New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 29, 1924, Page 3

CHILD VIEWS ON TRAFFIC PROBLEN Prizes of §6,300 to Be Given for Best Essays Washington, D, C., Oct. 20.—Can «hildren solve the traffic problem? In connection with the fourth \iational, safety educational cam- vaign announced today by the High- way Education Board, American chool children are to be given an opportunity to answer the vexing vuestion that now engages the at- tention of the hest engineering minds of the country, $6,500 in Cash Prizes The annduncement offers more han $6,500 in cash prizee and nedals to elementary school pupils ind elementary school teachers who ubmit the best essays and the best '“sgons in the 1924 national essay nd national lesson contests. Offj. clals of the board are not optimistic fough to believe, it {& said, that any final solution will come from the stays by children, but jt s be- jeved that a nation-wide considera- ‘ien of the traffic problem will hgve *t beneficial effect in reducing the imber of accidents and fatalities o atreets and highways. The basic principle of the contest. i9 to train children in careful con- Auct on etreets and highways and to iinpress upon them a sense of per- cénal responsibility. This contest 18 the fourth consecutive competition SPECIALS— BLOCK ISLAND Penobscot Salmon, Codfish, Large Native Eels, and’ Small Whiting, SEE THESE VALUES IN OUR DISPLAY WINDOWS Main Floor Offers —150— TRIMMED HAT® Former values to $12.50 $5.00 conducted under th board, approxim million, two, hundred thousand puplls, an ge o fat least 400,000 annually, having participated in the three spiges of the preceding conte: All Schools Included All puplls of the fifth. seventh and eighth grades sixth, are {eligible to compete, whether attend- ing public, swrivate or parochial schools, I'our hundred and elghty- elght checks and as many medals will be given for the best state es. says, while three national prizey wiil be awarded for the three essays chasen as the best of all those to be written throughout the nation. The first national prise is a gold wateh expenses pald, The second and third state prizes are gold watches of relative values, All state and national prizes in the puplls contest are given by the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce, which has incorporated in its safety program a plank call- Ing for safety education in the schools. In addition to the 'prizes and medals for puplils, this organi- | zatfon offers to the teacher writing {the best practical safety lesson a jcheck for 8500 and a trip to Wash- |ingten. As second and third prizes checks for $300 and $200 will be Eiven to the successful teachers, Pupils are requested to write es. #ays on the subject My Conduct on Etrests and Highways.” ' Teachers are invited to prepare practical les- sons for use in the elass room. Essays are not to excetd 500 words in length, while lessons by teachers may vary between 1,000 and 3,000 words, according to the. inclination of the teacher, i The lsland of Miyafjma, in the Bay of Hiroshima, Japan, is notable for its deer and the absence of dogs. MOORE BROS. SANITARY FISH MARKET Is the Place To Select Your Sea Food e ——— BLUEFISH LARGE DEEP SEA SCALLOPS LIVE AND BOILED SHRIMPS Large Shore Haddock, Eastern White Halibut, Native Blackfish, Block Island- Swordfish, Large Cape|Butterfish. Long Island Sea Trout, Fancy Fresh Fancy Boston Bluefish, Large Large and Small Fancy Snapper Bluefish, Large Finnan Haddies, Round and [Long Clams, Little Neck Clams for half shell, Stony Creek and Bluepond Oysters Open Oysters. Salt Cod 18¢ pound,i-pounds for 50c. - T Tyt Moore Bros. Fish Market 30 COMMERCIAL SYREET Open Until 9 P. M. Thursday Fresh Mackerel, in the shell, 7 MILII Al LIRS $1 209, BROKEN SIZES Full Fashioned SILK STOCKINGS Not All Sizes‘in all Colors $1.00 and a trip to Washington, with all’ .| ing from thecity are in a deplorable | i| baljan government without the con- aent of the central government at| 177 MAIN STREET BAKU 0L FELDS BEING MEGLECTED Wells in Sontbeastern Russia Capable of Great Production Baku, Azerbaijan, Oct, 29--No rart of Russia seems to possess more attractions for the American cap- itallst and business man than the great Baku oll fields on the Casplan Sea. If properly. developed these wells are capable of producing sufti- cient gasoline, &kerosene, lubricating oll, vaseline and by:products to keep the entire world supplied, it is said. But in their present state the flelds present a juelancholy picture, Only a small percentage of them are in actual operation. The great wooden derricka and the pumps, compres sors and drills on-the remaining | wells are fast falling into decay. Tt! is as if ‘a great storm had suddenly NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, Remove that “aftertaste” CL-0-VE WEE SAYERS Pleasantly Spicy! "Always Good Taste” vieited a primeva) forest, stripping the treas of their limbs and roots; and leaving ruin and desolation in| its wake. Idle, Decaying Derricks. | At a distance the idle, decaying! derricks, which cover an.area of | | 60,000, acres, resemble a vast ceme. ' tery of conical tombstones. Scarcely | a vapor of smoke issues from the blackened wells or the neighboring refineries to give the sombre picture any form of animatio Only here and there does one & workman. The interminable rows of esmall | wooden houses which in Czarist days housed the tens of thousands of em- ployes, have degenerated into wret- ched hoveles, for the most part de- serted and ruined. The roads lead- state, and it {8 a positive punishment to traverse them even in a cushioned | automobile. Due to Lack of Capital. This stagnation 1is dus to Soviet Ruasia’s lack of capital, modern ma- chinery and technieal skill to devel-| op the oll-flelds, which were taken | over by the state soon after the 1918 revqlution. “We have not the means nor the necessary equipment to work these fields properly,” said an Azerbaijan Soviet official frankly to the correspondent, “and we are anxious to have American capital and American engineering skill.” When asked upon what terma American ofl promoters would be ad- mitted to Baku, the Soviet official referred the correspondent to Mos- cow. It is obvious from this that no concessions of privileges in the oil flelds can be granted by the Azer- Moscow. Produce Nearly As Much. According to the Moscow govern- | ment, the Baku fields are now pro- ducing only slightly less than the output of pre-war days. But a visit to the fields failed, to confirm euch | roseate figures, Only at the refinery of the Nobel brothers, now national- ized by the Boviet as Russian state property, was thers anything like! normal activity. Here the monthly production of oil and {ts by-products was eald to be sufficient to take care of all of Ruasla’s needs and to pro- vide a considerable quantity for ex- port abroad. GREATER SALES DAY TRIMMED HATS $3 %4 Every Hat In Our Downstairs Store Divided Into Three Groups Everything Included REDUCTION" ¥ MAIN BROKEN SIZES Pure Thread SILK STOCKINGS 50c¢ | SILK STOCKINGS | with July, 25 for June, 26% YOU CAN ALWAYS GET BEST VALUES AT THE OUTLET SALES DAY. TEXTILE INDUSTRY mprovement 0~ September | Noted in Commerce Department | Washington, Oct, 20—The depart-! ment of commerce announces that | according to ' preliminary figures 37,840,731 cotton spinning epindles | were in place in the United States on September 30, 1924, of which 30,122,384 were operated at some time during the month, eompared with 28,945,603 for August, 28,710, 359 for 29,216,486 for June, 30,498,165 for May, 31,871,665 for April, and 33,930,943 for September 1923. The aggregate number of active spindle hours reported for the month was 6,414,902,010. During September the normal time of op- eration was 26% days, compared 26 days for August, 26 for for May, 25 2-3 for April, and 241 for Sep- tember 1923, Based on an activity of 8.74 hours per day, the average number of spindies operated «'lurlngi September was 28,783,156 or at 76.1 | per cent of capacity on ‘a single ehift basis, with an average of 25,761,440 August, 22,697,499 for July, 24,4 892 for June, 25,506,973 for 1 80,177,488 for April, and 35,054,067 for September 1923 The average number of active spindle hours per | spindle in place for the month was | 170, This number compared | for NGLISH NURSES ANNIOUS T0 A0 Want fo Serve Mankind in| - Leper Golony London, Oct ! —Application by two young professional women for opportunity to enlist through the Dominican Priory, at Hampstead, as | nurses to lepers draws attention to the fact that English women have | never hesitated to make.the sacri- fice which this particular form of | service entails The auperioress of the London | headquarters of the Franciscan Mis- slonaries of Mary states that when the mother-general appealed gome years ago for six nuns to nurse lepers, more than 1,000 volunteers, all members of the order responded. 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