIN,
Anna Adams Piutti, Professor Of English,
Wells College.
The idea Of the honor course, which
has become permanent fixture in the
American colleges today. is really an
academic recognition of an ancient
principle of pedagogy-that a student
who learns for himself learns twice
as much So different institutions, fol-
lowing the example of Swarthmore and
Wells, have created the opportunity for
their better students TO study one sub
Ject, or group of related subjects, in
dependtly Of classes and examinations
and under the supervision of a tutor,
during the last two, and best, years of
their college life.
The successful example OF oxford
and Cambridge overseas, where many
OF the American pioneers in the field
of honor work, got their training under
the eye and pipe Of an English don,
where undergraduates have been edu-
Gated individually and outside the class
room for many years, has helped to
provide precedent for this new trend
in the American college.
But the honor idea would have come
IN the end even without such instances
of transatlantic success. For the grow
ing trend in American colleges away
from the class and lecture ideal, away
from mass instruction, toward the prin-
ciple of the conference would have
brought about the change.
The honor idea is a remedy for some
of the ills that have come with the
tremendous growth of both colleges and
universities in the last three decades.
During this time a college education
has ceased to be a luxury for the few
and has come to be a necessity for both
men and women who go into the pro-
xessions and into business.
To supply this necessity institutions
of higher education have expanded
greatly. They have doubled and trebled
their enrollments and their material
equipments. Their teaching stats have
not always increased in proportion
The factory system of education has
come as a result. Huge lecture courses
mass Quizzing and an inpersonal sys-
tenn or rewarding the best students with
grades make up the very impersonal
machinery which turns out the grad
yates of the modern college.
A student is fed into a vast ma
chine and he emerges hall-markec
with the name of an institution that
has meant little more to him thaH tsc-
lures and examinations.
The college family has gone. And
worse still, the best students have beer
neglected and often lost in this proc
ess of the imperseIlalization Of higher
education
An honor student is student Sc
iected on his ability and rescued from
such . system devised by democracy
for the average. An honor student il
q student invited to approach a mas
of material and TO arrange 1t into thu
thing called an education. He is con.
fronted, on a small scale, with the prob
lem of life. He is given the chance u
create, out OF details, synthesis. He
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-21
Analysis Shows E PM.
Most Dangerous Hour

Motorists. beware of the eighteenth
hourl That slogan seems to be the
most striking conclusion of the Stats
tics worked out by the French road po-
lice for the last five years. A careful
analysis of the conditions in which oc-
Cured all the road mishaps, fatal and
minor, during the aforesaid period un-
mistakenly show that pm. Cthe French
18) is by far the most dangerous time
for motorists.
The safest are from midnight to 5
am. At s am. danger looms ahead and
keeps increasing till IL am. Noon Is
comparatively quiet. French people
have their lunch at noon, but it is a
short respite. One pm. is not too
good; 2 pm. is disquieting: 8 pm. is
bad enough; 4 pm. Is awful; pm is
terrific, and, finally, 6 pm. seems to
be the perfect killing time.
After 6 pm. things Immediately 60
easier and 8 pm. is as safe as noon; 9
pm. shows a tendency to more acci-
dents, but 10 and IL are decidedly
charitable. II you have been lucky
enough to reach these for good!
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-21
Rome Declares War
On Vagabond Catdom

War has been declared on the cats In
Trajan'S Foruml In their firm de-
termination for a more and more deco
rous Rome, jealous city planners have
decided to put the towns vagabond
felines ION the spot" so to speak, and
the order Tor their wholesale eviction
ment and alarm we're produced among
Roman cat lovers by this decree and
henceforth the scores of tourists who
generously supply food to the Trajar
habitues will have 70 take a northeast
wardly course to tee ZOO. City fathers
have assured citizens that the cats are
to be taken care of by the Society for
the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
and that the puSsies will be trans
ported in a fast moving truck to a
more salubrious spot in the suburbs
where special home Is to be provided
for them.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-21
BY JAMES ]. DAVIS,


Secretary of Labor Of the United states.
TT is now nine years since Congress
passed the act that sharply re-
vised the attitude which this coun-
l. try had up to that time main
tanned toward immigration. The
pressure Of public opinion which
brought about the passage of this act
was composed of many elements. One
of those elements was born of misgiv-
ings as to how successfully the famous
melting pot" was performing its work.
But chiefly the pressure behind re-
strictive immigration was economic.
Postwar deflation had left us with
an army of unemployed totaling be-
tween five and six million people.
Even so, our condition was better than
that of countries which had more d.
rectly suffered from the wars effects.
For years before the war America had
been painted to Europe as q land where
any average immigrant might count on
riding down Fifth avenue in his own
limousine within year of his landing
here. Posters picturing this supposedly
hungry natives in European countries
by those who profited in the business
of their transportation.
MuLlI VI OllAo lCECl4Odly AlObAOkA VA
America fingered after the war. We
were supposed to have come through
the conflict practically unscathed. The
truth in regard to our real economic
condition was discounted. The poten-
tial European immigrant willingly ac-
cepted the lurid posters as the truth
and regarded the reality as propaganda.
Literally, millions of people In the war
torn countries were poised to come here
in 1920 and 1921. If we had allowed
them to come. the former record ar
rivals of a million year would have
been greatly exceeded and to our total
Of nearly six million unemployed would
have been added millions more.
Bill Little Opposed.
The danger was so plain that the bill
to stem this tide was passed with little
determined opposition.
From that postwar recession we re-
covered with rapidity that confounded
pessimists and astonished us all. In
two years the greatest number of I'M
employed since 1893 had vanished
from notice. In three years more the
country had risen to greater prosperity
than it had ever known. For three
years further Wa continued at nearly
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this peak. And among the several fac
tors that brought this about was re-
strictive immigration, passed first as an
emergency measure and then continued
as settled policy, when its beneficial
effects had been amply demonstrated.
The most superficial analysis should
convince any doubter of this. 1t Is uni
versally acknowledged that high wages
contributed the major part to that
prosperity, by equipping with enlarged
buying power the most numerous con-
sunlers in our market-our millions OF
workers. It is they and their high
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-21

Note-One Of the amazing things Of
American politics is the tremendous
and continued Dhofe-hedrted interest in
the life and activities Of Cabin Coolidge.
He tUdS admired as President and he Is
as much admired today as he pHTsues
his private courses at his home IN
Northampton, Mass.
Recently A. B. Macdonald, noted
Journalist OF the Kansas CITY Star, yiS-
tied Mr.. Coolidge, and his story built
around his experiences at Northampton
is intensely interesting The article of
today t9iH be followed by another in merit
Sundays editorial section OF The Star.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-21

wages that have made the American
market what it is, prize so rich that
we have to surround 1t with pro-
tective tariff to keep it safe to our
selves and safe even to those outside
who wish to tap II. With immigrants
admitted by the million at the old
yearly rate, competing for jobs with
Americas unemployed in 1920 and
1921, this American wage scale which
gave us our prosperity would never
have been possible. Our economic re-