New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 19, 1924, Page 6

New Britain Herald .. ... BLISHING COMPANY HERALD P Tenied Dally (Sunday Excepted) At lierald Bldg., 67 Church & SUBSCRIPTION RATES " Ihbree Member of the Associated Press, re-publication ad also lo Member Audit Bureau of Cirenlation. organization and adver- analysia of fw This ineures er YOUR CHANCE PUBLIC The fire: having passed TO YISIT SCHOOLS avilcr announcen all the eity are welcome visit during class ho methods of instruc- tlon, themselves ac- quainted with the modus operand! of teaching the young mind to de- welop k advan- tage of the a the ages. This opportunis hould It frequently, take wisdom of not be neglected that does There are 1 one parents in the city w! schools while The w. the tnls er seen the at 1 young action.” is on the doors, and the ools are lcome sign latchstrings are to be every right Holmes in- he d cism, POSTMASTER ERWIN GIVEN A MIED OF PRAISI will eannot he dona, that to get the important letters on t} way that r 1s to the post office. T wail ahout office »¢ e Postmaster [ ng the that ever gince poor post win hasn't but it I8 kno een vert! tact reins in New of the cfty. This night co s along the rsectiag streets main streets, not i mail, howe Jater than 8 estimatio eral ongh, consi n a8 late (or early) in. It This N this official’s time, Compared this, fmprovements in the col- system probably must be bullding 18 the of parxls in congestion will be e new station is in the postmaster will « one-armed paper- »w of him, fs no- overlook the pul regarding any possible n Le local service, can nd to improve the serve has been plenty of ac- ection, and the end be reached with the com- on of the annex by Institution The parcel post service, ay, 18 a peculiar In New Britain, as is the in n us other it sary to provide a separate bullding case cities, it is neces- le parcels; yet the is handling them at such & low figure that profits are neg- ligible; indeed, if postal financiering were done of a piece with financing ot privataly owned Institutions, by on the investment and a sinking fund for asnortization to hand govern- ment figuring interest as part of the overhead expenses, it is doubtful if packages could be transported at the present low rate. The average stamps on parcels total eight cents — in fact, it is less than that, some observers saying it is closer to six cents. But even at the higher figure, it is clear to anyone that parcels cannot be handled and transported over the country at this figure, It is financially impos- sible, yet the government is valiant- ly attempting it deficita from tha parcel post business are made up by the profits on letters; and even in the case of letters, if every- thing were figured in, it is doubt- ful they could be transported and it long distances for a two-cent stamp. | and financial office depart- From a business standpoint, t post ment is a pecullar institution, but by eliminating charges that ordinar- ily would be levied against the busi- ness, and depending upon congress for appropriations in case of def- it i able to carry on, and ch as feits, it is through efficient units the aster presides over that t ossible. GOOD JOURNALIST TO HIS REWARD Karger is dead in W A as even presidents tal. The Cincinnatl paper is owned s great Taft in south y the family and m Ohio ana portions of Ken- remarkable t! ger was that he was virt 1u ng Washington corresponden was ‘“‘American to his finge President a eulogy to his memors news stories | ber of Republican NEW and Dbitterness in h\l‘ No journalist could leave record, But the Peking girl stood mocking Doo King, Oh, y#u saucy Sally, Watched by the town of Meoking, S el blocking DEMOCRATIC DEFICIT Every street and alley! BLOW TO FUTURE [They saw her kick King, and, no The Democratic national commit- | joking, has a deflclt of $200,000. This | Saw her limb—without a stocking! Wil have to be ralsed and | Lhey Wero shocked at Sally; of West | Yes, her stocking sure was lacking, Shocking Hocking Valley! sad duty of find. | —C, L. Pdson. money, | ot deficit, radical sary, and in line with this policy the entire pub- malignaney writings. a finer tea amount Chairman Clem Shaver Virginia has the ing the In economies Peg-O'-My-Heart! One day little Peggy, who is four years old, was taken out to dinner by +her aunt. Yor dessert Peggy was asked what she wanted, “Chocolate pudding,” prompt reply. To try and avold giving this to her, her aunt sald that she didn't lke it Then Otelia, the colored waltress, said that she, too, disliked it But Pegey said: "You do lke choeolate pudding, because you're chocolate, Otelia.” ’ ~—Mary Alice Gleason. They Simply Put Thelr Foot Down Holmes:—"Do you belleve wome! can stand more suffering than men oe Clerk:—*"It's been my obscr- vation that they can.” ohn J. Mueller, The Cross-Word #uzzle Craze By Dr. Walter E. Traprock . e face the are nec city bureau, with headquarters in has dismissed, | according to newspaper dispatches. This has hit “influential workers" ind & fair-sized party row s in| prospect over it. If somebody can tndicate how to operate a publicity department without Clem teel disposed his cruel order. It is to be noted that the Re- publicans have not discharged thelr publicity force and have no inten- tlon of curtalling its activities dur- ing the lull between elections. Washington, been was the money may to rescind WINTER WITH TY OF COAL The cold wave we are having has long delayed, although is no record that anybody not i the coal business has pined for th breezes. New England some of the mildest weather in its history, not really begrudge Old Man Boreas his little fiing. The chances are a equable been there Tt makes me smile the heat that is being ecreated by the dross-word puzzlers, One might think that the cross-word puzzle was a new invention instead of the favor- ite pastime of our grandf was born and brought up in 21e family, 60 to speak, m father Ezra having for yea lown j Puzzl 1 Godey's Lady Book. W member his saying to m vou have the family geniu a true puzzie-wit." In manhood used 1o form two-man puzzle tea and t is interesting to note that my fel- ow holder of the Cross-country Cross-Word Championship was none other than editor The Tun s Shop, then in his early teens, Yo up on « Diamend-st - present in the m cast as than ever T | are safd to h oo 2 ibridged Dic- in hand. It took when T see all has 12 and we can- trosty had return to more ture is soon due. There appears to be no coal prob- lem this winter. Dealers have been stocked with black dlamonds. the mines have been producing, and necessary propaganda advising citi- supply of .coal rally effective, of the short- tempera of “Walt, you are my young we zens to store in a has heen gor After the experien early age a stock com 1 led Dictionary we - pastime f \ . A ple ur reciting the Ut tionary for Noah Wet us t] 1 the old man was quite prostr by our feat Ir als ord p ~whi 1 to fit the leum patter Tt containe cooks fnsane, t wag a cross-word zens gituatlon wel CAUTION WILL, RULE AS HERETOFORE gentle agitation to read the insurgent Rep: of the party ably will aval! nothing. The process The licans in yrar prob- congress 2 00 words and drove out next le whicl Wate defe mean reading quite & num- ] votes out of the might day T hopa to party as well, as the same voters “OM who carriad all the ins for Coo except Wisconsin voted for the insu put them where Reading men out of the party i8 thi hat President kle with ¢ ey are one of t Coolidge will tac caution. If he runs tr omary pow e to form he will think about it a lo and as ex truth 1 dare y' to! 1 could lick you arms broke! Yes, y' ¢'n —~that's me! nk their BLOOD! onur name is MUD! me! Gwan ‘n hit You think you're ibul me! Hi don't ¥'? ¢ that You leave my hat f'r a row | th' wind does Qbservations On The Weather will Walt 055052 ow! I vhibition Among Native And In It is evident from the program larranged for the observance of Ed- ucation week in New Britaln that | the emphasis 18 being laid upon lhr} extent and work of the school plant | and the desire to have the parents of puplls and the public generally get better acquainted with it. | The public s invited to visit the schqols’ while classes are in opera- tion, which will be a novel exper- lence for those who avall them- | selves of the opportunity and also for the classes. The main thing about Education | week 18 to make the public thor- | oughly acquainted with the city's educational facliities, In a general | way Americans usually are proud of the public school system, in spite of | | congested conditions and some part- tme puplls, matters which in due| time will be obviated by the vari- ous city governments where -urh‘ ‘cnnxmlon! exist. Thefe s also 4| tendency to point with pride at the | product of the school system—uni-| versal education without regard to creed, color or cl The publie schoo! stem has been a part of the fabric of American lemocracy since the birth of the jon. Tt has always existed, but never on as great a ecale as today. There are finer and bigger buildings than ever before and more of them. Methods have improved even dur- the present gencration. More *cts are taught, the three R's being supplemented by a striking galaxy of useful knowledge which in a former time were possible of mas- tary by the well-to-do only. Yet strange as it may seem, illl- Still More Iliteracy v continues to abound to some | extent in these T'nited States. We fond of clalming that our school | ystem is“the best in the world, yet we do not stand at the head of na- | tions in literacy tests; and this as- tonishing thing is not due entirely | steady influx of foreign-born, but shows its head among native | horn, people who are supposed to have had the advantages of an American public school education. The bureau of the census,taken in| reports that there are 67,265 tos in Connecticut, counting 10se 10 vears of age and over. Illi- means persons who cannot nd write in any language, A not only those who eannot read and write English, as the un sopl A4 suppose. Of thes ilitera in Connecticut, 2,927 are of the native-born white population. The remainder are B' the foreign- T including 1,078 native-born negroes. t percentage of filiterates, 10| Connecticut 1literacy ts and over, in Connecticut s illuminating. The percent- » of all classes In this state is 6.2, is 1s not the lowest fn the Union, this honor golng to the percentage is 1.1 eral other gtates in the wild and v west also also have low per- ntnges. Btates with the highest literacy percentages are in the south, wiere untaught negro eiti- ens—all native-born Americans— help swell the total. The highest percentage is in Louislana, with 21.9, | tent'a teracy percentage | 15 4. which is no higher! pereentage of {lliteracy of dren born from foreign or mixed Ihiz i8 an important ! the children of n or mixed parents iments from native-born >t be construed han as a complim to | ¢ school system percentage of illiteracy among ior Bormm Whites tes fn ( to & The kewise 1-hor are acy ign per- rn whites d ar o tha gre which come ter to Con t, most of the cge western from por fm- far iteracy n in the low per Minnesota A\ Hopeful Sign Ameng Native Born | Wales has 1.8 per cent, |1ation of over 10 years fover 10 yea lof the onnecticut | 1 extent | BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1524, llliteracy In onnecticut; Born Whites; Other Countries by seven states. * The number of 1lliterates in Hart. | ford are available through the U, | 8, census bureau, 'I'M, brings us close to home, Out of & total popu- | Iation of 111,766 in Hartford, the illiterates total 5,662, The total native white population in Hartford totals 67,946, and of these 92 arc recorded as illiterate, Illiteracy for all classes in entire continental United States fs 6.0 per cent; of native parents, 2.5 peg cent; of forelgn or mixed par- ents, .8 per cent; of foreign born | whites, 13.1 per cent; of negroes, 22.9 per cent, In forélgn countrles the percent age of llliteracy compared with that | in America 18 in some cases much higher and In other cases much lower. In most cases the fignures date ten or 15 years earller than the | American census figures, which are from 1920, so that improvements made by 1920 are not avallable, North Europe Most Literate "The record of having the least illi- teracy of any nation on the globe ap- parently goes to Prussia, the chief | state of Germany, where the per-| centage derlved from examination ori army recruits, and dating from 1910, | was only 0.02 per cent. This would | include males only. There is reason to believe that 1lliteracy among ail | classes would be perceptibly higher, | but it would have to be many times | as high to reach the low figure of | one per cent, Evidently this high percentage of general education | didn’t do the Germans a bit of .good | in 1914, ’ The honor of having the next low- est. mark for illiteracy s shared by | Denmark and Eweden, with 0.2 per cent, hoth gathered from affmy re- cruits in 1907 and 1911 respectively. | As in Germany, the figures for all | classes probably would ba higher.” Switzerland comes next with 0.3 per | cent, based on army recruits. The Netherlands show figures of 0.8 from | army recruit and 2.2 from marriages. | The United Kingdom likewise has | a lower percentage than the United | States, with 1.0 per ecent, based on | army recruits, while England and based on de- passed in no state and Is equnlled‘ the proofs of llteracy or {lliteracy ducted from marriage licenses, Canada's figures are 11.0 per cent based on a population of over five years, the figures date from 1611, i INliteracy in France is rather as- tonishing, the figures for the popu- | being 14.1 | per cent; on army recrults, 4.3 per | cent; on marriages 4.1 per rr»m.i The high percentage for all classes | in France probably is due to imri- | gration, the percentage on army re- cruits probably being more approxi- mately correct as to the native pop- ulation, Where an{pr,\- Tags Some of the other countries in Europe yleld astonishingly high fig- ures: Austria, 12.7 per cent; Belgium Bulgaria 65.5, but 25.4 for army gecruits: Greece 57.2, but 30. on recruits; Hungard 3; Treland 9.2; Italy, 37. of those and 31.1 of neinding \ 68.9; Rou- . 60.6 over ten years and 41 from army recrults: Russia 69. over 10 years and 61.7 of army rec Serbia 9 over 10 years and 43.4 of army Spain 58.7. Tiliteraecy in South xad Central Amer s very high, ffom %2.7 in Guaten to 43.4 In a and 39.8 in Uruguay, Tiliterae, R aniiis recrults nd New 1and northern srope and is nruch lower than for tive whites in the United States, in those countries illi- teracy is based only on an inability Anstralia Ze con By wit axcept that | to read and refers only to the white populatton. excl interior. throughout this aktiels ed from the New York | regarded ae A te statistical of facts. 1ding the aboriginals IPigures obta Alma and nd necu lication a hoc COMMUNICATED Suggests N. B. H. S, Meet Windham High 1in Herald— g's Heralc ive a N. B. H, seems to the writer th: of being the champion Tt is very truc 1 team but the am has a team beten in two sea string vig champio | hid that of Why can say anksgiving ese two team we not have a game Jors between state cham- s proving who has the Windham has igh schools lenge to at it is ir Britain high to take w them which is the a game at Memoria ng would draw a issued a 1 it scems t Kow STEADY CUSTOMER LLIT $60.000 ESTATE. 1stice Goft Held $50.000 fn Prop- erty and $10.000 Personal. will of Goff of the d today. 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Shown at 5 this price are also fabric coats of “Kerami”. . $ 9 RICHLY FURRED WINTER COATS To delight the miss and woman, coats of mokine, jam- muna, kashara, and other new mocha-like fabrics, fash- ioned either in the straight or slightly flared silhouette, with exceptionally generous collars, cuffs and $69 borders of wolf and other fine furs ..... THE NEW SHADES OF AUTU RED Including cranberry, oxblood, lipstick ayd cayenne in wi e assortment, trimmed with rich $29 : $79 0 furs and fur bandings, priced. . America spent four million 1a year for firearms, and even more f« other methods of divorce, BY ROBERT QUILLEN Knocking usually indicates either | carbon or envy, After all, the greatest instrument | destruction ever invented is man. Almost everybody xcept people who fants, loves babie Al ibeniias A vindictive man 18 one who g°t out and enjoy what hap; when the jit stalls on the track. Nearly all of the! : e ow dear old ladics are sho college graduates.| y; yo girls o the things they va longed to do at that sge! Education pays great coaches are Times change. farm mortgage: at times Onece liogs lifted now worms do 1| columbus knew the shape of world; but he wouldn't recogniz | the shape it's in now, Bufficient John Jack. blography: Ihis and nobody ever name was called ! You can't tell by t him an’t tell by the amoun | nickel plating how many payme are yet due on the c = ; Correct this sentence: “Of cours } 7 said the neighbor; “we'll be glad Z z : keep the children for you.” DEPARTMENTAL BILLS | Departmental bills s approy | the finance committee of the con | mon council, will be recommend for payment tonight as follows Incidentals, § | discount, $1,062 | ment on taxes. $7 v penctrates brick ' commission, $5 3 most reac-| comfort station, $64.10; safe, amusement commission, $ | nicipal home service b $3.8 about garagc commissiol manufac- : $5( board of park commissior ders. |ers, ular bills, $1,027.43; bonJ = | $9.718.7 hoard of healt o of the dis t peoplcs may hospital bills, $187.71; departmen! flized. They have no re- bills. $1,939.26; hoard of police com worth grabbing missioners, $5 board of fi B commissioners, $2,421.64; street de- ns do noth-' partment, $11,6 r con community until the un- struction, $610.02; maintc ollahorates e, $173.14; subway departme: = $9.61; strect sprinkling, $1,124.9f Tt fen’t the will of the peaple that permanent pavement, $22.63 aw makers 80 much asthe strect lighting, $4,038.27; zoning ap- won't of the people. propriation, $1,190; street improve- = | | ment, $7.617.50: board of public Animal fustinct aritics, $9.105.15; hoard of water when you know the men some dogs, commissioners, $18,016.94; total with $180,784 e — g DR. FRANK CRANE'S DAILY EDITORIALI The Naked Man By DR. FRANK CRANE Scotch have a proverb, “The naked man goes far The meaning of this Is that the less you are encumbered y you can miove “Let me park In a car by the side of the road and arouse the curiosity interest and pay ha icipa public 60: mu of man head won't be Imost everybody Kicks dollars except of susper nicipals the re sources cit sewer harasses | isn’t 80 impressive o the more easl sometimes at great pains to accumulate a lot of junk proud of their possessions. But after awhile they find tha own does little more than gratify theéir vanity and fix them They ca fear of breaking something v that the less baggage one has the easier i been foregons it has been ge and It was too 1 trouble, » by A veryillust They cal unt of re mppiies Pcople are and are ve what they in one g ace ot move fc Experie is to trave N ame are properly 00ps. to you v g und back on a of linen. nother d bo r than g washing done. ire Newspuper Syndicate.