New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 13, 1917, Page 6

at 4:15 p. m., hurch St e at New Britain ag medium in Books and rress . and Broad- Walk, At- to ‘the ulti- % important ‘railroad cross- /Britain was the advisory 8 appeinted by he Mayor's office the Railroad yuncil. ¢ a' wide range ith“the idea of provements in ecting the grade fexist ’at present, unlmited field mittee to investi- of the Commit- B guarantee careful se8 of the ques- Mr. Glover and at High street, has plenty of first as to the practice covering protec- ings. 'These gen- Curtis may all be Wisely in any rec- hey may make to the nittee. ' The Mayor's or better trolley ser- { d trolley exten- tke members of the @ in fact by every- itain. In commen the cities in the state, ‘outgrown its present | decommogdations, and | believed that our case looked after by the ‘met last night, who B swith the trolley ex- &t the Chamber of h has been at work on problem for some mmittee is made up of | Representative Hall and 18 encouraging to see nent and other civic iting and directing, in- gward the solution of nt problems of the city fall are, interested ¥ IN THE SANCTUM. fwer turneth away wrath: ‘wards stir up anger. 'efno surcease from il Israel: . when brothers ‘re we have the makings mongst: Connecticut news- in her wisdom, the uii pointed & moral in the fladelphia “model” tragedy, _at_ the head of the edi- mns a sefection from the overbs on the Telation of rses 4-27, Chapter 7, con- pod-for thought.. They are n though thousands of years Sun, in reprinting them, ititle: “An Editorial Article Conduct by a Respected Enduring Fame.” behold, it so happened that terbury Republican, espying 'ds of Solomon, copled them lited them to the Sun. pupon The Waterbury Ameri- rords to the efféct that its Sontesaporary did not give €fc credit was due, h The Republican ‘“crieth gates, at the entry of the city, Poming in at the doors,” and ¥ The American is aware that Rterbury Republican is perhaps " mewspaper in the state that py of the Bible in its library!"” are the grevious words that R “had the Republican made take of' saying that it is the in all Canaan that hath a indéed a poor newspaper "possesseth not a dictionary, eare, and the Bible: paving these things it is a matter to acquire leadige embers of the editorial the case of the New York drafted Solomon and all let the Son of Davld, King of All Israel Sanctorum w swise ! ‘families. NEW BRI drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil. But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword. Her feet go down to death, her steps take hold on hell, Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are movable, that thou canst not know them. Hear me now, therefore, O ye chil- dren, and depart not from the words of my mouth. Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house. MILK. Someone, somewhere, sometime, sombehow, may invent a- beverage that will take the place of milk. We doubt it. Instead, we are willing to hold to the views of Dr. T. Eben Reeks on the subject. As a food, as a drink, there is no other. Since ‘time beyond recall babies have been dependent upon this very succulent gift of the cow as food or as drink. Since then, too, men and women have never quitu(lost their babyhood in this .respect. Milk is probably the only drink that may properly be called the universal quencher of thirst and builder of brawn. It is because of the importance of milk that the health department of ew Britain has et out on its cam- paign to make the dairymen and dis- tributers walk the chalk line. Clean milk is the slogan of the campaign, and clean it must be: Otherwise there will be a noted decrease in the ranks of those who are now selling this indispensable article. be clean milk in New Britain' even if one-half of the milk dealers have to be put out of business in grder to bring this about. So says.the health department and the health depart- ment means what it says. Since we are so dependent upon milk it will be a good thing for each and every man and woman in the city to join in the campaign being waged by the supervisors of the public health. The day has not yet arrived when “sody-pop” or lemonade, or root beer, or ‘near beer, or any kind of beer, or a like beverage, will take. the plage of milk. TUntil that day arrives we cannot afford to be care- less. Since we must have milk, lgt us have it pure and undefiled. At Jeast we owe, that much to ourselves and And the way to insure this is to keep watch on the reports pub- lished daily in the Herald by the health department. In those reports will be found information aplenty. The good and the-bad dealers are catalogued there. The percentage of fat contained in the milk they sell is told and the cleanliness of the pro- There must shells by the sea shore.—Boston Ad- vertiser. Kaiser Wilhelm has bestowed 10,- 000 iron crosses and 5,000,000 wooden crosses.—Boston Transcript. Philadelphia has lately been called. upon to endure more notoriety than she has had since the Centennial.— New York Sun. There is this to be said, if the war doesn’t end this year, we shall be So used to it that it may not be shock- lngA—Patex:son Call. If business gets much better after the war ends we will have to buyild bonfires every night in our back yards to burn up our superflous cash.—Pat- erson Press Guardian. Kensas City has discovered that 15,000 of her school children never use tooth brushes. Kansas City must be the small boy's idea of a real town.—Detroit Free Press. An automobile manufacturer esti- mates that as many as flve million ‘machines will be in use in the United States by 1920. Pedestrians thus have ample warning to keep on prac- ticing the quickstep.—Providence Jougnal. ! Some idea of what the statement means that since Italy entered the war she has conquered 1,200 square miles of territory may be gained by considering that the area of Rhode Island is 1,248 square miles.—Boston Globe. Uncle Sam kept zealous guard over his Christmas trees in the Angeles Forest Reserve this season. The time approaches when the family desiring a Christmas tree 'will plant one in a tub and keep it from year to year. This would ‘be giving the earth a new. tree instead of killing one.—Xo8 Angeles Times, The Commercial Traveller. (By Blla Wheeler Wilcox). Copyrighted’ by ‘American-Journa/ # Examiner. 4 First in the crowded car 1s he. to“ offer— oS b L i @ This travelling man’ unhonored and unsung— v a7 The seat he paid for, to some woman, yOuRde < o E TN N : Oriold and 'wrinkled. e is first to proffer oo o B Something—a trifié 'from his samples, may be— . To please theifancy of a crying baby. He lifts the windowyarnid he drops the curtain . # Bt For unaccustomed hands. He lends his “case” i To make a bolster for a child, not certain its mamma the face; So anxiously some women seck danger But will frown him in In every courteous act of any strang- ! er, 'Well versed is he in all thePways con- To comfort where leadt comfert ean thoughtfulness be found. o His Hitle deeds of abound. ¥ duct is set forth. These bulletins are well worth watching. OUT INDIANA WAY, Evansville, Indiana, will this year celebrate the one hundredth anniver- sary of its birth. In anticipation of this event the Evansville Courier prints a New Year's edition of one hundred pages setting forth the glory of the thriving Indiana city. In the past twenty years the population of Bvansville has more than doubled it- self, the city today having more than 100,000 citizens within its confines. ‘Where twenty-five years ago there were but some six thousand children attending the schools there, today the schoo] census shews an attendance of almost twelve thousand. The internal revenue receipts are more than one million dollars a year. The post office receipts are $336,262.17. collections are approximately a quar- ter of a million dollars. Evansville, judging from: the elaborate outlay of pictures in the Courier, is indeed typical American city. The custom a With its mar- velous array of building activi it must be in close touch with New Britain, the largest hardware manu- facturing center in the world. So long as Evansville intends to_grow New Britain stands ready to furnish the locks, and keys, and bolts, and hinges, and other necessary material for its homes and business houses. There is a bond of friendship between the two cities. v The Congress of Panama has re- cently created an office of safety in the capital city, to be under the di- rection of the chief of firemen, with police authority to guard commercial traffic and the use of substances and apparatus which might cause fires or accidents. Woman in the role of a ‘“‘Silent Sentinel,” is something absolutely new under the sun. Chairman Babcock ig contemplating the idea of hitching up the adjective “First”.to the Safety Board. FACTS AND }‘A\N(‘h Ong was known as Constantime the gt, the ofher will be ki ntincdlle Cautions.—g He turns the seat unasked, vet unob- trusive, Is glad to please you. or to have you please him, : Yet takes it very calmly if you freeze ¢ him. v He smoothes the Jove-like frown of the official By paying the.ture of one who can- not pay. True modesty he knows from arti- ficial: s ‘Will flirt, of course, if you're inclined that way, And if you are, tests you; And if you're not; be sure that he respects you. The sorrows of the travelling world distress him; He never falls to lend what aid he can. A thousand hearts today have cause to bless him, This much-abused, misused ‘‘commer- clal man.” ’ I do not seek to cast a halo 'round him, speak of him precisely as I've found him, be sure that he de- But Surviving Traces of Medical Pedantry. The satire of the great French dra- matist, Moliere, which was especially directed against the medical profes- sion, like all true satire, does more than make us laugh; it picture a weakness'in the medical profession, especially prevalent in hig day, not en- tirely outzrown even now Medicine has had the utmost difficulty in shak- ing off the medieval trappings that were once its most conspicuous orna- ment. In Queen Anne’s day an Eng- lish physician proclaimed his trade by wearing a wig, carrying a vinaigrette, and brandishing a gold-headed cane; even forty yvears azo, in New York, a surgeon dressed in a frock coat to perform an operation, and, in Parls, such an operation was ‘a great cere- monial occasion, in honor of which all the surgeons donned their eve- ning clothes. A few visages still re- main of the medievalism which Mo- liere so delightfully ridicules. Tn his day physicians talked ILatin as their professional language; thus Lisette, a serving maid in “L’Amour Medicin," marks, as the doctors approach, ow, pay attention! You will be highly instructed—they will inform you in Latin that vour daughter is 111.” The present practice of writing prescriptions in Latin is a survival of this pedantic period, for even now the average doctor writes Aqua for “Water” and Sig, (Signum) for “Di- rections.” Practically all other pro- fessions long since gave up their Latin; even college degrees, which, twenty-flve vears ago, used the learn- ed language, are now commonly print- ed in English. The only excuse phy- siclans have for using Latin is that the physiefans of all countries can understand the prescriptions, but gpinions ~Aiffeaa s’ to the extent to /it many times. ' months 'sirice the ‘change went into ! ‘11t to stop. for | Town Topics Why not \Inakc New Britian's “white way” even whiter by installing the new kind of lights around Cen- tral Park, replacing the incandescent lights now in use there? About the only thing that can be said in objec- tion is that it would probably necessi- tate the removal of the ornamental lighting standards that now fringe the park walk. These poles do pre- sent an attractive appearance, but it would seem that the increased lighting efficiency would more than off-set this obstacle. While the present park lights are nice to look upon, they are worthless for lighting purposes. It would cost the city only $126 per year more to ‘use the improved system, according to the city engineer’s fig- ures. There are eight lights around the park, costing at present $476 per year and the other system for the same number of lights would cost only $600. By having these brilliant white lights thus clustercd about the center of the city, the general aspect of the business district would be materially enhanced. “ue The petition requesting the board of public works to again install the Soldiers’ Monument is meeting with general favor. The request should be granted. It would be a civic improve- ment and would cost comparatively nothing. P From a viewpont of public service it would. seem that the old order of things, whereby Hartford and Chest- nut ' street cars were permitted ' to take on passengers at the Center church corner was by far the best. Granting that there may be certain traffic . benefits resulting from. the hange, it is certain that the actual inconvenignce to the public off-sets It is. now several effect and when people were confused at the. time it was: sald they/would soon get educated to the change. But they have not ahd there is hardly a trip to Hartford but what sdmeone, /ugt knowing that the car does not stop. at the corner, waits in vain for It would seem that for the benefit of public service, :trolley 8 again be permitted to stop at this corner 'as in years gone by. If another 'stop must be abolished to; | make up for this one there are plenty that could be selected without seri- oukly: embarassing jphe public. The present system has been given a more “than fair trial and by it the publie is not getting satisfactory - service: \The ‘management of the trolley com- /pany should now realize this and go back: to the old system. -If the same authority that induced him to make the change stands in the way he should appeal to a higher author- {ity. It is absurd to make a passen- ger walk geveral hundred feet down Church street: to take the car if he is not at the center,’ or to wade through siush and mud dodging traffic, 4n order to board the car as it stops at the switch on Main street just be- fore rqunding the curve for its speedy dash dbwn Church street. Mayor Quigley has asked for better trolley seryice. Many citizens feel that ‘this is one instance .where an improve- ment could be made. s e e According to' figures furnished by Fire Chief R. M. Dame and the gov- ernmental census department, New Britain's fire loss for 1916 averaged a trifle more than ninety-eight cents per person. The chief gives the fire loss as $48,863.30. .and the govern- i ment estimates the population at incandescent light on the top of the 58,794. Using the directory uunu.t‘e i } of about 55,000 population the fire loss per capita would drop to about | eighty-nine cents .per capita and any- thing under $1 per capita is consid- ered low. % S PR The height of aggravation: To sit in a movie house and watch pic- tures of Palm Beach and those taken in other balmy climes, then step out- side and see the mercury hovering around zero. “se The sad, untimely deaths of two of New Britain’s well known physicians within a week, each resulting from pneumonia, should bring to the citi- zens with tragic force the terrible | dangers of all mid-winter ailments— | hard colds, grip and the dreaded | pneumonia. When people realize, as | they do this week, that men who are | skilled in health and medical know- | ledge, able to detect in themselves the first traces of trouble, are so sud- denly stricken, they cannot but ap- preciate how much better care they should take of themselves. And the winter s vet young; the fatal spell of these diseases will not be broken for three months yet. Therefore it be- hooves everyone to take the best pos- sible care of their health. First and most important—attend promptly té all colds. Don’t hesitate to visit a physician at the slightest traces of illness for a dollar expended at that time may save a life and everybady knows that it is from the little start of a slight cold that pneumonia de- velops. Therefore here are a few sug- gestions everyone can carry out to help keep in condition and avoid these sicknesses: Immediate attention to all colds, warm clathing, avoidance of i wet or damp feet, plenty of fresh air and lots of sleep in well ventilated | rooms, the avoidance of draughts, the lavoidance of stimulants and lastly, | precaution but don’'t worry. Several prominent physiclans have remarked during the week of the fery large number of pneumonia cases, each unusually severe. One doctor Is authority for the statement that only fifty per cent. of males stricken with this disease recover. Thus, with only ‘a fifty-fifty chance to get well, it is in- | viting death to neglect the slightest |’ cold. ‘This same doctor states that the mortality of pneumonia“in females 1s even greater. 4 _'Therefore, Safety First! &4 LIS The death of “Buffalo Bill” will re- ‘call vividly to' the mind of the young men about town, and more: so to the older. generations, the good old days of the circuses ‘when Colonel Cody ‘would come to New Britain with his ‘Wild. West shows. *‘Buffalo Bill"” visited New. Britain on numerous: occasions and was a persoqnal friend of H. C. Noble, whom he always visited at the North & Judd Manufacturing company. In those old days the cir- cuses were held in the big open .lots where Buell and Roberts streets now are and the coming of the old Indian fighter was a signal for a gala day in the city. “Buffalo Billy’ astride his prancing steed, his'gray hair flying in the breezes, dashing into the amphi- theater where he gave exhibittons of his prowess with the rifle will ever be a fond memdry to the red blooded men of the city. To the youngsters “Ruffalo Bill” is more like a mythical o, but not to their big brothers, daddys and grand-daddys. Even as he ‘was the last link reaching out into the dim past, connecting the frontier days with those of the modern age, 8o wag “Buffalo Bill” the last link con- necting the old fashioned circus days in New Britain with the more sesthe- tic amusements of the present day. .o Owing to the high cost of papersre- sulting In higher prices from the manufacturers, there are considerabl ‘fewer advertising calendars in New | Britain this year than last. Many of the smaller business men have had to . dispense with giving out calendars at ;all, while all of the business men { have had to curtail their supply and | distribute them with a far from lavish {hand. The cost of paper is becoming i & serlous mattér in this city and it is affecting the small storekeepér more than anyone else..’ Today he thas to , pay eight cents a pound for wWepping | paper, an almost prohibitive price in aany instances, L . The fact that o many of the really | big men in New Britain's manufactur- ing life are enrolling in the Y. M. C. A. efficfency course should serve as a lesson to a great many ‘““wise” young men about town who think "they “know it all.” When these men who | have made great successes of their | ives admit that they do not yet know | all that is to be known a flush should properly spread over the countenances | of these young “‘wiseacers.” It is nev- | er too late to learn, and to every | olass of citizen in the city is offered | an opportunity to broaden his mind | and increase his learning, via the day schools, the night schools, and the special courses offered by the Y. M. { C. A., correspondence schools and fac- ! torles. Ignorance has ceased to be excusable in this city. e . B-r-r-r! Its cold, but not any more uncomfortable than the recent damp, chilly days and decidedly more healthful. .. The velled maidens of a Turkish harem have not got much on the New Britain girls when it comes to hiding their features. A fellow can pass his own sister, or another fellow’s sister whom he knows quite.well, without ,recognizing her when she appears with her high coat collar turned up under her nose, and a wide scarf hiding all the rest of her face except -her eyes. Fickle fashion! Not so long ago these same New Britain maidens were ap- ‘pearing on the streets, even in just “as cold weather, in peek-a-boo waists 1/and declared they were not the least bit cold. { . An echo of a hot political cam- | paign of about three decades ago has been heard. The prohibition town committee has just received. a mys- tertous check for $100 with no ex- planatory note. The accepted answer ig that this 1is consclence money. About thirty years ago, during a bitter [ political campaign, a prohibition ban- | ner was ripped from its moorings on { Main street and destroyed. The cul- prit‘was never apprehended and the party members had to bear the ex- pense. The insistent clamorings of a troubled. conscience have been stilled by the coin of the realm—and | the prohibitionists’ hearts are! glad- dened, by the same coin. / .. The clock in the old South church tower has ceased to strike. It has not tolled the hour of night or day in sev- eral days. The striking of this clock bell is missed, particularly during the stilly night when its tones reverber- ate over the entire city. Immediate repairs should be made. * s With matters of real importance ruthlessly overlooked, the safety board spends Its time dilly-dallying with such picayune items as to why Policeman Rival was seen in a certain automobile at a certain time, whether or not a pair of horses shall be housed at No. 1 or No« 3 station, whether or not Officer O'Keefe shall have a ocer- tain beat and whether Officer Nealon shall be a traffic officer, the merits of having a-recreation room at ‘head- quartess, and other questions of such vital (?) importance to the efficlency 3 L % £ 2 The Golfer’s Devotion to a Little Golf Ball | of the departments. e meantime t to the city are matters of real benefit not even thought of. ' Chairman H. 8. Tallard of the health bpard has mades the sensible suggestion that the po-. licemen and the also include in their dutles that off deputy inspec- It a policeman while on the _notice an un- ulty fire es- ywalk ‘or many e within the sanitary backyard, & cape, a dangerous sl other things which ¢ province of- other departments, it | would be an eéasy for him to include them ln,;his daily report and the chief could yefer each com- plaint to its Frespe: department. : The same would hold true of the fire- men. By such a simple scheme the efficlency of the police and fire de- partments, from a viewpoint of pub- lic service would be increased as would the eficiency of individual de- partments. ‘This suggestion iz worthy & ot adoption. Co-operation throughout § the entire city is the key to munieipal success. s —_—— How Made Good at Last. 3 (Julius Chambers in Brooklyn Eagle.) . A chance encoupter with & man 1. have known &lmost & generation gave to me a wholly new insight into life, He has been living at one of the Mills hotels for tep years or more—-a childless widower.’ His purpose hai been to save money until he saw s chance to make a coup and retire for the rest of his life. Three years agc he invested $2,700 in ome of the ‘“‘wai 43 brides.” He plunged to the extent of 400 shares on Bethlehem steel, putting &8 every dollar he had saved into a mar- 5 gined purchase, When the stock weni §8 to $600 he sold | half his holdingss{ Taking his $100,000, less interes' | charges, he paid the small balance or the remainder of his purchase anc/ sold ‘out last week at $6560 per share He now has more than $200,000 in & three banks and has given his room | at the Mills to an unfortunate com- panion, who didn’t get the right tip guaranteeing the room Tent' for.five | years, with an allowance of $10 per & "week for meals, i To me this appeared one of the most practical bits of philanthropy I have known in many Vears. ‘When I asked—having had an.ex/ perience in Rdison electric light in its early days—how he happened tc ‘hol@ on® for s0 large a rise, he made a curlous confession. He said: “Up to the $500 mark it was easy Mhen I feared 'I had made an error, 1 toof other stock certificates and, lock ihem in'a safe deposit box, for which' T patd five vears' rent in ad- vanc Then T went across a ferry te Brooklyn ‘one night—a thing I hadn ‘done meany, vears—and tossed th two keys into the river! T felt it wae miracie to have made so much m on such small i&pn&l and that I o not to unioad an any other man! week T went to the company, told them T had last the| keys, thad them bre: open the box, pacd the cost and sol out.’ Tam mot/a pig. I sincerely hope the purchaser; will be able to get out at a profit. { am through. I have invested the nfoney in an annuity tha will take care/of me for the rest of m Tife.” s My old friend is livinx at one of t best hotels in Manhattan, where thos who know him will be welcomed. in a- picturesiue and of 20 vears of anxiety and almost continuous misfur- tune. How It Happened. (Reckville Leader.) 1 Senator Willam Henry Hall ‘of Willington had the promises, while Semator Hesry H. Lyman of Middle- fleld had the votes. This briefly and tersely explains why the latter is now president pro tempore of the state BY BRIGGS 7