New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 15, 1922, Page 6

New Britain Herald HERALD (Iasued At Herald PUBLIBHING COMPANY Dally 1 Hidg Sunday 1 BUBSCRIPTION RATES A Year $3.00 Three Mon'hs The A Monih = | Batered ut the Post OMce at New Liritsin a8 Becond Class Mull Matter TELEPHO! Business Ofce Editorial Rooms NE CALLS A . 525 The only profita she City, roem alwa n ul open to wdvertiserm Member of The Assoclnted 1' The Arraciated Preca {a ecclvsively entiticd to the uwe for re-publication of all news credited to it or not ottarwiee cre this paper and also news Lereln, ted I ‘ucal Jub- 1l Member Aadit Burean of rirculntion The A. R. C. Is a natlonal organization which furnishes newsparers and e with a strictly lonsst nanalyils of efrculation, Our.circulation atatistics are Bassd upon this Audit. This insures jr teotfon against fraud In nowsmaper ¢ tribntion Agures to both natlonal apil lo: cal advertisers. | e —— WHAT ONE-MAN CARS MEAN | The decision of the Connecticut Co. | the to operate onec-man cars within eity limits means, first of ull of course, & reduction in cxpenses. Rome twenty men probably will be | laid off. The plan suggests immediately that | the company has decided to rrwlm-o‘ the fare to five or six cents. It does pot seem possible that the company, in addition to charging ten cents, or| elght and two-thirds cents as it plans to do March first and after, for these shorts riins, would have the courage | to reduce the quality of service. Quite possibly the introduction of the one- man car was determined upon irre- spective of the question of fares. There are arguments against the | one-man car. There may be argu- ments in favor of it, especially when viewed from the company's position. At the moment we have no concern with such arguments with the excep-; tion of one—and with that we have very much concern, The introduction of the one man car means, of course, less ability to handle crowds on the trolley The adoption of the five or six-cert fare would mean crowds upon the cars—witness Norwalk and thetest of the low fare there. If the adoption of the one-man car means that the company does not ex- pect to lower the rate to five cents,| which act, the company should know by this time, will bring more than double the travel on the trolleys, we( are opposed to the adoption of the one-man car. It has been iterated and reiterated that the only way to find out what the result of such reduction of fare would mean here, the test should be would be to sound public feeling. A sounding of the feeling would disclose the belief, among those on the ca now-—such operating until made, public who travel S persons being in a position to lvll‘ how others feel on thematter—that| morethan twice as many peoplg would ride on the trolley under the réduced fare as the number riding at present, The Herald has not made a canvass of the conductors and motermen of the trolley to find out what they, per- sonally, as to the travel that would result from a reduction in the fare. The Herald would not use such information if it had it, realizing that employes of the company would not be at liberty to tell exactly what they thought because of possible harm @at might come to them were they p say, for instance, that a reduced fare would or this is not yet the policy of the com- pany and it is not well for an’ employe to suggest that an- company for a wiser think benefit the company. of any company other policy which policy. The that If the company itself called its New by the he works would be Herald asserts confidently Britain conductors and motormen into their opinions on the subject the to get the as to the conference and asked honest would he able best of in- formation results probable of the adoption of the five or six-cent In this way the company would public hear fare, »e would able to sound opinion he able to just what is would get which un- it sald on the cars dally prejudiced evidence might work And The Herald that, outside prejudiced against the people of New Britain to the company and becanse those upon believes sincerely of a few cmployes, so because they are so loyal peo- ple do not ride on trolleys more gen- erally, the testimony of those motor- men and conductors of the company that if the sont to adopted would be it five or six fare were would more than double and the ceipts of the company would increase be over the receipts of the present An handle the crowds that would on the trolleys five cent fare were adopted, extra man wonuld be needed to travel hours if the in rush BONUS POLITICS course there is politics the bonuz matter. But there is more than one way to looking at the that permeate all discussions concern- ing it Let the argument that those ofr in politics for the suke « people | poiitics who favor granting a boiys it be granted | whether they company | the travel! re- | thelr It soldier vote must be t there are many who it he they believe to the men who served than ju of that « no more s, ar who n favor the bonu wou e | not to get were in polities or this is granted soldier vote—it must be granted Also that those who oppose the honus are influenced by a desire for the sup f others who 1he ° aguinst port o are against honus. The p the ople the honus are men of big interests, as a rule IPossibly such men are not influenced by the fact that they were above the fghting and cannot understand the T feeling of those who would re- ceive the honus, Possibly they are what they believe They men Iy country, influenced solely hest for the that be bLetter off {f the honus were the gailure the better business, they I8 may feel the ex-service would not to to im- country be granted because this debt make pose upon would for feel, there would be work including the ex-service that the would and more for everyone Possibly this burden that longer man. they feel im- position of 50 handicap husiness the hest of be that the former service would suffer, delayed in but themselves, times would coming and not only they, men ident Harding and his advisors ure confronted by the necessity of mak- ing a choice, when they consider the bonus from political There is to the statement that the of former service men do nwot want the bonus. The ma- Jjority of service men do want it, and those who do not want it, as service men, would not be inclined to pinish politicians for granting the bonus to them and their former comrades. Thus the President and his ad- visors have to decide whether it would be politically wiser to please the former soldiers or to business and financial safe to say that if the made to please the former soldiers it will be because it is believed the sup- port of the interests would not be lost even if the bonus were to be granted, while the support,of the former serv- ice men would be lost were the bonus not to be granted. There is another aspect to the mat- ter. It is belived that the granting of a bonus inevitable— somé It would the administration to shift the sponsibility to a later administration. It has been that it would take one hundred years to pay off the in- bonus. Of course there may come a time in a “@ no force majority please the It decision intere: is is firmly is day. said debtedness created by the few years when the business and in- dustrial condition of the country would make it seem more fitting to grant the aid sought, but that condi- tion existed a couple of years ago. If postponement is made it will cause the present administration does not care to make the gamble ant deciding opposing forces at present. decision to g the bonus, politically, be lan attempt to please the éermer sol- diers and their supporters: a deci: not to grant the bonus would be decision in favor of the powerful in- terests of the country—one which would not be made if danger of losing the “interests' " sup- port. And when the ‘“interests” are referred to in this way it does not mean necessarily that the “interests' are selfish in this matter. The “inter- ests’ may believe honestly that the former service man will be better off in a more quickly prosperous country than he would be with h honus in a country which, say the “interests” [would be under the handicap of this additional burden be be- between the two it is upon FFor, ant would repeated, a viewed on a there were faces loss The administration the lof the soldier support if the bonus is not granted. It docs not face the los of the the the bonus is granted—for fthe “in- |terests’ | support of “interests” ¥ known- other ad- would overlook this |to-be-political act because of advantages fo come from the ministration. | | “UNCLE JOR | Joseph Gurney Cannon, CANNON" cighty-five years old, now serving twenty- third term in Congress, will not be a candidate for re-election. There is no his more interesting” figure in Washington than his. Probably there will be more words _of shcere regret spoken and writtén when he retires from political life than therb would be over the field of any other person in the country. His serv- has been noteworthy for its con- [tinuity. Probably he in it. Possibly his iife has been more in he has would in acti departure from that ice has been happy pleasant to him the role than it any other capacity. | But there should be cxpressions have been played no mawkish, deep regret regret maudlin of other than that an interesting, often lovable per- Wash- be a personal conality will disappear from ington. Rather renewing of determination for cnergy and activity on the part of those who New men should come to with fresh ideas, fresh, way thinking, strong feet there should a remain the progressive to stand unin- Auanced the oM ways, old gustoms, old troditions that capitol of enough on their by atmosphere of Be these things as they may. Pres- | viewpoint. | | be possible for re- attend- | | if BRITAIN DAILY HE it reat foe”" pusses fron who remain should look own conscience and see are still bound by old habits of thought which are inadequate to |grapple with the problems of today, if they le ‘o recognize things today's light light, it have are una as they are today under Tt and long ap- is a very different changes conditions that Those the , thirty years ago, but they the who mp and turn existed conditions may parently e same as they were ten, twenty are not same, Only one able to break the old | on the new eleetricity ible to judge properly look today, and The wherein they old light will not dis- will a bolt missing. need repairing close the weak spots, not show where a screw A light men, new and inexperienced perhaps, having the advantage newer light, should not he awed by the steady glow lof that old, dignified light into drop- ping that fresh I8 100s¢ new is needed, and younger but neverthelc of keener eyes and a which they bring to shed things over charge, radiance upon the |which they will have WORTH NOTING, There is a certain | from Oklahoma who has the habit of aying some pretty sensible things in ‘nmnn homely words, Several times attention has been attracted to the of remarks attributed this representative, and the fact because soundness was especially noteworthy ;}:n(ul sense shown was on matters not | exactly within the traditional sphere | of the class of persons to whom this particular representative belonged. The proved women rather severely for sit- ; ting back and criticizing men for their | acts in politics the critics were women and the acts were | the acts of men. The representative, | advised women to get them- | | selves, to place themselves in a po- | sition to do something worth while in | politics—to get in a position where | their actions would gount—by work- | ing with those who had power of or- | ganization, namely a political party. It was not wise, .was this represen- other day this individual re- merely because busy | tative's idea, to form a | party to favor only those things that | would be good for women, and to op- those wanted just because pose things that men men wanted them. Then this representative came out, in a talk about the *“movies,” and said that there wasn't anything the matter with them that the .people | could not right. The people “get what they want” are the words used. “If its's rottenness they want, that's what they get. They'll never get bet- [ ter than they demand. No, T don't believe in Iederal action in the di- rection of cleaning up the movies. If all the rottenness prevails in Holly- wood as theepapers say, why nothing can be done about it until the people who go to the movies do it. You caw't change the world by scolding it. | All you do by talking about the jazz movie is to ad- it. You only things worse through nagging.” Lack of personal responsibility and selfishness is the greatest trouble with the world really remarkable cvil and rottenness vertise make today, says this representative. All this is remarkable people coming as it does woman—for these are, the sentiments of Miss Alice Robertson, who, a woman, opposed woman suffrage, yet hwas elected to Congress from Okla- many a to from homa. Those who would appreciate hear- ing a great secret arc informed that [ all remarkable there nothing at about a woman's ability to utter good, is practical common sense. An inch may he a very important if it is on the nose, as the old saying stance—especially end of one's goes. But further than that not long ago Professor G. I. Parker, of Har- lvard University, stated that the very center of the nervous system, contain- is only he ing about nine billion cells, an inch in and yet, “Yale University exists to train that extent said cubic inch of matter.” The Harvard Professor was not {y- ing to belittle Yale by asserting that it existed to train such a small thing las that inch. Mersly he happened to talking in Haven and he to make more emphatic his the effect that a man is Kindly or cruel, attractive or dis- agreeable in accordance with the con- | be New wanted statement to dition of his nervous system. To the layman this fact would in- dicate that it pretty important to train that inch properly—that, if one would be kindly rather than cruel, attractive rather than disagree- it hehooves one to cultivate those qualitics that the nerves, will strengthen not weak- in was [able len the spower of the nerves to remas | placid and not subject to continual Iperiods of excitement that will them up bringing the result that will # PALACE Next Sun., Mon., Tues, Wed, “TEN NIGHTS IN A BARROOM” BLWAR! OF IMITATIONS is | ust how those old conditions | representative | to| ‘h“l woman's | will sooth, not harass| stir | RALD, WEDNESDAY tend to ke unpopular \arsh The 'y of the nervous sys- ry center tem,' then, s a small thing, Life full of very small things, and the very the wearing things They are the things that tinually; the total | makes most of 1ife's unpleasantnesses land that total gets into man's being, changing him from the good-natured creature he should be if he is to be happy, into the casily roused person who is never absolutely at peace, con- small things are irritate con- of these tented e Bearing in mind how small is that |little heart of the nervous system, and Learing in in power the total of |things of life, it !man to meet each one of those small Ithings with equanimity and calmness that littie makes or dis- how great frritating small benefit mind |is the will every if only for the sake of inch us kind or cruel, agreeable, “cubie of matter” which | attractive | | Facts and Fancies | (BY ROBERT QUILLEN) | S love at first sight; divorce at first | slight, isn't always fatal. there's a get- One false Where laway. step there's a will | In some instances, |inspired by a full moon; a full purse, amativeness is in other by Some+ men are born rich, some ac- quire riches, and some give up and call it filthy lucre. Nothing is definite balance of power is {trial balance. yet. The simply a new first The German of “I can't pay,” means in English: “T doubt like thun- |der if you can make me pay.” Our opinion is that American sym pathy for Armenians is due in part in the smell of Turkish cigarettes. | If business must substst on half a fire half the loafers. teadjustment: The art of keeping prices up until some fool competitor gets cold feet and cuts prices. Opportunity knocks but once, and reputation than other knockers. Colleges would be useful it they did no more than teach young men all the different ways of asking for money. The cruel spirit that makes war possible will nevér die while peaple laugh at a man who is trying to crank a jitney. has a cold, he usually for other members of « When- Dad makes it hot the family. Human freedom has made great strides, but there is still a silly law against slaying the bore who takes up your time. The two greatest aids to keeping your temper are pure religion and the realization that the other fellow can lick you. If a man has every advantage and yet fails to amount to a darn, he can soothe his vanity by sneering at ‘‘self- made men."” 1t is probably a question of time until the dear creatures will sue for absolute separation and custody of the poeketbook. It's a hard world. Your old friends won't believe you make as much as yon say vou do, and Government won't believe you make as little. It may be that gold can be made of a combination of either substances A combination of sweat and elhow grease has always given good results: | Tt must be embarrassing to an ab- |sent-minded divorcee when she can't |decide whether the man at the door |is her uew husband for a book agent. | 1125 Vears Ago Today (Taken from Herald of that date) The sixth annual report of the Toys' club was read yesterday which | showed the organization free from debt and with an average member- ship of about 400 a month. The fol- lowing are the directors: H. Dayton Humphrey, Mrs. J. A, Traut, Mrs. W. k. Atwood, A. J. Sloper, 1. B. Eddy and Mrs, (', R, Stanley. The Nutmeg Athletic club arc mak- ing strides towards reviving bicycle racing interests in the town. They have secured the Berlin tracks for Decoration Day and July Fourth for meets, Officer Cogsgrove arrested yester: for stealing a cap ‘rank Lee. The first quarteriy meeting of the New Britain Christian Endeavor un- ion will be held on February 16, at the Baptist chureh. A horse belonging to F. M. Walker ran away on West Main street today and damaged the team. a yman from —advt. | | | things | { loaf, perhaps it will have the wit to| that may be the reason it has a better | and | Cily. MEN'S SHOES Of Genuine Calfskin Leather. in | cither black or brown with rub- ber heels attached. Former price $7.85.—To close out 8358 | MEN'S SILK LISLE | In all colors—a special bargain | for the next three days at 19¢ Former price 49¢ and 65c¢ Come in and look them over. 236 MAIN STREET COMMUNICATED An Open Letter to H. Hart The following has been submitted to the Herald in the form of an open letter answering H. 8. Hart's recent salary cut letter to his constituefits: Ever since the present mayor has held office the policy has been cut, cut, cut, until New Britain has be- come the joke and laughink stock of Connecticut. The condition of its streets, its deplorable lack of lights at night, its dire need of some place of protection when waiting for cars (and the waits are long and many, no matter what the elements are doing) in fact anything and everything that goes to make a city attractive and a desirable place to live in New Britain has been cut out of. When the fac- tory hands were getting their in- creases the city employees were liv- ing on the same old wage, and it was not until a couple of years after prices of food and rent and clothes had soared heavenwdrd, that they received their extra pa You speak ol the tax rate being lowercd--when the tax rate was raised our rent was raised more than four times the amount that the owner had to pay in taxes, he lived in the house; one would naturally think he would as- sume half of the inercase. He not only did not do that but he made money on us and his excusé was “our tax rates have gone up.” And owned many houses.” Instead of landlords bewaililg the higher tax rate they ought to welcome it. It is a Tallacy that lower taxes mean lower rents. The library appropriation has been cut so, there are very few new books to be had and the people are flocking to the stores and paying their two cents a day for the new books; the employees there are getting less than the women who go out and work by the day, and yet they have to be educated, well dressed people. The firemen are on duty ail the time; they are like Child's restaurants “never closed”, perhaps they are not in danger very often, but when they are the danger is great and of the most terrible kind; they are called upon to sacrifice their lives for others and they do it grandly, and yet you want to cut them; the police are the same. Owar 76 per cent.of the popu- Jation of the city is foreign, and the only possible way to make them de- sirable citizens is by education and yet you would eut that appropriation. It is a good thing the churches do not come under the city's jurisdiction or on its payroll, or they would be cut too. What Kew Britain needs is con- structive government, not destructive. Instead of its policy of cut, cut, .cut, it ought to be build, improve, grow, pay good wages to good employees, demand good' work and get it, and in turn New Britain will be a place to go to, not to get out of, as it is at present. Signed, the FIRST WARDER. 1922, COMMUNICATED More About The Barge Canal . Fditor: I was very much interested in®that article in Monday's Herald about the old canai between New Haven and Northampton. My remembrance of it is confined to Farminglon. My par- ents lived in Farmingtory, on a street going from the main street towards the canal. TFrom a west window we could see one of the basins where boals could Iny over, or take on mer- chandise. When the captains blew their horns, an older brother and sister and myself would run to the window to see the boats. The Vast boat that T remember, was going toward New Haven and 1 think that was the last I'resh eggs, 51c doz. Ruu:'ell Bros. |one before the water was let out of canal. S. L4 By. he | WE ARE GOING OUT OF BUSINESS AND HERE IS THE REASON WHY New Britain, Comn, Pebruary © The Lorraine Shoe Company |l 238 Main Street th, 1922. | You are hareby uctified to quit possession of the store amd premises no oocupied by you at Rumber 238 Mein Street, Wew Britain, Comnecticut, on or before the lst day of Merch AJD. 1922. S, Jacob l_;irnbnum snd SN. Levine Their Attorney. HOES AND OXFORDS A very fine assortment of styles and Leathers—All sizes to pick from—Rcgular price $7.85—To close out at $2.99 MEN'S IST QUALITY RUBBERS Wales Goodycar and La Crosse Makes—Regular price, $1.50. $1.19 WOME There were four basins in Farming- ton, one at the north and near ihe road going to Unionville, one just to the right of the street going down to the old saw and grist mill, the one we could see from our house and one at the south end, close to the road going out to the I"armington depot. en why the rafroad was built where it now is. The reason given was that the town of Farmington would not subscribe for any of the railrowd stock. I do not know as.that is the true reason; at any rate a littie north of Plainville the road left the canal and returned to it at Avon. There was a feeder canal that took water from the river just north of Unionville, and emptied into the main canal before it crossed the aqueduct. It was a fine spot around there for strawberries and low vine blackber- ries. My chum (of course I had one), and T used often to follow the old canal north from town and cross the river on the aqueduct. There was a three story factory on the bank of the basin we could see, where they made all kinds of pitchforks and I think iron rakes. 'That went out of busi- oon after. In time, this building was bougit and fitted up as a laundry and to house the employes of Miss Sarah Porter's school. \y chum and his wife are still living in Farmington and I think he would vouch for what | T have written. 1 went over there the first part of last September and had a nice visit with them, for three or four hours. I often wonder what the old town would be today if the railroad had followed the canal. [ was born in January, 1844, in Newington. My parents moved to Karmington when I was three months old. T grew up there until 1 was 18 years old, when I enlisted in February, 1862 in the army and served threc years and sevon months, lacking ten days. My chum's name is Albert Hart. Mine is Charles H. Whaples;. two more names to add to those in Mr. Ushers' article of the 13th. COULD ELIMINATE T. B.IN 40 YEARS Dr. Zvick Talks of “Penny Wise and Pound Foolish” Theory members of the common council will sce the possi- bilities of a mistake in cutting out the appropriation for a dental clinic, members of the dental clinic com- mittce at a meeting yesterday decid- ed that no. action was necessary at this time. The meeting was held in Believing that “THE HELP Have you tried our paper rece answer The Herald Want In after years I heard a reason giv-| | v-xlr»r'"”“ when the canal was emptied, or vertisements under this classification. ; Every Article in Our Store Must Be Sold Before Feb, 28th, Regardless of Price! Special Close-Out Bargains. for Thursday, Friday and Saturday. LORRAINE COMFORT SHOES For Women who suffer with any ,foot troubles—One of the best shocs in our store—Reg. $8.50 —To Close Out at $3.99 CHILDREN'S ARCTICS Sizes uwp to 13 only, — Former price, $2.85. $1.89 Hurry! For these Bargains! It will bay you! Many ofller. attractive buys in our store. THE LORRAINE SHOE CO NEW BRITAIN was an informal session, t6" discuss the action of the board of finance in cuttin® the request for a $6,000 ap- propriation out of the budget. It was decided that the fact that | 96 per cent of the children in the | first five grades in school are in need | of dental attention, 10 per cent of them already having developed cavi- ties in their permanent molars, would have some influence on the meeting of council. Wrong Time to Stop. There was quite a discussion con- }c(-rnh\g the relation of the lack of | health instruction in the scheols, in- cluding dental hygiene with the “flu” and tuberculosis. - With over 100 cases of ¥flu,” somt of them decidedly serious, and ap- proximately 5,000 cases of tuberculo- sis, the committee’ feels that this is ino time to drop whatever prevent- {ive work might be on foot. The | funds on hand are sufficient to carry |the work through until the first of | April and it is felt that some solu- [tion to the problem will have been reached by that time. Wipe Out “TB.” in 10 Years. In speaking of the need of such instruction in the schools at this [time, and its connection with the tu- berculosis conditions, Dr. Frank | Zwick, chairman of the health board |and chairman of the dental clinic committee, stated after the meeting: “Tuberculosis could be stamped out entirely in 40 years if everybody ac- ceptedf and practiced the present scientific kilowledge concerning the discage.” “In New York city,” continued Dr. | Zwick, “the percentage of cases ' of tuberculosis hus been reduced con- siderably, due to preventive meas- ures, one of which is dental hygiene instruction in the schools. 1In order to bring about the stamping out of tubeérculosis this scientific knowledge possessed by experts must be im- parted to the public, and therc is no better way of doing it than to-instill it into the mind of the child of the coming generation. “Penny Wise,” Fite. “Tuberculosis can be checked just as well as smallpox or typhoid fever, but instead of doing it by anti-toxin or vaccination it is done by educa- tion. But if we want to give this sclentific knowledge to our younger generation we must expect to pay for it. It would be a serlous mistake to drop the work now. The penny wise and pound foolish theory holds good today as when it first was originated.” Iresh eggs, 5lc doz. Russell —advt. ¢ ——— 2 ENTER YOUR NAME FOR THE DANCE CONTEST AT FOX’S ON MONDAY EVE. Bros. the Chamber of Com rooms and SITUATION” (] The problem of getting the right kind of Help in the right guan- titics is greatly simplified by the Herald Want Ad. Columns. ntly? It you have not, you will be agreeably surprised at the quality and number of applicants who It has been said that “The Proof of the Pie is in the Eating." Won't you have a bite? Ad. Phone is 925. Herald Want Ads Bring Results ... 'The only paper in New Britain whose Circulation is Audited.