New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 3, 1926, Page 8

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RED CROSS CROSSES ¥ THE LINE Satisfaction must reign supremc in the minds of many citizens fol- lowing the announcement that the Jted Cross campaign in this atter threatening to flop, has turned out to be the annual success. A week ago the situation looked gloomy, with nothing in sight but & radical curtallm‘:nl of Red Cross activitles. Announcement that t would result apparently citizens to renewed etforts, and in Jhis column a little dynamite was set oft in order to help the good spur cause along. Now comes the gence that all is well and the amount required was raised or in sight. Offictals of the drive are to be commended for their efforts to maintain the honor of the city in connection with this humanitari endeavor. Judging by the statist the industrial plants co-operated beau and commercial ally, zens generally took a hand whe ster threatened. ¥ down a can sit t a perfecto or a wh old 1l ourselves the ol story tr v Britaln never forsakes a com- mendable cause, THE RAIL WAGE DECISION Rallroadg of the east, which have n enjoying, more prosperity than far a decade—although their come with a few exceptions has no vet passed the government allow- ance of what is considered a fair retrn on investment—learned to- day that the arbitral award in the wage dispute went a though 1 whereas 19 per cent was agked. by only 7 1-2 per cent, This is a compromise. The 91,000 | men on 50 railroads affected prob- ably asked more than they expected 10 be Does anyone care to maintain that it would not be the duty of citizens of Berlim to communicate with the | New Britaln fire department any- how, in spite of party lines and ab- | sent omctals? Does anyone care to claim because of a technicality the town is to be allowed to go up in smoke? It Berlin is to be all bound up in ‘V.hf: woolen string of techincalities such a thing is possible. But we | rather think that something will be done about it by the progressive citizenry in order to avold just such | a possbhiity. | TURNING TO LIQUOR IN ONTARIO Last of the Canadian provinces to | turn ita back upon prohibition, On- taro is now to try a system that in | its details closely approximates the method dispensing sales of liquor in | Quebec. . The province @has had three §ple\n£m'nvs upon the liquor question | since it adopted war-time prohibi- }uon. The fact that the firstresulted {1n a substantial dry victory, the sec- ond In a dry,victory by reduced ma- | joritles, arid the third went wet by an overwhelming vote | oughit to, clearly indicate the trend | ot the times. trical ~ business—particularly the moving picture business—on the | boulders has been indicated by the |large number of new and vast | theaters that have been constructed at that time. 4 | In New Britain we have had the and added to our galaxy of film | purveying, with the others remain- | ing right where they were before, :nppon]lng to the multitude and gét- { ting thelr share. of public attention. | In New York the Paramount was | opencd lalt week, and the Roxy is| |8-8-8-5-s-darn other past grands present was M. D. StockweM. The New Britain Gas Light Co. advertises gas radlators for $1.50 to $4.50, They will heat any room in 20 mintues. Factsand Fancies BY ROBERT QUILLEN Nolse indicating blow-%ut: “Pow- Seven-word example of small-talk: “Are you married?” “That's my nearing completion. A month or 5o | K0 the new Academy of Musle was | opened—all three being “enormously | | large” film theaters. | The same news trend is noted in | | scores of other cities. In the amuse- | ment business it is simply one new theater after another. This 1s a good sign, & good de- velopment. It means that radlo is | not damaging the purveyors of pub- lic amusement like jt was expected at all. The people who turn the dials | still attend the theater, and must be attending them quite ax fre- quently as they did before. " Varfety 1s the spice of life—or would, or|rather, remains the spice. It seems that millions like to “listen in,” but |ty do not care to be occupled to do. Perhaps it is not damaging it | Ontario has not voted for the re- | thusly all the time. When they think turn of the saloon, but for govern- they “go ment sale and regulation of the!to the show.” traffic. It was found that the pro-| The theatrical men really have hibition system didn’t prohibit, but ! nothing to worry about. Their pro- made of the province a gold mine | vender is a stable product in the life for bootleggers. Even the rural dis- | tricts for the most part got tired of | being, improved—according to Will it. | Hays, movie czar—the appeal to the { At this distance it looks as if the | public will Increase rather than di- | s¥stem to be adopted will be as close of “somcthing different” to the ideal as it 1s possible to get. | New Britain, where the films we are To obtain liquor citizens must have | | government permits, and they must | minute. | obtaln it through government con- | Radio has done something for the trolled places of sale. Drunks and | pubiic through the theaters. It has thosg who make & nuisance of |put the moving picture interest on themselves, or who figure in police | their toes to please; it has spurred of the nation, and as the films are| minish. This is notlceable right in| having ‘are new and right up to the | pleasing intelli- | - | without being st them, al- | cases, will lose their permits to pur- chase liquor. It is idle to say they will be able to obtain 1t from boot- leggers or clsewhere, as the opera- tion of law in Ontarlo is upon a | much stricter basts than in this side | of the international line. | them to meet the air competition with improved performances, improved everything. | That is how the film business has | won its victory. The screen men are to be com- | mended for not taking a licking lay- | business.” “Bigamist!" The virtus for -which man gives himself sole credit usually is the re- sult of a steady job. Doubtless there are days when the King of Italy knows just how |useless an adenold \rceln The Venus de Milo couldn’t have won any beauty contests. She didn't |show her legs. people might the The antl-cigarette get results by encouraging growth of inflammable whiskers. | % A man {sn't down until he has |fallen so low that a luncheon club |won't invite him to speak. | When money talks, it {says: “Turn loose, little one, there's big boy calling me, Eventually, to escape notice, ban- |dits will invent guns that won't pop |but howl like a pedestrian. { e Mexico used to think only Texas she ha |could fight, but doubtless {heard of Herrin now. In every town there is at least one man who never scems to lose public confilence no matter how many times he robs the people. Marie an women are the happiest in the world. Ahem! Well, we husbands are a pretty de |cent sort. theaters, improved | As a rule, it isn't mere success a jman craves, but the privilege of ge |ting ahead of somebody he doesn't | like. in street car.” offered her “Woman falls dead Doubtless some man a The provinces of Canada now pre- | ing down. When they saw the new seat. sent a picture of varfed liquor laws, each probably thinking it has | the best system, yet all centering more or less in government control of the traffic, with the so-called competition looming they met it in | | the most logical manner; and thus! they kept the public on their side. | No squawks are any longer heard ® | about “radio competition.” | American saloon nowhere ifi sight. | RIANGLE PARK WELL KEPT Park board, which hs juri at the tr the monument at the diction over the green angle around Center, gave t T manner in which the greem has been s plot particular at- tention the past year. The splendid looked after did not create as much of a sensation as the Hall-Mills mur- der mysfery, but Jt did not go un- noticed. Anyone passing the Center in too much of a things could not have failed to notice that a good urry to notice such effort was being made to keep the | place looking like an oasis of good | cheer within the city’s business dis- trict. | Theflower bed cultivated along the West Main the monument through | the summer without belng intertered | | with by street gamins street side of actually went or others. TO STOP TIFI'S Child="n are necessary to keep a home tng we told. C« g nnot get along together” a way| find ffect of p;m»i irg upon their progeny. | There 1s'the case of Charles #hile in the film | graduated from the .role of a pl crust thrower and big feet wiggler to roles frequen when they weigh the Chaplin, who requiring more sumlo] humor and perhaps some drama. | Charlie’s second wife has left | | him, taking her two youngsters; left ‘his 40-room mansion with its Rom- an baths and artistic bric-a-brac; {left the day following a party given there tn honor of a and { baroness; lert husband | was fll- | baron because | Charlie, 80 she claimed, | treating her. Much as we admire so-called film I("mnody we cannot find a way to are frequently | Things change little. Tt was re ligion that caused the second man in the worldgto kill the third. Of course you know that ships have knees. Yes, Indeed; they get first consideration. ship is called “she.” the the between r and nee If he doesn’t notice when she calls him “Honey” in jublic, they have heen marricd less than six months or year! ntence: “T've taken ' sald he, “and improvement, Correct this nly three d really notice the ad said. (Protected by Publishers Syndicate) Observation On The Weather orecast for Increasing ‘Washington, Dec. 3.— Southern New England: cloudiness, not so .cold tonight; Saturday rain and warmer; vari- able winds becoming fresh, possibly strong south. Forecast for Eastern New York: usually | That is why | Just % | Serid all communications to Fur Shop Editor, care 0f the New Britain Herald, and your letter will he forwarded to New York. L. A Welcome Giftt To Christmas desk sets, bright- and new, Our query’s why not cheer sets, too, I"fn-holders, yes and mirthe wells, Folks, ok | And humor’s blotter for the jokea! | Found! [ He moved closer to her on the sofa, “I'm looking for some. little fairy to make my life worth living,” he sighed.. “Well, you're sure up against it."” —S8unny. HUMORESQUE . Pet Peeves I'mildly sneer At Philip Stroop; He gets his coatsleeve In the soup. —Charles Hansen. . e I loathe old G. Alonzo Freet; | Ke yells at me Across the street. —Orville Jones. | T Ask But Litde | The wonderful comfort a home can | glve Is something I now pursue— |A woman who'll serve me my breakfast meal, My lunchgon and dinner, too, | { | | | | who will prove to | * | | T long for 2 girl | me | Her love is a thing devout | By firing the furnace on 1 days And taking the ashes out! —C. Warden La Roe, e e | No Fair! [T work, and skimp, and pinch, and | slave, (The world is tough, yoy said it!) 0 buy a stack of Christmas gifts— Then Santa gets the credit!! ugene Gruenthal. winter | 1 | i | | | llked! # | | Irate Housewife: “Milk sixteen | cents a quart? That's outrageous, sir! Why, my good man, when I was | | ¢ Birl T paid five cents a quart.® | | Milkman: “Yes, mum. And when | | you was a baby it prob'bly didn’t | | cost you anything. But times change, | lady.” | rion E. | e BEGINNING TO WORRY Burns. By Paul T. Goebler i “You and my son run around to- |.gether quite a lot, don’t you?' ask- | | Mr. Brown, anxlously. J‘ “Sure, quite a bit,” nodded Young | | Jones. “why?" | The older man drew something | from his pocket. “Here’s a eigar for |my son," he whispered. “Don’t let | him know where it came from.” | _The next day Brown again | Young Jones. “Some ciga met | the young man's a; | Then he walked ¥ | On the day following, they met | |again. Brown was nervous. With | ilrvmming fingers he pulled out a | small parcel. “Some smoking tohac: ¢o for my s he faltered. it to him, but keep quict about it | “Say!” Jones demanded. “What's the idea of all this? Your son doesn't | smoke—please explain yourself.” | “When the lad was ten years old,’ | Brown groancd, wiping the perspira- | | tion from his brow, “I promised him | $1,000 {f he wouldnt smoke until he | v, | Kind to Relatives “You must have been dreaming about one of our relatives last night, my dear,” sald the Littlé Wife. “‘What makes you think that, honey?” + *You were talking in your sleep. You must have been walting at the railroad station, for I heard you say, ‘There's my aunty.’ " inifred Sprague. ) . S ~ Floriculture “My husband is very liberal with his flowers. He is speclalizing in raising dahlias. He must have pro- miged 'some to a friend of his.”” “What makes you think s0?" “Why I heard nim talking in his Reason for Holding Bronson: “I held some good hands last nigh Burroughs: “I didn't know you were playing cards.” Bronson: “I wasn't. [ was out autoing with a girl. We parked in a qulet lane, and the hands I held were hers—to keep them from pull- ing my hair out.” —Ellis Kinnucutt. (Copyright, 1926. Reproduction Forbidden) Curve Is Removed From Nose of Foothall Star Providene, R. I, 8 P—Paul Har- sleep last night and he was saying, |tackle on Brown's undefeated team ‘I'll raise you ten.'” —Mrs. Eva Weld. of “Iron men” emerged from the ether clouds at the Rhode Island vey Hodge of Keene, N. H., right| T : | hospital here last night and asked, “Is my nose straight, huh?” He wae assured’ -that the member was | straight, a curve put into it in the recent unpleasantness against Har- vard having been removed by a sur- geon who transferred a plece of bone from one side of the nose to {the other. | 0 400. HORSES SOLD New York, Dec, 3 (#—The 32nd {01d Glory sale of light harness ! horses, conducted anpually here | found approximately 400 horses | changing hands for a total of $334,« The auction closed yesterday. 2250 Records and regulations of the American ‘ Automoblle Association are now officially recognized by the | International Automobile authorities. FREE PHONE SERVICE-FROM NEW BRITAIN WigeHmith § CHRISTMAS SAVINGS CLUB°CHECKS CASHED HERE CALL 1580 HARTFORD Now Ready for Holiday o. InNe. 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Tomorrow is his cold tonight with possible enow in| { twenty-first birthda | north portion; Saturday rain and| | warmer in south and rain or snow | in north portion; colder in extreme | north portion Saturday; fresh| | southerly winds. | Conditions: Pressure continued | | to rise over the New England states | | during the past 24 hours, and tem- | | peratures were somewhat lower this | morning in the North Atlantic| states. ‘The north Pacific disturb-| ince of vesterday moved rapidly | outheastward and centers prevail | over Oklahoma and California. Temperatures are higher in the cen- | tral valleys as for east as the west- | | ern portions of the middle Atlantic | state: in contin- | sympathize with the husband in this giving atten- | domestic jam. Tt anything, we are flowers upon | of the depre railreads will swallow their opposi- | naily that it is no use tion and pay $14,500,000 more than "tion to th inclined to be censorious, ot = | they have be at both t satisfied can be deduce on paying. ir pren What is thicre about film-starring sides must be some- tions of hoys g plain thieves, no that makes ‘em get that way? THE SA‘MF, GIRL WHO USED T0 BE ABLE TO BUTTON HERSELF uP THE BACK, NOW SHAVES HER OWN NECK. * from [ doubt. will ba surprised to learn | that the city’s flowers at the monu- | 25 Years Ago Today e announcement of officials of th smeridan Railway Express comy ment went through the season look- and leaders of express worker ons that Yhey too would arbit wage dispute of more un-'ing as beautiful at the finish And as at te a | the middle of summer. they Motion Play grass ¢ pictures of the Oberammergau the the exhibition will d songs, included d. Kindly Passion will e cht. The consist “Beth- Light,” and a year's were The roteworthy all there. ot own at ot duration. This announcement camse tention P given to vight after railroad arbitration | is rhaps some people rd was announced.and will er the gr 5,000 men. “verbaten” signs ur “Holy City."” : so greatly in the mip- When the hired Wells' place in the hi ery set up by the railroad. nen i new a tic achin- man at L. § anley Quarter went out to milk the cows at 4 a. m, he e »en the door to his and = rear door to the| When he returned $30 worth eg had been stolen. No- entering the place partics under rea of high pressure in the Canadian northwest s causing lower | | temperatures along the border from ' | Minnesota to Montana. | Conditions favor for this vicinity her with rising Yempera- ! ture followed by increasing cloudi- | [ e KRCHITECTS WOULD AID Americans are Anxlous to Preserve | \d their no particular damage is ‘ had its first t ‘he two to- eutral members of the had the board, rep public he most influenc that both The fact |t coping up p in it s are | lic are ndicates | in go to the Moody has sold aple street the Dotter vantage e city hoard, fied nobody an > make And Restore Nured Church of St.! From Our Own Infant-ry Dirll Regulations Mrs. Marshall believed in giving her child object lessons from the practical things in life They were in the butcher shop. and the butcher was pounding a steak Now. darling,” all, *do you k r is doing “I guess he's answered Wa . planted HYPOTHETICAT B QUESTION LIN the clergy | gophia at Constantinople. | anted to see if the show had A | Dr. Hall, D. C., Dee. 3.—(P)— American architects are planning to i in restoring the Saint Sophia church at Constantinople, one of the architectural masterpieces of all time. Washington, heard on and the he snow over said Mrs. Mar- r into I what the but- I governme church’s restoration witl 0 capital was disclesed at the annual meeting of the dirce- tors of the American institute of Prof. Emerson H. Switt of Co- L university reported that the | rown with vegetation parts of it had fallen | some of the frescoes, | Irishn mosale decorations, dating from | de¢ . have not been harmed, ! church was originally bullt by stantine but was destro dur- ¢ reign of Justinian, who re- built 1t A proposul to ent tions with the Tu ch for the ing his chops,” Ameri . Line busy! 3 Ve chosen offi nigh cer of Wood was nam- at | Another . Kruse. RADIO HAS NOT HARMED MOVING PICTURIS 1t home Ifrst s time 11 1 another. Also he season A. this Resolved 1d en. by more than a year (A3 the Fun®shop Joke F. Discovered It) “You gave your seat to a poor old last night, didn't you, : ctory + is not busy | ago when theatrical in over were roof wa re- The H vol r the wire woe regarding cal at he is out and 1's theatri gate an H RIBOIDE “Why, no. What makes you say | her official is it i negatlve, . B, etely on | th hers. 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Arby And how other I'un Shop confribu tors play the gam:— D b begins eating up ne How chaplain, hulldings. the radio has put the thea- o it PSP TO A CARD AND SNAP IT UP YOUR SLEEVE. AS BRIDGE CANT BE PLAYED WITH A SHORT DECK, THE EXPERTS HAVE TO SPEND THE EVENING HUNTING FOR THE MIsSING CARD Qpyright, 1926