New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 23, 1927, Page 6

New Britain Herald HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY tssued Dally (Sunday FExcepted) At Herald Bldg, 67 Clurch Street SUBSCRIPTION RATES $5.00 & Year. $2.00 Three Montha. Entered at the Po: ain as Second C TELEPHONE CALLS Business Ofce . Editorial F The only proftatle adsert! n the City. Clrculation boo! room always open (o advertizers Member of tho Associated Press Tia Associated Press fs exclusive led to the use for re-publication en- of a1l nmews credited to it or not otherwiee credited i this and also local v publist | | within THE MONROE EXTENSION ‘We trust the city will not insist upon dropping the Monroe street Property owners are however, hias the condemnation xtension blamed. The elt right to proceedings. Chairman Macauley of t ommission says the city does not need the to tnstituf i | i | improvement sufficiently a fon conder proceedings necessary property We with t he city does need and in the future more so than 1t should be the ¥ apply o ohtain do not agree e chairms the exten 1 sloy siness at present plan commission to plan for | the future, lot a be good planning. T¢ the property owners insists up- on boosting values, apply condem- nation. | NO OVERDRAFTS | Wh departments keep n all ¢ their ity A e wspapors and adver- | it 100ks like good b ss. h will AL R L DA e » report for the present fiscal based up Thia | ro- | vear to be annonnced by Hanford At A G na | L. Curtis, city comptroller. keop- ing tab on the outgo of departments 1s to he the last word in em- ey, The is fortunate in hav- and careful The comptroller's system of city |ing such a zealous representative sitting on the fi- THY. FLOOD AND AID | nanclal 4d. The fact that nearly {86,000 will be turned back to the Eife RAeldaDs (2107 lity as & result of this carcful s has asked for ald o the | o\ yny of accounts s sufficient flood sufferers of the lower Missis- | oo ™o S svstem. i valley. Ihe American Red Cross, always | E g S o e POLITICS IN PLATNVILLE ource :t“l fte command to shelter, Wi seliogl oon thaes e i he thousands of |4{rald to permit representatives of |the press to attend its ing it is i ¥ W proof of a fear the public mlight p .\‘v”nnlm\ et o ted |loarn too much. It makes no dif- o renee whether it has not been the tho stricken. td of all Mhe call for > for action s in Quick The flood is worst in the his- tory of the Mississippl valley: | lions of acres & r water, Peo- | pie have lost their homes, toir all, are insuf] Iy clothed and need food. ‘ Those possessing the comforts of | life at such a time will be impelled | by the ideals of good citizenship and a good conscience to stand by | Red its superhuman effort to meet the emergency, . QUICK WORK—BUT street paving the Cross in niesite pairing a of those jobs which remind o of the "Off Ag'in, On Ag'in, ma Ag'in, Finnigan” poen gcarcely bad an item appeared in this paper that the Hall company would repair the amiesite top along the ne West Main street paving when Hall company is one ag'in” ng that thorough- fare. It's all over. The top oncc is as smooth as a board. ‘It's a shame that it was neces- sary to do repair work along here so soon after it was put down, but ks und their non- ains the it's ¢ tough on the pavement,'” re- the oflicials of the words were neve spoken. this travel continucs, be of nts may n out paven he question, according to the same A little Wost itions analysis of Main con street bring to it to those eye vital not n unadorned spec hat the presence of the car tracks the lLine s an evil Tt car that the travel is concentrated s right of the car be notice: to say, going west trucks just natural a restricted rut a Autoist f by t, drive a oot to tl ght of the tracks; | s one of the problems that it would ake a psychoanalyst to explain. Tt not a theory, but a condition, which the city is confronted. \ o the present amended y does not eed to T a short i the 1 wvas amended b companics to be responsible 1 ent f r distant than o " Yet, under the law, the trolley com- is 1 of all responsibility 0 1 1 ks to the Letriment o We have had e il i ther i1s no L will not Liappen. superintendent of schools, is a pe feetly proper procedure if brouglht legitimately or for good rea- hout e school committee, how- ever, hasn't given a good reason, Instead, it has hecome known that Leon C. Staples, to be his suc- i cessor, had secret meetings with the sons. plan ich an extension would | budgetary allowances | NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, e LUt DAY, APRIL 23 23, 1927. up the trade situation. American | reasonableness ould firms doing business in the Latin- E Amerlean countries have been |likelihood heard from and Hoover s lending of an argument. But i thros that there w are to consider the | an cager ear. Hoover is one of these | “stocks” |atert men who like to show in-|ests contrary to the point where one | f creases in trade rather than de- [side wishes to avoid the teac £y creases. English in American schools, and | | The Latin-Americans in all pro- |the other insists t this is an vability have adopted the Chinese |essentizl, then the stage is for system, of taking reve on thela spirited tussle. The amendment to | | forelgn traders when they think [the constitution, of course, will || Shop | they are not being treated properly. | lave to be voted upon at a general | | Britain When the foreign traders include :clection. We rather think the “alien Americans we don't like it everly stock,” with such a privilege, will | well. The feeling of solidarity in the vote the “native sons.”” After t countrics has been teac! English and it wa is done, the all the schools can will be—continued. \ ng of in Latin-Amer | fosterea by lall rignt as Irole of the | got out the an Uncle Sam, be—probiably long as we enacted the | when W ther; big big stick, however, the | Send all communications 10 Iun Editor, care of the New Herald, aud your letter will be forwarded to New York Too, Folks! umbrell for the kind at we mind, A pocket-hook’s the only thing; hy WILL folks Spring!! gct engaged in Nice Honeymoon by Phen book says that a i person can do without food for 69 let's get marri We'ld be happy for two months, any- imma Bielitz FUN SHOP NEWS WEEKLY | harmony changed to static, F dF . G oowee e sen noice 0 1 FACES and Fanctes | «n tmprovement in Central and ’ W { days.” | g A 5 | Jac Sou ne i trade is to be! « o [ Eout A mEDSE PRt | Two chief characteristics of cur | achleved it is up to the state de-) qeu; The sex and the sax. | way partment. FRERERY | l ¥ T T I on the rotten | | THE STATE OF MAINE two. 1 1 They say the state of Maine is T oy e R e (1 Iso something like a state of mind. | one-quart stomach in the old days | WHI | hold seven pints of beer? | = the state something n the There must be claim. As is well of Maine has prohibited the expor- | known It's fair enough. You seldom s a houschold in which the boss is the one with the least intelligence do so. The legislature of it Maine attempted to | tation ot electric power and con- | | tinues to the state of abrogate this stringent law but the governor vetoed the bill after it was | passed and the legislature did not muster sufficient strength to pass it over the governmental veto. Thus Maine will continue 1o bar exports of power—and it must be remem- | bered that Maine is New England’s whe can a carcer was just a for good looks. An old-timer is one member when substitute Al | for A Ur 1oy e definite rsonali u Financ| » flivvers and tt Come northward on their summer dash, {The bank cashicr: Continuc goin 1 - summer hirds in many towns £ south-——with cash! v e Pschological knames, s vs a psychologlst, guides towards people’s ou knev Smith's nickname doesn’'t stand . Missi perfectly well that . . Gir Four-fifths of all the missing girls Have bobbed hs | A Jot of them have hid themselves il their hair grows out! r—well, no doubt greatest reservoir of hydro-electric e | possibilittes. It she thinks love essential to | Crime | The remuinder of New England | happiness, she hasn't tried it yet. | MOSt men play golf for love of the i g e, says @ el oss] = has had some cause to be irritatcd T game, says a well-k Wwn prof ion, difference between @ sweet- | power from New rdraft be no export of is a matter of fricndship. | Aired Bronswick to Maine. The idea, it —_— seems, works hoth ways. | Beauty shop: A place i | to crase the work don It would seem that Maine has an | casy way out of the difficulty by setting up its own power machinery ! in the counties. Havin: rthe water in plenitude, why not Personality is the quality that | enables you to get five dollars more from the same fed-up acquaintance. divor northern There's one unique thing ahout a year Pansy's Wednesday n a . Mrs ed Monday Contempt Court, ob wedded bl argument school committee; that all this (00K | hoceess the enterprise to bulld the | gentloman, He never trios to inipress - Iplace at the time without the|yower houses, instead of relying up- !‘H\r- insignificant with his import- | Mr. Jazzius C knowledgs of Mills; that if there |on tne Canadians? | ance. d to his bed n was any legitimate dissatisfaction | i i . = g { to Oscor Allen i : = | | A hick town fs a place where yon with Mills he was not Eiven 8} LpoGRESS IN LITTLE RHODY | can't criticise anybody without of- | N chance 10 appear before the board | constitution | fenAInE 47 people vou didn't know | Tester Whish nd give his stde, | Anyway, the entlre school system {in Plainville appears destined to b i..n.-mr-d, The resignations appear to ! be as numerous as there are teach- | ers. Citizens, of course, are privi- l-ged to think that either the school committea is right or that the teachers are right; we have an {dea that most citizens will side with the and that will a good v be vachers y asked of inted questions too tightly | Politics in the conduct of 4 town’s Tschool plant is a poor example of « spitit. ever w “No charges against the retir superinten the school committee ch n an- i “The commitiee regretted to have him leave after the splendid {work he had done here for the past 14 yeurs" | “Politica forced me out,” says the {retiring superintendent, blaming E. Brastow, alleged “dictator” of the board’s polic wploy e Trumbull Polities, if xists in his up aval, evidently tlows from high | WHEN TRADE DIES Seeretary of Commerce Ioover, in nying that he intends to 1 trip to Central and South Amer- in an effort to ement I'an trade relations,” il opportunity to consider the state in is vast Atlantic used to have Amertean trade 18 the Nie {egan to slump in that see- As soon flag was shown in ragua all the remainder of ¢ Latin-Amcrican countries. We nothe same fix as England: When trede in any of the ontlyi cctions bexing to slump we feel like tak stice and frying to dis- over the reason why. | situation is ensy of analysis CThe comerce department, with an eye bent upon commerce, Las been inclined to find fault with the way |the state aepartment nas summed school committce if its members | n't succeed in shutting themselves | I The Rhode Island were related to him, » de Darktown baseball team, Day and eve, De poli say they di . e Argue Piddle was in Judge Pullman’s after three weeks ind A seventeen- xt week, according Poe, who missea four chickens Saturday morning, r, flashy shortstop ting: “I'll see my lawyer about this. | control which reformers usually ex- | fellow beings. He not only vigorously « tom fi 5 yea more t ave | o i aine. 3 3 3 r m for 15 years or more to DAYC |t e attitnde of Maine; but the |y it LG Sl o ls that the | Some of the men we have gonc newspaper representatives at the .arapyl comservators of Maine's ! gwoetheart usually savs: “You or- | around with scem to play it for |meoting; they should always be Wel- natural resources point out that the | der.” [ spite ! comed it they wish to attend. [1ig power companics are en- e | e | Now one finds that in Plainville, | gqe0q in relentle ergors of in- | Allenated affectlons: Something __Sports . gaged in relen IMGIES that happens when groundiing A guy in North Nukota state where the school commitice refused state resources, If the big POWEr \who is hored sees a bigger pocket- Has 40 children in a row. cntrance to pr companies, it is argued, cowld get look. That guy's the champlon papa school upheaval s In progr 1 hold of Maine's power resources, —_— | now— : 4 R If they pitch horse shoes for the | Well, ¢ he's not a pro! cient of the whys and wherefore | e Akl for ot uld Mg et ith;s b = [vnat a eI GOnwRoE B o ditement Tnjtandiotd ik e artise | Gy are known 1o arouse consternation | o We pause to refiect, and are - ir's a village—not a resort. e among the citizenry. All that the | uined to agree. = | “What's your name? school committee wished 1o hide, | Tpe power trust would do very| Americanism: "I huilt it r ‘: “Jack Jones, sir.” T4 r6uuh more neeln s lihecomo i e tornus | ile T s | cnl B laatasion s us thought it might be ublic crty. The names of some | S L 3 1 do. Jack Horner when I saw you stick DULHosptopariys names of SOMe | gywn pockets. The people in the re- | vour thumb in my bowl of soup!” prominent men will undoubtedly be | |oindar of this tier of states would | Tere's a harder question thar iy {linked with politics alleged to have ! ot get any cheaper power, either, vowll find in any popul quiz | Items From the Darktown News been played. The truth will out, and 3 oy ik St 1o ehient of mevgeritle | hf]o‘kr: “What beeame of last monthv's | ’n__ lited by :m_»lx ,r.lm ll-'mrmn) o A SR S ) ) ary? Super 1 by Paul 8. Powers’ much more besides. Thut will be| e provines of New Brunswick, | l T the unfortunate part of the affair. |y owaver, which lies just to the north | The nse of glands won't do the Mrs. Bovine Tubb suffered pos It iy always best for a public bo‘ly‘or Maine, has & No. 11 Kick coming, | T8c® @ 1ot of good until they Jocate | sible cxternal Injurics while taking | S B o g e o tha make nan a sucke | reducing n & 6 play withitio Spunito Uyi planing| 76t sooniy iat inoptiieent Majhie ds | (U EaS HIRIISEGS MR SAREiEE 10 Cedusing iexerdiss AlonTey A M G el 5 Ling : - - | rolling through de cciling and 1 to dllathescardason the table; When porty power from New Brunswick, | A Tom-boy girl may distress her [ de hreakfast table ob Mr. Algy Cin- [that isn't done suspicions are arous- | unq ir there is to be no cxport of mother at times, hmt ~she'll mever ders, who occupies de apartment {ed, and rightly so. | water from cerfaln northern Maine | helP fill up a ward in a “home." | just below. The resignation of Lewls S. Mills g e e o nay | St e lakes, rivers and dams, there may| 4 pick town is a place where an | Two gallons was stolen from Mr. will be confin- | i | Automobiles must keep in the | street and shall be disqualified if they take to the sidewalk. Cou- verscly, pedestrians wandering into | Jutes from 1842 and it stipulates | e Uit el that only persons possessing $134 | Correct this sentence: “I'm a nor- | batted by Dabe Rufus worth of land are allowed to vote : mal human of forty,” said he, “and | local slugger, during practies | on questions of taxation. A person | ""‘y’ have written a letter to & | nesday T M. an: fdea ol de foree reat man with which Mr. Whisker was in i an ca te f tate . he 1997 ) 3 netiomning flandican Note onEx Copyright, 1927, Publishers | contact with be obtained from officers, for the mayor or selectmen, yndicats {de fact dat de hall struck him in but cannot vote for municipal offi- r— e | mach and bruised his back- crs who appropriate money; or if | | | o o e i€ lives in a town, he ot pa edrs go loday | Ui ta ticipate in the town meeting decid- | T is,unaware ob de identity of de ing financial questions. A fine, anti- e & SN person which bursted into my Day lquaten taw: wwell say: i :H"" “‘r“iy‘“!‘;” ! {” ”"” and Night Club and escapaded with st ¢ < which had,all the ear-{ 1o gallons ob joywater, but this is Under such 1sth century doctrine | imarks of a SRR ATED. Diia = e ) nder such 18th cen e narks of an incendiary. The oldgre thing which—the first colored L landless person who owned securi- | residence formerly @wned by Dro Al porsonality whom T see acting hapny tics, had money in the bank, and 'l‘- Johnson nlyh) sold by him 10| ypder dishonest pretenses, him will James Canfield was burned te 6|7 ohast full extent = had a substantial income generally i b 1t theiy chastise to de full extent ob my : {ground. The house has been un-|cirensth, —Airedale Pansy, Prop. rom his purtleipation In €Orpori- | gecupied and its owner had made| 7 tion activities, would be denied the | arrangements to move it to another| Tighly Personal! Tt this want ad | right o vote on taxation matters, | Site. TJtis said that a man was scen | does not concern you please do not He would be a heavy tax ;,,fl,,n‘;!\f'r;n)[:':n\':::- (‘v:'rx:u‘m“ )m'\k" -‘vr‘rl- read further, and this means you!! . |1y hefore the fire broke ou on- Honey Boy, Tloves you passionately, {true; but, you see, he wouldn't be | . 5 S SR 3 5 true; you n't by | siderable excitement was ercated in | and if you understands what dat owning land. | Maple Hill. The house was insured | word means come around next Rbode Island is trying to do away | for about $500, which is probably Jfonday Nigh! Your ie, Dizola with this ancient system. It has be- “-““‘;“ m ‘l'i“ Joarel A anager Howard Hurt of the| Personal! Cacsar, evervthing is all come a lustrial commeonswealth | p % § : g e s ILUIRILY Russell & Erwin plant has decided [ vight. Mamma and I have papa tied | in which thousands find themseclves |to install in that factory the restaur- ' in de cellar. Come back and get disfranchised in regard to taxation |ant system which has proved so ! your hat. Lulu. = matters, yet every last one of them |ficcessful at the Stanley Works. | s |"the matter is in « e of B. B.| pays taxes lu some form, directly o | poccarye Arrangement 1 bel| indircetly { made for feeding 300 mer mmngi [ o provlem 1s without fte | the noon hour. * FUNNY LOOKIN' GUY THAT!” racial complexitics, however, The v, Lucien Boinowski made Y Springtisla Ropiblioan, whils agree- | L oocon KAy to bulld o new Polisn | Catholie church on Broad street, It ing the $134 property qualification |will cost about $ 0 | |is a remnant from the 18th century, | A select andience attended the | prints this illuminating paragraph: | Chtertainment arranged under 1he | auspices of J. Worner Oland at the | : “In recent years the tention | ¥ M. O. A, last evening. M. Ol 'i | 14 S Al R T @ an entertaining sketch | of the proper A e | A e LR l'“)” '_"‘r The first mecting of the new light- Bl e s of Kabpiny | IDE comumittes, of which D, Meiil-| | O O P |1an is chairman, was held Jast eve- | | > pa. |MbE The chairman explained the| ikl ) Toe 'vx{‘“n: | failure to renew the contract | | hiem 4”: i f'vm 2 . {the electric light company. The| e o b ot L. |sitvation s this: The clectric con | tween cortain French-Cunadian | beay hus semcthing s ups and Bishop IHickey over 1890, The eity ‘won't v $90. F B acling of the Bagnsh |t can't go elsewhore. The only | el T s course to be followed is that of de- language in the ¥rench paro- Ty | chial schools throws some lizht "Ml Hart\yas the mason contract on the Rhode Island situation | SR T NER ai e find) fexplalng ol dogrostwhny: IS EHEGHINIEBRE D W CEAR S ipERSon —— [ A movel way of setiling a labor L (IS o eher e oaion dispute has becn discovered here, ¢! Query . | ton LA W. Holmes employed five non-union| My wife, little girl, and myself | | workmen, and the union protested | got into a street car, contention, then, resolves it | d v g : { TR gE b, Ll IVes At | ealled off all union workers on| Thers heing only scats for two, self into a battle n ti -4 hig contracting jobs. €. W, Holmes| [ ood, being th tive sto i the “alien stock” [ & Co. has now b incorporated | in for control of the taxation system;|by Mr. Holmes and the.five who thu »asked my little girl, “who | aniln cation, | 1eCHRTCally, beeoms cmployers. The s Pa going to spank with that strap e S concern will einploy only union ! when he gets it off the rods tock” is It sweel men, o —Idward A. Basler only strap-hanger | president of the electric company, | could not entertain his motion be- { views they ! oceurrea —THE OB 33828533834330 pring and the silly scason seem to be coterminous, if this word from | passengers when green lights flash the lexicon of geographes may be| A wrecked motorist shall continue borrowed just this once. This re-|to play as a pedestrian. mark is prompted by the statemen made by Alderman J. Gustav John son at the meeting of the common council Wednesday cvening when ! Makes Random Observations On the City and Its People | SERVER— course and shall stop to take on Scoring shall be as follows: for cach green light passed without be- | ing forced to wait, 1+ point; for cach red light passed without being was ruled out of order Ly Mayor ' caught, & points; for ecach pedestrian il‘rosflu’.\n 13! R, R UNDERPASS ONCE CONSIDERED But New Britain Wouldn't Pay $20,000 for the Job Decision of the city plan commis- sion to discontinue movement for extension of Monroe street through to Glen street, thereby creating highway which would a Weld, A motion was before the struck or frightened to death, 2| pacs no railroad tracks at grade, re- louse for discussion when Alder- | points; for cach car defeated dn |l R man Johnson had a suggestion to ! jockeying for position, 1 point; for | CAl!S to mind another similar im- i | provement coutemplated more than make, and made it. The presiding cfficer ruled him out of order and | D promptly took umbrage, exclaim- | Members of the council should know, and most of them do krow, that there are certain rules of pro- cedure which must be observed in | all parliamentary bodies, In fairness ‘o all, these rules are usually ad-| hered to strictly, Occasionally they have been ignored, right in the ! itain common council, but greater part of the time the manual guldes proceedings of the | Lody. It Alderman Johnson would | stop to think for a moment, he | would. realize that the coyneil cause there was already a subject under discussion on a previous mo- | tion. Dut it s the height of silliness for him to declare that he fntended 10 see his lawyer about it. No onr prerogatives were usurped, no one's privileges restricted. The presiding | officer was in the right and ¥ iustified in telling Alderman John- son to keep quiet. This, it is be-| lieved, Is the first time a member of the common council has threat- cned to consult his legal advisor concerning a ruling by the presiding officer and it should be the last, unless based on reason. i | | 1t has been obscrved frequently | that people who insist so strongly on temperance are themselves in- | temperate in their expressions of | opinfon. They demand temperance | in one thing but when the lose their | tempers because the rest of the world will not coincide in théir indulge In intemperate | vituperation and tivade. | A recent instance of this situation | when the refiring presi- dent of a reform organization reck- | lessly abandoned his pen to the de- | i nunciation of his fellow eitizens, many of whom disagree with him on the suhject of the advisability of retining the prohibition law on the federal book of statutes. His case is illustrative of the lack of hibit when their pet hobbies and theorles are not acceptable to their | flayed public officials but included | the greater part of his fellow eiti- of splcen and choler, cxpressing dis- gust because they had been cold to- rd his policies An attitude of this kind is gencral amongleaders of reform movements, | Ithough there are exceptions, pleasant exceptions. That, perhaps, | is Why reformers have a minority | for a following and lose part of that | minority as their schemes are exe- | cuted. ! The resignation of tha president of the reform organization here is generally accepted as a confession on his part that the movement has | been unsuccesstul. He admits as wuch in his acknowledgement that sentiment against the prohibition amendment is almost lacking and that cooperation by the public dovs not exist. This is the most serious Dlow the reformers have yet suffer- ed in New Rritain, Whether they will be able to carry on their pro- gram remains to he scen. The pity of it Is that other members of the organization who want to he fai must suffer in the publie cstimation from the intemperate remarks of their leader., A new game is suggested by the operation of the new maze of signal lights about the center. It might he callad “Fast and West,” or “Motor- ist and Pedestrian” or “Run the untlet,” or any of those swell names, It is played by any number of persons from one to infénity with a tra cop or electrical switch- hoard as judge and timekeeper. The of the game is to go from given starting point to some destination with the least ops. A few simple rules Dlished, as follow object any ted number of 1 be est the street shall, be automatically uled out of the game by the attend- ing physician. When a green light shows, a car «hall be allowed to go. If one pass- es a red light the judging officer | <hall give a warning and on second | offense shall penalize the fouling | player by $5 and cost Four feels will bring about suspension of oper- ator's license and banishment from the game. Passing an amber light | will result fn a severe “fie! fiel” | from the nearest officef-linesman. All plavs must be through center; no end runs around unlighted dis- tricts shall be allowed. | The judge may change signals at | any time without announcing his intention: the players will then go | into huddle and be straightened ont ) by the wreckers, A car skidding down West Main street hill past the light at the pos office corner must go back and be- gin over. Trolley cars shall he scattered at all otherwise open points along the Observation The modern young fellow scems 1o be more interested in bride-win- ning than in bread-wining! ucks “Young Oh Boy! { Alan: Potter is a lucky bird.” George: “In what way?" Alan: “Well, in a necking way George: “How is that? Alan: “You sece, his father s and he ean have the power turned off whenever he wants to!™ —\ ! the end of a frayed cord and we had I which led off from the macadam, {zens in his sweeping demonstration | TeSiden | the price of gasoline {on Sunday for a ride usually loads inews to citizens who were looking officer passed without your number heing caught, 4 points; for failing in the last requirement, — 125 points and ejection from the game. | The first person to reach his des- | tination shall be declared the winner and shall be arrested for spceding. With the warm weather comes the | urge of the automobile owner to| wear down the cords on his new tires in an endeavor to commune with nature while trying to pass out i a five ton truck on a crowded high- | way. We thought we'd be different from the regular automobilist who picks the main highways and scl- dom gets out of sccond gear becass of the crowd, so we blithely turned down an entrancing little side road | which promised us adventure and | seenery galore. The entrancing little highway which promised so much, led into af littered farm yard, through a large | red barn and into a marshy mea- dow. We backed and turned under a steady gaze of a farmer, farmer's | wife and cight small farmer chil- | dren. A dog helped matters im- mensely by straining anxiously at | visions of forty pounds of canine| making the jump of the side of our low snappy roadster. (You know— snapy the back of your head off on cvery bump.) We were back on the highway 2nd turned left at the next road although it didn’t look as Inviting as the last false alarm. After a quar- ter of a mile of the worst road hed | since the war, we found ours€lves Joubling back on our trail and alded a strong wind from the south- the road succeeded in bringing | us back to the highway some fifty vards distant from the starting place. Turning into the main artery we lost a fender and found out that women drivers can swear on occa- | sion. We tried another and ran Into a mud hole a trifle deeper than Hug- gins Gorge. Aid was summoned from surrounding farm houses and the neighborly residents of that section | combined their efforts towards get- | ting us out, only charging us $2.50 for the use of a horse and tow rope. Later we discovered that the mud Jole was an annual affair with the of that road, the hazard heing a steady source of pin money for the horse and rope salesmen of | that locality. : On the fourth attempt to view the pristine beauty of Connecticut's | woodlands, we had a flat tire in front of a farm house contalning ap- | proximately fifteen curious children. When we finally got away we felt | like the United States Burcau of | tics and Information. Also the inevitable dog had given us some Vad moments while echewing Te- flectively on our right ankle. It was a great day. The low and | snappy roadster took a terrible heating until we finally decide to give it all up and take the rest of the journcy with the spesdometer hovering dangerously close to eight miles an hour on the main highway. Automoebile owners of New DBrit- | ain would like an understandable answer to their frequent query why is higher in ihis city than elsewhere in this part of the state. There may be a rea-| <on for it; they would like to know that reason. \e owner of a car who starts ont up his gasoline tank at a local st tion before hitting the trall. Refore he drives far he hegins to notice that the price of gasoline fn other citics and towns is lower than what is charged in his home community. He growls, if he is human, but re- peats the performance on the fol- {light of later d lowing Sunday, buying his supply before he leaves. In fairness to drivers. the oil com- l panies should issue statement give o the difference in | ing reasons for | prices. It cannot ba the cost of | transportation because gasoline may | cities farther | Tt is, be bought cheaper in from the source of supply. generally known that the state is zoned but why the price in the New Britain zone Is higher than elsewhere has never heen explain- ed. Announcement that the city plan commission has abandoned its pro- jected cxtension of Monroe street to Glen strect will be disappointing forward to a thoroughfare from the west end of the city to the south end which would make unnecessary a trip through the business section. The commission explains that own- ers of property which it wowld be necessary to acquire to link Monroc street with Ellis street, at Glen, have made their prices prohibitive. Thus through the cupidity of a few, an arrangement which would be a bene- fit to the community must be glven up after being under advisement for referred to asked a reasonable in- crease in prices there would be no objection hecause property values in the immediate neighborhood will go up when the street is_extended, it will be some day. But their de- mands are so stiff that the commis- sion is thoroughly disgusted. It 18 noticcable that many 100 per cent patriots forget the community when it would serve their own finan- cial intcrests to do so. They can wave the flag as long and as high the rest of their fellow citizens when the occagion arises but when their own pocketbooks are involved [their patriotism 1s dissipated by selfishness. The board of education has a ai- Irect way of ‘treating with property owners who try to stand in the w lof school improvements. A threat to condemn the needed property us- ually has a gratifying result. H. 1%, Bartlett (Copyright, 1927, Reproduction Forbidden) READ HERALD CLASSIFIED ADS 40 years ago, but dropped. The plan referred to was a pro- posed extension of Center strect through to Church street. In the v estimates of costs for public improvements, the $20, 000 which would have been re- quired seems a ridiculously small | igured—yet the city fathers of that day stroked their heards and de- termined town finances would not stand the strain and the work could not be done, $20.000 Then $1,000,000 Now Today with the changed contour of our highway and the uses of the properties it would traverse, the job is practically an impossibility, at least it would seem to be imprac cal, and the work would require an outlay of parhaps a million dollars, Shortly after the town became in- corporated into n city. farsighted citizens recoznized the fact that Main strect would in days to coms be an overcrowded artery of travel nd business and they forecast a brilliant future for sofe other street paralleling the main artery at a point not too distant. Main street at that time had been built up to a certain extent. It was a reasonable presumption that prope erty owners would not consent to re- moval of their buildings and pension of their business for a greet length of time. The Main street railroad crossing was recognized as a menace to travel and a block to continuous business dis- tricts. Center street, on the other hand, was not built up. The rail- road crossover could be eliminated by making an underpass with a gradual drop beginning ‘at the in- tersection of Fast Main street and continuing past Church street and through the then unoceupicd tracts into South Main street. Traffic from Stanley quarter and from Kensing- ton to the south would be connect- od without the track problem, it was sus activities | set forth R. R. Wi A few pu d Pay Half ie spirited citizens had the initiative to go dircctly to the Haven” railroad for an audi- nce and discussion of the plan. After considerable investigation and preparation of maps, profiles and the like, it was detcrmined that the plan was a f Engine s in the city employ and those of the railroad then set to estimating, It was agreed that $40.060 would he noeded to create the underpass, Some further discussion was produc. tive of an offer bear one-half the expense with the city to pay the remainder. The plan went to the commion council, The delays in reaching a deci | before that hody resulted in a cool- ing of the public defnand and even- tually the plan was dropped as too expensive and there was little, it at all any, protest by the general public, It 1s now cstimated that Monroe trect can be extended for ahout $25.000, and in addition to the Ligh- way improvement to be ereated there would be some saving in th installation of water mains. Tt seems & trifle premature to look upon Monroe street in its southerly ex- | tremity as a potential zone of traffie of business activity, yot Center street |40 years ago was regarded in the |same light under conditions which 1were not greatly different. Delayed publle improvements often prove costly. Unless it is absolutely un- . to consider the extension there ars many, hearkening back to the Center street incident, who Lelieve further consideration would not be amiss. BOY KILLED BY AUTO New Haven, April 23 (P—Dom- inic Ianotti, 6, of 136 Arch strect, Highwood, met almost instant death in front of his home v when he was struck by an automobile own- yeste ed by €. A. Willoughby and operate ¢l by George Wikt Willians was arrested charged with reckless driving and was rcleased under bonds of £:00. The boy road, highwa machin playing at the side of the suddenly dashed across the and into the path of ths it was said. 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