New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 22, 1924, Page 6

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Entrance MAYOR PAONESSA'S MESSAGE Sound wisdom, for the marks the annual message of Mayor A. M. the Common Council last night. 1t covers a broad field, in and is free from which so frequently make a document of this kind disappointing. Of great importance is the tion dealing with the term of office of the mayer. In his recommendations, Mayor Paonessa expresses the beliet that the executive elected tor four years, explaining that person ter part Paonessa, submitted to is original thought vague generalitis sugges should be al experience has convinced him of the desirability of giving man sufficient time to carry out his policles and program of administration which is impossible under conditions now exist- ing. Also Mayor Paonessa’s transportatien service to Hartford hy way of Staniey Quarter and Elmwood. by construction of a trolley line through this territory wonld aliminate the roundabout route thtough New- ington and would approciably reduce the time spent in traveling between the two cities, Whether the transpor- by trolleys It of are views desarving comment concerning tation would be furnished or autamohile bhusses is o question would not task to connect the terminals of North End line in this city and the Elmwood fueh be a very great the trolley tend to the te line and furnish serviee, A route home purposes north not served faeilities, The the city as suggested by the gocond to none among the projects he outlines, New Britain has outgrown its suit of clothes have new and larger suit must be romedied be given would develop for rritory in the by transportation accaptance of new streets by mayor, I8 It must n Housing conditions encour. and every agement should those who Aesire to crect ment should not the individual operate to the fullest extont Develop- to new hemes, be left entirely The eity should co- For several years it has bean realis- od that the present system of lishing the salaries of pubuie oficials in estab- and ecity nnsatistactory and that a change mayor recommends that authority employes is desirabie for saalry adjustments be teansferred to the Board of Finance some ‘other commission o burden the Common (. this task is ts waste hodly which is " e eared peditionsy nd Taxation or Te continue uneil with the time of a eginlative har sould for mo and more thoreugh board which 18 numerica and whick mase of fore the cour it nat on business wuch a il for « The m Park be made prove trafie ¢ eanse Aiscius # the plar horns. One ment must be peheme is p would eliminat soming g-ea the use of » wilt dee not & bia from ¢ TEANSPORTATION BEYOND BLACK ROck LN Potitionars « " aireet and th vand Ris " get tran Arseripty more cas day they get reach their homes The ng in town cumption anyt? hat Wil nitimately furnish 1) o4 transportation possible that the t be west Instead of mak Bisck Tfinek ac ith at all anzious to snue trolley eompetition om West he amount of strect it qn ropetition will pre other route tha Muin stret chosen. Jitne trolioys and the usnal private car t fic on the street would certainly make nearly ad- a congestion that would prove unbearable, even if it was deemed »w the 1 ommis gion to allow the competition with the trolleys. However, tl exists on cither side f Hurt street north and south, a large amount of territory that is also ‘king in transportation facilitics, There are undoubtedly many people living in this section who would also uiity to ride from It ecinte an opp to their homes might pl considere @ conter f jitney zond n a e o to route them Hart were thenes corner of Corbin ave- nue and mortherly on Corbin avenus to Wost Main street over the railroad tracks at the W Corbin avenue jitneys Rock bridge. From that point the might go as far east at Black and turn for the return trip. bridge Tt secins am though it long Hart Black Rock bridge by way of Corbin avenue, though, it eould be done in as Mttle time as go- west on West Main, as there from was a trip around street to get to As a matty of fact, ing due would be far less interruption other traffic and the jitneys conld pro- The added advantage of opening up trade would appeal to the operators and the people ceed easily a new section for alike, ONE WAY TRAFFIC The Common Council, last evenin, proved a bit reluctant about immedi- accepting the traffic plan which has been in operation as Oentral Park for the past few weeks, believing that ately one-way an experiment around A public hearing on the feasibility of scheme into an ordinance should be held before final This is as it should incorporating the action was taken If the of wishes hold Council feels ftself in- indging public sentiment hearing it After e, capable without a by belongs wish to and should one, all means. all, the eity to its citizens, should he law, what the unicss we eannot avoid or state what they is obnoxions majority should not be a law the law because of federal regulations This pewspaper way traffic plan about the park, congstently for more years than has advoeated the on and emphatically we care to specify. it city, It has done reason only belfeved that pedestrians %o for ons the publie of the and automobile drivers, would be benefitad by an orderly pro- gression of vehic rather than by a road plan which allbws vehicles to go in several directions, crossing and re- crossing 1) other vehicles e paths of ultimate destination number of danger according to " fhe I points belleved that a and pedestrians it that handling of au- that 1o drivers would be elimina believed It would faellitate the traffic in time could be saved by going the tomobile such a way long round in some instanees, 1t Is now t it beljeved wonld way convineed that wh tical, th heen value of onc-way the be 8o I8 p traffic ) Herald's opinion. T . demonstrated in belief that re other opin many of these However, firm as is our onceway traflic is right there ideas 18 individuals whose vight., How what the nucleus of will and nt there are their argum is, undoubtedly come out at A public hearing, they will be intercsted enough to appear and gain, it is right that they should fho evail, their arguments pr demonstrate best should 1hey conelusively that the tor the and old plan is the city its people generally, not a win; then a direct good ha FRperie from what appears an NEW' BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, THURSDAY, MAY 22, 1924. rwhelming tragedy of pain, pove emo lonciiness or separation rom our loved ones. Sickness is cur- able many times, others have endured iter pain than ours. Poverty may remedied to's extent it we are willing to make fight. Atonement cannot be made for an act which has caused remorse by removing ourselves »m the equation completely. Love 1d its attendant disappointments, al. generally considered ha- B learer 24 happening though by manity as the test mishap, often after it times looks hour: an ortunate than does immediately rward The mismrtunes of childhood are hardest to bear, which figures ne-third of those nitimes the be horne out by the themse on suicides, who killed s were 18 years Iossibly the tendency to magnify their troubles existed in the they were due hands carly in folks an death st took . their ilfe confronted with some difliculty which how, possibly and the for their own simply lives of as soon as they were game 1 insurmountable n it is there is nothing gained bu suicide, a fact which all but the hopelessly insane realize nearly all the time, Without moments of pnin and Gisappointment we should never have by which to judge the s that are Actions of life performed exactly alike a contrast happy tr not far bevond. day after day, would soon prove too irksome,. we should merely exist. Our capaclty for pain is great, our capacity for pleasure is great-—who would have It otherwise? Facts and Fancies BY ROBERT QUIL In the old days it was calied a good time even if it made no werk for the corener, Some waves may be permanent, but a wave of patriotism isn't one of them 1f divorces keep on multiplying, an- tother dead sea will be the sea of ma- trimony. The five Iways tell ) spend awim smartest seasons You can't Eirls in learning to sch The dark ous things, like “Neigh horses are saying numer. but nothing that sounds I it inspires . sentiment you de. lght tn privately and scorn publiely, Women really are superior. No man could ehatter cheerfully while kicking his wife's shins under the table, Those signs would scem more truth. ful if they should read: “Irec camp here for detourists,” “Who's Who" fsn't you are in society paper or on the unless news. jury. essential print a grand or SOrVe like to woe object to Crowd's are funny. They year's players but they ast year's peanuts, 18t ver give up,® the framed go-get ter motto that hangs above tive's desk, probably refers to golf. the execu- mouth watehed rounds, the foot universal sip on whe think and disease isn't a village E her IS into the ost that dictionary has sneaked n find him in jail, W “haotlegger” you ¢ alm everywhere except The nice thing about dictating letters 1ot of words you is 1 nge a to spe if at all, in congress ample time to investi- for a century order made to i gate it A vl held is going to turn has helped 1 out may mean 1) or merely gentle body chody put his coat or aom that an people ow Unele and Wave affaira of Europe R X to common not fol ms nothing however Europe's e ntene wnid she, “thar him. infinitely ¥ i more,” married D MD SUSPENT ol was ay 22.—Dwan boxer, the Atiants meeting here was charged putting forth the tén-round bout with Young Stribling yweig daye by ion i noon. 1 ER MTIGUE $80.000 May 22.—<An offer 1e Mike MeTigue, heavyweight ehampion, Pilly MeCarney, acting of Tulsa, Okia, oil n McTigue and as an to 3 betwe irg of Maco: attraction for July & , Ga., never ! of § GHIEF FEATURES OF .~ TAXES SUGGESTED Cut in Incomic Levies Due This Year Is Advised Washington, May ? bill, e new tax th and house conferees, contains the follow- as agreed to by senate ing chief features The mal Simmons surtax rates and nor- The maxi- The income tax rates. mum surtax rate is 40 per cent. per comes up to $4,000; 4 per cent on in- $4.000 $5,000, cent beyond The normal rates Lelow existing rates to $5,000, The corporation those provided under existing law, amounting to 12'% per cent The Jones graduated tax on corporations was abandoned. The drastic publicity provisions of the senate bill were dropped and the house provisions adopted with slight change. Under these, lists of taxs payers and amounts paid will be public, but tax returns will, not be open to general public inspection, Reductions This Year, The bill provides for 25 per reduction on income taxes due vear. It provides for 25 per ¢ duction in taxes on earned incomes, as compared with unearned. This cut is restricted to incomes not over $10,000, As agreed to in eonference, an estate tax is provided as in the house bill, making an increase of 40 per cent in existing estate tax rates, with gift taxes to correspond. The bill contains important admin- istration features calculated to pre- vent evasions of the law which are now costing the government heavily. ! Big Deficit, Senator Smoot, head of the senate conferces, announced the bill would reduce taxes to the extent of §47 620,000 in the calendar year, 1 1t will result in a deficit of $100,0 000, not including the bonus. How= ever, Senator Smoot hiopes that it will s0 add to business activity as to bring in more revenue than the experts cal- | culate, and that no deficit will result. Auntomobile Taxes, Under the final agreement there A 3 per cent tax on automobile trucks, excopt that those with chassis costing $1,000 or less and bodies $200 or les: Are sxempted. Passenger cars are taxed § per cont and parts and tires per cont instoad of 5 per cent, as | present. According o this scale, automobile taxes would raise! 100,000, instead of $158,000,000, as they now do. ! A tax of 5 per cent on sculpture, paintings and other art works, sold by dealers, was restored 1o the bill, al- though the scnate supported Senator Walsh of Massachusetts in killing it, The conferces held that a 10 per cent tax on Mah Jongg scis Was equit- al They also made the tax on slot ma- chines 5 per cent, as compared with | a aplit scale of & and 10 per eent in the house and 10 per cent on all ma- chines in the senate, Jewelry costing less than $30 will not be subject to the 5 per cent tax. The present law taxes, all jewelry, the senate made the exception limit $25, Kouse $40 and the conference split the differen 8pectacles are relieved from all tax, no matter how exp aive, Wi , worth less than $60, are not ts Amendments placed in the bill by nators Moses and McKinley respec- tively, allowed deductions on account of reforestation and reducing the pos- tal rates on newspapers to the 1919 schedule, were cut out of the bill, | e conferees accepted & senate amendment excopting merchandisc and produce brokers from a $50 tax evied upon other brokers. The present tax of $10 h on bowling alleys and billiard tables was retained, the senate having insterted thia figure tn place of $5 approved by the house. normal rates are 2 cent on in- and that. 50 per cent incomes up cor and s between per are on income taxes are cent this is 21y at the NE IN CHURCH'S PATH §0 Declares Report at San An- {onio Convention Assn Press. May 22 San Antonio, Tex., Wealth has presented one of the greatest ob- of un in history to the ureh, according to a report of before the assembly of the Presbyterian church in the United which eloses ity sossions today. This committee formed 14 years ago to organize the work of the ehurch, is composcd of some of the ablest men in the southern Pres| terian church and receives one of t propriations for any single assembly yesterday voted for CXpenses coming year, committes’'s report 8 that “the ffect of fo on the whole is to deaden per The idea of from which the commit me, is expressed as one individual responsibilities of beings 16 the world in which ¢ and carrying out this idea ot deals philosophically with conditions of the modern busi- ness world In reference to the complaint of the North Kiangsu mission in China that orthodos teachings were being fol ed in the Nanking seminary, the committee having the matter in charge recommended that the North Kiangsu Mission be Instructed _to at an carly date to take up the qitestion an and te consider whether in the ifterest of the truth and of the influence of our church on the seminary and of the stacles pro the « stewardship committee the sixty-fourth gencral Vrgeost Hhon its as adopted modern responsibility.” ardship, Nes its 1 wona .1 of the the rome s whole missionary enterprise in China, mission the I for the with e connection would wise ta retain minary.” not its ! Because for them 1 care— FunGho Maxson Foxaw Jooe Item from the Bogtown Enterprise The Ladies Aid held a session at | Mrs. Perkles Tuesday. They asked ve scribe to write a poem to be read and he was glad to accommodate, ODE TO THE AID The Ladies Aid is mighty nice— 1 think it's mighty fine; Before I'd make those ladies mad T tell you I'd think twice; They are worth their weight in gold— None of them are old. The Ladies Aid will always help A worthy cause along, 1f anybody dares to growl At them you'll hear me yelp; All of them are fair. BETTER COAL FOR LESS MONEY X \7 HEN coal is hoisted \‘ @l from the mines it RYAP is nearly half dirt . and rock. It has to be cleaned and separated in the various sizes. During the Spring and Sum- mer the very cleanest, finest coal is shipped out owing to better working conditions The poem made quite a hit and yet | scribe was regaled with some pretty good cake and coffee. —Griff Crawford. ‘I Rules of the Road Hill:—"1t the way of each other, must exchange names.” Hale:—"I'm meeting many girls that way two motor cars get in the drivers| nice Wiiliam 8. Adkins, Jdingle-Jangles Any funny, nonsensical rhyme that will make Fun Shop readers laugh is | a Jingle-Jangle, It must be in two lines. For example: 1 After winter comes the spring; Tonsils hurt like everything. Cows have horns and sheep have| wool; | Dentists have an awful pull. You will undoubtedly econtribute funnier Jingle.Jangles than these, Ad. dress them separately to Jingle-Jangle Department, The Fun Shop, Herald, Wouldn't Interfere Sheriff:—*"Your daughter and her young man eleped!” Dad:—"Are the police in pursuit?” Sheriff; —"'Tes.” Dad Well call 'em bac for the love o' mike = Harry J. Williams, | FAYINGS OF LITTLE SOCRATES As Reported (By Samuel Hoffenstein) sty is the best poliey, y the premium on it. ..o Oh, to he a he-man, now they're wanted in the movies. s “Les us now be up and going.” said Tongfellow, “KEach other,” added Smartfellow, Hor can p it you that Fven an honest number goes wrong on the telephone. Physiology and Chivopody Five year old Teddy came into the house erying ‘m not going to play with Jimmy any more,” he declared. “He's a bad boy “What's the matter?” asked mother, “I thought you lked Jimmy." “Well,” said Teddy, “I did, but T don’t any more. He kicked me in the stomach whan my back was turned.” TRAPROCK AND THE TORNADO “I have had a ot of experience with wind in my time,” said my old friend Dr. Traprock. “In fact some of my critics call me Old Trade-wind because they say I am always blowing in one direction or another. But that is mere professional jealously which started when 1 reported an entirely mew type of storm which T encountered near the Filbert 1slands, a dieturbance made up of the three great southern storms, the simoon, the typhoon and the wmon- #oon which, esmbined, create what is called the octoroon or eight-sided whirl wind. “But probably the most hazardous wind experiences 1 ever had happened right here In our own conntry when 1 actually travelled insida of one of our middie.western tornadoes * * * you know the center of a_tornado a vacuum while the sutef edges moves At a rate of about five hundred miles an hour, “T had left 8t Louis and was drive ing my automobile to Kansas City where | was to deliver my talk on the Use of the Oyster as a Beast of Burd- The aid turned suddenly murky, a rattle of hailstones sounded on the top of my car, and next T saw a tor. nadeo already upon me. T instantly made for a barn in the near-by field, “Suddenly the barn disappeared In a crash but it had protected me long enough to allow me 1o get into the dead center of the tornado. My prob. lem.was 1o stay thers, We took eur way Across country blazing a rough road as we went, but 1 had to drive with extreme care to avoid the swir ing sides of the funnel which would have instantly sucked me upward, As t was 1 my lanters and my tires. When the storm suddenly lift- ed 1 found myself edge of nsas City into which 1 rode on my thankful, indeed, to be there at is en. lost on the Kz rime all You may remember that the news paper at the time hinted at an unusual freak of a tornade which their great press association conld nét accurately report. That was it.” Pown Bat Not Out Coach (te young lady student who had just torn her bloomers while play- ing baseball): “Do you want a substi- tute?” nng lady (full of sehool spirit) , 1 want a pin’” I'm fond of apple-trees and stars; 1 hate the names on Pullman cars. —8 " Corn fritters—but it shouldn't Copyright 1924 Reproduction . forbidden). [two and two are four at the mine breakers. The OLD COMPANY'S LEHIGH COAL in our yard right now is the finest coal that money will buy. You can get deliveries any time and get any size you wish, AT THE LOWEST PRICES OF THE YEAR. GET YOUR COAL IN THIS MONTH The Citizens Coal Co. |38 Uptown OMfice 104 Areh St Tel. 3266, Berhin Yord opp. Berlin_station Tel. 26355, Yard and Maln Office 24 Dwight Court, Tel. 2708, ENTINE CONTENTS COPYRIONTED DR. FRANK CRANE’S DAILY EDITORIAL h e — ——+ How Do We Know There Is a Soul? By DR. FRANK CRANE Thomas Edison has said “My brain is incapable of eonceiving such 8 thing as & soul, T may be in error and man may ve a soul, but I simply do not believe it, What . soul may be s beyond wy uuderstanding. T should not wish te be under !stood, however, as den the existence a soul. My position s that | have never been convir Thomas Edison is . o !a greal doer, he is a g thinker also any suhject is worth aticaiion, I wish, 10 me to be an @ror in .is statement an quoted ihove, ir, Bdison uses the word “believe” loosely. What his mind the balance of probabilities are not in favor of the |a woul. Accurately speaking, belief means the acceptance of something that lies beyond the pomnt of our knowledge, Strictly speaking, we belicve only what in the nature of the case, we cannot know. I believe there is a soul for the same reason that Mr, [dison belleves there is such a thing as electricity, | do not kuow what a soul is and Mr. Idison does not know what electricity ix He believes in eleetricity, ite functions and powers and laws, for the simpic reason that when he acts as if these things were 50 he gats certal fvariable results, T believe in the sou!, and in its functions, laws and reactions, for exactl of Me is not only about seem the greatest men of this time, Therefor., whagever he = however 1o point out what he means i that to existence o the same reason, No kind of foree can ever be known in the same way that we know that But you ean measure it, use it, find out the way it acts sid depend upon it. This I8 scicpee. When you go 1o speculating about what the essential nature of a foree may be you are not talking scienc you are talking metaphysics My “beliel” in the soul is not metaphysical; it is seientific “I'hat is, T assume that there 18 a soul, 1 take that as an hypothesis, then I ohzerve how my tieory worke And, to my mind, 1t works better than any other theory in the explana human phenomena e hypothesis that man is merely an animal, as a horse or a dog, ma, expinin many things, it accounts for hunger and pain and fear and sex de iion sire and so on. Lut the trouble with that theory is that it does not at all account fo those phenomena which are most characteristic of man, which indeed occup: most of man's interest and attention. 1t does not account for postry, pa triotism, art, eonscience, literature, nor any of that sct of functionings whic! aer the latest product of evolution Above all, any other theory than that of the ®oul fails to account for the outstanding thing of all, which I8 Personality Of evtrse no one knows what Personality exactly is: but, by the sam token, Mr. Edison does not know what electricity exactly is I kinow there are sofls hecause I deal with souls, 1 know some of the law of sonle, T know the powers and reactions of souls, and, althogether assuming re are souls, 1 get ceriain dependable results just exaetly the way afr, Edison knows there ia electricity. nost that 11 And that Copyright, 1924, by The McClure Newspaper Syndicate, | sssssssssssssssssssssssnr 1 '§ 25 Vears Ago Todayi (Taken irom Herald of that date) | £099099VVNTIVIIITIIITITES | Sparks from the engine at | Barnes’ woodyard started a biaze on the roof of one of the shed this morning about 8 o'clock. Mr Barnes, with assistance of 1w of three employes, extinguished th fiames before any great headway was gained Viltliam Stevens Jeft this morn for a trip through Pennsylvania an’ New York Pobert Brwin of North street made application permission make an addition to his house on & win Place. 0. ¥. Curtiss has been awarded 1! contract for the ersction of W. B a1 Rossberg's new block on Mal Observations on The Weather ~—Forecast for Generally Washington, May 20, Southern New England fair tonight and Friday; frost in low places tonight; rising temperature Friday; moderate northwest winds, Forccast for Eastern New York Generally fair tonight and Friday; frost in interior tonight: rising tefs! perature Friday; moderate morthwest shifting to southwest winds. For Connecticut Generally fair tonight and Friday; frost in low places tonight: rising temperature Friday, moderate northwest winds, Weather conditions: risturbances are .contral this morning ever Mon- 1ana, upper Michigan and Maine They are moving easiward and cavs- | ¢ (- ing frequent changes in the weather | g ract in northern districts NOPS o1 o pureh, who Bua Seen empeyed high pressure i produ, plensant | o T Ramiaw for past font weather in the central and eastern | 8 LU T DLy e om districte. The temperature continues | o, " 0y o0 ihan low along the northern horder Conditions favor for this vicinity fair weather with cool nights and warm days. for A valuable horse owned by Willian Doyle, the liveryman, died yesSterday after being driven by a traveling salesman. Mr. Doy'é will seek dam- ages for the loas of the animal. There was a lively biaze in the Cen- tral Grammar schoo! this noon. The blaze was extinguished by Janiter George Dyson before much damage had been dore A ietter received in this city from John Gunning states that he is now stationed in Manila with the 17th | United States Infantry. Dr. M. A. Maloney spent yésterday visiting friends and relatives iv Wi chester. The Fon Shop 18 a national insts tution conducted by hewspapers of the count Contributions from readers, providing they sre original unpublished, and posses sufficient merit, will b# paid for at rates vary ing from $1.09 to $10.00. Write on one #ide of the paper only and send your contributions to the “Fun Shep Editor,” care of the Herald, whe I forward them New York Unaccepted manuscripts will et te returmed.