New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 19, 1919, Page 8

lew Britain 7 H;arald. HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY. Propriet ira. med dally (Sundsy excepted) at 4:18 5. m, at Herald Bullding, 67 Church S! $8.00 a Year $2.0. hrea Menths. S0 & Monert fered at the Post Omce st New Britaln ®& Second Class Mail Matter. PELEPHONR CALLS OmMee . ditorial Rooms . ‘@nly profitable advertising medium in the cfty. Circulation books and press room alwave open to advertiwers. uam-u of the Associnted Prems. Assoclated Press i3 exclusively entitlsd to the use for republication of all news credited 15> it or not otherwise credited In this aper end also lveal Dev, vublished “erelnm. USELESS WASTE MONEY. OF YOUR he bmmittec five Senatars constituting the investigating the the deserve expendi- res of United States Housing rporation congratulations h the non-partisan and strictly busi- ess attitude which they have main- ined throughout probe, and hich is port the investigation ows a flagrant waste of the people’s oney. the zedd in the The strongly emphas of their findings. resuit is startling, as it It would be unwise and un- of graft the United for ir to la charges or vindle at ates any the Housing doors of Corporation, the ses probably would be untrue. jut the allegation that the institution s been lax in the spending of funds boropriated for its use is serious, and serves the attention of every citizen ho contributed to those funds. The United States Hodsing corpora- pn W to furnish that s created quarters, ith the stipulation they should b temporary quarters, for the thou- nds of Gavernment workers massed cities where the war industries and bureaus of the situated. The firs ar-time vernment ere single resi- nee erected by the housing institu- bn was completed two months after he signing of the armistice. Instead beins e houses and temporary establishmen all of a fitted with unnecessary “hotels™ were prmanent character, and adern, expensive and xurie Single residences built in $7,263 apicce, all hous enl ridgeport cost while pe average cost for .67 ld of the supervising United States Housing was, Instead of ting the architect of the reasury, the orporation hired commercial archi- at a cost of 00,000. There are any other violations of the housing brporation’s contract with the gov- rnment which proved as eypensive. The greatest lesson taught in the re- rt of the investigating committee of [ve Senators is not, however, the fact hat large sums of money were thrown and mis told s that vay The moral of the the Schate used. ory in committee’s -port there should be a more the e: enditure of appropriated Government The high the reful system of supervising inds. cost of living is lamed who is said ) be on consumer, deliberately throwing away his oney on’ luxuries he can barvely rd, and negleeting the old practice “salting it down” in some good an i a report of the money asted by the United States Housing orporation is indicative of many ot i reports which might be forthcom- it the Senate chose to find out how ther branches of the Government bent money during the war This is your maney. When the gov- rnment misuses it, When means you must dig down vour money is asted the government asks br more, it hto your pocket and hand over the re- uired amount. It is time tile sermon ' caveful living, less buying and more cduction should be practiced a bit v those who have been preaching it b you ST ROOMS IN STORES. New Britain can be congratui pon having some excellent stores, nd the day is fast passing when the Lir feminine shopper tosses her head ith disdain she looks over displayed here and proceets 1o the in neighboring cities. ocks articles that can The 1thuse over be urchased erchants are getting the up-to- eas and are trying to make ores attractive and modern But there is one thing they all verlooked. Iven the largest 10st modern of the local department ores or drygoods steres cannot oast of a women's lounging room. In where there are big stores the lounging establishment After customer ther cities Jatering to trade of the fair sex e or rest rooms are a ermanent and are hours or but ppreciated several hopping the cannot ecome weau and it stores iering to this trade were cquipped ith o womce wrlor it would cer- jainly be appreciated and would pay lor itself in more ways than one, tor in othe cities have such warters, where the tired shopper can it down in au casy ‘chair and resi; here she can quietly think over what l'lfl she must purchase; whe consult her st of things can In fact, some of the bigger tel corr buy,” ete and one install a or two sfores go further phone booth and pondence tables in these rvest parlors And at lcast one store we little have visited boasts of a counter where the patron may secure paper and and can wrap up parcels for mailine. { 4 rest rooml may not appeal, but fact remains that the store tha makes tgell the most attractive to it store that goi And customers Is the to et the Dhusiness, the womer shoppers entitle ar certainly some constderation other than that of opportunity to spend being given an their money. FOR THE CHILDREN OF OTHER LANDS. In the Christmas season, when the thoughts of all ave upon ct tellow men and carrying in little to them, vrity and od will to when their of when | most adults are minds the picture of a one, their own, or one andl height, how many will stop to consider the of and the misfortunes that upon them? To whom will another mental | near happiness good-cheer is at its children other lands | | i 1 have come 1 picture of the starvation and misery ( of devastated Europe rise in its com- NEW, BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1910, string ! To those of the old school the idei | plete ugliness and horror? Does lack of imagination prohibit a rfia\lizu“un! of the condition of youngstevs in warv | swept lands? It probably does, else: there would be a vaster answer to the | appeals for relief that are going up | effort to | the afflicted | in of from our vision. | various source an the lot removed from make casier vouth far FHumanity regards lightly the misfor- | tunes that it cannot see, does not pic- ture the miscry of others afar. Tt is} rule, but has to see to | touched. charitable as a sufficiently mowment the believe and be J.et us consider for o conditions in Armenia as they have been described in a letter sent out by the National F: utive Committee of Near Bast Relief. Let mentally transplant to land following the let- us ourselves the for which it is working to our imagination. It paved ter for an aid is a bleak Armenian roadway with the bones of humanity for many, which has remained the dust humanity and mar mil starved tracks return in its where it fell from which it to to came. A starving mother, thin, clad in rags and crazed with despair hangs over the body of her expiring infant. already a shriveled | though # still has full of is dying, skeletan to harsh and bitter wizened the the shortly it Wearil with of rt which has become too utterly ations, for a lung alr. It starvation power gasp is dead—of and cold. with no hackward slanc no cry despair from a he overburdened for such manifes {he mother again picks up her joruney along the road which has no end, which has no hope excepting that it affer a spot in herseif before long, mother roadside will, which the lay upon the t. She may and breathe ‘h where there fifty is ing and trave are two hundred thousand | fatherl starvin children wandering about, motherle comfortless and It is nothing to her, she has lost her cwn; parentless children are too com- this Jand for lament, existence mon sight the in struggle for too severe to allow for impeding one’s course with infan hers. It Your They must go as went | all one in the end. own, reader, are with you, or where vou know they are safe at least so we sincerely hope. You have un- doubtedly spent what you can afford to make them and comfortable during the holidays, unfortunate happy the picture of an- must be vivid other in- deed to persuade you that you should give for one whom you have never seen and whom you will probably never | be opportunity to see. Neverthel just, the There are several or- given an ess the cause it need ganizations which are striving to bet- children is great. ter the lot of the which would be glad to get any contri butions which you might make. Ar- menian relief is being handled in this abroad, state through the ofiice at Hartford, | Past Office hox 1342, Meigs H. Wha- | ples is State Treasurer. Local Lille, F the relief for children in ance, is being undertaken by Yale University s which will to the support forward the money University of Lille for use in Milk distribution station, for the Children’s hospital and Medical school of a Free for the Money should bhe sent to the University Press, the It is truly care of Yale Station, New Haven. { said that charity should begin at home, but, when our home is taken care of therc is an oppottunity in foreign relicf for vast good. There is a great deal of work loom- ing ahead for the Senate in that vague referred to period by its members “after the holiday: Emma Goldman may leave today for ssia. Goodbye, Bmma, and may you he as 200od a Russian a bad American, as you were j Through NOw GRAN'PA, "THOSE WERE THE DAYS REMEMBER. You'RE- NOT TO MAKE THE CALLERS FTEEL BAD BY TELLING TTHEM You USED To BLUY ALL THE SUGAR You AT 23 PoundS & WANTED Tor LITTLE CHIEF. Ayers Garnett in Poetry.) The wind is wearing moccasins, The wind is wearing moccasins, It slides along the desert With stealthy feet at noon. Upon the diteh it lightly treads, And scarcely stirs the cottonwoods, The nervous, listening cottonwoods, On tiptoe in the sun. (Louis k. The wind is wearin, The wind is wear 1t runs with crouching shoulders, Tts finge: sweep the ground With a sigh it makes a pathway the purple-flowered alfalfa., As it whispers dreams half-mockingly To workers in the sun. FACTS ND FANCIES. The underground labor of the coal miners is preferred to that of red radicalism. — Philadelphia Public Ledger he has to capture however, Yudeniteh declares up his purpose Petrograd. Unfortunately, he has been forced to give up a coi- siderable part.of the army with which he purposed to do it—Kansas City Star. Gen. not given The moral is, don’t let prowling prunes get into your perfectly inno- cent and well intentioned cider Manchester Union. stressful ma not he there is no should mnot If with of cconomic able to the persistence conditions we save monc earthly reason why have daylight Journal. Organ ‘People’s League of America,” the middle-c will strive to lower the cost of living What unkind Frenchman called it “le mou- ton enrage’ reet Journal ed us a Sawing wood for the stove form of kaiserism that can ated.—Indianapolis News. is one be tole Figure out how long it o 10 take your Christmas presents, sent by parcel pést, to reach their destin- ation, and then add at least a wee Boston Globe. A great deal of food is being mailed now from America to Germany, in- cluding, let us hope, some food for thought.—Keene Sentinel. When a restaurant advertises two “‘strictly fresh can’t help formin ion of all the other eggs it 5 cents.—Albany Argus. a damaging opin- sells for of sugar of coul tacking and bowl. ~Portland Little grain Little lumps Now, alas, are From the bin Press. from Omsk to translated, prob- to worse.—Chi- Kolchak moves Tomsk, which, freely ably means from bad cago Post editor who got pleased every- Once there was an out a newspaper that body. But he had a glass plate over bis face and he was not standing. The flowers were beautiful.—Houghton Mining Gazette. Authors Go Wror M. Overton. The seems to be that write.—C@umbia “Why new work by Grant real initial reason authors will « go State. is a The capitol intimately ing.—Columbia marble dome over the national is not the only marble dome connected with that build- Record executives might as well understand that the roads ure not go- back to them under the old con- ditions. They are going back only un- der conditions where the public inter- est and railroad service to- the. public Railroad eggs for 30 cents, you LIST OF NEW BOOKS AT THE NEW BRITAIN INSTITUTE ACROSS THIS BLOCKADIL, by H. N. Brailsford. A record of travels in enemy rope between Febrnary und Mz u- 1919. LN AGO, BRITTANY by Anne A\ CHILDHOOD EIGHTY YEARS Douglas Sedgwick. “Rare pictures of an that has vanished from the of an aged French woman, propriately illustrated.”— Booklis order of 1i and ap- Lo A IPROM MUD TO MUFTI Bairnsfather. by Che Michigan. '"IRON TUN ex-governor "ER, of jTHE JEW PAYS, a narrative of ‘consequences of the war to the Jew of enstern Burope and of the man- ner in which Americans have attempt ed to meet them, by M. Ravage, by the author of “The Making of An American.” PSYCHICAL PHENOM- Hereward Carrington. wow e THE ORIENTAL® POLICY OF THH UNITED STATES, by Henry Chung timely and significant book by ompiler of Korean envoy to the conference. 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The author's nourished and {Dalanced attitude towards letters was more than 1d. never necded today. - Springf P “WADE I[N, NITARY ard Derby. The story France. by of a division surgeon in Fiction. ALL OF THE SOUL, by trand. Translation of a French war which won the Goncourt prize. Adrien Ber- HELENA, by Mrs. Humphrey Ward o we OF TORONTO, c by Herbert JOHN edy kins. DENE of Whitehall, m- P IN THE MORNING, by M Andrews. MAMMY'S WHITE Sampson FOLKS, by B MIDDLE TEMPL S, ETCHER. glish deteclive the average. story, above FHARON O L Vingie E. Roe. TRAIL OF THE BEAST, by Abdulla. A murder around the effo Paris before VALLEY, by mystery centering s of German spies in the war. Solved by an American detective. Rather long wn out but has its moments A, A. Booklist. Books for Worker ABRASIVES AND WHEL rtHEITR TURE USE, by I MANUFAC- AND B. Jacobs. AUTOMOBILE WELDING, Dunham. by Al K DIARY OFF A ROUND HOU FOR MAN, T. S. Reilly by DYNAMO FOR JURS, BUILDING Dy J. Weed HOW TO UNDERSTAND READING PLUEPRINT DRAWINGS, by 1t. Vigneau DRAWING FOR by R. M. Starbuck POPULAR HANDBOOK FOR MENT AND CONCRETE by M. 1. Lewis and A. H. Chandler. AL PLUMBERS, wre the paramount consideration. Tt remains for them to accept this as a settled proposition and come to some agreement among themselves on that basis.—New York World West Virginia ‘‘moonshiner { built defenses reinforced by wire entanglements around their still evidently had learned some of th methods of modern defensive war fare.—Pittsburgh Gazette-Times. who | barbed 25 YEARS AGO (From The lerald of That Date) December 19, 1894, | A special election was held today in | the second and third wards to choose to succeed Councilmen Brown resigned. The latest returns this afternoon showed | Myron D. Stockwell elected council- man of the second ward with a ma- jority of 118 votes and Jomes Mof- fitt elected in third ward with a ma- | jority of 105 votes. Gieorge Klett Dhas returned from © university to spend the Christinas holidays with his DArents in this city. There was no fire In the third ward polling place today and the officials councilmen Andrews and | | | finally procured an oil stove. All the lamps in the place were lighted. A meeting of the medical society will be held tomorrow. A paper diphtheria will be read. H. C. Noble was registered at the St James hotel in New York yesterdaq W. H. Webster was selected a mem- ber of the cxecutive committes of the Berlin grange at the annunal held last evening. on National Happenings. More than 900 Brooklyn trolleymen walked out this morning in a strike for higher wages tying up the entir Brooklyn trolley system. The repair- men and electricians on the lines walked out with the men leaving no one to make vepairs. The First brigade s ordered out as soon as the men struck 1o guard against any disturbances. 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