New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 7, 1927, Page 11

GanflicOfliuuAnTofimtTomAnM and Act to a Hinderance. Berlin, May 7 M~—Construction of traffic towers on the American plan has been undertaken in so many German cities that the ministry of interior has sent out a warning that under a certain point of traffic dens- ity towers are a hindrance. “There can be no objection to the construction - of traffic towers to satisfy the curiosity of the popu- lace,” the order continues, “but it would be wiser not to waste elec- tric current or the efforts of a police officer until there is actually cnough traffic o be regulated.” There are a number of citles of 500,000 population and less which use the light signal system of regu- lating traffic at busy street inter- gections, German Town Offers Hindenburg Castle The president of the German re- public will have & permanent sum. mer capital and vacation grounds at ‘Wilhelmshoehs Castle, near Cassel, it the plans to so designate it finds favor with Field Marshal von Hin- denburg and the cabinet. ‘Wilthelmshoehe was the favorite summer resort of the late Empress Auguste Victoria, wife of Willlam II. The city fathers of Cassel In oftering Wilhelmshoehe as perma- nent summer residence for the chief executive point out that Wilhelms- hoehe is “identified with great his- torical memories” and is “known and famed far beyond the confines of Germany.” They urge that “its unequaled natural location, its unique park — one of the finest in Europe — the healthy mountain air of the Habicht forest and the proximity of the Hes- sian highlands make it an ideal place for recreation.” Film Director Says U. S. Welcomes Ideas Movie fans in the United States are more eager to gobble up any other country, belleves F. W. Mur- nau, German director of “Faust,'” “The Last Laugh” and of the Ameri- can fllm “Sunrise.’ Murnau who is directing one more picture, “From Nine to Nine,” for the UFA in Berlin before he starts a five-year contract with Fox in the States, admits he was agreeably sur- prised at his reception across the At- lantic. | “I had the idea, as so manyofus| Europeans have” he said, “that a director's sure-fire standard of suc- cess was a film of the ‘meet ‘em, love 'em and kiss ‘em’ type. I found that the people crave new and heav- fer plots. ‘The possibilities of movie devel. opment in the United States are amazing because of the financial backing and technical facilities at hand.” Self.Slain Bride Now Called Martyr Charlotte Stieglits, beautiful Be: lin girl choir singer, who nearly century ago stabbed herself to death in the hope that tragedy would re- kindle the flames of poetry in the heart of her husband, is at last to be honored by modern women as a martyr to the cause of emancipation. Charlotte at 17 fell in love with Heinrich Stleglitz, a struggling sfu- dent who showed promise as a novel- ist. They were married in 1827, and shortly afterward Stleglits's first baok, “Pictures Out of the Orlent,” caused a sensation. He was acclaim- od another Goethe. But after six years of supreme marital happiness his inspiration fagged. The young wife overheard the family physician tell her husband that he needed a soul upheaval to shake him out of smug lethargy. That night Charlotte put on her bridal gown and stabbed herself in the heart. Stieglitz,-driven partlally insane with grief, was never able to write again. L) Search is now being made for Charlotte’s grave so that women's organizations may erect a memorial monument. Says American News - Style Is or Dr. sek Chvalkovsky, the new Czecip-Slovak minister to Ger- many, thinks European newspapers ought to adopt the American sys- tem of telling the main peints of an occurrence in the very first sen- tence. “When T was attached to our le- gation In Washington,” he told the Associated Press, “I had an oppor- methods. I am convinced that for our day and age the American method of telling the busy reader the gist of the whole story in the (opening paragraph is the best {method. “It is all well and good for Europ- can journalists to write beautiful es- says leading up to a climax. But we are living in too rapid an age. We in Europe want to know as quickly as yvou do in America just what has taken place. The attend- ant eifcumstances can then be left jfor more leisurely reading.” Berlin Has Yankee Branch Post Office The American institution of post office stations in large department stores, hitherto unknown in Ger- many, has been adopted by a leading house on the Potsdamer Platz. The {nnovation is regarded as |much of a novelty and attracts many “shopprrs. This first department store post office is listed officially as Sub- station No. 114, Berlin (West), and has the same sort of equipment as ithose in American department stoves. ——| PARIS MR The Salary Paid President Coolidge is French Executive. Paris, May 6—President Gaston Doumergue of the French Republic gets practically the same pay as President Coolidge. President Doumergue gets 2,500,- 000 francs a year, which, figuring the franc at about 25 to the dollar, amounts to approximately $100,000. It the French currency should start to imprové rapidly, M. Doumerque would have a sizeable advantage over Presldent Coolidge, who gets 375,000 salary and $25,000 for trav- eling and entertainment. The French president’s entour- age claims that the two and a half millfon francs allotted their chiet Jjust about suffices to make ends meet. While his traveling expenses are normally less than Mr. Cool- idge's, he has-to entertain, they assert, on a far more lavish scale, When it is taken into account that he must provide champagne and other non-Volsteadian beverages for all .his official receptions there scems to be ground for that as- sumption. Old French Law Bars Broadcasting Piracy Authors’ rights are protected by law from broadcasters’ piracy by a French law of 1791, in the reign of Louis XVI, a century before wire- less became practical. Maurice Privat, who has been broadcasting from the government station in the Efffel tower, was or- dercd to pay 3,000 francs damages in a test case. The court laid down the princi- ples that radio broadcasting is a performance; that authors’ royal- ties apply at the point of emission, and that jlstener's-in constitute an audience. S It was held further that if the program s received in private, and also in a public place, that there are two separate audiences and that they must be accounted fo in getting authors’ or composers’ authority to use their works. Monument Planned For Dumb War Dead A monument to the “mute mar- tyrs of the war,” the animals kill- ed in battle, has been proposed by a group of French sculptors, all war veterans, who have tentatively agreed to compete for the honor of making it. 2 The statue, as at present plan- ned, would feature the artillery and cavalry horses, so0 often vic- tims of destructive shell fire; the plodding army mules, the famous lelgian “machine-gun-dogs,” who carried forwar®@ tripods, guns and belts strapped to thelr sturdy backs, and, of course, the carrier pigeons, who were not Infrequently vietims of devotfon to duty. Regl- mental and eompany mascots would also figure in the ensemble, Tt i= hoped the monument can be rompleted and cast in time for the tenth anniversary of the Armistice, in 193¢ | | Claims New Dances Develop 0Odd Gaits French devotees of the Charles- ton and the Black Bottom develop a peculiar manner of walking, ac- cording to a Parls critic. Charlestoners, he said, develop what he describes as 'knock knees,” while the habitual Black Dotomers attaln an unconscious double shuffle of the ball of the foot. The “Charleston” walk. says the critie, has become a recognized feature of the promenade along the great Parisian boulevards. Strange- ly enough, he adds, the American don’t scem to have attained it. Hoe thinks that is because the preva. lence of sport in America provides in itself an easy, graceful carriage that defies the influence of exotic dance steps. Telegraph Printers For Paris Police Paris police are to get their secret orders and receive gencral dragnet alarms on printing telegraph ma- chines. For many years a regular Morse system of telegraph wires has con- nected headquarters with every district office. Every police “brig- adler,” or chief of a squad, was re- quired to know enough of the wire code to receive and send. This was for secrecy, as telephone con- nection might be overheard. Unfortunately the brigadicr often tad to do some work, and when he left the office the telegraph sounder clicked unheard by under- standing cars. French Girls Prefer To Do ‘Women’s Work" French girls prefer dressmaking, millinery and similar *“women's work™ to the “dresscd-up” jobs of stenographer -and saleswomen. A third of the Paris girls grad- uated from trade schools are dress- makers and only one in 25 seek training as a stenographer or secre- tary. Girls outnumbered the boys two to one in these schools, which graduate approximately 1,000 well trained young ‘pcovle cach year. Paris Jay-Walkers To Get P. G. Course “Pedestrian Day” is shortly to be staged by the police torgive jay- walkers a post-graduate education. Every law and every ordinance is to be strictly enforced by traffic officers and every violation wifl be noted. Offenders probably will be informed of their gullt but arrested only in extreme cases. Pedestrians, generally, are “fair- ly good,” the city traffic commis- slon has agreed, after a recent vey of the streets and inspeec- on of police records, but further improvement 1s considered possible READ HERALD CLASSIFIED ADS b FOR YOUR WANTS tunity to study American newspaper ; NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD. SATURDAY, MAY. 7, 1927. Petting Parties Are Now Being Banned From Motion Pictures Shown in England. Petting Parties Now Baaned from Movies London, May 7 — Petting party participants at the London movie theaters have been trembling in itheir seats because of an edict of the cinema managers that lingering at the pictures must cease. The managers maintain they lose a lot of money in ticket sales be- cause hand holding lovers stay hour after hour on one admission fee, especlally during damp or rainy weather. There are two other classes of cinema patrons who cause the managers considerable worry. Per- aons extremely fond of music often stay to hear the orchestra or organ while people stand outside in queues. Another “nuisance,” in the managers’ eyes, consists of those who go to sleep. The managers aver that it the practice of these patrons, particu- larly the petting parties, does not desist, they will be compelled to devise a system of punching tick- ets after each reel or emptying the theater each time before beginning another film. ‘Wild Animals Haunt London After Dark London, the world's largest city, is still bothered by wild animals now and then owing to fits rapid extension into the rural districts. Wild animals driven from their making weird noises, which often alarm the unsophisticated resi- Owls { makers. hold first Rabbits and hares are plentiful in all the suburbs, King- ston in particular, where they gam- bol on the tram lines at times. Hedgchogs abound at Wimbledon and Roehampton, and at several points within ten miles of Plcca- |dilly foxes ‘have been sighted by motorists. Weascls, stoats, foxes, hares, hedgchogs, sly badgers and slier polecats are sighted within-the Greater London area from time to time. Even deer stray cityward from Epping forest occasionally. English- Hotels Judged By Odors Even blind men can classify an English hotel the moment they en- ter it, in the opinion of Max Pem- berton, the novelist. Pemberton believes hotels can best be judged by their smells. If the odor of beer and boiled cab- bage meet one at the front door of an inn, Pemberton says, it is inva- riably a third-class hostelry and probably the bar is its chief fea- ture. Beware of any hotel where the i smells tell you what the Dbill of fare is before you enter the dining room, is Pemberton's warning to nativq haunts by the house builder | come back at night to prowl about, | dents, who are mostly city reared. | place as noise | travelers. Proposals to replace all old fash- foned fireplaces in the Houses of Parllament with steam heat radi- ators have gotten a very chilly re- ception. i There are 800 fireplaces in the famous Westminster building, most- ly in members’ and committee rooms. All wintepra force of fire lighters is kept busy tending them. The chambers of both the House of Commons and the House of Lords are heated by steam, as are the cor- ridors. Statesmen maintain that there is nothing like an open fire as an aid to inspiration, also that the fire- place is a splendid ventilator. Be sides, the members say, their con- stituents from the country would never feel at home seated in a steam heated room for a nice, homey chat. Banks Troasure Note Collections Many London banks possess col- lections of old bank notes, prac- tically valueless as oxchange, but much sought after by collectors. The finest examples of old Eng- 1lish notes are to be seen at the In- stitute of Bankers, in Bishopgate, | London, which contains thousands of notes issued during the past two centuries, In this collection are examples | from the original Bank of England £1 and 15 issues, a Bank of Scot- land note dated 1731 for 112 Scots (f1 sterling), a note for 13 pence Irish (1 shilling sterling). | which was issued in 1804 by a Cork grocer, Denis O'Flyn, and & 5 note issued by the Corporation of Liver- pool in 1794. Other curiosities 5 shillings and 2 shillings and 6 pence issued by the Birmingham poorhouse, and others issued by a | Wednesbury manufacturer redeem- able in pounds of rod iron. are notes for Only Yiddish Show In London Closed The curtain has been rung down | on London's only Yiddish theater, which has en known as the “Drury Lane” of the East End. | The Pavillon Theater, built in Whitechapel Road in 1828, is to be converted into a super-cinema. The house has been used for TYiddish drama since 1910, but recently has got been profitable. The last play was “The Un- | known,” Mme. Fanny Waxman and | her Yiddish repertory company making their farewell appearance as the troupe is to disband. Mme. | Waxman, speaking in Yiddish, told of her efforts to prevent the thea- | ter closing and thanked the gal- | leries for their loyal support. She |added that she belleved it was a disgrace that the Jews in a city the size of London could not sup- port a theater of their own. CITY NOW HAS 14 GRADE CROSSINGS New Britain's Railroad-Traffic Problem a Great One The city of New Britaln is known throughout the state as a place where there are more dangerous railroad crossings probably than any other single community in Con- necticut. A survey shows that with the railroad lines passing right through the heart of the ci are numerous crossings wher accidents happen every d Every so often, the city is shock- ed by the news that someone has ' been killed or badly injured at this or that crossing and tion of the public at thesc points where the trains run through, is one of the biggest problems facing the near Slowly but surely the time is coming when elimination of the grade crossings in this city must be studied with the serlous intent of climinating them because of the congested traffic and the ever in- |ereasing number of automobiles in | nut, Park and Whiting streets. Here | use. 14 Crossings In Line Starting from Main street and passing either East or West, one finds in a short area 14 railroad crossings passing over streets nm‘} are more or less extensively use by the travelling public. Starting from the passenger depot travelling along the Hartford line cast, one comes to KIm strect. Here a convergenge of the main line to Hartford with the Berlin junction line and several other switching lines, makes the crossing ond of the self, is exceptionuily wide ana with traffic fairly heavy at this point, automobiles and teams can do no more than travel slowly over it in passing up Elm street. Further on, one comes to Stanley street. Here one passes north over the main line to Hartford while on the North side is the junction of Franklin and Stanley streets making the crossing a danger spot at all times of the day and night. Travelling on, the Fast Main street crossing Is reached. Here again in the main line to Hartford and the crossing is not thought to there | the protec- | railroad company and city officials, | worst in the state. The crossing, it- | Ihe as dangerous as the others. The Smalley street crossing is similar to | that at Fast Main street. All of these mentioned, are protected hy gates which are lowered by an at- tendant on duty from 7 a. m. to 12 o'clock midnight. East Street Situation On the same line, one reaches what is thought to be the most | dangerous crossing in the city, | where Allen street goes into East | and East street continues out fo Clayton. A warning bell has been placed here to tell of approaching trains but most of the time, this | serves little in stopping autoists as they approach the spot. The traffic bureau of the Cham- { ber of Commerce has had the elim- | | ination of at least one of thesc { crossings in mind for sorhe time. A | plan has been devised whereby the Allen street crossing will probably be cut out entirely and the East street crossing be retained as the only passuge across the tracks at | this point. This should serve to cut danger to a minimum. . Back to the passenger station, | one goes west to meet Washington | street, High street and Curtis street | in succession. All these are also pro- | tected by gates but there is always { the clement of danger lurking every | time a train passes by. | On the Berlin branch line, four | erossings besides Elm wtreet are tn | existence. They are Church, Chest- {because of the continual switching { which 1s carried on from the freight | depot to the center and beyond to | the various manufacturing concerns, | danger to passing persons is natur-- ally increased. ' The narrow escapes, however, are not confined to vehicles, but they |arc counted mostly among the fac- | tory workmen and women. 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At the present time, the elimination of grade cross- ings and therefore all grade tracks, is out of the question because of the prohibitive expense involved. The| raising of the streets in the city 8o | that traffic will pass overhead, has| also been discarded as impracticable. | During the past few wecks, gates have been crashed here and there | by autoists who have been In too | the instances | which occur annually at the cross- | ings in this city. | To those in whose hands the fu.| ture of the city of New Britain| rests, this will be a problem that will have to be solved. Many heads | have been busy at varlous times try-| ing to devise a solution, but as yet | no practicable plan has been de-| vised whereby the city and the rail- | road can both be sure that the lives | of citizens are not in danger. with a laugh Albany was. 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