New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 25, 1927, Page 6

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This ineures Drotection against fraud in newspaper distribution figu.es to both Dational and local advertisérs. sale daily tn New ¥'s Newsstand, Times Newsstands, Entranc Street. The Herald is fork st Hotal Bchultz's 2na | DEATH OF GEORGE LANDERS | News of the death of George M| Landers, which occurred early this morning was recelved in the offices of this newspaper as it probably will | be about the city, with a feeling of | distinet loss. Mr. Landers, though he had not been active in New Britain circles of late was well and favor- ably known here. He was unques- tionably most popular, having been able to weld political parties of the community into a unit and having been, at one time, elected mayor of the clty without opposition. ! Son of an iilustrious line of XOr-; bears, he became illustrious himself, | achieving popularity that is ac- corded to few in a walk of life simi- | lar to that into which he was born.} He entered polities for the love of the game, not for what he had to| gain, which is attested to by his | cholce of parties, he being a demo- crat, ultimately. Had he desired po- litical advancement only he could casily have entered the ranks of the republican party and achleved his| ambitions. He had the desire for winning advancement through per- | sonality and regard for the choice of the voters however, and he traveled | l further along the political path than | do most democrats. Doubtless those who know George Landers, or ality, will join us in an expression of | regret that he was called from us. | representatives of the press were not | admitted; and the FIRE DEPARTMENT PHONING The switchboard at the central fire station is like any other telephone | switchboard in the city; but in the method or operating it there is a | vast difference. When the buzzes the fire temps to break a leg or an arm in| the hurry to answer 1t. It takes only part of a second for the designated | operator to “get the alarm. Then the fire boys—'"smoke eal ers,” as they are fondly called by admiring observers—are off. Yos, they're off—including switchboard operator. If somebody tries to call up the fire department while the fire ex- | tinguishers are off on a run he would be entirely minus good for- phone mechanism laddie operator at- the | tune, . The second fire might be vastly | more important than the first, but the fire department switchboard would go unanswered., The line | wouldn't be busy but there would be | 10 one at home. This, fellow citizens, it a terrible | ! sitnation. Some day one of those little co- | incidences which make life exciting is going to occur. Two telephone calls, one shortly behind the first are going to be sent into fire head- quarters and the second one will get | “no answer.” In such a case do not t the telephone company. ame it on | me it on | the city—that's where will belong. Chief Noble switchboard operators, one for day | duty after the the blame | needs two more firemen have been | called out on a run, and one for night duty under the same circum- | stances. i The fire department has not s ficient of an appropriation to furnish the two extra men at present, with | the result that the switchboard goes | unattended after a fire and until the firemen are back at their posts. It memory does not play falsely | this question has been up before, hut the ruling passion for municipal economy prevented an appropriation | being made, although there was no division of sentiment as to the neces- sity therefore. Here 18 a weakness in the fire de- | partment system that rectitied. The safety of the public is at stake. Fires sometimes come in bunches—two and three closely fol- lowing. People have npon the telephone for sending in fire alarms. Under the present lack of switchboard e: during emergencies there is no absolute re- ency | mittes of the Council | journeymen plumbers were not well | taken care of, no | secret meeting—that is, one at which | business and expending public funds. | meetings needs to be | come to rely fance possible’ upon the telephone it the entire fire department should be out on a call when the phone alarm s sent in. We wonder how the property interests of the city stand for this lack of system. As for the insurance companies, they certainly must not be aware of it. THE PLUMBING CODE One of the tasks replete Wwith technicalities, yet of far-reaching public interest is the compllation of a plumbing code for this city. The job has been under way for months, but progress for several important reasons has been slow. ‘When Mr. Bishop tried his hand at evolving a plumbing code some time ago the rules and regulations therein did not suit the plumbers, so after much wrangling the Bishop code was placed in the municipal garage for perpetual safekeeping and the plumbers went to work on one, authorized to do so by the ordi- nance committee of the Common Council. All looked rosy for a new code as is one. But lately when the plumbers | presented the result of their collect- ive minds it was found by the com- that the provision being made for licensing them, for in- stance; and now another try is necessary. One can get an illuminating idea of the controversy by first speaking with a master plumber and then talking with one of the boys who do the dirty work. Master Plumber: The journeymen are hard to talk with on plumbing technicalittes, etc. Journeyman Plumber: The bosses are always trying to put something over on us. Manifestly, such diverse opinions are not likely to produce easy rid- ing. The two interests need to get closer together In order to satisfy the ordinance committee, the Com- mon Council and the dear peepul. 1t is to be trusted that the pipes in the plumbing code will be fixed and that the civic “at an early date, establishment will at that time be fortified with the best kind of plumbing rules. It is a situation where mutual of the| man-to-man sort is necessary. The city has walted long enough to have | this little matter attended to proper- agreement perlod of a year, replacing any that are defective or prove to be dead stock. It's a fine plan, and the indica- tions are it is being ably executed. WOMEN’S RIGHTS It's the women who know values; it's the women, bless their souls, who know a bargain when they see it; it's the women, lovely women, who know what's theirs and are ready to stand up llke a man— beg pardon, like a woman—and demand their rights. Take, for instance, the who unattended by counsel appeared in police court to answer a charge of selling alcohol at her house— belng acquitted, we hasten to add, in record time. “Discharged; no evidence of a sale,” Interrupted the judge as the customary harangue was going on. Most men—indeed, every man we know of—would have been so grati- fied at the discharge that they would have courted breaking a leg in the hurry to clamber down the steps to the freedom—scented outside air. Not so this woman. She wanted just one more question, to wit: Where was the alcohol that the police seized? She wanted it back, had pald out her good money for it and it was her property. Absolutely correct. Not even the police can seize property without recompense. Due process of law had found her not guilty of any wrong- dolng; and this fact, so the fem- inine mind reasoned, again made her mistress of her own property. We repeat, women know what's coming to them, They are not afraid to speak their minds, even to the woman to ask prosecutor or the police where the question is one of property rights. Alcohol is valuable, if it is good alcohol and functions well for an al- cohol rub now and then. The police are not supposed to be suffering from rheumatism. CURING TRAFFIC JAMS Bostonians the other day were confronted with one of those traffic reports by an expert to which municipalities have a hard time in getting accustomed. He was called in to help untangle the traffic snarl at a place caMed Governor square, where automobiles, pedestrians and traffic police vainly ‘make headway, cspec rush hours. endeavor ly; the time is ripe for good results. | STAR CHAMBER MEETINGS r chamber meetings took place in the city last night, the why and the wherefore of which is not remember his person- | cl e commissioners held a memorfal com- mittee of the Common Council like- wise also held such a meeting. the city gov- with public Both departments of ernment are dealing There i8 no need for star cham- ber meetings in this city. If the of- ficials have anything to hide the re- porters denied access to the meetings | will learn all about it anyway. Star chambering is a poor way of | controlling i chief thing about is they arouse unwhole- some suspicion in the public mind. public sentiment. closed, secret | | The mayor should see to it that they are abolished. sits back with a h of sat- isfaction at contemplating the plans of the state highway department to continue the work of beautifying state roads through the planting of | hade trees, shrubbery and flower- ing plants, which was inaugurated st year. As soon as.the frost leaves the ground the work will be resumed | this year, Highway Commissioner | cDonald has announced, and hids ve been asked of beautifying con- | ractors for $00 tre | contribution to the s as this year wpaien, in ad- | dition to supplementary bids for shrubbery and flowering projects, This work mects with vast ic approval, Next to motoring along a well-paved road, the rance | of trees along its ribbons of asphalt | appe: or concrete makes fir im- pression. If anything, will and blatant counteract the inartisti shriekings of billboard: of which there are a plenitude. and signs, Tor generations trees along New Engls place travel em in good This exalted must not be lost; it ha in the past reputation | been earned | and must carned in the not only ol, hance the continue to be aded roads 3 of mo tor trz tify and e surroun they turn a thing utility thing well, The expenditure involved is slight, the returns will be large. The high- into a way commissioner declares it is the policy to continue the until all the bare spots along the te highways are obliter good work | will take years, but can be done each year sees 800 or a the ditional trees planted the tree contractors must contract to care for them for the —in this case six. Naturally six lanes of traffic cannot meet without caut ing troublesome jams, To rectify such a sorrowful condi- | | tion, the expert propounded, it was merely necessary to construct sever- al traffic thoroughfares, or boule- vards, that would avold converging at Governor square, so that the on | rushing motorists would not he com- pelled to enfer into the maeclstrom | of congestion. Simple, isn't it. Tt is something we all think of, but it takes a high- priced traffic expert to convince us of the advisability of taking action. Boston fs not the only city where such conditions exist. Right in the center of New n condition where traffic Bri we have a lanes con- verge, and as the city grows larger | the difficulties will vastly increase. Ultimately there will have to be ac- ceptable traffic thoroughfares that | Wwill enable autoists to avoid cruising around the Cénter every time they | Wwish to cross the city; but we have | president of the no doubt nothing will be done nbo‘"“““" | it until some.future day it becomes® | necessary to call in some expert to convince us that it is the only thing to do under modern conditions, Our Buess is that this will occur within ten years; at least, not later than 20 years. Meantime, worry along. Observation On The Weather Vashington, * Jan. for Southern New and somewhat Wednesday and colder, fting to —IForecast sland: Fair warmer tonight; increasing cloudiness Mode e to fresh west northwest and north Wednes ng cloudiness and col to fresh west Conditions: sure alley and t. Areas of d the the low ssure alley con- nue er Mis- valley, ratures C! ly lower in the ( Northwes: Condit fair w in tem cinity d not much change Denver Detroit . Duluth Hattoras Jaeksonvi Kar | L This | N Louis to | ally during the | All the traffic expert told observ- | ing officials was that too many im- | | portant streets converge at one point FactsandFancies BY ROBERT QUILLEN The more marines landed, greater the neutrality? Easy way out: “But, my dear, & tur coat makes you look so stout!” Another great tax on Ford stock profits is imposed by General Mo- tors. It men didn’t have a God, whom would they blame for their follies? The French plan of punishing the pedestrian for getting in the way isn’t unique. We have a law against suicide, It males have no- intuition, how does a loafer who wishes to chat always manage to call on your busy day? Americans agree on Zlbo_ut every- thing essential excdpt the part of the Constitution that is sacred. the had Alas! the stubborn man on jury usually is the one who rather do right than go home. You can say this for Calles. It takes nerve to pick on religion and Uncle Sam at the same time. Americanism: Feeling able to lick the world because oceans once | served as a barrier. Yet winters can’t seem as cold when there are no whiskers to hold streamers of ice Note to Britain: You can't reason with an Oriental who thinks a brick- bat an argument. As a last resort, the “rebels” in | The sexes are becoming alike, and we are wondering whether wo- men will take up hand-shaking or men begin to kiss when they meet. Most men who think they proud of their rcason are oud of thelr stubhornness. are just Every normal woman knows | which one she would snub first if she should become rich. Doubters are vexed at bellevers for the same reason that a man without a cake is vexed at a man who has one. can't take an “Pardon really need The English “Sorr the place of the Amer | me!” So many folks | pardons. | Correct this sentence: “We correet | him for speaking rudely mother, “but never shout or snary | while doing it.” Copyright, | 25 Years Ago Today The directors of the Donnelly Brick Co. today elected. the follow- | ing officer ident, Thomas M. 1“!'1[(1)’ ident, J. M. Curti secretary, James Roche; treasurer, | Patrick McCabe. Irving Carter has recovered from sickness, James Prior has had electric |1amps placed in his house on Pierce street, Plainville Mrs. H. A. Castle has been elected Daughters of the he exccutive committee of the Swedish-American Republican club last evening and decided to take an | active part in the spring campaign. The following ward committees were appointed: first, B. G. Lindeborg and S. J. Bergstrom; second, John | B. Brink and Martin A. Larson; | third, Charles Foberg and George Bergendahl; fourth, Charles A, An- derson and Malcolm Kallgren; fifth, Gottfried Crusherg and John Holm- berg; sixth, Lewis Anderson and Al- bert Carlson. Corporation Counsel Hungerford has decided that the selectmen must | bear the expense of registration even for a city election. Registration places have been established in all wards. | Gilbert and Lynch Voluntecr H afternoc will produce Organist” next nd e Mary's church, h ise several hun- dred dollz a new bullding to replace that destroyed last week fire. Carmody Council, XK. of C., decided to raise $100 for the { same purpose ¢ appointted a committee to find the means. This consists of R. Halloran, M. J. Kenney, W. 3, AL P. Leg- horn, and A. J. McGil orge Mycroft has been appoint- lieutenant of Co. E and Curtia second lieutenant, y wch and wife | | sketball last night by the hmen, 20 to 16, Among those to ki the ¢ N “lub reception will he C. W. L. Hatch, C. B. Olde Hart, W. Attwood, w. ams and T. 1. Porter lecoration committee, AL is oh the gene Thorough Eye Examinations e I o g, R HENRY F. REDDELL Optometrist 09 West Main St, Phone 1185 Nicaragua might be Invited to break- | ening for Send all communications to Fun Shop Editor, care 0Of the New Britain Herald, and your letter will be forwarded to New York. Let's Oount Our Blessings! One thing about this wintry clime, No need to wake at dawn’s gray hour To get the “Ice” card out in time To keep the milk from turning sour! Interesting Marie: “I don’t see why you go out with Benny. That's an awful car he drive: Muriel: ““Yes, but you ought to see some of the stickers on the wind- shield!” —C. E. Wilson THE FUN SHOP NEWS WEEKLY Meteorological “We'll have a winter that is cold,” The sharks said, and we've got one; Such prophecies are pretty safe— You never saw a hot one! PR Social Gene Tunney says that if he ever gets married, he'll give up fighting. There's an optimist, for you! v s os | Female Fashions | To shield her knees from winter's breeze | Milady wears a longer gown; (But all the girls — the dear sweet things, Make up for it . Athletics Ping-pong is being revived in New York and London, Following this, there will probably | | be a renalssance of that brutal game, tiddly-winks! when sitting down! P 'hat Next? s, sir. T named the Daisy, Violet, and Rose.” s: “Good Heavens! So the | stork's started saying it with flow- | Syl —Rev. H. R. D. There's nothing in the world that looks more comfortable and is less | comfortable than a couch plled high | with pillows! 1’ Natural Query | A mother was discussing with her | reighbor the matter of weaning her | | baby boy. | Her little girl, aged four, listened | very attentively. | After the neighbor left this young [ daughter asked. “Say mother, how | do you wean babies anyway? Do | you feed them wieners?” GROWS, AND GROWS, AND GROWS (Overheard by Jerry C. Robbins) What Mrs, Wickham Said—I saw hat today I would certainly like to | | have, It's blue. I'm going to tell my | husband about it tonight. What Mrs. Baxter Said She Said— Mrs, Wickham say’s she blue 1 | cause she can’t get a new hat. She | says she's certainly going to tell her | hushand a thing or two! What Mrs. Hemway Repeated—I | suppos ou've heard about the ter- rible fight the Wickhams had? No? | Well, it scems that Mrs. am | wanted to buy a new hat and her | husband refused. They fought, and | that brutg of a husband struck her again and again—till she was blue all over, Ain't it awful, Edith? Such men ought not to- be permitted lo live! And What Mrs, Berry Said—I { rushed right over, dear, to tell you | because I wanted you to get the whole story right. I know all about | it, s0 you can be sure you" | the straight of it. Mrs, Wickham is |in the hospital—yes, battered be- yond recognition. Her husband did it, and listen, dear, here's the excit- ing part—the detectives are tracing him through a red, white and 'lue hat he bought for another woman! Isn't it AWFUL? |A STORY MISTER, YOU AINY GOIN' TO NEED THAT GOOD UMBRELLA! , S'POSIN' WE TRADE ! /~ | was $430,000. |in the Rocky mountains? | lowing line occur: “Live pure, speak phabet,” sald the man who first or- iginated the Alphabet, “I worked very hard and everything went along fine until I got the letter P. Then I was stuck. I didn’t know what let- ter followed P.” “Did you finally learn what letter to make next?” someone asked. “Yes; one of my friends gave me —Walter G. Littmann o o Naughty Nan “Mother,” cried little Ned, as he came running into the kitchen, “I wish you would give sister Nan a Hcking.” “Why, my dear?” asked the gentle parent, ! 'Cause I was setting up my big alphabet blocks in a straight line and Nan knocked the L out of it.” —Bruce Isacol (Copyright, 1927, Reproduction Forbidden) QUESTIONS ANSWERED You can get an answ.r to any question of fact or information by writing to the Question Editor, New Britaln 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 will recelve a personal reply. Un- igned requests cannot be answered. All letters are confidential.—Editor. Q. How much did the United States pay for the President's yacht, “The Mayflower”? A.. Its original cost to the Navy A. Cactl requires light soil and very little water. Give your plants plenty of bone meal and a little hardwood ashes. Spray the soil with arsenate of lead to kill the fleas. Q. Where is Galena ore found? A. It occure in beds and veins, both in erystalline and amorphous rocks, and is one of the most widely distributed of the metalic sulphides. It is found in Freiberg, Saxomy; in Pribram, Bohemia; in Spain; in Cornwell; Derbyshire and Cumber- land, England; in South Wales; Mexico; and at varfous other lo- calities throughout the world. In the Uhited States ft occurs in caves or gash veins in stratified limestone, especlally at varfous localities in Illinois, Towa, Missouri and Wiscon- sin. When pure, it contains 86.6 per cent metallic lead; but usually it is accompanied by other metals, such as antimony, bismuth, cad- mium, zinc and especially silver. It is an important ore of lead and is often worked also for silver, espec- ially in Colorado, Idaho, Montana and other Rocky Mountain states and in British Columbia. A coarse | grained variety of galena is used to glaze pottery and is somectimes called *“potter’ ore”. Q. Where is Treasure Island, de- seribed by Robert Louis Stevenson, located ? A. 1t is an imaginary island of the south ecas. * Q. What is the word “buccancers”? A. The first buccancers were Frenchmen whom the Spanish au- thorities had driven from their occu- pation of hunting and bucaning or curing hides. After they were banished they became pirates and the words = became practically synonomous. Q. How can one clarify fat after it has been uecd? A. Add a piece of raw white po- tato to the grease while it fs still hot after cooking and let it cool. Q. Where does the phrase “Backward, turn back, O time in your flight” orlginally occur? A. The lines are in “Rock Me to Sleép, Mother” by A. M. W. Ball The whole verse reads: “Backward, turn backward, time in your flight; Make me a child origin of the again, just for It is now valued at | $1,500,000. Q. Is Mt. Ralner, Washington, A. According to most gazetteers, Mt. Ranier is in the Cascade Range. In a broader sense the term, -Rocky mountains includes the Sierra Ne- vada and the Coast and Cascade ranges which are known as the Rocky mountaine proper. Q. What is the origin of 0. K.? A. The use is said to have origin- ated with old John Jacob Astor whose “0. K.” stood for “all correct” | meaning that a business note was | satisfactory. Another authority at- | tributes its origin to President An- drew Jackson who was a notorious- 1y bad speller. | Q. In what poem does the {ol-\ true, right wrong, follow the king— | elso wherefore born”? A. In Tennyson's Lynette. Q. Are American passports issued “Gareth and | | to persons who have taken out first | citizenship papers? A, They are issued only to eiti- zens of the United States and per- sons holding first papers which are merely a declaration of intention to become citizens cannot obtain pass- ports, because they are not yet American citizens. They can still obtain passports from the countries of their origin through the nearest consul. Q. What is the best way to care for ferns and potted house plants in winter? A. The answer requires consider- able detail. Our Washington Bureau has a bulletin on “Fall Gar- dening and House Plants” which | gives our suggestions for their care. | It can be obtained from the Burecau | for five cents in stamps or coin. Q. What is the value of a five- | hundred-dollar bill of the Confeder- ate states bearing a bust of Stone- | wall Jackson, and issued in 18647 A, $10.00 per 100 notes. Q. Are Arabian horses ralsed in this country? A. Some Arabian horses are raised here and the largest stud is at Berlin, New Hampshire, the| Mayneshoro-Arabian Stud. Q. How should cactus plants be cared for? Head Colds relieved with vapors | SNUFF a little Vicks well up the nose or melt in a spoon or cup of hot water and inhale. Medicated vapors reach the air passages direct. For other cold troubles rub Vicks on throat and chest. acis VICKS 2 VAPORUB OVER 1ZMILLION JARS USED YEARLY ways at once tonight, Mother come back from that echoc- less shore, Take me again to your heart as of yore.” NEW YORK OIL SHORTAGE New York, Jan. 25 (UP)—More than 3,000,000 and at times as much as 3,600,000 barrels of petroleum, for bunkering is normally held at the port of New York. Eight of the larger oil companies have a storage capacity here of more than 4,000,000 barrels. These figures have been re- vealed as the result of a report pre- pared for the war department in ‘Washington. HOLD-UP AT SALEM, MASS. Salem, Mass., Jan. 25 (UP)— Three youthful bandits held up an employe and customer at a Congress street lunch cart here at midnight and escaped with $30 in cash and a $1 watch. Joseph Letourneau, son of the pro~ prietor, was backed against a wall at gunpoint, while the robbers re- moved the money from the cash re- gister and the watch from a lone customer. 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