New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 21, 1927, Page 6

[ ] New Britain Herald WERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY Tssued Dally (Sunday E At Herald Bldg. &7 epted) Church Street SUBSCRIPTION RATLS 1500 & Year. 0 Thres Montha . & Month Enterad at the Post Ofce at New Br aln as Second Ciasa Mail Matt TELEPHONE Business OMca ditorial Kooms . edtum Member of the Associuted Press The Ascoctatad Press 15 exclu titled 1o the use fur ) all news credited to credited In this pa news published th Member Audit Burean of Circulati A. B C 13 a nat furniahes ewspapcrs o nest an n stat This iy advertisers, The Hers York st H Square; et Grand Central, fanta Claus As a Couneil sis COur idea of a forlorn is the merchant who has no C mas presents to sel Tt takes a to grow big in a blazs like bric.a-brac. By temptation to spectators will be 100 the tinkle of the coir A writer says New play greatest glory is its winter. He may be right—it at l2ast is the velial aeason which follows the rainy s son. When a child gefs smart to wonder how it Army has so out on the streets it tle one is getting soph is the Sa many Santa Clauses s a sign the lit- ticated. that a cold wave has struck Now New England the editors are hegin- ning to give the state advice on Low to remove snow from the hiz TOO QUICK A PARO! NOW A MAN-HUNT The man hunt in southern Cali- fornia, it is now announced thrc co-operation of the press and polics, hinges around one William Edward Hickman, a young man is believed to h fiendish Kidnaper who murdersd little Mari Befors who yeen the thi print, 50 swittly do tha police times, the youth may be in custody The $100,000 © his head will eause reward of harn £on in the realm fo tu detective, Not even 4 smart crc and there is no evidenea that vouth is stecped In the enbleties of evading the clutehes can stay free circumstanc The Calif freg tial of crime according to the veve from 11 nge for discharse of the vietim's father oy 1iptly paro killing t rployer, <o time oppos and lack leave of the you years old, T and lived in liis mother w At home City 19 years of u from and it is easler than usual to fall parental ir from the path of rectitude, h of thi ing that tha young man is fs possible that n Los isn't, but that of course, is a Angeles thinks hr means nothing hefora the trial, cx capt that it may be taln an unpre How luck, or Providence, lifficult to o “ | probhable 11 individual | gat this | to undo the efforts of the unwary! Had young Hickman pald his gesoline bill at the filling etation and then gone on about his busines of eluding capture {t have been definitely known that he was still in Los Angeles. But when ed electric light bulb would not riving away when 1} 1 employe went to gt m he doubtless calculated would cna for ! that he not. be followed From that on the informa- tion was definite tt was still in t city, and of course under the circumstances 1t will be next to im possible for him to leave it. s fellow, charged with a most us crime, unq | be captured in short order. A speedy trial will be likely, and if ¢ tion is obtained by the state re will ha no parole THIS HARTPORD CAMPAIGN IS JUSTIFIED 1's effc rt to obtain budget of ederal building program in was th ctient eity in first shis bet *d upon tha t office investi- *ho more than a year ago vestigated the cities needs of Connecticut As the budget | as had been hoped, the larger costs ot the Hartford scheme tended to it into the | put for later ¢ Britain only needs an en- program 1t to the present post office | v hile Hartford i< Intent upon obtain- building. And so is concerned, hor gets fts wishe we ons for this, the main one, of course, being that | the Hartfora post office is ancient nd honor second the on s t Hartford | post office is situated the old state upon house, [t r have been construeted practice during a ration of constructing post s upon public parks or public sites had nothing to recom- 1t would be a vast improve- for Hartford indeed if a new | post offic d th were built on another site present building razed and . [the old state house grounds return- ed to their erstwhile appearance, same | situation obtains in New | York Ccity, where the central post | oftles was constructed upon the cor £ We lhear much nowadays of the invasion of state 1 fed nothing we hea s the hig 1 public square s by zovern- ment; but r about to day cqn -handed manner in which the federal gove with nnivance of local author past utilized local puhli The mere post office had to besmirch pub- sites. ment no uniformly ugly post offics ldings than a private corpot the old days, if pri corporation cesired 1o con- ling on a public el down the fec with hen ral along with a plan fice on such a civie fathers 1a nxious to enjoy some g ernmental pap that they would give away the site with the blessings of Sound civie lated r principle was in the process ) s 1 likelihood hou ounds of the city can he re- semblance of ir or- rance, greatly enhancing of tha downtown scetion g visitors realize that the wernment cannot take < it wants merely for the BREASON FOR PARITY BETWEEN FLEETS eland; it by a block- believed, can by attacking our itatior 1 mneh other vulnerabl le would result in pulation, Detween the voute lies rancan nd offering ich casier naval an the broad o n sl trade rou hen cut it is veranee of n. body which. of course, is th ow, which is correct so doesn’t go cs. But it far val parity was granted to Brit rica at the Washington stionably will | nvic- | itots | nd naturally felt | only | year | is not as large | le but nothing else. The | park | an artery in | NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1927. conference; and it has come to the point where England is afraid the United States will actually build up | s navy to equal strength. Why? can well be asked. The answer has been given more | It is that the frec- | or less furtively. dom of the seas is involv | 1and treedom du holder of Eng- does not believe in any such a war neutral rights when th But it is more neutral with a strong navy than a neutral without a strong navy. Says the New York World on this point: guns hegin to hoom | inclined to consider the rights of a seas and re essential- same large gues- fonal policy. Ex- the war showed litficult “Freedom of the naval armam ly parts of t tion of intern, perience durin that neutral rights are o protect effectively. To som gree they were protected while the United States was still a neufral because the United was such a powerful neu. tral. But when the United States entered the war neutral rights virtually abolished. It is Que to a re tion of the that many Americans L It is necessary for this try to maintain a navy sub- stantially to Great ~not as an instrur but because they United States may be a neutral in another war which may find Brit belligerent, and they are con- vineed that in the question of enforcin blockade Brit- ish admiralty is bound to listen more respectfully to the protests of a neutral with a substantial fleet,” its States equal war believe that t | | The problem ts a stur test the statcs- No with England as great many convinced that a and of a nature to | manship of both nations. one thinks of a war possible. But a |icans are neutr: Ameriea has rights only so long |it possesses a fleet THE REMUS ACQUITTAL e s many a keen observing citizen became indignant upon di 1t is no up- oru one | Amer- Facts and Fanci facts and rancies | | | Once in a whilc you see an Amer- |ican who has the grand manuer. He's the son of the bose. As we understand Al, the law can make you dry but it can’t make you | Iry up. A burglar isn't like a rich oil man. | ¥ Nobody cares a whoop whether Carol gets the throne or not, but it | would be interesting to watch his | [wives fight. | Modern nove's are | There are only so naughty people can much alike, | many things do | Uncle Byron—Bathrobe, secks greeting eard. Mildred—Fur ecoat, step-ins, van- ity case, powder puff, handkerchief. Kenneth—Peny, toy train, pon: Aunt Nan—Silverwear, candle- sticke, spoon, greeting card?1? Grandma—S8hawl, carpet slippers, handkerchief. Mother—2271722? Father—0 (Copyright, 1927, Reproduction Send all communications to Fun Forbidden) Shop Editor, care of the New Britaln Herald, and your letter will be forwarded to New York. First Aid To Christmas Shoppers! This last-minute shopping, when tempers are frayed, not let The Fun Shop, your | triend, give you first aid, you with copies, “The Mirth Of a Nation,"” That gift sure to please either friend or relation! Why You can tell when vou are proaching a canter of Culture hot dogs and the kids are fres no outward indication that friend mads a trip to Europe except that he says “petrol” and wants to borrow money. Thers vour Coneidering the bills Congres passes, those never reported out of ommit must be aw Logiec is just a slow masculine s of arriving at truths known |to females by the time they learn to talk. proc. | Americanism: Thinking the stran- | {ger must be rich be he gronchy. use ms | | —_— | | A hick town is a place where peo- | | ple buy from a mail order Yiouse be- auss they are mad at one another Anothier nice thing about Old I Dobbin: He didn't choke just when you wished to hurry away to avold a | policeman’s personal remarks. | There are two kinds of suckers: | : who get trimmed, and trim- | . who occasionally take to make little time ones of big ones covering that Gieorge Remus of Cin- ! the acquitted as cinnati, King was having been | temporarily insane when he murder- 1 his wife. Th result mercly proves, how , that in this country at 1éast the average jury takes more into eonsidera than the bare facts of crime. Among those who congratulated Remus after the ver- diet were members of the jury, and omen on it told him the fjury had been “wit first. The The Jury Remus had been driven desperate by h him" from reason is not hard to seck simply concluded that actions of his wife, and they ac- cepted a species of unwritten in arriving at the verdict. There is no such thing as justified murder, but in th jry exists, W of many a a thing ac Ny Jury i the 1 Kemus did wrong in go such lengt but that he ed for if, havi And thus we find that not he pu [ “ariven to it who commits a nearly every pers: rime nowadays tries 1o claim was insane at the time, PAVING ALONGSIDE RAILS How to prevent ! Main 2ct T the iroad paving of the crossing from being continnally sagg the tracks seems to be one little administration, froubles of the present city Repairs o this crossing are frequently . th L main diffieulty being that pairs do not stay put | the the mayor to pave the are rails with conerete bloc be an improvement howe pavir 1o tracks will br the future much more suc- essful in than in pist. One has only to giimpse the distressing ide the z condition of t tracks on many str the trolley rails hold sway to | realize that under mondern condi- tions paving alongside rails simply ! does not stand up. T DRIVE AGAINST DRIVERS The new eampaign by the state reckless drivers and those intoxieated will re- ation. It s agair | Who drive whils ceive p comme said that the sentiment of the co is all in tavor of 1 highways of that is tene, Ining to rid the dangerous drivers. Tf then the function of the will be to “soak” those found law to do this is to sus- gulity of such infractions of the One way not pend sente ter guilt is estab vspapers of the past few days usual numbher iting to reckless drive ind on one day there were three cases of hit-and-run drive s fignring in serious o of them yo- - Loy in Meriden It certainly is ligh time law its teeth ROTARIANS TO C1 Memibers of the New Britain v club will hold their annual mas party at the Th tomorrow noon provide a gift for some other mem ber. The gifts will be hung on a JBRAT and disributed by a a us during the meeting spent this year for public improve- ments in the Auto bus Phil hpines has just b The idea of | a between | ritt hotel Each member will of hootleggers,” | A balcony seat in a theatre ma on wonder why th instead of the bald eag ed as the national eag golden « Soci s for its sine. Tt once mads Willie*speak pleees on Friday ernoon W oIt must to 1 he's his an viea the linpines t they're vich ¥ can't rich horse races is more wicked than betting on cott nd wheat. You sce, those S pay no office re Wall street who b horse 1 Bt he ntence wect l rrect this | sald the Pt expensive TI'm sor- . "But T can‘t gifts from a man.” | | > v 27, Publishers ‘ e, 25 Years Ago Today first of a scrics of athletic ts Wil be held in the Y, M. (. mnasium this evening. E. A | Loomis will referee and W. H. Judd will he ter competitors in- | clud Merw i1 ter, John Vood, and A. . Hitch. 5 events tonight will be the Jjump, pole vault, Many peopls would | Christmas morning if | things would happen: Mayor Bassett would be happier to find the politi- cal obitnary of Alderman Curtis. The people if the common council re- ed in a body. M. D. Stockwell if v a reappoiniment to the street boa school hoard, the people, the school superintendent, nd the school children it Contractor Curtis would the grammar The hospital hoard [ pondence with | Prior ot Plg sta potato and rope climb. ba happier the following finish is in corres- cotman Peter J in regard to the expense attached 1o the freatment of a man who was ran over Ly a freight train at Cooke’s stone crush plant a couple of n < ago | | and who has heen under treatment | it the hospital thorities repudiste | be fire alarm ay Baptist church, whie | ina the has been in since the paid departmont Vears ago, v = other » t. It wa it had refused to func tent Cooley ha ted fhat {he overhanled Pays 1t 1 thers wag | nt on © first ti tion. emmen Superinte appar next spring $100 yearly r talk ahout puttin city-owned building to save Junt - chure < some [t in this There will be a baskethall ye Al at ihe Casino on Chr Lwith New Britain teams playing. | Stale hread has gone up i pries. | The rate used to he two loaws for five ¢ but the price of five cents a loaf went into effect today. of the increase was the, eat demand for stale bread to be used in iFing” turke Christmas, According to all traditions, Co. I's indoor baschall team played its 13th ime Inst night and received its first t-hack. heing defeated by 22 to 12 by the Governor's Foot Guard mas Day and Waterbury nts, en ¢s- | READ HERALD CLASSIFIED ADS ! ATLAC Griswold RT! i (inspecting high- “Oh, darling, my heart car) t on this car | Griswold (coldl “Well, that's | QUESTIONS ANSWERED rt of your anatomy thau | sit on it!"” | You can get an answer to any | question of fact or Information by | writing to the Question Editor, New Britain Herald, Washington Bureau, 1322 New York avenue, Washington, Dacemiar Goer it nal ia enclosing two cents in stamps o T T T | for reply. Medical, legal and marital That's wrong! 1 think the shortest {s |@dviee cannot be given, nor can ex- I 1 {tended rescarch be undertaken. All {other questious will recelve a per- | sonal reply. Unsigned requests can. If Christmas Cards Told the Truth! [ 0ot be answercd. All letters are con- Tiv Molly Anderson | fidentlal.—Editor. To Our Neighbors § The Card We Sent .2 A card for our nelghbors this glad | 3¢T¢ Christmas Day, Ao 160, For we're grateful an| Q Does Tom Mix still > 4 | horse Tony in the movies? e Tough the YROF | iving beslas| A .Tony has reached an eke L 25 HEC R 2 | when he must be spared some of . ‘\ 3 | the hard work. Mr. Mix has had a! i celt in training for some time to good | share the arduous labors with Tony. | This herse is named Napoleon and | he participated in his first screen re- |lease two years ago. o fednl | Q. Were the allied armies on 1“‘“"“ Gierman soil at the time of the sign. A. Only a small Sges mountains | raine. Q. Has an American Indian ever had his signature on United States | currency? ¢ Sampter Pect |7 A, Houston B. Techee, registrar entist's big dis; Ny of the treasury duving Wilson's ad- et car bore him flzet I ministration, was an Indian and was lauthorized to sign currency bills. 1d, “Dear, it i Q. Were there more births than your teeth on the streeti™ fqeaths in the United States in 19257 —-Peggy Drapst v A There were 1,878,880 births |and 1,030,518 deaths that year. The Irony of It | @ TIs Mary Miles Minter Browne: “What is the Dig SCrap | playing for the sereen? about up in your church?" | A, She has retired from movies. lelt choir-members | . What is the salary of the di- over who shall sing the |rector of the American Red Cress? arth’ anthem at the | A, According to the 1927 report | his salary is $11,000 a year. —J. B. Bigio | Q. Who was Diamond Jim| Brady? And Oh! How Long It L pay d Ada Prince How many square rods In an ot use his such nice sav, them the Se=ason's "The Card We Meant )¢ our neighbors this glad it shoul A be a “summons"” | area in the § l folks are in bed! | | Haeiine n all sensib The Wifel I think I'll buy those false teeth | still | and nuchal patch white. The pole- cat is dark brown aboye and black below with dark brown and white markings on the face. They are closely related, but not the same animal. Q. What is the origin and mean- ing of the name Kuhn!? A. It is from a Teutonic source and means “bold speaker's, Q. What church do President and Mrs. Coolidge attend in Wash- ington? A. The ehurch. Q. What is the address of the Rockefeller Foundation for Medical Research? A. 61 Broadway, New York elty. Q. On what date 414 Thankegiv- ing Day fall fn 15237 A. November 29. Q. On what dates will Ash Wed- nesday and Good Friday fall in 19282 A. Ash Wednesday on February 22 and Good Friday on April 6. Q. What railroad in the U. & has the largest capitalization? A. The Pennsylvania railroad {s jreported by the Interstate Com- | merce Commission as having the largest capitalization. The total re- ported capital on December 31, 1926 was $1,107,953.401. Q. How old were plate and Arls- totle when they died? A. Plato died on the anniversary of his eighty-first year and Aristotle died in his sixty-third year. Q. What does the term Esq. at the end of a person’s name mean? Al It is an abbreviation of Esquire and s used in place of Mr. First Congregational On The Weather | Washington, Dee. 21.—Forecast | for Southern New Bngland: Partly cloudy tonight; Thursday falr, not mueh ehange in temperature; fresh to strong northwest winds, di- minishing. Observations e Partly cloudy tepight. Thuraday fair, Net much change in tempe: ture. Fresh to atrong nerthwest ‘winds, enditions: Pressure centinyes to increase in the north Atlantic states and to diminish in the in- terior and soythern districts, rang- ing from 28.53 inches at Eastpert, Maine, to 30.46 iuches in north- westetrn Loulsians and gouthern Texas. Another crest of high pres- | sure prevails in the upper Missouri valley regien, eastern Montana, re porting 30.54 inches Light rains |and lecal snows were reperted frem the upper Ohio valley. nerthern w York atate and nerthern New England and raina in & few places lin Texas and New Mexico. Tem- peratures continue in the seuthern states egst of the Missiasippl river and northern Flerida. Conditions favor for this viclalty fair weather and mot much chan in temperature. Temperatures yesterday: High ceseecee 38 Atlantic City . .42 Beston . 40 Buffalo 2 Chicago . 1s Cinelnnati 24 Denver 16 Detroit 2 | Duluth 5 [ | Hatteras 34 Jacksonville . 30 Kausas City ... . 24 {Los Angeles ........ 4« Miami . — Minneapolis .. ¢ [ Nantucket 36 New Haven 32 New Orleans ,, 38 32 33 APPING - SORES One treatment wethes the irritse tion and starty the bealing if yop wes Low 24 32 [ 26 Norfolk . Foreeast for Fastern New York: Our Washington Bureau h COOKIES, CANDIED FRUITS. FUDGES AND CHOCOLAT the Christmas Hollday season. If you below and mail as directed: -—-———-— - | cyristvas EpITOR, W 1322 T want the CANDY MAKI uncancelled, ‘U, . 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A national got you something | SPortsmen and out-door lovers fin | present that you |Eeneral that is. dedicated to the 0w you hieen't |Testoration, as far as possible. ef | . the outdoor America of eur fore- { fathers He Dear I The present with to Louise netic vas pret wanted to something so much that What is the Tzaak Walton | ot me | organization ef mas got Last n W ht T hurglarized her house. | - o ~onaclos.| Q Whatare the colors of the ot nf, neatly | Beartwood of Am n or black! i et i hottle of Dr, |Walnut and of clrcassian walnut? e re| A American or black walnut | heartwood varies trom light ! ehocolate brown sometimes |stight lavender tinge. Occasionally | dark, irregular streaks are present, | running more or less fengthwise of the grain. The narrow sapwood |s | pale brown Circassian walnut | heartwood fundamentally is efawn | | colored, and numerous dark-brown | or black streaks usually are present. The sapwood is a pale fawn color, almost white. Q. Are the skunk and the pole- | cat the same animal? | The common skunk is usually | 1 my pres with a T prefer Rlondes! Julian R. Vinson to dark | BACTS8 »~— CoNNE Compiled CONNECTICUT CHAMBER OF COMMERCE —ABQUT CTICUT by the Connecticut Once Belonged to Holland By right of discovery Connecticut belonged te Helland, but the attempts of the Dutch to r right were few and incffectual Henry tudson in 1609 and of For 15 years following Blok's Duteh fort corn and then holding the grou sequestered. {black with dorsal striges, tip of tail | Is it nine o'clodk yet, | e I want to go right to | bed when it's nine v'clock.” 1 was hated me any pretty surprised when my rival, Yerdfe, stopped giving ompetition for the favor of the stunning blonde. So T pumped Belle's little brother, | Edgar, about it Docsn't Ferdie come here any | 'l after Christmus,” he “Why not?" “Well, Sis figured that | thought you had the inside you'd her something pr pensive for Christmas, and promiscd to spht 50-30 with if he'd stay away till { ma Rabid Rhinocero; That's why I prefer Brunettes! —J. 8. Chardi Well Equipped! 1 Clement: “That show is certainly due for a run on Broadway." 7 Well, it has good legs it you | track | fy ex- she Ferdie after Christ- —Dorothy F. Langville THE FISHER'S € TMAS LIST! | (As the Bank Account Grows Lean- ! er and Leaner) According to Lawrence Fisher TOONERVILLE FOLKS Fontaine Pox, 1927, ‘ne Belt Syndicate, Tne. maintain their footheld by this Accounts of the vovages of Adrian Blok of 1814 give the first description which history records of this region. exploration of the Cennecticyt river sixty miles from its meuth, Dutch vessels plied the Con- necticut, which was unknown to the English yntil 1627, vears later the Dutch set yp a fort and trading post at Hartfora. In the same year, a party of English from the Plymouth colepy sailed up the rviver and settled at Windser, six Numerous quarrels with thelr E which soon included settlements at Hartford and Wetherstield proved toa much for the Hollanders and in 1654 they were “crowded out without hostility or any act of violenc Six. iles abovs the ish neighbors The crewding out process involved procuring deeds to land occupied by the Dutch farmers from the Indians, seizing at night ground the Dutch had made ready for sced, planting it with nd against the Hollanders, and tinally ordering the lands and buildings ef the Dyteh settlement Tomorrow—Connecticut Twelfth in Manufacturing. By Fontaine Fox A ki i £ 2 T