New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 24, 1925, Page 6

government, nobody kunows hls na- tionality, The annual educational week will help those who are becoming throughout many states, leading to the question n Washington inter- state power organizations should b “regulated” by the states or by Ul federal When power ew Britain Heral HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY necessary during the Paris peace conference, because public opinion everywhere opposed imperialistic exploitation, and because it aldcd the forced consent of Germany to relinquish her oversca posscssions, and afso .because the lesser allied belligerénts were unwilllng: to see [ flve great powers Increase thelr terrifory outright. Q. What is Argcn(nurum? A already made FactsandFancies O¥ KOBER) QUILLEN whether such —THE OBSERVER— Makes Random Observations On the City and Its People Tssued Dally (Sunday Fxcepted) At Herald Bidg., 67 Church Btreet. SUBSCRIPTION RATES $8.00 oar. 2.00 Three Months, 760, & Month, full-fledged Americans to become better Americans. government, the hydro-clectric plants contemplated are in operation, and the companies now Tor that matter, matrimony can- not survive half slave and halt free, About all workmen have left to strike for is parking space nearer the job, YES; WE'D ALL BE INTERLESTED affable of the Mr. has enunci- Our treasury, existing are working together har- | moniously, wil the secretary Advocates of moral suasion will this respect, This s a supposed element Mellon, how public > Entered at the Post Office at New Britain as Second Class Mall Matter, TELEPHONE CALLS ated a nice new doctrine of govers- 1t Is that as mane persons as possible should have mental tactics, a from Is beneft all this supcr-orgun- the increment due to trustified methods golng to benefit izatlon? Still, men are the only ones who feel free to go to a barber shiop just o sit, d all communications to Fun Shop Editor, care of the New | Britain Herald, and your letter | will be (orwarded to New York. probably shudder at the suggestion, that public spankings with a wood paddle be administered to juveniles who have been convicted of petty The new thing, no doubt, We'd hate to zoning law is a fin and we like it bulld a niee coz; cd by Dr. Emmons to be the sls of gold and silver, Q. Iow can one clean the radia- tor and water packet of an auto- o | bo v bungalow and then have our worst encimy bug the land all around us and erect a boller factory, And we'd hate to be crowded so close by tenements that the only way we could let light into the sun parlor would be to build it on the north direet responsibllity in the govern- ment the companies alone or the | consumers of light and power go- | to share divect benefits through | reduced The wiil Interested pro- Youwean't tell, 1In time the Army may afford a medal for distinguigh- ed lip service. Perhaps the upper class consiste of those who can chew gum without | popping it. e mobile? A. A good way is to dissolve a half pound of lye in about five gal- lons of water. Strain the liquid through a cloth and put (o the radiator. Run the cnugine for flve side. | minutes, then draw off the clean- But the prohibition - law s ap- | N8 Mmixture. Tll with clean water parently a cinch to enforce compar- and run the engino again. Remove od to what the zoning luw will be, | the lquid once more, and finally ust ‘imagine what it will be like |Fefll the cleaned cooling system. it tho law-breakers start in to break | Avold: the usq of morc powerful the ordinance. Imagine w gang of | chemfrals. bootlegge! muggling a three-family Q. What is the title of the high- house into a restricted district. Or | est ranking sergeants in the army? zoninglonforecment ofticors search- | A, Master sorgeant. utomobiles to sce ey con- 3 IS i B 00U ot ore N 1| RGN How Pullman jackers grabbing an illegal garage | "aMmed? A. The names of Pullman cars are selected by an official of the and sneaking it on rollers through the night to another part of the city. Pullman company. Great dhre and judgment is used in the selection of the names. Romantic and poetic Imagine a contractor jailed for building a factory in the third ward, names w carly substituted for numbers to prevent mix-ups in rec- And his future efforts to evade a reputation by building three-story ording rolling stock among the various roads. Names of countyies houses with only two tiers of win- were first employed, but many rail- law breaking. Dut the Observer be- lieves that this would be the prop- er method to use to convince boys that contempt for authority* will meet with swift punishment. If it be true that the three in- clineth as the twig is bent, it might be a good fdea to bend the (wig with a bender which will have a perma- nent effect, Correction pf juvenile tendencies to flout the laws of e and state has been one of the grest States. Nuelness Office v75 of in- Editorial Room 926 come taxes; that the citizen who pays an income tax will be most Interested in economical administration of the government and will insist upon it. Consequently ho does not favor the elimination of the small income payers and he would not make exemptions too high. All of which note that the through the payment 'hese Are Shocking Days, Folks! The city and its wicked ways The stern reformer always knocks, folks, we note these autumn days The cornfields yleld their share of shocks! Well Tnvestigated calthy . wldower (after being gy problems in the United pted): “Now, dear, T shall tell |yrom {nfancy, the child Is taught you somcthing about myself,” Slab thin b the fad 'of e fres. | Divorcee: “Oh, you needn't both- | peing mentally incapable of distin- | er. T looked you up the first day |guishing the difference between | we wero introduced}* freedom and license, the youth as- o |sumes that he is free to do whatever The Windbag {le chooses, He does not realize By Arthur L, Phillipson |that, in order to gain freedom, the Nearly all things look brighter in | (. i 2 5 | 1 the morning, but this doesn't fhelude | \"1en I take out tho old sedan |individual mustscontrol his “-mr::w: the supper dishes, And bust some traffic regulation, ythe benefit of all and must A red-faced and blue-coated man |his inclinations so that his neigh- Tn the/old daysunskilledllahorers h\v(‘m‘n. he ehould take me to fl!EI or's life nn«l.prup(‘l'ly will be safe ; |Gt ealouttart Io0 e R teantor IAte station, from molestation, o New York City, our wealthiest| ” &e v ” He bawls me out with eloguence 1t is amazing to read in the news- and most sophisticated city, has a i Until I feel just like two cents; |papers the daily record of crimes larger population But I'm too wise to make defence rates? public the the The only profitable advertising medium In the "City, Circulation books and press room aiways open to advertivers, Erow more as But, jects are completed and com- Vinations perfected, 1t tan't falr to proves of nothing. person singular, the eynle ap- here's the first tax the Member of the Assocated Press, The Associnted Press fs exclusively en- titled to the use for re-publication of a1l news credited to It or not otherwise credited in this paper and also local news published herein, AMERICAN CULTURE AND BOOKS Our culture cannot altogether be gauged total of hooks we buy or by the size of the lbrary posseased by the average American family, “Nearly family,” we are told, uses an automobile, ncar- Iy every one has a phonograph, a musical instrument or a radlo re- celving set. But every family is not buying books very readily, sounds well, We York Commer- journal circulating sively among a financlal is strongly of the plan. We haven't the Wall Street Journal but wonld be willing to risk n guess that it also favors the Mellon conception of economics, The of the treasury makes the mistake of regarding in- come tax payments In the same light as other taxation. It is not New olal, a by the exclu= Member Audit Burean of Circnlation, The A. B, C. (s & natlopal organization which fumishes newspapers and adver- tisers with a strictly honest analysis of circulation, Our circulatién statistics are based upon this audit, This nsuree protection against fraud fn newspaper dlstribution figures to both national and local advertisers, * clientele, are cars in favor seen Loy, tax-paying The Herald fs en msate dally fn New York at Hotaling's Newsstand, Times Bquare; Schultz's Nowsstande, Entrance Grand Central, 42nd Btree secretary dews. Or by using the oM “fake than Denmark land then to learn that the larger |label” scheme of the bootleggers and | The sult for $25,000 brought by a brick company in Berlin against the elty, based upon alleged pol- lution of Willow Brook, is discon- corting and presumably a spirited defense will be made, There {8 no appropriation of $25000 {n the city's budget to meet such a bill, 8o 'lis sajd. As to be expected, the Greek-Bulgar controversy is on the of being wsettled the League of Nations will do the set- tling. the have suffered from too much ambi- tion. was way and The parties to dispute eharge The agalnst Shitehen prejudice Colonel to the order mili- Friends of the colonel will conclude that is putting includé” “condunet of good and tary discipline, the case rather mildly. mo ppeals are fired the rd of Adjustment the board will have to adjust itself to give more specdy consideration. It at Bo; that, It is a speclal form of ta tion that was deslgned to reach the larger incomes, not necessarily to reach every person in the land. There was no argument at the time that it was intended to be a new brand of special tax to reach every- body. Secretary Mellon is credited with being one of the most wealthy men in the country; some say he really is the wealthiest. He is an cfliclent secretary of tho treasury up to a cettain point; but when=he gets he- yond that he cannot hclp thinking like a man of his wealth naturally | would think, cspeclally with regard | to the income tax. It's dollars to doughnuts that it he could have hls he would tax on way unload an income erybody, fromn a newshoy up, turning it into a sort of federal poll tax. POSSIBILITY OF WIDENING MAIN JET It 18 not to single strocts that could he widened to ad- unusual out has But Dentnark has four tlmes as many book stores as are in York and the Danes buy several times mére volumes yearly than do New Yorkers, And more books are bought in New York than in any other American city, and it is sus- pected purchases from help swell the totals. CwW clsewhere our book sales the country over have been relatively poor from time The s is the immemorable. main reason advanced for uniformly ligh price of our hooks. Huropeans | | as a rule buy more hooks because they can do so at low prices, and all issues of importance arc printed in a very cheap paper-cpvered edi- tion as well as a higher priced edi- tion. They woum purchase precious few of price. But them at our standard of nearly every American city its public lbrary, and there arc countless circulating Hbrari These it Lire books and probably d s direct make possible o Then, again, used pants of modern vintage will make excellent sofa pil- low tubing. Among things that live alone are the hermit and an idea in the head of a crank. A boom is an occasion when one man gets the eack and leaves an- other to hold the bag, A patriotic Chinese is one who fecls the way a Nordic would if he were Chinese. 1f there is anything in evolution, the darned mosquito: may in time learn a tune. Yet oven a sweetie wouldn't show vou a good time if you showed her no better time than friend wife has. Love is the quality that makes & young man forget how many times Or to deny the allegation. Then, after he has had his say About my awful law infraction, He waves me grandly on my way, And T go, staying not my action, Once out of ear shot, then 1 go {Up in the air, and want to know Just why, for speaking, cops have 80 Apparently a great attraction. T wonder if, to be a cop, They have to study public speak- ing; Once let 'em gtart they cannot stop, | WIth eloquence they're fairly reck- ing. And yet at home T'lIl bet that they | ave not got so darned much to 50, t nlght, the back-door waw quictly come sneaking! T bet They ve! irror of Ommission The flapper davghter in her new- est gown was going out when her father saw her and was shocked Ahem!" he said. “You haven't have you? dear yes!" exclaimed the “I've got to take off my stock- —Mervin M. Martin, part of them are committed by boys who have not reached, or who have just passed, their majority. This |condition emphasizes the need for enforcing greater discipline during the period when the child’s mind is | plastic. Apparently the home has [Tost some of its authorlty. Whatever |the reason, the child of today is in- clined fo be more selfish and way- |ward. It the home cannot exert the | proper control the state should step {in and for the welfare of society in |general apply the rod. In most | families the rod Jins ceased Lo exist. 1t is considered a relic of a by-gone land harbaric past. Moral suusion is {the thing. ‘There is no question that | {it is better to reason with a child than to apply corporal punishment but where reason fails the rod must e applied unsparingly. When par- cnts neglect to dust off the rod and use if, it is time for the state (o | take o hand. This leads to the considerafion of | {erime in general, Justice Maltbie of the supreme court of errors is epen= lus in favor of severe punishment for crimes. He does not believe that | prisons should he furned info elub- | rooms where lectures on mental up- | lift are tho most arduous part of the program of confinement., In unjudi- cial Jangdage his idea can be ex- | | {and painting “The T,ovenest” over th door of a machine shop. Imagine an Anti-Tengment league or a Woman's Christian Bungalow Assoclation, fighting for observance And the criminals or- ganizing a trust for the cheap quan- business blocks district. in of charto- officers, | of the law. tity production of in the Shuttle Imagine the calling graphers as thelr being bribed map factories for them. little built Tmagine a fleet of trucks running | under cover of night to bring in material for crecting a | bank building on Ten Acre | Or their being caught after a wild chase along Corbin avenue by with one-inch the blockade conerete roud. ment officers 'rs mounted on igine & squad of enforcement upon Belvidere some night and nabbing the owners of all two-family houses. officers descending try to Imagine those duced in court the next morning as Or the owners escaping conviction by burning the evidence. evidence, Imagine it. - In order that the Meadow enforcement and by havin of their own motoreycl houses pro memory And just of c|roads expressed desires to have their stations rcpresented by Such cars as thight be allotted to them, and towns and villages were select- ed. By a recent definite system gleeping cars have such names as “Point Adams,” “East Aurora,” ete. To the railroad man a “Point” car |or an “East” car carries & mean- ing as to its capacily — the num- ber of sections, compartments, drawing rooms, etc. Q. How long bulbs bear? A, The old fashioncd proved kinds of narcie will last for n but the more highly developed strains may need renewing every three or four years. ~ Q. What are the highest priced automobiles manufactured in the United Btates? A. The Rolls-Royee, Locomobile and the MecFarlan, Q. What is the proper kind of dress for one to wear on hoard ship on an ocean voyage? A. On a large steamgr everyone dregsés for dinner but it isgnever correct to put on formal evening dress. The ladies should ‘wear din- ner dresses without hats' and the gentlemen may wear dinner coats, g will narcissus unime= bulvs or s ¢ th Far n's sons daughters sales to the public, {pressed in three words: Gl R\]‘)“:"l]::k;hvlr Tivos in e war'may |rough” Judge Alling of the local |gorevar he perpetuated, citizens of {police gourt has announced that |4+ (own have voted to appropriate pleas for leniency on the ground |50 to apply toward the purchase thal the' prisoner is a youth will be | ¢’ “town-owned forest to bo desig- unheeded in the future. Many Peo- | 1oc1 as a permanent war memor- pla believe there is altogether 100 |0 yic’ §1500 plus & similar Imuch lenieney in the courts. and |qu'oune'to be ratsed by the Ameri- |blame this situation for the increase | .y Jegion will enable the town to nfinyErloladions purchase a 175-acre plece of wood- Within the past few years the i, g which should suit the purpose country has been shocked Dby 50- [qniranly. |called “erime waves” The courts|" gurmington thus becomes the {continue in a rut. No other agency | firet town in the state to appropriate of the government has such power |l "eo"cunh a purpose, although or such responstbility. 1t is entirely |yco oter towns, Newtown and Salis- but never the tailcoat. At other times, ladics usually - wear street clothes or semi-sport costumes, and warm coats or sweaters when neces- sary. The dress depends a great dcal on the time of ycar, the boat and the trip, Q. What profession or business did President Grant follow affer his retirement from the presidency of the United States? A. After his lerm expired as president, Grant made a_triumph- ant tour of the world. His friends attempted to renominate him for the presidency in 1880 but the who singlc The 1 a few fimes in New vantage. has subject Keeping (he Set Pace “In buying a home In an sive district it said Mr. Shippey. up.* 2 will go info $22 a week. ; 3 B Getting niore e Peo boolks in The handed ning state policeman - fen’t the first cost.” “It's the keep Kumers of the sense Relatives are people who expeet fo pay it back, but dic Lefore they got around to it One way to live long 18 always to guess correctly which' one of the her fellow’s headiights is working. three Killed rum-runners was doing the work of the broke up rum-run- . but there secms fo be attempt anything yet. no great | of the buying them s a problem that 8 ane > he gangs and one of the |, 5 | houli publishers should attempt to | Kind just When around to i, safety Virst Nona, who had finsisted on re- peating a “bad word" which she had been told not to use, was hav- ing her mouth washed with soap and water, in the presence of the two children who had witnessed the demeanor. This was mother's first experi- solve in a prac Al manner, federal ; a by th by EQYE meny ol the powers that he g Main stre ad tracks shonld i stat Conneeticnt. 5 ety | k S P HEHOY UL THE STATE DEPARTMENT o north of the rail The “cowhoy in New York the gang Of course 1t is fine to keep Amer- jean for Americans, but who wiil the shoes and sell the fruft? considered. To provide a wider AND THE COUNTESS ran atoul of law, but At fl west part | the Voth efig- thoroughtare Muin lopping off it this narr the time State Departs | i st the veal cowhoys down in ! shin Y ot stroct would require muzzled Count Kavolyi, for- Tesse think of such a lawless city of parts of mer | public vl fdent of the Hungarian re- | Correct this sentence: “And what's onilit * sald the husband, “I think nus not yet come over the 2 more,” walks, which perhaps are wide | visited siely 3 wires, Now that a Tartford wildeat has ber its n near Week where s mate? if such iny hiking | —might he inte e telephone company and to | | | | telephone operator | wholly ab from blame in the A W in telephoning 1 a Berlin me 10 11 around I8e re- | phon ot Jinu operators at mind ot PLANTING IN THI ml AMERICAY ISV SCHOOLS American Unkr siwhied under the cunopy cnough to admit of this redugtion | in the interest of more room in the street This not for tratlic i« only and Rut, found practicable we (hink, worth it later 15 considering | now or THE PUBLIC AND SUPER-POWER Spowdi projeets no link wires from " voters voted fuvorably npon the ix portation o rofrom that sfate, wking it possible New te the remain v oof England come to of Fundy d power yrics about ambinations of powct @ b G | way wife didn't in ihis country, the muzzle returned ked his publi Department not Saklafvala rvadical men- :25 Years Ago Today House of Com- Kndw more of Sul 1 asgimilated . more of 1l he to attend t sueh ineident g | of ! News i img yoliey cirenm- wal and lic dimands to wherefore. Coun pari Karolyi, desiving re-cnter | upon w visit refusal of the Amer- neral in Pars, 1o ap-|! ports evidently was| o intructions 1t American abroad v the W marbie pluced there by a grateful lines have been estabiished ernment in Huu LY L imission it very vude of you to criticize your mother that way (I'roteeted by Associated Editors, Ine. oyear old attacked Ll street three times. vis eut op and Wlood, 1th 0 of o night youngster's and his chin animal was the boy, his fuace ran home, Dr. wounds lhas given 5 Epis son by John vage and wis Ihe cheek wl hp oft in eri 5 v N Bathed i Bishop r per- al its | Jand on West n street. is heing thought of for a post office. T} also gevaluable 8 atready been | r chureh pro- plots together ased for much valnal The site as a tist chureh site i o $75,000 1 rthe o ( thred pur i $200,000, nd Mrs William rtuined party of linner fast evenin, Simon 1 shad E. Beers a friends at govin pretty blue uicloth, silk read theie advl. on let them tell you how ofters a of navy lined, for—but 4 and cheap it is, The fire ard e f inspe iilding on Contractor police hor fon of the Commercial Meskil) s madc new city strect last was also states that he lius L. Alvord, hezzlements are of the country. Mr, that Alvord actually life, not Bodiey Knew gigantic wsation saye iet erly Cor Lodley the extrava- reported, New Britain to I school foot- ficld this | Storrs eollege Loys refused to wet grounds. The Laving trouble with prac- Cy Gilchrgest quit 1 having “head- Tai \ account o ptaiy sturt is trouble, i they all agreed ont regula Herald t stead of the 791 ne consists of 12 1 usual cight voters have been | ctmen tative, ic v ritain, Jack is co fisticnfis, NO SUNDAY GUN TOTING ' Va. Oct. 24 (®— Hill of Strasburg, was| ppea conviction in a pistol common- | dug up an ancient | which prohibited a pistol on the W ster | standing near, [ such words you m | The ence in administering this punish- ment, and she was taking ;% rather serd asked mother solemnly when things were well under way, “why am 1 washing Nona's mouth replied “he little Lila, 0 if she says it learn to say then, too. —Ilora Robinson Howels. Dr. Baldpate's Clever Golf Stroke ve heard fish storles and 1've heard golt stories,” said Dr. George A, Baldpate to Arnold Kiesling, “but T think T have the best com- bination yarn in existence and the interesting thing about it is that it is true, i8, indecd, the case with all of my stories. ‘It happened in the amateur championship wanock club in Mancheste Vt. home hole, u probably know, is a water hole, calling for a 120 yards over a pehd. 1 was all gquare with my opponent, Chick Evans, then at the height of his gle Chick played a nice mashic to the edge of the grecn. I half topped my ball and it land- ed in the water about ten feet from the further edge of the pond. “Of cou I had taken the pre- caution to use a floater so I put out in a ltle skiff used by the caddles in retrieving balls. My idea was to play it off the surface, Nothing ven- ture, nothing have, you knn' You can imagine my dismay when, as 1 was about half y out from the finals of the t the | éhore, T saw an old he-trout break, curve in the air plop! on my ball and come down, . He had swallow- od it! A roar of laughter went up from the gallery some 10,000 people who lined the edges of the pond “But 1 was not through yet, not v long sight. I waited and watched. A few mothmillers were floating by and, with a quick dash of my cap, 1 caught one and tossed it on the surface of thé water. A fow scconds later out came Mr. Trout again after the moth. On the instant T swung my niblick caught him clean in the middle and lobbed him gently on to the green. “A roar went up from the crowd. My ball lay deagd. So did the fish. Chick was so fussed that he took three puts and 1 won the match and the handsome diamond stud- ded hotwater bottle which you se the piano.” Doc Baldpate,” 1 oy a on said mevere- night 11" nd, at All Clayton: “T know you wouldn't pprove, dear, but I'm playing on football team.” ‘Heavens This is Not an our college Miriam the Claytor No, back!" it's the haif- -1 1. Quimby. er what the pre- ver been | 1l been and the assessed A& H o 3 on the Sabbatt accordingly heavy fine. summer Remiuiscences and his co-ed friend had an or two before the informal tea dance was to start and, to pas the time away, they went canoeing. d up to the courts. Thay can stop the | “crima wave” if they can. Wil | they do it? 1 L | Chief Hart's insistence that mark- crs on automobiles be readable will yecefve public support, Plates are | {made to he rea The operator of ! 1 automobile whose registration | number cannot be read, hecause the | |plate is rusty or covered with dirt, {p1 the public and the authorities at a disadvantage in case of acei- | dent. If he s the type of quitter | lwho evades responsibility — after | {striking a person the chance of his| being captured s less than if ms‘i numbers were readable. The pur- pose of markers s to let the au- thorities know that the wmachine | Learing them has heen registered at moior vehicle headquarters and the toe paid, and to identify the mi chine so that the driver can be held | ponsible for any damage to prop- | erfy or injury or death of a person. | | When plates are obscured by dirt or {rust, the purpose of having them is {defeated. ‘ Even under most favorahle condi- | fons it is difficvlt to read a nhim- ber on a clean plate at a short dis- | ance. This is not so true of Con- | cut markers as those on New [York cars which have a combina- {tion of letiers and figures appearing | Numbers do not i | | | [like hieroglyphic {run so high in Connecticut and the {dividing of the state into districts, {each distinguished by a prefixed let- | {ter, has its advantages. | There is another angle to the sit- |nation Automobile owners have {been known to find fault with the {plates jssued in Connecticut. Wheth- {er the material in them or the |workmanship in thelr manufacture is to blame, it is true that many | markers become dilapidated m | after being affixed to the car. enaniel flakes or the color fade: the case of the formef, rust is cer- | {tain to appear and it is difficult to {keep the plate dressed up. Motor | vehiele department officials should give this their attention. The aver- motorist, who is a law abiding citizen and not deserving of half the anathemas heaped upon his |head, wants to cooperate with the ‘sint(‘ authorities, They, in turn, should cooperate with motorists in | I'he To make a, long story sho; vhr‘ tipsy canoe tfpped, and they | damp good time | The girl's dress was of a silk ma- terlal that, fortunately, neither | a ‘friend’s house, and for the next hour the girl had pressing duties! | When she came forth, however, she | | showed no effects of the recent im- | though considered a fent develop- is not So they went on to the dapce | withoutgpast precedents, nor is the mandafe_principle itself new. The & girl remarked to one administfation of the Congo Free | promptu bath, | and | death | young ngturally, were teased “to T eik that it was a good thing her dress was of non-shrinka- carlier mandate rule, was theorefi- cally made accountable in 1885 to “Yes,” replied the said sheik, “or the powers who sigiied the General The mandate idea also appeared in the pact of Al- | ble material. ! elee people would have thought were going to & formal affai —Gladys Ray. (Copyright. 1925, Reproduction Forbldden), ou | dents, bury, have had tract ps a aside 140 acres formerly part of the farm, to be managed reserve, Iorty-one the largest being mor acres in size. The committee in charge of the armington campaign is made up of wes, Harry C. Ney, hert Knox Smith, Robert Ayer, E. C. ox and Austin D, Barney. This committee was appointed at a town vear ago and working up the project ever since. assoclation has the committee time to time and stands ready to aid ny other town in Connecticut de- sirous of establishing a town-forest. the subject {s being prepared by the association. Thom Hea meeting a The State Forestry been aiding A special bulletin on QUESTIO 13 sonal reply. not be answered. confidential.—Editor. Q. How Columbus America? A. Columbus was old when was he in 1492, He of ageat the time, Q. countries by the larg come into effect? A, The mandate ment in international State that offers an Act of Berlin, an When did the mandate | faged nor shrunk, They rushed 1o |tem of the government of smalier town forests for some time, Newtown received a small gift from one of its resi- while Salisbury recently sct of timber town poo as a e than 50 has bee ANSWERED 4 You can get an answer to any | question of fact or isformation by : | writing to the Question Editor, New | Britain Herald, Washington Bureau, New York avenue, Washington, D. C., enclosing two cents in stamps | tor reply. Mediecal, lggal and marital advice cannot be given, nor can ex- |tended research bp undertaken. | other questions will receive a per- Unsigned requests can- letters are A Christopher discovered born er ones fir £ystemy, law, instance ¢ land, forest Massachusetts towns have set aside such districts, Her- from in Ge- fad & {noa in 1451. He discovered America as therefore 41 years £y8- move failed. Grant then entered the banking business in New York. He also wrote his memoirs, He died ih 1885, cight years after his re- tirement from the presidency, at the age of sixty-three. Q. By whom was Mohamme- danism founded and what are the principal tenets of the faith? A. It was founded by Moham- med, who was born 571 A. D. at Mecca in Arabia and died in 632 A. D. The sacred book of the faith is the Koran. The first requisite, taught by Mohammed was a bellef in God and in Himself (there is no God but Allah and Mohammed is his prophet), After this the four chief duties are (1) prayer, which is performed five times daily at ap- pointed times; (2) almssiving, which is considered a meritorious act and practiced with reckless profusion; (3) fasting and (4) the pllgrimage to Mecca, There are no mysterles, no sacraments, no altars, no images. There are teachers and preachers but. strictly speaking, no priests, Q. How fast does a person’s hair grow? A. Healthy halr is growing halr no matter what the age of the in- dividual. Hair which is in good condition, grows from five to eight inches & year, varying with the general condition of the individual. Care of the halr, climate, mode of dressing, etc., affects growth to a greater or less degree, Halr grows more in summer than in winter and more-in daytime than at night. The average hair lives four years or less, The average length of hair is 25 inches. 1) 0 h Qbservation On The Weather Washington, = Oct. for Southern New creasing: cloudiness lowed by rain Saturday night and Sunday; slightly warmer Saturday in west portion; colder by Sunday night, Forecast for Eastern New York: Increasing ‘cloudiness Saturday, fol- lowed by rhin in south and rain or snow in north portion Saturday af- ternoon or night.and on Sunday; slightly warmer Saturday, colder | Sunday afternoon. Conditions: A pressure disturb- {ance has-been attended by raine within the Jast 24 hours in nortivern {New England. The temperature has risen slightly east of the Mie. sissippi, &xcept along the Atlantic | coast, The southwestern disturbance will move northeasttvard end it will be nded by rains almost generally icast of the Mississippi river within the mext 24 to 36 hours. . The weather will probably remain fair until Saturday night, however, in New England. The temperature will be slightly higher Saturday in the Middie At- 24.—Forecast England: In- " Saturday, fol- st T t geciras of 1906, which established |iantic and North Atiantic states International control over Moroeco. | But it “will fall Sunday or Sunday The mandatory eystem became'night in the Atlantic states. \