New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 17, 1927, Page 6

'New Britain Heral HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY Tesued Dally (Bunday Excepted) At Herald Bldg., 61 Church Btreet SUBSCRIPTIOR RATES $8.00 & Year. $2.00 Three Montha 75c. a Month. work is not in contemplation. The Foot Guard do not use dynamite, 75's or poison gas, and the governor is not sufficient of a General Persh- ing to lead an expedition into the| neighboring state to set it right. No| towns will be occupied nd no| neutral zones established. The Republican holds forth a 1»r('-| cedent for the Nutmeggers to follow |if they have the courage or are im- | Entered at the Post Office at Naw Brituin as Socond Class Mall Matter. TELEPHONB CALLS | Buainesa Office Editorial Rooms i | The only profitable advertising medium | in the City. Circulation booke and pri room always open to advertisers. Member of the Associated Press. | The Associated Press fe exclusively en-| titled to the use for re-publication of all news credited to it or not otherwise Ccredited in this paper and aleo local zowa published therein. Member Audit Bureaun of Clrculation. The A. B. C. s & pational organizatio] which furnishes newspapers and ad tisers with a strictly homest anaiysis of | clrculation. Our circulation etatistice are based upon this audit. This ineures protection againe: frand o newspaper Qistribution figu.es to both mational and local sdvertisers. The Herald ts on sale daily in New York at Hotaling's Newsstand, Tim Bquare; Schultzs Newsetands, Entrance Grand Central, 42nd Street. | —Do not forget to feed the birds. | eks ago an Ameri bureau did record-! | ment at the bued with an adventurous spirit. Tt} is pointed out that Canadian resent- ersion of waters should flow | through in | ai which nature intended . John's river resulted through nada wrauding partis has twice within the last dition, angered at the diversion by Maine One such expel paper companies, which forced the | waters to flow down the Penobscot, | dynamited the dam on Chamberlain | which prevents water from and thence the St lake, flowing into ¥ lake, other lakes into through John. Even be We are precedent will Conn believers in such a scorned in ut. strong law and order, and the dynamiting of dama on the | Swift and Ware rivers is not to our | such tactics are only | The the ation returns to what it was previous the iking. Besldes, momentarily successful. dams | usually are repaired and situ- | | | to marauding expedition. thing for Connecticut to do | is to make a treaty th Massachu- s settling the water diversion problem. A clause in the federal con- stitution permits this. Western states are trying to act under it relative | of the waters-of the Colo- | lo river. Connecticut and Massa- 1ould find it easier to get | | together. The Foot Guard need never ! g0 to war over the matter, nor will | seventh birthd olstead 1 1 players ta ing a turn with otl this is a free country. omethi g at the 1 Jand prospérity: Now, aceo municipal extrav lways seems to t bark ing to a | speaker, this tler of states is P is roug better where the traveling speaker could do no study New Britain's low tax system. i than | A NEW SWIMMI AT All honor, and a check reading 500, will go to a young Canadian of 17 years who succeeded in swim- Tir the 22 miles of waters separating Catalina island and the mainland of south George Young, of was the lad who turned and’ the fact that 101 others failed testified to the ra Cali- fornia, oronto, the tri to reach the goal difficulties he 1t was a grand sho by William Wrigley, hand in o many enterprises that | playing daddy to a marathon came. to him by way of a littie re- surmounted. . sponsored who has his m laxation. We hope a first class thrill out of it SETTLEMENT , ing poss Nicar ULTIMATE American rines sion of both coasts of and steadily one town after the other, forming taking many neutral zones that in a short time fhe entire country will be “neutralized,” it appears nothing is in sight except the reign of Presi- 1929 to be when new held, dent Diaz until clections are unless Senator 1 Arbitr tion is adopted, lik 1 the marines remain there th until that time, and election is allow- ed to be an the Conservatives, will y whipped at the pol It doesn't re that uire a realize nothing has so aided the Libe party, t of pat as American intervention mainter servative party in p: Nicar: eral. Th losing ad It could have aid of the Un only wa years, itical debacle Nicar they And the more Ke storm of State majority. FOOT GUARD Whether T will be n PEAC it Governor Trumbull to | Guard from Hartford dyn hich the T the Swift river Governor Trumbull ever need to di- ilities from an acroplane. BINGHAM'S MONROEISM The Bingham is that chief weakness of ena has been too nuch of a writer, speaker, explorer. He is in a position where he cannot make a remark upon any subject | without giving his opponents an op- portunity to refer what he sald upon the same subject previously. As sucs change with the tides, it is dif- ficult for the Connecticut senator to 1 the same position for any th of time. The upon himse it the leader in | senator has taken to be the junior maintaining in the to admistration senate, Seizing an op- leader in Mr. 1f portunity ome a something or other is one of Bingham's scintillant tendencies, leadership of a sort is n witling to forego preparation of his public speech upon stat in order to take the wheel in the vehicle About aking over th new of publicity. the first thing he did in administration lead- ip in the Senate respecting the Nicaraguan scenario was to say| something to the effect that unless the United States protects the na- tionals of otk gua, this great nation would have to abandon its Monroe Doctrine. The difficulty of leading the ad- countries in Nicara- ministration forces in the Senate is that t opposition has better lead- senalor Borah, for in- | Dorah knows his Bing- \ senator ham Idaho Bing L a few biting words the ferred to Senator rhe Monroe Shibboleth,” am'’s book, * Doc- —an Obsolete tun- When | to be the the 1tor Bingham is an oppc is for Bingham portunity spokesman in Sen y is or not 8 thinking of | - for being prominent. he re is not certain—he ws the opportuni Unfortunately, the’ administration doesn’t conform with his pre- viously written book; but perhaps he hoped would remember he had ev rohody written ft. TERMINALS FOR TROLLEYS AND BUSSES improy thorougt result s being dor We T ne in tere | there will be a gar: | teder: [ and the South Shore Interurban line. A building permit, calling for an in- | vestment of $200,000, was issued yesterday to the Insull interests, which control the two transportation lines. The station, to height, will be 60 wreng direction, anywa Americ a scandal tomorr nism: today; be two stories in by 90 feet and : with a front- Never yunds ik sn't any fi ar e of 140 feet. Buildings | seem reason less the of A second interurban comy he city already has its own termi aim is to got p! sh while waiting for cars and cars are parked between trips. Thi where engers are tere he) Prosperous times which ody ear in fact, is the universal practice in |body steals from t the west. The people and authorities never seemed to | worry whether such terminals would | civie have cost the companies money to con- | st t and to maintain. So far as the city referred to in he clipping is concerncd, it is only | Britain. peopl the | trolleys and moter coaches number | way to by one-third as large as New : s a chaw in his 3 to he The number of using, who 1 A cause scc & N jast argument v hereabouts. The | yignts, but a fraction of those traveling in such conveyances streets are not remotely ted during rush hours as th as con- e It will be a long hefore logic is more eff: | 5 | ctub in defining human . he What 1s needed in Connecticut is a state law forcing all troll ahd| The T | dom to conquer and other loy o wouldn' He fisn't s hold lipi use terminals in ywa al a necd- bus companies to the cities. This would cl vil and bring abo ninate growing ed improvement, 1% hristmas picture ena the BARTER AND SALE OF | FEDERAL OFFICES e The most important addition to the | Coproct thi the sentence: statutes dealing with patron- | bre the of the| two your finge Copyright 1927, P yndicate age evils since civil pass: 1883 dent Coolidge a | service law in were s signed by P Nl s ago, yet they received vir- | tually no public attention whatever. | e reason for this failure of th spotlight to shine upon the bills was | due he generally accepted fact | to the house that federal patronage no longer is | (} itract having in the public mind. People Curtis, but it is. I'he that it wiil as the one rented The members of th dder C 1 held evenin St Wi missioner John Boyle, Boyle, Alfred W. Curtin, Chief En pest et D no aut an issuc have taken it for granted; they know 0 be the “ins” have that a bulky political ever through the exercise patronage”—which is the distribu- L. No. tion of federal jobs—but they have been under the erroneous impression that the civil service law pretty well the bad features of the nee eliminated trical department G Foreman R. M. Dame, James J. Rutled and Jar an W. H. Scheu, Chief of City Cler} Georg system. In else it would not ry for Congress at its last s ident to | this they ave been Wwrong, have been neces ssion S to have passed and the Pr Police W, AT Young © Dyson read a pa the Dy have signed the two me The, the purchase and sale of federal of- he first prohibits the payment, two new I are aimed at was fic solicitation or receipt of money for the purpose of procuring a govern- Goeorge H. Dyson, Rich: rtnett, lad a William 1 adbent, William I O} ne Ba n, Victor Da Killiourne appointment. John Y second requires the filing every per son appoin <on, to - federal stating t Recor, Chamberl and J. W. sul E. W ay's prope hristian T chi.‘ The crib ither he nor anyone in his behalf paid for the appointment. No salar is due until the affidavit has been filed. Corruption in connection with pos- tal appointments in Mississippi and | S arolna inspired the fir; South Carolna inspired the fi U svaike Toden & The sccond act was made n S la ihe Eaniford Tod ional com- | Capitol Cit Trving Carter is ill ened afttack of fever Howard TLaField Bridgeport for a few Toon I s now a for ary because, as one CONgre this eveni mittee member said, “it has gotten to be almost the custom in some of the southern states to levy tribute upon men seeking federal appoint- | ke . sort fishermen ments But on December 17, signed the two six days aft- | st g caug er the President X b men's {ools men were watching was on duty, A Herald about the t 1 was informed thy v hec inated 1 n new laws, S of Georgit offered a n investiga- tion of “the national committee Republican is y in the state of Georgia has en- d awy watcl in the barter of federal of- ha or of his influence in respect |t cou fice to such offices. One can comprehend how e barter and sale of federal of south would flourish. The be the a mere hypoer officials of the grand the continuing the prac- ure if i W for South h cannot b iington, rn N old part sov in from Tt is to be hoped the barter and pra sale of gederal appoint where; if 5o, the rely sub rosa. Tuesday ra south and probably sn colde Tu i Conditions sure pre aind n then prevails tario N o y. ing outraged by being bored lady vamping a p it rings in state me, even yet, | a of freedom do. Courage s that high quality that | vyou to place in th Aunt Ida gave | vouth of 25 Years Ago Today is being Hadle Carlton, Superintendent of t Thompson. IForeman ¢ comp s H. Thomas, driver and Fred V w 1 now ing stolen n't Observation On The Weather nd o south by it | Tt} and she un- out of ma-| | nd all communications to Fun | ! Shop Editor, carc 0f the New Uritaip Herald. and your letter | | will be forwarded to New York. | Time to Change Its Si me, We'll Say January's grown to be A month of bills we groan to see, Let’s change its name and all be merry Throughout ary! the month of Cheeru- A Good Anesthetic | Moore (patient): “W mouse doing in your office Dr. Pearson (dentist): “Oh, he's a valuable pet. The women always int when they sce hin and I pull | their tecth while they're uncon- scious.” You man safe, mouth, nearing its } UGH! UGH! UGH! ective than a rights. 6 Boresome Boreas | This kind of -weather aly free=1 o make a hit with me; kick the covers off at 12 And to death at Arthur Torster t enjoy trong enough | ¢ colony a Ay By Me | long, Bill Stump will be play- | ing | A new kind of poker in Hades; | iis sap (whom I yearn to be - ing) | Refers to three queens lad ash can o5 - | “Ah 192 as three | | e | . Kerns | ublishers T —C. T Androcles and This Lion i to take the worthless life | ndrocles G. Hoople-Blaine; | atient wife ‘ ys, “The ball (\ntl‘ | [T1 | Of A | Tn mention | He built, en a rded will tell | horitics are burned down this week, Hook and L smoker last FFire Com- Alfred W, y, and John r John W. Health h Alexander Bucephe 1 that it hurts my dig r T hall him with, how are you?" thinks T am asking a questio —Alexander H. Griswold . . And How! like everything one 50 b Wheney Te I hate baths And re L. M. Cowles, Edith orge Cooley Rose 11¢ Herbert: “I saved a girl's life That lives; : | | | | | ly? How? id she'd nd I Mi “Did you re Why, st 1 marry m Ralph. 1 rer dic t go at tf toastmaster he per on “Co partment the perio chlin —L. A. Wi BONNIE ANNIE LAURIE (A Fun Shop Drama) In Three Acts o1 Goorge rmen Theo- Tul Yorter Act One e in Aberdeen, corge Seof ther seated.) IFergus: “Annie, ye're a guid lass | and T wouldna think o' hurtin’ ye're | clin’s. But T dinna like the young ugene vis, hosemen, 1d 1 that's eallin’ on ye. Annie: “Well, don't worr: won't see him for a while the mumps team in the You | He's got Act : The same. Two Annie and her iin A at the fire.) “Annie, suid lass, will ye to : re hairpin till T loosen | \o tobacco in this pipe a wee r a threat- up bit 2" Annie: “Why anyhow? worite re- 1 come good do you pack ht heing the while M ar man inquired chitd! 1 filled it work- on’t pooch. But so fine ctheart is coming town ol r sw he had the “I thocht about over ¢rs had been catgh any- | them.” | Act Three The same. Time, a little Ter mes in, find- ted on the knee of , her swectheart.) Hoots, toots! Tuggin' in't Mon, mon! What if ye s the mumps!” ‘Il tell you, Mr, Laurie, T'll pay the you a five- (S lo later, ene wl s O ‘vvw ames Deer nd ki gave the la James: Torecast | 1¢ T give her the m Cloudy | goctor bill esday. | por does give the atch an- 1 1ps, will ye probal portion v to- | warmer in | in north | night; | south- | 1 SEEN YR DROP YER WINDSHIELD LADY! ow over On- | with a con- | cssure be- | h pres- At Pr i border LIMERICKS—CHARGES | zone of the American Expeditionary | named after one of the “lucky dolls | so succe; | or to rules or principles | pared to the A rather tall fellow named Burt Runs around with a short little flirt; His family wonder Sometimes how in thunder He gets lipstick all over his shirt! P ° Dear M. F. J.: I wish you'd write a limerick about a young man who lives way up here at Passamaquod- dy and who is the most optimistic fellow in the world. Is it a go? H. R. M. Dear H. R. M.: It's a went— A young man from Passamaquoddy Whose logic was often quite shoddy Remarked (the poor bloke) “I never go broke— I've two hundred bones in body!” (Copyright, 1927, Reproduction Forbidden) my QUESTIONS ANSWERED You can get an answ r to any on of fact or information by writing to the Quéstion Editor, New Dritain Herald, Washington Bureau, 1322 New York avenue. Washington, D. C.. enclosing two cents in stamps for reply. Medical, | legal and marital advice cannot be given, nor can extended research be undertaken. All other questions | region, Venezuela and the source of ways were common despite the ef- forts of state employes to keep the routes open. * The storm was reported the worst of the winter in Maine while the Berkshires where the two disturb- ances came togethers saw unusually bad conditions. i No dlrect deaths were reported, but discomfortures were many. At West Rumney, N, H., 25 children in a Grafton county orphanage were driven into the cold when the Bethesda home was burned to the ground. Twenty high school pupils from Great Barrington were stalled near TLenox while returning from a basketball game. They fought their way to Lenox through the height of the storm, spent part of the morning in the town hall and then pushed on to their homes which they reached 12 hours after starting the 22 mile trip. A freak of blizzagd was the freczing of the whistle of the 20th Century Limited west bound from Boston. The valve remained open despite all cfforts to close it and sereeched for miles as the flyer sped through the mountains toward Al- bany. Heavy seas were reported at sev- eral points along the coast. formation about pensions granted by the Canadian government? A. Write to the Canadian Gov- ernment Commissioner, 44 Whitehall Street, New York City, New York. Q. Why do the names of all the continents except Europe begin with the letter “A”? A. There is no special reason. It is merely a coincidence. Q. In whom s the executive au- thority of the Dominion of Canada vested? A. Nominally in the Xing of Enggland; and it is exercised in his rame by the Governor-General, aid- ed by a Privy The real executive authority, however, is ed in the cabinet that is respon- sible to the Canadian Parliament. Q. Are women requited by law to {ake their husband’s name? A. According to the legal re. scarch department of the National Woman's Party, there is no law, statute, or court decision in any state providing that at marriage a woman must take her husband's name, If she does so, it is voluntary and in compliance with custom. Q. What is the population of the world by rac A. The estimated figures are follows: Indo-Germanic or Aryan (white) 821,000,000; Mongolian or Turanian (yellow-brown) 645,000~ 600; Semitic (white) 75,000,00 Negro and Bantu (black) 139,000,- 000; Malay and Polynesian (brown) 40,000,000; American Indian, north and south (red, half-breeds) 28,- 000,000. Q. Which color is most restful to the eyes? A, Green. Q. Where are the chief wune plored regions of South America? A. In central and northern Bra zil, the far reaches of the Amaz northwest of Brazil and the s Thorough Eye Examinations HENRY F. REDDELL- Optometrist 99 West Main St. Phone 1185 elv the Orinoco, northwest Bolivia, El- will receive a personal reply. Un-| signed requests cannot be answer: All letters are confidential.—Editor. | | Q. Where was the movie dog | actor “Rin Tin Tin” born? Who trained him for the movies? What | is his latest picture? | A. He was born in the advance Force in France in 1918, and was of the war, Lieutenant Lee Duncan, who adopted him, brought him to the United States and trained him | fully that his film career brilliant success. H *¢ on the screen is in the picture *“While London Sleeps.” | Q. Where is the story of Gideon and his three hundred men found? A. Gideon was a Judge of Israel and the story concerning him is found in the book of Judges in the Bible, chapters 6 and 8. Q. W the origin and mean- ing of the expression “to learn by licart”? A. It means to learn by rote, or perfect mem The meaning of “rote” is a repitition of words or sounds as a means of learning them | with slight attention to the meaning | . The mean- | ing of 1 ning “by heart” was prob- ably suggested by the regular beat- ing of the hefrt which can be com- | regular repitition n[; words or sounds when something is Leing committed to memory. | Q. Wh the tallest building | in the world? How will the proposed | new building in New York City | compare with the Eiffel Tower and | the Woolworth Building? P The Woolworth 1 New York is the tallest building in the world. The Eiffel Tower in Paris is a taller structure but is not a building. The projected building at West 424 Street. New York City is to be 1208 feet high and will have 110 stories. Tt will be 226 feet tall- er than the ol Tower and 416 fect higher than the ~Woolworth | Building. Q. W A. St alloys of chromium. Q. the motto United States Marine Corps? Fidelis” meaning | Las been latest appe in | tilding stainless steel? { iron and steel are n or stecl combined with at is nless of the| per ithful.” men who marry ch other? ot kin because there is no consanguinity, but they are brothers d Ww. Q. What nationality is Charles Frohman, the theatrical producer? . American. | » can I get official in-| Are sisters related to ¢ A. They | disturbance | depth of ecight to ten feet. beni Chaco, and in southern Argen- tina, Clubut and Santa Cruz regions, Patagonia and the Caupes region of Columbia. There are routes and trails across some of these arcas bhut the work of exploration has only begun. ANOTHER STORM 1S REPORTES ON WAY Meanwhile New England s Again “Digging Out” 17 (P)—New Eng- | v to_ex- blanket | | i Boston, Jan. | land struggled b tricate itself from snow. Spurred on by a threat of a fresh that was forecast for tomorrow, cities and towns of west- | ern Massachusetts and the three | northern states strove energetical to undo the work of the blizzare which swept this part of the country Saturday night and Sunday. | The frigid wave from the west, whose collision with a warm coastal | storm left much of the territory un- | der snow that ranged from a few | inches around this city to more than a foot in the Berkshires and Maine, won out and intense cold succeeded comparatively mild weather. High winds lashed drifts in places to a a OUR COAL is not all uniform in | size, but usually is uniform in uality. v all, quality s the main ideration and we strive al- ways to furnish all of our cus- torfiers coal that evldences qual- ity all the way through. A AneAnA To this fact we ascribe suceess CITIZENS’ COAL CO. TEL, 2708, 214 Dwight Court. our Steam railroad traffic was greatly hampered at any point but stalled automobiles on main higl\-J VALUES OF OLD COINS latest bulletin compiled by our Washington bureau s scheduled a digest of valuos of practically every coln ever fssued by the United States government and & number of colonlal colns. It will prove of in- torest to anyhody who has @ coln on which he desires to know the valuo Fill out the coupon below and send for it: In the to collecters, CLIP COUPON OFF HERE = == == =—— COIN TOR 1 New New Britaln Ds C. 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