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'New Britain Herald h 3¢ HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY i (Tssued Dally, Sunday Excepted) At Herald Bldg, €7 Church Street, SUBSCRIPTION RATES: $8.00 & Year, $2.00 Three Months. 46c a Month, " Entered at the Post Office at New Rritaln @8 Becond Class Mail Matter. TELEPHONE CALLS: Tha orly profitable advertising medium In L.® City. Circulation bocks and press #5em always open to advertirers. Member of The Assoctated Press. The Associated Prose is exclusively éntitled to the use for re-publication ot all news eredited to It or not otherwise credited In this paper and also local news pub- lsheA v reln, Member Aud't Bareau of Circulation, The A. B. C. s a nationar organization which furnishes newspapers and adver- tisers with a strictly honest analysis of cireulation, Our cfirculation statist ara based upon this sudit. This insures pro- tection against fraud In newspaper dis- tribution figures to both national and local advertisers. L EXCEEDING APPROPRIATIONS There is a strictly technical way and another way of answering the question “has this board or depart- ment exceeded its appropriation?” The strictly technical which may be backed by figures, results in the negative answer after finding out what that department's appropriation is and finding that the department has not spent the amount granted to it.- ! This sort of an answer is worthiess, of course, If a board or department is allowed $50,000 for the year and has spent only $25,000 in four months it has not, technically, “exceeded its ap- way, propriation.” ~ The other way to answer the ques- tion which will give true information in regard to the affairs of the depart- ment, is a result of examination of the amount appropriated and then a study | of the amount already $pent plus the regular expenses for that department which must be met in the course of the year. If the department which has an appropriation of $50,000 has spent $25,000 in four months, and if that department's payroll alone will amount tg more than the remaining $25,000, it has, in spirit, exceeded its appropriation. These are simple matters of com- may considered whenever the question comes up whether or not board has or will have to exceed its appropriation. There is the continual cry for lower taxes, or at least for no increase of taxes. Probably this feeling is pos- | sessed by the vast majority of the | people of the city. And yet the ques- tion has been asked seriously whether or not, in fact, the taxcs are high enough—and such question has been put by men of moderate, ll;ough am- ple means, not by the persons who are the most wealthy. The question has been aecompanied by the state- | ment that the person asking it felt it | Was not easy to pay as high taxes as he was paying, nevertheless he was willing to pay more if the welfare of | the city demanded it. Whatever may be the reply to tilat query a year, two, three years from now, the answer now must be em-| phatically yes, the taxes are certainly high enough now. They may not be a severe burden to the well-to-do, but they are a burden to many. But the real reason why boards and depart- | ments should not exceed appropria- | tions at this time, and why the taxes| should be kept that the board of finance and taxation of the | mon sense and be a down, is city, looking after the city affairs, has | determined what the city can afford | to pay at this time. That board is the | city's financial adviser; the plan of | that board should be followed. When the time comes, hope it will, | when there may improve- ments in New Britain and the taxpay- ers can stand such improvements the board of with | the city meeting board, will see to it | that provision is made for those provements. as all be more finance and taxation, im- FOLLOWING ANOTHER The story of a republican party split impending, coming from the Washing- is in- ton Bureau of this newspaper, teresting in its indication of Senator | Johnson's hat in the If we may believe what is reported or al- | to be a of the Senator’s, he former | strength lay in the denouncing of r- tain people in his turning toward Johnson's being ring. leged Jprivate letter thinks that his and his present weakness them. Quite possibly Senator tock is | not as strong today in the past. There may about Johnson, mathematics hag been of but be a guess-work the be of may theory plied to President Coolidge ir of candidate for the presidential nom- ap- the role ination in 1924. President Coolidge follows the late President Harding. Looking at the latter in the light of cold reason the latter may be remembered, the slightest disrespect,’in two aspects There was President Harding, the man and there was President Harding, ‘the head of a certain administration. The individual was affectionately regard- ed, respected; his administration féll liav short of the degree in which he without ) nized the good NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY, was regarded personally. President Coolidge has announced that he would follow the late President's policies. This is accentuated today by the in- dication that President Coolidge will favor nn change in the Volstead law, for instance. So this portion of the late President—his administrative policies which were not aitogether popular to say the least—is to be imitated by the present President, But the other side of President Harding—the personal side; the char- acter of the man all admired for his homely virtues and sympathy. These characteristics have never shown themselyes to belong to President Coolidge. He is the “silent man of the White House.” He had few intimates; he lacked personality—all this while Vice-President. He is not constitution- ally fitted to follow the late President Harding in this aspect, And, had President Harding lived these would have béen the traits of character that would hfve been his strongest assets when, and if, he went before the peo- ple seeking another term. President Coolidge may adhere to the late President Harding’s adminis- trative policies but he lacks the strength the dead President would have had for his strength lay not in his policies*but in his personality—a something President Coolidge cannot successfully imitate, NAUGHTY BUT NATURAL A dispatch from England says that some of that country’s greatest doctors have decided that many children sup- posed to be suffering from nervous disorders are often not sick at all— merely naughty, What is more we may take the liberty of adding that often such children, naughty though they be, are only natural. The learned doc- tors declare that mothers are often to blame because they fuss too much when a child eats dirt, or does some other harmless little th like that A treatment consisting of¥paying no attention to the child who is naughty just because it wants to attract the parent's attention, would be a good thing sometimes, say these learned physicians. Naughty but natural! Which re- minds of the unusually wise old grandmother who impressed this fact | upon her daughter, the mother of her grandchildren. Scene: Grandmother and her daughter and a couple of her daughter's. children. Said children engaged in drawing lines on the pink- tinted wall paper. Mother of children rises and gasps, grabbing children. “What are you doing?” she cries. “Nothin’,” declares the youngest. “See what you've done,” from the mother, pointing accusingly at the wavy lines on said pink-tinted wall paper. ¢ “Didn’t do it,"” réturns the youngest, shaking her head. The harassed mother turns to her mother—the grandmother of the chil- dren—in distress. “Did you ever see such terrible children?"” comes her appeal, “First they mark up the beau- tiful wall-paper, then they say they haven't done anything. What shall 1 I do with them?"” The eyes of the wise old grand- mother twinkle, then a far-away look comés, She is seeing again the events of her own nursery, when the com- plaining mother herself was a child. “Yes, dear,” she says gently. *T have seen such children. You were one of them—and I'm pretty proud of you now as I was proud of you then. You, too, marked up the walls, just as all children are inclined to do, and you shook your head when I accused you of it. 'What will you do with your little ones?’ you ask. Just try to avoid the mistakes good mothers make—the mistakes I made, probably. Don't exaggerate the importance of the littel naughty things your children do; just be thankful that they're na- tural." most WHAT PINCHOT MEANS, For a long time this summer a road | has been being built between New Brit- ain and Plainville. It was necessary to compel motorists to wait at certain | places, where there was room for but one line of cars to travel, until those coming from the other direction had The people necessity good-naturedly. this | rec- | accepted They passed. ognized its necessity, as they recog- | the doing in lay- badly | work contractors | and the workmen were ing this road which was so needed, Suppose, on a stormy disagreeable | lay when the rain poured down, “the the "bossed workers" got at the long line of cars was waiting to be the up and the boss” and into an argument point where allowed to Suppose man with the flag boss paid pass held them to the public | allowed to go on. no attention waiting there to be Suppose he refused to agree to what | employe the the people on the employe wanted and the refused to agree to what boss demanded. Meanwhile Of course They did not was about and that suld not the road had to wait they would wait for a while w what the dispute they believed, probab there was some t reason why they £0 on at that moment. They had no idea that the the vould keep them waiting there in the They, worker and boss rain and storm without cause boss and worker, knew that monia comes from getting wet; might result. There were tired chil- dren in people ing after a long, necessary deiva, Orl some of those cars, and old | who should be at home rest- | duces star football players. perhaps there were physiclans in some of those cars, called on urgent cases to save life or prevent continued suffering. Surely no human beings could keep those old, tired people waiting, those children, those doctors! But the argument continued; boss and Worker became angry. Someone from the line of automobiles investi- gated. He found there was no rea- son why they should be kept waiilnz. The drivers of the cars being told the facts, the long line of powerful auto- mobiles, driven by that portion of the public started on, Boss and worker got in their way. Resolutely, angrily, the public drove on, and there in the road lay the bodies of the men who had brought this anger down upon themselves. This is what Governor Pinchot means when he tells the coal opera- tors and the miners that their fight is not a private one; that the people of the country are to be considered— that the strike must not be. And this is what may happen if the public is aroused—the dispptnn!s may find themselves ruined. We see where the navy department is “standing pat on expenditures. Hope he'll he able to keep them down. ' “Water Famine Hits Woodmont,"— headline, That's the second famine in liquids tHat’s hit that town. Headline states that one New Eng- land town is 300 years old. Even the paving on our Main street seems older than that, Nina Wilcox Putnam says she gets her humor out of what she hears people say. And there were Rotarians all about her! ‘e Interpreters bother Tirpo. He'll need none when he meets Dempsey. Facts and Fancies BY ROBERT QUILLXN, They didn't need so ‘many rescue homes when hand-holding afforded a thrill. Some of the most thrilling maga- zine fiction is found in the advertise- ments. The constitutional right of peaceful assembly doesn't refer to choir prac- tice. Benevolent statesmanship is the theory that somebody else should lick Turkey. Many of them, however, vearn to wear knickers and merely take up golf as an alibi, Now that Mr, Morse has been ac- quitted, he can give up his contem- plated ill health, A village is a place where a prom- inent citizen wears galluses in order to have a place to rest his thumbs. “The big ones get away,” says a heading. Probably a fish story or a reference to war profiteers. They say Coolidge is not half as taciturn as his father. He might be called demi-taciturn. If he moves his lips while reading to himself, the theory of evolution makes him mad. Sing a song of six pence, a pocket full or rye; it costs only six pence, for it'was made of lye. About all that success amounts to is that you are invited to address a Chamber of Commerce. And yet other towns would seem just as narrow and spiteful if people there knew you as well. In Europe the upper class is rec- ognized by royally; over here it is recognized by the paying teller. 8o far no college has excluded from the student body any race that pro- Correct this sentence: “Forgive me, Mother,” said the flapper etaoi shr Mother,” whispered the flapper; “I'm JUNIOR TOWN ANGRY afraid 1 spoke disrespectfully.” | The reason you never see pictures of male tennis stars jumping is because nobody is interested in a man's knees. it is better to $ay “the farmer's profit” than *“the farmer's profits.” It is always singular when the farm- er makes a profit. Poverty produces great men for the same reason that a fat vacationist sprints nobly when a Jersey is runner-up. buil CONFERS WITH MUSSOLINT. Rome, Aug. 28.—Dr. Bduard Benes, Czescho-Slovakia foreign minister, ar- rived here today and went into con- ference with Premier Mussolini. The expected to con-| conversations were tinue throughout the a full discussion of Italy's with the 1Mtie entente. lay, embrac relations | AUG STORE CLOSES AT NOON \ - Dresses and Aprons Beautifully made of check ginghams and fancy -percales trimmed with rickrack, comb ination braid, pockets and, sashes, ixtra, special for Wednesday 89c onlY v a Second ¥loor Silk Stripe |Dish Tissue . der. Glnghams nesday yard In new pretty Fall patferns; wonderful se- lections; washable; 32 inches wide. Regular b9%¢ yard., Jor Wed. “39c¢ Main Floor silk Underwear | Wed. A, M. Crepe For negligees, underwear, ctc. Regu- lar value 9c¢ yard. Pink only. Priced for| Wed. A, M. 39cr only, yard Main Floor slips, - s - - Towels, Silk and Wool Remnants | desifable perfect Just for Each In good lengths. All merchandise. Wed. A, M.— Half Price | Main Floor | 36-in. ONE-HALF PRICE | bird New Fall Challies I"or covering com- forters, in pretty new all-over patterns, 36 inches jwide. 1 7c Priced ' here Wed.,, yard Main Floor g5y Ladies’ Cloth Soft nainsook finish, for baby's wardrobe and lingeries. Special for Wednes- 1 9 c day, only Main Floor stamped Regular Special Wed. Each All M. only, AT CITY FATHERS Will Protest Against Banishing Fairies From Walnut Hill The citizens of Junior Town, New Britain, are all excited. 8o much so| that an uprising is impending in Junior Town politics that will reach to-the New Britain municipal govern- ment within the next two months, | Mayor Paonessa and the local city| council will be asked to vacate their | positions for 24 hours, and matters of | interest to Junior Town citizens only will be transacted and legally written | into the law books ®n that date. It all happened one day not long ago when a citizen of Junior Town | whose name is not divulged was walk- ing through Walnut Hill park in the carly dawn when the fairies were dancing about the grass and ga- thering the sparkling dew drops to| store up in their jewel cabinets away | down under the ground among next summer’'s flowers. Or at least that is what the fairies should have been doing had they been | about their usual program. But they weren't. They were sitting under the protecting branches of a little clump of grass and the tears from their eyes mingled with the dew drops on the| green. “What is the matter?” in- quired the citizen of Junior Town, or so Junior Achievement Supervisor William W. T. Squire reports it. And then the whole came out. The most terriblé thing had hap-| pened. In the on story and corded madras, combination colors. Regular Sizes 1 to 3 Iull bed size, med Spreads of excel- lent value. only, ea. Turkish Towels Heavy Stamped Goods design; Scarfs only “HICKORY” SILK RIBBON Garter Elastic colors. for Wed. A. ROMPERS Made of Repp, check ginghams In solid and stock. Second Floor $1.25 Toweling Pure linen absorbent crash, blue or red bor- Special for Wed- w2le Main Iloor Ripplette Spreads hem- Special for $1.95 Main Floor Made of fine new Bakelite navy, red, double loop size 18x36. All white. Priced for Wed- nesday only 17c Main Floor Size 64x76. Blue- 18x54 to match, to embroider. value 49c ca. w 29¢ Main Floor Centers, With blue Slightly soiled perfect. Size Values Wednesday .... HOU Grey with blue heavy grade. (4x76. tra heavy Navidson & Leventha THE HOUSE OF QUALITY, SERVICE AND SKIRTS + Knife plested wool creps in long $3.95 Second Floor navy, tan, grey and brown, length, Very widely made. Extra spec. for Wednesday .. Men’s Full Fashioned Silk Hose ACTION, NEW BRITAIN, CONN. CLOSES AT NOON . ‘Women's Silk Waists and Overblouses of crepe de chine, georg- ette, pongee; fancy de- signed. Rajah and Ra- dium silk, Beautifully made, trimmed with neat laces and embroidered. in the season’s newest shac® —= Former value $5.00. weiruar $2.,00 ‘Wednesday Second Floor Men’s Pajamas All first quality, well made in full cut sizes. White, tan, blue" and helitrope, UMBRELLAS Tomorrow morning we shall place on sale 100 Silk Umbrellas. quality with and Club. Handles— Anchor Tips and Ferrules—in black, purple and perfect merchandise. IFor wednesday Irregulars of a $1.25 quality. The imper- fections are hardly no- ticeable—All colors, 50c¢ Main Floor Final Clearance the A regular 50c value in a good weight mer- cerized sock. Black, cordovan, tan, blue. brown. All Children’s Sox . $1.29 Main Floor Ladies’ Full Fashioned * Silk Hose Irregulars of a $2.26 quality, A wonderful value. A $1.00 . Matn Floor $2 .95 each Specials at AUGUST SALE OF BLANKETS COTTON BLANKETS Plaids in all colors. PART WOOL BLANKETS and in 70x80 up to $6.00. HOLD I"AVORITE BLANKETS BEACON PLAID BLANKETS In blue, rose, pink and grey. weight. Main Floor King’s Basting Cotton 200 yard spools 4 cElch Main Floor $1.10 WHITE pink borders. stock, otherwise $3.95 Sanitary and pinfi borders, - $2.98 ‘Wednesday Ex- $4.75 ALL WOOL PLAID heavy weight' wanted Special for nesday Priced 55¢ Main Floor yd. Junior Town was asleep members of the common council of the city of New Britain had crept from their beds, sneaked into city hall and in silence had voted to order the fairies out of Walnut Hill park. Council seemed to feel that the fairies were putting too | many foolish notion about sleeping in flowers and sailing to Fairyland on a moonbeam into the heads of Junior Town citizens. And so Mayor Paonessa, or thus | goes the story, has caused his secres tary to write a letter to the Fairy Queen ordering her and her subjects out of the park. The secretary penned a brief note on a little cloud of mist he found and sent it to the fairies on a passing zephyr, and thus gloom set- tled over Fairyland. Yesterday the citizens of Junior Town held a meeting in the Chamber of Commerce rooms and expressed their indignation. The boy who had heen interviewed by the fairies report- edthat he had promised to carry the | case to the very portals of city hall, and the campaign “Votes for Fairies” was launched with enthusiasm. Therefofe in the latter part of Oc- tober, Mayor Paonessa will be relieved of his duties for 24 hours. Members.of the common council will be barred from their chairs and the city govern- men will be confiscated by the Junior Town officials. he Junior Town mayor will preside and the question of “Votes for Fairies” will be brought up on resolution and the decress de- cree of “Senior Town council” sum- marily disposed of. The Junilor Town citizens fnvite the public to attend the session of the council that day and see what hap- pens to those who interfere with the fairies. A Fokker monoplane has remained in the air continuous!y for 36 hours 5 minutes 20 seconds, and covered dark night when all 2,541 miles. BLANKETS 100 per cent Viegin Wool. and colors. Wed- Extra siz All the $10.95 Third Floor 4 -inch, 3 vard Reels. Each ..... Observations on The Weather For Connecticut: Showers tonight and probably Wednesday morning, followed hy cloudy Wednesday; fresh southerly winds. Conditions; The disturbance cen- tral over Yowa yesterday is now over Ontario and will probably pass out the St. Lawrence valley late tonight or Wednesday. It has caused unsettled showery weather during the last 24 hours in nearly all districts east of the Mississippi river. No decided change in temperature has occurred in any scction east of the Rocky Mountains. Conditions favor for this vieinity un- settled weather with local showers. C. of C. Got Air Mail Letter From Indiana Reading the article in yesterday’s “Herald” concerning the letter re- ceived by air mail by North & Judd Mfg. Co., Miss Vivian Scott, assistant secretary of the Chamber of Com- merce, suddenly recalled a letter re- ceived last Wednesday and which she had thrown into the waste basket yes- terday. Getting word to the janitor not to empty the basket Miss Scott this morning verified what she had noticed but casually prior to reading the story in the *“Herald,” that the Chamber of Commerce had received a letter by air mail almost a full weék ago. The letter came from Ham- mond, Indiana, and was mailed Aug- ust 20, under the auspices of the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce of America. In the lower left hand corner instead of belng written in ink 2 =« 50¢c Main Floor “ELEINERT'S"” SATEEN ELASTIC 23 ¢ Main Floor Mercerized Bloomer Elastic 10c Main Floor Boys’ Knitted ; Union Suits White er ecru in a first quality suit. " 39c Main Floer | Men’s Knitted Union Suits Regular $1.00 qual- ity in ecru or white, 79¢ Main Floor Belts Ladies’ Cotton Vests Band or bodice. Special Wed. Only. 3. $1 Main Floor the words “Sent by Air Mail” ‘are printed with a rubber stamp in large blue letters. ) - - 25 Years Ago Today (Taken irom Herald of that date) M. E. Hannon has been appointed deputy registrar of voters by John Feore, Mayor Webster has returned from & 160 mile drive through Litchfield and furrounding country. Work on Arch street is now prog- ressing rapidly and a portion of the east side is completed. The socialist labor party expects to have Thomas Hickey of Brookiyn speak in New Britain, Friday evening September 23rd. Mr. Hickey was in the Brooklyn trolley strike and is said to be one of the best speakers in the party. The public schools wili open Tues- day, September 6, and St. Mary's parochial school will also open on the | same day. Given away free, a handsome oak chair with a pound of butter, cheese or a dozen eggs. City Market Butter Store, 318 Main street.-—Advt. Prof. French, who has been assis- tant principal of the local grammar school for the past year, has been eclected principal of a grammar school in Whitman, Mass. Toronto is putting up 16-foot-high apartments for birds in her parks, martens, being especially desired ag tenants, because they eat so many mosquitoes. Less than 4.5 per cent of the world's ‘tonnue belongs to sailing ships,

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