New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 5, 1925, Page 6

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The Assoclated Press s exclusively en- titled (0 the use for re-publication of all nows credited to 1t o1 not otherwise paper and also local news published herein arenu of Cireulation, a neifonal organization newspapers and adver- tisers with & etrictly honest analysis of circulats Our elrculation statistics are based upon this audit, This ineurce protection agalnst fraud in newspaper distribution (igures to both pational and local advertisere The Herald ta on male Oally In New York ot Times Bquare; S Grand Central, Entrance BURYING THE WIRLS GOLES ON APACE Old-timers wi lny when the dowutowr 1 of New Britail assemblage of a spider of wires susp over the sid ks d In regard to st e dowr town streets, tliose ays T gor forey he re now ground But 1 a fow of 1a and for this s s will have to be built onds issued for 1 purpose it necessary. ' wires in the downtown secti iain mostly on Myrtle, Broad, High, Washington and a part of South Main st ergroun past year o Washi on Commercial and on streots, The bury ires has come about ¢ past decade or two th th on of an en- , lightened pu 1t started when civ ess abandoned a dormant state, me active and action took the ds. The te pla wires were rated ars be- fo for o them they belong. The t is not yet finished, but the city will not hesitate to finish what has been so valiantly started. AUTO MARKER CHAOS SHOULD BE ENDED Contusion over ti of rs at the bes nately has been * during which period it wou v mot ists to cu or n markers. T is in it cannot be As conditi A s c &by X A A CANAL I'ROM RIVER TO NEW BRITAIN ain was 1 and many cit were of t fon that the c re much in its nece hopes freight i Haven rai The days of expeciing t comstruct t al. But t 0. necessity of 1 « through the cc water way can’ notict iis - tr —where D less s A improvement has never yet har tration sponsoring If such a canal is atructed between N the Connecticut river it wil be done by popula in dou adm local capital, and t seems to be no great t y! prevailing n enough local capiiai 3& & di project- 4 R | nualy® and the saving to citizens 18 | seant wages of death that an un-|of 220,000 in’passenger trafic. Money a whole would be considerable also, | | | Hard coal would cost about 80 cents | the first move was originated t6 | attitude of governors of the many NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, By way of discussing the canal's it might be mentjioned off hand that it the frelght rates to the industries o economic avallability, however, has been caleulated saving i Britain would amount to several | appurtenances of riches without an |charge celebrities sull rate, Restric- hundreds of thousands of dolla an- or more a ton less be It on boats up e by it could brought to the city coust, a service that is enjoyed Hartford and other clties along the | river, and by communiti Sound Such a Le pros- proposition Is not to e ut—although up to the ent day the sneczing has been rathar pirited “BURNING OF INNOCENTS' AND PIRE LOSSES the h of children ing tugs at artstrings ike a story burning to met this horrible fate in Montreal Saturday will cause thoughtful citi- zens to | e and consider the fire risks that Jurk in the modern many- umily tenement blocks, When fires have gutted such mul- tiple dwelling hous the experience has been the same neatly everywhere, The blaze starts in one amily, s Is to the other apart- men lly when the people liv- fng in them are asleep, and death | and injury reaps its ghastly harvest. The chief rom such affairs is lesson to that of matches, extreme care in cook use gloves, is doubly paramount where any families live under the same roof. Just as a fire in a hotel is more dangerous to life than in a e le dwelling house, so is a fire in a“tencment b fire ding more serious, A in a single-family house can do no more, in most cases, than de- troy the abode of one family; but in a buf all may belongi 1ding occupied by many families » deprived of home and The number of serious fires, stories f wifich have galned space ers this winter, appear 1o cr than the average by far. POLL OF GOVERNORS ON. CHILD LABOR ulong the | The fact that eight of them | be derived | in the | ing followed is the main reason for existence, Such a person will think it more worthy to walk abgut in ackeloth and ashes In search of an ideal than to ride around amid the | inear. of the Tnstead bemoaning sympathetic fate disbursed, such a martyr will be so v he has not ten | lives to sacrifice upon the altar of achievement. Honors? Yes, there were some fov Professor Bergonie. Ho was awar ed the nd cordon of the legion {of honor of the French government, the insignia being presented by Marshal Petain. The honor came as | for his contrlbutions to He recelved it with [ one foot virtually in the grave, but glad helped humanity, if \gvre so little, a reward medical science. he replied he was to have by his researches. NAMES SHORTENING THE OF Il postal department The Wash ington prefors ghort names for cities, so that postal clerks can read Pro- sumably 100 letters dirccted to cities be $0 directed to cities of These | not official figures, but probably just them easily and thus eave time 'of one or two syllables can | handled to {three or four sylables. are |as good. ice's predilections, and the desires of the “Narra- gansett Pier” h Narragansett.” community, been changed to ol won't know the place without the 1ocal friends Pier, but 'tis a case of a rose by any other name, etc., as William Shake- spear said. . There are many cities that could |stand contractional operations upon the interest of 1t may be | their names in monosyllabic perfection. going too far if they ever think of |abbreviating New Britain to plain Britain, Conn., but in the cases of a | multitude of other cities let the | pruning knife be .applied for aught we care, Millions of people waste enormous encrgy in addr |ters to Philadelphia, when perhaps | plain Philly would do; millions wasté efforts on other four-syllable wo: like Kalamazoo and San Franci sing let- Since eutering the ranks of active | opponents of the proposed child labor amendment, the New York World has become one of the chief | ournalistic warriors against it. Its lead story today had to do with th states toward the prbposal. It ap- th poll of the governors the legislatures wiil a that indicate ify the amendment., st of the govcrnors, the poll , favor child labor legisla- commonwealths rathe rough the eral govern- but chief fear expressed being w would t an additiogal federal concentrate just that in Washington—and most secm to think there already concentrated there, if not ntirely too much. TONGTWAR CONTINUES TO DEFY POLICE The Tong war continues with 1 of the eff fury in spite ites to fer in varfous c ut the Chinese criminals who unicashed this intetnecine feud he latest murder aseribed to the vas i} ¢ Chinaman in & vied N York resta it zi ota ims up to es at with til A MODERN MARTYR GIVES HIS LIFE hidden powers 4% chemicals d na- ¢ forces in the hope that some Prc J IR ‘ n s to ays and radium g experi s t ntinued his activities Berg throug . a It would have all the world without as is pr fe in search knowingly placing one’s nger or suffering. much more | THE AUTOMOBILE | IN GREATER USE The MWaterbury Republican, in nmenting upon the increase of | antomobiles in use in this coftntr the increase heing from onc auto to ever seven persons in 1923 to one | anto to every 6.42 persons in 1924, car prove Or asks, “Will the pleasur a permanent institution will there comparable, perhiaps, come a reaction ag: to t that tion against the bicvele, many people to give up the and oth ity to their use of the The reaction that came against the bicycle was'not due to the bi vas'due to the so much as it When t was at {ts height t he automobile, andit rapid t the new cle automo 2 bicycle craze e already was con- traption worked. That spelt the end Another thing that operated nst the bieye was the fact that it required exceeding physical exer- tion along portions of nearly every route. When a bicyclist saw how an autoist scoot a long hill it avas natural he s ild feel an ex- pushmotive Jo- . unpopular ve t transportation. It remains the cle ever invent t ver tile ve nd has every element of contir popularity. Its use is as necessary or as the tel and univer telegraph, New York ba better in James Sy Holox the change ~'s attitude toward the railroa 4 adds “Hon efficient and pr ssive nent must e ued e trouble is it takes about 2 nest management i slightest. But his long aving rin a train W o cbiad < ary Hoover t I has showr t ninety years . with & um of o e as the t | the @wes belief that the cause De-|eq gyt but it indicates progress is In conformity with the post of- will | and easy transportation | MONDAY, JANUARY 5, 192, bolng attained in the debt settiement plans. ’ We now know why the Atlantic Steamship companies are golng to tion of immigration caused,a drop lost through a lack of Immigrants will have to be made up by charg- HALL JULL hn;: more to those whose names are | Manslaughter |0 Who's Who. | I would be pleased,” sald Jim Mc- | e L Bride, | “To take you to a show." { ° His dear, old-fashione Fact. and Fancies u plied, “I shall be pleased to go." | BY RUBERT QUILLEN' niece re- Alas, to think that when He gave His invitation thus, "Twould put the fellow in his grave | And raise an awful fuss! About the mutrimony, best intelligence test is | The fateful evening came at last bottom | Ang she, well-mannered, prim, ie llars are at the | put with her heart beats coming fast, ¥ [aav s Reccived her fiance, Jim, | The hard part of a race problem \gith blushes, flutter and tut tut Is to keep inferior peoples iferior. | oodbyes at length were sald; | - S But hardly had the front door shut Most of the “hardship” we suf-|wphen Jim MeBride fell dead! for is occasioned by want of things we don't need. i | Trum of an oil well, jtov. doesn't lie at the The coroner sat on the case, B - And headlines, far and wide, lie President’s economy is ap- | 7Told all the gaping populace (proved by 98 per cent. of the peo-| just what killed Jim McBride, ple, none of whom imitate it, | He'd hailed a taxi passing by, [aApaaty ~ When she said, “Jim, that's far Modern boys h ewer trials {190 much to pay; their rates are Winter undies no longer roll and highs knot at the ankles | 1eUs take a trolley car!” One Guess 1s Good as Another “What does the editorial /‘we’ | mean?" “1 suppose it means short para- graphs — they are wee editorials.” —Joan Benda. Fven the cymc who predicted skirts for men didn't think they would wear one on cach leg. | | | | Why He Became a Beggar “You used to get good pay in | vaudeville imitating the whistling of | birds; why are you broke now?" “They told me to change my act | or they couldn’t pay me any longer. |In other words, if I expected any ! A woman's friends are those who | more pay for whistling, I could | know how many times her winter | whistle for my pay. . ! nat has been made over. | —Norman Lewes, { As to baldness, doubtless the| 4 may fy fndeed boss'in his home | first man bald on the back was de-|\hen he has two drawers in the rided by his hairy fellows, | drepser for his very owni | Casus belli: Deliet by those too old to fight that some other na- tion nceds a licking. | The Pacific Is 70 per cent. of the ! carth’s surface and 90 per cent. of | the argument for gun elevation. Wally the Mystic He'll Answer Your Questions, L Somehow % It seems too good, but it is true A citizen 1s one who pays taxes | qyat oyl a person has to do to redeerh honds he sold himselt 10 | 1y write to R e | faise moncy to lend to Europe, | ol BRI | Then wait until the answer's [ L - printed! | Thg hard - part is to sclect immi- e | grants who will succeed withont Tit for Tat" furnishing too much competition. ’| pear yally: | T aim forty-four. | Please tell me, why should fdiks | be sore | Because 1 am o wed & hoy 10t twenty-three? | | Yours, Sweet and Coy. | | | | Dear Sweet and Coy: War will be loss troublesome. The | ) No one should kick, n who di the death ray |For if Grandpas mak take their won't have a sword to trip over. | pick S Of chorus girls, then we should praise he Grandmas who raise, pcople can de its laws; but it fsn’t progres keeps the courts behind. lop faster than | s that take boys to PRI This Way Out Dear Wally: Labor will find another leader to approve; it will be harder to find | another capital will approve. ‘When T go to call TUpon my girl, out in the hall N IoNT .y with good books Her mother stands, with arms will enable u to talk about the akimbo. things people don't talk about. And utters, “Well?” Advise me. s Bimbo. Doyle need not chlde America for At lcast we | Dear Bimbo: urope will T think you ! “Well, you should wed that girl — o Wally Says drop her like a hot tomale! Scandal and a Cup of Tea “Of course, T haven't told irit unbelief in cling to our 1 regret to tell ‘11 get what rhymes with that pay. he wife | 1f : a drink occasionally,” “but mentions never ted Editors, an- ther soul, but — they used to live in Widowed Dishwasher Inherits Vast Estate Miami, Ila., Jau. d d 1s been earning her Shoreville.” “You say you've never seen her? my dear, you don't know at a painted face is.” Don’t- say a thing about it, but was only last Friday that I heard | her tell him to get out and stay out.” rty in a Mian iirty-five! Why she’s 40 if she's 0 was the Philadelphia fe of John A. Elssle who inherited ha Why of course I was invited. But ¢ a forty a ¢ ve. Before| 1 naturaily didn't go.” s death, three years ago, John 1 “Well they say —— now T don't to his|know how true it«is — that her sler gave a quit claim deecd : who executed a trust | mother drank like a fish. The Warrens! Why I wouldn't iream of going mear their housc iler what they said about Lucy. er was forced ¢ h was tion my name, too.” A “No, I really don't care for New York and Palm Beach any more. I'm going to spend the winter at “d Bermuda.” ork as la while the 1 through Action here —Charles G, Shaw. Tricky Triolet Counter “ e Yong, Long Ago I fondled her halr, The dear hair of my Mabel; 1 thought it so fair The Observations On The Weather That 1 fondled her hair, . Pap ; Yet she seemed not to care ol b b J“l 5 " Though it sounds lfke a fable. T O e s ot e se it Tqnaled Amprinalr— 500 e Twas her Switch on the table, ange in temperatu Modera e S b g o The Editor's Gossip Shop Hey! Try your hand at triolets, It's quite a bit of fun; So write of prunes or violets And {ry your hand at triolets; Come on, folks; 1f you're shy, oh r in central and south light snow | extreme 1 Tues temperat portion tonight erate west winds ght or ing the last ho portion of 1 northern y litions Do this and earn some mon. try your hand at triolets; 1l show you how it's done, unter. siderable cloudy C the northern di perature is mild border from Mc Conditiops tem- » northert phicit vor for t is vicinity fair weather and not much change counter, In the meantime study n temperatu carefully every triolet you read, to have started He Knew How to Use It ated chimney. Five ! Teacher: “Aaron, use the word | ) ¢ n s ‘cynic’ in a sentenc nd tower : sted jron and | Aaron: “Last summer ve vent to | smouldering embers remained. { And, you know, they had to men-| As the foregoing triolet indicates, invite readers of the ¥un Shop | to contribute to the Tricky Triblet Tomorrow, in the Editor's Gossip | Shop, we shall give you more ex- | directions on the writing of violts — and particularly for our | Coney Isiand aa' hed a ride on der| eynle rallway." ~Miiton Nichols, Pleased All Around Gramercy: “How can you en- courage your wife to waste her time on cross word puzzles?" Park: “It's tho best thing avert gotten up. Now I have the rest of the paper all to myself,” =Orville Lieber, What Price Glory! A teacher had told the pshs that she would not allow thein to chew gum during school how s, Upon seelng little Loulse di'gobey- Ing one day, she sald: “eulse, throw your chewing gum fn the basket at once." Leulse began to cry, awd sald: “It's my sister' ~Florence Ifanmett, (Copyright, 1925, Reproduction Forbidden,) COMMUNICATED - J ON JITNEX FRANCHISE Editor of He.ald:— You are to be commended for your |editorial in the Hewald commenting }"“ the high handed ‘methods of the P. 1, C. On previswus occdsions they have denled applipations for a fran- chise from New Britain to Hartford | but when the Conn, Co. applies in competition they are handed the franchise irrespective of fares charg- ed and service given. The Conn. Co. intends to charge over this route 4 tokens, ‘while over another route they charge only 2 tokens. Is this position of tlsa Conn. Co. defensible? It caus@s the average individual to stop and ponder over the decision of the P, U. ¢, Thanking you for your space, Yours trnly, A READER. — 25 Kears Ago Today Foom Paper of That Date Clart and Sowney still lead in the M, C. A. handball tourney. There re, some fast games last evening, ecarge W. Klett, R, M. Clark and C. E. Andruss of this’city were ini- |Y. [ % tiaed into the Mystic Shrine at Hartford last evehing. ‘Manager Barrett of the .local Tgsketball team has arranged a re- turn game at Yonkers on Washing- {Aon’s birthday. On New Year's day the New Britaln team made a great impression,in Yonkers when it de- teated the home team, 10 to 7, in jthe presence of 1,500 spectators. John Quinn will attend the ses- |sion of the International Bricklayers' union, which will open at Rochester, N.*Y. on Monday and last for 10 days or more. The Connecticut Lighting & Pow- (er Co. has signed a contract to fur- | nish electric lightldg in Southington torf one year, beglnning on February | 1. The signers were Manager Math- =0r of the company and W. T. Foley | for tha borough. The American Hosiery Co., the Stanley Works, and the Stanley Rule & Level Co. have notified Commis- sioner Benjamin Lee at New Lon- don that they will take the space allotted them at the Paris exposi- | tion this year. Other local concerns are expected to follow suit. {Stabs Bridegroom Who Left Her for Another | Paterson, N. J, Jan. 5.—Charles | Miller, 21, was stabbed in the left | shoulder last night by Miss Julia| | Tyrell, 20, as Miller was walking | along Paterson’s principal business | street with his wife, a bride of a few | monthe. Miss Tyrell was taken to po- | lice headquarters and Miller sent to a hospital. His wound is not serious. | Miss Tyrell told Police Captaln Me- Rride that Miller had jilted her. BELLICAU—BELOIN | The wedding of Joseph Arthur | Bellicau and Miss Florence Marle | Beloin, daughter of Mr. and Mrs, Jo- seph Beloin of 18 Whiting street, | will take place tomorraw morning at | 9 o'clock at St. Peter's church. Rev. Charles Coppins will perform the | ceremony. A wedding breakfast at the home of the bride, will follow | the cercmony and in the evening a | reception will be held at St. Jean de | Baptiste hall on Church street, ' lntheWog'ldofArt ; l | S S S S — | + “The sons of God saw the daughters of men that they } were fair”” This marble group by Daniel Chester French, | inspired by Old Faithful Geyser in Yellowstone Park, has been. purchased for the permanent collection of the Corcoran National Art Gallery in Washington. ed that Mr. Churchill will meet the s |Lea s Exper WWill Speak for England at Wed-| .‘f}i‘fi flt’;ezg' lé;nf:?:;zc nesday's Meeting i, o of the i ot | White, dircetor of the league of na- pressing an opinion, but it is expect- ftions burcau of epidemics, will leave |here soon for Singapore to preside Tl PR e |at a conference of representatives of London, Jan, 5.~—Winston Church. | Sanitary administrations of various U1, chancallor of the exchequer, Will |y wii Intor s : ; ; | J ater inaugurate an epi- carry on private discussions on the|demiological bureau at Singapore. subject of interallied debts with the|Arrangements have been amade various representatives at the con-|Whereby this burcau will regularly _ | transmit by radio to Geneva latest ference of allied finance minisipers Parls Wedn ¢, it is understood |information concerning” éhoiera S e 0 {smallpox and other contagio The cabinet, which met today, is, discases which are supposed to Mr. | their origin in the Far Fast, The league will fmmed voadeast this ififormation by said to have uiesced to Churéhill's su ion that the debt problem be approached by informa L discussions, instead of helng brought | especially to governments and ships up at the offieial sessions of the con- |t sea, thercby inaugurating an o ference hecause of the desire of the ! ganized campaign against the spre TUnited States government to avoid |of epidemics. an open discussion of the subject. Tn the private conversations which are expected to take place, the Brit- | ish chancellor probably will present | great Britain's views and may even | advance a plan for a future debt | conference, it the outlook warrants | Bier, a butcher, who ¢ |Oldest Active Merchant Says He Is 105 Yrs. Old Hoboken Rupper ims to bhe it. It is understood, however, that|the oldest active business man in the great Britain is not in a position to|United States, cclebrated his 105t} force the issue and will not take the | birthday N at his homr initlative in calling a conference. lhrvr(- Sunday by ecating a hamrty din- The reply of the United States to |her, smoking a strong cigur and re the last note of England on the sub- | fraining from giving advige on how | ject of reparations and war dam-|to attain a long and happy life, agoes claims was presented by For-| He has 142 descendants, amouy: cign Minister Chanibgrlain at to- [them 14 children, ranging from day's cabinet meeting It was said |70 vears af age. the Bier is also looking for a4 to y on | March 4, when he intefids to attend Great | President Coolidge's i iguration, Britain of the United States' attitude | having received an invitation to do before the Paris meefing opens. Iso frem the ptesident several wecls Official circles refrain from ex-|ago. containe that the note merel statement of the | Snapshots Of A Man Consulting The Dictionary. By GLUYAS WILLIAMS 5 Ed | 1 | " | S SURE. 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