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VOL. 1—NO. 23 MANHASSET. NASSAU COUNTY, N. Y.,'‘fRIDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1927 PRICE FIVE CENTS

BACON PLACED ON HOUSE COMMnjrEE ON APPROmTiPNSL‘. I. Congressnjan Is

Most Important P1 Available

venace

In the recojfnition j of the c( mrait- tees of the House of IRepresentatives, incident to the new | 70th Congress, Representative Robeit L. Bacdn has won considerable distinction foi Long Island by his assignriient on tie Ap­propriations Committee of the Boiise.

Representative Bacon’s assighment, “which was officially ordered tiy the House on Monday, fopes his resigna­tion from all othei' committee as­signments he has held xluring the last four years, which included the Immi­gration Committee, jlnsular Affairs. Merchant Marine an^ Fisheries, Cen­sus and Library.

Assignment on the Appro?)riations Committee is one of the most sought- after honors in Congjress. The most powerful committee jin Con^press, it controls the purse strings of the Gov­ernment and directly respo"-ability for the recommendation of appropriations for governmental ac­tivities totaling oveti g400,000,D(^ a

Nebraskan Holds World Title for

"Busiest Editor^The following gem appeared

as a letter to the Publisher^ Auxiliary, official publication of the Western Newspaper Union, in a recent issue:■"Dear Sir:

I 'have been readily in The Aux about the multiplicity of jobs held by some editors. So far, I ain’t seen none of them that has done nothin’. When my name was at the masthead of the Treynor (Iowa) R^ord all I had to do was the follow- inp:

My wife and I did all the work on the paper. In addition I was postmaster, city clerk,— later mayor—justice of the peace, notary public, official inspertor of gopher claws, played bass drum in the band and bnD fiddle in the orchestra, helned the barber on Saturday nights, taught a Sunday school class and was Superintendent of the Sunday school, raised a garden every summer, kept some thoroughbred chickens and sorter .generally made myself useful around town and to the public generally.

Sincerely,OLE BUCK, Secretary,

Nebraska Press Association."

SIDNEY J. SHHTH YOUTHFULTENOR

ON WGBS DEC. 24•Son of Noted Newspaper

Editor Is on Threshold of Important Career ^

CIVIC ASSOCIATION IN MONSTERDINNER AT RED MAPLE TAVERN

Mail Early anci Make it Easy for

Postofiice Staff

j S c V e n t y Members a n tl I (iuests Attend

Dec. Meetinjr Monday ,

year. The funds for jail goverti^nt- al activities, from tije Army' andNavy to the smalle^ governijieBtal activi^, are recomifiended by this committee. j

Representative Baron has already assumed his new du^iea and_ is now attending committee! meetings to consider departmental estimates of appropriations for tpe 1929 fiscal years. ! : i ’’

MANHASSET MAIL TO HAVE FIRST FORD

RED CROSS drive GETS NEW members

' Miss Gilbert of jtbe Manhasset schools has submittetl the following report in connection with the xecent drive for Red Cross i membership in Manhasset: “We wish to take this opportunity of thanking the soBci- tors'who 80 generously gave of their

•, time to aid the Manhasset Bay Branch of the Nassau County Chap­ter of American Red Cross to reach their quota of ?8001 in this year s roll call. i .

“We also thank jthose who so promptly handed in | their membOT- ship and made it pbssiWe for the solicitors to close up tjhcir canvassing

* an early date. | With all_^ the floods and disasters bf other kinds,

, any of which might 4»ve been ouw, many of our resident^ did not take the trouble to add their names to the (roll. The full reijort is too . long to print but the acchnnte are open at any time for inspection. SoBci- tors for Manhasset ■^re Mrs. J. L. Gi Green, Miss Marie! Zem, Elrile E. Gilbert, Mr. Grasso, Elorenee Shaw,

The Manhasset Mail, will have the first new Ford in Manhasset unless somebody else “imports” one from New York or snealm it in from some other place first. The car has been arranged for through Jones & Jones, agents. Port Washihgton, who expect to have some on hand,' soon. Ac­cording . to present plans Messrs. Jones and Jones w3I drive the first lot out from a main distributing point somewhere near New York City.

Jones & Jones have already sign­ed up scores of new purchasers among some of the most prominent Port Washington buyers being A. B.

. Cauley. James Marine. Father To- I bin. Capt, Carter, of the Sands Point Club and Mrs. Windell.

Man Doet Strange ThingeIt is a notable fact tl\at mo-sf si)ee<i

rect>nls are made bj people who are not going anywliere.

Sidney John Smith, a rising young .American tenor whose home is in Oyster Bay, will make his radio de­but over .Station W’GBS on Satur­day, December 24, at 1:30 P. M. Mr.Smith is a son of Charles W. Smith, noted newspaper editor of Oyster Bay, and well known throughout Long Island.

Although but 21 years old, Mr.Smith is well and favorably known as a singer of practically" life-long training and experience, t -

Born in Hingham, Mass., July 2l,1906, he began to sing almost assoon as_ he_cpgld _talk, and_years later joined a church choir in Providence, R. I., at the age of 10.

Here he developed quickly as an I alto soloist, and in the fall of 1913 he was invited to enter -the famous I choristers’ school in Grace Church,

I New York City, remaining four ' years.

H^ record there was remarkable, winning the Stewart Rhinelander gold medal for excellence in solo work and the Optimus Prize, the highest < honor in the gift of the school. His name is engraved in stone on the “honor door” in Grace Church.

More recently he has been on the stage ui operetta, singing last year in the New York production, “The. Nightingale," then in “Patience,” and more recently in "My Maryland,” where he was understudy for the principal. He left the latter organi­zation a few weeks ago to resume vocal sfil3y under his former choir- . House master and teacher, James Morris c]u(^ Helfenstein.

Mr. Smith’s voice is considered especially adaptable for radio work, being clear, high and smooth. His enunciation is perfect, and those hearers whd attach importance to this desirable quality may prepare themselves for an enjoyable treat.

Postmaster Willidbn Henderson is loaded down with suggestions from Washington, Urging eT.,>r>-- one to wrap carefdlly an«l mail tr.rly. To keep pace wi:h the Christmas rush Mr- HenJer.-ion announced ThursdUy that he would add three new clerks to the staff for the holidays. These new clerks will be! Mrs. Jame.<,;' Pauenhauer, Malcolii Dowsey and I^awrence Pardi. Ilhey will be- gain work on Monday, December 19. ; .

The permanent ?jt:iff consists of Mr. Henderson, ;Mrs. Hamil­ton, clerks Margardt L’llomme- dieu and Mick Newoold, and car­riers Vincent Flancej Julius Rock and Charles Chery. the ball play­er. Fiance and R<^ are now

fttB—nbail carrier’s uniform, authorized by the Post- office Department wpen Manhas­set was given city delivery classi­fication December 1.! Fiance has been at the local i^ostoffice for some time. Rock t^roe on De­cember 1. Charles' Chery, the third carrier, is a part time em­ployee.

WATER QUESTION UP

(Jroup Seeks I'urther Par­ticulars, on l{nlar}.:in).j I'rcs- ent Systc.ni

PENSION FOR MRS. WOOD SOUGHT BY

ROBERT L BACONWill Introduce Bijll in House

of Representatives at This Congress

Frances Moore, Mrs. Panme Goff, ana from the Civics class of the Man-xrviii me v/iFswo —- ~~—haaset school, Lucille | Ganggel, Car- oline Brotherson, Daniel Bowman, Albert Adams, Theodore Cronyn, John Richow, Robert! Hickok, Prin­ces ' Kleckowski,- J oih n Komarek, Stanley Kushay, Billie Mills, Steven Cbmela, Charles Walker, Anthony KoBnsky, Helen Friabid, Uarmet Komesky, Joseph Kpstryka, with Chadwi^, Anna Dale^ and Elanore Kostryka.'.“Solicitors for Planflome and out- Ijring districts were: Ijirs. W. S. An- thes, chairman, assisted by Mrs. D. E. Smith, Miss Ridu^dson, Mrs, A. Fox, Mrs. Anthony, M^ M. H. Va- Bon, Mrs. Dorothy Kbnt and Miss Ru^ Brumley. In unbasset >69 members enrolled wlta total receipts of $690, while in PlanBome and okh- er districts there we^ 199 enroll­ments and $274 taken in.

“A report on the work done Mst year as .snWitted byiEloise Butler Duncan is as follows: :. “‘We sent to Wa^ungtan about

$60,000 for itississippil Flood ReHrf, the biggest emergency I task since the Armiraro was signm More than 160 vateraas and famjilies hare re­ceived assistance and l^lp from your Copter;, lOJXlO f passed throngh the Committae on I . iMraons were ^^dna in Home Hygiene ffek; SO pecsoas ations in riaesaa free elinlcs are ...Chivtar HooMr—Pdto,Pia-8chaoL Pra-NatdL, .. — aai MsataL la a ahart tim we wQl probably be askai ta teward doth- wg far tba Flood Bu^uvra.* ”

H.S. To Offer “Christmas Carol”ec:>* ♦<=>« ♦<=>«

Colorful Production Dec 15-16■ PLAY with a real Christmas at-

IX mosphere will be given by stu­dents of the Manhasset Junior-

Senior High School this season when Dickens’ “Christmas Carol” wil^ be presented in the High School Audi­torium as a matinee for the children on 'Thursday afternoon, December 16, and as an evening performance on Friday evening, December 16. The entire production is under the direc­tion of Miss X Rica Grant, instruct­or of oral English in the School and director of dramatic productions.

The presentation of this play as the (^ristmas dramatic offering is s departure from past years when it was the custom to present light operettas. It was thought that the change this year to something slight­ly heavier would be welcome in that it will offer the students who take parts a wider latitude in dramatic work and will at the same time pro­vide something different for the townspeople.

The cast which is a large one has already been in rehearsal more than two weeks and the players are being coached so that they will be near the perfection poiat when the enr- tain is rung np on,,the 15th. Miss Grant is a gr^uabe of the Emer­son College of Oratory at Boston and has had a wide experience in dram­atic Irerk. n>is is her first ye« on the staff of the Mmnhaaset High School facnlty.

It is expected the auditoriom will be packed for beth performances. There will be no admiaaion charge at eitiier performance, the offering having been described as “the Christ­mas present of the Board of Ednca- tion to the High School and .» — ■

theTown.” Eiaborate coetnmea have been obtained for the plapert and a eolotfnl prodnetion is pronaiaed. The

of characters and the sceda fol-loe(:

Scrooge Karl PreweinMar ley William CameronNephew*" Fred William MatthewsBob Cratchit , Janies MacintoshSpirit of Christmas

Past Emily BurgherSpirit of Christmas

Present Howard Verrault Spirit of Christmas

to Come Richard WagnerScrooge as a boy Donald Macinnes All ]£iba. Albert AdamsRobinson Onsoe Daniel Bowman Scrooge as a young " •

man Jack RuggieroScrooge’s finance Ruth RadkeFezziwig.............. John KamorekMrs. Fezziwig .Edith RobertsGuests at Fezziwig's: ' (Caroline Og­

den, Hilda Macinnes, Eleanor Hen-

Congressman Robert L. Bacon, of Nassau County, and member of the

of Representatives, intro- bill o^ the opening day of

the present Session of Congpress pro­posing a pension for the widow of the late General Leonard Wood. In connection with the poroposal Con­gressman Bacon said:

“As an expression of gratitude by the American people foi| the patriotic and unselfish services M(hich General Wood rendered his couhtry and hu­manity in the War witp Spain, and as peacetime administrator in Cuba, and the Philippines, I propose to in­troduce a bill on the | opening day of Congress to provide s pension for his widow.j

“During a long and! active life, when most men are busily engaged

■in providing for their families, Leon­ard Wood devoted his entire career to the exclusive service lot his icotm- try, not only in the Army, but as one of the outstanding administra­tors of our time. His devoted wife shared his personal setf-sacrifies. It would be (8 small return and snudl recognition for this country to recog­nize his great. services by providing for his widow. |

“Our sister Republicj of Cuba, within the last few days, has prtv

'■' Wood inderson, Herbert Jaffe, Richard |Stokes, Harold L’Hommedieu, Jane ! recognition of w^t he didSpates. ' * ’ ' . .r., ..

Mrs. Cratchdt Jane SpatesTiny Tim........................By HimsdfGuests at Cratchit’s: Mary Ruggiero,

Ruth Schauer, Johanna Vevrinec,Lottie Kushay, William Chrystal,Henry Barbinskl, Virginia Belden. Guests at Fred’s: Nancy Barnwell, Dorothy Chester, Anne Mathews, EUamae Davis, Milton Hickok, Paul Steigler, Roy L’Hommedieu.

SCENESAction of the play Ukes place in

Scrooge’s office in London. Tableau 1

Scrooge as-a boy in school. Tableau 2

A party at the Fessiwig Houae. Tableau 3

Scrooge at the house of his finance. Tableau 4

The Spirit of the present Christinas. TablMu 5

Christmas at Bob Cratchit’s house. Tidilenu 0

Christmas at Nephew Fred’s house. Tablean 7

The Spirit of the Christmns to come. Tabtean 8

Finale,

More than 70 members of the Man­hasset Civic A^soriation and thein guests attende<l a dinner of the A.-- sociation Monday night at the Rea Maple Tavern on North Heoinstea'l Turnpike. Th» dinner was IwUl ii: connection with the regular Dec-;m- ber meeting of the organization.

The meeting was one of the urg- est ever held by the Association and dre-or together repre.sentatives of all the various interests in the town. Every available inch of floor space in the Tavern was taken up in the. seat­ing arrangement for the dindrs. President Stephen H. Mason pV?si>)ed.

After the coffee had been served E. O. Roberts' took his place at the piano and the entire gathering join­ed in an old fashioned song fe'^.

Discuss Water QuestionWhen President Mason calledi the

meeting to order the principal tppir of discussion taken op was in i'on- nection with the Association’s alti­tude on the question of wbethei ior not the Manhasset-Lakeville Wu|er District shall etilarge and impn^e the water supply system of the' trict at a ariaximom cost of $U 000.

■ The Water Commissioners of the District have called a special meet­ing of the electors of the District for Friday night, December 16 at 8 p. ip. for the purpose of voting on the mat-

The vote will be by ballot a>^ter.

for Cub^ Leonard Wood’s services in the War with Spaii), great as they were, were overshadiowed by hishumanitarian work in Cuba as mili- , . „ ..„ J • • J facilities for the water dis-tary governor during thfe period ^ ru.int^

the polls win be open at the Watm: Dsitrict Pumping Station from 8 A ■ rh. until 10 p. m. i

While nearly half of theiSe whjj) voted, voted in favor of a resohitiofe offered by Arthur H. Wright to thfe effect that the Association go on record as giving its anqnaUfied apl proval to 'the $156,000 water prop­osition, a still greiuer nninber fel( ' that further particulars of the worM . toi be done shoidd be forthcoming be.4 fore the Association took any actiom as a body. •

Many Questions Answered H. O. Buttel presented a resolu­

tion calling for a $25,000 limit for water district, improvements at any one time, but this was not voted on. George F. Wiemann, secretary at the Association, read a set of questions on the preposition prepared by the executive committee of the Associa­tion together with answers to these questions prepared by Clarence L. Webb, one of the water commission­ers. Mr. Wehb was invited to attend the dinner Monday .night but could not do so beeanse of bnsiness occupy- ing him in the city.

A. G. Bancker, of the Hoban Cor­poration, experts in bydrauKe engi­neering and constmetion, and the organization that had bnilt the Man­hasset-Lakeville water supply system, told of the rapid growth of thie.db- trict and of many of the difficulties confronted in keening pace with this growths. He told of new develop­ments going nn such as the Munsey .property which would require in-

reconstruction and rehabiUtation fol­lowing the conclusion of ipeace. His own oounlry should be equally grate­ful. !

“I cannot let this opportunity go by without personally expressing my great admiration for the unstinted generosity and kindly thought behind the noble act of the govumment of Cuba.” !

Papa and Mamma Tbo BaeyAre parents shirkers?' Some of

them certainly are. Inresfigatloa re- veala the astounding fact that of all' the cbOdren la ear orphan asylnnw •oly 5 per cent are actually orphana Thbty par cent of then^ are bgU orphana, while 68 per cent have both porcBta living.—Pathflndiler.

trict and he ^inted out that Man­hasset was enjoying one of the best water supply systems on the Island at a minimum tax rate.

Among These Present The list of those present a.s given

out after the meeting was an foUo-ws: A. G. Bancker, H. O. Butte). George, V. Canniff, H. W. Carroll, Jr., J. F. Chebuski, A. G. Clark, Donald Cou- per. Dr. M. J. Dair, James L. Dow­sey, A. M. Duncan, John W. Frazer, George L. Gehrig, A. H. Grain, John F. Hanfe, Joseph JedUeka, Joseph A. Kennedy. M. C. Kennedy, Owen Ken-;, nedy, William G. Knox, Salvator La Plaea. Chiles F. L’Hommodiea; Jr., Guy H. Lippitt, Martin Lowe, Henry Lnstsmrten. Robert C. MaeCorkle, Stephen H. Mason, Th timaB Mintnm, P. J. Morgnn. Geeive NewhoW, Mal- cofan Newbold, Stephen L. Newman, C F, Nugent, Jehn B. (FOeaadU. George H. Oeatreieh, Je%n S. (Hney,* Joeafk M. (Doe) PisooCtn,.& M. Po-.

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