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New Britain Herald COMPANY 1) cet HERALD PUBLISHING (Tasucd Daily Ty At Herald ¥ [ SUBSCRIPTION $5.00 a Year $200 T RATES th. A Mont} 08 Mon Post OMce at New Britain Mall Matter, Lintered at the as Second Cla TELEPHONE CALLS Business Office v Editorial Rooms | st dam in The only profitable advert hoo nd pres the City. Circulation room always open to Member of The Associated Press The Associated Press to the use for re-publi credited to it or not ofhe in this paper lished herein, of all news credited w8 pub. with a strietls atdon, Our sad upon this 1gaInst figures to b 101t THE TROLLEY PROBLEM Tt is good, it be pected Mayor Paonessa taking up at trolley problem and was to ex- to see once the perplexing and showing his eagerness to hetter this the to bring lower rates to fight at continue transportation city. Passing agreement pany and any municipality would not that trolley fact the the between over com- take supervision out of the hands of the public utilities commission—and it {s believed that there ous obstacles in the w ent of method of treatment suggested by yor Kinsella would bhe seri- y of independ- the the action company- of the question Mayor Paonessa's letter of Hartford, does the matter. There is but one way to get cheaper trolley fares. That way is to convince the Connecticut utilities commissior court that Jjustice tc the patrons and at the same time*increased prosperity to the Con- necticut company That this situation would result to- day is the who have might the experiment been tried in the past, as it had It might not be the result at some time in the fu- go to the heart of company, the public and any impartial lower fares would bring firm conviction of many studied not have the matter. This been the result had been tried. ture when a long period of wonder- ful prosperity has brought ample cash to trolley patrons. But this would be the result and increased patronage would con- tinue. today Granted, for argument's sake, that proving this, which, it is believed, is a fact, y to present such proof to the Connecticut company and to the commission and may be concerned, would he to have a comprehensive study made of the transportation system in this state, by a man or committee of men in whose knowledge and expertnes portation matters the Connecticut Co. and the commission would have con- is necessary, the only way public utilities to any court which in trans- fidence, and a report laid before both the company and the commission. There was talk of doing this winter and Alderman Gilpatric was last sent to Boston to attempt to secure a man who could make such a compre- hensive study of the situation here and who would be able, with authori- ty, to present the case. wes dropped as involving too great an expense. But the various cities of the might well combine, following the idea of Mayor Paonessa in his letter to Mayor Kinsella a little further, to share the expense of such an investi- gation if It submitted that such a movement, into to the to The matter state all other means fail. is which the people seem because of a failure part of those having the power remedy the situation to look at the situation under the light of present day condi- tions, would bring results. The fares would be reduced mainly because fare reductions, today would bring greater security to the Connecticut company for the future and greater revenue to it today. Incidentally the people’s purpose would lished. be forced on be accom- WAKE UP Those who prepared the propa- ganda for electricity by featuring the + newly invented arrangement by which the floor only will be lighted so that “Papa to step on tacks or toys when he gets up in the middle of the night to walk the floor with baby, should do as he, papa, is supposed to do—wake up. The per- sons who imagine that papa does this nowadays are sadly behind the times or eise they are clinging to custom of days so far bygone that they may be remembered only by the octogenarian or by the young parent who takes the teaching of the octogenarian seriously Neither papa nor mamma get up now when the baby cries. It is not good for the baby to humor him, her or them. Baby will grow up to be a “ self willed young person if he, she or they are thus®treated. “The book” says this is so; this is so. There would be no “flappers” today or no youthful male encouragers of flappers had they not been taken up in their babyhood every time they cried. Moreover the modern baby does not wake up in the night and cry. “The won't have book” says it is entirely unnecessary | for baby to do thig if he, she or they are well. And the modern baby is al- s grp— at night, he up by ways well hechuse she or they | have been brought the book Moreover, once aguin, there is no necessity for papa or mamma to look for tac floor or for toys. I'he mamma do not Nor modern papa or nore haby bed baby It is Ly tack doos iround the 1 f plice 1 the bed room loes not g f she or room they to to speak He, she must be self-relfant and learn!| where there are people n word now and then to baby or they to amuse himself, herself or them- It better for baby to do It invention whereby ' SUYS 80, is so. the the floor wil be lighted while the rest thus. 7 Nevertheless the room remains in darkn leaving the person who does not arisc undisturbed in slumber and unan- noyed, is & good invention, It glves the one who must arise a chance to find, the floor, various articles nec toilet, or ary to a complete such as & who does the without disturbing the one ot have.to arise, and it gives chance to take full ad- | vantage, mornings, the splendid rule of daylight savings. carly riser the even on dark of | S 2 | FRANCE'S DEBT TO US ! The rench budget for 1923 makes no provision of the payment of capi- French debt to tal or interest on the the United States. ther recently the American debt ng commision informed Ir that it would be glad to receive the | goyernment's suggestions as fu nece I'rench to plans for of interest on| debt the capital payment her to us and amoritization on | The French government has inform- ed the commission that it is ready to| send a speeial mission to this coun(r)‘1 to confer on the subject. There is a significance to the fact that communication comes from France at when the aid of the United States is sought in straightening out the trouble in re- gard to Rus There is a decided | feeling in England, noted in a fashion | decidedly uncomplimentary to United States in at least one’English paper, that this country is not doing its duty regard to the aid | sought us the mat- ter of Russia. It is harly conceivable that Lloyd George's influence with the | French powers that be is so great as 'to inspire any action by them in r gard to their association with this| country, lessly €poken might well have brought the thought to the French that now, States might possi- | the Just this time ia. a in from in but a word from him, care- when the United bly feel | not see the embarrassed becaust it doe way clear to joining straightening out proce | gard to Rusia, would be a good time to the United tSates that if, she expects nations of«Europe to pay their debts to her she might try to| its in| in re-| remind help nations. But clearly this country has taken, that it cannot talk business with a nation, Russia, which | upon which to ss arguments, leaves us European the proper stand lacks any ba place busir i free from any embarrassment of any ! The matter of France's debt to | us will not influence our action in re- gard to discusion of Russia with the other nations, kind. | They would WOMEN VESTRYMEN deeided at the annual con- of the e Connecticut that women may serve as| 1t vention was Episcopal diocese of members of the vestry in Episcopal churches in Connecticut, and may be | elected the offices of ! treasurer. Only males may be ward-! to clerk and ens. the | NEW I BRITAIN DALLY great portion of its membership with- out which its present fine, dignified | stand all over the country could not have ben gained 8 STAND May responsibili- UNITED STA Russin's memorandum 11 vepudiated her financial In it she refused to recognize her | While she ty debts stands on this note | the United s will not enter & sort of discussion of with Russia a participant If this note is withdrawn the United of that of those States might enter a discussion | Ruesia, | economic conditions in the United States' knowledge hecome sge will not en- to that financial aid for fallacies conditions might gencral among the natlons. ge the is any hope of until her b abandoned, She cour Hoviet believe there her business are will enter no dis- cussion in which political matters will taken up. The United States has been placed either mis- Child and to in a false light through apprehension of Ambassador the convey of instructions he received, his g misapprehension others, Including at least one Ameri-| can correspondent, or through a com-| bination of ecircumstances which led| others to do the misconstruing, tur ing Mr. Child's that the United States would not accept the in- | statement vitation to The Hague unless certain| conditions were fulfilled, laration by him that the United States | into a dec- would accept if those conditions were agreed to. Let it States will not give the Soviet any en- couragement, even to the extent of| entering a conference in which the until the Soviet | recognizes the binding quality of the contract and the principle of owner- ship of property. And this is not ing, be it understood, that the Unitec | States will do business with the Soviet be reiterated: The TUnited| Soviet participates, ay- when the Soviet bows to these prin- | ciples. MODERN SANITY Even school committees of Massa- are becoming affected b; a Mournful-faced rigidly of reg- chusetts modern rit of sanity common sense. ulation is losing its hold on the hide- bound. Broad-mindedness is booming; | eyes are opening, and reasons hand. The pr reign wcipal of a school was dis- | |In | stud LSKALD, FRIDAY, MAY oceur. news in high life were they woulll common little 0 ance, have value . are He A college professor says sing the imaginatives faculty, are coming back. The casiest way to understand the psychology of the to study the material it sends to Con- gress, insists our ancesters were rate the old hoys a few rs back were incrusted Bryan dirt. At any thonsand ye with it The reason frecdom doesn't long is because mental laziness soon persuades citizens to speak of Gov- ernment as “they."” It she doesn't get photographed, it isn't modesty. It is but frank accept- ance of conditions over which she has no control, The objection to the classical music you hear on the radio is that it doesn’t always harmonize with the neighbor's phonograph. /pt the pedestrian is grected the saying od be with you." America he is greeted with the stick ‘em up.” In with " sayin Unionism has its little faults while man is full of good the world must choose hegween organized labor - TOATTEND S6H0L Summer College Sustained to Aid in Education Philadelphia, May 19.—Women who work for their living will again be Bryn Mawr college this summer at the second term *“for wom- en in industry The classrooms, filled during tt regular term with daughters of althy American fam- ilies will be used during the summer by women who work in factories, Jaundry work glove makers, tele- missed the other day because he took a party of boy students to a baseball | instead of to a health meeting. | the indignation of the| school committee was roughly right- eous. The basebal game, which the boys would game Probably idea a | of such a thir g, actually filling their lungs with all tha they enjoy, shouting, @ laughi fresh when, instead, air and sort of things, might have been sitting, hunched furrowed, bre m,-[' pure by the breath instructors, within the sound of the voice of a lecturer whose words, if they were listened to, would have made them happy in the knowl- | edge of doing things they wanted Awful The boys, ot when the terrible teacher them to the ball game, was dismussed. attend cla o sided over by his successor. A great light dawned on the committee, The terrible teacher was re-instated. The went to school. Watch that class:® The boys who come from it will be real little men of whom the enlightened school commit- tee will be proud. of shoulder, bro ing the air made of learned the danger of to most do. thought! them, struck who took not s 2 school boys cheered—and The significance of this action does not lies in the fact that women have been recognized the affairs as quite capable of Joining administration of church Long has is been known and acknowledged that wom- en’'s activities and constant mvr-rr*st‘ which | is not alive have died. It that their and Kkeen interest should have brought have kept churches otherwise would strange, therefore energy recognition The real significance of the action two things. | is for s in a combination of opal church—and this out prejudiced criticism, it is acknowledged by its most earn- lest members—with its dignified ritual land obse been ance of form, has tradition for many | other protestant church it has hesitated to make changes. service, firmly bound by years. Perhaps more than any Worshippers love its always practically the accustomed same, inspiring to it, land Episcopal churchmen of the old | school dis anything radical alteration in the tive policy of the been made in it is strong evidence of to those ike to see changes made in it. That th administra- pertaining to church should have the inevitableness of changes in all | phases of life | Combine this attitude of the Episcopal church with the con- attitude of the state of Con- which ratifying the giving the and it may recognitioi of conservative servative necticut delayed so long be- nineteenth suffrage women, | that this dominating activities of the day, as beei acknowledged domin- the home life of the has been made |the most conservative | imaginable The | Episcopal church is to be congratu- |1atcri on giving recognition to that fore amend- ment to bee seen new women as forces in the [they have ating | world forces in always, nnder action was proper and the conditions | Facts and Fancies (BY GOBERT OUILLEN) ‘ The amount of insure cary flatters them. 1ce some men Civilization may be saved, but it | will never look the same again. If you have any kind words to say say ’em now. Epitaffy has no value, Some men ar eso darned spring fever cannot make an sion on them. lazy that impres- It may be that dark-h: d women | marry first. But light-haired | marry oftenest. 1 ones | clearer | And yet an ardent advocate of demgqgracy feels offended if the wait-| er doesn't show him proper deference. doesn’t show te with | Darn German a proper wilingness those who hate he Some men never amount to much, | and some manage by the grace of God to get the right kind of wives. She to co-oper il By the with which he catches | | his parents at @t, the small boy soon learns that it doesn’t pay to lie. en The reason paragraphers strike is because they know it wouid be too darned easy to fill their places. o | Europe must borrow from Peter to | | pay Paul urtil she ontgrows the habit | | of borrowing from Peter to lick Paul. There's a brighter side. If scandais phone operators and representatives of a score of industries. | Limited To Women. | summer school, | Admission to the instituted last year, limited to | women and girls who “‘work with the | te of their t The school last car had an enroliment of 80 and for e term this summer, from June 15 to August 10, applications of 100 can- didates were accepted. An international to the school this year countries are represented. Applicants were selected by dis-| tricts and these were passed upon hy | a central admissions committee, The district committees after examining hundreds of applicants, submitted the names of 143 candidates. The central committee accepted 87 of these. In an additional classification known as the “leaders group,” 13 were selected | the central committee. | 'ment and textile workers have est representation in the list of accepted candidates. There are 19 garment workers and 15 textile work- ers. Other trades represented are: I presented. Telephone 7 workers, 6; tobacco printing shoes, dvertising specialties, manufacturer of typewriters, watches laupdry, 2; neckwear, cor- | sets, metals, candy, kodaks, automo- biles, paper boxes, bleachery, chemi- cals , onc each. America leads in the representation by countries with 67. The other coun- tries represented are: Russia, 9; Eng- land, 2; Hungary, Poland, Germar Holl Austr Lithuania, Rou- | mania and Sweden, each one. | The stu s will come from eight the larger cities of the United ates. New York leads with 20 and 3 has 17. Others in or- ton 13 Wash- eveland 7, St. Loui I'ive more com northwest section of the t in that 11 | Y electrical | nd cigarettes, 6 millin and soap, ne g0 10 Ancis towns in t country SWEDISH RELTEF AID from Government Asks Parliament for Ap-| Situation Does Not Improve. Stockholm, May 19.—The govern- ment has asked the Swedish parlia- ment thus far this year for app tio equivalent to about $21,000,000 for relief of the unemployed and the parliament has granted about $9,200,- 000 which is has considered sufficient tide over a few wecks when & view of the situation can hc pria- ohtained The imber of ur that 1 cased latest figures chow mployed has d but the number of those receiving re licf has increased. 25 Years Ago Today (Taken from Herald of that date) will letter Rock local mail men convention of held Bavin Several the a ai riers to car- at on hletie at Turne2 the ociety o n 1l attefd Holyo Mass, on June . Loy G. Hjerpe, pastor of e e e s | SPECIAL SALE GIRLS’ COA'TS $4.95 and Up BISSE-LELAND CO. 14, need not despair however, Long skirts | st | pect will attach ‘ | attend the | 1vZz | Specially |18 Purchased . and 1K Just Arrived New Smart Models | | | : |a call to the pastora lat Galesburg, Il patch pockets. dish Bethany church, has received te of the church The local pastor has assured his pari hibners | that he will not accept the call. Lynch has pe- ng of his wish duties at the however, Umpire Thomas {itioned President You! {o be relieved of any New York club games. Charles Firnhaber is the committe of the Va D. O. H.,, for a fair whic £00N. assisting on ter Jahn lodge, h will be held ——— P o | % | e | | THE STORE THAT ALWAYS LEADS D CO. 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