New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 31, 1926, Page 6

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This fnsures protection against fraud in newsaper Atktribution figures to both national and at Hotalipg's Newsstand, Bquare; Schultz's Newsstands, Entrence Grand Céntral, 42nd Btreet. PE———— “BY THE ETERNAL, IT MUST STOP” Bome such exclamation is apro- pos regarding the continuous blocking of traffic on the various railréad and street crossings in New Britain. The last ruction rec- orded was when 44 automobiles in a hurry were stalled at the ap- proaches to the Elm street crossing | during the noon hour while a New Haven railroad freight “train jaunt- ily switched its lumbering weight over the tracks. The same holds true of several other important downtown {ngs. Railroad switching and cross- ings do not mix. Yet what is to be done about it? There are rules and regulations enough, in all consclence, but the point s they don't keep the cross- ings clear. The question naturally who owns the streets at the inter- gection of the railroad tracks, the city or the rallroad? Clearly, the railroad owns its tracks passing over city streets, while the city owns the street highway. By what right, then, has railroad to unreasonably ‘block city highways? When a freight rossing unnec he city's rights. It i passing on city property. All of which is recognized generally admitted by all sides. treight trains are long and cum some, and when switching is to Le done somebody will suffer. Just at s the autoists, mostly at hour, who gnash their the the train blocks 4 ily it is flouting really tres- and But present it I the noon teeth. Such a crossing as that at street should never have been per- mitted to develop. Now that have got it, what are we going o do with it? 1t would not take the most won- derful engineer in the world to think up a way to eliminate the surface crossing with & bridge or an underground cubvert. But that would cost money, to the city well as the railroad. But such bridges or culverts have peen constructed before today, and one can be constructed in Elm as possibly New Britain. e A GOOD RECORD N NEW BRITAIN Duning a week when all records for automobile accidents in the stat¢ ware broken, New Britain registered among the lowest totals of any city of size in the state. ‘This should be good news to c otficials who have been giving much of their time and thought to elim- inating traffic snagls and improving the possibility of traversing the strasts in safety. New Britain's waek were only In Hartford, where they kn little about traftic control as in Butte. Mont. and where even the most rudimentary laws are scarcely entorced, the total was bS accidents. and two Hartford residents wers among the state's ing the week. It has been shown time and {o keep automobile is to 1ty accidents for the 15, none fatal. ow as tive vietims dur- again t the way the minimum traveling over eity of efficiency. e to streets highest point ain fs not faultless or per- the city ha y uny means; bu . commendable pProgress SIGNS the only POTENCY OF New Britain is not .re the potency of hand-painted the street beds is pro on ch deterrent y nature may be cross-over W signs w staur 10 autoists W inclined to vond a ubjquitous “stop and against them But in Detroit have gone a step ‘giant footprints the authorities further 4 h painted on - Lh ement at such where epots rians are expected to be pro From Detroit Nev Thomas 1 while crossing a ‘street ot the learned that ulation books and press | - | scene of human cross- | arises, we ! city | [O'Grldy. director of trafic in that city, has been watching the psycho- logical effect of such large foot- prints painted at an important in- tersection and has ordered them to | be painted at other spots. “These footprints,” he is quoted | as saying, “stamp upon the minds | of motorists that the zone belongs |to the pedestrian, There is a psy- icholegical effect in the fompnms:i | and motorists hesitate to cross the | path when the signal lights are | against them. White lines do mot | have such an effect.” Other cities may well investigate | the potency of this new Detroit psy- chological sign painting on the | public highway. Signs on the hi~> | way that really stop motorist: !whe.e 'n.y a4 expsined ‘6 stop are needed weil nigh everywhere, | SENATOR OUMMIN SUDDEN E Senator Albert B. Cummins of suddenly taken from activity, leaves a record of having been one of the | most active western political men. |1t is rather a coincidence that he i | Tow; diled shortly after having been de-| feated for renomination in the re- | cent Towa primary. After having been governor | Towa. three times Cummins fathered | the “Yowa idea” of tariff reform in the interest of western agriculture and after effort finally of much the | | by induiging | reached the national halls of Con-| | gress. This was at the beginning of ;(he 20th ceatury; and he has been |one of our most prominent men | | ever since, and has been a particu- | |larly noteworthy figure in transpor- | tation matters. With his passing a man of sterl- | ing attainments lcaves the stage of ! human endeavor. He possessed dis- | tinetive qualities and left his mark | upon the nation’s laws, the Esch-Cummins railroad act. including | BULLISH FACTORS TILL | AFTER ELECTIONS 1t is announced by Wall | writers that the general public is " not doing much buying of stqeks at present, despite the bullish tenden- | cles of the market. str explain the underlying strength in stocks is one which we some time ago," say Edson B. Smith in the Boston Herald. “Namely, that the leading financial interests of the country are co- { operating in an effort to assure a ! continuation of prosperity at least until after the fall elections. They belicve that the best way to insure the eleetion of a Congress friendly to the administration is to ‘e business extremely prosperous in this country when the voters go to the polls next November. Pros- perity is the surest cure for radical- ism. Rising grain prices and boom- ing business will prov combina- tion calculated to still the mutter- ings of the malcontents.” It is not frequently, perhaps, that a writer in sueh a staunch Repub- Boston Herald the bag lican organ as the the cat naively. That this sort of thing is done be- fore virtually eve known. It lets out of $0 eleption is quite well requires no good memory to recall the astonishing upward swing of grain prices hefore presidential election, the being for no | the last manipulated market other purpose than to fool farmers | into thinking now more need for discontented. |1t is astonishing that in this era of ! universal education and intelligence there was no el such tomfoolery can be worked — or that the public can be worked by such tomfoolery. Already grain ning to get firm.* ing told by organs in the west prices are beg rmers a grand as still are In such old party existence that farming is geiting more prosperous. It is being shown that the wheat growers of Kansas and the corn growers of lowa will | have more .money this fall than for | several years — and this probably regardless of the crops. The string- pullers have the situation well under control. In connection with neat contribytion 1o business in i zeneral, it is s the administration campaign to have made to order for us but the ! our prosper | | We enjoy it principle is doubtful. Here i3 how it works out and Democrats nevertheless, Should Insurgents the get control of Congress in November pulled in the will be a (he strings will be opposite direction, there plenitude © and “uncertainty” commercial disaffection, stocks no wlully — reflecting in Congress. | doubt will slip @ the lack of confidence well the 8l- old te. — and the wheels will be or u turnover in favor of grand wvorks, ELECTT STORMS (CTRIC LIGHTS that virt is a thunder storm in this vicinity, the ;0 out this has happened within ent memory st time was 1:30 morning, when we were having a time reading an Intervsting Worst of it was were in neat article the juice played out while we the middle of a sentence. Such incon- sidcrateness by the electric lighting company i quite inexcusuble | \ “The most plausible hypothesis to | outlined | ally every ( Friday =4 | One wonders what they do in the ' perced in this hospital when the lights go out? OY! what happens if some lusty infant just happens to be coming into the world at or about that moment. It must be a terrific time for the doc- tor and the nurses. For that matter, some up-to-date individual may be having his ap- pendix removed just at such a mo- ment and if the law is anything like it ought to be, the electric com- pany would be subject to damages for allowing the appendix to “come to light in the darkness.” High-power wires are strung all over this section of the state; we have sub-stations, transformers, ceal power plants, hydro-electric plants, and super-power arrange- ments generalln But what we need juice that never flops, regardless of wind, storms, halls, snow or rain, | Conditions simply will not be per- fect until the company improves the em sufficiently to stop the eternal blinking, winking and slink- ing lights during a storm. MELON CUTTING Rumors that the General Motors and the U. €. Steel would increase their dividends have been current for months. The time {s soon ripe when confirmation or negation of the rumors is to be had. Stock trad- ers have anticipated confirmation in heavy buying of these stocke, as well as some others. Both companies have been play- ing safe with their funds; so much for dividends and so | for a rainy day.| and | has gone mueh set aside numerous other corporations individuals operate upon the same plan, if they are wWise. The stock advance s symptoma- tic of the efforts being made this| year to maintain or increase b ness eonfidence. Yet nothing they do In Wall street have the slightest effect upen the man in the He lets stock market booms come and go, paying atten- tion to the box scores than to the stock quotations. | This is just as well. The average man cannot afford to take the risks to playing the market. will street, more incident i THE NEW CONSOLIDATION 1f the in obtalning complete control of the Michigan Central and the Big Four, the other minor not to mention lines it is after, it will become the be a neutral. | largest system in the country. practical purposes ”‘“1 and the Big Four of the New York For all Michigan C already are part Central; but techniealities are t they ntral nicalities, and in reality ar¢ not. One wonders why such a consol- idation was not brought about year ago, at th time the w York Central acquired control of the Lal Shore & Southern, present main stem to Chicago. its Michigan i COMMERCIAL ACCORD { IN BUROPE than a year sundry . magnates For french wnd German steel have been negotiuting. During that ! {ime the steel magnates of Belgium and Luxemburg Those in England held aloof. The Englishmen, in fact like the the prospect of increased competition. more jolned. don't tdea, seeing Now word comes from Paris that the 1 has been potentialities of completed. 1t ased upon will combination he Lorraine iron and Ruhr coal. Now include Poland, | | parleys are under way {o and steel makers and | no the iron Czechosloy trust. They of i, as cons of kia Austria in the have rcasen to remain out the possibilities for profit are der- | able. For instance.- prices will be fixed | in pounds sterling: a case of) ‘here’s what it costs, take it or} cave i sight. Nothing like price fixing. | foreign markets Prosperity 18 in helps prosperity The domestic and Wil be divided; each group will get ite quota; everybody will be happy. | nge- i some such a There hetween was German but and the ment French war, end of | possess- steel makers before French had the short deal, at that Lwrraine, where the not the nce has a fine time, iron ore ing { comes from. Now It chanee to figure as an iron and steel producer, in ‘spite of having to rely German Ruhr for Cf)\u“i i upon the and coal. | The time will egme when thej Britlsh will feel like The contimental to jack and sharing in the od thing. trust intends up prices in | the home market dump its surplus in the foreign join. market, if| England doesu’t By this time read England trust. will | the you next year that has joined Connecticut is exporting less did year, while is exporting | year than it Tast Magsachusetts IMigures don't lie, it is sald, but lh\-}'l} more. sometimes “act pecullar.’” That autolst who -passed the red signal at the Center and only got a the traffic cop, and will try it} whistle from didn’t stop anyhow then again and fare worse The abandoned bank aceounts re- perhaps have t ity New York Central succeeds '& { carpenter and | ly all the { White Oak are crowded and the at-| {doctors te been abandoned merely because none is large enough to make the first payment on a flivver, The extent of a heavy rain can be pretty accurately gauged by the extent the underpass near the Ber- lin station becomes impassable. ——— If the city cannot collect that 33 fee from plumbers, why mot call it a poll tax? Britain Herald, and your letter will be forwarded to New York. Factsand Fancies Our Little Friends BY ROBERT QUILLEN Ato; Alyays There! Summer’s sure here, days are long, {And all the old familiar throng: Mosquitoes, caterpiliars, bees, Haunt hammocks, benches, settees! The true radical i{s & man who had rather get mad than get re- sults, and You can tell a conservative. He buys pants of some fabric that will hold a crease. The Eternal Pastime “Is your wife through 2" Paig: | house-cl Those who failed in Florida have | A,,,,i;.'ff'\'.‘f 3 by this time resumed their former { T How failure at home. long has she The great enemy of truth is van- |y, Wa've. boen. Hamriieg 16 ity. You can't get right until you | admit that you're wrong. EISVID A HEARTE By Arthur L., Maslen |I wish the hardware merchants S i ¢ So m_adny people think they are |\would mind their own affairs. converte to a new idea when they |One sent my wife some letters have merely acquired & new pre- |Anhout his kitchen wares. judice. |And to each woman buyer Some recipes he gave. The wicked cause some trouble. |\yife tried -em all! T'm Tucky but most of life's unpleasantness is |phat I'm not in my grave! caused by people ~'ho mean well. 4 & | You should, have seen me eating And what amounts I stowed; 1t made my wife so happy Her features fairly glowed. | But soon, from so much eating Of puddings, ples, and kraut, I had such indigestion I thought I would pass out! Attorneys tell me frankly hat for my aches and pains I cannot sue this merchant Nor garnishee his gains. So hear my prayer, oh merchants! Ye have a heart, 1T wist; When sending out your letters, Keep MY wi oft your list! Foré . Mrs. Campbell: “Dr. Pierce, I'm going to ask you to ceomed more important FoAst. Since you are our most noted gixteen, |SUrgeon, you should be expert at it. Dr. Pie Better let your hus- band do it. He's a golfer, and is great atwsiicing.” George W A SUMMER RESORT TRAGEDY ® By Henry S. Kempf The sea rolled high. He had gone down time. What a pity. His wife stood but ten feet from him. She could not prevent his go- ing down. Her eyes were riveted on the spot where he went down. He came up again. Hope arose in her breast. Perhaps a chance to save him would still show itself. Suddenly he went down TH SECOND TIME Her heart was aching. She was becoming h; was her only support. loving husband! A kind father! Some boye find joy in life and others must keep up their piano les- sons all summer. will Jast a life showing friends old car enjoy Just any time if you what's in ‘er. istics show, however, that it is easier to save for a rainy day when the land is dry. A nickel to the old-fashioned boy of but adults didn' The great mystery of life is how the people who fill the all day manage to get a living. Léave insurance for t Then they needn't sell the get a better car. i McConnell. AOT family ome to for the first There's no such thing as “un. biased opinfon.” If he has brains nough to fcrm an opinion. he can't again. How does a committee of ladies terical. He ,ont on visiting a business man, un ingly select o day when he needs =~ A L shave? Liked by all in the community. own or of a progressive and profitable business, Y e e | He was just going down for the THIRD time, when his wife wildly amed: 'Walt Burnside, ¢f you go down that cellar ain for another drink, T'll take an axe an’ smash every bot- ile you've got down there.” rolled h . But of course that had nothing to with V t Burnside, for he was 200 miles from it! rried men get bored be hg ever happens, and red-headed women. The “strong” man deserves little calt if temptation doesn’t get him You can't set fire to a wet sponge, Some cause noth some marry Speeding: hopir > sen fellow Americanism ed cop will get that 1 by. who do about much formal ex Scratching s need vacation. You don’t creise on a nough. GOSH ' ) CAN'T REMEMBER EVER WAVING SUCH A PERSISTENT HICCOUGH BEFORE.! Our theory is that the foremen in hell are people who thought they had religion and yvet never helped anybody, (Protected by I 25 Years Ago Today Rev. L Tohnson will 1t the meeting of the First Christian Endeavor society cvening , Harmles wine, delicious, ance—divine advt carl J Taylor of Monday for river Mrs. George Eger of Chestnut sireet has returned from a visit to Milford Nipper Morgan and Harry ham recelved the prizes im the ama- | teur theatrical contest at Compounce | last nig iccided by the amount given each con testant wdicate) spe chur Sunday vater ref Williams sparkling as temper: root beer Harry leaye Hudron Youngblood Kensington points up Gra- On With the Dance! Ravimond: “I could die dancing.” Helen: s go!” Dickinson and —Gordon Vought. ng near Main street have been annoyed lately by noise of heavy. cups dangling against | the lron sides of the drinking foun- tain pipes at all hours of the night To offset this Mr. Dickinson hired a had a wooden bo bullt over the pipe. Now he sleeps in peace. The jubilee in the Catholic church will end on August I3 I'o do tF jubilee in New Britain, Catholics obliged 1o make one visit a day to e @ four churches—3t. |00 apout a less harmful dissipa- Mary's St ! Joseph's and b9 rirad & Chufohs ot *the ‘Sibred Heakt abjos e LY, DRUGEIKS Hy Sign: Jesus on Orange street. Severallwipoot brutes' hundred have already done this for i days, and it is believed that near- g, ., use they've little they can: call able-bodied ( 1olies will their own: onC this hifore tho tme X |A slikworm hasn't anything but silk, st & RS S|And what has a poor cow bufter- and the only Cathol ureh | milk " was the old one of St. Mary's on | tle street | . Che almost " I condition ot KRAZY KINDERGARTEN Main streat cve testifies to the (Conducted by Judy, Jr.) popularity of open air theatricals| regcher: “S8andy. did your anc: hare: A fow s 280 this was ot |tors reely come across in the Ma even thougl it now the ears 10 f frower Sandy Hair: “They did not—my ancestors were pure Scoteh and . were never known to come across on —— any provocation.” medical sclentist. Dr. Richard| Teetcher: “Cut t. has made it possible fOF |class and sippose record patients’ heart|with ‘Narcissus.' ! hents on gramephone recorde 0! Sandy Hair: that they can be sent by mall to “Curses and sorrow on peepul who tpecialists for diagnosis. I borrow, others IN KLASS AT KRAZY ROLLEGE (Conducted by Maxine) acher: “Mr. Sign, do you smoke arettes? v 8ign: v seldom, 1 not expert at it acher; “Don’t you use ny form Sign: “Yes, ma'am. My room- is a smoker, but I am a chew- wa madame, tobacco Hy mate er’ Teacher “I'll flunk you for that cracl, unless you can tell us some are very commonly so Lave done : Uhe pires —A. Nebbich. tendance thers nights s high as 1.200 some as out vou come swearing in across carve the | | compan —THE OBSERVER— On the City and Its People Makes Random Observations Preliminary skirmishing among|real thing. state democrats is reported in con-| “Crowded cities nection with tne announcement that | CHINNeYs belehing Attorney William E. Thoms of Wa-. |4t Might be blue it It were not for terbury will accept the party nom-|th¢ haze of soot that makes them ination for governor if he believes| S13Y. Thunder of trains and metors. he is wanted, Such a declaration fs| [i¢1d8 that would be beautiful it it usually accepted as an ncknowlcdge-i’]\\i"l'(;"m’l‘) oL ”j"“ ]q that they are ment of candidacy and the words ‘-‘ aen }‘:!gnu' ards, There might were hardly out of Mr. Thoms |°C0tten bemind th mouth befors New Haven leaders| L 1° Clfaretle With a Past' and began to plot to arrange affairs dif-| O1° MELL be able to sco Simon J.e- ferently, As a consequence of their| 5rc%5 VCAINE sluvee ML wore ot | planning, Thoms is to be eliminated | qep o 15 ‘_l‘fj‘“_ ’;“1,‘_{ e "[“'fi by allowing the nomination for|, o "5¢ “0) 17 Are AT UL IOT sheriff of New Haven county to 0| rphousands of s to Waterbury, Under the rules of | ottt dals politics, this would automatically | x,iroes mith bornle stiiped relegate Thoms to the. background. |4 croon ties, w e pec (el s and green tics, with tan shoes and Strength is given the foregoing| .4 goeks, with parts in their kmM‘ conjecture by the statement mede]y,ir ghaved with a rasor! Thel Thursday by Charles G. Morris of| | oracees with ha lastered | s s h hair plastered with | Newtown that he s willing to ac-| g5q40 grease in a despe ctfort to| cept the burden of running for gov-| ke it straight. Negroes that ernor on the democratic ticket 1n|cirneq enough durir e the fall. Morris was the nominee of |\ o the night hideous with the | the party two years ago in a cam-| ot of ten thousand player pianos | paign featured by passive resistance|,nq phonographs. Negroes that are| to the republican party resulting in|cnrming enough mow to keep four-| a victory for the G. O. P. Which|ieen thousand decrepit cars of the politicians had little difficulty In| paekard or Pierce-Arrow, 19 forecasting. Morris, it is thought.|models, gasping throug the strects. will have the support of the New| wpeopie rushing by. Humans cast| Haven lcad who are {ranklyin {he same mould that is found in| practical politicians and believe he|eyery large city. Southern courtesy | would contribute more to the War|on the street sars—'Get offa my x'uu:! chest than Thoms. It is with the{yarore I knock Faw of idea of putting Thoms out of the|,ayghts' ‘Fer goshsakes lemme running that they are talking of | oyita . wilya, this here is my sending the shrievalty nomination roi Worn I did too pay my fare, };." Waterbury. ig boloney.' ‘Aw, blow a tune, Thoms has many admirers in this| gislie, I got this seat first and my |city who are convinced that he|jogs ache. i would make a etronger candidate | id than Morris. The latter is reported | tered with signs |to be prepared to launch a vigorous|and Todging. Chicken Dinners. | mpaign for the oitice if he iS|Dancing and Dining—Abe Gold-| |elected, despite the fact that Mhestein’s Merry Men Orchestra. Hot | made little effort two years ago to| Dogs. ( e Air’ Tourists !win. Morrls is the son of a former| drinking soda on the verandas and governor and would like to step into | giscussing the best route to Nash-! |the gubernatorial seat onee occupied | ville. The constani roar of muotor: | by his father. {on the highway and byways Other names are mentioned in| “Women with paint daubed connection With the nomination, | their until they |among them. Burton K. Mansfield anty skirts and legs made | former insurance commissioner, and arlestoning. Conwer- | David E. FitzGerald, ex-mayor. of ure mostly, ‘n’ T tof New Haven. ' But of the colonel and | | nd the crinolined gen- | William —nothing at all. They| the vl m all gone on the stage and ain division of the Conncef into the movies.. All that is le who is observing his 2 i southern hospitality, service and atmos- | by the with factor you for a colonial mansions plas- that read, ‘Board on face resemble the | lewoman: ove Congratulations to an, superintendent of have s of southern courtesy, southern phere—shot full of the trans- | never ending rush and bustle. | of a cen-i “That’s real South—sorry to | tury ago in Hartfor: For a few have made you lose your ideal. ! {vears he was with the Springfield — tand stern road, running between chaos in | Springfield and Palmer, Ms put due to come before the {he soon returned to Connecticut We feel that it is really up to us to ] where he has remained since, When |show them the way out of what is {he first came to New Britain he was | rapidly becomning a situation unbear- |utility man and did everything from | able for the post office and the tired run cars to repair them at the trafiic ¢ Many strects should |barns. In that way he became, D¢ renamed, but what will they be | fami with the construction of | called after the changes? May not trolleys, knowledge whick has sfood|the new name be Worse than the Gt Bocd 'slenl He piit in sev2| o100 Gilofreyent (fild e ahall eral thonsand milés as a motorman, | Point our fnger unerringly ‘to tha Lecame dispatcher at Central park Solution. and was eventually promoted to su-| _Iirst. et | perintendent. are named. | Since becoming the “boss” of ¢he :l“n(‘”n“w“"x: l\’\'(rly ‘(Inl\\”x\) ‘mlfl?{z‘;ns_]h"hu.h‘;"m].!i\y:ll P O and so on. We were all cognizant | ReH Sota M ASuRt of Main street's existence before | ¢ clair Lewis fingercd a typewriter. point but “Rill's” friends in New 1 5 i i 4 Then there aré the tree streets; we | Britain set their minds at rest on o | the: aut N _ 2 have such as Elm, Chestnuf, Wal-| the subject. Nor was there envy il u¢ yyillow, Oak, Maple and Myr- the rtanks of motormen and con-|fio’ i \o"ind the geographical ductors when he was appointed.', o d! £ oncs, like Lake, Park, East, Cen- Ihey realized that he deserved pro- yor " oio The trouble with New motion and were the first to con- .4t 5 Britain is that it has a lot of park |gratulate him and offer their €0-', 4 cireets namers don’t scem to | | operation ? ! realize this. There also those _In his dealings with fwo famous metal streets, Gold and | Supt. Bryan has been b Iver; surely the corner of the He belleves that giving real, not |would be an adeal place for imitation, service is his job and he, papk! does his best to fulfill his obhliga ( tions to those who patronize the ghare of local lin There has not been }wlf’h a popular superintendent in the New Britain district for years. anniversary in raflway Istill going strong. | Supt. Bryan entered | portation game a quarte noles street names city fathers With the us consider how streets | There must be a Maln | with corres West Main, | whom to ap- the public, oadminded.’ men also come in for thelr | attention: witness Wash- ington, Lincoln, Lafayette, Madison, Monroe and others. Every city has |a corner of Washington and Ta- ! fayette. New Britain has also named streets after its own resi- | dents, such as Smalley, Stanley, | Jurritt and Dwight. Then we I | the college streets, Amherst, Prince- | ton, Yale, Harvard and Oxford, Yale being as short as the Eli bull- South, works | An, the romance of the that {dyilic spot where no ons d everybody plays. Ta it from | | the movies—it's a wonderful place.| | But the real south—well, a returned { traveler had the following to say of |it last night: {dog’s nose. There is also a group | “When most of us think of the|of Indian streets, Tunxis, Oneida. | South, we imagine like this: | em, Seneca and Uncas, and a “Cotton, cotton everywhe s of automobilp streets, Over- | | and acres and acres of cotton. And jand: Reo. Dodge and Ford. | negroes. Thousands of them. Sit-| Some other groups must be used ting at the door to their tiny shacks|when the new names are forth- | playing banjos, shiffling, eating| coming, if they ever are. Why not | watermelons, wielding razors andname them after comic characters | stealing chickens all day long. Every|like Barney Google and Salesman | blessed one of them named Rastus. |Sam, or ballplayers like Cobb and | Ruth, or murderers like Thaw and Citles composed of white mansio | with massive pillars and colonels Chapman, or vegetables lige Radish | | sitting on their verandas drinkingand Onion, or liquors like Bourbon | !mint juleps and smoking stogies. [and Old Crow? Why not? For Colonels with white moustaches and | plenty of reasons. What we need is | gos wearing black felt hats and | co-ordination in street names. Don’t { white lawn bow ties. Each with @ name each street separately, but let | soft mellow way of saying, ‘Yes sull, | the street names be related to each |al'd admire foh you to accept theother, ! humble hospitality that Ab‘ can| For¥instance. offuh you, suh.' All of these colonels combinations as the following: must be poor but proud. Their|Washington crossing Delaware |clothes may be frayed but their|Grant meeting Lee, Franc going | manners must not be anything but|sharply Downhill, String linking | pertect. | North Sausage and South Sausage. | “And the overscers—all of them | And. on a hill, Stock above Par and | with patent leather riding boots and { Bobby Jones below Par, Boy cross- ! heavy black moustaches and black-|ing Eyes, Suicide running off Dock, | #nake whips. Very handy with the | Recruit joining Army, Prodigal ! | Whips. these overseers—they must|leaving Home, Moses leading out of | lash at every negro they see, regard- | Egypt, Amundsen crossing Pole, less of what they're doing. Ladies, |Cleanliness next to Godliness, Dantc beautlful ladies, in old hioned | descending to*Hades, Suicide turn- | crinolines with soft s and brown |ing off Gas, Variable approaching | hair cofled at the nay of their |Limit, Life beginning at Birth, and | beantiful white necks. Soft laughter {ending at Death, Auto running into 50\1‘1‘ wide lawns and the plunk-!Pedestrian. Yoh might even be able plunk of the banjos from the negro|[to nAme streets after prizefighters quarters. That's the South we all [and thus Dempsey meets Wills. | imagine, 1sn't it? Take @' peep at the | Stll another scheme, which fs . used Dbelieve, in Cleveland, | would be to name the stree te ‘bor | the presidents in actual sequence, | beginning with Washington, Adams, 1iice " ta Sart - atabbine | Jefferson, and coming right down naybors start grabbing— | through Wilson, Harding, Coolidge. |But we can't find our knives an'| | Narcissus.” | Well might te numbered among —Bertha Cherwensky. |the pests. the indiviguals who carry Dt ol to the office of the mayer, grievances ki | —imagined or real—and proceed tor| First Flea: “Why so angry?" monepolize the time of the execu- Second Wlea: "I've been wasting |tive whose hours already contain time on a weo en leg." all too few mintites, and for whote -—Marie Braynstein. |attention othere who have an equal (Copyright, 1926. Reproduction |right to be heard. stand wajting in Forbidden) cres | let us have such we There's nuthing a missus; smart na We'd when smoke into skiesismells that approach the {that { not {boring d model. fenforced” g the | experiments {havior of chi | current phrase Politeness ~ prevents the mayer from inviting some of the callers to step aside and show a little regard for the rights of others; and besides it would be poor politics to do so. However, it will not be surprising if some day some occupant of the mahogany fitted office flies off the handle and heaves one‘of the whin- ers for the well-known touchdown! Admitted the Broad street would be a better highway if paved, that the Glen street dump does give forth noxtous, would not have his property if he knew he couldn't put in a gasoline sta- {tion, that more policemen in the north, or the south, or the east, or the west, would give better protec- John Jones {purchased ad for ‘Smoke ition—admit all thesg things and a housand more—but why go into the long, necdless, useless, tiresome and tails which very often in- stead of producing results have the opposite effect? One of the most needed rules for the conduct of city hall is a rigidly -rule that would shut off the flow of conversation loosed by these p However, such a situation borders too closely on the Utopian ever to be realized. Per- haps reports of increasing sales of the various hooks of etiquette hold forth some promise of relief. BRAIN FIBRES ARE MPORTANT T0 LIFE Scientist Brings Forth New Theory on Age w York, July 31 (P—"Only as in fibres,” may take the place of “a woman's as old as she looks,” and “a man's as old as he fecls,” according to new Jahora- tory evidence found by Dr. Louts Casamajor, professor of Neurology at the college of Physicians and Suf- geons. He is anat for old king and finding - “{he nical basis for human behav- in changes that take place in developing brain. Using kittens, rats and guinea pigs at first, his ex- periments have now reached fthe point where he is studying the be- havier of babies In relation to the development of the m n, or tissue surrounding the nerve fibres of their brain. Different Ages At Birth Among other things he said his have shown are Is ave not the same age s born merely “All anima when they a “Birth is life. “Rats an incident tn are young embryos when {they are born, and are quite helpless or several weeks. e Kitten remains helpless for a ittle over a week. “A colt will walk around and fol- low its mother after twenty minutes. uinea Pig the Oldest “The guinea pig is probably the oldest thing in the world when it born. It runs rapidly, sees per- fectly and will start eating cabbage after five minutes, and will fight in- terference, he guinea pig is so old when it is born that it has already shed its milk teeth before birth, and at birth is beginning to show senile chanmes.” The brains of the animals studied showed development of the myelin |in proportion to the development of their behavior. Moving pictures, slow motion flash der Dr. Casamajor's direction. and when run off before the psychi trists, showed these differences. Pho- ographs of brain sections showed the corresponding development of the myelin. The Kkitten, blind at birth, has no-myelin about its optie nerve centers, little development about the nerve of locomotion, and Aepends almost solely upon the de- velopment of it hearing and feeling The rat, which is utterly helpless at birth, has no myelin in its nervous system at first. The guinea pig is completely myelinated at birth, with normal and s, were made un- nerves. “Act Your Age” “The human infant comes some- where between the rat and the kit. ten in its age at birth,” d Dr. Casamajor “Man at birth is not the oldest nor the youngest of the ani- {mal kingdom. We are now studying the he. ren, noting carefuily the exact ages at which a fresh be. havior characteristic appears, ~and then, when we get the chance, see. ing what change in the brain ae- companies this age's new powers. The future will have to tell what may be the applications of this new knowledge of the march of Wehavior linked to the brain fibre growth, ac. cording to the investigator. .For the present the colloquial mouthed public may content itself with a broader conception of the Act YourgAge."” Observation On The Weather July 31.—Forecast Cloudy fair, part, Washington, for Southern New England: Saturday, nday *probably somewhat warmer in east t for Eastern New York: fair Saturday and probably not much change in tem- Mostly Sund perature. Conditions: The tropical disturb- ance is advancing west-northwest- ward over Mississippi and Arkansas with gradually diminishing intensity. The pressure distribution has been attended by general showers in the southeastern states and by local thunder showers in parts® of the middle Atlantic states mpera- ture has risen in the middle Atian- tic state Partly cloudy w vail during the next two days over the states east of the Mississippl river and local showers are prob- able in the lower Ohio valley, and the southern part of the middle Atlant es both Saturday and Sunday in the northern part of the middle Atlantic st The tem- perature will not change materially. her will pre- A junk dealer in Stockholm has bought 80 fons of war-time coins The government minted $108,130 in amall fron pleces during & shortags ithe hall 'nr copper. BB