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New Britain Herald‘. HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY | | Torusd Datly (Sunday Excopted) At Herald Bidg. 61 Church Strect SUBSBCRIPTION RATES $5.00 & Year. Entered at tha Post Office at New 1 @ Bocond Clwms Mall Matter, TELEPHONB CALLS usiness Office , orlal R The only profitable advertising o the City. Cireulntion t Press room alwaya open to a Member of the As The Associated P titled to th for re-pubiicat all news crediied to 1t or not othe eredited iIn this | and also | news published h. inted Press. esa fr exclusively Member Andit Burenn of Circnlation. The A. B. C. 1s a oational org which furnishes newspapers a tisers with & ¢ ext circulation, Our ton are based upon t protection ag distribuon figu.es to bot local auvertisers. zation ] arterle 1 mor sen ere i bu cated are as time NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, JULY 31, 1928. T ———————— s of trafic ara made to e extende 1 ot entirely the c area. Up to t this Is not t of arter t this deficien vill be eradi passes and a greater roage will come ly when it sible to take treets aro be- FIE RATLROAD BATTLE {upon t THE PLAN Moron to rough 10 CURB TRUCKS The plan bound t mair by the board of public ing mayor, A eliminate the city downtown street Chairman Frank and hav- of the ht direc- d he methods reputed A step in the tion. cltizens have had oppor of through 1t streets and opinion unanimous that tI loyed this part as evil in well through from It called as hi Center upon was only I attention in t columng to of truck; the peculiar gyr the central part of the city: in how they imperiously commanid the right of along the end: autolsts and way main highways, er it times go faster than the dictatss of coution | b Main 1o g West to inat noted speeding 1 stroct L mia wer railron to do already ruction three-c AGAINST BUSSES vs. gas" rhity maximum ace one judges from )ston papers that eir presentation wit state 1on [ te bill of the | ng rtificates of befor gal talent ds approac! po- ng in citics and Inducing o drivers of inter- storles of bus owners, and not in a wdent by ler s words i in other the railways want o operafc tween towns served | 15, claiming to have the 1 50 lin The down to when their electric ply between the towns therefore comes bet c ornered contest lines the } divide op | portion of them to travel upon when they can mysterious disappearance of c referendum ires - was not only a sen- t of the Had the m 1cir er suspicious appearance e endum settled it m cannot b perscention | steering wheel, vantags of its eize uniess its mml:\[ campalgn ¢ as a rule thought well of la dend was the Bristol & which paid 11 per cont; (wo perating likewise dividends companies pald conditions I'he same finaneial | applied in Massachu I'rom this it can bo seen that the railroads were “not making money" the s the before the busses arrived in foree U. they applied this year, D, ', igures refer to conditions at a year old, 8ince that time the rallroads have made a better finan- clal showing, indicating that the de lopmtnt of but competition ! past year has not hurt them enough to lower the The financial record. inst busses, therefore legitimate, 1s not a “life e by th® railroads, t to stifle com- although THE LACK OF LIBERAL LEADERSHIP » so-called liberal, in s itself progressive, radical cause the United without out ship as s of Lulvollette and Bryan course, did mot forces nor did coalesce r views upon | political matters; vas nominally ogerssive” the other & Democerat; but the followers of cach the leader of the other group and had the roups actually combined they would have been able 1o create quite a political turmoil, Lut instead Lal'ollctte in the last presidential ¢ of combining the wing cction sub- Plainville | cal discontent; of this thers can be doubt. When this happens the leaders of liberallsm, such Wilson, Bryan and Lalollette, may seem mild by eom- former a8 Roosevelt, | parison, two tracted more voters from the Demo- | than d crats from the Republicans. is that « We very cause pro- s its leaders, imagine, how- er, that the cause suficient inds importance in n of the general public to justify pe led. The ril-progre United mitting itself to be Ureali- the lil sive- in the decade ha to hearten th radicl the p: hloc States 1t been of a na- e ulira-conser tists. This verily is an — in the conservatism saddle, illustration, United States s virtually glued to the or modern 1 to the t in front of the Whether | cause the people have no real gricv- | servative host is 4 point that v difterence of opinion rather ties and nations FactsandFancies BY ROBERT QUILLEN A normal man is one who s glad 1o isn't I1tke his neighbor. A friend fe one you like too well lick in an effort to collect that n. A parking place Is where you leave car to get a summons on the front seat, A good paint job makes an old car look mew. You ser, a car doesn't wrinkle, It he is deliberate by nature, you can't tell whether he'll be a judge or a plumber. Typical American xation: “Sonk the more than I h fair who idea of fellow Hint to husband: The way dispel clouds is to blow yourself. to Rimilie s With all the grim de- termination of a fly declding to alight on a bald spot, And doubtless a lot of people we think sane will get by with a plca of insanity Up There. | Some | about Still, most of the world's big jobs indled by men who are not classed as “intellectuals,” It s nice to sce the refreshments coming at a party. You know you can go home in a little bit, Not every America’s people could make form of government work. people have cranky ideas liberty How times change! The steep ills old Dobbin blow, and now they afford the driver a chance made ¢ men get too busy to listén to caller who would tell them hotw gieat they are " ar that civiliza ble, whatever At times we o he 1 tions was iing inheri is the time when the is going to begin sav- monti nia He docan't i s horrid old after wearing it four times, 5 task becomes It Lecomes ever difficult to shock Clin® %0 long Spinit fsn't really he thinks he ivalronus ociated Editors, n anse | A Inc. 25 Years Ago‘ioday hy Cadw CHff 1 ing ey vscap the stone con- v had an ex- the East Main morning, and 4 injury is a marvel lar oo at mishap, ¥ led ov but the train 1 backed. The wagon squarely 1 Harlow, ! who Cadwel] who was scaped unhurt, The caboose wi 1 had to be taken rn is consider- the ratlroad in e city t the police sta orning and asked vay to prison. suy« 1 and wanted to = him insane, Cap- 2 patrolman put him on 1 lim home 1 off his bicyele at and right vesterday umh of his rnish fell on James ind - yesterday and his flrgers out per- repost- West Main he M. E. his vacation at 8, A vention Wash will at- in Meri- Wensel Lyc I". Rus. Neal. M M New Brit em being Bron four and acel e three SITUATION ACUTE < I 31 I i An 1e ported to have arisen e shooting on Wed. inese merchant whe frie 1o the ese secretary of the el wounded at ac was t Ar and a stringent hoyeott Is being maintained. A Brit. ish gunboat has left for Amoy. in oy When we retire from business We'll buy a farm and ralse string beans; Hotels and hoarding houses too Use tons of 'em, we'll say they do! 'Attaboy! Ted: “I told my girl just what | thought of her after the prom.” Ielix: “What did she say?"” Ted: "I love you, too.” -—Leta Plerce. Essay On Love By An Authority, Virginia K. Wright Love is a very funny thing, There 18 no doubt about it; It often puts us out of sorts Yet we can't live without it. | And there are many kinds of love— | The father for his daughter; The mother for her darling babe; How men folks do love water! The icé man loves our buxom cook; ‘The laundress loves the gardner; The poet loves the brooks and fields; And Pa sure loves his pardner! Ma loves her parties, clubs and teas; Sis loves a comfy hammock; My love is greater than all these— I'love to feed my stomach! Well Supplied Bert (as auto slips on wet street): “Gosh, T wish I could get a set of chulns around here!" Hermine (pointing store): “Why don't you place?” Bert (disgustedly): “Aw, that's a grocery.” Hermine: “I know, but it's a chain store."” to grocery try that —TRaymond Hubbard, Don't fell a girl she looks sweet enough to eat or she will. Prospects “Ho you want to marry my danghter? Have you a good job?” Suitor: *“Well, T don't get good wages just now, but we're going on a strike next wee i —John Flanagan, Barbers to Matthew stone) Barbers spend {heir Iife cutting your hair and shaving your father, unless your father shaves himself. They wear white coats and often need a shave themselves, | 1t is no fun sitting still in one place about 20 minnits getting your halr cut jest to glve it a chance to grow back again, but on the other hand it 18 also no fun for the bar- ber because he has to stand up for 20 minnits, but not in one place. One way to pass the time if you have nuthing better to do is to stand outside of a barber shop and watch perfe strangers getting lather smeering all over thelr face. There is a shoe shiner attached to every barber shop, and it is a lintristing sits to seé o man gefting | his face shaved at oné end and his |shoes shined at the othér, A sad site in a barber shop is a barber shaving himself and not get- ting payed for it. Father: (With a Bow Wright- Kid Boots. Attention! Clork: “You #ay you want a flash light, sir Customer: flask 1ight, dark.” “No, T want to buy a g0 1 ¢an find it in the —G. 1w Helptul Gilbert: “Don’t you know. déar, that 1 simply cannot afford t6 buy you euch clothes?" Mrs. Gilbert: “But Jack, darling, 1 to look beautiful and inspire you to work harder.” —Harvey Learning The Editor that's on the dot And reads the things that down we ot, they be true, or if they'rs not, hat editor must learn a lof. Blanche M. Wright. want Haggerty. 1f But think of this, dear Miss Wright: The poor guy sits up every night To read the stnff that folks indi Oh, pity him and his sad plight! nmy At Least He Was Cooked Tough Customer: “"Come on |bring me my order! Think I'm goin’ |ter wait all day? I'm hardboiled, 1 |am.* Jessie (the waitress) {line of chatter! Hard-boiled [Yer atewed, dat's de trouble | you.” | dat wid When thinks look blue ind a {friena is white enough to stake vou {to seme graenbacke, don't be yellow |and wait till he's old and grey to |pay him back | . It They Had Sent Telegrams (As C'oncefved Albert Heller) | Roman lend Bury Caesar. | No praise by ears Antony. | L | Or Death | —Patrick Henry. | But one iife for country. Regrets | —Nathan Hale. Raven says “Nevermore.” lost. Wire. | Edgar Allen Poe. Fourscore-ten years ago. Dedicated |Bro t forefathers, A. Lincoln, France, From Our Children’s Garden Of Curees | My lttle sister was learning to sew for her dolly whea. one morning, while trying to thread the needie, the was heard to say: “You fread why doesn't you go in dat needle? | Doodness knows, I'sa showed it to you a fousand times." | ~~Grace Kennedy | - Pro and Con Poace Advoch “Nevertheless, Captain, don't you think peace is and | Lenore | city of Hartford. ack, sizes 4214 to 5415, Saturday MART NEW FALL SATIN DRESSES TWO-PIECE BALBRIGGAN SPORTS DRESSES ceves ave long, in the dainty pastel shades .......... DRESSES OF PRINTED SILK Graceful models in attractive patterns, VAl UES R UDR OS2 5 0 (e SILK CANTON CREPE PRINTED FROCKS and general service, regular $29.00 value at .. CLEARANCE OF SUMMER SILK DRESSES crepe, a large choice of colors, values up to Special $29.00. ) imported into the United States by Professor Hanson and others from Turkestan in 1898-99, Q. What is the largest city North Dakota? Iargo, with a population in 0 of 14,381, Q. 1s it proper for a girl to ac- cépt a present of a diamond ring from a man friend, if she is not engaged to him? A, Tt is not proper for her to ac- pt any valuable pre male friend unless marry him. Q. How old was Betty Bronson when she played in “Peter Pan,” and how old is she now? A. She was seventeen when the production of “Peter Pan” was in 19 she intends 10NS ANSWERED You can get an to any question of tact or information by writing to The Question Editor, New Britain Herald, Washinglon Bureau, E 2w York avenue, Washington, D. C., enclosing two cents in slamps for reply. Medical, legal and marital advice cannot be given, nor can ex- | tended rescarch be undertaken. All other questions will recelve a per- sonal reply. Unsigned requests can- not be answered All letters are confidential.—F answer birthday one month prior release of the picture, which was last December, o she is still eight een, She will be 19 the seventeenth of next November, Q. What does the name *“Cqlo- rado” mean " It is Spanish, meaning *rud- dy"” or “blood red.’ It was first ap- plied to the river, on account of the quantities of req rock. Later the river, Q. What is the official language of Switzerland ? A, There 18 no one offieial lan- Q. How governed? A The is vested is the city of New York | g0 in a ernment mayor of the city and board of | aldernien, The mayor is clected for | a four-year term, and is eligible for re-olection. Ho presides over the il magistrate; he removes heads of all | guage. in Trench, German and Itallan. Q. Which is the larger, Brazil or the United States? A. Brazl is larger than contl- nental United States. The area of tments except that of fi- | Brazil is 8,218,130 square miles; the In addition the e presi- | land of the United ates of five Loroughs, Man- | proper is 2,970,000 square Brooklyn, Bronx, Quecns |The total area of the United States Richmond. The legislative |and possessions is 3,700,000 square wer s vested in the board of al- | miles. crmen, of Tagnembers, elected {m‘; Q. Why is Connecticut two-year term | the Nutmeg State? Q. How is the number 6,000, Because it has been sald that 000,000,000,000,000,000 read? the inhabitants are so shrewd that A, Six sextillion. {they could palm off wooden nut- | Q. To what age of the earth do | MeRs on unsuspecting customers, | fossil forests helong? | What are the best | A. The carboniferous, repregent- | known classifications of architec- ing the pi of some 9,000,000 | tural sty | years A. Doric, sTonic, Corinthian, | Q. When were epurs with row- | Gothic, Romanesque and Byzantine, [ els first used | Q. What is the amount of blood - |in the average human body in pro- | with | portion 16 its weight? A. The Public Health serv, ice says between one-thirteenth an | onec-fourteenth of its weight. Q. What is good fresh water pearl fishing territory? A. Loulsiana to Minnesota, Q. 1s it possible to teach canar- re cily ppoints or city de | nance. dents ttan of are the called Q. Originally singlc known spurs were made point, or prick, and { the prick-spur or | goad-spur, but they soon developed | into the rowel. Although the rewel | is first met with in the thirteenth | | century, it was not common until | the midale of the fifteenth century. Q. Did Benny Leonard ever fight Mickey Walker, and if 86, when? A. They have never met in the)" ring Q Wh name of the tormer New York Giant pitcher who | was expelled baseball when accused of “throwing” a game? A, “Shuffliy Phil Dougl Q. How many chapters the Eastern Star are there in the world? A. Approximately 11,500, Q. What is the origin of the | honey+déw mnielon and when was it first ralseq 1h the United States? A, Its origin is unknown; it has been knewn for centuries. It was a were as i the rom are tough on the housewife, why n 1t you w try the hot weather d Washingten Bureau' KEEPING RECIPES. ally valua o wants to or an & means of v the bullet TPES, postage stamps, best?” NAMB Navy Captain: “Oh sur You see that gives us a chance to engage in war time maneuvers.” ~=Mra. H, L. 8himskan (Copyright, 1925. Reproduction Forbidden) e ST. & NO. of R R. ... : CITE ... Featuring the pretty flares and long flowing sleeves, also many harming straight line, models, all the desirable colors .. .. In a delightful summer weight, skirts are kick pleated and the In light and dark color combinations for sports, street wear Materials include canton crepes, georgettes, in pretty ftloral nts from a| 10| slarted. 8he reached her elghtecnth | to the| state took its name from that of the | Officlal documents are issued | The Mississippi valley, from | low an CLIP COUPON HER and enclose herewith or coin, VERY IMPORTANT—Expert shopping investigation has proven that, quality for quality, grade for grade, our prices for Furniture, be the sale for cash, charge or budget system of credit, are positively the lowest in the Our August Furniture Sale Saves You Time and Money SATURDAY DRESS DAY AT 2nd FLOOR OME CANTON CREPE DRESSES FOR THE LARGER WOMEN In the fall models, colors are grey, cocoa, brown, navy and - $29.00 $19.98 $8.98 . $19.75 designs and flat . $16.75 irs how A. 1t is said to be possible, the method used being to play the tune over and over “hird ‘The canary to sounds Q. What sort of acid is used etehing gla A, Hydrofluoric Q. Which modern European plore Africa? Portuguese to A The | but German, English and other rapidly to sing different tunes? If so, on a 2 learns organ imitate the in was the first countries of the to ex- seem be, it ad h followed s0 that 148 diicult to say which country | the first claim, plorers SAULSBURY CRITICALLY Rockland, Me,, condition of former Scnator Willard Saulsbury of Wilmingten, Del, who is critically i1l at his summer home here, was slightly improved today, a bulletin issued by his physician said. Mr. Saulsbury is sulfering from acute dilation of followIng an attack ten days L1 A—T1 July §1 he Observation | On The Weather | ccast Show- | Washington, July 31.—I outhern New England: onight ‘and Saturday. tinued cool. Iresh, possibly cast winds [ Forecast nd New « tonight and Saturda fresh, possibly | for S {o Con- trong Lagtern New Probably ntinued cast York how- for v cool; winds. Conditions ince of the far southwest has inc ed in encrgy and advanced rapidly north- castward, centering this morning {over Indiana and adjoining states |1t has caused light to heavy show- ers from the upper La re | southeastward to the O valley |and eastward to the southern N England coast and from the Ohio valley south and west to Louisiana and New Mexico. Pressure remains low over the Guif of St. 1 ce, A long ridge of high pressure over- lics the plains states from the Cane adian border southward to Mexico. Temperatures are generally below the seasonal average from the Rocky mountains eastward to the Atlantie coast, - Conditions favor for this vicinity unscttled showery weather, prob- ably followed by clearing Saturday afternoon. strong | The dist gion 10 | AT HOT KITCHENS ON HOT DAYS ant to vary monotony ishes, easily and qu ® latest builetin, CHAFING L bl for arying a a the young couple 1 e tempting things for a party E. DISH for same: AND ents in

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