New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 28, 1922, Page 2

OFFICE SUPPLIES Files Blank Books Inventory Blanks Etc. Tke Dickinson Drug Co. 169-171 MAIN STREET Here are the Clothing Values That They're Talking About Horsfall Overcoats Made by Houses that Supply us regularly. Town Ulsters, semi - belted with convertible collar—in solid colors—a good range of sizes. To go at— $19.75 New arrivals in the well fay- ored 1928 Box model with patch pockets—made of plaid-back woolens. To go at— $23.75 “It Pays to l'l'uy 0ur Kind,” Gulbransen Pluyer Pianos, Morans’. —advt. See the balloon dancer, Firemen's Ball, New Year's night, State Armory. —advt. Millbrook Ice Cream — plain and fancy forms. Bricks, 2 to 20 gal. lots. McEnroes, West Main st.—advt. Cut prices—McEnroe's, West Mair St.—advt. Meet me at Schmarr's for dinner.— advt. ELLIS ISLAND PROBE Sir Auckland Geddes Plans To Visit Station Sometime Today New York, Dec. 28.—As a result of complaints of various British immi- grants Sir Auckland Geddes, British ambassador to the United States will make an inspection of the station at Ilis Island today. James J. Davis, U. 8. secretary of labor announced last night. ‘The ambassador upon his arrival from Washington today will be met by Secretary Davis, Some of the poisonous plants found in the United States are poison ivy, poison sumac, poison hemlock, water hemlock, pokeweed, corncockle, black cherry, red buckeye, horse chestnut, laurel and jimson weed. Itching PAZO OINTMENT instantly Re- lieves ITCHING PILES and you can get restful sleep after the first application. . All druggists are authorized to refund money if PAZO OINT- MENT fails to Cure any case of ITCHING, BLIND, .BLEEDING or PROTRUDING PILES. Cures ordinary cases in 6 days, the ‘worst cases in 14 days. 60c. m ANNOUNCEMENT The Bailey Ice Company will con- tinue its business the ‘same as in the past. HENRY C. BAILEY, President, THE HERALD The A-B-C Paper BOY SGOUT COUNCIL HEARS 1922 REPORT Arthar G. Kimball Chosen Presi- dent for Coming Year Two hundred and twenty-elght merit badge tests were passed dur- ing the year as compared to 146 lakt year and 69 the year before, accord. ing to a report by the committee on court of honor, made at the annual moeting of thoe Boy Scout councll of New Britain last evening, Number of tests passed 1921, 1022, Second chass tests—39, 45, 41, I"irst class tests—31, 21, 20, Merit badge tests—60, 146, There were 10 regular sessions of the court of honor throughout year at which an average of members were present, All awards made by this commit- tee were in accordance Wwith the standards sets by the national court of honor and only after the commit- tee members by personal interroga- tion, were satisfled as to qualification of the applicant, A. 'G. Kimball President, The following officers were elected fer the coming year: President, Arthur G. Kimball; vice-president, administration, * Edmund L. Warren; vice-president, recruiting and train- ing, Louis P. Slade; vice-president, standards, Rev. J. L. Sullivan; treas- urer, Leon A, Sprague; secretary, Lo- gan Page; commissioner, James P, RRogers. The officers named and John H. Fellows and I'red R. Gilpatric con- stitute the exccutive committee. Di- rector of education, Frederic L. Fay. Members: W. C. French, Robert B. Skinner, E. W. Peyton, Frank L. Wilcox, I, H. Alford, Rev. Bamuel 8. Fiske, A. N. Abbe, George P. Spear, W. L. Damon, Joseph R. Andrews, H, L., Platt, . 8, Chamberlain, J. W. Marsland, W. C. Hungerford, Charles R, Sherman, W. W. Bullen, W. J. Noble, E. W. Pape, Rev. John L. Davis, Oscar Marsh, Rev. Dr. J. E. Klingberg, A. I, Corbin, Edward Connolly, M. 8. Hart, Peter Crona, E. W. Eddy, Carl 8, Neuman, R. C. Twichell, G. W. Traut, Morris D. Saxe, . M. Holmes, Willlam Fay, A. A. Mills, E. O. Kilbourne, Rev. Gustave 1. Pihl, Rev. L. Bojnowsky, Rev. Thomas Laden and Dr. J. W. Bush. As the membership of the council is becoming cumbersome it was thought advisable to reduce the membership by 30. The recommendations as made provide for a membership of 45. Report of Executive. Walter O. Cook, Scout executive, made the following report of his ac- tivities for the past year: “Under instructions from the ex- écutive committee the executive at- tended a seven day conference of the executives of the United States at Ashville, Notth ‘Carolina, in Septem- ber. This conference was both prac- tical and inspirational in character. The keynote of the conference which was sounded by St. Elmo Lewis, a business expert. was how to obtain the ‘net result’ in scoufing. In other words how best to utilize every dollar contributed to Scouting to the best advantage expressed in terms of boys. ‘Executives = came to this confer- ence from the Pacific coast and even Honolulu, We had three guests from foreign countries. The cost to the country of sending these men such a distance would probably run into many thousands of dollars. Our chief Scout executive believes that if we are justified in expending this vast amount of money for the exchange of ideas and experiences that the re- sult of such a conference should man- ifest itself in terms of more boys reached by the movement. Our chief has asked every first class councll to increase its membership 25 ber cent by February 15, 1923. This council has pledged itself through me to do s0. This will not be difficult as we were credited with only 245 scouts January 1 of this year and our in- crease is but 61 scouts. Leadership Big Problem. “Our-greatest problem here in New Britain is that of !eadership. The turn-over is very high due to re- movals from the city and other causes beyond our control. difficult to get the boyg to register be- cause of the fifty cents a year regis- tration fee. Very few troops but what have a considerable number of scouts in their membership who are not officially registered in New York. Unless they are so registered the councll receives no credit for them, The elimination of this evil of course, must come about through the educa- tion of the scoutmaster. The idea must be sold. “Two weeks ago the scout execu- tives of Connecticut met here in New Britain for a one day's conference and conferred with Ray Wyland of the national office. A very profitable evening was also spent between Mr, Wyland and the local scoutmasters. “On October 1 the Boys' club di- rectors requested the rooms which have been used for our office for the past three years. With the sanction of the executive committee a two year lease has been taken of room 10 in thes Hallinan building for a scout office. The rent is $180 per year and electric light service about $20. The more central location for the office will more than warrant the additional expenditure. “The little scout paper known as “The Scout Duffle Bag" is just a year old this month. I believe that it is very helpful to the movement and also that it might be improved some- what. This has boen published for a year without a cent of cost to the council go far. The proceeds from the advertisements and a special con- cession from the state trade school make it just break even each month. “Realizing that the volunteer work- er constitutes the backbone of scout- ing in all communities I wish to per- sonally thank the officers and leaders for their splendid co-operation.” in 1020, 228, two with the A-B-C Want Ads jC Recruiting and Training 1. R. Gilpatric, chairman of the ommittee on recruiting and training, NEXT MON. TUES. WED. | made the following fl\v] It is also very is council con d a school for scout leaders from January 9th to March 18th, 1022, at the Central Junior High school, “There were 16 members of the school, nine of whom qualiffed for the certificate ot proficiency issued by the national department of education, Several others would have qualified if their attendance haa been 76 per cent, | Hix of the nine qualified are now in the work and two who did not quality, “Frederic L, I"ay, director of educa- tion, conducted this school In his usual efficient way, giving several hours per week to the work, “A school for patrol leaders was conducted 11 weeks during the win- ten, at which 81 selected scouts were enrolled, Of this number 27 com- pleted the course and 18 fulfilled the requirements entitling them to cer- tificates from the council, Five scouts had perfect attendance, An examination at the completion of the school revealed the following grades of profielency: Four attained grade ‘A, Nine attained grade 'B'. Five ttained grade ‘C', “It 18 the bellef of the committee that this school is as important if not more 8o, than the scout leaders' school for the reason that leadership is being developed in the young boy during the plastic stage of adolescense. 1f we are to continue Scouting as a permanent institution in the com- munity it is now time to recruit from our own ranks. In order to do this successfully: we must train our boys in leadership while they are enthused with the spirit of scouting and during the years when they are most adapted to leadership training. We have a vision that some day all of, our aduit leaders will have been through the practical school of scouting and that we will not be obliged to depend up- on untrained leadership in the hope that they will get the vision after en- tering the work. “There is another scout leaders’ school in progress at the present time with a membership of 14 which will omplete its sessions the latter part of January. “The 19238 school for patrol leaders will be conducted sometime within the next two months, “The committee is very grateful for the splendid interest and work of Mr. Tay and recommends that a vot¢ of thanks be extended him from the * | council” Commanity Relations E. L. warren made the following report on community relations: “As in former years the scouts have been of help in taking down the dead wreaths and cleaning up the court of honor at Walnut Hill park. “Several lantern slide talks have been given at different schools in the city. The entire Sunday evening re- cently was given over to a lantern slide talk at the Methodist church, which was very hen(‘flcml to the movement. “As in previous years the scouts handled the ingathering department for the Near East relief bundle day campaign last Ju “Literature has been distributed throughout the year for several or- ganizations such as the Rotary club, Red Cross, Safety campaign, fire pre- vention campaign, tuberculosis relief society and others, Scouts assisted the G, A. R. and the Sons of Veterans IJ the decora- tion of graves on Decoration Day. uring the Old here In New Hritain scouts acted as messengers and guided the visitors to their homes, They also made them- selves helpful in other ways, "'Several violations of health ord!- nances have been reported to the health department throughout the year, 2 “The scouts %ad the members of the Rotary club as thelr guests at the summer camp again this year, “Two scouts of New Britain have passed away during the year, Scout Michael Nordino, of troop No, 1, at the Home for Crippled Children at Newington, and ‘Tudor Cooley, of troop No. 4 at the Center church, The councll was represented at both fu- nerals, “It is the belief of the committee that the community good turn not only serves thé purpose of placing the movement in a very favorable light with the public but has a very defl- nite part in the building of the boy's character for future citizenship,” Camp Report The camping committee under E, L, Warren, chairman, reported as fol- lows; “It has been the policy of the Boy Scout camp committee for the past three years to endeavor to make the camp as nearly self-supporting as possible on the basis of a charge of $7 per week per boy, The camp di- rector has given unusual co-operation to this end with the result that the camp has had very small deflcits in the two years' previous and this year has broken even, “It is evident, however, that this result has been obtained at the ex- pense of adquate leadership, as shown by the report of the camp director. It seems that there should be in ad- dition to the camp director, one other adult leader to be director of activi- ties of the boys. The effectiveness and value of the camp to the boys at- tending should be largely increased by the employing of a capable assis- tant to the camp 'director. “We believe that additional ex- pense involved in the employment of an extra adult leader will be wamn ranted if the number of boys attend- ing the camp can be conslderably in- creased. We feel that a thorough gnd carefully planned ‘campaign to enlist the interest of all scoutmasters and scouts within the jurisdiction of the New Britain council in the camp should be carried out early in 1923 in order to insure a much increased at- j tendance at the camp. “We lack a satisfactory camp site and consideration is being given to this important question. Helpful sug- gestions from members of the coun- cil as to suitable camp location will be welcomed by the committee. “We recommend that the camp committee be authorized to provide an assistant to the camp director for the year 1923, and that every effort be made to inerease the attendance at the camp to assist in taking care of’ this increased expense.” Two Firemen Injured At Louisville Blaze Louisville, Ky,, Dec. 28.—Two fire- men were seriously injured and more than a score overcome by smoke and gas when. & four:story- office building in the business district was gutted by fire last evening. Investigation when Starting Tomorrow Our January Clearance Sale With Emphatic Reductions COATS AND WRAPS All models of our newest Winter Coats and Wraps in- cluded in this sale—materials of the best, such as Orman- dale, Normandy, Panvellane, Velour, Herringbone, Polaire and Bolivia, topped with deep collar of Beaver, Squirrel, Caracul, Wolf, Raccoon and Beaverette. Reduced to— $8.98, $15, $25, $35, $45 SILK AND CLOTH DRESSES REDUCED The newer styles featured in afternoon, street, utility, novelty and sport dresses. Rich soft and crepy materials as Poiret Twill, Tricotine, Velvet and Canton. Reduced to— $9.98, $12.98, $19.98 GIRLS’ COATS REDUCED All Wool Polaires are used extensively in our models of Girls’ Coats—and all reduced to— $4.50, $6.50, $9.50 Also Other All Wool Materials of Velour, Mixtures, Herringbone and Chinchilla; sizes 3 years to 14. FROM OUR CORSET DEPT. C-B Corsets, medium and elastic top corsets in pink coutil, regular $1.25 value. 79 Special at ... c Boyshform Brassieres in as- sorted designs of broche ma- terials, pink only, Special at .. MILLINERY— All the season’s millineny cre- ations reduced for final clear- ance, $1.00 $2.98 $3.98 WAISTS— Porto Rican hand made blouses, Kand drawn and neatly trimmed. Special at .. Bulldog Drummond brought under co trol falled to verify an early report that five men had been trapped on the roof of the hullding, Explosiony of aclds in the plant of an engraving company on the fourth floor goner- ated quantities of, gas which added to the difficulty of fighting the flames. One of the two men serlously in- Jured was hurt In a fall, The other was Injured by gas and smoke, FORMER PRESIDENT 15 60 YEARS OLD TODAY the fire had be (Continued Irom IFirst Bage) ccutive director of the foundation, and Mrs, Kate Trenholm Abrams, vice-chairman of the District of Co- lumbla branch of the organization, headed the delegation of six members appointed to call on Mr. Wilson. No special demonstration had been planned by the delegation, it was said, although it believed a number of organizations and individuals might join the members in the call, His birthday anniversary finds Wil- son again in the edge of the political spotlight, Whether that spotlight again will swing to put the former president in the center of its radiance is to many the most engaging question before America today. There seems little doubt that Wil- son today is physically better than at any time since his collapse in 1919, Though his left side still is partly paralyzed, Wilson now s able to stand without his cane and he even walks a few steps in his garden with out its aid, His color is better, He has taken on weight, And there are evidences that his stronger physical condition 1n per- mitting a more active folloWing of national affairs, Wilson has been writing letters on public questions—notably on the late elections. Also his Armistice Day speech to admirers gathered at his home revealed he does not yet con- cede defeat in the cause in which he sacrificed his health, and indicated his expectation that American per- ticipation in world affair would be- Jcome the dominating issue In 1924, ‘Wilson unquestionably is the leader of the democratic party today. His hold on the minds and hearts of the rank and file of his party has been strengthened by his fllness and by the difficulties in which the world has found itself the last two years. It seems certain Wilson will lay down the lines on which the demo- cratic party will attempt its ‘come- back in 1924 and that his influence on the choice of candidates will be mosg powerful. “But for his remaining seated," sald Georges Clemenceau after his recent call on the ex-president, “he was the same Wilson I knew in Paris. Slightly fatter, nothing else. He showed himself thoroughly abreast of affairs.” Of Wilson's famous 14 points—his creed for establishing world peace— Clemenceau said: . “Yes, 1 mentioned them. And Wilson’s face lit up. He was a firm believer in their ultimate triumph.” l Rothfeder’s 378 Main Street ' New Britain FROM OUR HOSIERY DEPT Pure dye silk stockings, black only, reinforced heel and toe .... $l.49 Black Lisle Hose with mock seam in all sizes, Rotiond 9.1 st DG Heavy ' Sport- Stockings, with dropstitch or wide ribbed, black and cordovan; reduced to Onyx “Pointex" Silk Stockings ... A HANDSOME 1923 ART CALENDAR GIVEN TO EACH CUSTOMER THIS WEEK — ASK FOR ONE — HERBERT L. MILLS HARDWARE 336 MAIN ST. Join Our 1923 XmasClub Tonight ~ Open 7 to 9 o’clock QU TRUST CO. NEWBRITAIK oy MON.—TUES.—WED.—JAN. 1, 2, 3 The First Big Hit of 1923 8—Great Reels—8 that make you ask for more. LON CHANEY is cast as “Fagin” CONTINUOUS SHOWS DAILY Children Can See It After School This Production Will Also Feature the Big New Year’s Eve Midnight Frolic It Hass More Speed Than the 2th Century Limited! More Thrills Than a Dash Through the Rapids! More Fascinating Than a Circus! See This Thrilling Melodrama!