New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 3, 1927, Page 10

French Aie Drinking Less Now That Wines Are More Costly to Purchase } i Paris, Sept. 3. UP—Greedy | the growers seem to be the most effic- tive temperance workers in France. | Statistics show that high pri have markedly reduced wine drink ing. Ordinary wine has doubled in | price in a year and consumption now is less than two-thirds what wine- presence of women or an elder- Iy man if there is no hat 1o r move Paris To Tear Down O1d Diligence Depot The old station of Pa last or out “diligence,” to be torn down Wa§ a year ago. It is an ancient. besmed harn Wine dealers recognize quite | .0 Hieer v ian dieeN trankly that many persons who Reriof tha city—sctealidithat | drank wine have changed to Walfr 44 hag gorved for nearly f cen- | as a matter of economy. Many oth- 2 | turies. It adjoins the equally antique | n ers water their wine. France consumes abo loris & vear for every person. tneluded - which like- nodern build- Golden Cor il t forty gal give way to nsportation ntil a century ago - lnas by h, hor. k or afoot Four Baths A Year T igence ion Yoused Would Satisfy Them The scarcity of bathtubs af France is often subiect to jokes, hes that ran een Paris fifty miles west of here. in most |1 G sed two diligene but sarcastie critics have a new Yo o020 Biraee fact to give substance to their hu- Heloltlauberee 208, sioining the courtyard, The roof is In the town of Bedarieux, neat wmw.f[ el the southern coast, there are 7,000 | F o ™ (0 Voams. built from | people with very few tubs. A fOr |, ..ince by Philibert de 'Orme, a ward-looking gentleman transform- | . 4 .. 55 1 ed-a villa into a .public bathhouse, | in a spirit of civic pride, relving = | Prince Carol Spends 1 scrip- upon promises of a good mubsctip- | LI CAR TERE | tion list. He met out to get the |*°7 3 | wealthy to buy season tickets good Carol Caraiman, Prinee of Ru- for a bath a week. He finally got |mania, is a lover of books and a thirty-six to agree to take o bath a Dafronof the arts month for a vear. After the first | When Carol was a hoy, his friends few weeks. according to reports of (£ay, he spent all his pocket money the enterprise, the eubscribers re- |for reading. When he became active | verited to primitive ideas of hygiene |In the Rumanian army he found a and demanded part of their tickets library and so fostered reading and te be taken up. |study that he left a distinet intel- “A: bath a month is too often; |lectnal impress on the military classes once every three months is enough,” | they are quoted as saying. In Parls Carol huys hooks Almost The bathhouse finally closed its|daily. His expense for current liter- doors, unable to make a go of the |afture is said to average $50 a week Bathing business, although there | In Rumania he founded the “Car- | | o1 Foundation” to bring lecturers an® musietans to his conntry and to | encourags art and {ntellectual movements, was no competition “No Hat Brigade” Has French Recruits The ‘No Hat Brigdde' is making an impression on Paris. American youths .who parade without head- §ear ‘have .been reinforced by some English and a few timidly daring Yrepchmen who want to be ‘“very sport.” s + The. first hatless man here was yeputed to be Eudeline, manager of Eugene Criqul, who was world's 1ight-welght champion for a few weoks. Some of the sleek-haired summer resort youngsters followed Ris lead at the time but got scant sympathy. Since many Americans and some English have been roam- trigthe streets without hats the French are taking courage, and are | pend on an official's “kindness” for | doubtfully discussing the advant- |a hunting license, comment some ages. critics, and he doesn't have to show The principal objections to the [any “great respect” but merely custom are tradition and the inabil- | conventional, decent politeness. | fty.te make a thoroughly conven- | Seme suggest that the prospertive tional salute. Tt is the opinion of t hunter ought merely to write rigi4 formalists that there can be |the undersigned, ask for a hunting ro merit in standing uncovered in license,” etc. | BERLIN ——— Priest Who Has Reached His 98th Year Still Officiates at 2 Masses French Hunters Discuss Degrees Of Politeness Just how polite one ought to be is debated, sven in France. | A new discussion has heen arous- ed by the obsequious tone of a form that hunters must sign if they wish a license in the Cher Department, in central France. “Monsteur le Prefect: T have the | honor to solicit, through vour kind- ness,” ete., runs the preainble of the form. It coneludes: “And T ask vou | tq aceept the expression of my great respect.” A Frenchman doesn’t have to de- | | Among turbots | { ocean. big Berlin, Sept. 3. (A—Father Heid- | inhabitants of the egger of Holzkirchen, in Lower Ba- |them are sharks, rays, varfa, is the oldest priest in Europe |and sturgeons. and perhaps in the world. Father | The aquarium, with some 50 great Heldegger s 95. He recently cele- tanks shows the complete fauna and brated the 75th anniversary of his flora of the North Sea. There is induction into the priesthood. leven a bank for seals. The pipes that supply the tanks with sea wa- Germany's Deliveries lter are of transparent cellulojd, Under Dawes Plan which is not subject to corrosion. Since September 1, 1024, when | —_— the ‘Dawes Plan went into effect, | “Slim Young Gentlemen” Germany has executed 11,250 deliv- Cause “Putsch” Rumors ery contracts. She has sent to her | Rumors of another “Putsch’™ were former enemies goods to the value | flying about when 2 crowd of young of 892,000,000 marks. | men estimated at more than a thou- The principal deliveries went to sand were seen storming a large France, 4,878 contracts having been executed to the value of 446,00 000 marks. France received around | hall near the Friedrichstrasse rail- way station. It turned out that the had come 103,000,000 marks’ worth of syn- | in response to an advertisement for thetic nitrates and artificial ferti- | “twenty slim young gentlemen of Mzer. besides millions marks' worth | good appearance to take part in a vandeville show.” Only nine passed the test of timber, paper, cattle, machinery and sugar. Belgium ¢ame next with 106,000, | | Berliners Divided On Airplane Weddings 090 marks' worth of goods. chiefly ehemicals. Ttaly received mainly | who { human jsteam or tion of Pilsener from Czechoslovakia and even of English ale and stout Tas risen. On the other hand, the consumption of “Schnaps” in all its varieties seems to be on the wane Beer tax and excise yielded about | $65.000,000 in the last fis Spirits produced approximately 200,000, year. £45, Europe Honors Memory Of German Critic Rarely has a more international ~ —[LONDON]— | tribute been paid than that to Dr. ! Julius Elias, litterateur and art | eritic who died nere. | A jomnt tribute to his merits was | signed among others, by Gerhart Hauptmanr, Arthur Schnitzler, Max Liebermann, Max Slevogt, the two | Renoirs, Pissarro. Tristan Bernard. Tugne-Poe, Sigurd Tbsen and RBjorn Bjornson. | Flias was one of the foremost | authorities on French impressionism and Scandinavian literature. Birth Rate in England Now Has Fallen to Its Lowest Ebb, Records | Indicate | i Tenants In Arrears Object to Publicity. Enfield, a suburo of London. is i1 a turmoil because the town coun- cil has posted notices on the muni- cipally-owned houses whose tenants have failed to pay their rent The town clerk explained to an &ry householders that this procedure as followed only in cases where it 4 been impossible to merve the notices personally to tenants. One happy home was seriously threatened when the notice appear- ed on the front door. The honse | holder had given his wife the rent money, but ehe had failed to turn it over to the town offirfals. Th= chafrman of the tonn council rents are more than £300 in rrears. 2 Dog-Racing Changes TLondon Night Life Greyhound racing. all the go in T.ondon just now, has conipletely al- tered the night life of the city. Since the sport became so popular at the White City, where an eve- ing's contest is often witnessed by 70 or 100.000 persons. Londen may be said to dine fonr times at night. First, there ara the theater-goars take their meals at 6:30 or thereabouts 8o as to have time be- fore going to the play. Immediately aftervard appear the laisurely danc- who dine from £:30 .on. After dancarse come the " as they are called, these com- the ners, ing after the evening races are over, 4 just before the after-theater crowds hegin to arrive for supper. Cafe managers say there has not been guch a definitely new meal- time since theater sunpers were in- troduced in London years ago. Sees Universal Leisure ‘When AtSm is Split.” In half a century or so anvone will have an says Dr. Percy Buck, professor of music in the University of Londen. “In fifty vears from now eve being will have a vast amount of leisure on his hands,” explained Dr. Buck, to the uni- versity teachers attending the sum- mer vacation lecture coyrse. “If once the atom fis split—and that is bound to happen in a cer- hardly | tain number of years—thore will be no need for coal, gas, electric light, anything else like that. Think of it! We will he able to run a train from London to Edinburgh for half a pnny, and to light the whole of London or New York for less than one single penny.” Falls to Recognize Women of His Parich. The Rev. A. Cuming. \icar of Addleston Parish, s in ‘hot water because he cannot recognize the ' “dog din- | ork to do, | ,™Women of his congregation issued an appeal through the parish magazine. “Not 8o long ago I called npon one of my parishioners in the after- | noon and visited with her for about fifteen minutes” the vicar says “An hour later I passed her in the voad and did not know her.” “A woman indoors with her hat | off is'to me an entirely different per- n from wih her hat on. It is the same with girls. The instant they leave school they seem to me to be com- | pletely transmogrified. irocogmzs them no more | Buys Rare Book | For Six Cont. | A copy of “Hocus Pocue - old- {ast book of magic in Engiin, was | found recently by a stage hand on |2 pecondhand book-stall and' bought for six cents | The book is nearly two hundred ! years old. | Only six copies of “Hoeus Pocus” are in existence, three in the coun- try and three in America. Of the other two copies in England. one is the strong box of the Magic Cir- and the other in Jasper Maske- Iynes’ library of 53 valumes of m lltal literature. | England's Birth Rate | At Lowest Mark. Ths birth rate in Engiand and Wales has now fallen below that of | France. With the exception of Swe- 'den, it js the lowest of the principal | European eountries zccording to the | Registrar-General. The birth rate for 1326, was 17.5 per 1,000 population. Exrepting (the rate of 17.7 in 1918 the las' | year of the war, which at that tim= was regarded as phenomenally low that for 1926 is the lowest recorded since the establishment of civil regis- fration {n this country. In view of the continued decline | during the first half of the current year, it is probably that the rate for {1927 will be lower than that for 1318 i | Rice Grass Protects English Coasts. Sea-walls of Fngland heing | protected and aeres of land re- | claimed from the sea through the [ planting of rice-grass. | " Rice-grass was discovered at Southampton in 1570, Tt i3 not only [ of nigh value for pasturage, but it collects the mud. and thus raises the foreshore inch by inch. rapidly both by seeding and growth of roots. Plants are being exported to all parts of the world. A recent con- slgnment w sent to Tasmania The Dutch are using the grass on the coast of Holland. b FLYING HARDEST TOWARD AMERICA Scientists Believe Winds Help Americans fo ¥in Now York, Sept. 3 (A—Notwith- standing the opinion of British mete- orological experts that westward air flights across the Atlantic can hard- Iy hope to escape adverse wind and | fog, and the comment by German newspapers that with the advancing season great risks attach to such an nndertaking, those airmen who have their hearts set on flying to Amer- lira were still going ahead with their the Bremen, which is rtady for a transatlantic flight, in which the air- |plane manufacturer argued against |attempting the venture so late in the season, brought forth the pessimistic |comment of the German press, to- |gether with the uncertainty over the | {fate of tha British plane St. Raphael land the unsuccessful stars of he Bluebird, the Canadian planes, Sir [John Carling and Royal Windsor. and the Bremen and Europa. The feeling of these papers may {be summed up in one of the cap- tions—"'Non-stop flight with one motored land machine, east to west, is gamblers’ hazard.” It ally concluded that on account of |the advanced season the risks are |too great. | The Tageblatt speaks of the use- |lessness of trying to emulate Americans, contending that pered by the same strong winds that “blew Schlee and Brock across.” He has | what she is out of doors | 2nd 1 can' It spreads | is gener- | fliers | | from Europe would be fatally ham- | machinery, Rumania and Jugoslavia | Marriages in airplanes zre not |piane today. r s mostly metals, Greece, catile, and |viewed favorably here elther by | In France three expeditions were| It denounces advertised flving Portugal, electrical apparatus church or state authorities | making ready. undaunted by thefr |Stunts as a public menace. argues Besid the Dawes deliveries, | Some registrars argue that the lunguccesstul attempt vesterday when |for an official authority to assure there were special dyestuffs deliv- law compels them to perform their \they wera forced by fog to return|the riecessary precautions in all aeri- ery agreements with France, Bel- functions at their offices, except intn Le Bourget after taking off m,;,!l underta _sz R o glum and Iraly, to a total value of case of serious illness of one of the |[New York, Leon Givon and Pierre | ,Thls is in line w o .1' o 23,000,000 marks parties. Others say it is Impossible | Corbu were making adjustments to |Of the committee on air laws of the ——— to conduct the official business of their plane, the Bluebird, in the American Bar sassociation, in se;smn Poor Students Give wedding ceremony in the deafen- hope of getting away again Sunday |2t Buffalo, in expressing hope For Flood Rellef & noise of motors. Moreover, they if weather conditions are favorable, |that laws “"”1'3 be ]D“W'r ';J"; Self-supporting atudents from 20 add, it is extremely nndesirable for| Diendonne Costes’ Brequet bi-|Vent the mounting 40'5: of ey countries attending German univer- | official registers to be taken up into | plane, the Nungesser-Coli and Paul aerlal fi"-’fl:lr"v flfk’ Ef:“f:" om_‘l sitias set an example of infernation- the air. Tarpscon’s Tango Bird, were pro-|ment "4;“‘": “’V”T:"' "rc“"":)m: a:vem al cooperation after flood in Pastor Tei ann who golemnized | nounced ready to hop off Sunday for | tion of Detroit tha . L Saxony. an air marriage soms time ago, re- |New York, and possibly Philadelphja |10 orders in future °fl' K;“fl Tha, students haard of the dissster | maine tinder suspenslon st half yay \f weather couditiops wiong .ifte |tendled fur Eolo Guean fighis. while in convention in Diesds | his case shall be thoroughly | French coast improve and there is| - dispatched a telegran athy investizated by a church consistory. 'reasonable assurance that they will Wanis Tndians Taught to the Eaxon government u o S encounter fairly good conditions 2 5 and followed it up by taking up a Figures Show Germans over the Atlantic, Modern Agriculture collection amang themselies, Drink More Beer May Hop For Pl\llmll.‘lphh Long Beach, Cal., Sept. 3 (P— Though all are working th way The 16,491 breweries of the Fath-. At Bristol, England, Captain R. | aeodern methods of stock ralsing and thraugh rollege, thev managed to 4 are working full time and |H. Macintosh, Tmperial Airways pllot | o /o 1ture should be tanght to the serape together 285 marke This 1ans are drinking more heer | Was completing preparations t0day | q)ifornia Indians, instead of giving contribution represents it Jast than ever, |for a hop to Baldonnel, Ireland, pre- | p.pm only occasional employment as cash tistice indicate an |Daratory to a hoped for start for| . oo "o ion pickers, or grape wal of Philadelphia Sunday. With him in| .o crorg This would afford them consumption | which Helgoland Aquarimm lons per capita, Open To Public higher than consump- | The great North Sea aguar tion the previous year. | the State Binlogical Instity zures show that since the stab- | island of Helgoland et opens ion of the mark, heer exports ! the public, has of the means soiled garments, for there are | PHONES dirt. grease and road oil to contend 1 1323-3 Cleaning garments of any Kind is our i Seular speelalty. 7%N.B. DryCleaning Co. “T6 a Masters Standend in quality and Sevvice” 96 WEST MAIN ST. PLANT 413 W. MAIN ST, | petually the plane will be Captain Anthony Wreford as assistant pilot, and Cap- tain A. J. Barnes, as passenger. Tn explaining his thesls, the Brit- ish meteorological office expert de- clared it was a well known fact that the wind over the Atlantic was per- westerly, veering to direet west and at and having a ve- southwest timas northwest, Jocity of from 15 miles an hour to % WETRTE Or TN he Loarding | 75 miles. Then, he added, at no time of the year is the area off New- foundland entirely clear of fog. He advocated the southern route, by way of the Azores, as best for a transatlantic flight from FEngland, for. he pointed out, for four months of the year, wind and temperature as far as the Azores, were favorable, while from then on to the United States or Newfoundland, the plane could cut across the western wind thus diminishing loss of power. Advise Against Venture Professor Hugo Junkers' message to the crew of the Junkers plane, s |independence and help their develop- | ment, believes Mrs. Louts J. Gilles- | pie, chairman of the Indian Welfare | committee of the State Federation of Women's clubs. As for the vounger Indians,™ says . illispie, who is a descendant lof an Troquois chieftain, “the stan- dards of the California board of pub- |lie weltare for child caring institu- | trom | M |schools. for Indiams. Neither is cor- | rection oftered. “The Indians scattered on the 40 reservations of California are sadly in nesd of welfare consideration.” Tablets found in ancient Babyl- onfa and Assyria show that banking transactions were carried on 5000 | vears ago. Checks and notes were | made of clay, which were then | baked. READ HERALD CLASSIFIED ADS FOR BEST RESULTS NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1927. PRINCIPAL SLADE'S ATHLETIC VIES Believes in School Rivalry, But Not in Animosity Struggling and battling his w {through the opposing forces on the field, a killing |pace on the bhasketbvaii floor, and burning in the hot sun on the base- vall field, diszusted. sick at heart and with every bit of his syst=m hoth mentally and phesically rebelling against it, the high school or college lathlete keeps going for he of being considercd * football playing, a low | When a situation as that |discribed in thé forezoing para- I graph takes place in a high school then athleties has no place in the school and the prineipal should not !sanction athleties in school, Prinei- pal Louis P. Slade helieves, he de- clared in an interview It is Mr. Slade’s opinion that when {a boy is being exploited for the e tertainment of the school and the community, he is not getting the | physical and moral b fit from sports and therefore the hizh pur- pose for which the contests are held is lost. l The steady trend of the | towara mes is competition the | =ehool rather than inter-school com- petition, Mr. Slade thinks. He is in sympathy with high sehocl athletics and helieves that they should he en- ‘couraged by direction and influence within |on the part of the fa | The practice of planning a large lathletin contest, which will have wids interest, and expect the hoy to a1l in with the plan whether or not he isinterested is alsa 2 matter which Slade dislikes to encourags that | is of the opinion ter- sehool competition is over-empha- sized and that the scheduling of a great number of contes not a |gocd practice. He favors fewer games. but would not rare to have the annual gnme with Hartford abandoned. Tle believes that the feeling between the Hartford and New Britain High schools is friend- Iy although the not have the same feeling. | “Every effort made to. k& !from scheduling games with sci whose team's have followers who will bring about an altereation with communities may the M v Britain spectators.” the principal asserted, He does not like 10 encourage rivalry with any ex- cept the Ne n and Hartford High schoel team which, with New | Britain, make up the membership of | ,the triangular league. Coach Cassidy has this in mind when he schedules games with a different team after a few ars of competition. New Britain High echool never claims a state championship and is | not competing for any state honors, {the only objective being to ‘win the itrianzular championship, the prin- I cipal said. | “The school fs an educational in- | stitution and when athletics have an |adverse effect on the moral and physical being of the hoy, his edu- cation is heing neglected,” Mr Slade believe DANGING IN 2027 NOW IS FOREGAST Drugs and Light—May Give Needed Rhythm London, S&pt. 3. (P —Ballrooms and night club habitues of the fu- | ture will enjoy their dancing sitting (down, thinks Professor A. M. Low, who has been taking a scientific reek into the future of the human race. There will be little use for legs or arms, he contends, he: in {the age of the future almost every- thing will be done by machinery {1t will be a pill age, when all food {®ill be concentrated and a meal will go down with one gulp. But rhythm will be sought as the | 1oN€ as the human brain functions i properly, and on this account, Pro- fessor Low points out, men and wo- {men will never get over their fond- |ness for dancing, though 1t may be iaken in quite a different form of | that of today—which has its disad- | vantages owing to the physical ex- | ertion of keeping time with the band. “In the distant future, when con- stant disuse will have atrophied |our legs, we shall probably take our dancing sitting quietly. while drugs and revolving lights give us {all the sensations of rhythm with- out the stuffy atmosphere of the hallroom and the cafes,” Professor Low asserts. - | The minute research of modern | scientists enables them to realize the remarkable part played by rhythmical motion in the universe, he says. “Present day dancing is merely the result of war time hysteria,” |avers the Professor. “Women, in particular, are generally more or less hysterical at the end of a dance which has excited them and chased the cares of life into obliv- fon. “This period will pass, and we shall find that more and more in- toxicating effects, such as sweet perfumes, oscillating floors, and cu- rious foods will be necessary be- fore we can enjoy rhythm. “Dancing ~there will always be, but it cannot long remain as it is now—a mere concession to phy: |ical disability. The time will come, T believe, when we shall cease to find pfeasure in it unless it is ae- companied by injections, vibro- massage, and &peed sensations. “I look forward to the time when it will be possible to broadcast sen- sations direct to the mind.” TO ATTEND CONVENTION A number of Walther Weague members of St. Matthew’s Lutheran church will attend the annual dis- trict convention to be held at Zion Lutheran church, Boston, Sunday and Monday. Delegates elact from here are Miss Elsie Linn and Her- bert Hausmann. i« afraid | |List of Patents Issued To Connecticut Peonle (List compiled weekly from the Official Gazette by the office of Harold G. Manning. Walk-Over Shoe Store, 211 Main st., New Brit- 2in.) Merrill G. Barker, Norwalk, as- sor to The Barker Factory, Inc. | Marine engine. | Julius H. O. Bunge, Lordon. Eng- }lnnd assignor to Hartford-Empire | Co.. Hartford. Apparatus for feeding molten glass. Philip Carlson, Bridgeport. (2 patents) Cab for motor vehicles Paul E. Fenton, Thomaston, as- gnor to Secovill Mfg. Co. Water- bury. Double-pointed pin fastener. | Charles E. Hanny. Unionville, as- signor to The Trumbmll Electric Mfg. Co. Plainville. Electric Safety M. Y. Hanson, deceased, Hartford; F. A. Hanson and €. E Whitney, executgrs (3 pafents.) Method of and apparatus for grind- ing threaded members and the like; and 2 for Metal-working machines Alexander G. Hateh, Farmington, assignor to The Sesames Co.. Hart- ford. Lock John A Heaney, New candescent electric lamp. i Haven. In- Arthur A. Johnson, Bridgeport, assignor to Dictaphone Corp. Phonograph record | Charles A. Johnson, Unionville (2 patents) Threading tool. John Leech, Brideeport, assignor | ta International Silver Co., Meriden. oon or similar article. Chauncey C. Toomis, Yonkers, Y. and H W. Banks. Noroto nesignors to The Hevea Corp., N. ¥ N. Y. Footwear, Georze H Townsend, Greenwich, Motor-heat-indicating instrument. Glenn H. Wayre, Waterhury, ns- cignor to Scovill Mfg. Co. Lip-stick container Frederick H Weston. Bridzeport, acsignor fo General FElectric Co t adap nk ‘heeler. Plainville as- signor fo Trumbull Electric Mfg. Co. Rox eonneotor Frade Marks Regictered Columbia Phonegraph Cn., Inc, Pridgeport. Radin sets and par therenf. efe New Haven Laboratories. Ine New Haven and Milford. Skin cream The Russell Mfe. Co.. Middletown Sheck absarber rings for aeroplanes The Smith & Feee Mfg. Co., Bridgeport. Locks and kevs. The Torrington Co. Torrington. Knitting-machine needles aster Warts, New Hatven. Rheu- matic medicine. Winchester Repeating Arms Co., New Haven, Radiators and parts thereof. | Trade Mark Applicants Landers, Frary, & Clark, New Britain. Meat, beef, and breakfast carvers. The Trumbnil Electric Mfg. Co. Plainville. Soap holders, tumbler holders, grab rails, ete STAMFORD'S TAX " HETHODS SCORED 'System Used There Is Called Bntiquated Stamford, Sept. 3 —A the tax situation in Stamford has been submitted by John R.. Denahue of Hartford, a member of the staff of State Tax Commissioner William 1. Plodgett, who wae given leave of absence gate tax asseasments and collection methods in this eity, The tax question in Stamford which city complains of having the report on highest rate in the state, has been a source of much concern since last Octoher, when, during the heat of politieal fights, charges were made of inequalities The last session of the legislature authorized the appointment of commission to investigate the situa- tion, and there is also a special in- vestigating committee appointed by Mayor Alfred N. Phillips, Jr. These committees have heen working more or less in harmony. Mr. Donahue took up the investigation here upon recommendation of Thomas Linder, tax expert of New Britain, who studied the situation here. | Mr. Donahue’s report from a study of random examples of taxable pro perty in the town and city of Stam ford scems to indicate that there exist on the tax wide inequalities of appraisal. i It appears that Stamford has out- grown its present method of taxa- tion, which the assessors have been forced to operate under because of the incompleteness of the equipment, tools and personnel at their com- mand. The need of a scientific re- appraisal of the taxable property in both the town and city, and up-to- date equipment and records, is stressed in the report. 5 Probably within 60 days, the local tax commission will have completed the various lines of investigation that it has under way, and will present its findings and make its recommen- dations to the board of selectmen, [for which it has undertaken the Iwurk. {Texas Oyster Shell Help Beautify Bay Corpus Christi, Tex., Sept. 3 (P1— September, the first “r" month and the beginning of the oyster harv ing season. finds hundreds of oyster fleets in the bays of south Texas, and with the opening of the. season the city of Corpus Christi will con- tinue a beautification’ program made | possible by the use of oyster shells. Some years ago a gulf stream struck this reglon. A three-mile |causeway was swept into Nueces ibay, where some of the natural oyster beds are located. A new causeway was built, but the wreck- age of the old one lay alongside the approach to the city and constituted an eyesore. | - The oyster fleet, instead of drop- ping the shells back began “husking” the oysters near the old wreckage, shells where the wreckage protrud. _ed from the water. Thus minfatur islands of oyster shell across the bay. Civic bodies eventually will sod the islands and plant shrubbery on them. p by Mr. Blodgett to investi-| A lists of the town | in the bay.l throwing the ! were buflt' home of Charles Henry, 32 Dwight street, . Wednesday and testimony service. i Friday, 8 p. m, Bible i Corinthia 15th chapter. S p. m., prayer. praise study 1 Elim (Swedish) Baptist Service with sermon at 10:30 a. m. TUnion A. M. E. Zion “hurch school at 8:30 a. m ing worship with sermon by the pas jtor at 10:45 o'cloc The sacra- I'ments of baptism and communion will be administered. Christian En- deavor at 6 p. m. Evening s with holy communion at o'clock St. Mark's Episcopal Twelfth Sunday after Trinity. | Holy comunion at 7:30 a. Holy |communion and sermon by Rev {John H. Rosebaugh at 11 a. m. Emmanuel Gospel Sundav services: 10:15 a. m., prayer; 10:45 a. m. preaching, ser- {mon by Rev. Alfred F. Ham of International Bible Students’ Assn. . Sunday, volunteer service from 1 to 5 p. m.: 8 p. m. study at the Morn- | | Springfield; 12:15 p. m,, Bible hour; {6 p. m., Young People's mecting | with special music; 7 p. m., preach- ling by Rev. Mr. Ham. Wednesday, 3 p. m., prayer; p. M., cottage meeting at |Mr. and Mrs. F. Rich of 661 Pros- pect street, Thursday, 7:45 p. m., praver adn praise service. Sunday, September 11th, preach- ing by Rev. E. Leonard Smith. |Communion serice. 745 mid-weck Stanlely Memorial ¥, 2:45 a. m., morning wor- {ship and church echool. Thursday, 0 p. m., Young People's society )J'Inrrion and installation of officers | Friday, 7:30 p. m., meeting of the | Men's club. Sunday, September 11, 9:45 a. m September communion service. Christian Science Services as usual. Subject: “Man." Reformation Lutheran ! Twelfth Sunday after Trinity |Services 10 a. m. The church eoun- cil will meet Tuesday evening at % o'clock. Public confession Friday |evening at & o'clock. Sunday, Sep- (tember 11, holy communion. - OLD 1-GENT STAMP 1 VALUED AT § Bears New Britain Canoellation Defore Postal Rate Changed i | are ferw people who have heard of t 35" ald of postage stamps lence and few on who have not dream- ed of making such discoveries lead- of ing to the sudden acvuisition auite large of such find was actually in 3 Britain many valuzble old sums here ago, be time, stamps found on letters at a local factol some knowledge that of old trunks m vield fortunes, there are few who realize that the New Britain post office itself once Fut despite the issued a stamp which is much sought for by collectors and for which they pay goodly sums. Yet the loeal office did that thing and 11t only a few years ago. | The stamp is the current one-cent green With a picture of Franklin precancelled “NEW BRITAIN: |CONN™ in two lines in black ca tal letters. It is perforated at the { sides only. To collectors and govern- ment officials it is known as a | “coll” stamp and is issued in coils instead of sheets for better handling |in_automatic vending and mailing raachines. | For about 20 years the United | States government has allowed post offices to pre-cancel their stamps. This is done by overprinting them, a whole sheet at a time, with the rame of the office. The stamps "overprinted in this fashion require no further cancelling and save wnuch tims in periods of heavy mail- ing. Precancelled stamps are given out to window customers during the Christmas rush and are also sold to firms which have large batches of letters or circnlars going into the mail at one time. t'ntil a few'years ago each post office did the overprinting itself or had some local printery perform the task. Recently t%e government decided that it would be more eco- nomical to have the Bureau of Fn- graving and Printing at Washington which prints the stamps. do the ‘overprinting also in the cases those cities which used large quan- tities. ew RBritain was one of the citi ng enough precancelled stamps to have the bureau do its overprinting. One of the first lots turned out was the 1 cent coil stamp precancelled TW BRITAIN-—CONN." This was used on batches of circular matter by several local econcerns, and then occurred the event which made the stamp rare. The postage | rates were changed, and the charge ! for sending circulars was advanced from one to one and a half cents. {No further overprinting of the one cent stamp was ever done, and { copies from the one lot are cata- llogued today at $2. Several local | collectors have the stamps and are | selling them to other philatelists | throughout the country at an aver- jage price of $1 each. pairs are worth more than two single copies and fetch still higher prices. Thus a ‘“common” one-cent stamp of the current issue, in used condition, becomes valuable, The two-cents black stamp issued in mourning for the death of Pres- ident Harding also received a New worth 40 cents. Other stamps o treated are worth varying amounts. It is therefore worth while for local residents to pore over thelr corre- spondence and see if they have any of these stamps left on letters. The older stamps, of course, are Imore valuable as a rule than those ,of the later issues. Any letters mail- i ed before 1890 have real possibilities In that the cancellation may be of Ia peculiar type or color, but it should be remembered that the whole envelope with the stamp on it is worth much more than the stamp ,removed from its letter. Stamps on correspondence before 1870 are sure to be good, and heré again the warning applies that they should be Kept on the original “covers.” Preacher, Rev. Arthur H. Cordial welcome to all not a of | Unsevered | Britain precancellation and is now | UNION SUMMER SERVICES South Congregational Church 10:45 A. M. Churches Uniting: First Baptist, First Congregational, South Congregational, Trinity M. E. ! Whils on the subject of stamps, it may be well to mention several other Connecticut cities which have come into prominence in this field Some 50 years agn Waterbury had 2 postmaster who delighted in whit- tling, and he carved out many a fan- tastic figure which he inked and used for canceling stamps. Men's heads.animals, stars, and all sorts of subjects may be found, all of them worth disposing of. The old post- marks of little towns in the atate are sometimes quite valuable. par- ticularly those of post offices whieh have since been discontinued or had their names changed The city of Haven, back in the 1540°s, actually issued a stamp of its own. This “postmaster's” stamp was printed witheut government an- thority, but it was before the federal authorities issued stamps and it is recognized as official. It s very valuable, | The Pan-American series of !stamps fn 1801 was printed in two | colors, requiring two separate print- ing operations. As might be expect- ed, in several sheets the green bor- ders were printed and then inserted |into the press upside down when they were to receive tha black esn- ter and as a result the steamship | pictured thereon is seen sailing ! calmly along on its masts. A sheet of these was sent to Middletown, where everal copies were sold over the nost office before the error was dis- covered. The stamp today brings | several hundred dollars. ; If a search of old trunks should reveal any suspected treasures, it is well not to hope too highly for great {returns, as more than halt of the stamps frequently - offered from | these rummagings proved to be ot only small value or actually worth- |less. Tt is well to consult an ex- | perienced collector or dealer and | have him pass judgment, then have him put them on the market with a CATHOLIC WONEN CONCLUDEESSIN {Religions Training of Young ¢ Girls Discussed by Speakers Lakeville, Sept. 3 (P)—The Con- necticut Council of Catholic Women, {in conference here for the last two | days, ended yesterday after a short Dbusiness meeting. During the con- ference tha women .were addressed lon subjects pertaining to Catholic | girls by several speakers engaged in welfare work among girls and by | members of the clergy. | Miss Hattie Burland of Hartford was chairman of the opening ses- sion. She called on Miss Emma Kane of New Haven for a report on publicity and on Mrs. T E. Toomey of South Norwalk for data on immi- gration. Miss Agnes Bacon, president of {the Rhode Tsland Council of Catho- | lic Women, spoke on “Immigration.” | Rev. Matthew Traynor of New Brit- | ain, spoke on *Religious Training.” The second session was presided over by Miss Ann Onostrosky of | Hartford. The speakers were Rev. | Matthew Judge, Rev. Paul Keating | of Norwalk, on “Social and Rellgi- ous Training in Rural Districts;" Mrs. Rose Le Grand Clark, of New Haven Welfare Bureau, on “Big | Sister Conterence” and Miss Victoria Larfamour of Bridgeport on “Un- derstanding the Modern Girl.” | Airplane Bars to Lose Like “Pubs” London, Sept. 3 () — Steel built flying over England are not to have any undue advantage over the “pubs” in respect to selling liquor. “Hereafter,” says the Imperial airways, “no drinks may be served in an airplane flying over Birtish territory during hours when public houses are closed. Any person who wants to get a drink on an airplane while the pubs are closed from 2:30 P. M. until § P. M. must be at least three milex outside the territorial limits . of Great Britain. . Berg, of New York City ttending regularly elsewhere home of - ; s s R A e g evovy