New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 28, 1919, Page 7

NEW BRITAIN DAILY IERAT, ‘Wired houses Rent Quicker it is good business to wire your house. It will become a preferred house. It will rent more easily and quickly. Modern families want to live in houses with electric service. Mother wants the help of electric flatirons, washers ;ind vacuum cleaners. The entire family will enjoy the clear, restful light of EDISON MAZDA LAMPS. Wire ,.'-‘your house while fhe campaign is on] We are _ making special offers NOW and you should take advan- tage cf them. Call or ’phone for information. ~ We especially solicit work which you are particular about. Phone 1294-4 19 MAIN STREET BARRY & BAMFORTH LIBRARIES HELPING AMERICANIZATION Al Public Institutions in State Can Aid Hartford, March 28. libraries in Connecticut have been ap. pealed to by ‘the state Americani on department to help in the Ame N movement Children need a buildingfood. Grape:Nuts All the public With the ap- !peal was sent a detailed schedule showing how they can carry on Am- ericanization work. It was today announced the department that librarians have been advised to con- fer with the official Americanization committee in their respective com munities, if one exists, before putting the schedule into cffect, the idea be- ing to achieve cé-operation on the program Explaining why. the public library lis an Americanization —agency, the i schedule says it can provide for im- | migrants nformation. and about America through books i personal contact with the library staff, and that it can also provide books for: teaching Emglish, naturali- | zation advice and citizenship manuals, | community service in relating the {immigrant to agencies of the com- | munity, and foreign language booky 'and newspapers, In some respeéct the { public library's opportunity for Am- | ericanization service is greater than jthat of the evening school, according {to the schedule, because, for instance, {the library is more inviting and less [formal and be t welcomes those | Who fthinlk themselv too old for school. { The schedule gives directions as i to how librarians may know their op- { portunities” and facilities for Ameri ! fon service, Appointment of a commitfee on Americanization | is recommended. This should consist of three members from the library i board or staff. Tt should make a pre- liminary survey of community i gration conditions, the latter covering | the number and nationalities of the | foreign-born populatiott, the numbet i nnable to speak English or illiterate in their own language, the work of | public night schools for immigrants, and social and civic agencies working [with the immigrants. guidance | A ‘“library introspection” is rec- ommended, this coévering such sub- jects as the number of foreignm lan- | Euage books, newspapers and maga- zines avaflable, the circulation of these as compared with that of books in English, and the special means | used to encourage tmmigrants to tako |advantage of library facilities. By | means of a systematic publicity cam- | paign persistently conducted, the de- | partment believes that immigrants ican be taught to use the library. An | Americanization program for public {libraries is said to depend absolutely upon community co-operation, and i eby this has been | cured in Boston, New York, Cleveland | 2nd Detroit are cited. Every state library commission is said to have three important respon- sibilities for a state-wide: program on Americanization for public li- i braries, these being assistance of 1 cal libraries in jnitiating Americani- zation service. standardizing the methods of work, and correlating and spreading news of this work. Librar- jans are urged to write the commis- sion for help and advice when need- ed. Libraries, according to the schedule, can co-operate with their local cham- ber of commerce, industries -and commercial agencies in many ways, Wwhich are explained. A list of books and other publications of help to li- brarians in Americanization work is given. se- Eyesight Speelalist wnd Manufacturing optician, A. PINKUS, KYE EXAMINATIONS ARE FREE Broken Lenses Duplicated. Omec, 306 Main St, ‘Phone 57C Satisfaction Guaranteed. l | saged of the better | 150 made in weo!l serge an without silk wi with silk or fani worth $30, $35 Saturday’s showing in our Ladies’ and Misses’ Dept. should be of iety so elaborate or the styles and values so satisfying, CHAMBERLAIN NOW LOOKS LIKE FAKIR |§ Alleged Hero of Aerial Combats May Go Down In History With “Doc” Cook. London. March 27 sion of the court marttal inqui into the alleged exploints of Capta hamberlain of San An- . who claims to have en in a remarkable with British air forces g a visit to the Bri mmer during a furloue it with the United States Lord Doune, captain of the ying corps, Who was respoi- sible for official statements issued hy that arm of the service, gave evidence as to his knowledge of the case. He said that at the time of Chamberlain’s reported feat there was no squadron commander named Major Vancours, nor was there a superior officer namad L. H. Solomon, whose signature as a lieutenant colonel, appeared on the report of the incident supposed to have been forwarded by ‘“Major Van- cours.” He testified that no such section ex- isted as “base squadron No. 2" with which it is id Captain Chamberlain made his flight: that he never had received a report of a combat such as that described in the account in which Captain Chamberlain figured and that no such achievement could have been attributed to British fliers. In the —At today's se tonio, in company course of his testimony he called at-. sich valol as used by the Bri escadree” Mmstead of ‘escadrille.” SAVE SHOES! Ia a long chasa for a criminal, J. E. Jones, a secret service man of Chicago, wore one | f sh with Neolin s. This chase covering both Ameri continents and Australia, ended in April, 1917. 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