New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 15, 1925, Page 6

P New Brltaln Heraldl Most of the new grade crossings | made part of the home equipment . » were brought about through muni-|of millions of persons, Tt is not ke t and | act. and Fancies HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY cipal expansion and the develop-|some Important discoverles, such as OY ROBEM QUILLEN { ment of new realty holdings in the | those based upon the use of radlum, [ Jowusa Dully (Sunday Excepiad) | suburba of citles. Tt fs not on reo ‘hich bocaus olr re are 4 lly (Bunday Excep ihurbs of cities. It 1s not on rccord [ which because of their nature are Rich prisoners got bettor treat that many rallroads Instigated new | known only to a few, Nowadays|ment.” Wh Rich prisone SBacn Peioy RATS i’“ 1o crossings, as the ralironds asfvirtually cvery boy goes in for — i R rule endeavors to provent now | radio receiving appllance, and most | B6If proservatlon 1s the frat law; ot pelf preservation the next 87,642, $200 Three Muotk.. b |Wighways from crossing thelr|remarkable of all, the average kid Maxson Foxnar Juosis tracks; sometimes they go to court|can “fix up" recelving sets better| ghe may be bold and rouged and Batored at the Post Office at New Britaln | about them. It must also be sor- | than his clders, naughty, but at least she doesn't | How to Writé Jokes 1 82 BesondiOines MabMatisr [ rowrtin itted that the railvoads | Despife its alleged stmplicity, it Hearing Jokes R | trequently enlist legal opposition to [ 4s hard to understand how radio, as| o TR [PEan yehnea onentonuinally TLLEPHONE CALLY = : i ; o | % e e The best argument for gentlenvss | for things that are funny, Many & Rustness Office 925 10 ubolishment ot achnowledged fwe have it actually works. To speuk | s a good description of trench Iife, | joke travels from mouth {6 mouth Editorial Rooms + 026 It traps mercly because of the [of the vibration of ether waves is| - {but never sees the printed page. — exp involy | simple enough, but considering that| There's small cholee, Tt you sas$ ' Frequently things are sald in an oft- The oniy piofitatle advertisng medlun | o o U Baltimore & | there are about halt @ thousand |® POlicemian, hu'll cuss you; if you hand way that can be bullt up into n the C Cliculation 0 { don't your wife will, a good joke. When you enter a| Press roum always open to adv | Ohio railroud recen L survey | radio stations on the continent, the o store, for dnstance, you should lsten | showed 83 percent of highway cross- | broadeasting waves from which do| About the only casto 8ystem In'to the requests made by customers Member of the Assoclated V'res ing accidents along its line occur- not greatly interfere with one an- America is that indicated by tho | They are often comical, Note spec- ol Antosihc oK ress RiAN oML Sl) ring where the view of the tracks | other, it is difficult for the nou.|Price paid for beads, |lally friends of yours who are na tled to the use for re-pul | y s, a V! o A wAlATsAItedbSLit dot was unobstruct proves little; but | scientific layman to figure Low the r{r;:l? :_L::::‘1‘;:‘;"M;‘JM“:‘::,‘“‘m'e'“‘)h;i; credited 1n th ape ' t st y g % Ll e s her it 4 the puragraph In the report stating | waves don't get all muddled up. But | into jokes. | | that one out of every six autoists | they don't — and thas is the main In the car we hear two girls| Member Audit Bureau of Circulation. |was ghown to be careless in ap- point to know, for all practical pur- talking about another girl's engage- L proaching the railroad's crossings 1 | poses. | [mnent. That's a subject, “And T un. A G F O h ; i | | derstand ne's well on in years,” adds | s AT U ‘alysie of | an indice as to why there are many | What eftcet radio will have upon [the girl. We begin thinking about upon this audit. This ineures | accidents, If Luman nature could | the mental capabilities of the popu- courtship, age. Then we think of a B faudiindnommanel changed 80 that none out of |lation is a question much debated. Tt| oo You ung girl and an old man. We Speech isn't ess ou know . “ , o six would be careless, there iy claimed that there is but a cer- | wlut your grocer means when he “'m‘ m “13“‘;’): lboou b : 3 putting an old hend on young [ might he no great need to abolish | (aln lmited time for lelsure, and If | glares at your new tires, Hl it o el Bt 'f{"nz“‘j‘j 1 '”T{‘m"': more grade crossings; but it prob- | a goodly part of that time is given | el with our luck we go further and | gm.:;csnh;u‘ o Entrance | ably will be easier to abolish the | over to iistening in on the radio th ‘“011—15\?::-] (:‘i::] “mu ll\ll”fihysv«:n)xs .: finally work up to this: “So Miss | . 42n | 88 d uzzle, g €0 “or] P NEAREC 2 ors’ rand Central, 42nd. street. crossings than to chunge human na- | net result is loss time for devotlon | it o™ un eo or @ labor leader. | oMUl is engaged to old Rogers; —_— | = abo * | he's well on in years. But well off e ture, | to other matters that usually are | — I n cash s “')' El i HOULD The rallroads, however, are justi- | part of our lelsure hours. It we are | With cpal and clothes going | cellent and we send these two IEANE RN [ fled in pointing an accusing finger | to be a mation of radlo listeners, | MIEher. the winter resort may yet (o jwun Shop ~ and the editor ac- The bus lines of the city and in the state generally will have to do business in | it th ainst one 0! at current carelessness by one-sixth | of the motorists. And a place where | such ‘rf-:«r in Connecticut to a startling | extent is at Windsor, where there | s a pole at a curve in the high-| way. There have been six fatalities | They will have to devise a system | 4¢ tne spot within 15 years, the last of inter-bus transfers, thus placing | tragedy Saturday night. Perhaps | ¢he bus business upon a plane com- | yoy g1 were due to the polere— but | ETIRIRED i G | on general principles why should | G0 Uy IOty COmTRED public service concerns be permitted | As things are at present, oiting |y, place or maintain poles where New Britain as an example, the bus | T Lt concerns are operating from various points in the outlying sections or‘ the city to the Center. It is as far as | their service extends. Tt a hus pas- the outskirts wants | transportation to the outskirts of an- other part of the city served by a0~ | qyore were 22,600 deaths and 678,- | other bus line, he or she must ride | 49y goriously injured by automo- to the center on one bus, change 0| 104 155t year — and most of the | Other citles throughout carelessness has been mani- | & more co-operative spirit are to make headw the main contentions of the trolley rompanies, transfer service they are manifestly p(‘l]im nts to public travel? poles in or near the highways; !hn} greatest menace is embodied in reck- | s pedestrians. | senger from | less drivers and reckle another bus and pay another far. The |y img were pedestrians, some busses are’ transporting passengers | yyo) ang injured by reckless auto- | cheaper than the trolley compa ists and others by careful autoists but whenever this is brought before | . were suddenly confronted by | the P. U. C or to the attention of the | 1oy peings in front of their ma- | trolley company 1t 1s repied that| o p el i of trolley transportation is cheaper €on- | ¢,iq) gecidents has been doubled. of free trans- | at is to say, if a person rides | e pri Dangerous grade crossings should be abolish dangerous curves on highways aightened; dangerous poles eliminated. But above all, per. m one ontlying section to another to ection, confining hims the scrvice of the Connectiout com=| o= o by both autoists pany. he or she can make the trip | T G should be cult for while in the case of the | (. " cyrefulness would reduce the hpomes [€ Wil requie Ve | number of tatalitics at least 90 per- The truth of the matter, however, | ' 1s that 75 per cent or more trolley L Y passengers do not ask for transfers, | WHIPPING PO but merely ride to the ce FOR BAD MEN scquently they pay for onnecticut may not he suf- they do not get Progressive :n ”>Yv.\‘ reemen g | everybody, but it is not so re- To effect an agreement amc v: ;” ”,“vmy. SR e themsely s to the interchange o S R R transfers should be no great task| oo tomtardl Adyosat for the bus companies. e present Without favoring the whippir fare of six cents is attractive to the poat as a punishment for evil doers. public, but as stated the ride | tjere something to be said eerminates or begins at the centeri | gyor of it, especially if one lste 4t, however, a system were arranged | o a Delaware, where & whereby upon payment of two addi- | poje t* are part of th fional cents the passengers could get | equipment of county authorities a transfor to any other bus line it| Tejaware does not ciaim to be would be attractive to the public and | j; 1 an advantage to bus companies. | some eritles oy Of, course, they would be compelled | But citizens of that iveLco to transport a small proportion of | monwealth appea oo passengers at a lesser price, but if %0 amacksion At el those desiring transfers on t! las a wholesome effect gen- ot course, busses totai mo than those using transfer King is advisable i trolley company 8, irely different a g amount to very little there is little doubt thal su b- | Tt the companics pted | jejty” embarrassment #uch a syst and disco! ¢ the paticn eliminate the r 08| Down in Delawarc they say claim by the propon ¥ pping post ig a : ar | ¢ o + are companies that deterrer cheaper for lo: the transfer pri who beats GRADE CROSSINGS BAD; CARFLESSNESS 1S WORSE Flimination of dangerous g @rossings ren L each ycar secs rection, But whereas the ¥ gerous gra traps — are being « J underpass or overpass bridges, the total ¢ 1 crossings has inere Eo . ¢ i it is op 1,130 them regarded as especially d ous new « t. That ta cos a v any 3 ce bety ¥ ¥ § 'l feren pen arics i crossit Compared t t 2 fngs In the cc t and the new course 1gs. n ere is m to 1 ¢ were number, as t 740 crossir vast opportunity lions of automobi ge in the country THE RADIO AGE; 8 IT GOOD OR BAD? S ——. 4 i | maetings and keeps the tax rate | cratie we can scarcely at the same time be a nation of hook readers, or students and devotecs of subjects demanding the use of spare time. But for good or ill, Humanity have to stay. will adapt itself to it — and it scems te | be a pleasant task. OUR CI'Y MUETING 1S PAPER'S TOPIO The New London Day reads a les- New Britain system, son to regarding our ty meeting” which sup- { plantea the old-fashioned New Eng- But the greatest menace o e f1and town meeting, which wouldn't public are not grade crossings and | voric properly when the city be- | came sizeable and important. The New London paper recounts our aims, our troubles and the ap- in the fol parent reasons the towing: “New Britain's city meeting s not attended by all vdters, as is th theory of town meetings but sup- posedly by duly elected mem- bers from each ward and a delcga- tion from the city government. But 25 all told do not always go mectings. As a result 11 a small group of persistent voters eontrols the city efore, low what many think is a neces- i sary rate for the promotion of city improvements. *“The ciiy meeting idea has worke( elsewh it works for instance in ! Brookline, Mass.,, which retains | designation as a town, but has a ntative town meeting similar repre to that in New Br in New Britain is not that the demo- form is poor, but that the s lack a sense of public splrit, government is better than people it governs. The New Eng- land town meeting still works in the smaller communities becaus the smaller communities are vitall interested in public works., When only a fow hundred yoters live in a , @ majority of them gencrally ayers, expenditur: radio is here | to | to tho.| tain. The trouble ! ‘l., the poor man's last resort. ‘)' wen't much of ar | not likely to have thing, nerves, you are | we are wearing the old. suit just because we lke it. | Fortunately for the thirsty, | e e e e | times as the profit on it. There are compensations, If you | | cepts them because they are funny. Our friends are those who kuow | ? | Tt seems incredible that peoplo {ever were enough to be run| over by e and buggy. On lone Gath heath lived Sam| Grath With an uncouth neighbor, Keith Macleth. ‘I(nm\ had just two teeth in his| mouth, ! “Who etole my apples? It was Kelth!" Said Smith McGrath, for, under- neath | The tree lay an apple core on the | Soon XKeith saw Smith run down the path, | And Smith y “Death to Keith The normal man thinks he is & great help about the house if he | empties his own ash trays. At any rate kings no longer think the state means a word containing one vertical lctter, poor foreigner learning can can't tell whether to =oil, politics or lite C‘”r"\'h may run ships without , but that's nothing. America an run them without cargocs. Americanism: Ten men gather; they demand government economy; they ask for an appropriation, Correct this sentence: “Naw, sah,” said the porter; “Ab don’ know wlhere no liguor §s.” (Protected by fated Editors, Youth Admi In | do?"” hot, Burglaries in Thls State | Portiand, Me, Jan. 15. Philip Owen, who &aid he was w years old ave himself up last night, asserting s 1s a ligh personal mat- |that he had been an uccomplice in them. But when a com- | burgl in Connecticut and iy lleeinstto lexceed 50 000 Hn | M scording to the police. The pulation, few voters are taxpayers (authorities said that he had admit- T creasing tiability [fed in participating with a trio in e Sl duttes of citizen- [the Tohbery of a filin tion at Mot Danicigon, Conn. He said that hw = had accompanied Yrederick Perry § fand Walter Millette, who are Down in New Haven they Me., 1n several b talking a eaming about NCW g0 jatter pair, According o th buildings of a stately eharacter. The | confessed to thice pair of structures that are pro ofiice hurglaries. o « new city hall and a Yale P l T (msw 01d uzzles Now surmounted by tower 14 gtories high, m for a Yale cathvdral was more of a rige than the city hall, as in th case of the city building it has long | been known that a new ene would constructed within o be Waterbury is plaining that, wl ture two ago at city to a niNg ¢ the city siler bout it. The Waterbury plames the situation upo sa we cannot be v [ nment t of 11 Che wurprising t it census report of the filn stry I yesterday, is that « of pre tion f 18,170, althoug s an i YA Ty aware that it produce motion picture § irresy of the c¢ dist etc., and as omy COTTON STOUKS |l\\l\1.| D \prear on R. R. Menus ielphia, Jan. 1 \s a ges- ture of courtesy to the crosswor vania aflway announced that on fts dining car menus for the week commencing today, a crossword 71 will be printed, with 87 presenting 103 vertical 1t - tal combinations. The roa.d has al- ready provided its leading limited { trains with copies of dietionarics and compllations of 100,000 syndnyms as s n of tl 2168, Observations On The Weather Jan, Southern New Washingtorn for Friday moderat for asf clondir portior cloudi warmer, TForecast refsin T in north snow; not po heast south sot and south Conditions th temperatures wrevails nearly was 42 degr River, O reporte White low at Conditi sing te Human Calealator Wins M.T {, a French lightr culator, was recently i against 12 of the best types of chines for,calculating sums and came off with all bt one hono paudi easily beat his mechanical mpetitors in addition. subtraction, visfon and findir {uare or e o extracting the | problems iplicated won easily, '“'Hh tooth marks made by the two Tomorrow — Reading Jokes Tragedy | A Tongue the Lonely Heath Twister heath, Keith teeth. thir But Keith hit Sntith fo the mouth with a lat And then 8mith landed — and !]mt's no myth. | Macbeth with an oath spat out both | teeth a hloady Lieath —Alpheus Lawrence. froth, there on Gath | Paradoxical ‘ smething real het, please 0| castern patron in a Sponish restau- rant in the Southwest asked the | waiter, “How would replied the waiter, Oh, nothing cbilly, Something | the patron replied in surprise —A Nix | Chile Con Carne The Vier “Why didn't | Yesterday you thought that was a| good joke.” | Brill: “Yes, but vesterday 1 was| the one who fold it you jaugh? -—R. W. J. It is easy enough to be vou have no opportunity to be bad, With only one woman in the| world, how could Adam lead a bie life? good, If | Decp in the Diamond Minds Dr. Walter E. Traprock cent reports of a crime of vio- committed against the hus band of the owner of the il a 1 i b Uope Diamond rccail an experience ke e | price which 1 shall never forget, ',,”\",’!’1 ""‘:f‘\"!‘,"lfh,?;‘i thingEmest| Banquet for Ofl'uer' | Jazz Dancing K5l oing i1 wasieriployoulliST U SERR IS S R The Cause of for o famous Kin- herly mines where 1 reached a posi- tion of such trust that 1 alone among the thousands of employees was allowed the use of the private | or family entrance to the mines This entr 55 10, Avhich was two vears in t ©, acce | | \ through the ccllar of the Kimberly home, and the winding passages | leading from it, were kept a pro- | found secret. It was my knowledge of them that saved my life upon | the occasion of which I speak I had entered mine with the | day shift. Penctrating to the lower | levels 1 became aware that I was| being followed Ly one of the au-: | perintendents whom I knew to be| bitterly e v intimacy with | the family. Even as I stood there, | ting fou he and two hirclings sp upon me, struck \e 10 carth with a pick, dashed my | miner's lamp against the side of the shaft, and fled. An instant later a Aull boom told me that the wretch | ad exploded a charge of dynamite | ! leaving me half | terrible in dar With ng hands I clawed at| a mass of broken rock when sudden- | ly, overturning a fragment, the grave in which I was burled was suddenly flooded with light. 1t came from the most magnificent tlamond 1 had ever seen, ome of the rare ty which necds no as- sist « from t olisher's wheel. | With this to guide me, I was able| fo find my way back through the y cntra to the Kimberlys' When 1 cutered the celiar Mr. Kimberiy, who was coming up the path, saw glow of the dia- mond, thought the house was on| fire, and turned in an alarm. Only | by the quickest action were we able | to hide wel be the firemen | came 50 the disaster which would ly have followed ad the value of find become known | and my How Could You! Jasor Pardon me, m your little dog took a bi picce of cake you gave Hostess: “Graclous! That's ter- rible!. Poor Fido is on a diet.” Delchanty. » from the | me.” Mind 1 (lending o too many Mrs, New 1 suppose nd): cooks that { Ukely he will survl | atecuss it with President Coolidge. | mittee members spoll the broth." Nora: “That's all rllh!. thero be only wan cook here. ‘A, Blsb On the Kerosene Circult “What was the play you saw last night?" “Hamlet," “Do you think Hamlet was mad?" “He was Jast night. Asd I don't blame him -~ with only $60 In the house." CITIZENS HEAT FOLKS Widower (watching = daughter blow clgarette rings): “You remind me of your mother when mother was a girl llke you. FURNACE HEAT FOL (Copyright, 1925, Reproduction ‘orbidden) WHAT'S GOING ON IN THE WORLD By CHARLES P, STEWART, NEA Service Writer, Premier Muasolinl of Italy is sit- ting over a volcano. It has just tried to erupt agalin. Mussolini corked it up by a tre- mendous effort—a savage display of I'ascisti troops and machine guns, hundreds of arrests and wholesale suppression of newspapers. Mugsolini came into power when communistic chaos threatened Italy. Ie restored order by methods of ¥iolent repression, « This was what the country want- ed just then, but Mussolini kept it | up after the emergency was past. Italy's sick of it, aAttempt has fol- lowed attempt to end dictatorship. These uprisings increase in strength. One 1s sure to come which Mussolini can't stfle, He is the type of man who fights while there's life in him. It is un- overthrow, Add to your heating plant a coal-bin full of Heat Folks and you multiply your heat. Here is the way to subtract from your usual trips to the cellar, Here is the way to divide your ordinary coal costs. There is no “zero” in the Heat Folks multiplication table, but they can spell “heat” and “cheer” with their eyes shut. If you want to multiply your winter pleaflures and :,ake away its worries, you want the Heat Folks in” your in, Call the Heat Folks for good, clean coal The Citizens Coal Co. Yard and Main Office 214 Dwight Court. Tel. 2798, Prohibition, Senator Couzen's committee ap- pointed to investigate income taxes and prohibition, is at work on pro- hibition now. Couzens wants publicity. Schator Watson, another committee member, who never wanted any investigation | at all, insiets on secrecy. | As a compromisee, the hearings Berlin Yard opp. Berlin_ station Tel, 2675-5, Tptown Office 108 Arch St. Tel. 3268, }nmlonnl organizer of the unian, | will be the principal speaker. | The officers in whose honor the Years Ago Today | From Paper of That Dat | i are secret but Couzens telld every- | n ate ‘L)j'mqur-t ‘lm.:)l 'been an.md_, n.re'. thing that happens at them. | | James (-0'1‘ ¥. Drculdf‘nt, ! nsep‘l: John 8. Pyle, the committee’s at- Agnello, vice-president; Dominic ! Coscina, secretary-treasurer; Martin (I'rom Paper of That Dt torney, once a dry agent himaelf, RO ] says the inquiry has proved already| The collector's books, long miss. (- Connelley, recorder, and Paul that enforcing the Volstead law is ing were turned over to Collector | Mungiafico, guard. impossible. | Moore today and he will begin to| e collect taxes tomorrow, y ) ) law Enforcemcnt. | W. E. Attwood has been clvclcd-“ ould Prohibit Decisions The subject of law enforcement | cashier of the Mechanics' National | ok [ came up at the White House, too. A | bank. In Bouts Over 8 Rounds The Soclalists here are clamoring | for the operation of the railroad . Gary called to | crossing gates on Sunday as well as other days of the wecek, Two letters have been received here from Ladysmith, which is be- | ing besieged by the Doers. Grand opening of the mew Nut- | meg saloon Tucsday evening. A tur- | key supper will be one of the at- tractions. A. W. Stipck, for eight years in the employ of James Shepard, has accopted a position as draughtsman at the P, & I Corbin factory. committee eonsisting of such prom- | inent men as John D. Rockefeller, Jr., and Judge E. Boston, Jan. 15.—A bill filed in the | state legislature yesterday by Repre- I‘m‘nhl‘i\‘u Willlam Lancaster on th: petition of Louis Gropeman, captain of the Boston University boxi team, would amend the boxing law &0 that referees would make de- cisions without the aid of judges in professional bouts of eight rounds or lass while decisions wou'd he pro- hibited in bonts above that limi' | The bill wopld establish the mini- mum age of 20 for a license to bov professionally. It also provides for the prohibition of smoking at am: All would have been well if Judge | Gary, making a litle speech, hadn't chanced to wonder if all the com- themaclves kept all | the laws. | He made no such claim on his own acconnt, he sald. However, he was in favor of making other people keep them. Presidential Strength. Prionds of the bill to increase h A N. Rosenberg is leading the | teur boxing hout poatal employes’ wages came Within | apocker tournament at the Boys' | = s one senate vote of passing it over €he| oy, while Chardes Stoun tops the| Tce skating rinks made by the u president's veto. This margin's ever, docsnt m weakness. The bill passed of chemicals have been found ip London to be much cheaper than tlhose of the ammonia-brine method ten pin artists, "1 The high school basketball team | dcteated the Mansfield Guards in | e { Middletown Saturday night by 24 to )’1:1';'-{ {hel chiati exocutive waslable| s Lie bettecieondition it iihieflo; 9 Bt cals enabling them to run away yrevent his veto from be! rer- to provent his veto from belng over- | ¢ on, 4neir opponents after the tirst 1o t a ) how strong, 115 S . ridden at all shows how strong, not| ;5 minutes. The lne-up: Gllehrist, Lovtea N {€enter; Hitcheock and Molumph {guards; Wilson and Bradiey, for-| | ward John Cooncy New Haven. Dr. Lyon had his bay on the South Main strect r After, months of e question, “Is the navy up to the 5-5 comes out that the answer is visiting relatives | in mare out e track navy's very far from being up to| e the 5-5-3 standard.” | Saturday, H. L. Mills has purchased The answer js Secretary Wilbur's|® new colt. L. Iungerford ls ore the House of )’rpnyh(‘ni\r\"['i"’“' a pair of pacers. I Installed by but President Coolidge vetoed it because England objec A banquet in Tonor of the nr\\‘ “BROKEN LAWS” though hers are elevated, and go are officers of the local braich of the | ? Japan's {Journcymen Barbers' Union, in- o We need more crilsers and vari-|stalled at the mecting Tuesday | ee It At The ous other eraft, too, but Wilbur says |night, will he given tonight in Hn“ PALA(‘E it would cost 9% millions yearly for|New York room at ‘s‘?n‘ Beginning Sunday 20 years to bulld them. o'clock. Merllino, ingé®- | Suburbah Heights. By GLUYAS WILLIAMS The Broken Glass. [ v e (- iy 9 . U\ A o \ SN / S b6 BUMMING ')\‘< CHEERY TU! ¥ TCHING A GLAS L ALONG CEiLING KE HE THAT'S H T MUST HAVE HAPPENED ON PANTRY SHELF | v | | { DEPARTS TROM KITCHEN T TERINGS S TD (W CAREPUL ARD WHAT'LL THEY DO oM ’ WITH ONLY WHEN THERE'S CO THREL OF THLIR BEST GULASSES LEFT Tk MeClure hn-m Eyndicale.