New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 14, 1927, Page 6

. usefulness should NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, MONDAY, FEBRUARY ‘14, 1927, New Britain Herald HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY fesued Dally (Bunday Excepted) At Herald Bidg., 67 Church Btreet. | SUBSCRIPTIOR RATES $3.00 & Year. | $2.00 Three Months. 75c. & Month. Entered at the Post Office at New Britain | a2 Becond Clase Mall Matter, TELEPHONB CALLS Business Office 926 | Editorial Rooms .... 936 The only profitable advertising medium | in the City. Circulation booke and press room always open to advertisers. Member ot the Associated Press. Ihe Aseociated Press fa exciusively en- titled to the use for re-publication of all news credited to it or not otherwiee credited in this paper and aleo local news published therein. Member Audit Bureau of Circulation. | fhe A. B. C. ta a pational organization which turnishes newspapers and tisers with a strictly honest analysls of circulation. Our circulation statistics | are based upon this audit. This Ineures | protection againrt fraud in newspaper distribution figu.es to both national and cal advertisers. The Herald is on sale dally in New York at Hotaling's Newastand, Times Square; 8chul Newsatands, Entrance srand Central, 42nd Street. — LINCOLN SCHOOL INTO SERVICE in school, whi the seventies or | NEW GOE: The old Li done duty since arly eighties, is no longer the daily h has mecca of childhood; its rooms are bare, its halls strangely quiet. Thus a on Lincoln street, erect most of the homes in ‘landmark” ed long b he We a long career t End were thought of, ends | the | usefulness in { dinky, | Farmington swap stories with the motorman are | | since 1917. to the firemen or the police is city business, while what happens in the Connecticut company is private bus- iness, at least theoretically. More of the public, the familiar faces on thelr street car | lines after a trolley shakeup than | come into contact with the firemen. So far as the public is concerned, however, miss reman John Smith can be at sta- | | tion 2, 4 or 6 and it doesn’t mean a | ; but let Motorman John Smith | the Meriden or | e Chestnut street Bil Jones from the| avenue line be substi- tuted to the other, and immediately thin be changed from Plainville line to t and | hundreds will notice the change. The busy burghers who make a practice | of standing on the front platform to | particularly affected. Coming back to the origlnal | thesis: we trust the firemen like their changes, bet only difference d and the one een their me gove firemen are ning the trolley car men is the | signed by the offieials | running the fire department, while | the trolley men 1 results are about the same, NEW HAVEN PROSPECTS Th New Haven railroad, yea effort to extricate itself from the financial slough in which it found itself after the war, has been ooking forward to better times. In c spite of its known condition, the na- re of its obligations, and the pros- pect that it will take decades to get out from under, its stock has been quite steadily rising. The other day the figures touched the highest point Does t that the s mean, however, railroad has heen prospering €0 enormously as to warrant this in- crease? Not at all. When the ana- {1yzers got to work on the situation | Various they dealt with market rumors quite | education of childhood. | When constructed, so the history | of the city was considered a model of mod ity, Every convenience needed in that day was found under its roof Citizens pointed it out with pride one of the city's fine school build that the city was best it tes, the Lincoln scl ings, as evidence cager to do the further the advantages of the youns. | For years the old building has| been a source of discontent; nothing | within it seemed to be just right. In. stead of being pointed to with pride th scorn. That, knew to it was pointed out w is why the Steele street new Lincoln was con- | in fact, school on structed. The new Lincoln school now takes the place of the old, and it begins its | It is | a marvel of | career in much t belng pointed to as niodernity, containing that schoolmen have nd essential in th acting days. Without much fuss and with scarcely an in- | terruption in the even tenor of their | ways the change was made from the | old to the new; with no celebration | and no special exercises. Today all | the classes from the kindergarten up | were getting accustomed to their new surroundings; and all were on full time. every The only feature about the new | Lincoln school that does not meet | with entire approval is its location. Some of the puplis—indeed, a good many of them—have much further 10 go to get there. Perhaps get used to it; and anyway, walking is healthful exercise and the children usuaily have “lots of fun” while they they will | are en route. oln school | How long tlie new Lin will takd to get out of date is ar.for spe this gen ng & n ulation and is not tion to worry ahc school t old and constructed much more stantially, with concrete a takipg the place of mu wooden interior found in ¢ should be ch larger the school, twice as its last close to 1 pro 3 r§.- A very chee deed. The rapidly disappearing. Soon there will bon city's sehool problems ar be no prob; to pay off m left—only the they ma ake years, but ong before the begin to sh FIREMEN'S EFFICIE TROLLEYMEN'S LUCK The firemen ve had their shakeup and it is one Is entirely amount to? men to diffcr same kind of institutions furore. For cut pany to diffe vals, the no part kind providence t More citiz now the trollvy car oper name, s by sp ito contact with the t night. Yet wi he trolley n ) periodieal 1 in ac wi t ave 1, it reeei n . ubli t " | railroad | peculiarly New as much as with figures; and one re- port they credited other was that the dily more than any Pennsylvania was stea sing fts incre equity in the New Haven rai Whether this, ¥ for New E if true, is a good d in the long opinion, although anything that enhances the value of t run is a matter e road's securities will suffer no two opinions among stockholders. The Pennslyvania s, after all, not + New England system; its prime in- terest is not in what it can do fo bu t it can do for nia railroad with head- la quarters in Ph The New Haven has been looked upon as a | It may be, if this reported stock ab- | { their constituents | spect. If, however, the bill is agreed up- on by both branches of Congress and is placed before the President he will be confronted with one of the major problems of his second term. Should the President sign it it will be quite certain proof that he is at- tempting to mollify the western ricultural farm bloc; that he has his eye toward a renomination’and a third term. His signature would be entirely due to political expedlency, as it has been known from his own lips that he is in favor of farming rather than the Me- co-operatives ary-Haugen measure Congress Is reversing itselt on the measure for the same reason. The farm bloc controls votes; the boys in office will need the votes next year. uch outstanding senators as Borah and Reed of Missouri can afford to vote according to their consclence and the dictates of their minds; they voted against it because they realized would not hold their action against them when they re-election. The lesser fry ! ran for believe they must he more circum- s adherents and ad- | stressed his The President mirers have repeated The President kno | some ot this popularity will wane in | | the west if he vetoes the bill. If he | | | | poputarity. s | | doesn't care about h larity it will mean h western popu- is not permit- | {ting third term possibilities to color | his thou if he signs, it will mean | | he is intent upon {litical pre: ige in the w stin prepar S. tion for the battle of ‘What the President ha: farm relief will 4 about be of vital interest at this point. In his annual message at the opening of the present session | of Congress the President declared | that “sur; es often affect prices of farm commodities in a dis- astrous manner,” adding “the prob- {lem urgently demands a solution.” Then he | marketing associ suggested co-operative | ations as “important | aids™ to t end, and that “addition- | al legislation” might supplement their efforts be needed to Then: | | In working out this problem to any sound conclusion it is necessary to avoid putting the | government into the business of | production or marketing or af- tempting to enact legislation for the purpose of price fixing. . . | We ought to put more emphasis on the question of farm market- ng. If ound solution of permanent nature can be found s problem the Congress ought not to hestitate to adopt QUAINT SAYINGS } | | sorption continues, that the public| The Associated Press the other | of southern New England may | day carried a unique story from not- awake day to find that their | ing the peculiarities of ings" h they dep railroad upon whi nd for | transportation is no longer a land institution. Pe aps that r actical pur- poses, 1 natter so much; many parts of the country are served by rail- roads which are not in local institutions. But if there is any way to keep the New Haven a New any sense the gland property majority of New Englanders prgbably will be in | favor of it. At least, they have many | times given the impression that this is What they prefer. The railroad prospect for the next ew years is big mergers. The Inter- te Comm e Commission favors them, and the only difference of opinion is what particular mergers should take place. The New England commonly roads are placed in the lich may be con- trolled by ou ;stems, and in such a contingency a tremendous argument would as to whi particular Class I roads should get of the New England pie. The Penusylvania, if it is buying e New Haven, more stock in t least at ing about it in a practical SIDENT'S ATTITUDE TOWARD FARM BILL Whenever cotton prices run high land textile mills earn manufacture less goods, mploy fewer people, on part time, and at low wages. The same true of textile mills in other sections those mills country fabricating solk, wool or other ma- Afrecte McNary- bill is pass- scheme, the price of cotton will be as m tfic will bear; or even } w would ra result in a | Tolds | S| At the by folk living on the blc Hatte k and wind- vard of wept the coast will be r membered that it was on a sand { the bald spot, | intaining his po- | cept for the people t | { table; when counted, there were 503 of them. This, in epite of Mr. Cur- tis’ professed antagonism to the new caucus law. Mr. Gussman also turned in 200 names, and the total is 1500, about one-third of the total vote. FactsandFancies BY ROBER1 QUILLEN | Send all communications to Fun | Shop Editor, care Of the New | Britain Herald, and your letter | ; will be forwarded to New York. St i There is no new truth, but only a new vision. i The finest prayer is to smile up at| LET'S ALL SAY IT TOGETHER, Heaven. Ok The first robbin’ doesn't indicate [ Dear Fc';"?; SHOP, YOU'RE my val- ne, Spri Chicago. ; S S The heart of you puts cheer in Still, if all were wise, so many mine, ‘When nose is red and fingers blue With Cold ther doctors would starve to death. A greater eclimination contest than Rickard's is prepared by Henry Ford. I'm You! gladder ’cause NOT SO EASY : “A splendid garment, vhat? $1S5 for a coat? What do you think I am—my wife ?"” +« WHEN BLACK IS READ TRUE, WH The little guy in the corner with 1 the meek face upsets it wears more, the general Ana se who drink it and | nny yet th n't wake up escape v . iche THIS SIDE OF PARADISE = 1 ever lived Still, these superior-feeling | rote his lines. mous guys wouldn't be famous « nhe y despise. ‘ val Polling Once she tried to hide her instep; now, . shows her step-ins. | GYVES | n Americanism: Thinking the | (8o ¥l onien unimpestant Desenss. hell gnoiiddam seems human’ and approachable. | His ball R X | Peruse t Another good way to stretch the | e muscles is to tcll about the hawk| She chains him in you shot. | And i Ukt —Ienri J. Miller Fable: Once there was a woman S who didn’t think her instep unusual- | MUST BE A COMPOSITE Iy h | Suito ou don't } 5w me T accom plished 1 g reforms are not men who don’t know hov do you uni do, | . Grange rthelmes ockefeller: Apollo Wales The ness of opinion isn't that i that it is mercly opi TONY, THI BOOTBLACK 1 with flowcrs, bat | Valentine's Day very fluent at §8 a| Deesa whatsa you call Santa Val- You may say it u can't be Cozen. | s heesa day. Evrabodda heesa | . Ro: tsa my litla gal, she And some people are good for the ctsa ma da heart go boomp, me reason that ice never sets any- | boomp, hoomp. thing afire. | Dat Santa Valentine heesa greata —— He never tell da lie, The hard part of getting clected | showsa to u da fine to save the people is to make the | pitch whatsa she gels n her people believe they need savinz. [ falla Pietro Guillermo las An- tonio Santifitippo. *\ for he “What shall we do with table | send da pitel ve | Sheest get mad | scrap: The best thing is to deesa da them until after dinner. Fighting | hearts—heesa an he I say whatsa spoils digestion. mat’ heesa got eckao toged- der weed nail > cry some more The me that private f“\lfl’fl;‘ say “Dats no 1! dats dart reed pistols for protection can now | from Cupete's pisto Den duné W this shore that the riment along hts went to cxp with oir first “airship.” “Quaint sayings,” however, are not confined to Hatteras folk; th | found all over the United States— trom Cape Cod to Kentucky, Tex: the Dakotas; are even in Connecticut. | Some sections have expre | quaint than the others, s of dialect which is distinct ain peculiar | This is a vast countr : i people in its various sections who | grow up with their environmen adopt the speech handed down through gencrations, rarcly go clse where. They are a gold mine for! We read about | their peculiari- | novelistg looking for local color | curlous character: them and wonder | ties; unmindful of the fact that the other sections Won( about our own—particuls wondering about | be so | how people Salem could cruel in | witches or to burn how | wrong it was to sell wooden nutmegs to the Indians in Connecticut. 25 Years Ago Today The chimney of house on Camp [ ed out last evening, cau consideral excitement on that thoroughfare t no damasge. Another ctory building will ed spring by t n- ry & Clark Co. will build on Winter etrect the tinning de to the new structure Rus | evening there wil { Flaming Arrow A T m in the southeastern part he city threat- several house ¥ lay, During the cver of H. A. Trave of Marlboro, Mas gistration o politi | afterno ust as well to machine | T ) 1 deesa fa heest of Love le applicd guns. a her queek { Cupete and she sa | cents in stamps for reply. his education, he immediately join- | Latavia? cd the Baker Players Stock Com-| A. The chief exports are flax, | pany in Portland, Oregon and Seat- | hemp, butter, eggs, timber, grain, tle, Washington. He played next | hides, skins, oil cake and linseed. with the Forepaugh Stock Company, | Industries include machine works, Cincinnati, and later toured in road | breweries, distil saw mills and shows, He directed Hope Hampton | cil mills. | lin “The Pait” and “Love's Penal-| Q. What is the depth of the At- ty.” He been married and di- | lantic Ocean? vorced twi His first wife was| A. The depth of the main body iivia Burrell, from whom he was | of the Atlantic Ocean varies be- divorced in 1915, In 1921 he mar- | tween 10,000 and 15,000 foet; 13,000 | ried Leatrice Joy. Three years later | may be considered the average | she divorced him. They had a|depth. i , we frankly admit that daughter, born in September, 1924, | all of our coal is thorough- st prior to the separation. He is | e i % 1% Serdenad. et S shes N C s | RECORDS WORTH $25,000 (e | | tomatoes?” | | —_— a guard. I talla r 1 no wants Correct this sentence i 511 I 7% ny guards round deesa house. 1he tenth, judee.” said h “1 was Sheesa no ver, she r watching an ankle instead of ‘b("{vu‘ loud da pee pap hat street in front. Val he writesa to her. Justa like-a | dec Copyright 1927, Pablishers | Da rose sa red cate. Da violin's bl — | f you no iove-a me i I no spika to you. . 1 Den 0si da pitch an Observation e BRI A I can make-a v Mariouche, datsa | ofl T],e Wea[,[e encia like-a dat. § isa da pence, draw da Wash on, “eb. 14—Fo: pitch—da beeg piteh—hesic a da " ew England:—Snow or | jies T putsa in da liver, lungs, and warmer tonight; Tuesday or whatsa dat vou got, ly clo strong northeast and| heem togedder weed da winds this afternoon and to-|and T makesa heem night shifting to west on Tuesday Da Garlic heesa white Zastern New York:—Rain tonight D kot ot lightly warmer in cast and extreme | One goesa to-a da foet north portions Tuesday; partly| Da odder to- head. cloudy with rain or snow in north| When ma Mar shagea veadn ong northeast winds this| ting to southwest to-| hair an say shees diminishing. { to me no more ther burean today ordered | When sheesa gone-a posted from Boston | Wages. Maine. A| To hal weet | 1a Garibatai! portion, & ahe o 1 weeda my no gonna spika 1 Safday 1 forra my and night The w war rthward to [ disturbance off the will causc stro this afternoon ar | panied by snow, | New Haven and warmer tonight; followed by eclearing. Condition: {An area of high pressure overli the lower St. Lawrcnce Valley and| hern England, farther Quebee inches, Pre low from the mddle Atlanti states we ) Moun Duffalo, inches. stport, ita Valentine. Viva e and viein Tuesday rain| or snow occurred quite gener- ally from the Missippi valley east- | ward 1 Atlantic coast distr from northern Florida to Mair Heavy rains occurred in the Centrali Gult states. ew orted | ol uring the past 24 hours. | ng in the Ohio emperatures are valley and western | states. Cloudy and rainy with slightly high- er temperature. The temperatures yvester High Atlanta 60 Atlantic City B way th n looks to B couy of neckers on £t, Valentine's Cineinnati ] | Chicago ] 28 . Denver ARE YOU NICE? | (Cheek Up On Your Maginers at ] | I'UN SHOP Charm Shop) ¢ D Mrs, illar 1 propper for me to hold a [ and the third time T have a it ith her? H ) I Lyman New Flaven ¢ o8 Dear ¥ E 3 | 1 | Hitchcoe Dear Mrs. Pilla My mother-in-law, a staunch pro- hibitionist, is coming &> take dinner with us. Please suggest a menu. Bride ‘Dear Beginner: Hot Water Roast Water Fowl Water Cress Water Crackers Water Lily Salad Lithla Water Water These Things A HAT-RIBUTE Jenkins: “You women are 80 slow. During the time it took you to select that hat I went out and made $200.” Mrs. Jenkins: “I'm so glad, dear. You'll need it!" (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 Britain Herald, Bureau, 1322 New York avenue, Washington, D. C., enclosing two Medlcal, legal and marital advice cannot be given, nor can extended research be undertaken. All other questions will reccive a personal reply. Un- gned requests cannot be answered. All letters are confldential. —Editor. you tell me something Gilbert, the movie Q. Can about John ctor? A. He was born at Logan, Utah, July 10, 1895, and educated at Military Academy, Sau California. After completing pounds and has dark brown eyes and hai % When was Pearl Bryan mur- ed? The decapitated body was found near Fort Thomas, Kentucky, Febr 1, 1896. Q. Who was Cain's wife? A. All that is known of the wife of Cain is contAined in the 4th ch 16th and 17th verses of Gen When did the pneumatic nd chipping hammer come ful . pneuma ic ¢ drill having @ ham- mering p It was paten‘ed in England by George Law in 1t3, and his spec o ed that this device could be used also for rivet- ing. In 1806 Boyer of St. Louis produced a chipping hammer. Washington | | Rudge “Affect” means to Influence. Q. What were the seven wonders | of the ancient world? | Output A. Pyramids of Egypt, Pharos (lighthouse) of Egypt, Hanging Gar-| Washington, Feb. 24 (P—Printing dens of Babylon, Temple of Diana |and publishing as an industry in the at Ephesus, Statue of Jupiter by | United States turned out during 19 Phidias, Mausoldum of Artemisia | products with a total value of $2,- and the Colossus of Rhodes. 269,638,230. Q. Who was St. Valentine and| This was an increase of 12.3 per why do we celebrate his day? | cent over the 1923 output, the census A. Valentine was the name of | burcau statistics disclosed today and several saints and martyrs, Accord- | there was an increase alike in the ing to the Acta Sanctorum, Febru- |numbsr of workers and the numbers ary 14 is observed as the day »f|of printing concerns. seven of them and the veneration| In 1925 there were 21,051 printing of the head of the eighth. These|establishments of all classifications martyrs had lived in various parts|in the United States, employing an of the world—France, Belgium, laverage of 251,273 workers. News- Spain, Africa—but the two greatest | papers and periodicals accounted for were a priest at Rome and a bishop | nearly one-half of the total opera- in Umbria, both of whom lived in|tions, and their production to sube the third century. The legends |scribers and buyers was worth $398, which have been preserved in re- 335,060, while their advertising was gard to them have little historical | sold for $923,272 Books and value. St. Valentine's day is more | pamphlets printed were valued at famous, however, as a lover's festi- | $154,991,493, while job printing to- val; this has no connection with the | tq)0q 1423, 'Ot ‘the totals ot saints, but is perhaps a survival of | pupiighing plants 10,620 were main- of an old festival, of a similar na-!tainod by newspapers and periodi- { ture, in the Roman Lupercalia. It o\ was observed particularly in Eng- land, but to a certain extent upon the Continent, too; mention of it is found as early as Chaucer. The custom was to place the names of young men and women in a box, and draw them out in pairs on St. Valentine’s eve. Those whose name PUBLISHING FIGURES in 1923 is Estimated At $2,209,638,330 MISS ROSE ENTERS CONVENT Miss Katherine Agnes Rose of 14 Broad street, left for Buffalo, N. Y., Saturday, where she will enter tha Perpetual Help convent to become a nun in the order of Franciseans, M et Rose has been employed for change presents and he each other's | years at the Soda Shoppe in dlentines throughout the ensuing | Hartford. year. Later only the men made i presents. The United States government has Q. Is there anything that can be | MoTe scientific experts at work in | put in water for washing windows | the cradication of obnoxious insects | to keep it from freezing and to give than all the other nations of the the windows a gloss? {world combined. | A. Put a little kerosene in the | water. i Q. Why is it colder at fhe South Pole than at the North Pole? A, Although very little data ex- ists on actual temperatures in the North and South Polar regions, it | is known that the temperature at | | the South Pole in general is lower | Mis: than that at the North Pol be- cause the South Pole consists of a high land mass, whereas the North Pole is at sea level. Q. What are the chief exports | nd industries of the city of Riga, | Master Dises T eproducing Beetho- | | ven’s Music Coming to U. S. This is only one of the fea- | London, Feb. 14 (P—Master phon- || fures in our service, but it is an important one that strongly ap- | ograph records of Beethoven's music, o peals to our particular patrof | especially recorded and worth $25.- 1000 will be taken to New York on | the liner Aquitania, sailing Wednes- day. | l They will be in charge of Daniel 17-year-old messenger for | {the British Beethoven centennial | | celebrations committee, Who i to de- liver them to the American centen- | nial committee. | | Thousands of records will he re- | | produced from these master matrices | | for use in schools and other institu- | tions during the festival week which | begins March 26, the day of the com- | poser's death. The cleaner the coal, the better it burns. CITIZENS’ COAL CoO. Tel. 2798, 24 Dwight Court. Q the ‘meaning of the | ime i A. Little, | - At Q. s Rae a boy's or & glila| SHOWERSA_SHOWERS, SHOWERS name? hower parties for brides, “stork” showers, showers for inva “golng A. “Ray” 1s usually a boy's shower 7 housewarming showers, wedding annivérsary showers name and is sometimes a contraction of Raymond. The feminine equiva- nts Amer- United States of alien pz ican citizen A. Yos; except those whose par- { ents, at the time of their birth, were engaged in a foreign diplomatic ser- vice in the United States. Q. What was the maiden name of the wife of Enrico Caruso? A. Dorothy Benjamin of New York. Q. What is the difference be- the meaning of “effect” and “affect”? T ffect” means to accomplish. lent is often spelled “Rae) Ray has been used as a girl's name. Q. Are persons born in the | \WHEN YOU'VE SNEAKED UP TO LEAVE A VALENTINE ON HER DUDRSTEP, AND AT THE CRITICAL. 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