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'O DIVERT TRAFFIC ON ‘ BOSTON POST ROAD While Governor Bingham—when | New Britain Herald WRALD PUBLISHING COMPANY | ho wus governor for a dny—advocats | Iseued Dally (Sunday EBxcepted) At Herald Bldg. 61 Church Street od in his message the widening of trunk highways to permit four lane t part of the Roston BUBSCRIPTION RATES | of t 5,00 & Year Post road $2.00 Three Munth e @ Month | ¢ congested traversing Westchester v, New York, is fn even a morc condjtion than the same | at the Post Office at New Br m,;“ Socond Clare Mail Matter o s ny TELEPHONE CALLY Vew York's met Business Office ,, t Editorial Rooms ¥ ta eticut, but wi Vated od is a proposa to const an additional highway road, 5o as to enabl The ouly profitable advertisig medium {sion loc In the City. Cireulation books and Dress roum alwaya open 1o advertisers N the clally York Bost 1t Post only tratlic originating is planned to Kk in New P thoroug Member ot the 1 for afle The Assocluted titled to the use for re. All news eradited to 1t or 1 eredited In this and Bews pu Assocta Press s 't in \Westchester pro. which would be a 1 oulevard York , ac- v SESA Porel shed herein roads committee Roar boulevard Member Burenu ot Cireulatio will be will gost Advor s Iatics suee onal and nest nua clrculatlo ulation are hased This + prote agai v distribution figures to both ua local t tion ition to the onstruction, the purchase of will cost from $3.000.- | The Herald York at Hota Bquare; S Grand Cen: s on sale §'s New 3wt construct West ticut i in crow ADMINISTRATION RAPID CHANGES COOLIDGT N v York state contemplates the | 500,000 this year | s, With no new 18 fect in width, han 400 miles will he construct- | %o be } cts being up- > proj own att N that and goes the | art widening of existing highways on a lo the cost in the Nutmeg | It existing | f ollows Mr. 1's advice in for have t 1l be consid will | ma also cost lieavily to improve start airt roads which ean be added to the Presid Wh | pr sent mileage with advantage. But is highways for nowadays nothing more B, most a K v than good utomobiles and the sentiment public is for more good roads Wwas anno he cost. eonfer; . PURBLIC OWNERSHIP THAT COUNTS & chance to 2,584 Hu, kept present ambassad b 1924 deposi- In 1912 7s hanks. 94 such comes f nothing to tion American Association and higher th roller of the has been @ steady inere of | are made by 1 The | cor surrency. There most every yi 1 19 a decrease | in such depositors a in 1914, 1 1017 sitors of 2,000,000 compared e total of sav- In sed $ he total of 600 although one billion. familiar idea began work t of num worki sout that time ous state ions w In addition to thes in th nd so forth t from gs banks with s f stockholde rporations has inc 440 in 1901 tic th of S more is pogs ernmer tyibuted 2 EMENT PRESIDENT NI AND THI ice, DRY pever did mar expenses of living ty of his position er that after lieved private practice named to the S take Mr. I amass a 1 men amas may 1 ‘vlmm‘m speed boats to harass rum | Reports | other | intended to eliminate proved slack- the | ever, ! dent that | 0003 for this year it is $10,000,000, | | next year. with the | order has ralsed hob with naval of- enforcement, ficlals, the th he was “in idea for The has been in that divection ever since he 'm accon stricter record of President m— It 1s sald that New Britain radio fans are unable to tune In on any station without hearing the whistle from some regenerative set. It ap- pears well established that the le thus heard s not due to the manner of px’vwmnx the saxophone in some jazz Orehestra, took poscssion of the White House, FFor a time there was a discussion as to the advisability of using gove runners, and fn due course the Presi- | whis %@ fop How to Write Jokes Joke writing i not difficult. In | this week's Gossip Shop you will be glven advice on joke writing, IFollow it. You opght to soon become ex- pert. First of all: be honest in your work. Do not steal a joke from an | 01d paper — or a new one for that | matter — fix it up with new names and a different location, and then send it as original You cannot fool the editor of Tun Shop. Should he find you prac- tleing deception your work will be barred from these columns. When you have mastered the art of writing jokes, you will be sur- prised at your output. And your in- come, Tet's all become Fun Shop joke- smiths. Tomorrow-—Construction dent ordered, or consented, to special being used for this purpose. that there has consternation among the captains of the rum flect have n = n considerable Cost of operating the League of Nations this year will be $4,371,963. This is less than the gost of one torpedo boat destroyer. Such backs ward nations as China, India and Japan will pay $200,000 each toward | the bill, The United States—richest and with the potentiality of world 'lo.ul-».-xmp -will pay nothing. along the coast. for the speedsters scooting around are nothing to take lightly. The rum runners were sup- posed to have trol whether been kept in due con- the was prior to holldays, hut there less holldays market is doubtful, Washington the ay stated that the President Hquor in tl A story from Fact: and Fancies | BY ROBERT QUILLEN ers from the prohibition bureau, and that a general shake-up is to be ef< cted in such lack of ates where there is a cifective enforcement of | Friends are people who agree law. | concerning things that are naughty That ther methods it the dry law is not to remain a farce ds ciaimed from the Irunks" arrgsted in 192 improvement scems a need for dras- The silk worm isn't the only one that hestirs itself to keep daughter | in clothes. tic My Emotional Jink By Norman V, Ragg T was sitting with my darling; Government waste consists 1n | \oy Vere E22InE at the moon X C L A | And the dreamy, summer languor | spending money in some othe " | Made my scnses almost swoon; | | neighborhood, But just when my warm emotions Were attuned to highest pitch, My poor soul went dropping earth- ward-— For my nose began to ftch! .. | T was geated at a concert [ ‘Where a master weaved his spell, And his playing scemed celestial, Now 'twas soft and now 'twould swell. Soon my soul was filled with longing Nothing earthly could appease; Then the spell was rudely broken— And I simply had to sneeze! e reports of * —— which over 11 That for drunkenness is no criterion, how- is indicated by the fact that Philadelphia led In this connection, having had a total of ncarly §0,000 while New York had less than 11,000, Tt is evi- the number or ests An executive s a man who does | the worrying while subordinates do [ the work. | The nice thing ahout a phono- | | graph is that it doesn’t read tele- | | grams between numbers. arrests for intoxication, . | | in Philadelphia Major Butler's police force than the General Wi ] It isn't at little money. keep it saved. all difficult to save & The hard part s to bluecoats in | more awake New York. Dry law enforcement has cost the United States $5 0,000 the seven years it has been in effect. The -\ | first year of the law, in 1920, the { It has altvays been my trouble tederal $3,750, That at moments most sublime Some disgraceful thing will happen | Without failure, every time. | T an orchestra or speaker Moves me to emotion deep, | My shoe lace becomes unfastened, | Or my foot will go to sleep! in ropriatfon was and will be at least a milllon more The annual ioss by fire seems in- | comprehensible after one has burned ten matches in an effort to kindling. in his darkest John an thank the Lord that Spaln > Moors. ? But this isn't all. The coast gua has that $10,000,000 he used from its regular appropria- | 1 tion of more than $20,000,000 to be used in its fight with the rum fleet. at asked nearly A Bad Scaré’ Willard: “Did you | stage fright? | Burrell: “Yes, once T thought 1 was going to have to take three! girls to a $3 show hours ever have Foes of prohibition, however, gr incréase the cost of prohibition en- caleulation! alding more than The air man conquered with such | triumphant shouts didn't register 30 more particularly | below zero, $8.000,000 for work done by the De- | forcement in thelr A I'nancial Absence | | Loven “I don't care to go to the party if Wells is going to be| | there.” | | Grange: “How much do you owe him?" 1t's none 6f our husiness, but we | wonder if the thrifty White House | matds do the famil partment of Justice. They also add fation on the in- Ig | J | This is the season when man be- | lieves prayers just as effectual If | said in a warm bed. st and depre “dry intere vestment the navy,” bring <1 in the i approsimately $30,00 —DMrs. George W. Flood. Dr. Baldpate Reels off a Fish Tale “I've scen good flshing,” said Dr. The prohibition critic opine ‘ e natlon is becoming one of wine The old-timegs didn't have more | These, same children are excused {f On the Trall Clarence: “I will pine for you." Mary: “I'm afrald it will be a loncsome pine." ...!ull K. Riggs. Keep “Moying” Tillman: “My wife inslsts on tak. ing me on a long hike evéry eve- ning." Bender: “For your health?" Tillman: “No, she's lookiug for an apartment, ~=Mrs. Jacob Malberg. Ay But Not When You Sell+It The only tinie a second-hand car is worth a lot of money is when you try to insure it! 25 26, (Copyright, 19 Reproduction Forbidden) COMMUMNICATED PLEASURE Plainville May Have High Schoel Buitding. The people of Plainville who have children in the Plalnville high school were much pleased to read in the Herald Y¥riday night that the ques- tion of a high school building soon was to be brought befors the voters at a special town meeting. At the present time the high schop! children are honored in the new bullding on Linden street, Tt Is‘ so0 situated near New Britain that children living in the extreme end of the town near Bristol are compelled to bring their dinners as the distance is too great to walk in so short a noon period of 11-4 hours, In New Britain and Bristol the noon period is 1% hours thus allow- ing children from Plainville attend- ing those schools to come home to their dinners, if they care to do so. The firemen of St. Hyacinthe, Que the fire pictured above. Iive were driven from-their homes, water froze almost as soon as it left SERVICE VS, BRAINS, ADMISSION: SLOGAN late on account of any lateness of trolleys and it does not take off from their attendance. In Plainville the high school lets out at 12 o'clock noon which makes it impossible for pupils to take the noon trolley at Trumbull’s so they have either to wait for the next one | e oy om0 Speaker Would Abolsh Certain Student Limitations Bristol trolley leaving there at 12:25, | Ithaca, School opens again at 1:15 which gives the children another hot chase to catch the New Britain car at 1 o Tt N. J., Jan. 12.—Service, it ‘J‘h‘: R e e ive |Tather than brains, should be the our children the same time at noon |deciding factor in limiting admission as high school in other towns have. [to present day colleges, Dr, Frank P. Graves, state commissioner of If they can't do this, then have those children, who depend upon the trol- education, declared here todayin a speech prepared for delivery at e leys at noon, dismissed at 11:66 sharp so that they can catch the 12 : ool 1l factory. | reises in observance of founders day giclogkyear agitho Zrrmbn 4 at Cornell university, As the text for the address in which he made This matter has been brought to ¢ hool board sev- Sheouerlion gt o sclen : the suggestion, Commissioner Graves used the words uttered by Ezra Cor- eral times but they don’t feel that thy on't know thezgoan:eposighbe tnex,d fiell when he founded the university ~°I would founds an institution how to be, as courteous to their own town children as New Britain 2 and Bristol are now and have always | Where any person can find instruc- 5 tion in any. subject,” Elimination of the {ntellectually George A. Baldpate, rubbing his polished dome reflectively, “but, | honest to gogdness, I've never seen | | anything like what I ran across one | season 4n Florida. | “It was just after the war. The | ponds had not been fished for sev- | eral scasons and fish . . . say, as I| | come toward the little pond, wa !'back In the timber, where 1 was | | aiming to fish, it looked like the whole surface of the water was! Urting itself up. Fish were jumping ¢ the thousand, -+ To make wine is not a the Volstead act, crs have learned how to do | drinkers. | amusing storics; they merely had more amusing liguor, violation of and city dwe The law There were j 5% parties in the old t numbered s many peiting days, but those nly two. was framed to permit rs to have a monopoly of this | e is in no position to | jout the situation, as grapes . In- | sections | tiy increased In valu stead of the grape-growln cour bereft of revenue as resuit of | a prohibition, they naturally are more “At first I caught sovera dred with my landing net ¥ least one |a kid catches butterfli 1 takes in | threw in my line and Hauled them | |out till my arm ached, Finally, it | seemed they didn't jump so much. | | Occasionally one would show him- | self but not often, At last I figured | ifl out., | “When T had first struck the {pond those fish werc so tightly| | packed in that pond that they | dn't breathe and they simply had to come up for air.” Pprosperous In New have heen manu A their lary lLas at wife York two brewers acturing near brewery, as they said | R s ot compete with the rea Among thdse who always will have something to look forward arc the Russian royalists, g to manufactured. e queer part is that the ecross- puzzle became se popular without benefit of denunciation. will have noted that the T s of ncer g a bribe made trap set by repre- € The g much, they our incomes trouble. dratte report that Enoope know =0 might and s Lot company,"” least | ve xvspaper. On the “Attention, the director sha. us announced Iy | e o “We gre doing Comedy of | o clevating guns, ft 1wt (he | prrors, “written by & Mr. Shake- i e oa. | Bpeare, Stick to his errors and don't | fumphs b one with the 1ong- | o/ 1iive in any of your own | est vislon. s | e Wally the Mystic Answer Your Questions, | Somchow | ¢ many things | common folks we note 1 right in Connect entenc oysto indu 1 materially from its high \d the reas k. Oyster beds T He remarke and T stil] 1} will fully, = (Protected . This world That puzzle kings; But ail, in Wally's mind A_very present help will find. 25 Years Ago Today it e From Paper of That Date Dear Wa Assoclated Edite Inc.) 1 days, ar by not merely incessantly eacher took I'm pass my to bl o name, all but ruine Alt Ay ougl other notes me in a dollar | was & boys N he now s esenter at After scenic product Last strc last night eveni Dear AVa and ar I saw a man with om I pet sweetly at another girl, vengean Pecvish Pearl. W Smile & 1 want some sued a screaming peared carriag irls Dear Peev A woman must w says, "I dost;” honcymoon is o'er, forevermore. Wait till the Then, when the Her \engeance it august ut the same way Reginning Early neighbor Donald, fat, ged- ag was playing lian, f en Lillian's r discovered they were fussing 1y. Mother-called them into “Aren't youn two ashan quarreling Now kiss Ward, William Brad up and out and Kiely. o eafd . Wright Lilliar The questior the United St Hold the. Philipph w cei Little in favor of the « ¥ headc t the ith mot Binghan three, e ur, w Skiuner winning side, 3 an nt and side. The ju Masters the her d to and play. room be 80 mak run ad Irew herself up and, with peck aid: “Do think I'd Kiss that dirty bon, astening to the bath- Wait a minute, you polo team the leaguc Coriny K. Smith. |no | stormy {towns allow. | | ot ! pions and Olympic contestants will |event, & cross country ski run over four years could | been. unfit; Mr. Graves admitted, is pro- It we are going to have a high d have it like |! chool dgcashave b o on per, but on the idea of an “aristocracy of service” he helicved, rests the other high schools, in the center of true possibility of future develop- the town where all are equal 3 ated. A few of the children Sooimede el ment and improvement in the value of America's universities. attending the Plainville high school are not strong and can not be allow- | Of Am i . ed to take a cold dinner every day Lven the most gifted youth ha: in the year. If they do not do this |10 natural right to the advantages their attendance is imperfect on ac- |Of @ college education if he fafis to t of being late at K :3::‘:; l(‘wy‘c:\n;mt. avoid [under the |Or 'to use them in the service of so- present hours. Also there are to be 1 ciety that has granted him special sessions off an - account of |privileges,” Commissioner Graves reatt ‘hich all other | continued, e e T | “He should be taveht that such a We all fecl, and the children the |Privilege has been given him in or- ' that they are being |der that his development may con- most of all, ] ' r v (tr lly toward social wel- cate of a great deal. Now [tribute Mberally i 3 | Indeed the mote highly en- et every voter in the town wake up |fare. :n‘:;‘.(s situation and push this matter [dowed he is, the more s“nsiln‘v ‘rough as quickly as possible so |$hould he be made to this obligation. (hat those children now In our high “Were the universities to devote school may get, at least, a part of | themselves to rearing Leopolds and their lust vear of school 1n a high |Locbs, as the yellow preas 'CS;T,,“J e schaol”cquipped as such and run as |seomed to imply { icyjarefGoios (e S istence the better it would be for the world. Pushed to its logical cx- | treme, such a poliey could lead to nothing but social suicide.” l‘l.,\&\'\'ILLE READER SKI RUNNERS MEET IN SOUTH DAKOTA Former Champions and Olympic | Contestants Will Take Part Observations On The Weather Jan. 12.—T[orecast New England: Ur ly snow tonight and Tuesday. Not &0 cold tonight in W portion. Warmer Tucsday. Strong ecast winds. Forecust for eastern Unsettled with spnow tonight in central and north portions and in south portion Tuesday; strong north- st winds Conditions: | Washington, for Southern settled, pro Canton, S. D, Jan., 12.-—Amateur skiing epthusiasts from all sections of the United States will come to thig little city on Feb, 11 and 12 for the national tournament the National Ski association of | America, Many New York: The pressure is high lover Maine and low over Illinois. Unsettled weather® with rain or {snow prevails from the issippi river eastward to the ¢ The |areas are moving slowl i un- ettl weather will probably con- tinue until Tuesday. ‘The tempers ture is below Zzero along the northern | border from Montana to Maine. | Northfield, Vt., reported 16 dcbrees below zero. Conditions f mmsettlied wea slowly rising temp THIEVES GET §1,000 Taken From former association cham- competition on a new Mi this* summer and de- ski sport experts to be one of the finest in the world. Erccted on a long hill overlooking the Sioux river, the slide has length of 630 running feet, and a perpendicular drop from the top of the tc 1o the foot bf the hill, of appear iu slide built clared by this vicinity and for with rature. wor The h club at this year's tournament 1s the Sioux Valley Ski club anton, counting on its membership roll some of the Jead skiers of the nation. Among | them is Tgrs Haugen, who won the ational skiing championship at the annual tournament at Brattleboro, Vt., last year. 1f snow conditions permit this | year's tournament wil] have a new ther snow of Jewelry and Money Home of Mr. and Mrs, Carl Hart- strom in New Haven, from ten to twelve miles | hills and streams and | timber-land and a course long, over through prairie Fifty New Haven, Jan, 12.—Thieves en- tered the apartment of Mr. and Mrs Carl Hartstrom, 400 Whitney av- | enue Saturday night or Sunday and | made their pe with jewelry and | money valued at about $1,500, ac- | cording to report to the police fences, member clubs of the na- association will send compe- titors“and a number of colleges in Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, Michigan, Wisconsin apd Minnesota | night. which h made skiing a college | Mr sport, plan to enter men in the home Saturday noon returning last competition. A ski battalion of the|right and found their apartment federal troops quartered at Fort In confusion, Drawers been | Snelling. Minn,, also will repre- [pulled dut™ and their contents sented. The host club hopes to sur- |strewn about the rooms and record of 239 competitors had been opened. The Inks national tournament at jewelry | carring polis in 1922 | string of pear sle M 21 Entrgned 1 Bros.—advt. | gained by meuus of and Mrs. Hartstrom left their had cabi- inctuded cufy gase and a stolen cwelry Butter ipar mait a key, noon time |Make the most of his opportunities last | ., Canada, had a terrible task to stop of them were injured, and many people Temperature was below zcro, and the the nozzles of the hoze, \McKIN, MEAD AND WHITE . WINNING ARCHITECTS Their Plans Regardell as Best for New Gronp of Buildings at Harvard, “ambridge, Mass. im, Mead and White, of New York, e winners of the architectural ompetition conducted to determine the design of the new group' of ibuildings to be erected for the Harvard Business school, it was an- nounced today. The buildings, made possible through & $5,000,000 gift by George I, Baker, of Nefy | York, last summer, will be erected on the Boston side of the Charles viver, near the stadium, Tt 18 ex- tpected that the actual work of con- | structfon will be started early in 1926, he winners of the competition, which.was In two stages, were vie- torious over a field of forty-nine original contestants and six others chosen to enter-the final stage with- out participation in the first, be- cause of work previously done for the university, Harvard cltbs, jthe donor, or by virtue of having official connection with the school of ar- chitecture of the yniversicy, Those on the juby were: Pres ldent A, Lawrence Lowell, George 1. Baker, Charles F. Adams, treasurer of the university; and the fellowing architeets chosen from a list d by the contestants: Russell Pope, of New York Medary, Jr., of Philadelphia; i Louis Ayres of New York, BROUGHT BAGK T0 ANSHER CHARGES New Yorkers Accused in $25,000 Jevielry Thelt York, Ja 1 his brother Jack Davis, and Jack Archer, 28, held on a charge ‘of stealing jewlery valued at 000 from the home of Thomas Regan on Christmas Eve, wer brought back from Montreal today by New York detectives who foun. m in an expensively furnighed |apartment there, living on the pro cceds of the Joot, which the polic say was pawned for less than $80( Archer, who had been employed or a week by an as butler, is alleged to have admitted Sam Davis on December 24 to the house whils {the family was away. The polier charge the two men with taking (the jewelry, most of which was ti property of Miss Constance Regas home of Jack Davi ring” detection, they pawne same of the jewels for §100, ac- {cording to the police, and on New jYear's Eve went to Montreal where jthey are alleged to have pawned the remainder. Mr. Regan, a real estate operator, nd formerly private secretary 1o Harry Payne Whitney, said that Arclier had offered tho ‘best of recommnndations when he applied |for the podition of hLutler. William {I. Vanderbilt is said to have bheen one of his former employcs, Polic said he is known as “Archie I butler.” Jan. 12.—Mec- Sug- John M. B. and Ne Suniuel Da- is Thomas Cator, ( Jomposer, | Sued in Divorce Case San Francisco, Jan. 12.+Thomas Vincent Cator, of San Frar tionglly known operatic composcr now residing in New York, is being sued for divorce at Salinas, sout! of Lere, by Irene Campbeil Cator he alleges desertion Mrs. Cator i8,a resident of Salin with the four Cator children, Catc 18 reported to be with his sister, Mr {Eleanor Van Vorst Brewster, wife « lugene Brewster, publisher of string of motion picture anagazin sco, na This Horse Took Offensive i In most cases of accidents betws automobiles arfd horse-drawn yehi cles, the power vehic! blame the owensive, I lasgow ~ Sldnéy Holman was seriously when a frightened horse into an automobile i was riding, care into and ont the end sLing Holgyan in the process, for Ky. hurt plunged | which he the cru