New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 17, 1923, Page 6

order, 50 it may be Bald that Chis | guemossommsemsomsomsomsoms emomsommnoms: country has not offered to accept thé I 25 Years Ago Today invitation of any one of the allies where those nations . cannot Agree | §(maken from Herald of that date) among themselves, But there is a stronger reason for President Coolidge's disinclination to take more drastic action than was X bl suggestioff 1s made that practical no- . New B"hm Hmld tice by these possessors of surplus I energy of danger points that may he made safe through practical work of | HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY roplacgmont of ' (lssued Dally, Sunday Excepted) At Herald Bldg, 67 Church Street. hammer and nails, shaky foundations, dangerous methods of handling crowds, would probably bring more practical good to the Frederick G, Jost is spending his annual vacation in Norwich. Dr. Eoyer has removed his office to SUBSCRIPTION RATES: .00 8 Yoar, world than formulating theories and advocating the carrying out of these Fielding’s building at 389 Main street. Brown of the freight depot will leave tomorrow for a stay of ten suggested under the Harding regime. President Coolidge will ‘“play safe.” E, 8. 42.00 Three Months, ki o & Month, Quite possibly he can hear now the ery of disapproval that would come if, under his administration, steps were taken longer than those favored by his predecessor in' office, Whatever “mystery” there may be about Presi- dent Coolidge there is no mystery about his carefuiness. He dreads, un- doubtedly, the comméent “If President Harding had only lived we would ,not be in this tangle.”” The cry may be a theories by their own unintelligent amateurish methods. And this is sald in no derrogation of the great work done constantly by truly informed or- ganizations which handle big subjects intelligently to the benefit of all. days at different resorts along the shore, Patrick H, Corbett, in company with several friends, left town this morning on a fishing trip to the East Hampton lakes. While the business of the police court was in progress this morning, the well-known and popular air “Dad- d¥ won’t you buy me a bow-wow" was ground out of a squeaky hand organ in front of the refrigerator on Com- mercial street. The music came in through the open windows of the court room and threatened to clog the wheels of justice, The judge or- dered Officer Hellberg to remove the menace and he did so. The organ man then went to the rear of Rey- nold’s block and started a variety of airs. When he played “Couchee- Couchee,” however, Officer Hellberg was sent, out once more with orders to arrest him. The wheels of justice then again began to turn. Two young men approached Flag- man Flaherty at the Washington street railroad crossing last evening and asked him if he desired to rent a tenement in his much talked-of shanty. “Well,” replied the flagman, “if I could get a nice quiet family, T wouldn’t object to renting a couple of rooms upstairs.” Architect Cadwell is drawing plans for an addition to the C, J. Parker shirt factory on Walnut street. The addition will be of brick and will be 30 hy 160 feet to the west of the present building. COMMUNICATED FIRE HOSE COUPLINGS Editor of Herald: Sir: ; Through the columns of the Herald I have learned that several cities and towns have adopted a fire hose coup- ling and hydrant with a standard size and thread, so that in case of need for calling upon a neighboring city for assistance they would be assured that the couplings and hydrants would fit. To those unfamiliar with the game it would appear that the insti- tution of those. conditions was of com- paratively recent date but that idea was placed in evidence during the Firemen's convention, held in Meriden in 1887, thirty-six years ago, when the fire departments of every city and town in the state were requested to send a coupling in use by their re-| spective departments in order that a record of them could be made regard- ing the size and thread of each coup- ling with a view to making a stan- dard article such as being used at present, Myself being a delegate to that convention, I carried a coupling to represent New Britain. Now if it takes 36 years to equip the few cities and towns which are so equipped, perhaps by the year 20023 A. D.,, we may have reached a national standardization. My suggestion would be to speed up the American spirit and have the na- tional standard adopted as soon as possible. Ex-Member of N. B. Fire Dept. PHONE ORDERS 2-6261 CAREFULLY FILLED | ill-End: Sale Clearance - Silk - Dresses FOR ALL OCCASIONS Arranged in Three Groups for Easy Selection Mntered at the Post Office at New Britain a8 Becond Class Mail Matter. TELEPHONE CALLS: Business Office .... ¥ditorlal Rooms HASTY ACTION IN There is a proper price for gaso- line, giving reasonable profit to pro- ducers and a reasonable price to con- sumers. Five cents a gallon, at which | figment of his imagination, but it is rate it was sold in some places re-|there. Many are convinced that Wwe: cently is not this proper price. More- | would get in no “tangle” even though over one has more than a suspicion|we did advance farther practically in that the price we have been paying is| our “good intentions” to aid Europe not the proper price; it has been too|than heretofore suggested, but Presi- Nor does the blame lie with | dent Coolidge will run no risks. = The Stand- It was Joseph Tumulty, we think, matters, of [ who declared that the political prob- lems, rather than the problems of gulding the nation, killed Presidents And President Coolidge is in the midst of real political problems right now. The problems of the nation are great, but the political problems, considera- tion of his party and his personal sit- uation, to him are great, too. The orly profitable advertising medium In the City. Circulation boo and press toom always open to ad: N Member of The Assortated Press. The Assoclated Press ls cxclueively entitled to the use for re-publication of all news eredited to It or not otherwise credited In this paper and also local news pub- lahed >~ roln, Member Aud't Burean ®f Oirculation, The A. B. C. 1s a nationar organization which furnishes newspap and adver- tisers with a strictly honest aualysis of circulation. Our circulation statistics ara based upon this audit, This insures pro- tection against fraud !n newspaper dis- tribution figures to both national and local advertisers. e A SALARY DANGER “We're a lot of cheap skates, we members of the council and I'm cheap, too—but not as cheap as some of them,” was the comment of one member of that body recently. There 18 no intention of identifying the member either here or privately. The | was a mistake. sentence is quoted to show one mem- Now it seems the Governor thinks ber’s opinion of some actions of the|he did make a mistake. He conferred council. with independent dealers and as a re- The themes of discussion were the|sult raised the price from 16 cents to Buggestion that the Chief of Police be| 20 cents, made to pay out'of his own pocket “Ah,”” murmured the Standard Oil. his dues in the association of policc{"rhn board of directors of the Indiana Modern high finance: Shake hands: chiefs, and the matter of the police | company met, noted the increase and | clinch; collect the money. investigation. Someone in the party| remarked that the action of the South expressed the thought that perhaps| Dakota executive had proved the com- the council did not care to have its| pany's contention that consequences chief a member of the association of | had not been considered when the chiefs. It might well be a chief would | Governor originally cut the price eel he could not afford to pay the|down to 16 cents. Now, the board of necessary $10. | directors intimates, as long as - the Our "‘“‘HD"? with foreign nations Now it 18 learned that another of-| company has been shown to have| main friendly in spite of all we can ficial of the city is to leave his official | been right in that case, the company position here because of a considera-|is at liberty to increase the price ble advance in salary offered him else- | above the 20 cent mark as set by the where to do work with which he is| Governor—and, of course it will do familiar. Not 5o long ago the city lost | this, pointing back to the “hasty ac- an efficient health officer for the same | tion” in making the reduction. + reason. Conservative, fair people of this It is not intimated that neither of- | section are willing to pay a proper ficer can be replaced, nor is it ‘suggest- | price for gasoline. They realize the ed here that all salaries ought to be| power of the Standard Oil company raised in New Britain. The general but | and they do not care to have hasty unconsidered idea is that salaries are | action taken that will temporarily quite high enough; that city *“jobs”|lower prices but which will eventual- are soft ones, and that the incumbents |1y give the Standard a plausible ex- | are lucky to have them. At present|cuse for raising such price far above we have a new health superintendent| What it should be. 5 who may do his work as well as his A SR predecessor. Quite possibly we will find a man to fill the other departing official's shoes. The point to be emphasized is that there is this constant danger -1f a high. distributors in this city. ard Oil manipulates course. In- South Dakota, the pivotal point in the gas situation at the moment, the Gevernor reduced the price from 26 cents to 16 cents, The Standard claimed that it must reduce to meet competitors, but that 16 cents was less than the cost of production. But the company was in a position to “'sit tight,” and watch the results of the mistake the Governor had made—if it Anyway, when every man has hig airplane the expression “Globe Glider" will be more euphonious than the old “Globe Trotter.” Facts and Fancies | | BY ROBERT QUILLEN, | | A little nonsense now and then makes fortunes for song-writing men. History repeats itself. Dry land ap- peared * * * Noah planted a vineyard. ‘Group 1 W ST DREseS . $15.95 Group 2 B ST DRESSS .. $24.95 Group 3 % SawasH SILK DRESALS . $34.95 All Our Summer Dresses o IN THREE GROUPS FOR CLEARANCE R B Were upiio $6:5592:50 Vo wpicssi 8D Newwpiosines 39 . POLO JACKETS Silk Crepe lined side effect with ties. $19.98 and $22.50 values, At the ML EDT BAlE /o ov s spsosinis i aniage s 0 peace prize, we suggest pensions for pacifists. The nearest some men ever come to a real thrill is when they insert a fresh chew of gum. $10.00 No mere man could be quite as im- portant as a statesman seems on & Chautauqua circuit. YORK STATE TONNS GETLITTLE WATER Lack of Rain Is Being Felt in Many Places * A Broad-Leaf Chapeau SOMETHING FOR NOTHING. Occasionally people do get some- thing for practically nothing. The ex- pense, for instance, of educating a man in ou rpublic schools, or, to a les-| Correct this sentence: “Sure,” said broad view is not taken of the matter | ser extent, in our great colleges is|the husband; “I mailed it on the way of salaries. Constant watch should be | far greater than the amount paid by | 40Wn this morning.” kept of salaries in other communities | the parent or than the tuition charge. where the income and the expenses| But somebody pays. In the case of are approximacely the same as those | colleges there are endowment funds. of this city. We can not expect to| Suspicion should attach always to < have an official here capable of hand-| an offer to give something for noth- | yhe ETeat misfortune of mapkind ling the affairs of a corporation five|ing. It is proper that the Mayor of | 5w o solve great problems. times as large as this city. Such a per- | the city take an interest in the affair . son is not needed and such a person|Of the young man who sought to| The office sport spent the night at|bett. Bob Fitzsimmons won from could not be retatned. It would be ex-| learn aviation from the organization poker ,and reports this morning that|Corbett. Jim Jeffries won from Fitz- travagance for us to hope for such|Which planned to “Make America | Ry wasihoroustiy Shelbyiged. summons, Jack Johnson from Jeffries, a thing as it would be a waste to use| First in the Air,” but who finds now | Another way to prevent war would 32?:.5‘;.:,”3;:)(»3:0;‘:::5 fr;l;?n{leiT:; a 85,000 pleasure automobile to carry | that in order to do this he must do| be to invent a cootie that wouldn't| In reading over the names I flmi coal. But at least we should pay sal-| certain work in the interests of the | Pother anybody except the enemy. | the letter - *J" appears eight times in aries proper for the quality and quan- | organization and, possibly, pay out| | the seven names. tity of work the city needs, and for|some money. FPossibly the organiza- | this reason other cities should be| tion is all right; possibly not. No ac-| watched. The whole matter of salaries | cusations are made here, nor is any, is a complex one, and it is for this|defense of the organization intended. | reason that a continuing knowledge of | The letters of the association, and the | charges should be obtained. Without | terms of the offer in full are not at| , disparaging in any way the work of hand. But it is remembered that this our salary committees in the past, it | newspaper carried a story which did‘ Still, men probably don't violate laws any more frequently than laws violate common sense. “J” AND THE CHAMPIONSHIP Editor of Herald: Sir: Just a word about heavyweight} prize fighting champions. In reviewing my mental records, I find that during the past half century, we have had seven. As I go back to the early '70's I see John L. Sullivan win from Paddy Ryan. After holding the championship for a number of years he passed it along to Jim Cor- “Slow thinkers live a prominent psychologist. cross the street. longest,” says Not if they New York, Aug. 17.—The draught that has prevailed since July 20, St. Swithin's Day, has not only ruined many a proud truck patch and family garden which flourished in June only tg’ wither in August, but has become serious menace to the water sup- plies of almost all the towns in the metropolitan district. It raiped on St. Swithin's day and, if legend were reliable, it should have rained for forty days thereafter. There should have been some rain, no matter how little, every day or every night or alternating night and day. But, according to the Weather Bureau record, there has been but 2.37 inch- es of rain in this sector of the At- lantic coast since that day. ' This does'not mean that that much rain fell on all local weather bu- letter appears in the seven names, reau's territory. Unfortunately, little as it is, it did not. Now it would rain a little in the Bronx and later a little more on Long Island. A few days LONGS FOR GHHJD; later south Brooklyn might catch a READER. P. 8—1I do not clearly remember but if Corbett had a middle name be- ginuning with “J" then it will make nine times instead of ecight that the . Miss Mary Shelton of Douglas, Ga., designed this hat, trim- ming it entirely with tobacco leaves. EVERETT TRUE - BY CONDO The man who says he doesn't mind has been difficult for them to keep up | imply that the organization proposed to date on all these matters, owing| to give this tuition by increasing the to constant changes of administration. | membership of it. It now appears A continuing commission, its mem- | that this young man was required to bers overlapping in periods of service, | raise $500 through 100 memberships | would hold all the information gained | costing $5 each. This, of course, is in | from timgq to time in the possession of | line with the story published. the commission. ; Unless an offer of free tuition or free anything elsc comes from the| USING SURPLUS ENERGY. i Federal, State or Municipal Govern- | Fortunately or, unfortunately there| ment, the gtrings to the ofer should are many good people in the world | be looked for. who are not content to give all their time to the work in hand or the cul- tivation of knowledge, but twho are Reports from England indicate that on the lookout always for something | She believes President Coolidge will which “ought to be fixed.” Whether |favor co-operation with her even if or not they have any business to go| England takes a stand differing from about “fixing” things be | that of the other England discussed. They do, and believe there is to it. These have, apparently, some outlet for their ENGLAND'S SLIGHT ERROR. allies seems to that the States would send experts to discuss need not that's all people must United the reparations payments even if the invitation came from that the United dent Coolidge, will go farther than it surplus energy in looking out for the land alone; personal affairs of others. Much’ good has come from “welfare work"; much States, under Presi- under the late Pres- being bald holds the world's record as a philosogher or a liar. After a woman has divorced her third Thusband, you don't know whether it is a matter of temperament or habit. Awful thought. Germany may be crushed before her turn comes to get revenge, and then the game will be spoiled. If the extreme radicals are permit- ted to select one plank in the platform no doubt it will be a pardon board. As we understand England’'s com- plaint. Germany can't spend her money in England while France spends her money in Germany Wells says man was a germ in a drop of ditch water; Bryan says he was dust. There is no escaping this wet and dry controversy. e Observations on GATHERS CLOTHING‘ swish of rain and Yonkers might get a few drops a day or so later. Put- ting these local precipitations togeth. er you get 2.37 inches, which is not | worth while and makes it impossible | to say that the metropolitan district is | Woman Arrested for Taking Baby Clothes i othes Baid to Have Given suffering from a prolonged drouth. Peculiar Excuse. | Not only does the vegetation de- - | mand rain but the crecks and lakes New York, Aug. 17.—Charged with | and springs that feed the water res- stealing children’s clothing from the| ervoirs from which the people of New store of Krederick Loeser & Co. |Rochelle, Mamaroneck, Fort Lee, | Brooklyn, where she was employed as| Mount Vernaqn, Elizabeth and so on a saleswoman, Mrs. Gertrude Steven- | get their drln\gslls. washing and com- son, thirty-six, of No. 300 Rutland|mercial supplied of water are running Road, Brooklyn, was held in $1,500| low. There is no immediate danger | bail by Magistrate Waish in the|of a water famine according to of- Adams street court on a grand larceny | ficials of the New Rochelle Water Co., charge yesterday. | but the source of supply is straining Mrs, Stevenson's arrest was brought | under the lack of rain. about by Miss Mabel Kesselman, store| Throughout Long Island the dry | detective. Detective Cunningham of | 5Pell has parched the fields and the the headquarters division said he|!ate crops are doing poorly. Not in found baby clothes valued at ahout|Y¢ars has Long Island felt the drouth $1,000 in the woman's room. Store| 50 keenly. June was normal but officials believe this to be merchan-|July was dry and the farmers are dise Stolen from Loescr's. | talking about irrigation ditches as a Although Mrs. Stevenson made a Possible defence against a recurrence general denial, police say she admit- | ©f the same condition next year. ted the theft. The woman is alleged | _Central New Jersey towns that get |to have told them her longings for {heir water from reservoirs supplied motherhood resulted in the taking of | PY artesian wells are becoming more harm, say some people Most of the people of the city are which Momauguin; familiar with the pier col- lapsed Thursday at many of them have stood upon it All are there were no serious accidents when the collapse came. The falling of pier is taken as an illustration of the relieved to find that point to be made, not because it was because it represcnts a a pier, but line of activity which might well be taken up by these people who are so anxious about the well-being and safety of others. There is no inten- tion of suggesting that they go about | the country\seeking shaky piers which endanger thd lives of many. But the that | just let it be would have donc ident Harding. This part is a sad error on England It may be unintentional; it may be a deliberate attempt to “feel” pub- lic sentiment here. Getting right down to cascs Secretary of State Hughes has known that President Coolidge will stick to the the Harding Admi ined in the position of stration as out- Secretary’s New Haven speech. In that there was no intima- tion that the United States wodld give | the services of her unless | | | there was an invitation As it i nation may expect no other until she puts her own house in | experts from all the | said that a favors from an allies frequentis The W. | the garments. Mrs, s e eatlle" been a widow six years and has a| laughter sixteen years old, police say. probably Saturdx-; gentle to DRIVES INTO PILLAR. New York, Aug. 17.—To avoid strik- ing a woman who stepped in front of Fire, Engine No. 16, Harry Lynch of pressure is high No. 243 East 28th street, ran the en- | and low over the|gine into an elevated pillar on Second | Ehowers have oc- | avenue, between 31st and 32d streets, ast 24 hours from | wrecking the front of the apparatus Virginia and throwing Patrick Herliby, fire. | temperature is the normal in|man, against another elevated pillar, all the northern sections. The tem-| Herliby suffered several fractured perature at New Haven yesterday was| ribs, a rupture and lacerations which 9 degrees below the normal may cause his death. HE was taken this to Bellevue hospital. Herliby lives at No. 1821 Holland | avenue, the Bronx, and has been in| | the fire department sixteen years. Fair tonight and moderate temper- casterly ature; moderate | winds Conditions: The over the | northern ricts. during the ansas eastward to southern ¢ curred The below Conditions favor for tair 2 continued co weather temperature. unsettied with slowly rising id more fearful of a water famine. This threatened section lies between'| Elizabeth and Plainfield. Proclama- tions have been issued by the mayors of these towns asking the citizens to use no water for sprinkling lawns or washing motor cars. Berry and fruit crops have been reduced 50 per cent by the failure of the needed rain to fall The Plainfield Union Water com- pany reports that the water in their reservoir at Fanwood, stood at two| feet and that there was a danger of its giving out entirely unless it was rigorously conserved. This company has made some arrangement with the Middiesex Water company whereby it may draw from the basins of that concern. New York city’s supply is in no wuyl endangered. ALWANS (0OK BEHIND You BEpre . A SWINGING. DOoR ELY BAck It Tie - Coave You ONG EYES OPGN-TO TO IT Wit 8" T'LL - Cavg;