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A New Britain Herald HERALY (ponet A Mo PUBI P s SURBORIPT! RATES » Your 208 Thoes N "nee M Mass Ma TELEPHONY e OMce B Batroria! Rocme sredited 1 I8 this pepsr and alee lighed Perein 1oip) news pub Member Andit Farean of Clreniation The A B O (s & wetienal organisation Whirh fumdshes newwpspe tieers with w #irl efi sulation N newspaper ures 19 both natienal and lee CENTRAL PARK New Tritain without its Centra The L Park! idea comes with a sheek Tt has been the ed landmark of this tand tandm affectionately regard eity of Ne otfer Ne means New England " Ay the ks of W England cittos. A “green” Teople iave fought against eutting uny portions of Central Park trafMe more to do away with a pa defeated space is the reserve sustaln the feeling that we crowded together in such a way that the time will come when the city will be oppressed by atmosphere that would stifie The suggestion has been made that | A new city hall be bullt there-—a low structure which, it ‘might be claimed, would not have the effect of giving| the city the appearance being | crowded close, Possibly this is so; pos- sibly we would be able to see the blue sky above the new city hall built in that spot. But we want to see more than the | blue sky. We want that open space -o‘ decidedly the mark of New Britain | and New Britain's relationship to the | section of the country called. New England. In fifty years tifs will be a | great city. Let Central Park remain as it has heen there through all the years of the city’s existence, No building, however fine, however convenient, however practical, would take the place of that open space we call Cen- tral Park which tells the old resident, returning, that he has come to the “old home town” now such a live city great New England. { convenient, Ruggestions rt of It have heen That which we have to by publie sentiment are not an of | | | { of the SAVE MILK APPROV It is gratifying to find that newrn!, of the big producers selling milk to | New Britain approved the action of the common council in calling for ordinances requiring deal- ers to sell pasteurized milk or milk coming from tuberculin tested herds. The conimon councll mem- bers are to he congratulated for hav- ing taken this action, and they will remain firm in their position favoring the safeguarding of the health espe- cially of children, if they are not in-| fluenced by unworthy arguments ad- vanced to make them reconsider their action. This {8 a matter upon which thcrey are no two sides. It is essentially one which is favored hy people who have any consideration at all for the health of people who¥ trust to | them to protect them from danger. | It would seem that opponents of such | a measure would feel a sense of guilt every time they saw a child drink a glass of milk, feeling that that milk might contain the germ of some dis ease which would have been kilied but for their action in opposing this humanitarian measure. People may forgive many things in a politiclan or in a political organi- zation, with the smiling remark that “all's fair which at times seems too true. But people will a politiclan or a political 4 dealers have only all politics™ in not forgive organization who or which endan- gers the lives of others because that politician or political organization might be lost if he | evi- feels some votes stands for a 80 this g our milk or it measure dently right a ordinance safe- guar PLANK The A “WET” Herald newpaper's i rom this respondent, showing s Democra f 1024 favor. 1yl medi | and disorganization. “ France and in Lgypt, | certainly good. the 16th amend Jecided in AS there the part of i few have done hesitation organization e its wranted | wWe eoms yme fram the aet endment. Prahibitionists 1 anti-prohibitionists who are seri ous about the' matter and whe think of the future welfare of the eountry ather than of their own desires or prejudices, may well devote time 10 a 10y of the deeper side of this mate ter RED PROPAGANDA The man in the street hears about ed propaganda coming from Itussia and is Inelined to smile, No one takes the , Matement seriously that the Amount of this propaganda has assumed tremendous proportions What harm does it do anyway, is the general attitude, Or “there's nothing to such talk."” It is hard for us to con. celvg that an organization is spend- Ing vast sums for propaganda to be sent out of the country. For this reason because of this at. titude of mind, It 15 well to consider | the statements of the Communist organ's aditor in London, making ac- cusations against certain persons for not accounting for propaganda funds| in their hands. We are not capecially | concerned whether or not such peo- | ple account for such moneys. We are concerned, however, to know that this man claims that the total amount of | vnnr,lln spent by the “comrades,” for | vhich no account has been made hi | nbout 13,750,000, Ada to this amount the sums which have been accounted | for, and which are not jndicated, and the very | it may be seen that certainly the talk | | of propdganda is backed up by facts| and that the Rusian Communist party‘ and Third International are, in fact, | spending huge sums to spread their | gospel abroad—which means, accord- | ing to the best information we have, | the spreading of a gospel of violence | In England and | Bulgaria Turkey this work is being carried on. No one seems to know how much is yand { being spent in this country, but it is quite certain that if ‘those countries are consgidered good grounds for the scattering of the seed of Communism, it is certain the United States is not neglected. No matter how great faith have in the common sense of the people of this country, it is wise to gonsider this menace and to be warn- | ed against it we COAL. The chairman of the executive committee of the Southern Pacific Rallway Company declares that coal | must steadily rise in price hecause of | the upward trend of labor and ma- terial costs and difficulties .of m|nlng. He advises various wi of conserv- ing coal by somewhat intricate vices not yet perfected. The advice-About conserving coal is | Moreover the con- viction is held that other additionat| means of heating must eventually be for the coal of course, is not inexhaustible as noth- | de- | devised, supply, be used up. But the thing that con- | cerns us just at the moment is not what will come in tht distant future, | but what is coming now, right aw: —next winter, A s Weekly recently does not under- to tell all that is the matter coal conditfons, Of course mines discussion of the subject in Col- 1 take with we know that there too many and too many miners, the mines he- ing worked only part of the year and of the 200®%ays annuany. to suggest situation Rut Vh{"‘" satisfaction for the consumer conclusion reached by this writer who is authoritative, that to strike dgain and the oper- ators afraid to have them that sufficient céal will be mined to take care of the that there The indieations the working only many Jminers about It is per- plexing to tr a cure-all is some in the for the the miners are afraid just now; mined and is being people will be next winter, and al. conclu- al reach plenty of o is that not sion reachod are coal will high prices that obtained during the win- ter just past, ‘hus the consumer may hope for <ults from the investigations of the commission busy on the matter, and while may remain free from ex- worry about his coal for next CHILD LABOR. startling fact is announced that “labor- | ‘done | million children are United States. 1t have in the is not fair to say that we | Al remark Tite othing about " attrin worker in Washing. tried, half-heartedly ‘ social | that's argument; NEW BRITAIN. D AILY HERALD, TUESDAY, ')‘1 1028, MAY ' Cut of Town Husbands Are Perfectly Safe When Visiting New York Say Wirsome Girls Who Hold Responsible Positions on Broadway ean have but ant he sul A aws with the enough ke tedera eld states haye law ' uneonstitutiona fow passed same end view —=hut not v countey ere is this in this regard most of us fondly believe a place ehildren safeguarded redch a the world fght. This ene SUrring up pub ling that the | pass laws provid. cortain uge The time where eur 1Rey meet e well wher fitted way unt they may 7y make the is hy ereating or ie senti ment to sueh a f states I of them ing that ehildren be wi ow must will come demand a gonstitutional on this matter. JRut ‘until sueh time comes the states should be made to feel the duty that rests upon them Well might this matter be made a creed of every welfare and church and organization the country over. not employed eivie A gives rest to the weary; \ grouch is 4 pest to the cheery couch Planning a new city hall is the cue for the anvil chorus to organize Wonder if the next real spring day won't give us an encore? Bryan Is going to ask ministers to sign the pledge, Well, we, at least, néver suspected them of that They bob their hair if fair; They bob it if it's black; when public sentiment will | amendment | FRANCES BHARP By NEA Bervice New Yark, May 21.-~Wives of New Britain need worry no longer after reading this story. And New Britain heshands can hold their heads just a little higher, For it sets at rest thet ancient bugaboo that out.-of<town husbhands, coming to New York without their bettor halves, invariably cheeck their marital status at the hotel with thelr luggage and wander forth to blow | some baby to the bhounties of the Aright Lights, It's a bugaboo that has ruffied domestie tranquillity from Maine to California. But the htinels of the White Way-the flower girls, check um-. manicurists, information bureau ¢ and others who are dealing dally m(h these lonesome husbands from out of |town—tell you this (wives, pleasc read ecarefully): “Only a very small percentage |the strangers in town ever try to fi!rl with the girls. And even when, as| MRS, PABTORIt MARIAN the Hotel Pennsylvania, “The single man will buy |pounds of nssorted chocolates be- ceuse he's anxious to make an im- pression but isn't quite sure what the lady likes. The married man has heen trained,"” Miss Mildred Rogers, who helps one make up his mind what show he wants to see, says most men can't de. cide, for themselves, They have to brlnu along their partners, | "If she's his wife,” sa 'rs, "they go where m- J]EAI]L[IGK HOLDS IN CHINESE MESS \ Plight of Foreign Prisoners Now‘ fve Miss Rog- !Ihll to go. In vain, the bobbed one's prayer, occasfonally happens, a married mun: Sald m Be Ten!ible When she would have it back. Facts and Fancies BY ROBERT QUILLEN, For that mnter. the state of ma- trimony - ecan't ondurn half slave and/ | half free, And yet some of the condemnation of the ways of the naughty sounds a lttle wistful, The Americans held up by Chinese | Jbandits weres unflurried. One usually s when made to feel at home, You can estimate the size of the town by the degree of sass required to get action out of a policeman. The dmflll\nn'agfi in committing suicide to spite somebody is that you never get to see how It work, Diplomaey, expressed in simple terms, s just a process of keeping the other fellow from getting it. The boy who once wished his dad had a candy store now has a son who wishes his dad had a filling station. If one man does all the talking, if ten combine to put the thing over, that's propaganda, ) ey The trouble seems to be that Mex- ico can't get along without American capital and can't get along with it. A lot of politicians wouldn't object to the world court idea if they could have the idea without having the | ing tangible and now existing may not | <*"™ When the young doctor tells you that you called his just in time, he | may mean that he was desperately in need of the fee, . Some people are surprised that shark skin is thick cnough for shoe leather but they don't know much about loan sharks The disappointing thing ahout visit to your hoyhood home is that you meet 0 many people who didn't kmm’“ heels after him, you had heen away. It may be that fruits feel pain that Frenchman says, but the grape- fruit is the only one that can hit back Bays 'h’|l all boys in the gunmen, and it * A writer nineties wished to be appears that many of them thelr ambition Correct this sentence: “Sheis a wonderful cook,” said the housewife, “but she is rather fmpudent and T am going to let her go.” whose hip joints work That man backwards should be popular at a ball beihg | fans are forever wn in front, game wherc told to sit in a village he is a in a fourth individualy With 850,400 prominent citizen; city he s a mer metropolis he is traffic. class in a The French hoast that they are making oases in the Sahara but a 1ot of tight-lipped gentlemen nre doing that over herc vithout boasting. achieved® desert, | |invites & gir! out to dinner or a show, the clances are that in the same breath that he gives the Invitation he'll add that he's married.” But even {f he doesn't tell ‘em,| they know. Month after month cf dealing with these peresons along ‘Brondwny has given these girls an| insight Into human nature ‘that makes thelr judgment unerring. The very approach of a customer Itells them whether he {s married or ‘.!h'l'll'. | It a man— Buys pink roses, Knows what kind of candy he wants Goes to musical comedies, Never tips a manicurist more than a dollar. Is careless about his clothes, He's married. “The married -man” says Mrs, Agnes Traband, 33rd street florist, “buys pink roses; the single man, red roses and, archids. “Five dollars is the married man's purchase; ginning of the single man's. married man buys on Christmas, Easter and hospital days; the single man buys any old time.” If perchance, the benedict could fool the florist by crossing his pur- limit of the $10 the be- chases, the candy shop girl would get | him, chocolates with nut centers, he's mnrrwd all right,”” says Miss Beatrice | Lorentzen, sweet lflolh Fp'(‘hflht at | | 25 Years Ago Today| (Taken from Herald of that dule) 0 - D D . ) e Mrs. H. W. Pinks in Meriden, E. W. Schultz drum property on Franklin Holland. A boy named McDermott was bit- ten on the arm by a dog on Broad street yesterday afternoon, Corporal H. J. Matthews of Com- pany D, Wirst Regiment, has re- turned from Niantic and is eowfined; "o his home at 184 Hart street by Miness, Letter Carrier George Beckett re- ceived a present of a rug made by Navijoe Indians of Arizona to- . Gussman and Mrs, W. spending a few daya Mils to has sold the Hart street the day. One of I to grief vy &) day at the corner of Chegtnut and anley streets when a rear wheel snapped off. At the same time, the king bolt gave out and the horse proceeded down the street ing the shafts and a paiir of The boy who was in jumping reminded onlook- charfot in his 100 yards, mps succoeded two pails of dinner from hoarding house mistress: when applicd for lodging and said t1cy were working in T3ristol were tramps, however, and never came hack, Town Clerk Penfield is making out a list of citizens who may be called jury duty, PR ~hven e e Obsetvations on The I¥eather | [ —— For Connecticut: Cloudy to partly cloudy tonight; probably frost if the weather clears; Wednesday fair and continued cool; moderate to fresh Inortherly winds. Conditions: The western storm morning over Texas. It is causing un- settled weather with local showers from the Rocky Mountains castward to the Mississippi river. An area of high pressure central over the Lake |region is producing pleasant weather from the Mississippi river eastward to the coast, Conditions favor for this | fair weather .with cool nights !- 'm sunny days. ' saceneded and he ancient dariving the shaft ers of riae of Two an over tra in getting they that They they fop is central this vicinity and The | “For if he asks for |\\n poundw of | Deming's teams came | onto | a trosting — . | By_The Associated Preas. | Tien Tsin, May 22.—Latest advices | from Tsaochwang today confirmed the | complete deadlock reported in ne- gotlations conducted by the Peking | government in an effort to obtain the release of the foreigners held by bandits in a Shantung mountain stronghold. Conditions under which several for- | eign captives were held at the sum- mit of Pao Tsu mountain were des- cribed as “terrible". » The only real peace offer put forth by the tuchun of Shantung province was sald to have been rejected by the bandits with the laconic reftera- | tion “withdraw the troops to thelr original stations.” The tuchun offered to withdraw some distance from Paotzuku simul- taneously with the release of a third/ of the prisoners conditionally. On release of another third, he said he would comply with all the demands for withdrawal, the remaining third to be liberated ‘when the bandits, .as | they have stipulated, were formed in-| to brigades of the regular army. | The outiaws however, refused to believe the touchun sincere and so notified the foreign consuls at Tsaoch- wang. moved to the summit of Paotzuku and | it is ‘belleved the others will Mllnw Messengers now are forbidden ascend the mountain so that it is rll(— fieult to verify reports hut letters from the captives stll reaching the outside, establish something of their movements. . One of the hostages, I.ee Solomon, who is Shanghai agent for a San; I"rancisco firm wrote describing his| trip to the summit. “Saturday evening” he bandits decided. that since no tiation of any kind had started | since Chinese officials had been lying to the foreigners they| would go a step further and send| Ithree captives to the fortress. i picked out Majors Allen and {and myself. “We started at 6 o'clock. It was | kell. You climb up a mountain 1,800 I feet, at the top it is terrible.” The summit covers only two acres all cove ered wit® dirty dugouts, There are 40 or 50 Chinese prisoners here also, | mostly children,” | | ol ol related, the nego- Pinger Improving reclamation projects | along business and agricultural lines | 18 his new job. He is Miles Cannon, | newly appointed field reclamation commissioner for the department of Intérior. Mr. Cannon formerly was commissioner of agriculture for the state of Tdaho. As yet, ®0 far as we know, no song kas been written about Herald classified ads, but really there should ‘h» one, don't you think? AGNES But if+she's where It's in the bar RABAND MIT IDNl'.D ROGERS BEAT RICE LORENTZEN theart, they go| tip more than a doll Miss Frances Sharp, who is assoel. ated with an information burean that his 8w she decides, J that * shop the married man is spotted most quickly, lanswers all kinds of questions for ail When looks down the long row of manieuie | girls, pleks out the one he likeg Iwn‘ and then waits for it takes an hour or two, “But the Martan benutiful he [kinds of tourists, says that the mar- ried man in a strange ety just hank.' ers after someone to whom he ean ghftalk about his wife and kide baek ( rome, 1ies most | trade, fellow comes in, a single her, even the S8 th the married man,” Pastor, who has Titian hair in “will sit down at any table that hap- pu\n to be \urnul. and h- 700. tures of, different sorts of litt Here's Mama Buifalo an [ just two hours after Littir | Most of the captives have been re-"d at the Br Everett .} enlisted yesterday at the cruiting station for to be stationed at Washington, will never Stork at The Zoo Is one of fhe greai adventurers of all time. But you will . re- member he always had a cave full of money on some hidden island, You can havz a sav- ings account here. 0 many pie- . habies, Buff urriv- ) W Zoo, New Yo S IN CAVALRY ousa. of 399 Main street local v 8 cavalry D, C, l'ZNI. § the U. His enlistment made a total of seven | from this city New | pitcher, relcased b als to Bridgeport been unable to agree on terms with and | Bridgeport and has been uncondition- and generalg ally released by for the past month, ASED Mumaux, ‘n Nation- tern League has | MAMAT York, FOX'S — STARTING SUNDAY he Sensation of the Year, “DOWN TO THE SEA IN SHIPS” May Brooklyn, it was an- | nounced today. By Condo MY NAMGE \S EVERSTT TRUG. I WAS TALKING OVER THG 'PHONE WITH SOMGRODY IN THS ORFICE ABOLT TON MINVTGS AQo. o WAS (T E el TALKING IT WA'S VERY CITTLE “TALK' BuT PLENTY o SASs ! You keel PrexTY SAaFeE so-noo-rmc OFRE YOUR TRAP AT THE B4R NS OoFr A WiReE .