New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 1, 1922, Page 15

DRIVE FOR BETTER LANGUAGE STARTS 8,000 Clean Speech Buttons Dis- ribnted to Men of City Five thousand buttons, Including 1,~ 400 to the school department, were disposed of yesterday or are heing dispoi of this week by the “Clean Bpeech” committee representing @ number of local organizations, Addresses on the subject were given Mm many of the local churches yester- day morning. Rough on the Goats, “Some men use language so vile," according to Rev. A. B. Taylor, of the People's church, . that they detfile whole communities and should be banished to some far oft island to bunk, with the goats." “Don't let anybody pour their filthy verbal garbage into your ears,” sald Rev, John L. Davis to the Everyman's Bible class yesterday morning. lKncey'u fair tonight. Would Frighten Others, Too. “If some men could see their or- dinary daily remarks printed on pay per, it would frighten them,” sul:! Rev. Harry 8. Landis of the Em- manuel Gospel church. Rev. Mr. Landis continued: “The practice is debasing and offensive and from many a father it spreads to his son and from that son to other sons; it is like a huge forest fire. One need not walk fir in our city streets and listen to the talk of boys, many of whom have not yet entered their ‘teens, until he is convinced that something is radically wrong in the moral condition of the race.” Other Churches, Too. Clean speech sermons were given by Rev. Dr. H. G. 8. Schneck, of the German Bapitist church, Rev. Wilson B. Stewart; of the Stanley Memorial church, Rev. Dr. George W. C. Hill, of the South Congregational church, Rev. John L. Davis, Rev. Harry S. Landis and Rev. A. B. Taylor. Up- wards of 1,000 buttons were dis- tributed by the men at the Berlin power station of the Connecticut com- pany, who really started the move- ment, apd 2,000 were distributed by the Everyman’s Bible clss. The buttons are small white affairs and contain one word, “Don't” in blue letters, The wearing of them In the spring time when all Nature is re- awakening, s the time to take stock of your own health. If you are tired and run down, the food tonle you need is Father John's Medicine because this spring tonic is a real food and not a stimu- lant. It helps you gain new flesh ana strength because its elements are rich in nourishment. No drugs. The Time to Build Health PN n City Items May Victor records. C. L. & Co.—advt, The police received a complaint from Luke Sinskie of Farmington avenue that there were two dogs in his chicken coop. Policeman Brophy and Dog Warden Reypolds went out and took the canines fn tow, Entertainment and dancing at the State Armory. Pierce —Advt, The W. C, T. U, will hold their meeting Tuesday afternoon at 3 p. m. at the Center church. { The Commercial Lunch now open fur business. ,Just around the cor- ner From Main street. W. I, Mc- Enroe, Prop.—advt. The store of Michael Peprezny of (142 North street, was burglarized by an unidentified thief Saturday eve- ning. The man used a clever method to get the money in the cash till. He ordered some soda and when the girl clerk went into the icebox to get fit, he locked her in and rifled the régis- ter. The police are investigating. Secure at once your tickets for the New Britaln Chorgl Soclety’s concert, May 8th. Exchange at Crowell's Drug Store tombrrow at 7 p. m.—advt. A baby girl was born Saturday. at the New Britain General hospital to Mr. and Mrs. Savage of Berlin, Mrs. Carroll B. Goff of Lake street will entertain the sewing society of the Order of the Amaranth Tuesday afternoon from 2 to 5 o'clock. Tegner lodge, O. of V. will mecet this evening. The monthly meeting of the New Britain Poultry association will be held tomorrow evening at I. 0. O. I hall on Hungerford Court. The concert committee in charge ot constitutes a pledge to make an hon- est effort not to use indecent lan- guage. HUGGER SENTENGED T0 TERM IN JAIL (Continued from First Page). rested Walter Bryzina for maintajn- ing a gambling house and John Slap- ski, Felix Chiama, Clement Char- zinski and Joseph Gryzina on gamb- ling charges. The alleged proprictor and Slapski were discharged. The others were fined $3 each. The police testified that the accused were engaged in a game on the counter. When they entered, Clement 45 said to have picked up $4 and at- tempted to hide it. Policeman O'Mara taok the money. SMALU FIR Department Rececives Small Calls— No Damage In Fither Case The police received a report this morning about 1 o'clock that a tele- phone pole on LaSallc street was on fire, Deputy Fire Chief Eugeue Barnes was notified and he went to the scene in the department car. He found that a grass fire was burning about the base of the pole and it was extinguighed without any damage. Engine Co. No. 2, put out a fire in the rear of Bence's garage on Chest- nut street a little after 8 o'clock this morning. A pile of rubbish near a fence was burning and a breeze fan- ned the flames against the fence. There was no damage. NON-PARTISAN TARIFF New York, May 1.—Organization of | a preliminary committee to urge pas- page of a permanent American non- partisan scientific tariff, - with head- quarters here was announced today. The committee announced its support of the tariff bill introduced in fhe sen- ate by Senator Frelinghuysen of New Jersey. CONDUCTORS MEET Cleveland, May 1.—The 37th session of the grand division of theorder of railway conductors and the 1S8th ses- siop of the grand division of the ladies’ auxiliary opened in triennial convention here today kel 0e0ed Flature,callin must be RE you going heed Nature's call r are you going to ake _Her and' thus hurt yo® own health? You will be responding in the highest possible way if you allow us to furnish _you with glasses. Do not delay; it is fatal. “We see that you see.” . Frank E. - Goodwin Eyesight Specialist 327 MAIN ST, PHONE 1905. to the recent Children’s Home benefit, will meet at the Elim Baptist church on May 9. Commodore Jack Barry council will meet Thursday evening. ROTARY SPEAKER New York Y. M. C. A, Man Will Speak Before Club On Thursday— First Woman To Speak. Joseph J. Guenther, for three years industrial secretary at the West Side Y. M. C. A. in New York, will speak at the weekly meeting of the Rotary club to be held at the EIks' club Thursday noon. Mr. Gunther has been a lecturer and teacher of industrial subjects for five ycars and at one time was in charge of the welfare work at the Colgate Soap factory, the Dodge and Cadillac automobile factories and at the Buster Brown Hosiery company. He will have as his subject “Industrial Challenge of Today.” All Rotarians and guests are asked to be present at 12:15 o'clock sharp. President Leon Sprague announced today that on May 11, he has arrang- ed for Miss Alice Sandiford, regional director of the Girl Scouts, to speak. This will be the first time a woman has had the privilege of addressing the local club. She will have as her subject “Girls' Place in the Commun- ity.” NEW BUS LINE Son of Local Policeman Puts New Red Bus on Kensington Line Walter Wagner, son of Traffic Po- liceman Fred Wagner, who recently purchased the Berlin-Kensington jit- ney line from ldward P. French, Sat- urday opened up a new schedule on this line and started a large bus operating oover the route. Mr. French, when he first started this line, experienced considerable | difficulty keeping his bus on the road | and during the past winter conveyed passengers to and fro by means of touring cars. Mr. Wagner has had a bus Ttompletely overhauled and plans to run hourly schedules. $18 More Received For Woodrow Wilson Fund The local committee on the Wood- row Wilson Foundation reports a most pleasing response to the appeal for donations for a Wilson memorial. The Commercial Trust company has agreed to receive checks for that pur- pose. Today's donations totalled $18. AGREEMENT WITH UNION The management of the Masonic show production, which opens at the Lyceum this evening, has reached an agreement with the local unions of the stage hands and musicians. A union orchestra will furnish the muesic, while the back-stage work will be done by the former crew. INSURGENTS ACTIVE., Londonderry, May 1.—Armed Irish republican army insurgents are active on the Londonderry-Donegal border according to reports received here to- day. They were said to have held | up and confiscated a number of mo- tor cars from Londonderry 1o frce state territory. HARDING AND WIFE JOIN. New York, May 1.—The American | Rible society announced today that | President and Mrs. Harding had be- come life members of the organiza- tion. They joined at the request of a 68 year old woman member, who said she had campaigned and voted for the president. WILL SEEK DIVORCE. London, May 1. — Viscountess Rhondda’s undefended petition for the | restoration of conjugal rights against her husband, Sir Humphrey Mack- worth, was granted today. Such a pe- tition is a usual preliminary, to di- NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, MONDAY, MAY 1, 1922. The unveiling of the Grant equestrian statue at \\'ashin};ton, D. C., with picked companies from Annapolis and West Point in attendance. FLOODS ARE ABATING. In Meantime Miss. KEngincers Are Guarding Against Expected Rise. New Orleans, May 1.—Continued declining stages of the Mississippi river from Memphis to the Gulf of Mexico attributed in the lower sec- tion of the river mainly to the three breaks in the embankment, favored the efforts of levee cngineers and thousands of workers today in pre- paring against another rise expected within a few days. Meanwhile the problem of sheltering and feeding the hundreds of refugees who continued to arrive at the relief camps, at some of which the shortage of food already is acute had become an increasingly serious one. The 1,- 500 refugees in the camp at Harrison- burg, La., were reported to be prac- tically without food. PICKETS AT CHURCH Non-Striker Runs Gauntlet of Strikers on Wedding Morn Pawtucket, May 1.—Strike sympa- thizers today picketed a church where an employe of the Crown Mfg. Co., whose mill is aifected by the textile strike was married. Two hundred men and women, after waiting at the bride's home escorted her automobile to the church. Many entered while others waited outside and marched round the building. The, newlyweds waited in the church for 30 minutes after the ceremony to escape the crowd and got away by a side door. They were driven ‘in an automobile to a photographer's studio where they had again to run the gauntlet before starting on their honeymoon. NEW BANK BILL. ‘Washington, May 1.—A bill amend- ing the federal reserve act so that state banks with a capital of $15,000 would be permitted to enter the fed- eral reserve system was introduced in the senate today by Senator Harris, democrat, Georgia as a further step in the program of extending credits to agriculture. The present law requires the bank must have capital of $25,000 before being admitted. Washington, May 1.—Decision on the request of the American legation at Peking for another warship at Tien ‘I'sin has not been reached, State department officials said today. Sec- retary Denby, testifying before a cen- ate committee, said the request ha not yet been laid before the Navy de- | partment. HOUSE REPORT 200,000 00,000 Deposited In Our Savings Department Up To And Including May 3rd Draws Interest From The NEWERTTAIN Ly Opex Saturday Evenings 6 - 8. Standard Time vorce action. APRIL TAX COLLECTIONS Gain Over Those of Last Year is In- dicated in Monthly Report of Col- Iector Bernadotte Loomis. * Tax collections during the month of April showed a gain of $8,003.86 over those of last year, Collector Berna- dotte Loomis reports. The figures in the several items, to- gether with those of last vear for the purpose of comparison, are as fol- lows: Taxes, $13,030.23, $3,107.03; sewer assessments, $215.06, $1,656.66; street improvement fund, $145. $563.92; street sprinkling, $68.56, $37.87. Totals, $13,459.34, $5,365.48. Bride-te-be is Only~20; Marriage License Held Up I'rank Giatella of 148 Bleeker street, New York city, and Miss Jose- phine Hicks of 44 Woodland street, have applied for a marriage license. The city clerk was unable to issue the certificate-at once since the bride to be is but 20 years of age. Consent of | North and Judd ner parents will be required before she can take out a license. Mayor’s Stepfather Is In Critical Condition The condition of Ferdinand Holly- wood of Tompkins Cove, N. Y., the father of Mrs. A. M. Paonessa, is re- ported to be critical Mayor Paon- essa went to New York Saturday af- ternoon to the bedside of the patient, and returned te the city today. Mrs. Paonessa remained at Tompkins Cove. DOG LIC Several hundred dogs were licensed in the last day rush at the town clerk’'s office this morning. All licenses is- sued after tomorrow will cost an ad- | ditional $1, this being the penalty pro- vided by state (Putnam & Co.) . Asked 170 123 160 23 18 26 56 Hfd Elec Light Southern N E Tel .. Am Hard Billings & Spencer Bristol Brass Colt’s Arms . Eagle Lock . anders T N B Machine Niles-Be-Pond com com 53 46 Peck, Stow- and Wilcox 28 Russell Mfg Co 92 Scovill Mfg Co Standard Screw Traut and Hine Union Mfg Co .. Stanley Works Financial News WALL STREET STOCK EXCHANGE REPORTY 10:30 a, m, = Btock market prices registered further substantial ad. vances at the active opening of to. day's sesslon. Gulf States Steel was the conspicuous feature, sgon gaining 4 1-4 points, International Paper, Ass'd Drygoods, Am'n Loco, Otls Flev, California Pet, and Kelly Springfleld Tire rose 1 to 1% points, Mexican Pet, and Studebaker were the only leaders to react, the latter being sold on the fatlure of the di- rectors to declare more than the regular common dividend, High «Low Bt Sug .... 41 40% Can ., . 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