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

3 S the Past Oich at New Britaln e ...Luu Class Mall Matier, ‘t 3 PHLEPHONE CALLS: : ' 34| where there is a plentiful supply | is where there is & seareily. No matter | is u? medium n and press Mowber of The Assaclated Press. Assoriated Press is Tusively entitled the use for ve-publication of all oradited te It net ot In this paper and also local w lished hereln. Member Audit Hurean of Clreulation. A B O ls & wationsl erganis Which furnishes newspapers and ady Hsers with & sirietly honest analysiy o lation, Our circulation statistics are upen this audit, This tnsures p fection against fraud in newspaper tribution fAgures to both nationsl Joeal adveriisers, == { THE SUBWAYS The matter of ownership of the subways in this city through which yun carriers of electrical current has been & much discussed one for many yoars, At one time, long Ago, the corporation counsel of the eity went to court to prevent a private com- pany from bullding one of thee sub- ways, The “Herald” disapproves public " ownership of public utilities in most cases. InefMclent operation as a rule results. In the matter of the owner- ship of these subways, however, there are two sides, both of which should be considered from all points of view, At .present the city owns its sub- ' ways. From them it receives a rental that makes them more than self-sup- porting. Various departments of the eity use them for their wires. No cor- poration may bulld a subway, Oceu- pants of the subways, under the pres. ent system, pay off the bonds, in rental, issued by the city for their “construction. Were these sulhways pri- vately owned, the departments of the ecity now using them ‘or which might hereafter use them, would be at the merey of the private owner of them at least to a certain extent. The. water department in this city— the bonds issued for its use—do not need to be considered in the much dis- cussed “bond limit" of the city which we are nearing. The subways, also self-supporting quite probably, might well be placed in the same class as the water department. Bonds for subways might well not affect the bond limit of the city. While the custom of erecting poles _remains there is a queer situation which will bhe corrected if wires arc run entirely underground and the city continues to own its subways. At pres- ent a property-owner may give per- mission to a corporation to erect a pole on his premises; the city has no such right. Thus it would be possible for the city streets to be cluttered with wires if property owners gave permis- ' sion for the erection of 'poles which would be held to carry with it per- mission to attach wires thereto. The matter comes up in this way _at present. Certain companies, or a " gertain company, desires to build sub- ways under streets that the city may pave subsequently. The city would not care to have such subway con- struction made before the pavement is Jaid. If a private concern is given authority to construct and own such subway, complications might arise when the street was paved that would be costly to the city. New Britain is well fortified in the matter of water. Great care should Ve taken before there is granted any right to private concerns to inter- fere with or own part of our streets underground, binding the hands of the city as, quite possibly this might do. PLENTY OF COAL. From the Herald Washington Bu- reau comes the news which corrobo- rates the opinfon here expressed some months ago, that there will be plenty of coal in New England this winter, . “There is already in the New England states,” says the dispatch, “more of both anthracite and bituminous coal there than has been at the same time {h several provious yoars, According- | 1y the railroads will not be called on | not know, and sometimes it is impos- to met a sharp increase in :Irumnd;] sible for the health authorities to find the strike which seemed imminent has| out just who may be carrying diph- been settled; the mines are operating | theria germs about with them. at a high pitch, and the railroads are | better equipped to deliver coal ,.r...l‘ way. Wait duction than they have been for sev-|m eral years." Added to this statement is the fact that the New Britain dealers have said | the people of the city are pretty well | stocked up now, and that there will be little troble supplying the others. | Well, all this looks good as far as| the supply goes. Last winter we were enxious to get coal here, even if we had to pay a big price. The ;.rns-; pect of getting cold and not heing able | to go about our business in comfort was a disagreeable one, to say the least. This winier there will be ploaty of oal, it seems. Nothing i reporjed shout the price. There has been littie said about the prices the dealers “"J have had to pay But this ene law Is certaln there is & plentitul supply of & com- meodity the price is never as high as ) where what (he consumer may try to do, no | matler what the dealer may try to do. this law of supply and demand | works just one way that way, s to bring the prices down. We are not | saying that the price aof coal win | come down immediately, The law of supply and demand s mentioned merely (o give comfort and REPORT MOTOR ACCIDENTS No one wants another to jose his or her motor operator's license unless the loss Is deserved. For this reason, and because prompt reporting of motor aceldents will tend to identify reckless drivers pessibly, attention is called to the law regarding the report. ing of such accidents as emphasized by announcement of Commissioner Stoecke! of the motor vehicle depart- nt, e law requires every operator in- volved in an accident which results in @ personal injury or damage to pro- perty exceeding $10 to report such ac- cldent within 24 hours of the time I8 oceurred, The motor vehicle department will now put the full responsibliity of re- porting such accidents upon the oper- ator or operators of the car or cars involved, but it will forward to him by mall a blank upon which to make out the report. The operator's license will be sus- pended without further notice if the report, properly sworn to, is not re- celved at the department within two week of the date when the blank was sent, It is not unusual for a driver of a car which has been in an accident to feel that If he settles with the damag- ed party, he need make no further mention of matter. He, therefore, because of ifforance of the law, fails to report it and goes on his way feel- ing that he has acted quite properly and patting himself on the back for having been “square” about the mat- ter. He realized that he was to blame anll he paid up. Tt is no onc's busi- ness but his own and the man with whom h¢ settled, he thinks. But it is somebody clse’s business. It is the business of the motor vehicle department to know about the acci- dent and, if necessary, to see to it thatsthe person who caused the acci- dent through reckless driving, ' per- haps, is not allowed to go on causing accidents and feeling all right about it as long as he “settled up.” Some day, perhaps, he might kill a child. He could not “settle” such a case. No monetary payment would scttle it. The motor vehicle departmeht feels this way ahout it. The department wants to “keep tabs” on all reckless-drivers in the state. The only way to be able to do this is to obtain information about acgidents and those participat- ing in them, This is what the depart- ment is trying to do. And it is the business of every operator of an au- tomobile to work with the department. Report your accidents. Better still, don’t have any. PREVENT DIPHTHERIA “No child or adult need suffer from diphtheria today!” This is the state- ment of a great authority and is em- phasized hy the New Britain superin- tendent of health,in his weekly letter published in The Herald Saturday. The importance of the statement is self-evident. No excuse is needed for emphasizing it. . There are two ways of getting rich. One way is never to spend any money you get. The other way is to do the things that will bring you money. It is practically impossible to make use of the first way—we have to spend money in order to live. So, when dis- cussing making money, it is best to spend our time learning what the things are that will bring money to Likewise there are two ways to pre- vent the development of the disease of diphtheria, says Dr. Pullen. One way is to keep away from it or from people from whom we might cateh it. Well this is almost impossible to do. We do So it is best to look at the other until a child is over six onthis old and then have that child treated with toxin-antitoxin. The im- munity to the disease will grow more perfect as the child grows older, and eventually that child will be absolute- ly immune, The increasing use of this treatment in this state is lessening the number of cases and will eventually, | if its use is made general, banish the | in the state | disease because everyone will be immune to it. As the old superstitions disappear | and as people are recognizing more and more that science is doing won- | The coal dealers here feit that| derful things for the race—a race sub- the people would prefer having coal| jeet to ills mainly hecause of the new t’n if it cost more than having little | causes of disease that have come with They patronized “inde- and paild a big price S5 we had to pay a no coal. pendents™ their coal. tor good civilization—people are turning more and more to science, not only to cure the ‘sick, but to prevent the healthy price. Credit was given the dealers|from losing that health which means for taking the cdmnce they did. strength and happiness. WHAT 'm' 1t seoms as though sll our old idess must go lnte the discard. One by one selenge pricks them and they burst dissppearing I8 the blackaess of thingd-once-believed-1o-be-true There was the tradition of “ihe howe is the place for woman," Where Gone There was the tradition of chivaley and courtesy 1o the falr practiced by the men. Where Is it? Gone, And now comes the Andl straw, Whe so forgetful of his or her youth that the' memory docs not come baek of the daring entry inte the forbidden pasture where the bull lurked wateh- ing for whom he might toss high inte the air with his sturdy horns, What man ean not remember his boyhood's palpitating heart as he escorted the malden of his cheice to the pienie through some field in which, pers chance, such a man-eating bull might have his home? And what man or woman cannot remember the eare with which he or she, then a ehild, hid out of Wt any particle of red neck- tie or red ribbon on such occasions, that the bull might not be infuriated and inspired to attack? Had 18 the fact that the scientific men have found that such precautions were unnecessary, Tho bull is not lg- furiated by red, Nothing of the sort You, little maid, could have worn that red hair-ribbon through the pasture, You, little man, need pot have torn off that red necktie which was your pride, 1f Mister Bull were going to dush at you he would have dashed Just the same, tie or no tie; ribbon or no ribbon, Even & white flag of truce, held in your small hands would huve excited his curiosity just as much axs red t ribbon or even flag of the radical, Thus are gone dear {llusions of the dead days of childhood, Facts and Fancies BY ROLERT QUILLEN. A strike isn't really settled until the consumer's bills are, PPoor old Spain. Even a revolution fails to keep her on the front page for a week. It wouldn't be so bad for an auto- mobile to turn turtle if it wouldn't terrapinything. Calling some men presidential pos- sibilities impose a great strain on the word “possibility 2" Liquor won't be an issue in the coming campaign, but it may at times figure as inspiration, It's a cage of true religion if he has a fat bank roll and yet sings "I nced thee cvery hour.” It isn't hard to beliecve that the Christian martyrs sang until the last. We've heard a man do it while taking a cold bath. Race projudice seems small and wicked to those who live in a district inhabited by one race only. Fur. coats will be worn longer this vear. Pants will be worn longer by the husbands who buy-the coats, Monkey glands may not work, but it is casy to make a monkey of an old man who yearns to be frisky and young. If a girl jumped from a vehicle in the old days, it was because the horse was wild—not hecause the man was. The/next time Tirpo fights, he should insist on having ropes strong enough to hold the other fellow inside. # The girl who is courted by a widow- cr has one advantage. She never sus- pects that he is trifling with her af- fections. Adam was perfect when created, but he didn't stay that way long without soap. 1f Canadians and Englishmen won't help Uncle S8am enforce prohibition, he might, as a last resort, appeal to Americans, Dempsey™s so mad at Wills about that attempted injunction that he probably won't fight him for less than a half a million. Some men devote so much cnergy to being loyal to their employer that they have none left for the business of making good. You must expect men to act that way in time of ‘trial. It is hard to keep a jitney straight when it is go- ing backwards. Correct this sentence: eater sank among the sked permission to smoke “The cake- cushions and Ambassador Child Knows Of No Change in Plans Rome, Oct. 8.—Richard Washburn Child, American amhbassador does not know of any change In the plan by which he was to return to his post here when his leave expired, there fo await the coming of his successor, he eys in a wirelss message sent en route to the United States which the local press prints today. RADIO T0 BE USED ONFIRE PREVENTION Information (o Be Broadcasted ' Enabling It to Reach Millions New York, Oct, §.—"Fire prevens tion week" thrbugheut the Umited States and Canada begins today, The enthe powll(lnvl the twe 2ouns tries will be urged to concentrate, during the next six deys, upen the problem of decreasing & fire loss whigh last year resuited in the death of 15,000 persons and the destruction of more than 8520,000,000 werth ef pryporty. t is estimatcd, according to the Underwriters' Laboratortes, that bes twoen 75 and 85 per cent of this enor- mous waste is preventable by erdin- [ ary care, and it Is & fact that the waste, in spite of efforts to prevent it, is incressing rather than decreasing yeur after year, The per capita loss in the United Btates Is approximately 35, The per capita loss in Holland is 11 cents, The mearest approach to the huge per capita in America Is approximately 76 cents In England and Franee, Break h the largest pos- sible number of people with an ap- peal to prevent fires, advantage is belng taken by radio transmission orge 1B, Muldaur, general ugent of the Underwriters' Laboratories, has prepared an address which is to be broadeast tonight from 16 different radlo stations in this country and Canada, The cstimate of the num- ber of people who will hear this message through the alr runs as high as 10,000,000, The address reads in part as follows: “I'he time to put out a fire is be- fore it starts; In other words, pro- vention, While the use of lmproper bullding material s doubtless the cause of a large proportion of our Industrial fire loss, it Is certainly true that bad housckeeping, both in the home and industrial establighments, permits the starting of an enormous number of fires which could never take place is simple rules of order and neatness were observed. “How much do you know about the fire hazards existing in your own home? One of the most dangerous things in a house is the common match, because it is apt to be left carelessly about, within the reach of children or where it may be dropped and stepped. upon. Matches care- lessly thrown away after lighting, are alone accountable for many millions of dollars of fire loss. An electric iron is a most useful implement, but it left alone with the current turned on will almost invariably cause a fire. The same is true of many other elec- trical devices, excellent in themselves, but a menace when improperly used. Greasy cloths, if thrown together and left for any length of time, will ig- nite spontaneously, Nothing is more dangerous than to throw such rags; and other rubbish into a closet or wooden ‘receptacle. All cleaning cloths and fluids should be kept by themeelves away from combustible material. All parts of the house, from attic to cellar, should be kept free from accumulation of any kind of rubbish. + A small blaze once start- ed in a rubbish pile makes headway with unexpected rapidity, and it is difficult Lo mapproach such a fire when hampered by an accumulation of ary ticles which have no business to be there. y Where Is the Box? “Do you know the location of the fire alarm box necarest your house? If not, find out. Do not depend upon the telephone to send in a fire alarm. “Bear in mind that a clean house is a safe house, and that every house should be clean at all times and free from all accumulation of unneces- sary articles, “Kerosene lamps, if used, should be kept well away from any inflam- mable part of the building, and the kerosene itself kept in a metal can outside of the house. It is not nec- essary to use inflammable cleaning fluids, Ashes should always be kept in metal cans and not allowed to ac- cumulate. Wallg and floors should be protected by metal or asbestos cov- ering from stoves and pipes. ' “Do not use wooden shingies. tire cities have been destroyed he- cause the majority of the houses were shingle covered and roofs have been ignited by burning brands carried by the wind for distances of more than a mile. Defective chimneys have caused countless fires, Keep your chimneys clean, “Carcfully inspect all gas and elec- tric connections, and do not use rub- ber tubes for gas appliances. Buy a few fire extinguishers, and keep them where they can be got at. not have to use them often, but when you want them, you want them bad- 1y ELY BARNAYS DEAD New York, Oct, 8.—Ely Barnays an internationally known grain specula- ter, philanthropist and great grandson of Hakaam Isaac Barnays, founder of modern reform Judiasm, died today after an operation for appendicitis. He was 63 years old. He retired from active business in the produce ox- change cight years ago. Observations on The Weather For Connecticut—JFair and contin- ued cool tonight and Tuesday; light to heavy frosts tonight; moderate northerly winds. Conditions: An area of high pres- sure central over Michigan is produc- ing pleasant weather'in the ‘central and eastern sections. The tempera- | ture is rising between the Rocky Mts, |and the Mississippi river but con- tinues low in New England. Frosts | were re ported from Minnesota cast- | ward to Maine. ¥ | Conditions favor for this vicinity: Fair and not much change in tem- perature Positively fresh cggs 5%¢ doz. Rus- gell Bros.—advt. You will | country so quickly, Here's how! ing with dent Coolidge, and few men New Books at the Institute THE ADVENTURES OF IMSHI, by John Prioleau. “A travel book out of the ordinary s “The Adventure of Imshi' the story of & motor trip through France and, on the other side of the Mediter- ranean, in Morocco, Algeria and Tu- nisia, then home to Englafd by way of Spain and the Pyrenees, It pro- vides the motorist with first-hand evis dence of the charm and magic of| cheap motor touring in the Countries of the Sun, and of the ease and com- fort of which Imshi may be taken.” P APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY FOR NURSES, by Donald A, Laird. n attempt to select wfrom the literature of psychology those facts that will be of most immediate ald to nurses in understanding the pa-| tient, themselves and their fellow- men as organisms that act, think and feel; the voint of view from which the facts are presented is biological.” P . BIRDS I HAVE KNOWN, by Richard H. Laimbeer. “The numerous pictures in color and the many snap shots would make this book exceptionally attractive to bird lovers even without the text, which is written in a popular vein from a scientific standpoint. The birds are those commonly seen on Long Island, but the information about them will interest bird students everywhere,”-——Outlook. PR BLUE WATER, by Arthur S. Hilde- brand. A record of the cruise of the Cal- tha, a 54-foot yawl, sailing from the banks of the Clyde to the Isles of Greece, taking a flylng trip to Con- stantinople and returning to Mar- seilles.” PR | BUILDING YOUR OWN BUSINESS, by Alton Cyril Burnham. v e e CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS: HIS LIFE AND ART, by Watson Lyle. . . o% CO-OPERATIVE DEMOCRACY, by James P. Warbasse. “A discussion by the president of the Co-operative League of the sub- stitution of service for profit as a motive for industry; with a wealth of cited facts and illustrations.” s s % HANDLING OF WORDS, by Vernon Lee. “Penetrating, concrete studies in the psychology of literary effective- ness. Genuinely illuminating for both the reader and the writer.— Nation, . v s THE LIAGUE OF NATIONS TO- DAY, by Roth Williams, “Were I a - multi-millionaire I should spend all or most of my money in buying copies of ‘The League of Nations' for distribution in the United States for I believe no book exists which would be more eifective in con- vincing America of the necessity of helping Europe out of the present chaos.”"—Christian Science Monitor. P THE LOOKOUT MAN, by David 'W. Bone. | “Captain Bone some years ago was the author of one of the very best books which record the way of life in the now-almost extinct sailing ship. In this new book of his he is himself |the Lookout Man, looking out, not upon sailing ships, which are, indeed | gone, but upon the ships of the sea. He described the representative types of ships and gives to cach ship de- seribed a kind of life, because, to all sailors, a ship of any sort has a kind of life. To -him, throughout the | book, the ship described is not a thing but a being.’—Manchester Guardian. .. THE LURE OI" OLD PARIS, by C. | H. Crichton. | “Major Crichton writes his book about Paris in the guise of a suitor to the Ladye Fayre of his dreams. |In manner the book is different from | the canventional guide; in matter, ex- |cept for the lady, it is not. Every lover of Paris will be grateful for the bits of history, the addresses and | stories which Major Crichton hasgeol- lected.”—Christian Science Monitor. | DR | MASTERS OF SCIENCE AND IN- VENTION, by Floyd 1. Darrow. “These brief biographies of some 50 leading scientists from Galileo to Einstein plan each man against the | background of the ideas of his time land then show him actually working! out the discovery with which his name is associated.” . s MY MISSION TO RUSSIA, eorge Buchanan, “A vivid and dramatic account of diplomatic affairs in Russia in the years preceding the World war and during that struggle down to the es- tablishment of the Soviet despotism, given by the last British ambassador to that country.” “Of this perjod Sir George Bu- lchll‘lln draws a wonderfully interest- | by Sir Probably you've wondéred how news of what' write for news associations that reach the en Magnus Johnson, the “boys” of the press are \ ing pieture, using the pencll of one who, by his training, is competent to thace not only events themselves, but also the causes that underlie them." 9 9,® NORTH AMERICA IN DAYS OF DISCOVERY, by A. J, ¥yan, .o PROBLEMS IN PERSONNEL MAN- AGEMENT, by Daniel Bloom- * Meld, 4 “From a large mass of scattered papers, aricles, and addresses which have made the literature of manage- ment in- its human relations phases source of interest and practical benefit these 10 years past the present volume is complled, It gives littie space to theorles in personnel work— it confines itself to the practical real- Rics which make the work what it s, and give it promise of further devel- opments,"” v ~ " e PUBLIC S8PEAKING, by F. H. Kirk- patrick, Bty |THE TEACHING OF READING, by Harry G. Wheat. “Prepared for use in normal school classes and In teachers' reading cir- cles.” . UNITED STATES IN OUR TIMES, 1865-1920, Paul L. Haworth. “Two attributes of this- work stand out so strikingly as to make its read- ing well worth the *While of the stu- dent of recent American history. In the first place the ‘Suggesions for Further Readings,’ giving as they do page references to selected portions of various works, are excellent; sec- ondly, and more important,. Mr. Haworth has produced a work which is so readable as to justify the clalm of the publishers that it is as ‘fasci- nating as a story. "—American His- torical Review. * Fiction. BUTTERFLY, by Kathlecen Norris, DEIRDRE, by James Stephens. « 2 “A whimsical and enchanting tale of Irish folklore combining Ilove, beauty, loyalty and war."” P THE LATE MATTIA PASCAL, Luigi Pirandello. “In its very quiet way, it is one of * 0 by (the most entertaining novels that has appeared for many and many a day.. The plot—if plot there be-—is whim- sical to a degree. At the same time it is not extravagant. On the con- trary, the story is profoundly human, its humanity being the result of a keenly searching psychological and spiritual analysls. It is the temper- ing of laughter with thought—and the vivification of philosophy with laugh- ter—that makes ‘The Late . Mattia Pascal,’ " / P T MONEY, LOVE AND Eleanor H. Porteb. oo OH, DOCTOR! by Harfy Leon Wilson, O CLEAR INTENT, by Henry C. Rowland. ] KATE, by . o or RUKFUS, by Grace 8. Richmond. EVERETT TRUE 4 (oF i 5 NI 47 VOO RS ; Mlls & V2R ul v [f " s going on at the White House new Minnesota senator, has j plying him with questions. tire country. around the u':tu finished talk- e 5 Years Ago Today (Taken irom Herald of that date) L. J. Gladding has accepted the of- fer made to him to play during tho coming season with the Meriden bas- ketball team. Patrick 17, O'Brien of this city has registered with the clerk of the su- perior court In Hartford as a student of law. The Traut & Hine Mfg. Co. of this city has increased its capitalization from $100,000 to $200,000, Mr. Willlams, the popular livery man, returned this afternoon from & coon hunt with his two dogs.: He cap- tured five coons, one of which weighed nearly 25 pounds. The collection was a fine one and will make good ecating for all who are favored with an favi- tation, W. I". Delaney has qualified as audi- tor and Stephen Roper and Thomas McCuo as constables, James.Shepard who has been quite ill for the past few days with malaris, has so far progressed that he is able to sit up for a short time each day. The water commissioners settled for another strip of land along the Roaring Brook pipe line - yesterday. Only about a mile remains to be set- tled for now. , . ENTERS FATHER'S OFFICE Walter P. Crabtree, Jr., of North Oxford street, Hartford, has entered the office of his father, Walter P, Crabtrece of New Britain. Mr. Crabtree, Jr., Is a graduate of Syra- ruse university and has also studied at the Univergity of Pennsylvania. He is a memberbf Phi Kappa Psi fra- ternity and Sigma Upsion Alpha, an architectural honorary society. While in college Mr. Crabtree won several of the highést honors, including -medal in architectural design, competing in the Bgaux Arts competitions held in New York city, in which all the leadifig’ architectural olleg8l ‘of “the country participated. Previous to coming to New Britain he was: con- nected with the office of C. Howard Crane, a prominent architect, with offices in Detroit, New York city and Chicago. CLAIMS WORLD'S RECORD Berlin, Oct. 8.—What is claimed to be a new world’s running record for 500 meters was made by . Hoff, the Norwegian runner yesterday at the Berlin sporting club. Hoff’'s time was one minute, five seconds, The record for the distance is one minutes 5-8 seconds made by M. Dalvert of France in 1920. ; SHIP TO AID OF ANOTHER Norfolk, Va.,, Oct, 8.-—The coast guard cutter Manning today was sent to the aid of the Japanese steamship Karachi Maru in distress 300 miles cast of Cape Henry. S O S calls came today from the Karachi Maru report- ed in distress Saturday. — BY CONDO