New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 8, 1923, Page 6

g Ohursh Street, BATES: o | Butered ot the Post O?M I‘“‘ il TELEPHONE CALLS: " Offtes ..\, Rooms ble advertising medium in fi&_‘gfi;‘u;m and New Britals Marter. | ] to advertirers - Member of The Assortated Press, Fhe Associated Prose Iv sxclusively entitled to use for re.pubMieation of all news eredited 1o 1t or ot etherwiss credited this and alse local mews pub. Bty e Member Aut Barean of Cireulation | he Which furnishes newspapers and advers tisers with & strictly honest analysis of clreulation. Our ~iroulation statistics are; upon this audit, This insures pro. tection against fraud In newspaper dis- tribution figures to both nationsl and focal advertisers. FEEEe——— GOING TO SCHOOL, It 1s usual when school epens each | year, to say obvious things that mean | Httle to anybody-—and even less to those who are about to enter or go | back to school. The wise tell the puplls what a splendid chance they are having now; mournful people say “those are the happlest days of life"” so care-free and all that; serious minded good people try iIn! every way to make young people see | that the best thing they can do Is to forget everything else and apply themselves to their books. | Much of it is good advice. Schdol days are happy days; proper attention to studies should be given. Education will make life a deal more pleasant andl profitable to everyone when the time comes to work for a living. But it is hard to “get this across” | as the actors say. Younger students especlally hate to be lectured. They | know almost by heart the trite phrases ’ which accompany them to school, and ! they get a lot of them after they ar- rive. It is not glven to most of us| to put our experlence into such words that they will impress the young people. The more serious we grow over giving advice the more unlnter-; esting and dry our words become. ) But confessions usually are inter- esting. Perhaps if we confess that we are ‘going to school every day, right now, trying to learn the things " we need to know and some of which we had a chance to learn long ago ‘ when the school days were with us, the young people might sit up and | take notice. We might confess to the younger ones that we wish we had learned more about geography so that | today when we are asked a question about where such and such® a city is located, perhaps the capital of some state, we would not have to blush and | hem and haw and confess at last that we do not know. Or we might con-l fess that we wish we had read his- | tory more carefully when we were in | school so that we could know right | now about the things that happened ‘years ago, what came after them, and | what effect they had. To the older | ones, going to college or high school, | we might confess that, years after we | had left the last institution we attend- | ed, we tried to make arrangements to | 80 back there again and study hard some of the things we slighted then. | It is safe to say that for every young | person going to school or college to- day there are several who envy him | or her and who would give a good | deal to have their chance to study and master the things they are supposr‘(l‘ to study now. It has heen said that ever school day is worth almost ten dollars to a student—actually worth that. Well, the better were the ad- vantages we had the more we realize that ten dollars is putting it at a low price. The more we know, the more we realizs how little we know. Today “going to school” must be a side issue with us because wé have our living to earn. It may inspire those who will go to school next week with a de- sire to take advantage of their chance now if they realize that most of the people who are “well educated” as | it is called would give a great deal to have the chance young g¢tting right now. And all this is said in deep carnest- ness, people ‘are Al suffering * * *. We foel that our action 10 this In veluntarily agreeing to the public-spirited proposals of Gevernor Pinchol will meet the com: mendation of the American people and insure for the mine workers in the future a greater degree of considera- il for the lils trom which they un- deniably suffer. These words of the president of lhel United Mine Workers eertainly show a | study of public epinten and a desire (o ebtain the geod will of the people His move is & wise one frem any angle, In addition fo the gaining of & greater degree of approval than they would have done had they held out on all their demands, the miners have won & 10 per cent wage ingrease for all classes; they have won the Aght for the 8-hour day and an agreement to have the wage plans revised, the operators agreeing not to make indi- vidual contracts with miners below the prescribed rates The miners have lost the things the operators have gained by the agree- ment to the four points, The operators still have the open shop principle and ave been relieved of the check.off de- mand, Moreover the gperators ha heen relieved of the prospect of a great loss financially which would | up for the time being at least their desire for arbitration, | BRITAL of the influsnce of the League n bringing about & peaceful sciticment. The League would be agsmall affair indeed were it 1o insist upon eompil- eating & situation that seems 1o be straightening itsell out, merely for the sake of u»emu’ what it might eon. sider its rights. Bueh action would vi- olate the spirit of peace, by insisting upen asserting its power for the sake of showing that pewer, The spirit of the League ghould be and is of ideal Inspiration Any pelty move by 0 would be in vielent opposition to that spirit in which it whs coneeived PURLIC DUMPING GROUND, The suggestion has heen made that the eity buy swamp land to be used by everyone as the onme dumping ground; that the eity previde for guarding 1t to see that nl fires break out and that there might be some revenue frem it by baling paper and from the wire dumped there, It Is more than probable such plan would involve expense and not profit te the eity. This suggestion comes after a re- port that the fire department spent six hours fighting fires in three dump- ing grounds in the eity, New Dritain is proud of her fire | come were the strike to be prolong-| protection and the men who give It | ed, But the operators have had to give | They are taking pretty good care of | the people and, inecidentally, the in. surance companies, It may be ex- The public has been the big gainer pected that such Insurance companies by the settlement, It will have pmy; of coal, though at a price increase of perhaps 60 or 70 cents u ton unless the plan to have this increase ab- sorbed by the raliroads and distribu. tors materializes, But the great gain to the public, deeper and more signi- fleant than the price of coal, is the fact that it has been shown publie opinion is a force strong enough to prevent any dispute between men bringing hardship upon all the people. UNDERCURRENTS A great deal of information Is ob- tained by city oficials which is never made public. There are confidential remarks made in city hall which may be perfectly proper as giving general data on various situations, but which will look with great favor upon this new suggestion that there be but one ‘pllcn where people may dump ashes or other refuse, But the way to look at this matter is from the people's point of view. The insurance companies are able to take pretty good care of themselves, thank you, and there has never been | any complaint from the people that they are not being taken care of. The first thing to consider about this plan for a public dumping ground, |is whether or not it would be of value to the city, looking at the latter point in the light of use that is now made of material dumped. It s not possible that much land is filled in by this sort of material that Is carrled away and has to be ‘luck details and for that reason are | dumped somewhere? If there Is such not repeated, as rumors and gossip | 1and Which the owner wants filled in 1 more apt to lead to a wrong opin-| Near the spot where the dumping fon that, to a right one. Public offi-| Wagons are filled would it be quite cials make certain moves for which fair to the operators of those wagons there may seem to be no explanation, | to insist that they take a long trip, but which may be madle with good Tight past a spot which should be/ reason because of private information | filled in, and far away to the public which 15 too uncertain to comment | dumping ground? upon. | These are merely questions At a meeting of the board of public | Should be answered before the works next Tuesday evening a hear- | COmmits itself to a plan that might ing will be held on the proposed lay- | involve considerable expense to per- ing of permanent pavement on Grove | 5ons who have been relylng on hav- Hill. The Mayor seems to think he|ing land filled in in this way, and an| has reason to belleve that this pave-|added burden to those who are enghg- board | €d in carrying away material to be that | city ment can not be laid if the would keep within its appropriation, disposed of. It is possible he will call for a com- 3 plete review of the finances of that de-| A colored gentleman, name Wills, partment Monday evening when the|Wants to be declared heavyweight board of finance and taxation hold a champion by a court of law. His case speclal session. Possibly the Mayor's| J00ks black. own figures suggest that, although the board has money for this work, the later fixed expenses of the board, BY those who want a hat; | would bring it beyond its appropria- | A shoemaker won't get the coin | tion. Possibly he believes it is time ~ That's spent for a cravat. to look ahead and order no work now | A dentist gets no money for i which, added to the coming necessary Instruching folks to sing— expenses, would bring the necessity, A fighter wins his title in ! for a greater appropriation later— A twenty-four foot ring. after this money has been spent. And perhaps he has had some informal suggestions from persons who know | Hill that the board fears it will have to| exceed its appropriations anyway, and that the cost of this particular pave- ment may be squeezed in like the salesman who, travelling in a cold country and needing a fur coat, bought.one annd put it in the expense accouv(, The “boss” @bjected, but/ to116YS, paid for the coat, A few years later B iy the same salesman travelled the same ' The girl who knows how to do her There was no sum charged | 0wn sewing doesn't sow many wild! oats. e A tallor is not patronized At present it is Groove, not Gruvc: Facts and Fancies BY ROBERT QUILLEN. Village- banks don't have regular The cashier tells enough. distri up for a fur overcoat in his expens et A seaside resort is a place where “I see you have no overcoat in this many go out to a\v‘m and few go in. | expense account,” remarked the boss when the account had been turned in, “You don’t see it there,” returned the salesman with a twinkle in his eye, "but it's there just the same.” Blessed are the peace makers. They never have to worry about unemploy- ment. A careful driver is ons who can | wear out a car without the assistance [ of a locomotive, THE LEAGUE'S INFLUENCE Organs opposed to the League of | Nations may say, as one puts it, that the note dispatched to the allied ! diplomatic representatives in Greece, signed by the ambassadors of Great Britain, ¥France, Italy and Japan, and | & £ giving Greece she actually should | o | demand, “constitutes a victory for the, Each day sees a new cigar placed | | all on the market. Huh? Well, at any [TRD SAT A western slate s buring new oon- viel uniforms (o replace the ald enes We dide't know these things were ever wern out AL least the sleeveless gown added to the store of human kn edge. Who ever suspected that were that many skinny srme’ has =™ | | After his numerous defeats, It N reasonable that Mr, Bryan should be a little sensitive about all efforts to make monkeys out of men | The age of discretion is that at :wnlrh compliments no longer increase {the eireumference of your anatomy | Just above the ears. | Celabrities who visit New York and l\nlu a hook on Ameriea haven't any- thing on statesmen who visit Parls | and grasp the European situation |25 Years Ago Today (Taken from Herald of that date) Harry C, Brown of the Post Ofice has returned from a two weeks va cation spent with his brother Dr. Thomas Brown of Trooklyn. M. P, Leghorn and L. P. Snow qualified for the finals in the checker tournament last night, Mr. Leghorn won all his three games, Donations have already been re. celved at the “Herald” office for the | fund to defray the expenses of the celebration for the homecoming sol- diers, The total amount received so far Is $118, In connection with the showing of “Uncle Tom's Cabin” at Mitchell's Opera house tomorrow, there will be street parade at noon and a band concert in front of the Opera House in the evening. There will be buck and wing dancing by clever and original artists, At the meeting of the W. C. T, U, yesterday it was announced that a union temperance meeting to inaugur- rate a no license campaign will be held in one of the city churches on Sept. | 26, The officers of the W. C. T. U. | will make addresses. The annual meeting of the German Republican club will be held next Wednesday evening, when officers will be elected, 1. H. Solomon Is spending a few weeks vacation in the Empire State. COMMUNICATE ABOUT STANLEY QUARTER. Resident Wants Old Name Preserved for Historical Value. | Editor New Britain Herald: I have noticed with some regret the growing tendency to apply the name of Belvidere to the entire section of the city lying north of Allen street— the old Stanley Quarter. I very much hope that the old name will be re- tained. There are too many historical associations connected with it to have it lightly superseded. As far back as 1760 the district was so known und was the most thickly settled portion of the community, It was in Stan- ley Quarter that hardware was first manufactured, in the shop of Thomas Richards where James North learned his trade and started the chain of events out of which North & Judd grew. It was to Noah Stanley's tav- ern in Stanley Quarter that people came to discuss the stirring events preceding the Revolution. It main- tained a school as far back as 1758, | Many of the families who are now in- fluential in the city date their New Britain history baek to the Stanley Quarter. The name means too much in the story of the city to fall into dis- use or to be replaced by the name of| a real of it. It seems to me that it might be well worth while to encourage the study of the early history and geog- raphy of New Britain. In other cem- munities which have less reason to be proud of their record than New Brit- ain has one finds tablets erected marking Colonial sites and spots of local historical interest. casier to take a step in this direction now than it will be later when the older people among us whose recollec- estate operation on one edge tion covers more than half a century| have passed on. Would it not be well for some one of the local enthusiastic organizations—or the public schools for that matter—to take up the study of early New Britain and fix the old sections—Stanley Quarter, Beckley Quarter, Hart's Quarter, Horse Plain, Great Swamp, the Sugden Place, the “new highway,” spiritual lane, and others naméd in histo 1 am told that in one New England community a tablet has been erected on every piece of land remaining in the same family since the original purchase from the Indians. There would be several tablets in the Stanley Quarter if the plan were followed here. ley Quarter js individual with New Britain. Belvideres are too nu- merous to be distinctive. New Haven, for instance, has one now being de- Veloped. STANLEY QUARTER. WERE U, 8, W. V. IGNORED? It would be| ambassadors and a partial defeat for COAL SETTLEMENT the League of Nations,” but the same | It looks as though the people had tarther organ, the New York Herald, rate it has a new name and a new| band. | No Invitation Received to Help Plan for Constitution Week. cradle lasted | Editor New Britain Herald: won in the matter of the coal strike The term ‘“the people used advisedly, for without the strong conviction of the a way out of the have won" is general public that difficuity found, miners and operators would not hav This opinion has been emphasized in these could be agreed force of public columns constantly and now the words of John L. United Mine Workers, gives additional proof. After it was announced bolh miners and operators had agreed on the four points suggested by Go Pincho “In cing to the four basic points of Gov. | Pinchot's proposal the representatives fully Lewis, president of the that Mr. Lewis says acquites- of the mine workers have beer consclous of the public interest * + we have a natural desire #piate and prevent if possible ation- Tha old-fashioned longer than a bassinet. was needed longer. Only three more months until we can begin to say that summer is our favorite season, after all. on in the somewhat editorial news story, tends to contradict this sugges- tion of defeat. For the same story has these words: Ah, well; it| Italian acceptance of this phase | of the negotiations is said to have heen obtained wien France, Ja pan and Engiand declared thay would throw their weight into the in of having tie of Nations take up the problem if Italy showed any inclination to her prestige in the Mediterrancan by retaining the islands indefinitely Copies of today's note are being League of Na- tions council, together with the minutes of today At any rate the grasshopper is not without honor among fishermen. They also serve who only act as bait. | balance favor e League whole The modern youngster may not reach his majorit$ until he is twenty- | one, but he is unanimous long before that. increase Siberians are hard up, though they have many furs. We know who are hard up because their wives have furs forwarded to the huehands sessions. noneybee We confess to getting P orator reminds us of a He makes thé greatesl impression when he sits down. | thi coming | Certainly atement, from an that the power of the League, admits the efect organ deprecate As commander of the A. G. Ham- mond camp, U. 8. W, Vi, may I seek a little space in your paper to express the sentiment of the camp in refer- ence to the so-called ‘“‘Constitution Week” in New Britain. In the press we have read that various veteran or- ganizations in addition to churches, civie bodies and individuals would be invited to attend a committee meeting at which time plans would be dis- cussed for the observance of such & week here. Until late Friday afternoon no in- vitation had been received by the A G. Hammond camp to send a repre- sentative to this meeting. The mem- bers of the camp feel that, with the exceplion of the Grand Army men. they have the oldest veteran organi- | zation in New Britain and were justly this | entitled to send a delegate 1o gathering. Any just reason as to w they not invited would be np- preciated ALFRED H. GRISWOLD. vere Business eustomed to leaving their automobiles in the semiseireular drive to the reil. road station on Chureh stréet are be- moaning thelr inability to do se any longer, the rallread company having decided not to allow parking on its | property, The space referred to has been used for months by merchants and profes- |slonal men who drive their autos to | their offices and must leave them out. | doors during the day. It has also been | used by others who drive into town to | transact business of short duration and who cannot find space on the | publie streets, Within the past few days repre- | sentatives of the railroads have been “tagging” automobiles parked at the station, calling attention to the fact that the ground occupled is private | property and cannot be used by the | publie, It Is said that a list of ma. chines which have stood at this point | during the day for the past week has been taken an effort is being made to determine who the regular occu- pants are, The problem of parking space i becoming serlous as the number of automobiles increases. For sound reasons, the ordinances have been mended to forbld the use of public streets except for restricted perlods. While this work: hardship on a few, it benefits the many. Btudents of community progress are devoting no Iittle attention to the situation else- Cities which have broad provide permanent parking space in the center of the thorough- fares. In others, the problem has no been solved, New Britain auto- moblle owners are now forced to lewve their machines on streets outside the center of the city. This is a dis- advantage but the situation will prob- ably continue to exist because nearly all avallable space is built upon. Per- haps some aspiring politician will suggest & way out of the dilemma. I¥ he does, he will win the v'tes of the man who drives his car to busi- ness. “Rover"” is a well mannered collle owned by a resident in the southwest- ern sectionggf the city. He is a gen- eral favorite in the neighborhood be- cause he never snaps at those who pass his home and he never barks or howls at night to keep neighbors awake. As dogs go, he is a nice dog. About two hundred yards from “Rovers” kennel, there 1is a meat market whose proprietor is of a kind- ly disposition and who likes dogs— good dogs. “Rover” and he have formed a warm friendship and they see each other every morning— “Rover” takes care of that. Soon after the market is openéd and the proprietor and his clerks start their day's work, “Rover” appears at the back door. He knows that dogs— especially dogs that are seeking favors —should not use the front entrance. Sometimes the market man is busy and he forgets that '"Rover” is due to appear. But the dog knows that he has not.been overlooked entirely and stands there until someone lets him in. His patience is rewarded when | the market man gives him a big juicy hone, This he carries to his home and has his breakfast al fresco, on the lawn. Once in a while no one comes to the door to admit ‘“Rover”. After waiting a few minutes, he turns side- wise, leans against the door and knoks with his tail. He continues to rap until the marketman lets him in and gives him his morning meal. PR An act which was not part of the regular bill but which was appreciated by the audience occurred at the theat- ter this week in the course of a div- ing act. The announcer had taken his troduce amateurs who were about to perform, when he skidded ‘and plunged into the water. Despite the fact that he was connected with an aquatic act, he could not swim and floundered arownd in the water until he managed to struggle to safety. Some of the less credulous people in the audience expressed the opinion that it was “part of the act” But the announcer will not admit that this is true. " Aroused by a cnarge preferred by | a citizen that a policeman had solicit- ed a bribe, members of the New | Haven force have determined to bring {an accusation of attempting to bribe against- bootleggers and others who try to escape punishment by buying | their way out of their difficulties. It is said that in pursuance of this pro- ! gram, three law breakers will have to explain to the judge their offers of | money to policemen who had placed | them under arrpst. Since the campaign to enforce the | prohibition laws became effective in thig city, policemen have reported in court that their prisoners offered | coney in return for their freedom. ;This is a common practice with fre- | anent offenders who have been dis- | covered in the act of disposing of | liquor. They incline to the belief that the police are susceptible to the lure of easy money and they do not | hesitate to offer sizable bribes to be | released from custody. Thus far, no policeman has succumbed to tempta- | tion, regardless of what amount of money was offered. Perhaps it would | be as well to prosecute a few offen- |ders as a warning to others that the honor of the police department can- not be tampered with, PR Officers of the Red Cross in this city have called attention to the man- ner in which the people of Japan re- sponded in behalf of victims of the San Franclsco earthquake. It was in April, 1906 that the Golden Gate was plunged into grief and desolation through an éarth movement. Good hearted people in the four corners of the earth unloosed their purse strings and rushed funds to the suf- ferers despite the fact that no heip | was solicited. The records of the day showed that of the entire amount which was con- tributed by people In foreign coun- tries, Japan sent $254,000, mere than | half of ail receipts from alien lands. The San Francisco convulsion eest | 452 tives and caused property dam- age of $200,000,000. While we were P place on the edge of the tank to in-| staggered by that eatasirophe, it did the des the tens of thousands. New Britain is responding to the call for hel Many leading men and women ha led with subsoriptions in keeping with the need of the hour and the wealth, The public Is watehing & list dally to learn what others of 'ln e means are going to about it No doubt many New Uritain peo- e wondered whether the plant of the nley Works at Kobe, Japan, was in the earthquake area and whether any dam had been wrought, The “Observer’’ made it a point to in« vestigate and learned that the plant has been temporarily closed and for that reason no word was received from the manager in the Japaness eity, Stories emanating from industrial centeps throughout the United States indicate that ghere will be an in- tense demand Tor Amegican bullding products with which to reconstruct the citles of Tokio and Yokohama, Naturally, the mind turns to bulld- ers hardware. The news reports of a demand having aiready set it, led the erald” to inquire at the office of the American Hardware Corporation whether that concern would benefit, The inquirer was Informed, this was early In the ‘week, that no unusual business activity which could be con- nected with the earthquake had been noticed, o . Recollections of the famous night of the firebug in New Britain when the city was fires and outside help was rushed he; to assist in fighting the flames, while neighboring towns were filled with ru- mors that the city was burning down, are recalled by Ensign Carl Freder- ickson, head of the local Salvation ght in an epldemic ofl the salary he nine months he not unusual, entine resigned in New Hritain for and Capta ral hundred dellars in b collected, ‘"We are planning a drive f 000, to elean up our debts, pay off the interest on our home and give us & working budget for next yesr," said Ensign Frederickson, adding thet the army still plans to continue ita campaign to be included in the United Community corperation. \ Observations on The Weather For Connecticut: Showers tonight; Sunday partly cloudy; moderate tem« perature; moderate to fresh séuther. Iy winds, Conditions: The disturbance which has been causing unsettied rainy | weather in the central sections is still central over Ontario. It has caused local showers from Texas northeastward to Vermont. The tem- perature is lower this marning along the northern border from Montana to Michigan. Conditions favor for this vieinity unsettied showery weather followed by fair and slightly cooler, Washington, Sept. 8.—Weather oute look for week beginning Monday in Atlantic states: Generally fajr with probabllity of local show latter part; moderate temperature. Coolidge Pressed a Button When the chief executive in the White House gavs the signal the start of the Memorial Pony Express from St. Joe, Mo., to the Pacific coast was made. Robert Lee Shepherd, on horseback, rode the first lap westward. Postmaster Elliot Marshall of St. Joseph, is holding the mail bag destined for San Francisco. In the back- ground may be seen part of the old Pikes Peak stables, from which the original Pony Express started in 1860. . e EVERETT TRUE AHA L MONSO0 “AND Haw 18 R EVERETT oy FEGLING THIS A.M, ¢ 'Q * & i = i MV N B wra L 1I'M FEELING BUM, THAWR ‘tou, BT NOT AS BLM AT YouR FTRENCH !