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THE HARTFORD DAILY COURANT: WEDNESDAY, MAY 11, 1932. 10 The Lighter Side (Tljr arifofi) $ntfant The People's Forum Ejtt)HriK) I'M SOOTHING THE SAVAGE desire to obtain a little sum of money may become so great that the crime of arson seems Inconsequential beside it. We are not defending arson, but what we desire to emphasize Is that a great number are in desperate straits. Reason and morals sutler as a result of nervous strain. When these sufferers are added to the number of men who would not hesitate at any time to fire a building If its destruction would be profitable for them, we are not surprised at the increase in the number of Incendiary fires.

WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 11, 1932. noted, and the eastern point was near Trenton, N. J. They followed their wont in moving from southwest to northeast, with occasional exception, for one east of Sante Fe traveled nearly north while ohe west of Abilene, moved due South. In Connecticut, these storms have run true to type and have moved from southwest, to northeast.

Finally, a thing which Impresses us regarding this report is the amount of work connected with its publication. Table after table trails across its pages, carrying in most cases decimal points and in some small figures indicating foot MISS CHENEY'S PLAN Called "First Practical Suggestion La Guardia, our country would not be foundering on the rocks of indecision and uncertainty at this time. As a private citizen and as a Bishop of the Methodist Church, the Reverend Anderson's remarks should carry considerable weight, For Relief of Towns To the Editor of The Courant: BREAST Tests of the volume of sound a1; a performance of Verdi's Rigoletto" at the Metropolitan Opera House showed that Lily Pons was noisier than a street car, Gigli nearly as noisy as a subway train and that the orchestra made more noise than a riveting machine. News item. Das Welt-schmerz Den Zweiund fierzig Strasse Publuhrt by THE HABTrOHD COURANT COMPAN Courant Building.

Hartford, Coon. OldMt Mtpapr in America Publtitwd Dally Enttrtd tbt Pom Offlca in Hartford. aa Stcocd Claaa MMUr I noticed in The Courant on Sun day the interesting letter from Miss duc wnen ne or any other Drominent Marjory Cheney, it seems to individual uses deception, slings mud and hit below the belt, he deserves The Senate and the Rudget that Miss Cheney has offered one of the first practical suggestions for the alleviation of the situation in The country is not accustomed to look to the tne rullest measure of criticism. The avalanche of ballots next November in protest against the Performance of "Das Welt- which our towns find themselves, Senate for sobriety and responsibility in legis schmerz" by the New York Street stupid waste of millions of dollars lation, but it will none the less share the hope department Tuesday night To relieve the towns of certain gen eral obligations would seem the ini tial step to straighten out the in notes. We can visualize proofreaders, copyholders, an almost unending procession of revises and revised revises.

And we suppose that when the work was completed the more or less patient proofreaders began work on the repent of some other department which dealt with figures. As a result of their work for the Weather Bureau, our knowledge has been widened as to the snowfall at Chugwater, and Qu'Appelle, Saskatchewan. Broadway and Forty-Second Street, of the President that in the Senate the steps necessary to assure the balancing of the budget equalities of the burden of taxation All success to Miss Cheney's plan BRANCU OFK1CE8 fi Britain-Hotel SUnlry Bulldlnc. Church Strrtt Bntoi-Ulle-Trac BuHdii. Klvrid.

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The appointment of a com Cast Wotan. New York Air ing ComDany. Loge Whistle oi Traffic Of ficer Schlutz. TAXPAYER. Hartford, May 9, 1932.

mittee including representatives of both parties indicates that the Senate is approaching the by our Government in a useless attempt at enforcement when thousands of war-torn veterans are turned away daily from hospitals because of inadequate funds for beds and medical treatment, will be conclusive proof that the American people are fed up with the "noble experiment" and the meddlesome dictates of the Cannons and the Andersons. A. E. P. Hartford, May 3, 1932.

task before it with a proper appreciation of its Fafner Joe Maniple's taxi AN EAST HARTFORD MAN gravity, but more than the appointment of norn Freya York Fire Depart ment. committee is necessary if the desired end is to Tribute Is Paid to Memory of James S. Forbes be achieved. A similar committee was set up Fricka New York Street Mr. Fall Gets Out Mr.

Albert B. Fall, formerly Secretary of the Interior in President Harding's Cabinet, has now done partial expiation for his part in the oil scandals. He is out of the penitentiary after To the Editor of The Courant in the House of Representatives, but its recom Car Company. Erda Mike Jooble, barker Just a year ago there was laid to mendations did not prevent the destruction ot rest a resident or East iiartiora SELECTMAN'S TASK the tax bill and the emasculation of the econ for the Mintz Burlesque Chorus composed of rumble of dis James Stanley Forbes, who was ol the highest type of citizenship and He Must See That Road Work omy measure. The experience of the House demonstrated all too clearly that what is need Is of the dole on his hands.

In many cases such failure will result as will sound the political death knell of that poor first selectman. A DIRT ROAD FARMER, Litchfield, May 9, 1932. A DEBATE GOES Gj "Student" in Berlin Resumes Hit Argument With Mr. Geer To the Editor of The Courant: Mr. Geer, like many others, thinks that those who have come into this nation and secured work in one of the many lines of production should have more money divided up among them than is now the case.

If any funds are to be accumulated to build more plants, they may be accumulated by some sort of governmental tax. These profits now accruing to those capitalists w-ho- united in a corporation to build the plant, fit it with machinery and establish selling channels Mr. Geer would now have diverted from these capitalists by some sort of confiscation The present capitalist then could become units in the vast ever-growing world army of equal, worker-capitalists. That might be fair enough, but lt is doubtful if the swelling myriads of workers would really get more out of it than now, after their percentage for improvement schemes was deducted and administered by the transient powers that be. For be sure that at present capitalists do not hold out anything from the poor, except a heap of paper certificates, a few gaudy bits of stone called jewels and a big house whose occupancy is shared by servants.

STUDENT. Berlin, May 6, 1932. NOVELTY DANCERS Writer Corrects Statement Recently Printed To' the Editor of The Courant: Joseph K. Castle and Alicia Potz are not the 1931-32 State Championship Novelty dancing champions. The winners of 1931 are Marion Peneault and Joseph Castle and the winners of 1932 are Peggy Doyle and Martin Margarite of tant subway: newsboys; loud speaker three blocks away, Sn month iw ThrTmontn.

Pally Sunday 1 yr. Sunday, or, Tare. moMM month. UBd 1 wfc -2 Tottsft era foreii" roantrlM Member. AmrlalH Vnm Th.

Aaaociated Frew la eacluiiMly entitled to the uae for publication of all eewe dlapatchea credited to It. oi not otherwiaa credited to tma paper, and aleo lha tocn etwa et apontaneoue onpn published herein. All rlghia of publication o( aU other matter herein are alao reaereed Well Performed whose life was one or useiuiness ana enduring value to the town, where having served nine months and nineteen days of his sentence of a year and a day. Still hanging over him is a fine of $100,000, collectible when and if he gets the money. Nobody ap etc.

ed is not simply the sinking of partisan differ To the Editor of The Courant: ne was born on ancestral iana "Das Weltschmerz" was again which ever held a firm place in his ences in a committee. Even more necessary is a willingness on the part of all concerned to set philosophy as a factor binding him staged last night at Forty-Second Street, and again a vast audience was parently expects that he will ever pay it. Broken in health, his reputation blasted, he may aside selfish personal interests that by their to the laith or nis ratners ana inc traditions of his descent. For over spell-bound by the spontaneity ana very nature, conflict with the national welfare well wonder whether the stakes for which he 290 years the acres of the farm youthfulness and power ot the score played were worth the price he had to pay. stead immediately adjacent to his Its fresh, lucid beauty, it amazing Perhaps the Senate is prepared to give the nation a demonstration of disinterested public house have been ownea in tne But however deserving Mr.

Fall is of his pres TWENTY PAGES Forbes family name. From the time he inherited the land, Mr. Forbes ent humiliation, it stands as a curious performance of law, procedure and justice that he was originality, its vividness and its range of imagery are as overpowering today as ten years ago when Grover Whalen wrote it. Whalen, the wonder worker, is superbly at The plan of having the first selectman of a town build the town aid roads with the $17,750 of Dirt Road money may be open to some criticism. There are doubtless many towns where there is little if any unemployment problem.

In many of these towns the good men who would start on the road work will find easier work and better pay before the jobs are really well under way. Men who have to be supported by the towns are well aware of the fact, and many will not hurt themselves by doing a fair day's work to maintain their Job. They will feel that if the selectman fires them that steadfastly refused to sell any of this found guilty by a jury of accepting a bribe tract, in spite or tempting oilers his ideal of family loyalty com pelling him to retain grip on the home in this phantasmagoria oi sound. Street noise, in the score, breathed a new air, experienced a service, involving the exaltation of the national interest above all concern for sections, minorities and cliques. If so, it must look elsewhere for an example than to its Finance Committee, which, in framing its tax recommendations, yielded as shamefully as the House to the demands of selfish interest for favors in the shape of high tariffs and of low imposts.

Were the Senate to rule out such interests, however, from Edward L. Doheny, oil magnate, who was acquitted of the charge of having given the bribe. If the one jury was light in the one historical acres, wnatsoever tne For lour Scrapbook THERE are a good many real miseries in life that we cannot help smiling at, but they are the smiles that make wrinkles and not dimples. Oliver Wendell' Holmes. stress of circumstance.

Interest in local history was in new exhileration and a new en chantment. Those magically evoca tive thirds of the taxi horns ac line with this ideal. To research in comDanving Loee's protest in the old family Bibles and preserved letters of generations back he gave third act told as they always tell, case, it is hard to conceive how the other could have been right also. Mr. Fall will always be able to claim innocence of this crime, and although his claim may be disputed there is the evidence of Mr.

Doheny's acquittal to substantiate it. In these two notable cases the jury must have followed Lord Mansfield's advice, time and directed effort. He was an subtlv. of mystic profanity and in amateur student of the life of his fernal nower. of thines less temDoral it would find Itself the object of such popular favor as it has not experienced in many years.

Nothing is plainer than that the people of the section in colonial days, and he ex than the doom of Fafner and his they will still be sure of enough support out of "town poor" funds. But the damage to the town and to the roads will not stop there. If these poor workers really earn $1.50 a day and are paid a wage of, say, $3 a day, the good men in the gang who will be paid only $3 also, will tended his studies into metes and companions. nation have become not merely indignant, but bounds and land records dealing alarmed, at the recent disclosures of the sub The distinguished guest artist, of "Give your decisions, never your reasons." with the "Five Miles" and with the first grants and, with whatever he could collate about Indian lore in the evening was none otner man Mike Jooble, whose outdoor barking Dioneer times and the first settle has become internationally famous. quickly- drop back to an even pace with the poorer workers and do but $1.50 worth of work.

And what can the selectman do about it? He has taken the job to give out a dole, and Another Pension Veto No President since Cleveland has been called ments in tne nop jrooK area, his and justly so. As Erda. his fateful. cnogepon, witn Marlon Peneault interest in the history of the section led him to present to the Connecti ana unaries Breen of second. upon to deal with so many pension bills as Mr.

Hartford M. P. he is likely in many cases to find cut Historical society a rare speci Hoover, and his action with regard to them puts that he will have all the evil effects Hartford, May 10, 1932. men of a pre-Revolutionary chair, him, in this respect, in the same class with his sturdy predecessor. No more than Cleveland does he lack- sympathy with reasonable pleas which is a valued feature rare among the society's relics.

He was an aid to the late Deacon Alfred E. Kilbourne in collecting arrowheads and relics of Indians of the section. Literary Topics prophetic "Come in, lolks and see the greatest gathering of glorious girls" rose in the blue dusk out of the mysterious heart of Forty-Second Street, awakening memories of a great tradition of barking and of an unforgettable past. Mike's regrettable absence from the stage, due to his engagement with the Sing Sing Blue Singers, of Ossining, is happily terminated, and his public will be delighted to learn that neither his voice nor his artistry have suffered. But the hero of the performance on the part of veterans who have a Just claim Mr.

Forbes preferred to tie nim- servience of the Congress to vocal minorities. Were the Senate to make plain that it could shake Itself free of their dominance, it would quickly discover that it had earned a popularity far more valuable than any favor in the power of the minorities to grant. It would, in short, discover that it had won the confidence of the great mass of the people whose votes will count in the next election. The opportunity before the Senate is a great one, but its responsibility is greater still. Whether or not the budget is to be balanced will virtually be decided by its course in the next few weeks.

If it is balanced, the Senate can take much of the credit for restoring the confidence of the nation. It it is not balanced, the Senate must take a large share of the blame for what follows. The President seems confident that the Senate will not fail in the duty before it. The country will hope, fervently that his faith is not unjustified. By E.

N. C. seir lovaiiv to tne nouse in wnicn upon the nation, but he is no less quick to detect arrant favoritism in behalf of individuals whose sole desire is to live off their country he was born, believed to exceed 150 vears in age. though he couia nave Faithful readers of Mr. Alexan built an home der Woollcott's weekly Shouts and Murmurs page in The New Yorker men for the rest of their days.

With measures designed to benefit such gentry, he deals with deserved brusqueness. with the last wora convenience In this fine old house, a survivor of may recall his paper on a grim and was none other than Wotan, superb revolutionary years, silver was stowed aramatic story concerning a young His veto of a measure providing that civilians American gin ana her mother, who, in the course of a continental trio, for a time while Rochamoeau ann Lauzun's French soldiers encamped in town, a story which Mr. Forbes delighted to tell, with a whimsical came to Paris and put up at a small hotel, where, by reason of the crowded condition of the house, they who served in the Quartermaster Corps during the war with Spain, the Philippine Insurrection and the Boxer Rebellion is based on indisputable reasoning. The service rendered by the individuals whom the measure was designed to help unquestionably was great, but the Presi and genial gleam in nis Kinaiy eye. were assignea rooms wiaeiy sepa DANIEL D.

BID WELL. East Hartford. May 6, 1932. ly pictured by tjie New York Air Riveting Company. Handicapped by its position ten stories above the street, the Company nevertncless succeeded in ringing the bell on the ground level with a record of 115 decibels an astonishing performance under any circumstances, and truly remarkable when the handicaps under which it labored are remembered.

In that moment of clear sublimity when the author lifts us from the resolute major of the subway theme, through the the modulations rated from each other. In the morning, the daughter found that dent rightly points out that to single out one BISHOP ANDERSON'S ADDRESS her mother had disappeared, that no such room as that in which she had seen her mother installed over class of civilian employees who served during the specified hostilities would establish a pre A World War Veteran Comments on night was to be found in the hotel, Cleric's Utterance cedent "that, in all justice, would call for simi while she herself was assumed to be suffering from delusions. The upshot of the story was that the elder To the Editor of The Courant: Addressing some 200 delegates at of Freya's triple alarm, to the crash lar legislation in behalf of other civilians." The result would be that, in a short time, the nation would be called upon to provide hospitalization laay had been taken suddenly and a conference of the Metnoaist epis alarmingly in the night, the doc tor diagnosing her malady as bu copal Church in Atlantic City recently, Bishop William F. Anderson of Boston, in a sixty-page address for such a tremendous number that the drain upon the Treasury, and the taxpayers, would ing dignity of the Olympian mooa, one realizes the exaltation which is the recurring emotion of "Das One hears the proud ones in the heavens, ten storeys up. shrieking the mystic cacophony of bonic plague, and, in view of the panic which would have ensued, had assailed the metropolitan press, speedily become almost unendurable.

a case or plague been Known to ex ist in Paris, then crowded with those who differ with him regarding Drohibition and made a cowardly at The only way in which pensions and other tourists, the body of the ladv, who benefit conferred by the nation can be justified tack by inference upon former died in the night, was secretly re Governor Alfred E. Smith. moved ana the appearance or her is to restrict them rigidly to the single class lor which they were intended. Once exceptions are searched in vain for one construc room transtormea oy whitewash, New York its stuttering attempts and it crashing successes. Last night's rendition of that magical phrase was a never-to-be-forgotten experience, and the hundreds who today fill the psychiatric ward of Bellevue Hospital bear jittering witness to its popular success.

tive thought in his entire speech. new paper, ana rerurnishing, all ac National Drohibition has tne sup complished at lightning speed. Now devotees of the mystery story know port of the sober, industrious, God permitted, the claims will multiply almost beyond counting, and the nation will be loaded with a burden that in the end may wreck it. that this tale, in its mother and daughter being changed fearing, law-abiding element of the nation," said the good Bishop. It also has the support of the bootlegger, rum-runner, racketeer, thug, gangster and kidnaper, although the which is based on a novel by Mrs Belloc Lowndes; he writes: "Taste for Mrs.

Belloc Lowndes is perhaps a rather special thing, her mysteries combining somewhat the manner of a Havelock Ellis case note and the style of the late 'Duchess'; a kind of fiction which is a feast for those who like to cuddle down of an evening with a tale of lively sinning (To think that there should be a writer anywhere, and in The New Yorker of all places, who can recall the It has been my pleasant duty to review many a tale by Mrs. Belloc Lowndes, and again and again I have commented on the peculiarities of her literary style ylfr hitoff so graphically by J. C. M. in the passage just quoted.

There is something cumbrous, something impeded, in Mrs. Belloc Lowndes's manner of telling a story Her style is neither flexible nor easy yet she gets her effects. There is a sort of cumulative force, a hammer-blow inevitability, in the Belloc Lowndes literary manner, which is as certain in its results as the man hunting of the Canadian Roval Mounted. Three of this writer's tales of mystery and crime stand out, in my personal judgment at least, well beyond all the others; two of them are "The End of Her almost alone among Mrs. Belloc Lowndes's novels is not a tale of crime, though it involves so tragic a mystery "The Chink in the Armour," and "The Lodger," this last being generally, accepted as the author masterpiece.

"The Lodger" is based on the series of terrible murders which shocked London, and indeed all the civilized world, toward the close of the nineteenth century, which were known as the Jack the Ripper murders and also upon the ghastly crimes of Dr. Neill Cream, the man who is described by Mr. Edmund Pearson as being-venomous as a puff-adder," which took place at about the same time as the Jack the Ripper horrors. The appearance of Mr. Sleuth, the "lodger" of the story, is drawn from the figure of Dr.

Cream, and certain of his characteristics are identical with those of Dr. Cream, and with those supposedly attributable to the never officially identified Jack the Ripper. Yielding to temptation the other day. I treated myself to a copy of "The Supernatural Omnibus," a collection of tales edited, with an Introduction, by Mr. Montague Summers.

Among the thirty-six talec here brought together I found several duplicates stories included in other collections and volumes I already possessed, but there were many others heretofore unknown to me, and one or two that hari The Report on the Street Department The report of the special committee that investigated the affairs of the Street Department, with special reference to the matter of ashes, rubbish and garbage, contains little that has not previously been printed in the newspapers. Its findings are quite In accord, with those already leached by the public. The Superintendent of Street. Mr. Leon F.

Peck, comes out of the inquiry with his reputation as a conscientious public servant in no way impaired. It was from him that the committee obtained practically all Its statistics and information. But the Board of Street Commissioners is made to appear in a light so unenviable that Alderman Fisher was moved at the meeting of the Common Council to propose a resolution calling upon the members of the board to resign. Although this resolution was tabled, perhaps because the Aldermen felt it a bit too precipitate, it reflected the proper Indignation of its sponsor, an Indignation that is shared by many who have followed the recent performances of this board. Whether the Street Board, is eventually as.ed to resign or not, it seems clear that it serves no function that could not be served equally well by the Superintendent of Streets alone.

By interposing this board between the superintendent and the Common Council the complexity of government is increased without any corresponding benefit. Indeed, the board hs been a hindrance rather than a help, not only now but in times past, to the efficient and economical conduct of the Street Department If that department is over-manned, as the report says it is. the reason is largely to be found in the practice of Street Board members of using the department as a repository for supplicants. With instructions from his superiors to put this or that man to work, the superintendent could not well do otherwise. Moreover, the department has too long been regarded as a sort of adjunct for the Charity Department.

Better let the old and decrepit find a little something to do there than to add thpm to the charity list, seems to have been the theory, and a practice more or less common in other cities. A department thus handicapped by political favoritism and regarded somewhat in the light of a welfare agency, can hardly be expected to exemplify the highest degree of business efficiency. Free the department from its encumbrances, and there is no good reason why it should not be able to do the things required of it as economically as could be desired. How can this best be done? By abolishing the Street Board, giving Mr. Peck the title of Commissioner of Streets, and holding him solely responsible lor results.

The charter now defines the powers and duties of the Street Board, no small part of which is to execute all orders of the Court of Common Council. Let these powers and duties devolve upon a single individual, the Commissioner of Streets. Let him submit to the Council an estimate of his requirements, including his recommendations as to street improvements, let such appropriation be granted him as may properly come within the budget, and then leave him free to give the city full value for its expenditures. Cut ths politics and the nonsense out and trust this one mn to give a good account of himself and his work. This should not only save the city money, but it would enable responsibility to be definitely fixed, instead of being lost in a board of six commissioners.

Mr. Peck rates high as a superintendent of streets. He has had a long experience, his devotion to the city is unquestioned. He should have an opportunity to demonstrate what he can do. If, given full authority, he should fall down, which seems unlikely, then somebody else could be trii d.

This plan of administration has the merit of simplicity and enables the public to know what is going on and here to attach the blame if things go wrong. If we want economy in municipal government let us begin by devising forms of government which permit the application cf business principles. into a newly married couple, who, owing to congested conditions in the Paris hotel, are-separated for the night, the bridegroom having Eloping to Save Money Young Lochinvar, ii seems, has not only come good Bishop makes no reference to these. vanished in the morning. forms the He said that, with regard to "The inspiration oi one or Mrs.

Beiioc out of the West but gone into the Near-East, to Turkey, in particular, where an epidemic of elopements is reported. Not. one must regret Lowndes's very best thrillers. "The desperate expedient of putting the End of Her Honeymoon," and Mr. Woollcott comments on the curious government into tne liquor Dusiness, the millions of, American people fully add, that the Young Turk is any more phenomenon of these stories, which.

who were responsible for the Eight becoming legends, persist through eenth Amendment can be trusted romantic than his father, though woman has found a new place in Turkish society. No, the cause is far more matter-of-fact. The cause the years ana, with minor va to make a wise choice." The Ameri riations and generally purporting to can people can be trusted to make be the actual experience of some a wise choice ana win maite a wist of the parade to whatever serves in Turkey for The Fricka of the New York Street Car Company, though perhaps not so persuasive as four years ago when more passengers could afford to ride, was nevertheless remarkable for the earnestness displayed. There have been louder Frickas, but seldom if ever has there been one more successful from the point of view of discord. Particularly in that passage across the Seventh Avenue tracks when it so closely avoids hook-and-ladder number seven to the tumultous sound of firebell, siren and trolley bell, was the company to be congratulated.

It did much to assist Wotan in filling Bellevue. Loge, Impersonated by the whistle of Traffic Officer Schlutz was, it must be admitted, not up vo the standard that past performances had led one to look for. Intended to be crafty, insinuating, shrilling aboVe the full chorus, it succeeded only in rising occasionally to the heights, ordinarily confining itself to almost inaudible blasts in the A Contest in the Arsenal District Contests are to be expected this year in the district school elections, so that the appearance of an opposition group in the Arsenal District is not surprising. In themselves, the contests will be useful, since they will turn popular attention to the working of the district school system. The opportunity to pose as reformers when seeking only to get Into office may sometimes be taken by petty politicians, but in the main an airing of school affairs at this time can do no harm.

Not only has the Arsenal District like all tho others suffered a cut in its appropriation from the city and in Income from the corporation tax, but it has $114,181 deposited in the City Bank which is now inaccessible. None the less, the desire to keep the district tax at three mills, the rate for last year, is very strong. Under these circumstances there must be rigid economy, and rigid economy is not easy in a school already running on a low per pupil expenditure for current needs. The cost of $100,41 per pupil in the Arsenal District last year was within a few cents of being the lowest in the city. The needs of the children, however, are high, since much must be taught in the public schools there, for example, in language, which in other districts is learned at home.

In 1930, 33 per cent of the children were Negroes, 27 per cent Italian and 18 per cent Jewish. Of the remaining 22 per cent, many others came from non-English speaking homes. More perhaps than any other district In the city, the Arsenal suffers under the inequalities of the district system. With a grand list ot and a school registration of 2030, the financial resources behind JJie education of each child are only $3,262, the lowest in the city The contrast to the neighboring Brown Sctiool District is very marked, for there the financial resources per pupil is $93,718. or more than IS times as much as for each child in the Arsenal District.

Under such a handicap, efficiency and economy are especially necessary in order that the children should not receive less educational opportunity than the children in other district. For that reason, the voters should take particular care to make sure that their district is safeguarded by all the methods established for the careful administration of public funds. They should insist that school committee meetings be public, that a standard budget be used, that contracts for a thousand dollars or more be let on a competitive basis, and the bids published. The opposition can well make an issue of such policies. acquaintance of a friend of choice, but it will not be made this friend" of the narrator, pop up in Gretna Green is that same depression which, according to recently relca-sed figures, ha to all sorts of unexpected quarters.

I was reminded of Mr. Wooll seriously cut down the number of marriages in New York City. time by the psaim-smgers. it win De made by Americans, many of whom were fighting on the battlefields of France when this stupid law was enacted and who never have had a voice in the matter. It will be made In Turkey, the usual marriage ceremony last cott's article, and of Mrs.

Belloc Lowndes's novel, which has long been one of my prime favorites among her tales of mystery, when 1 read, in a recent Observation Post, seven days, during which the whole community bv those Americans who have pa tientlv submitted to having their feasts and dances at the expense of the couple's the exciting story or Sadie, who con beloved country held uj. to ridicule bv the rest of the world and who will suited the fortune teller, Madame parents. In these times, when feasting comes hish and the wherewithal i low, the expense Is frequently prohibitive. So nowadays, when a marriage has been agreed upon, the bride's Fontaine. I was especially inter refuse to permit our Government in the future to arraroDriate millions ested, because Mr.

Brown writes that of dollars annually in a ridiculous the story came to him as "of Hart ford, or near Hartford, and not so parents frequently leave a ladder conveniently outside the girl's window, muzzle the dogs, warn long ago at that." Well, I have uvea in Hartford ror more than the policeman on the beat and let aynthttic forty years, and it was before came to Connecticut, and while I elopement take its course. The groom approaches with elaborate precautions, snatches was still inhabiting my native Massachusetts sea-port town, that up the girl and dashes madly away, while her rirst neara this wenticai story. parents cheer silently and, when enough time attempt at enforcement. It win oe made by Americans who have the interest of their coyntry at heart and who will see to it that the avenues of graft for officials in enforcement bureaus is stopped. The writing is xm the wall.

The calumny and abuse hurled at courageous public servants must stop. One woman from Longmeadow recently had the temerity to refer to Congressman La Guardia, whose record as a flying officer in the late war was suDerb, as the "wop." If the United States Senate was composed entirely of men with the courage, honesty and ability of Major has lapsed to obviate any chance of interrupt only then the central figure was a Salem or Marblehead girl, and the tragedy of her swift-coming death was the result of a railway accident. read long ago and completely lost ing the allegedly secret wedding, give the alarm. une oi tnose was "Thurn-ley Abbey," by Pereival T.a nrtnn for this was berore the days of the Elopement in the Occident is synonymous ith romance. It i the time-honored method of motor car.

But this is not all. In another tale of mystery, first pub recall this ghost story, with its satisfying, English-Christmas-Annual title, as appearing in a magazine either McClure's or The Cosmopolitan, in their old conservative form, lished in 1912, and entitled r'The overcoming parental objection to a union between rags and riches. Officially it may be Chink in the Armour," Mrs. Belloc Lowndes makes most effective use of the Sadie theme. In this story it owned upon, but secretly it is admired by al umiK was witn illustrations.

Thurnley Abbev" is rpniiv filt is a Polish lady, Madame Wolsky, Just Folks who, with her rnena, the pretty rate example of the old-fashioned ghost story, neither mystical nor subtle, but well. told and with fin little English wiaow, Mrs. Bauey visits the fortune teller, Madame sense of atmosphere, a tale seeming most everyone, with the possible exception of the bride's parents. The news from Turkey, however, shows the possibility of commercializing a fine old-custom a possibility, alas, that has it too obvious merits in these days of de pression and high cast of marriage. Mut the United States look forward to a plague of elopements, each carried out to save the cost of a regular ceremony? uciuiis i-auier to mia-Victorian days than to the first decade nf th Cagliostra.

Madame Wolsky's sudden and dreadful death is brought about by deliberate and brutal murder. How, I heard a clever man wondering the other day, do these stories start? My answer would be that their source, however impossi "Why the Weather" The Courant has received from official sources at Washington a printed copy of the report of the Chief of the Weather Bureau for 1930-31. It contains 250 pages, of which all but twenty-three are given up to tables. There are various weather charts, but they are not paged, appearing as unnumbered though desirable. To para ble to trace, is authentic.

In these present century, when it was originally published. Never, before I dmped into "The Supernatural Omnibus," had I come upon anything from the pen of the musically named Mr. Amyas Northcote, but there I found a story written by him, entitled "Brickett Bottom," taken from a collection called "In Ghostly ComDanv." nnhii general fine performance. It would be a carping critic who would find serious fault in what is admittedly the finest consistent production of sheer noise in the country, perhaps in the world. Forty-second Street has accumulated a notable band of noise-makers, and deserves congratulations again for its most satisfactory disorganization of the hearing apparatus.

W. J. F. Current Comment The Massie Verdict (Boston Herald) Sober-minded Americans, we believe, led that the jury's verdict was just. There is no question that Kahahawai was killed by the defendants.

Lt. Massie described in detail the plot, in which Mrs. For-tescue and the two enlisted men participated, to kidnap the Hawaiian and to force from him a confession ot the story of the attack on Mrs. Massie. Lt.

Massie did not tell who killed Kahahawai, maintaining that when the Hawaiian admitted, "Yes we done it," his mind went blank and he could not remember what happened. As the other defendants did not take the stand and the prosecution had no eye-witnesses, it was impossible for the government to pin the killing on any one ol the four, although Lt. Massie, through his slory and his defense of temporary allowed the Jury to presume that he was primarily responsible. With such a situation, a verdict of guilty was the logical consequence. The question was chiefly one of degree of guilt first or second degree murder or manslaughter.

In view of the unspeakable outrage on Mrs. Massie in September and the ridiculous trial of the five Hawaiian youths In November, the defendants certainly had terrific provocation for their action in January. A verdict carrying the minimum penalty and accompanied by a request for leniency therefore seemed in order. Persons who take the law into their own hands should expect to sometiunz for the privilege. two speciric instances, ana in others or their class, I believe that the tales, now crystallized into legends, started from an original basis of literal fact, for it seems to me most George Washington has been officially declared to have been the first President of the United States, thus effectually disposing of the rumor that-It was really Congressman Sol Bloom who brought the country through the period after the Revolution.

John Lane ten years ago. Herp. again, is a haunting tale, less ingenuous and Obvious thnn Mr on. Fires Increase One of the first addresses delivered at a contention of a national organization Interested in tire and its prevention had to do with an increase in the number of Incendiary fires, These accounted for more than half of the fires re- unlikely that they were pure invention. The dramatic appeal of such stories is instant and far-reaching: the temDtation to retail them as the personal experience of friends or don's "Thurnley Abbev." with a phrase Mr.

Browning, "you and I will never read those tables." still, if an inquiring reader should ask us for the extremes of air pressure jOf the precipitation at Mcmph'is for any month jin 1M0, could give him the official fieuies rrienas or menas is yieiaea to oy suggestion of the "Mary Rose" motif, and told with a reticent and simple directness. Mr. Summers has done well to include in his "Supernatural Omnibus" the pvnni. Hello Tulips Hello, tulips, don't you know Stocks today are very low? You appear so bright and glad, Don't you know that trade is bad? You are just as fair to see As vou were in times when we Rolled in money. Tell me how You can look so happy now? Hello, tulips, white and red Gleaming in the garden bed, Can it be you haven't heard All the grief which has occurred? Don't you see the saddened eye Of the human passer-by? Bv his frowning, can't you tell Things have not been going well? Hello, tulips, in the sun You are lovely every one.

But I wonder why don't you Wear a sad expression, too? Can it be you fail to see Things aren't what they used to be? This old world is all upset. Why don't you begin to fret? And thev answered me: "Hello. Nothing's altered that we know. Warm the sun, and sweet the rain, Summer skies are blue again. Birds are singing and we nod Grateful tulip prayers to God.

Only mortals fret and strive. We are glad to be alive. EDGAR GUEST. many different story tellers, at 1X5 iWe could furnish da to the monthly widely separated spots throughout Senator Norris has announced that he will not support President Hoover for reection. which is about the first break that the President has gotten since Mr.

Norris came out for Al" Smith. "ww-u c-7v citeu vu fciuus or annual precipitation at Yuma Vallev: to the world, and so it goes. I am convinced that the present generation will not be the last to listen to va site and little-known tale by V7r.i.. ia-v irvuss vioiei raeet). pnl toH Oke of Okehurst." This sfnrv first riations on the tale of the plngue-stricken hotel guest and his, or her.

bewildered companion, or the tale of property, with fires in farmhouses and other dwellings thowxg the greatest increase. He noU-d with evident sadness that the had appeared despite the operation of a new arson law, which, it had been hoped, would decrease incendiary fsres. It might do this in some cases, but the speaker may have overlooked reasons which are ample to account lor appeared in a direction called "Hauntings," published in England by John Lane, and in this country by Frank F. Lovell and Comnnnv of the girl or woman who, going to consult a clairvoyant, is puzzled because the seeress has no future to foretell for her, her clairvoyant A writer suggests that a nationwide "dollar day" be held to bring back prosperity. The proposal would probably be received more warmly if anyone had any idea where the dollar was to come from.

The Lovell edition of "Hauntings" fi.suill inquiry, note that the total was 0.13. all of which fell in December, And the snowfall at Porcupine Creek, Alaska amounted to 297.4 inches for the season, while Basin, recorded 313.5 inches. At least one of the chart appeals to us, for it shows the local ious of all tornadoes occurring during 1930. These are marked by red arrow indicating the path followed by the tornado. The marks are mast numerous in Iowa, there many listed, though only one death is reported, The a ern limit for these destructive phenomena was Montana, where two are was in paper covers, and I am so fortunate as to possess a copy, which I have had bound in cloth, with the interesting nrivprt powers enabling her to foresee her client's fast-approaching and violent death.

the crime which he finds is growing popularity. There roust be house owners who hate been driven to such straits by lark of employment and, therefore, lack of funds. Thn minds are far from normal In such cases, the J. C. in his Current Cinema pages left in.

There is no space left here to speak of the forgotten bestsellers or 1890. which are listed in these pages, and I must wait for an notes, appearing in The New Yorker Because it enables youth to see the world, a collie p-ofessor declares that hitch-hiking is a pmentive of war. But is war so dreadful that such a cure i necessary? for May seventn. comments on a other week, new talkie canea.