New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 8, 1927, Page 6

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Our circulation are based upon this audit This Ineures protection sgain~: fraud In newspaper distribution figu es to both national and tocal advertisers. 14 1a on sale York at Hotaling’s Ne Square; Bchultz's Newsstands, Entrance Grand Central, 42nd Street. The Hel INCREASING THE CITY TAX RATE The noble pastime down th into the discard, at I of “keeping city tax ra has go st temporarily Reducing the budgets of the v city departments used to be the ef- K fective method of the rate;” but longer suffices ing content with a rate of now cven that no Hence, instead of we now become 14 mills. Although rict economy"” as President Cool idge is Mayor Weld admitted partments with acquaint as much in favor of popularly spute the must have money which to function properly. This was not saying they | ! obtained as much as they but merely enough requirements. Most however, need more vear. They don't get as muct think they require inel to 1 money every but the show an 1l san What can the budget slas th “pruners,” do about it but reluctant- 1y concede some few poin ing; the cnough to function, igure he hers, departments as the mayor The de what they need effort n if Tt tak kee police and patience sometimes, but they it. the wment needs 15 new policemen—has been needing them for doesn’t get the 15 but it gets some v it For instan part- ye new ones ever and anon. The fire department cquipment—plenty of it, in t requires, besides, this and t! a new fire station in the W needs more t End The finish—this year—of the grand|others around town wish is that the department does not get all it thinks it need something. The new West tion i3 coming some day, but not ji vet. No harm in placing it but it gets! End st in t budget every year until at some pro- [ in the ga pitious occasion a pruning commit tee forgets to prune it out. Then {he station will 1932 > progress be built, in o thereabouts. That's how It pays to be a born optimist. Then there is the board of p works, the perennial goat wh pruning is done. This heartily elieves in pas all the streets h plained about. T hoard orgs each year cit t Al zens the money it * defunct ald ance of a boulevard and there d complaint, except perhaps put a needs” some avery pavement speedily w take on t be absolutely no need for pavements were finance hoard thi wary about It the plugged collection n where a 1 plate partment. Tt ple lop the s given weight 1y to know, startling. though ambitious pect to in one little birl is w of its it 't saying “ye fise Its and i a million; it e reason e mayor a as great f gan but they to gainsay what D ts down on ard budget looks a bill you hought Every item and the the well kno the i from merc is care money mu overhe people don't go any hie pruners find themselves every time. Co ots nearly all it : 1s and not a The or which want need not st lownhea o lo r | that t and |2 hig | than even that | he is payi take requisite in these to drink about it. I days of civie v pop up like exploding crackers. The city has more | to bes grand erty tax than eve ore; mou more tax mo city expands the ings with it This to be inc proportion. 5 1 year wdical had ry about ¥ costs of city gover JOHN SMITH, HIS CAR AND HIS TAXES, statistics | ts 5 has ience is a| will. It is up to us, one and all, to needs fire- rop- 1h nting | But s such | in done, and | ad- vast 1 taxes possibly mm va head unde an more | will not, easily ot imusement contempl iman natu w 1l say hetical individnal rs coll: nay own may ich, on purposes nt proposition John rents © mont sessment on John 4 it then Ie ots the wants to. Arough to, go has to s money in 1se of t did t mind te s than I 1 whole world, in loud tones, does not in the g is all wrong and minute., That's t ate like hundred or a thou town s e endi for 100 t John for h ¥ or the back vard has a installment plan. Maybe it is a powerful car of radio that a has a he is In almost every way he is livi beyond his income. John long shor n his m us to ki pel hi ce. unity rious uar- v the | 1 an| y are | well they rob- his ing | Tet from the Britain. | | is es-| wdlord may boos s in- 1xes than Jo John s on g penc v in rent be- fore. lling that tting way hits John, who is sand and in sy 't us tures more | riot that g for on the well known mor He e ying for. 1 Tar be it from | from the the pleasure wish hen m to New you n! @ NEW BRITAIN DAILY AERALD, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY §, 1927. Mod northe te south, shifting to winds. night. keep that “home” in the same state | {Fesh Conditions: Pressure is relatively low over the St. awrence valley and southwestward ovef the lower lake region, the Ohio valley and the southern Mississippi valley states. Not mueh precipitation has occurred in this rough. Areas of high pres- sure overlie the middle Atlantic and New England states and the northern plains state pressure 30.40 inches at New York and 30.90 inches at Miles City, Montana. Light snows were recorded in the | upper lake region and temperatures | much lower in the b es of the Canadian Northwest. nditions favor for this vicinity ! unsettled weather with light rain d fog. The temperatures yesterday were High . 43 46 . 30 45 o 44 38 as we would our own domicile. 1f it stands in need of anything we must \d supply that need, if we have any pride in it, any respect | |all chip in | tor it we must pay for the upkeep. ust as we would for our car or our dwellir ain luxury the demand for a cer- | < supply 3 at as well from the mutual pocket- book. We need not ndthrifts, but we should, uncom- plaini great we mus become city gly need supply our ouldn’t we John? DISMAL ENDING hall has the best shows | T be for taking them as seriously Harold warles Chaplin. The good, although | rains put into the how- as time does not it certain natural lights. ingratiating | publicl city Atlanta | Atlantic City Boston Buffalo . Cincinnati Chicago Denver Duluth Hatteras Jacksonville Kansas City {Los Angeles | Minneapolis | Miami Nantucket New Haven . New Orleans .. New York Norfolk | Northficld | Pittsburgh ... Portland, Me. . Louis . Washington he public cannot Jlamed 1 screen concoction by | Lloya or one C ome is ju s may be less T for better TpSa P reach Hollywood of £ productions is hope, ver, results Leavitt Iy won't | be the fauit ptitude for caleium could be more his actions after in inspector that c an ef- and his sal- saying Cyril J was ficient clectrical a fine man for the job, ought increased, and | then getting the municipal apple pie and crunching it on the unoffending inspector? ary to be out | head of the lie city hall is the place where Com- ' Factsand Fancies is spelled with the upper case | v T GRS and Political Art with capital | | tters. Modernism: Dodging cars, taxes work. 11 attention to mewspaper | public won't thank | him for advice, especially as | cavitt'’s advice is not a good sub- 1f Leavitt wants to 1'\!\‘1} | Leavitt public not to and pay much riticism. The for reform: your tax-payer. Monroe, however, didn't do it for Recipe Tirst souk | the stitute. New York banker: An English pacifist is one who de- ires only to bring orders out of | fchaos in China. scover }OH[ what the public actually thinks | running ~for some basking under the | him start office inste “honors” of some appointment. to d casy would be a fine way how scriously the public takes its' The weakness of a paternal gov crnment lies in the emptiness of the | thre Papa spank.” city hall comedy. The electric| t of the cit what in electri- also of ording to I \m.} “untimely*'— ns city, men know what's efficiency, are people 3 account, a ir petition was the exquisite use of this word. idea of a timely ‘petition | one which is submitted is no need for men- ubject, or three mon(]!s' must be | when there | 5 It seems strange there are so few tioning the eyed men, and yet so many ladies | after the machine politics have been foquinped with umbrellas. ved. The petition not only was| but too logical to| Note to the Dominions: They (han |Serve who only stand and s boy! one | p entire imswer in other way how Leavitt did t is to say, o= it wasn't answered, merely spurned. | «properity is based on st What the city hall gentlemen want |gold-diggers’. however. is based on bra i | [to show the public is they can hire |and fire the underlings, Curtin was | charged If he cusses Wall Street, it is all right to ask in a sympathetic say how much he lost. maintaining | proper oftice hours.” The only | | people really in a position to judge | |were the electricians, representing | f busi, | nokum; [that part of the public doing busi- | o [ness with the electrical inspector. | | They knew they could call the in- with not Americanism: Feeling superior to believing what the hootleg- | Poverty works wonders, at that. |1t makes distant relatives close. | | | We need a larger Navy. Suppose became nece to bluff two| at once spector on the telephone at any time | before or after hours and receive | service. The city hall crowd has given notice that no public servant | to have a it countries is any longer supposed | telephone in his housc; let this bus ness of serving the public get down many Virtue p; crooked, but look what a [to an basis—so | hours efficiency not & min- al of at city hall and vond. A candid appra will it means a for be system | ute | | | | show the |er just as much s: | this | very casy time salary-tak- ary for les Curfin episode serves a useful} g, 4400 vt got boy on the brain that of emphatically Prov- |\chile she must he reminded that her | technician | finger nails are frightful. | the o | 0se, that ny first class As an ald fo Oriental situation, o under the aegls of lgangy should stonc we know it. [men. jest stick to his own busine understanding suppose Chi the laundry to han harbor ambitions chine What is being subje ue of being a puppet, | B o | “Yes men™ aren’t new. said Emer- | t to the whims of such! SUCT Ison in 1833: “I like the s of | building commission? g jetter than sayers of Yes | if it hasu't | ice: | ob Mussolini th whiskers a_ sign ¢ K character. But you can't | a wi choracter by cutting part that shows. yoards as the The time is soon her a “with he h ind only until things 1 will fool it a meal ticket Honse r the ( In classing one hill evil with anoth Itecord at least ment of values. r shows up. Ul does not men usly as one {0 fiect it never Tt ST work 17 said he, | ing my money. t this sentenee itil I'r enjoy spen s done so. not only < poli-, Corl ont nd save ‘and then quite f its 1 upon 1927, Publishers Synidate | Copyright with | | v. Our ad- is to stick to| & to numer and buying periodicals plent books in or- | passi time JNows | kind | THE | with | chocolates 0 Fun hop Editor. care Ofs the New | Uritaip Herald. and your let i will be forwarded to New York WOULD ONLY P TILL JULY! According to the Summer price We're wealthy, Folks, we'll say, We chop ten dollars worth of ice Off our front walk each d THE LONG AND “Politics 1 mental in putting weman in the pub- lic eye.” “Yes, but not nearly so much as short skirts! SHORT DF T e. —Margaret Mt Movies Mr. Charles Chaplin is getting &o much notoriety from his wife's di- vorce proccedings that there is some talk of his going into films! R0 B Congressional The congressman’s an acrobat; While he’s bencath the State- house dome The lad contorts himself to keep One cye upon the folks at home! Historical writer remarks that in he modern man is very some simi- | 1ar to the primitive man, to much his an- If his women folk talk goes to his club, while hed for it! . . he cestors just . International In every part of China now They beat the battle gong: Thank Heaven, before ‘twas too late, We quit that game of Mah Jonpg! Irclandish As there are 40,000 more women than men in Northern TIrcland it looks as though there are {oo many Colleens RVOUS What was the maiter patient that jumped out iting room window 2" ‘m sure T don’t know. I said was that there ome stiffness after the the of the Sury doctor. All might b operation —Vivian Rachbach LADY LUCK, LADY LUCK, WERE HAVE YOU BF Dear M. For three dog had heen keeping nights, and 1 resolved happened again T would about my for hood peace smack bor on the the saw him. And sur ough dog began barking! In anger, 1 umped out of bed and switched on the hght. Just as 1 did, a masked burglar jumped. backward out of the win- dow. e was just making his en- trance. T heard a moan and a howl below. Hurrying down, T found the burglar unconscious. When T plck- AR weeks neighbor's me awake that if it forget all neighbor: my neigh next time my scruples that night the ed him up, I found the dog under- | neath him. Yea, hoy! THA s MUH I Normon I1. .. Dear Mr. Judell: One of the kids found a box of in his ma’s medicine chest and he was ng them out free in front of his house. So naturally I went out to et in the chocolates, and just as I was about to take a hite 1a she spotted me and yelled: “Hey, Stanley, don't it that candy before noil your mes S0 T gid not next day it was some new castor oil. Gimminy THAT was acckel re to and you ds supper i the and it up eat candy, out that T turned vay they villickers! my Jucky day! Stanley V. 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Helm was certainly been instru- | FUN SHOP NEWS "VEEKIY 1| Slogans | cortainly the —_ . — — How He Felt He had just come home from a hard day's work at the pretzel fac- tory. ’ He handed his wife wages, “Aren't you ashamed of yourself to be working in a pretzel factory?” ed the high-hattish wife with scorn. “Yes,” he drawled, “every time 1 come home I feel as if T've done something crooked.” H. Freeman. B his . paltry A Sympathetic M, D. Flizabeth: “That doctor hubby of oyurs seems to be a jolly cuss. Does he always show such a cheerful dis- position? Jean: “Excepting when he's cut- ting out tonsils. Then he's down in the mouth.” —W (Copyright Iter 7. Goldsmith Reprodueticn 1den) | | QUESTIONS ANSWERED You can question of writing to get an answ r to any fact or information by the Question Editor, New Britain Herald, Washington | Bureaw. 1322 New York avenue. Washington, D. C.. enclosing two cents in stamps for reply. Medical. legal and marital advice cannot be given, nor can cxtended research | be undertaken. All other questions will receive a perscnal reply. Un-| signed requests cannot be answered. All letters are confidential.—Editor. To what division does the | 1anguage of the Netherlands belong? | A, The Dutch or Netherlandsch | language ariscs from three low rman dialects, being mainly West | nkish with Frisian and less on admixturcs. The modern {language of the Netherlands dates rom the 16th century. v Q. Have diamonds ever ound in the United States? A. A few diamonds I | found in Rutherford, | Mitchell, and McDowell wrolina; in Hall county, i in Kentucky, Ohio, Wis- | consin, Colorado, Idaho and Arkan- | sas and in the placers of Eldorado, | Amador, Nevada; Butte, Trinity and | Del Norte countics in Californi {In 1856 the Dewey diamond, weigh- | ing when cut 11 rats was found | {|at Manchester, ncar Richmond, | Virginia. ? Q. How is the depth of the sca | mei g he latest method of mea the depth of the sea is by An electric oscillator at the | | surface of the water transmits a | | sound to the bottom of the ocean. | | An apparatus on board ship picks | {up the sound of the echo as it re- | | turns from the bottom of the sea |and a third instrument records the time intervals required for the sound to go to the bottom and the ccho to return. Half of the inter- val multiplied by the velocity of sound per sccond gives the depth of the occan at that point. Q. Who were the principal pl in the moving picture “The shting Marine”? | ne Tunney, Marjorie Gay, Waiter Miller and Roy Heinze. i Q. What is the proper position | to lay aside a knife and fork after one is through using it? ! A. Silverware after being used | should never be put back on the| t on the plate. The bulletin on quette for Din-| " issued by our W | and which may be h reader for five cents in or coin tells all about the proper | ucage of knives, forks and spoons. Q. When does the Mardi Gras| 1l at New Orleans begin and | 1 Tt hegins with the Twelfth | Night ball twelve days after Christ- and lasts through Mardi Gra > day before Ash Wednesday, zhr-l been | ve heen Franklin, counties, | sur schoes. | | su | | | | , | termed “Christian sect faith, | Shintoism and Animism. which are A. Pinkus beginning of lent. Starting several days before Mardi Gras and ending that night the parades of Comus, Proteus, Monus and Rex are held. The culmination of the carnival is on Mardi Gras. When King Rex and his bodyguard and the various military and visiting organizations pass through the streets. In the. evening occurs the great street parade or pageant with elaborate tableaux or floats, brilliantly lighted. These represent noted scenes of his- tory, poetry or fiction. Q. What does Jacqueline mean and howse is the name pronounced? A. It i a Irench given name for girls and means supplanter. It is pronounced “jock-leen’. The “*J" is soft with something like the soft g"" sound. Q. How many there? A. It is estimated that there are 3,424 spoken languages or dialects distributed as follows: America, a, 937; Europe 587; Africa, languages are 2. Which two passenger ships ! are the largest? A. The Majestic and the Levia- than. Q. What are the principal re- ligions of the world? Roman Catholic and Catholic, Orthodox Protestant which are ' the Jewish Buddhism, Confucianism, Toaism, Mohammedanism, Hinduism, termed non-Christian sects. Q. Why is Belgium called Cockpit of Europe? A. Because many European wars ave been fought on her territor: Q. Where is “Mittel Europa’? A. The term was used during the world war to designate the Central Powe German Austra-Hungar: Bulgaria and Turkey. Q. What was the manifesto of 18487 A A famous revolutionary docu- ment of which Karl Mars and T'rederick Engels were co-anthors, addressed to the workingmen of the world, urgipg them to unite to| throw off the yoke of capitalism. Q. What is the rainfall in the upper Amazon valley? The rainy season beging in November and continues until July and the rainfall amounts to over 100 inches a year. Q. How should spruce cuttings be planted ? The cuttings should he made in August or September and planted under glass. In carl spring give them slight bottom heat Put them | in moderately moist soil. Spruc cuttings may planted wher shallow soil because the roots spreod | horizontally near the surface. The are easily transplanted but this shouid not be done shortly before dry weather is expected to set in. The young trees should remain about 2 years before being trans- planted. What is a “wet moon"? The so-called *wet moon™ is | the new moon having one horn much lower than the other re- sembling a tilted bowl. Tt is be- Heved to be a sign of wet weather but as a matter of fact investiga- tions carrid on by scientists over a long period have shown that the | moon has no effect upon the earth's weather at all, and there is no r y it should have. “The h {| Communist Eyesight Specialist 300 Main St. Phone 510 {not a great success. 25 Vears Ago Today At the meeting of the school board this afternoon Mr. Davison acted as chairman and Mr. Attwood as sec- retary. The grammar school com- mittee was continued in power. Mr, Andrews reported that Contractor Curtis was manifesting more indus- try towards the completion of the Fast street school than formerly and he thought the rooms would be ready for use in the spring. The first day regulation of the | political denomination of voters in accordance with a law that is now receiving its meed of opprobrium for its fine grain of stupldity was The deputy re- gistrars turned in only 215 name about five per cent of the city's reglstration. Stephen Robb of th Co. leaves today for t southwest on a business trip expects to be in New Orlcans durir the Mardi Gras festiva The Franklin Whist club met evening at the home of Kempton. Miss Al George Lynch won Mrs. Andrew Cohelan and William Troy the consolation President C. ¥. Smith of Landers, Frary, & Clark Co. has gone abroad in the interest of the company. Dancing never had so many de- votees as this season, public as well as private socials are usually throng- ed. and the professors of dancing never had as many pupils as at present. The tone of these dances has ‘becn considerably improved of late, some of the organizations limit- ing the attendance * to those who have been invited by the members. 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