New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 29, 1923, Page 6

New Britain Herald HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY o (lasued Datiy. Sundey Bxcopied) ! At Hersld Bidg, 1 Ohurch Suesl, "w"l'fllil BRATES: - ” Months, LU Ll T Patered at the Pest Office at New Brilaly| o8 Becond Class Mall Matier TELEPHONE CALLS nduu Ofies .., itorial Roome The enly proftable adiertising © the Ohty. Olreulation beeks and veom always oven o adveit'sers Member of The Assaciafed Fress The Assoclated Pross 1s 0 the use for re-puly eredited 1a W or nel In this paper and alse locai news Hehed herein, " " ) press Iod ub Member Audhi furean of Cleeulation e A. B O Leation which fu and adver l iaalysis of wiice are | ures pro-y aud T newspaper national A STRANGE COMMENT, One-way traffie about Central Park was tried again Baturday evening, chunge the week o be made in not compelling cars coming down West Main street and bound north, to go ay fur s the South Church traffic post, but allowing them to turn north just beyond the alsle of safety at the end of the park, This| change was suggosted here, and was an obvious improvement over the other arrangement, Probably all motorists ex wishing to come down West and proceed north conly a few on Main street north of Church, saw an improvement over two-way traffic which has obtained heretofore. Quite probably, ag this plan will be con-| tinued for a while, more people will drive down town Saturday nights be- cause more will find the driving about the Center troublesome when order is observed. When this drecad " from pt those Muln feet | less of crowded streets is relieved there | jmproved highways made wider still. | | because of the enforcement law. will be greater patronage of the stores despite the fact that cars will not be allowed to park out toward the mid- die of the street, but will have ‘to| find a suitable spot where they may halt out of the way of traffic. Objectors to one-way trafic there are. Some of them objeet to “new- fangled” plans on general principle. Some individuals -have a special rea- son for objecting ‘as some individuals find any new plan which is of advan- take to the general public, objection- able to them. But the strangest comment of all is the one which suggests that the rea- son for the apparent success of the plan Saturday night was that there w fewer cars on the street. Picture a great mob of people try. ing to gain entrance to some enter- tainment where there is no order ob- served, They struggle and are| crushed most distressingly. Iew gard the comfort or safety, even, of | others, but each is working for him- | self, When the crowd has finally gained admittance the vastness of the | throng is the subject of discussion. No one*ever saw such a crowd! It was terrible! These are the common | comments. [ re- On the other hand pic-| ture the same number of people en-‘ tering that place of entertainment| under the direction of officers who keep the crowd orderly, arrangements having been made to allow all to pass | in quietly and comfortably, without crowding or inconvenience. There are | no comments on the vastness of the mob. There “mob”. It did| not seem, in fact, that there was a| great crowd at all. In this latter case it would be said | that there were fewer persons to han- dle than there were in the first case where the struggling crowd presented such a spectacle. In the latter vl\s(‘.3 was no | man and woman will be | | | the highway or the curb. | driver, a poor judge of distance, runs and buslaess hecame consprvalive s i is teday. This cenditien he ealied in recont weeks the “sidewise movement,” “readjusiment” ele. Se iron and steel prices declined as pro Moreover, bear of the duetion dropped off ing in mind indications Paremeter the indieations de net point 1o & the econamist foe | in prices ner pre- shightiy ] inercase Rather point may he reached n Mr. Babkson's recent ments one may see a certain satiafy- but wit media duction . lower all slate al & guiet des mme 1ot the a bit Ing assuranee termination not te predict an nt improvement §o what we shall diate, ¥ readiustment period on longer and let us soe would be about the way he would day, | see put it in the langusge of every Don't take chanees yol THE END NOT YET, When » of commu- | nieation me new meode or transportation hecomes changes are almost universal great required=—a readjustment in caleulat- of thought bocomen one of importance unuflnl«-l‘ by the great ehange A simple Hustration may be seen | in the changes that had to be made | ceipts more than doubled because of | In the construction of the highways | throughout the state when the nuln.f mobile became so popular. The old | dirt road had to be abandoned and | cold blanket over such splendid nrn-] the costly concreto brought to take \ts pluce, Despite this great expense | [the coming of the automobile was worth it, of course, Now the time has come, unforescen when the first | automobile ronds were built, for mak- | ing those highways wider because of | the ever increasing number of cars. | This added expense might have boen | partially avoided if wo.had posessed the vision to see how great would he | the use of automobiles, The roads might have been bullt wider in the | first place. Even now, with the added | feet on each side, the time will come | when new roads will have to be built | | to carry the increasing traffic, or these | But this is intended to be no criti- | cism of the authorities who built the | roads. It is merely an illustration of | the necessity of looking into the tuture and providing for it. One, matter, incidentally, that should be| considered every time street lines are laid out, i the possibility of having to widen such new street u‘somn re- | There is no telling what | mote date, will happen when and if the price of | automobiles comes down as that of | the bicyele did, to a level where every | able to have | some sort of gas driven conveyance. But a matter which is more im- mediate—another of the ‘“small things"—is the planting of trees along The plac- ing of other structures or poles, in- | tended to be permanent should be considered, too. At present n\un)" trees, fine, glorious old lapdmarks, are scen to have the bark knocked off, evidently by some automobile the mudgards of which extend out farther than its wheels. It is shame to harm the trees; it is a pity that some so close to the curb that any part of the car touches such a tree in- juring it and his car. Many bent mudgards tell the story, as do the many injured trees. In planting trees along the outer edge of the sidewalk, near the curb, it would be well to allow for the pro- jection of some portions of a passing automobile, both for the sake of the tree and the cars. So, also, with the placing of posts or other obstructions. POINCARE'S CONDITIONS, Cynies and critics of everything and | all enemies of France who have been | imputing to her the worst motives for her determined stand, will insist that | the conditions imposed by Premier | where obtained, a situation would be presented which might well bring the m “There | were fewer order aken comment, ars on the street. THE BUSINESS INDIGATOR, The steel industry has becn called of busi- to unfilled ton- frequently the “barometer of ness Roeger Babson, that the nage the In February, 1922 " which means, according shows business situation. the barometer was low @s there were only something over four millions tonssin this “un- filled MaMh of this year there tornage.” By the barometer had unfilled risen, being 7,500,000 of tonnage, the to allen Ieb- while today barometer has back almost what it was in ruary, 1922 o general business, following this barometer or, to put il the other way, having thus affected the cent below normal wher barometer, has dropped to 10 per it has been now for weeks. From these facts Mr tendency Babson deduces that the wil downward rather e than upward, althoug) indication of levels, positive from present price But in his gon declares the steel industry to be a thermometer “Steel prices,” he nd to fol low general He he of this thermometer i prosperity or depression point out that in the, early year business was active and the price of steel billets advance " e improvement @ad been o | man affair | tion. Poincare to his acceptance of the plan fos an investigation into Ger-| hope of settlement of the reparations qut‘:-; What use, they will say, of an investigation as to Germany's ability | can pay | will | take away all to pay and how much she it ts that France | not agree to any reduction of the amount agreed to by her? And this| appears to be one of the conditions | the which would bring harmony again to | United States as | Poincare ins of France's acceptance of plan | the allies, with the in the investigation. | Poincare's that shall not be invested | total | participant Despite condition the commtitee with reduce the he igreement among the authority to indemnity figure since regards thi £ a matter for powers themselves, there is good in this pian which will bring the allies | together sand will bring the United States into friendly communication I roundabout with them. it is a question of arriving by a way at a rman debt we said the Fr which will reduction of the € are ¢t condition” resolved agair n Premier in the “But if it is a ques. what and in the raise an ontery tion of determining Germany can tomorrow imme- diate future nothing could appear more necessary.” Granted that tatement uperficially viewed, upon ob- erities hang their But there is jectors and may pessimistic declarations. i overwhelming tide of general sat faction at the prospect of this union fes, with the United State to aid. against which no trivial objec- has | gveat | er's index tion of any stalesman. A0 maller how will be able 1o stand and which his own conviction will find it hard 1o vesist. Premior Bolneare, moved by deep emelion as he speke of the suf- ferings of Prance, s nel immune to this tide of feeling by the acceptance of this plan look- ing 1o harmonp and a settiement of the reparations based on sound reasoning and justice auestion W ONLY Y argument SPOR HEVEN A splendid prohibition appears in the news eolumas of The True, it shows a tre. mendous inerease in the seriousness of offenses against the law-—but what is & small matter like that when the Herald today | figures show what a great souree of | his huntng trip | profit 1o the eity financially the pro- |With got seven partridges, four greys hibition enforcement law has heen? Proft? Tell it to the world "t money in it" for Britain, Heed! Up to 1919 the receipts at the polige | court were considered large if theéy dix | ing distahees or time for interehange | amounted to 86,000 for half year, | %o many little things | But some §19,000, of which the oity [,ig for Chicago where he will remain are affected that each “little thing” | nets $13,000 has heen taken in at the for a few days on a business trip, police court in the last six months most of which comes from liquor law violutors, Just think eof it; our re- the enforcement law, Isn't that sim- ply grand? Now we must not go and throw any by suggesting that It is “not so good | to have profits Increase because of more general breaking of the Ilaw, Don't suggest that it would be better were the number of law-hreakers to be smaller, thus indicating more law-abiding community, Don’t spoil the splendid argument that there is “ | money in the enforcement law for the city, * That would be And don't say that the tremendons sums spent by the United States for trying to enforce this law more than make up for the profits from it derived by mean, | the city of New Britain, Just take the practical view that “business {5 business” and it is well that the city coffers are being filled up Well, The Herald will not take that position. It regards the greatly in- creased receipts in police court, while a proof of the efficiency of the de- partment, as a depressing indication | of the menacing growth of disrespect for all law. \Facts and Fancies BY EOBERT QUILLXN. The ordinary taxpayer isn't hard- boiled. He is merely soaked. fhe age of discretion is that at which one stops sowing wild oats and wheat. Some people are impartial just be- cause they are too indolent to form an opinion, In politics the only side that real- izes how urgently reform is needed is| the outside. People who haven't time to stop at a grade crossing manage to find tlme‘ to attend the funeral. About all one now needs to qualify | s a Washington correspondent is an appreclation of silence. As a general thing, you can rec- ognize Easy street by the number of | bay windows. If Fraace gets anything, of course those who condemn her methods will refuse to sharve in the dividends. Any fool can make war,%s Curzon says; and it is also unfortunately true that fools sometimes make the peace. Think of the efort indicated by words connected with the coal busi- ness. For example: dig, load, haul, gouge, . An “r" month must bring little as- surance to oyster ecaters who live in the belt where it is pronounced “Octobah.” The drop in prices noted by Fish- indicates that there are more delicate instruments than the seismograph, Well, if Lloyd George wishes to indications are that the states cast of back, e can ecarry the Mississippi most of When a for vigorous | declares means that Hil politician licy,” he what in Sam would do about things doesn't know he Slowly Russia becomes more rea- ver spirit breaks under the continued annoyance of entertain- s <tatesmen Wi that the 1s1Te brow Crite wlor syem, righ Bible al to th There is no rea- | || 25 Years Ago Today (Taken ivom Herald of that date) | | William B Nerton of Hart street John Walsh, manager of the Wal. lingford hetel, is visiting at his home on Main streel, this eity Wilkiam Walker had one of his fin. gers orushed while at vk At the Santey fule and Level Co., plant this wlternoon My, and Mrs. John Butler and two ehildren will leave next Wedneaday for & visit with relatives in Ireland | PFrank Fagan intends to join the |regular army as soon as he is mus tered owl, He will go to Forth Leav. cnwerth. Kdward Samiow has returned from The party he was |and three quall, The entertainment committee which ¥ has charge ofathe social for Thanks & giving for Clan Deuglas will meet at § o'clock tomorrow evening and Chairman Robb requests the presence of every committeeman, George M. Landers left this morn Ten per ecent discount to soldiers in uniform until a week after pay day at 1, & D, Daniel, Trumbull street, Hart. ford, | A new coal yard will be started with om and yards at the corner jof Dwight and Stanley street, it was ‘mmuul d today, COMMUNICATED | Thanks Firemen, New Britain, Conn, | Oct, 28, 1023, |To the Editor of The Herald: Will you Kkindly permit me space for the following in the columns of your estimable paper, | 1 wish to take this opportunity to express publicly my sincerest grati- [tude to all the friends and neighbors |who came forth so admirably, offer- I||uz' ald and shelter to my family and | myself, on the occasion of the de- | struction of our home by fire on Sun« ‘rlny morning. | A frienfl In nced s a friend in deed. | Never was this old adage more clear- ly or'forcibly demonstrated as on this occasion. This is but small recqm- | pense for the kindliness shown, but {If we can convey to each and every |one some small measure of our feel- ings of appreciation then will we have accomplished much, Nor have we forgotten the firemen. We wish to express to them on this occasion our most sincere apprecia- tion for the service rendered. Arriv- ing as they did in a very short perlod of time they were confronted by a most discouraging spectacle. | 1t was an inspiring sight and one that will not be soon forgotten by us as we saw them rushing to their task utterly regardless of ‘life and limb. | Their work was well done and we ‘\\'lsh them to know that we feel it | was a remarkable fact that they were |able to save what they did. | Asgaln let us express to all, who in pany way made effort to brightenghose darker moments, our sincerest senti- ments of gratitude and deepest feel- irgs of appreciation. L. J. CROWLEY AND I"AMILY. f Observations on The Weather Generally Tuesday light Southern New ‘England: fair and cooler tonight; mostly cloudy and cooler; to moderate shifting winds. Tor Connecticut: Generally fair |and cooler tonight; Tuesday mostly shifting winds. Conditions: A trough of low pressure extend- ing from New Mexico northeastward to Michigan is causing cloudy and unsettled weather in nearly all dis- tricts east of the Rocky mountains. The temperature continues mild along the coast but falls steadily | westward, Conditions favor for this vicinity cloudy and unsettled weather with slightly lower temperature. PUBLIC T00 LAZY " TOPROGRESS MUCH | R | New York, Oct. —Alexander | Meiklejohn, former president of Am- | herst college, did not make his esti- mate of the low level of public taste in the United States low enough, Dr. George B. Cutten, president of Col- gate university, stated in reply to a | question by the New York Tribune, The Tribune's question concerned | Dr. Meiklejohn's recent address at the 1 Synagogue in which the educator | doubted that democracy and excel- lence, the two moral principles of gu- pertority and equality, could ever be, fused by the dull crowd, “He decidedly statements,” said Dr country, and in many ether countries, the great lethargic masses have neither the desire nor the mental ability to attain excellence. Excel- lence must be left for those in any walk of life, and particulariy in the political sphere, who have the men- tal and moral strength to attain it. At the same time, education should be of snch character that persons of any n:ental level should be trained to the highest state which their ability per- mits.” Miss Ada Comstock, president of Radclifie college, who, among others, was ed by the newspaper, agresd with I Meiklejohn that “the reconciliation of excellence with de- presents estreme difficulties.” Wooley, president of ollege, described Dr stimuiat- W. K P, i University too mild in his Cutten, “In this is Building ‘up is the bard part. It takes three gencrations to make a gentleman, and only one little chorus girl to break one quest macracy Mary 1 Mount Holyoke Meikl statements as ing Dy ‘].l’l” 1l inspiring.” cloudy and cooler; gentle to moderate | S0 Declares President of Golgate| number of car; unimaginative 3.434 in 1917; locomotives numbered | ident of Browl |,rwr~n,-‘ NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, MONDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1024, ihat 508 19 let discouragement take 1he 'is soending & few days with relathes | fm- | place of the hope thal has been ralsed in Hristol | ' NO COST ; TO TRY pecia $10 DGWN and a whole year to pay ALSO ON CONVENIENT TERMS: Washing Machine, with details of ferred payment plan. NAME ADDRESS .. i ity, asked to be excused from com- ment, as did Dr. H. C. MacCracken of Vassar, who simply said the question was not a new one. Dr. Faunce, in explanation of his position wrote: “I regret that my personal rela- tion to Dr. Meiklejohn is so intimate that I cannot bring myself to engage in public criticism of his- utterances. He has set us all thinking and that is what I am sure he intended to do.” TROLLEYS PROSPER ~ BY HIGHER FAREY Fewer People Ride But Net In- come Shows Increase BY GEORGE H. MANNING (Washington Bureau of New Britain Herald) Washington, D. C.,, Oct. 29.—Elec- tric railways in the states of Connec- ticut and Rhode Island earned a total ret income in the year 1922 of $1,- 745,473, according to preliminary cen- sus figures announced today by the U. S. department of commerce from re- ports made to the bureau of the cen- sus. This figure is compared with a net | deficit of $91,070 for the year 1917, although the number of revenue pas- sengers carried decreased 6.2 per cent from 1917 to 1922, Owing to fare in- creases the gross railway operating revenues jncreased 32.4 per cent, ‘ag- gregating $24,105,500 in 1922 as com- imwcrutlng expenses increased 37.4 per cent, from $14,148,047 to $19,446,616. The current generated by electric railways in 1022 aggregated 148,963,- | 624 kilowatt hours and in addition | purchased current was used to the |amount of 44,135,448 kilowatt hours. | Of this current 10,522,404 kilowatt hours were sold for clectric light and | power purposes, from which revenue lto the amount of $5 T was re- celved. : | Decline In Trackage | There were in all 10 companies op- | !erating in Connecticut and Rhode Is- land in 1922, one more than in 1917, The number of miles of track operat- | 1,406.61 in in 1917; the 08 last year and (ed, however, ‘was only 1922 against 1,503.05 - —————————— - B L T LL LR TP YRR N 007,049 and $3,113,323. pared with $18,207.428 in 1017, Gross | Demonstration Of the Splendid New HURLEY SUPERIOR VACUUM CUP Washin‘g Machine Sturdy make — thorough performance price and terms within reach of all, That is the new Hurley achievement, in an eleetric washing machine of the vacuum cup type. 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It means a big saving of laun dry costs, and no more hard wash day labor, Gentlemen: Please send me full information about the new Hurley Superior Vacuum Cup your de- Spring TELEPHONE NO: cooeeeescccsccccecrcocs i Interest and other reductions from the gross in- come were $2,261,676 last year and $3,204,398 in 1917, ' Connecticut Company Statistics The number of revenue passengers carridl on eclectric rallway lines in Connecticut, exclusive of electrified A risions of steam railroads, in the year 1922 showed a decrease of more than 10 per cent from the number car- ried in 1917, and was only about 7 per cent larger than the number car- ried 10 years ago, in 1912, Figures just announced by the U. S, Census Bureau show that the to- tal number of revenue passengers carried in Connecticut last year was 186,039,310, against 206,789,966 in 1917, and 172,299,839 in 1912, The total number carried on all the electric railway lines of the country 726 bus passengers carried by motor busses operated as parts of electric railway systems) against 11,304,660, 462 in 1917 and 9,645,564,687 in 1912, Increases in the number of pas- sengers carried were shown in 29 states and the District of Columbia, while 18 other states besides Con- EVERETT TRUE WHAT DAY 1S THLS T IT'S YourR (five last year, one less than in the for. | wnvr year, and the number of em- Dloyes was £,210 in 1922, against 8,453 in 1917, The amount paid in salaries and wages, however, increas- ;T‘l from $7,068,803 in 1917 to $12, 21 last year, iross revenues of auxiliary opera- | [tions were $419,954 last year, against $59,312 in 1917; expenses of these op- crations amounted to $218,314 in 1922 land $39,191 in 1917, making the net |tevenues of auxiliary operations for | cears $201,640 and $20,121, | the two respective Added to the net rev- {enues of railway operations, these mounts gave $4,860,514 and $4,079,- 2 as the net operating revenues for 1922 and 1917 respectively. Taxes as- |signabie to railway operations amount |¢d to $995,058 and $1, 00, leaving |$3.865,456 and $2,756.502 as the op- erating income. Non-operating in come for 1922 was $141,593, and for 1917 $347.521, making the grose in jeome for cach of the two years $4,- AND § PON'T THINK YOV - wiLy, eifrper ! was 12,665,800,050 (including 11,852,- ; ——— THE & Buckley ELECTRIC CO. 75-77-79-81 Church St., Tel. 2240 for the 02 necticut showed decreases, five-year period from 1917 to 1 Connecticut Is 14th Connecticut stood fourteenth among the, states of the Unton in the num- ber of revenue passengers carried last year... New York, which stood first, had 8,087,744,368 passengers, nearly a fourth as many as-the en- tire United States. Pennsylvania was second with 1,415,024,112; Illineis third with 1,128,105,714; Ohio. fourth with 8§72,974,191; and California, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jeraey, Missouri, Minnesota and Maryland followed in the order given, Nevada stands at the bottom of the list, hav- ing only 480,000 passengers for 1912, a decrease both from 1917, when the number was 8$04,863, and from 1912, . when it was 760,000, GIRL MISSING FROM HOME The police are seeking Miss Mary Galasky, 18, of 193' North street, who ¢ has been_away from home since Sep- tember 18, according to & report made to the police by her father. No rea- son is known for her departure and as far as is known, nothing has been heard of her since that date, A CINCH IT'S NOT ). BIRTHDAY, WOMAN, | BECAUSES WOU NEveEeR ‘ MENTION THAT ANY MORE !}