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NO WHITEWASHI IN CITY BUSIN! There should be no whitewash- | ing in city business. If there was a violation of the building ordinances in the construc- tion of the apartment house on West Main street, whoever was responsi- ble should be haled hefore the board of building commissioners and of- flelal action taken. Above all, there should be no at- tempt made to effect a settlement between the builders and the pres- ent owners as a final disposition of the case. Such an amicable agreement, if reached between the parties directly concerned, i8 of no interest to the | public and should be of no inter- to the building department. The building togically dismiss the matter with an ost announcement that such an agree- ment has been reached, Such agreement should not | close the incident so far as the city an is concerned, The public is interested in vrotection of its intercsts—for tion of its life the the | and limb, person nmot acquainted with ing methods has no way of crminin soundness of the wilding in which he he through tment, or into which mov family, except assur- nee from the department desig- vated Ly the city to offer such as- surance, building 1aw shonld he en- o the | and when violated the penalty ment” hetwes yers of city annu- sizeable sum in wages buildin partment, and it easonalic to expeet that the put int tould be safeguarded the construction of bulldings Lepartment exict details, not to in a contructor and announced he responsible for 1 bieac construction zmum | department cannot | build- | de- | makes his in- | for the harnfony that exists in our city government, and the public support of the adminis- tration, of which your honor- able body is & very important part, Only when publicity will interfero with the proper func. tloning of the city departments am I willing to sanction execu tive scsslons, for 1 belleve that we are in our respective posi tions to transact the business of | the public, and the public is en- titled to information as to how that business is being attended to."” i being some ts clear that 15 a departure attempted from this whole- | public poliey by bullding | Nothing of the kind | should be permitted. The building | sltuation has attracted a great deal | of publle attention and any attempt | at whitewashing should be prevent- | ed by the administration and will | be strongly eondemned by citizens whose Interests-are more important than the fnterests of the parties in- |volved and any “amicable agree- | ments” they may enter into, the { department, ¥FILM PRODUCERS' CHANGED TACTICS The moving picture interests |seem to be well satisfied with the prospect of repealing the Connect- cut film tax law at the next session of the Legislature, as Governor Trumbull promised would be done. The governor's promise of course is no guarantee that the Legislature will do anything of the sort, es- peclally as it is not certaln he will be the governor at the time. It the governor did not make his state- ment without knowing the attitude of the state organization leaders, especially J, Henry Roraback. The attitude of the film people {can be gauged from the fact that the parties to the suit of the Amer- iican Feature Fllm company to test |the constitutionality of the law, the | appeal of which was taken before hhe U. 8, Bupreme court, agreed to {its dismissal yesterd ay upon the mo- tion of both parties to the suit. | Such action means only one ex- | trom seems fo be taken for granted that | NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, “‘hm‘ of a county in the at stern part of the state following an electlon in which the sherlft was killed, again {ndicates that the peo- ple in that part of the state take thelr politics as stralght as they 0 moonshine, Oné paragraph in thelurld story referred to the fact that the former sherlff had resigned after a band of armed men had come to the hills and court house, Such town hot up” the An occurrence | naturally would be too much for a | self-respecting sherift who place his fob above his life, Throughout the country at large the common complalnt is that not enough people care about pollitics to vote. Down in Kentucky, where the boys in khakl have the machine guns ready to quell the disturb- didn't case, only the voting is taken so serlously that a gun is on the hip of every voter. It's a mighty poor Kentucky that isn't accompanied with a shooting affray in which some hero of the ballot glves up his life in the cause of democracy. Elemental passions seems to run high, and Republicans and *Dim- mycrats” are naturally unforgiving enemies, Bome day southeastern Kentucky will become efvilized, and all the plcturesque flavor of its medieval inclinations will disappear. But that will take a long time, election in USING GUNS ON CRIME GANGS Had a Boston motorcycle police- man not had a police manual in a | breast pocket he today would be a dead man, as & bullet from a gun- | mari lodged in the book, saving his |1ite. The fact that were seriously two gunmen wounded and two | by the police. The gang was \dentified as belng the same which | of stores in the past, and all its | pectation. [ HIKING A HEALTHY | EXERCISE | There is stinl joy in [news ftem in the Herald ‘« ated that girls from 12 to 15 will |start a hike from the Y. How n; hiking. yesterda | saturday atternoon, Al {hike remains to be sc that but there s no doubt the exereise do them good. | If this Is to be a revival of hik- T G e e e S sign. our health by doing our hiking in | automobiles, Some citizens scarcely their logs ever use to and from the waiting automobile and to step on t edl Lind that dociors think manity Such hi sponsoring, nol as the ikes scouts and the Girl trequent intervals, 1t s are older folk ose in mid die life, do not as a rule follow this custom more, 1Less viding and mor en many a life SPECIAL RUNS BY RAILROADS a fow Lid for ame by rolling to N train from St. Louis York in less than 20 hours, or wrs faster than sefore. “The run Waggoner, wealthy oil of which a sense another not exaetly conditions | regular runs ot every 1er ght train 1 rnaut wi L ial roared past but ttle caution maphore signal RENTUCKY GUN-PLAY AND ITS POLITICS At | W. C. A far they | will | Too many of us are injuring except 1o walk | Wille this gang was broken up | with bullets, other alleged carbarn | | Tobbers in Cambridge were on trial. {1t looks like a first-rate criminal | clean-up in an arouna Boston, with he police on top of the heap. | One cannot help thinking that | the police of Boston are relative more efficlent York, although a than those of New ‘ a drive under ws there has scored a few Gosses. The also {instituted a successful drive against erime initial sue- police of Chicago have and have been making hand- some gaing upon the habitues of the junderworld. It can be done if the | bluecoats set The S their mind public wishes them to do it. well, to combat crime is to combat with the same weapons used by gangsters. Society can and must protect itself criminal he in the "nters of | urh; even should it necossry fo out the troops, was done in Kentucky. Mrs coi S0 is Peggy Valenting is se Joy of Caruso has divorced her second Swanson is taking rmer husban one on; wife of Charlic Chaplin, {a again saf married, has houncing by il Life i3 a stage, said Shakespeare; and the movies are a cross seetion of life Homer 5. Cummings got more tlon from 1) 1 from tional committc oined | | Rev. Dr. John Roac | William North Ric We Straton and former grology iebating about evolution 1 as de- has nsual, nothing was settled. Such bates are futile, as neither side slightest #d 10 the other, i« no Gre pers Olympia Macri won vesterday even before the festimouy ond trial started. By ruling timony relating to state- girl to poli wer officlals and ot prior to Judge Hinman placed the as favored than th han the < ‘/\r president of high school Young win- sllot. The oth- president, Ma- cretary, Heary M. Dam ances, the reverss seems to be the | others cafured indicated fine work | robbed a number members were comparatively young. | One o been | inclination to be fair- | Ressie | ly be bronze, Harry C. Broyn, Bernard J. Lyneh, and Frank's. Cadwell were in charge of the civil service exam. inatlons for clerk and carrier at the local post office today. W. L. Hatch advertises houses for sale on Cottage place, newly bullt, attractive, and convenlent; and at Sunrise Helghts, on and near Fast street between East Main and Smalley streets. These are two new attractive developments, replaced with aluminum | Washington street will sall for Sye- den on the Oceanie Tuesday. The supply committee has award- ed the coal contract to the People's Coal & Wood Co. at $6.25 a ton, Ullte Ackerson returns to New Britain tonight in ‘“The Doctor's Warm Reception,” which will be presented at the Opera House. The matter of closing shades on display windows on Bunday has feen spoken of before but there s still a need for such reminders. One case along Main street is known where toys and low-priced goods are on display as conspleu- ously as on week-days. This is a temptation to worldliness should not exist, BY RUBER1 QUILLEN National poliey: Groupe appetite. Be sure you're right; then wait | | for the world to catch up. | | Millfons who never used an-| thracite are now contentedly turn- ‘1“8 to substitutes, One way to settle affairs is to talk | | turkey, but it wouldn't work in that | | Mosul affair, | Middle age is the time when a ‘mnn begins to say that success is | largely a matter of luck. Adam mused. “Alone and- un- | daunted,” said he. “There'll be no- | body like me until Borah's time.” | How pleasant to find a clerk who | | will exhibit the goods instead of his salesmanship. If the scientists are right, perhaps | the appendix aches because it got | the habit as a stomach. . But doesn't self-determination in | the Balkans inelude the right to fight at Intervals In the old days nations borrow- | | ed trom Peter to pay Paul Instead | of doing it to pay Pe perhaps Congressmen don't the White House to talk Perhaps they just listen. It good times continue, %here | can we put all the things that are | sold on cagy payments? well, call at Dolitics. Signals help. W the front holds out his hand, { he is going to do onc things. driver in | you know | of three | A doesn't Some of money to &pend deport ail, undesir them still have The way you experic really will matriculate in pay 20 e e s, It's the per cent. | one when [ evorsbody is going 1o begin saving. | It w | up in the air unusual for but it will be nmmng drivers, ate citizens a chanc make enormons fortunes out of law enforcement and there will be an- other story. Correct this senter 60; the t | e look did ne (Prote ani mometer registered 1 at si d ankles hudder, ed by Associated Editors, Butterfli and grasshoppers have been recorded to come to rest on the surface of the water during long trans-oce fights. Observatton On The Weather Washington, ~Forecast | for Southern New E 1 In- sing cloudiness tonight; Thurs- |day rain and warmer; fresh sou west and south winds, for Eastern New York Increasing cloudiness and warmer Thursday rain and warmer; 1 southwost winda Fair weather pre- s of the anic Forecast f a strong of t is moving slowly area conntry is over gh pr and ple ssu considerably alley but g8 o .u1‘;, or for this vicinity fol- robahly ursday. asing cloudiness by light rain T Mr. and Mrs. Albert Carlson of | whlch‘ nee is to think the | should | “He was | country | sippl river under | Send all communications to Fun | | Shop Editor, care 0f the New Britain Herald, and your letter will be forwarded to New York. First Ald! There twinkles the spirit of fun; 8o there you are girls, It you're wise, We've told you just how to land one! Beating the H, O. L, Charles: “How have you been get- ting along since your marrage?" Horace: “Fine! We're still eating the rice and wearing the old shoes that were thrown at us after the ceremony.” THE. GREEN HAT | (With a Wink at Michael Arien) FactsandFancies ' By Marshall Michell We claim that we are clvilized, | But seo the nats we're usin [Snmn are too small, some oversized, And all of them amusing! 1 guess I've worn all that are made, | From derby to sombrero, | Tn some T felt composed and stald, | In some I felt iike zero. | Of all the hats I've ever had | Without doubt T was proudest | Of one T wore when quite a lad, | "Twas certainly the loudest, | Tt was my Freshman hat of green 1 To teach me to be humble, | That T must doff, when Sophs were scen, | Without a grow! or grumble. ‘\n Mortar Board in Senfor vear, | My silk hat since acquired, | My felt hat tilted oer one ear, None have I so admired! | And wouldn't T be glad to know | One-tenth of all the knowledge I THOUGHT was 'ncath that green | chapeau, | My Freshman year at college! Not That Kind “Dick certainly raved when blew out and he had to { Ruth: { the tire | change {t." | Martha: “Why, T thought he had sur)\ a retiring disposition!” ~R. D. Radke. } “Gosh dern it, here yellow | about,” said Uncle + | dodged the taxi, that must be this Hiram as he As Ye Sow— “Well, Jim, how did your great | subscription contest come out?" a | member of our staff asked of the | publisher of a nelghboring news- { paper. “I understand the contest closed a couple of weeks ago.” W so far suhsrnplkrnn go,” Jim r ! plicd, and then hastened to adl. { “but I'm telling you right now, 1T { never hold another plano contrst “Well, why not, if it brought you in the subseriptions?” pse,” Jim explained, “theé girl who won the piano in my con- test lives right next door to me!" THE ABSE b POKER PLAYER EATS BREAFAST (Reported By Nan Dunker) Tis wife—Will you have sirup on pancakes, dear? Jenkins—TI'1l play these. His wife—John! Tl bet heen gambling again! | Jenkins—You'll bet what? Well, [Tl just raise you a napkin | What have you? His wife—It's 1y one blus) | Jenkins—A flush, | good, 1 have full pancakes and two soft ¢ stack of w ats on pot and pour me some His wife—T'll pass it! | Jenkins—Good! 1 me more pancakes! Well, let’s look. The coffee pot’s open for two spoons of | {sugar! I'm discarding this pan- cake, and drawing one more, | His wife—Won't you have some your you've cnough to make you s ho ! 1 wina coffee! | How many herries did | ou were betting? Remem- | you say her—T drew only one pancake. 1f T to | helped my hand I'm going to het my . whole stack, sirup and all. Well, I'H | raise you a cup of coftee, { llvc “m»—n this doesn't beat the | 1 nkins—T¢ ave, youre deuces are all you beat. T have two pair | of pancakes, burnt ones up! You're | beat. and T win the stack! Now it | you will kindly ante some sugar in | my coffee. we'll call it a breakfast! | IN RLASS AT KAZY KOLLEGE (Conducted By Gertrude) { Teacher | Mr. T.ott will please give a sen- tence with the word ‘figure’.” | Esan A. Lott: | “Said Adam to den— 's hide down here by the Now don't be too long dre { 71l bet you a figure late'.” cen lve in the Gar— gate, sing— | Teacher: “Nick, the word ‘semaphor’ is & | raliroad term, and T want you _to show the class how you can put‘it | {in a sentence.” Nick Knax A nica de gal I once tooka eut T say, “Have a soda, Marie?" She sava, Mike, maka me sunda re 1< semaphor me’.” —Jerry Glolitl, KRAZY KINDERGARTEN (Conducted by Gertrude, Jr.) ‘churn’ ¢ hoestrings doller yestidday tion was very plesent, fellows ast hurn it me -W s it a pres r C. Coons Ter er! Wat Minnie We n you do with t werd Minnie? Fis all went on sanwitches and things, lots of cheese and some tch as The men like a glrl in whose eyes | peril T heerd so much | i it was g, pretty fair success | ring. five | a pienick, taking Q. Are Filipinos citizens or sub. Jects of the United States? Have they a voico in the government of the Ihilippines? A. Filipinos are ncither citizens nor subjects of the United States, They are citizens of the Philippine Islands, owing allegiance to the United States, Although not citizens of the United States, they possess American nationality, a status, which, by virtue of the soverciwaty the United States execises over the Philippine Islands, makes the na- tives of those Islands entitled to all rights of protection as citizens of the United States while residing In, or traversing, forelgn countrles. They are Amerlcan nationals, They have autonomous government, that is they are governing themselves, Thelr | bi-cameral legislature is composed of native Filipinos elected by broad manhood suffrage, All elective of- fices in the Philippines are filled by Filipinos, The Governor-General (General Leonard Wood) is the Chiet Executive of the Philippines, and is the only connecting link be- tween the governments of the United States and the Philippines, He represents the sovereignty of the United States over the islands, Q. How many public school chil- dren in this country reach high schoo! and how many graduate from high school? How many go only as far as the eighth grade? A. Statistles furnished by the Bureau of Education show that out of every 1000 children 634 or 63.4 per cent reach the eighth grade; 342 or 34.2 per cent go to high school and 139 or 13.9 per graduate from high school. Q. Upon whom was the title ““Rock of Chickamauga” conferred? A. General George Henry Thom- as was known by that title. Mis Q. What is the width of the issippi River? 1s it ) river in fhe United States A. The Mississippi is the wid- imv river in the United States. It is {about 1,000 feet wide atCairo, Tili- iro the project width the natural low water | 0 feet, and the width is 2,000 to 10,500 i"" From herc on to the delta, a | thousand miles below, the river | widens to about ten miles across. ! Q. How many employe leral government are there? { A, on June 30, 162,756 Federal employees | Distr | i | | | | width is 1,000 to h.mh-m!l in t of Columbia and 500,962 out- side the District. , Q. How does the world popula- | tion of negroes compare with the { total number of Chinese? A. The total Negro population of the world is estimated at 25 1 112,000 and the total Chinese popu- { lation at 400,000,000, Q. What ship, during the World War, carricd the greatest number of | troops? | A The lathan. | trip from ITrance she 12,107 soldicrs, Q. Who was Diogenes? Why did g0 around with a lantern looking for an honest man? | A, He was an Athenian | ana philosopher, who believed that | Athenians w not honest or true I'to their natures, because th were ntional and too indulgent 1 pleasures. He those characteristics {truth and goodness. | practising the extreme On a once return carried harmful to Therefore, of his cyni- Open the | halone childer home sed my moth; take cverything that's left— chisle ony” The do to put on macker- —Willlam A. Miller. 1625, Reproduction Forbidden) | | (Copyright. Getting Up ‘at Sy B WAKES FROM SOUND SLEEP TO HEAR BABY WHIMPERING ! | WHIMPER DIWELOPS INTO T WIPE 6OES ON SLEEPING. AND TRIES OTHER MANEUVERS 0 ROUSE HER REACHES NURSERY JUST AS BABY DROPS OFF 10 SIEEP AGAIN. TIP-TDES NERVOUSLY OUT cent | 0 widest | s of the | 1925 there were the | eynic | in} considered clsm, he wandered around town with a lantern in broad daylght in search of an honest man. He did that to impress his 1deas upon pub- le attention, Q. How many Presidents sides Abraham Lincoln were in Kentucky? A. Lincoln was the enly Presi- dent of the United Btates born In that state. S8ix Vice-Presidents, how- ever, were born there, Q. What {s the difference in linotype printing machine and monotype printing machine? A. The linotype, as the name {mplies, casts type by the line in- stead of by single letters, Strictly speaking the linotype does not set type; it sets matrices (moulds) for the type. The monotype casts and composes single type in lines of re- quired length gutomatically justify- ing each Iine, Q. Is a zebra black with white stripes or white with black stripes? A. It is white with black stripes, Q. What is generally included in the term, The wealth? A. Usually it meahs the com- monwealth of autonomous nations within the British Empire, namely Australla, New Zealand, Dominfon of Canada, the Irish Free State, and other self-governing possessions of England, Q. Js there something my: terious in the way nature cares for dead birds and animals? One rare- ly finds them when out in the fol est. Can you tell me where thelr bodies go? A. There {s nothing mysterious be. born a birds and animals are disposed of. It is true that the bodies of some | wild animals are rarely if | found but it is believed that fn their dying hours they conceal them- selves as nearly as possible from sight, Others unless disposed of by | human agencies, disintegrate or may have been devoured by beasts and birds of prey. Q. How can I keep bulbs during the winter? A. Take up the bulb and hang it in the cellar or any dry place, that is frost proof. In the spring divide it and plant out each one of the | shoots, | Q. Where and when was the | movie actor Richard Talmadge horn and when did he enter the movies? Is he now working on a new pleture? A. Richard Talmardge is Swiss | by birth, He was born in Caumberg, | Switzerland, about 1897, He hecame a movle actor during the winter of 1921-22, His next picture is entitled “The Prince of Pep”, scenes of | which are now being shot in New | York. Q. What part of the railroad | mileage of the world is found in the { United States? How much of the { telegraph mileage of the world is i found in the United States? A. The United States has {437 miles of railrond track compar- ed with 741,173 for the entire world. Of the 5,711,006 miles ot telegraph lines in the world, 1,433, 978 miles are in the United States Lady Bathurst Still Is Confined in Hospital Norwalk, Nov. 18—Lady Bathurst who was hurt in an automobile mishap here yesterday had a rest- less night due to pain, but she was somewhat improved today, it w stated at the Norwalk hospital in {which she is ‘a patient. Charles Douglas Jackson of New York, who was Lady Bathurst's com- tuberose MIRAC] Rut do you know about the Washington Burcau's latest bulle ¢ wonders. Fill out NCE_EIDITOR, The W 1322 New York Avenue, [ ¥ want a copy of the bull WORLD, aud’ enclose here postage stamps or cofn for dame: . NAME Iam a read P | | | | | Bedtlme Storles nght. OFF KNOWS 'ULL- LUNGED HOWL REALIZES SOMEBODY'S GOT TO GET UP GOUGHS, VIGHLES BED, cF TH SI6HS HAPPI al British Common.- | about the way the bodies of dead | ever | You've heard of the Seven Wonders of the Anclent World. the Seven Wondcrs of the Middle Ages. CLIP COU ve cents In loose, uncancelled, DECIDES M AND PLUNGES INTO (OLD to jeave the hospital today, in« Jjurles were superfleial, READ HERALD CLASSIFIED ADS FOR YOUR WANTS ST New Beauty Cream Gives Lovely Complexion Amazing new Kkind of eream qulekly gives the texture and ap- pearange of a wild rose petal. 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Be sure and ask at the Dickinson Drug Co. or any druggist.for Mc- i Coy's, the original and genuine Cod Liver Oil Tablets, if you want your delicate children to become strong, robust and active. Yor grown-ups they are just as wonderful -—— one woman gained 15 pounds in five weeks. 60 tablets 60 cents and If they dom't put & pounds of good firm flesh on any thin man or woman in 30 days, our druggzist is authorized to hand you back the moncy you pald for them. under- upset LES! And Soven Wonders of the Modern World? n gives you in condensed form the the coupon below and send for e P Y TON HERE 1 ington Bureau, New Britain Herald, gton, D, C, SVONDERS oF THE MODX u. er of the HERALD By GLUYAS WILLIAMS © McClire ~Ne-'mp¢.r s WLHAMS TELS HIMSELR BABY WILL PROBABLY STOP RIGHT INSIDE HE'S JUST KIDDING HIMSELP, FEELS WIFE STIR AT LAST SINKS QUIETLY BACK SIMULATING SLEEP S HOPELESS , SIGHS, COUNTS LY AFTER ALL THERE'S NOTHING IN WFE THAT BEATS GETTING BAGK INT BED AGANIN v