New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 31, 1925, Page 6

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Thia ineures protection against fraud in newspeper distribution figures to both mational and focal advertise The Herald fa en saie dafly Tork at_Hotaling estand Square; Bchultz's Newsstands, Grand Central, 42nd Street. Times Entrance THE HERALD WISHES ALL ITS READERS A HAPPY NEW YEAR AND A PROSPEROUS 1926 POWER DEVELOPMENT AND LEGISLATURE late lamented Legislature of | lald the power The foundation for the the Tatest development in state when it “Randal Williz Rorab: granted H. Put a Morg: and I. He lanket n nam ¥ certain charter affecting the elr the hav ap now have an organiz th Connecticut | fric businees of state, I ruits of the deal become We known parent, tion as Ileetric Serviee company, a con- through its subsidiarics the 16 Mr, Ro the Connecticut chief that corn which crves of towns of the <tate; and ck is elected presilent of Light the find the sub Mr. job of & Powgr company, It will sidiary. is beliey ftoraback now state ther Having at political weing Ttepublican chairman slightly irksome and are re he will resign, - all the ports a ends yield, wined to mirol could and having most suceossful franchise wen 1) history of the state, no logleal reason why sho inue as the st Allen 1 Willimz Lincoln ntative om letter 10 Springlic hich h wers shou group of poli- icians, cypi 1 vrokers, yarently der. MUNSEY'S MONEY FOR ART tn New | tilves | deep Interest in this high activity | of the mind; but this may have | been on the surface only; a man who wills the bulk of his fortune | to an art institution cannot be sald }io have been unappreciative of its | influence upon the public. Mr. Munsey had had around him men | Who had been deeply (art, and these may have influenced him as to its public Before Mr. it was apparent to some of his in- Yimates that he consldered chang- ing the will so that his :vnomn assoclates in the operation of his enterprises would have hen fited a mutnaltzation the As it | dozen ctime value, Munsey's last iliness some of through ot propertice, i, or 80 1 ass bullt up r they got a chance, por- to the who the papers whens publist recelve only nominal sums, haps amounting in some cases less than a ¥y Another peculiarity of the will fs ar's salary. that it forces the sale of his prop- | erties within five years, Many ness men will conclude that this is not a wise that der it the | thelr full | the people provision an un- properties will not yleld value; in other who buy them these clrcumstances In a sense will be beneficlaries of the Munsey w It 1s & pecullar will, the product under of a pecullar man, DRUNKEN DRIVERS AND JAIL Judge Hungerford 18 to be highly | | commended in his decision to re- rain from further lenfency in the cage of drunken drivers. The _;udl"‘ has declded hereafter, to send them The public will him congratulatigns. to jall tender Irrespective of t one's atti- tude b ind how it works, there can be no v may toward 1wo opinions t drunken auto- They They not but abo mobile drivers, deserve 1o leniency whatever. endangsr thelr own lives, the of of drivers who them and thousands {nnocent mect upon shways, Gasoline liquor do not mix; and the man who at- to the mix them should full tempts glven every oxtent the This an of that law time, will the only to curb evil has be- | way come altogether unhearable, Nine out of ten times, the an automobile, when on is shocked by careening antic t stupet trong drink at wheel. who have so little T d lives of others as fo drive after People for their own lives and the having imbibed In liquor de- in )t enough, Send them serve no merey in uny court, Fines are r to jail. Coddling dr mob biles has no place in view incr g total of ant 1926 BUILDING 1IN NEW BRITAIN can forecast whether ec as many new dwell- R SanRlructeatin Britain as was the case in It a good guess is that con- truction work in this city will re- being strong that the shments in the city will have other record-hreaking and the year this will T Conditions in the i employment. of ore people here than ever before. city are slightly other citles arc many peoplu here who live in nearby : and if it is possible to pro- I Touses here is ¢ good portion of them lling them it rely tve here rather than of comn towns, both nd nterested in | busi- | words, | * | These prohibition | enly | the | he | ere is a person | the machines | in automo- | an- | 1t was only recently that Musso- little slack as wmay exist 1 caught |lini {up with, But that will not likely | regarding be the case. Thers been no | The statement noticenble letup in the fssuance o:{ | buildings 'consiructed until such made flamboyant statements Romaun sounded too Hohen- o new empire. has for «ven the friends of the lands, sidorable griticlsin resulted, Such criticism has found its way into the U, 8, senate, which appar. ently does not take kindly to dia- tribes the nation | forms of government, nor to a “‘de- | iy | capitation of the Goddess of Lib- | [erty.” It {s in the Senate where the | 20llern bullding permits and the new year in other and con- will find | operations premier New Britain's bullding i salling right along as | strong as cver. This fs at least n; way the building straw which shows whi 18 blowing. 1f the throughout the bigger, there to suspect that it will be less in this city, one of the fast- ost against wind parliamentary | program continues big and no reason recently confrived easy deht settle- ment terms of the Italian sion growing and mis in N MosL prosperous England, has to be ratified, | | Mussolint should have walted un- tl had ratified the | | terms before announcing his Na- | for Its size W SEEING THID NEW, YEAR TAKL I'l'S PLACE Ab the old year passes and the hegins the tastes of eitizens find expression in different the Senate ! poleonic dreams. new varying | ways, Some will enter the sacred Factsand Fancies By Rohert Quillen 1t fs only a lttle over sixty yeare of praver that it be kinc Y . prayer that it be kind now until England will be paid up. | mankind, Others RelETI, | grect the | Some clti- | confines of churches, there to greet [ the infant year with a solemn tri- bute to | themselves and {lacking such devotion, Republicar mocrats sther. queer. Tmaglne | ar ‘ing to mollity one ! revelry. being inclined toward j elther prayerful cogitations or un- | confined joy, go to bed as usual and | new year with q zens, not As Russla spends more and more | 'l millions for U, 8. goods, it becomes harder and harder not to say | “Howdy." great the new y with feel Enores 1 usually best the next exaggerated storles The truth is, thousan ago haven't even been sho It never pays to,b at Ilorida congestion, and everything. progre: gely carm | mornin, ‘ Consclence, therefore, 18 | guide. And tonight fs the night The past year has been notable. b Such are | told! in at the Here's hoping that 1926 is as hetter. be embargo r More need . not RAILROADS AND 1025 PROSPERITY The past year has heen one of | to industry | lcanliness re the develop- ooms. i The sulted ment of | abounding prosperity land comm with |there a few exceptions. One of the the rallroads the here and exceptions has been as a eclass -— not few lines have been in the Taking the railroads as a whole | which wallowing | prosperity, but average. 1 Columbus rejoiced when he dis- l e e e bl e el siedr anierics, BDACRINICRTES yllaved vlien things were different. ,000,000 in 19 | 1 {ahout $1, looks ltke considerable {they must have a net Income of [0 $1,364,000,000 fo get what the In- | 1€ terstate Commerce Commission | One reason why the air ls p\u'rr’ country is because none of | divor suits is aired there, mon; the i o |y with 1s re- Mitchell, fortune, and they call an independent return,” 5.70 L 75 per cont return s ini- afr or cent on their tment, If the 5. Do right at will say you are square if you are a crank. possible at present rates during an will it It §s a fair quos epoch of prosperity, when L ople no longer astonished a man get ricl quick, They | be just wonder where he got his suck the trend of rates fs not higher; on | op jist, the ever ba po are tion. Many obse are answering hat 1t will possible, never 18 contr the prevailing belief | —— ould he mblance aus and Uncle Ancther is that buth Sam have their ) point of Santa’ C whiskers, is that the rates lower A that have the properties too hi is possit the railroads marked value of 0 that an ade- | quate return of & ble individual 5 per cent is im- | This is the belict of many | the officials. | rd through Pos who Thave and gorernn thing that government given E also the it is ha subject is liet of X it prove. the I. considering to | Leggars for *noble | humanity enough to | on for the rest of us. ; i is a man who would | Tt o 1 comps The on! s that n suspiclous, taken | it has about ten years fo mako an ap-| A o a job not yet com- | gIving him more credit. ro ' 8Ty ®1 Well, Tora should teach t the work will be valle- [y 00 gances, He did much to mako| | would scem that the point | the shimmy uniy But that | the railroads pleted and there I8 already | that less, it g Corn, cotton and wheat | | been called king, and some punster | r may yet call the ud dic'tater. will has nothing remain debatable, to do with the rea- | sonableness of the conjecture. | The railroad business t is more | spotted perhaps any other | leaf well in It lictator's fdeal of citizenship. | fare to 1l @ of worthy endeavor, Some eastern and southern roads have | n unusually prosperous, and a ! | d/ | she, thig sent leay Correct & supper dishes” the sight of tl never sick me (Protected by Publishers' Syndicate) en the faw western lnes likewise; but ' t majority are worrying along wiih 1 next morning in sight of no great financial future Consolidations solve the In may some difficulties, 1924 25 Yé«;rs Ago Today L The committeo to investigate the | ed conditions at the reet o0l met 1his morning in Su intendent, Stuart’s office cided that a addition in: will necessary will be required The committen Webster, C, Attwood The Ne¢ roads carncd $1 $145,180,049 less They did not the or in individnal in They de- to the build- ix rooms | bly cight, cluding the Doston off D an railroads ~onsist 8. Andrews workers-—about -8 w Britain Camera club has | England Slide nee ¢ season of | slides to be New Hav nd is of t reduced num- ined will com consists ¢ vie 18 Eln vhich was s club thr n City A surpr n vd Mor P at hig g 11 home on Lincol on occasic Mo in the ey Mr. keeper f Andrews, Swift & Co. Amoun Burton More: Quigley, Wil Fitz ere G. and 1 Robert A ksmith,"” will go on sal tod el 1 N stor y r. Bu a trustes of 1) md Dr. M. W. M executive comm edish Betha following officers: Presi Bjork: vice-president, A Alfred Peter John Nelson; audi 1 Charles Iridell; | M. Johnson ty The ected th MUSSOLINT AND TIHE SENATI N ary Charles Wall organist invill Iy for powe of water authorized v pond Farmington, n. Bristol and Wolcott. not now ap- propriated eph Herzog has enlisted in the and gone to Ft. Slocum. An You The d When v The prospect. can't | i and asked, De al of the actual property of |help the debt-burdened farmer by |Jones & Jones, | We received | were astonish . dumb and blind should | good They come close | rupt b ! you aho expert { touch system | me, { vour | Tipsti | Father Time at the un 9&' op MaxsoN. Jumeie send all communications to 1un Shop Editor, care 0f the New Britaln Herald, and your letter will be forwarded to New York. | P Our Happy New Year Wish, Folks! May your joys be mor¢ than the bills you face, Your good luck hard to heat, 1 your cares be scarce as park- ing space Along a city stree Those A Nan: “Well, tonight 13 will never see it ¢ Charles: “Just watch nes on the letters you next few days. —Heartrouble, Stenos 5 dies and in." the el date T for The Bobbed-Hair Bandit, SWEAR, AND THE WORLD SWEARS WITH YOU! By Wallace M. Bayliss Tomorrow will be New Year's! y we all swear off! th a leaky fountain pen e children, women folks and men ist things they will not do again, Despite how scoffers scoff! Tomorrow will be New Year's! Ihe flutter of new leaves narrow, Look | WIIL fill the crisp and frosty air As many maldeas will declare, “I'll cut men out from now, ch one lies and deceive: Tomorrow wil 'h, how som | What countless men themselves will slam, nd mutter, “What a fool T am nd swear, “So help me, Uncle Sam, A A | No liquor will T take!” Tomorrow will be New Year niakes me lawf! have a plan that's rather deep, I plan to swear off in a heap! And this Is one I'll bet 1 keep— "Il swear off swearing off! Puzzling! Dore: “What makes Bob so sad?” ugene: “He's a dumbell! Some- ¢ told him there won't be another ‘UN SHOP until nest year and he dope 1t out.” —Doris Jean. ¢ leaf is concern- st but the turn- Ac d, far as t is not the c {over! When Tgnorance Is Bliss Little Mary six years old, wing in the w the beach, ! mother and Aunt Betty ter 1 her noar by Now come back. Come on in to shor L Mary looked up at her nother with a puzzled expression $ho 'er what, mother D. H. le HOW TO WRIT! LETTE BUSIN e in Dusiness pondence) (By Prof, 1. C. Itt) formal and dignified but not gnobbish. Your style should be a pleasant one, but remember that letter should be a little in English. For Exampl each gem City. | Dear Jones: Wo were tickled to death to hat our salesman put one over | on you. Our goods are being shipped like to sce your when you open the consign- nent Jones, olg man, you're easy! our check today and d to find that it was specdy bank- Wishing you a \ Wo are, Yours tr Write ion, using the a letter applying for a posi- following as an ex- {ample | Bro: )& Coo e Cit | Dear 014 Funnyfaee: Someone told me tI you e looking for somebody to work x hours v. T am an ographe 1 the with my fore- inger and my right thumb, T am willing to work for all you but I would want the car. Are yon marrie ks come under the supplies? How close ¥ t ock? Hop! you look, Respectfully yours, st use of! desk you a microphone: air will be the New He Forgot to Ask "My wife wanted —bloomers ? Misses “Er—1 donm’t know er she's married or not.” —Frederick H. Landar. Mary,” called her mother, | ocher, but darker and browner due to the presence of oxide of mangas nese, Raw umber ylelds a brown paint, while burnt umber has a red. der tinge, Q. What was the flrst name of the General Putnam of Bunker Hill fame? Was it Israel or Rufus? A. IsraelyPutnam won fame at Bunker Hill. His cousin, Rufus Put. nam, was also an officer in the American Revolution, Q. How old is Mae Murray the novie actre A, She was born May 9, 1803, Q. What are some of the prinei- pal works of the listorlan John | Lathrop Motley? A. “The Rise of the Dutch Re- ) QUESTIONS ANSWERED You can get an answer to any < question of fact or information by |Public” amd tha ~“History of tl writing to the Question Editor, New | United Netherlands”, He also wrote Britain Herald, Washington Bureau, | f0me historlcal novels two of which 1323 New York avenue, Washington, fortona's Hope® and Marry D, C., enclosing two cents in stamps | Mount”, a Romancs of the Massa- for reply. Medical, logal and marital | Chusctts Colony.” ddvice cannot be glven, nor can ex- | @ 1ocs lon Chancy wear a tended research be undertaken. Al | mask in the movic “Tho Phantom of other questions will receive a per. | he OUpera”? sonal reply. Unsigned requests can. | A+ Y not be answered, All letters are | What confidential,—Editor, Woolworth building the ciffel Tower in Paris? he Woolworth Buildir above the sidewa Tow is 1,000 fee! How many decks has a do-| stroyer? What are the compartments of a destroyer callec A. A destroyer has a bridge, main deck, first platform deck, i height of the comparcd with Q. Must a person who is single {and whose Incomo is over 81,000 make a return to the Collector of In- ternal Revenue even though he docs not have to pay any tax on account | of exemptions? | A, It your net income fs over $1,000 you will have to filo an in- 3 ome tax return (under the law as|©"d Platform deck and the hold. Ti [now In the statute books) even | Irincipal compartments are: officer's though you pay 1o fax. | quarte fuel ofl compartments, Q. How many steam and electric [ COMMIssary compariment, = crews locomotives has the Baltimore and | compartment, magazine, sick quar-| | Ohto raiiroad? Have they any thut |! ToomminaylEniionisnaces | burn oil? |ignEneaRnaces) | A. No ofl burning locomotives| ¥ WOt | are Nsted in the annnal report of the | (o railroad for 1924. In that year the |\ 1 company had 2,632 steam locomo- | . v : . s a7 Tevenelot b meiet o] ol b eomR ity Si0cllar ol Q. What is the largest attendance piuces were coined, They were not however, issued officially hy th ever reported at an Army-Navy|a cooimens Jor the Pana oothall gam . ! cifie International Exposition tn 1915 | A, The largest was on November| (o Serrold pleces were lssued | 20 02 9 0016 o VR e A 2 y 29, 1024 when 80,000 persons wit- | [N T ol DO ey were aold for nessed the annual game tWERN | 6100 caen as sonvenrs. | West Point and Annapolis. The game | * ¢, "\t word is “Dec was played in Baltimore, Maryland. | of? Q. What is the Jargest race t [l ) {in the United States? dollar gold the Govern-| ny €ty fssucd Dy » days of the California | " an ab- 1s an abbrevia- | both a decaliter—10 | gallons; and for a| grams or 6.43 penny- i or G ¥ of of is used King of oath the Q. A testify, o usnally of . . | re often soft and there- more readily than the some times other t they canse gerious trouble. They often al- crowd the mouth, causing ab- cesses. and “um- | here | closing Demand for Books Is . ‘ ‘ Continually Growing Chicago, Dec, 81 (A-—The demand for books has considerably increased since the war but half the people of the United States do not have accesy to public librarcs, librarlans attend- Ing the American Library assocla- tion convention Mere were told by President Charles . Bolden of Bos- ton. War-timé reading by servic€ men stimulated interest In all subfects, Prosident Bolden said, “Today's Ii- brarian s more than a mere book tender. Now he not only must act as an adviser to the reading public, but must know literature,” Stratford Church Will Hear Bells Ring Tonight Stratford, Dec. 31 (A—The bells of Old Trinity, w York, ringing out the old year and ringing in the new, will be heard by members of the oldest Episcopal church in this {part of the country tonight, when a high powered radio receiving set installed in Christ Eplscopal ehurch will plek up the radio pro- m broadeasted from New York, Iving it out on a “loud speaker” Fo that all assembled in the Stratford church may hear it. g FOR PARALYSIS CURE Chicago Professor Disclosis Success- ful Treatment For Allment Cleveland, Dec. 81 (#—Probabil- ity that a eure for paralysis may be found was scen yvesterday in expe ments deseribed by Dr. R, W, Ger- ard, University of Chicago at tha sossion of the convention of the Federation of American Socke- ties for Experimental Biology. Dr. Gerard explained how cords severad In operations on embryo ats fn gestation had mended, Ahe ats born normal, and were ]w«'llfl\.‘ through long lives. Tncurable paradysls invariably de- velops in humans after the spinal card has heen severed, Dr. Gerard sald, He has hopes that a human spinal cord may bhe mended, possi- Ly by patchés from the spinal cord af another organism. His theory s speenlafive, however, he declared as hig researehes aro not near the final On The Weather Observation ston, Dec. 31.—TForecast for Southern New England: Gen- crally fair tonight and Friday, not much change in temperature, fresh to strong west and northwest winda I"orecast for Lastern New York: Fair in extreme gouth and cloudy with possible snow flurries in north and central portions tonight; colder in extreme north portion tonight; Friday generally fair; colder in north portion ;fresh to strong west and northwest wind Conditions: Pleasant weather has prevailed during the last 24 hours in all sections except in the castern portion of the lake region. where flurries of snow occurred and on the Gulf and South Atlantic coast, where light rain fell. ~ The temperature 18 rising slowly in tho northern districts and is now aboye zero along the Canadian border, Conditions favor for this viclnity partly cloudy weather and not much change in temperature, A Gery | "A. Belmont Park track, Long Js- e land, N. Y., is the largest with a|g. o -0 | grandstand seating capacity of \)HM',“ 500, | i q . Q. When the State of Ala- SRV intgtonm vallln e to the Uniong at the coronation MRcambac Rl England ? it . I ‘ . What is a “cloture rule’ in| A. According to the Accesslon N UL ! Declaration Act of 1910 the oath l', {8 n method of ending de- o Sollona el o and securing a vote in a legis- do solemnly and sincerely in the pro- R e ”;"}‘_ 2 }‘ ”"‘ prot y"’“l sentatives of the United States no | : :lm; \h;[” :"I" o ful TRo- e her may speak on a question for [ testant, and that T will, according to | n "8 0 TR g ar ses the trus intent of the enactments| 000 00 H0L MLl S mine chlch secure the Protestant sticces- | iy iy Commitien of the Whole, slon to the Throne of the Realnt ub- | j()ont unanimous consent, Debate {hold and malntuin the said enact- |\ e R e | ments to the best of my powers ac- | ° 1 » “provious question.” In Eording oL an the 1 :nate there was no cloture i At ‘“"”""”‘ Ofhle until the prolongation of [[RENne s nEane BN e lads Ded o, during the World War com- held guilty until proved innocent? | EE SRR U R BT Tl A. Both Inglish and Canadian | . yiring two - thirds vote to close | inrisprudence presume a man ae- | { SRS RS CCEEI T dnto et | cused of erime to be innocent untit ‘extreme circumstances he is proved guilty, and in criminal | is it that wisdom teeth i cases, the of ) defenda 5 5 < fcases, the gullt of 1l il | ooy so casily and cause so much | must be established beyond a ren- |y s sle doubt. The accused, accord- N ing to that system of jurisprude o Is clothed with the presumption of fnnocence which abl Nim throughout the triz Q. What is “sienna” | ber'™2 | A Sienna is a ferruginous scher- ous substance, fine and smooth, used as a pignient in both ofl and water color painting. The finest is ob- ained from Italy, Umber is a natur- al pigment somewhat resembling un‘ but there are many othera. Perlinps ¥ou have in the back d the technical ability, woul Burcau has just complet FOR TH): MAGAZINES th d helpful hints on Short Wr d writer needs to know 111 not make n story w in this lne, It will I and send fo Companions in Misery Helen: *I saw you with Lloyd | again last night i Theresa: “Oh, yes. You see, we're | engaged | Helen: *Ts o Theresa: Y Donald, and he's engaged to the eapericuc and abiitty to | Viv- | EDITOR, Washingto New ¥ Avenue, copy of the hulle en with five cents In loos 1 or coin for sume: Davidson. Mrs, H. D, The Right Remedy \ “Miss Jervis 1s a little raw ¢ the fellows have neglect Dick: the cd her, George: laster, eh?" | NAME “Needs a little court- §87. & NO, or R. R. . ' GrRY BN s —A. L. Wood (Copyright, 1925, Reproduction Forbidden) HE EXHAUSTED AN HOUR AGD AROU NOTHING AND WiSH YOU WERE IN BED Copyright, 1925, by The Bell Syndicate, Ine) CLIP COUPON HERE SEEING THE NEW YEAR IN WITH THE NEIGHBORS. || “HE TOOK NER IN HIS ARMS, AND — love interest {5 one of the strongest of themes in story writing, of your head a short story plot that d make gond material for a story. Our ed preparation of a new bulletin on t emhodien In condensed form a huyn- {ting—things that the novice, and even in order to attain success in this fleld, of you overnight, but if you have surely help you develop them. Fill r it 1 n Bureau, New Britaln Herald, Washington, D. C. WRITING FOR THE MAGA uncancelled, U. 8. posta STATE RALD, CONVERSATION WAS THE SNAPSHOT ALBUM HAS BEEN PASSED \D TWICE, AND EVERYONE IS T0O SLEEPY TOR BRIDEE. TO DO BUT WATCH THE MINUTES DRAG SLOWLY BY