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many of them will live i the hor-| der towns “for keeps," gaining their Jivelihood in the United States and commuting te thelr homes in One tario in the evening, \ And all because the new law in Ontario permits the manmacture and salo of beer with a Kidt dn it The horder of Ontario I8 flung, but most of it within com- fortable distance of the Amarican 1s comparatively ahort, | ut 650 miles along the Niagara viver, and 75 or 100 miles along the Detroit river, The main cromngf points ara north of Buffalo, at Ni Detroft people living in New Britain Herald HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY Tssued Dally (Bunday Excepted) At Herald Bldg, 67 Church Street SUBSCRUPTION RATES ’ v a v far | Loundary advert Clreulation ym always open to adv and at Member of the Associnted Press, many citles who naturally will take | advantage of “good beer” on the Canadian and therefore find e | prohibitton more endurable, But | what of those who live teo far from the border of Ontario to | take alvantage of such conditions? And s the government going to al- far to forget | inherent in the dry law as to permit them to leave the country without paying $10 for a “vise” so as to indulge in drinks prohibited on the Ameri- thes o) Less use for od to this pap: bitcation )t othierwisa and also local side, Member Audit Bureau o Circulntion. A, B, ) furnish sers with & away low citizens 80 t e a some pr moral compulsion can side? Some folk go all the way to Bu- ! rope to indugle themselves in “real liquor;" at least, 80 it 18 claimed. But here are about w million or two | | of plain common citizens who need is noth- | only jump on a troMey car, a bus, lection of | o crank up the family fiivver and members to the Common Council. | iy an hour are in the fabled regions | Ll e customary | wpare ambrosia rules supreme. which are believed accord=! g ue living 'way down in the e pradiiecy Nutmeg state it doesn't seem right. A “good Republican” will think |xo Americans should be privi- his party is going to get & clean jegeq; no citizen should have more aweep in the Common Council, while rights than any others; ‘the acci- a “good Democrat” will think other- | gent of location near & liberalized M reference t0 |y order should not be permitted to d Ahwarce. make it easier for them to iaugh at the American law. Down with this inlquitous privilege of border | communities! The government ! should build a Chinese wall along the Niagara and Detroit rivers and keep all liberty-loving Americans right at home. They should have suppose that Messrs Maerz, Fay and | o pysiness in going on beer expe- | Sablotsky have at least &0 eVeD |aiiong’into foreign climes. Let the broak, | Ontarlans do as they wish; but tor | The situation in the ffth Ward |, yye of law, order and prohibi- where one of the Democratic coun- | THE LOCAL ELECTION NEXT TUESDAY ing an b 1 politles | —much to the satisfaction of large numbers of citizens=—th ing in the air except an e the ing to oL especially with the sixth a The sixth ward, which went Re-| publican during the presidential and | senatorial elections, breaking a long | record as a stronghold of Democra- ey, is the center of interest. With no . national election to have a bearing upon the result it eeems logical to tion, make a million or so border olimen 15 running for alderman, and | \\ yang live like the remaining a former Republican leader, B. F.lyy 500 gpp — or is it 119,000,000— Karpinski, is runnivg for the Coun- | ¢il on the Democratic ticket, like- W urges interest. Karpineky, in claiming he was given a “raw deal” by the organization of the Republi- | can party, evidently has the courage his convictions and by running on | Americans, e el WINATTENTIVE” DRIVERS AND “ROAD HOGS" The most prolific causes of auto-| mobile accidents in Connecticut | during 1924, according to the an-| thie Democratlc 18 out for FOVNEE. |1\ report of Robbin B, Stoeckel, He has as a running mate, Frank| oo wnattention” and “failure to 2 grant the right of way.” The form- | er caused 4,228 accidents, the lat- ter 8,668, and has ae his assoclates |\, »yomonile driver is much in | on the ticket, B, A, Grysbowski and | \ryo gituation as a locomotive | Charles Munson, both of whom are | e ® yue 1y nandicapped 1o | new in politics. Republican for¢eS| ompepigon with the fatter in that| i the sixth ward claim they Nave &, y,q ng tracks to guide his vehi- eomly cle. Few passengers would care to ride on & train if they thought the 7 | engineer at the throttle of the loco- Eio 1s working hard to land councll] ARl L entive to signals berths. But as for ex of patka In Sta the h ward, Couurl\man‘ ley Karpinski seeks elaction as ald 1 tion strong enough to Eive a good account of itself it not to| win. The )YMmnrj\lfih-lffiskl'4—[,‘!)" | Yet thousands of autoists, forced to oltedSKro s MER | olide thelr machines as well as standing on the street corners t:m-n-{fm1 e versipg about the prospects, there are . five to road and trafc condi- There lho\»lld be ?fl'\fl!, e A ase of election AICUS| oy iprougn thelr meglect than| sion between now and next Tuesday, G e oy Vothas (ainkls leauAs Rowever, and every citizen should do 1 his duty and go to the polls. —e———— nons such. steady incre aceidents Being a road hog is one of the mosat eommon ailments that beseta — | a type of autoist who is met with | ANOTHER YOUTH WANTED |on wvery mand. The dangor ther MERELY A THRIC | themselves take i quite as serious vy a1 it for the thrill” How otten | 0 0 they infilet upon doen one rend of this explanation (L Bl drivers. The road made by some youngster WHO 10|y o oy oninke he could maintain Aiged tn illegal pastiming. T a8 L8 pon the Highway 1t the explanation made yesterday by S e O (PR gn'e} the youtntul epeeder who repeatedy | |0 SR T Mo tne mignway mcared the stald residents of Charles- e matal iR town, Mass, out of thelr wits by e o reaning around the clty® malh |yl e in as much Jeor streets in stolen automobiles &6 &1, fepopy or the other fellow; yet| apeed of 60 miles an hour, NOMKISE | P 5y o oomy to labor s hie horn ke a fire engtne &nd K-} g0 that somenow he wil | ing astounding risks rounding el purves and ChUEEIng UD ¥ 40P DillS | ¢ only doesn't get the best of it} and going down Ul with the | = e amount of damage done or brakes oft and his foot on the E3% |y ey sustained by the parti-| He atd it for the “thrlil 0 W74 G bty the collision — this be- purclibe Tacpoldiass i 5 rnr.”yh ing a matter of luck — but he aiso i notorlous memory killed the BEUE| o Foyrnete table to pay the Ll Vi .| damages nis hoggishness of the | Regmid S | thoroughtare directly created 3s of other youngste | | | 3 In case of a collision his L [ got the best of every smashup em rs when ghousanc and they take papa s A “VILLAC BLAST AGA NEW YORK According to eome if not all of | {the New automobile “gtep on it Most criminals are urged to take misstep for the same rea- corre- thrill ot doing a Wrong of evading thrill of on can- | heing & | - being & Los in the York newspaper certain Mer- e spondents reported trial In Connectic jden was a “village;” hen the thrill Jast wes Hartford New T of Meriden 1, and t it k found out, and the a being o was italn ading cap! T . A sane pe a town;" and ‘sm of a thrill better designa- t see much catego n fool tion discove reisa | so very plain, this a hard to . ing dowr | Manhattan to s trom the the r 1 in « Ning in | eort. And van glades of Conn is not thr Manhattan read ving al cases final Readers i grinds slow 2 T 1 read lecent |\ xing place Picking up one i a column of aliege but men The only thiill wor news with rously about the small villages bac sticks” where the tri thrill of bejng law-a and honest. New York paper humor the style supposed to ex- . The sophie- | } en in | ountry weeklies New Yorker, cultivates AND ITS “GIBERTY” from Ontario is that along he Am booming: b newspapers west of ! Americans efpected yoagon or northwest of the M the summer 8nd 1A}, Ser aul are conducted along| News pRevs read ety ilues t Tican naturally the sthat = bord n that infinx throughout e of o aT- | Ing in favor of ‘the majority of the | home-grown New Yorker, one need | the average person elsewhere, does | as “visitors,” mixing business Wwith | there very often. ‘J"'firv\', 60 miles away. He was the { “his city,” | Manhattan was no longer a fit place | which the government taxes the same principle, or ther no funwy breaks ever appearing in any of the Now York papers! They never take any foollsh slants on the day's newa; they always play up the big news and never overlook the sige nificance of a happening; they are distivguished fdeals of journaiism. Only this fact is not generally known and appreciated outside of | the metropolis, | Tho facts are that there are wides awake citles outside of New York' there are people living in them who compare more than favorably with | the average of intelligence in the metropolls, even excluding the pre- | yonderance of morons who live in | ft. And excluding those so-called New Yorkers who merely go there | every day to do business and then course, are scoot to more attractive places to live, the comparison I8 overwhelm- “villagers” in the sticke. To judge the mentality of the only analyze what he is rcading. The New York paper that unde- niably appeals to the most intelll- gent class in the community — it ! New York regarded as community the largest circulation, The papers ap- | pealing to an average grade of In-| telligence — for New York — have larger circulation; while those appealing to the lowest grade of in- telligence have the largest circula tion of all. In none of the cities| gratuitously referred to as “vil- lages” do such conditions prevail. | There must he & reason for this, | and we think we have correctly | gauged it. | The metropolis prides itself upon | its splendid “attractions.” The facts | are, however, that the native 2 | Yorker, who works for a living like can be a does not have a ew not dlstinguish himself through ex- cessive patronage of these great theatrical and artistic attractions; thousands, it not a million or so, in New York, never patronize these | attractions left for the transient visitors with money and { intellect — the half million or €0 who are constantly in the big city they are pleasure, There was a time when the “typi- cal New Yorker” was a distinct personality, & cosmopolite, a gens tleman of lelsure, a man of artistic refinements, learned in the arts and i commanding the respect of his in- feriors. But that time has passed. Nowadays - the “typical New Yorker” no longer cares to live in New York. He preferssthe “villages” | within a radius of 100 miles. His| “businecas address in New York, but he hates to be found | may remain We once heard a “typical New | Yor regaling a Pullman | r car | iience of the greatness of | aud s | city, decrying the pikers who lived | elsewhere and the unjust criticiem | prevalent about the metropolis in | tae smaller metropoli in the cuw} country, When he was through his rhetorfe it was discovered he didn't live in New York, but down in New aodern “typical New Yorker” who | when “on the road” bragged about byt when near Manhat- | was not elow in saying that| for an intelligent human being to jve in. This type 6f New Yorker is increasing every d IN FRANCE One of the financlal proposals that Tas been disturbing France is a cap- ital levy. To the people facing the | possibilities of a ten per cent capi- Jevy it looks like confiscation and doctrine; but to the outsiders who socialistic ers and other he plan 1ooks honesty. therefore, 4 promissory notes like common sense and One's point of view, hinges altogether upon which side | fence one happens to be. | Premier Herriot of France 18 in | or of the capital levy; Finance | linister de Monzie is opposed and has other in France for the most part plans. The owners of capita are opposed to the cap | though it is not object if it is definitely them do ghown that it is nly way ou of the financial difficultids in | finds itself. Ameri- | acute Outside bankers, including cans, are believed not averse to such scheme—in France—so long as it | sres payment of interest on loans pital for the rcpay- y adv yi \ a 1 to make a capltal If es wouldl create yet some ob- | | income tax, inherita about surtaxes and heavy in have the same cffect e 1 SAVED IN VAIN | ‘Woman," said the dejected YOUng man, “is & disappointment and & fraud.” “Indes + sail his friend saved up all my tobacco lived on * porridge for Miss Truelove t0 Then T| i she said | too extrava- | es, 1 oney and two weeks 1o take the opera and a SuUpper. asked her to MArTy me was I w gant to make good husband!’— London Tit-Bits. m afraid | from ir I sliced ham ¢ ‘i".’xk FactsandFancies 0Y ROBERT QUILLEN Tnfant: A nolse dons up with a safety pin, ‘ Hard work doesn't kill, Look at the word “don’t.” Modern version; Where there's a will there's an investigation, No war is over until allles again | feel friendly toward one another, Another obstacle to thrift is that we always feel richest while spend- ing. Relatives are people who wonder how you contrive to keep on fool- ing the world. |l Woman may get the last word, but how man does enjoy slamming the door! The salesman s a useful man. Think how many jobs he provides for bill collectors. Yet thera are cases in wWhich face pecling won't help unless it is done with an ax Fvery day is too warm for & light spring overcoat if you have a new spring sult, Well, If this is a free country, hasn't every man an inalienable right to be a moron? Americanism: Thinking the old folks & burden; using them as household servants. And it may be that the still smadl voice is unhecard because desire furnishes too much static. If it's a hick town, the gentle- man with the creased trousers is a traveling salesman. Blossoms are those little colored things that make automobilists stop and disfigure a tree. The statistician who says T per ¢ent of the people, play golf prob- ably means that many have clubs. ! As a rule, courtesy is just a busi- ness of pretending that the other fellow is more important than your- self. Moral courage enables you to ask the bqotlegger 1t it is genuine. Physical courage enables you to drink it, anyway. (Copyright, 1926, Associated Edi- tors, Ine.) 25 Years Ago Today From Paper of That Date The democratie caucus last night nominated the following tieket for the coming city election: Mayof, Samuel Bassett; city clerk Harris E. Hart; collector, Charles . Faulkner; treasurer, William - T. Damon, Sheriff, John Clauson; au- ditor, Richard O. Schacfer. Although only $20,000 is available for the building of a new fire and [police headquarters, it s sald that| a satisfactory one cannot be erected for less than $30,000. Glichrist, Hitcheock, Pinches, Mo- jumphy, Price and ‘Wilson, com- prising the High school basketball team, defeated South Manchester in that place last night by a 104 acore. Molumphy received a bad gash in the head when he dashed against a rafter. William Muller of this eity was initiated into the Order of Etks in Hartford last evening. Christian Krech is was preparing to {visit Paris and Germany Hartford s and Amazed clans are so ths to Medical Coroner Taintor of said to be shocked that New Britain pl lax in reporting d Examiner Lyon. One case recently was not reported although death occurred after four days of suffering es, and Dr. Lyon had no knowledge The work of macada street will be bégun Monday. A. B, Goodrich advertises bhack hams s 12 cents a 18 cents, fancy sugar cured shoulder at nine cents, shoul- jer stealy at 10 cents, and round 12 cs damiz skin- Observations On The Weather Washington, D. st for southern N England: ir tonight and Wednesday, Some- what warmer ight. Cooler in north portion Wednesda Moder- ate to and west fresh southwest | winds Forecast New York: Fair in south and mostly cloudy in north portion tonight and Wednes- day; warmer in south portion to- night; cooler in north a central portions Wednesd moderate to fresh southwest ad v winds. Conditions: The southern dis- turbance has moved but little dur- ing the last 24 houra and is central over Florida. It Is causing cloudy and rainy weather on the middle and south Atlantic coasts. The area of high pressure, which was central ovet the Lake region has moved southeastward and, will pass out to sea tonight. Pleasant weather con- tinues in the northern districts east of the Rocky mountains. The tem- peratire is rising in the Mississippi valicd and:Dake region Conditions fayoer for t fair weather followed by cloudiness and slowly perature. for eastern vicinity increasing rising tem- PP pound, | Fore- | When'er you feel a trifie {11, And are inclined to take a plll, Just read the Fun Bhop for tha! day laugh you away, And aches and pains Sure Method ‘ Mahler: “Dr. Rease is certainly a practical man,” “In what vay?" “In lots of ways. For in- stance, he uses ndhesive tape to hola up his socks” ~—Gertrude, Ballade of a Popular Man By H. T, Harrison When T am importuned to dine 'Tis not for my society That gentlemen and ladies pine. 1 have no verbal brillancy; I am not quick with repartec; 1 tell no witty anecdote; But this explalns the myatery— T'm owncr of & dinner coat! | Thers is a flapper, quite divine, | Who loves to go about with me Though dancing never was my line; 1 never had the dancing bee. To state the matter ‘truthfully She likes my style; she's made note That I'm presentable, you see; I'm owner of a dinner coat! A heap of Invitations fine Comes flooding in right merrily, And every day I must deeline No less, at any time, than three; 1 make my cholce fastidlously. It is to this fact that I vote My growing popularity— I'm owner of a dinner coat! Envoy | Young men, it you would grow to be A very welcome gucat, just quote These words of mine; say quietly, “I'm owner of a dinner coat!” Sorely Needed Hammons: “What is going to be the next great medical discovery?” | Prof. Brusque: “Isolating the erosaword bacillus and making a | serum for the plague.” Foresight One cold night recently little Mary was saying her prayers. As she was taking 8o much time her mother said: “Hurry up, Mary, and get in bed.” “Wait, mother,” replied Mary, “I'm saying them for tomorrow night, too.” —Drayton Rutherford. | A Lettor ¢rom Plerre Legron By Dr. Walter E. Traprock 1 have just received a letter from Pierre Legrou, the finest trapper and guide and the best fellow in the Province of Quebec. Pierre is at present lumbor-jack- ing 1n the northwest, and I glve yout his letter as it stands, not 86 much for its picturesque method of ex- pression ae for its testimony to the amazing quickness and presence of mind of these hardy children of the forest. Here it is: “Pere Dock, a Write you one funny ting happen by me. Las week { travel on horse tru woods. den, all sudden i come by one grand | orevaese, she maybe two, three yard wide, i say, Plerre, she no so big la crevassc, So i back horsé and make run an we jump, but we no make, Horse an me we fall down, down, one hun feet, two hun feet. i Pierre, by Gar, she deep oOrv- asse. den | seo bottom ehe come up. Wen we six feet*{rom bottom | i jump off, horse she dead but 1] dom't hurt myself, | only fall six| feet. Toujours, P. I." i T can neither add mor subtract | from this letter. T can only repeat that it is one of the best instances | of quick thinking that I have ever | heard of. And Pierre refers to it| simply a8 “one funny ting." AN, | Pierre, mon brave, |f there were | only more like you th the world! | ey Those Kitchenettes Real estate agent: “These are all the rooms in the apartment, ma« dam.” | Prospective tenant: “Rooms?| 1 thought these were the| —Mre. Charles C. Morris. Under Cover Ray: “Reading alond fan't as fashionable as it was when we were boys.” Norman: “No wonder. ILook at the kind of books they print nowa- day —Benjamin Gelasio. The Editor's Gossip Shop | This is the week we Want you, | in addition to sending contributione to our varfous counters, to tell us what you think of the different se- ries: which ones you like best. Wild Willles? Meows from- Cam- | pus Cat? Provoking Poliy? Spbrt- ing Goods counter? Music Depare- ment? Wally the Mystic? Doe Traprock? Doc Baldpate? Kid Boots? Roguish Rollo? Barnyard Bits? Fun Shop Movies? Trieky Triolets? Jingle-Jangles? Soclal Primer? Verses and Reverses? . [ Write today! | — ,The Sporting 0ods Counter The Year-Round Sport McGraw: “Would you call base- pall the great American game?” Bayes: "No -— marriage.” Welles Hawkins. o Sport Willies 1 Willie, playing by himself, Took some dishes from the shelf, Saying: ‘Indoor baseball's greatl Here’s a pitcher and a plate.” —Rudie Eu 1 wilite, cunning little soul, In the pathway dug & hole. Grandpa fell and wrénched his aide; “Touchdown, Grandpal” Witie efied. Hamiltdn Loeb, In spite of prohibition, the ath- | | | | | MEMBERS Citizens Coal Club Winter:s el(r‘,oa'l at our Lowest Prices of thé Year By joining the Citizens Coal CluB you will have Our Cleanest Summer Coal The Convenience of Easy Payments With Low Guaranteed Prices Join Tomorrow The ,Citizelis Coal Co. 24 DWIGHT Tel. 2798 104 ARCH ST. Tel. 3266 Ask About It — It's Just Like a Christmas Club for Coal - letic bowls are full ‘of punch. PR April Showers Doggone these April showere That bring the Maytime flowers; To me they mean just hours Ot wasted time from sport. 1t 1 have, with sweet Janice, A promise to play tennis, As sure as my name’s Dennis, There ie a muddy court. At ball games we are cheated; No sooner are we seated ‘Phan. to rain-checks we're treated And told to come again. My disposition sours At thoughts of springtime showers; 1 wish the weather powers Would cut out April rain, —H. D. Dennis, . . Conclusive Evidence Jones: “The ancient Egyptians are sald to have had a very high| eivilization.” { Hagen: “It couldn’t have amount- | od to much. There wasn't a single | golt ball found in Tut's tomb.” | ~Qtto Clark. | A cavern large enough to house a large building has sud- denly opened in a field near Wichita, Kas. The opening of the cave is seven feet across and 85 feet below is a subterranean stream of extremely soft water. | (Copyright, 1925, Reproduction Forbidden) City Sights—The Movie Lobby BLLLA DUMM i HER NIWS PICTURES By GLUYAS WILLIAMS SUPLK PICTORL AND' [ COMLDY s PECPLE LOOKING AT THIS WEEK'S AND NEXT WEEX'S PICTURES, PEOPLE DROP- PING CHANGE AND TRVING TO 60 N THE EXIT, PIOPLE INSISTING ON PAYING TOR. EACH OTHERS TICKETS, PEOPLE DECIDING THEY DONT WANT O SEE THIS TIIM AND GOING IN JUST THE SAM| © McChure Newspaper Syndical