New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 20, 1928, Page 5

CHINESE PREPARE YEARLY GREETING This Year the Dats Falls on Jannary 23 San Francisco, Jan. 20. (P—Chl- nese New Year's day falls on Janu- ary 23 and Chinatown is making the traditional preparations to celebrate ‘wl'.h & week of fireworks and feast- ng. ‘The Chinese year begins on vary- ing dates, gauged by the Julian cal- endar on which Americans calcu- late time. In 1937 the Chinese year began on February 3. in 1926 on ;':hmry 13 and in 1925 on January Like Easter, it is determined by the moons. The Chinese number thelr months instead of naming them, and iIn ordinary years there are 13, which correspond to lunar months, Twice in each five year period ‘there are leap years when there a! 13 months instead of 12 and a fixed date leaps a month in- stead of a day. ‘The feast days that inaugurate the new year differ from many Chinese holidays in that there is more feast- ing and rejoicing than of prayer and reflection. Custom decrees that every Chinese, except those in des- perate financial circumstances, shall begin the year free of debt, all per- sonal obligations having heen met before the beginning of the week of celebrating. In a business way the past year has not been one of unusual pros- perity in Chinatown. The wane in popularity of Mah Jong cut into the sales of stores catering to Cauca- sian trade, and in silk and other eastern products keen competition was encountered from the Jajan-| PRESS BUILDING T0 BE DEDICATE Washington Strocture Will Be Ready Jannary 28 ‘Washington, Jan. 20 (A—News- paperdom officlally will have achieved its national monument to the capital when President Coolidge | dejivers the dedication address on January 38 at the new $10,000,000 National Press club building. A dream for years, the cub's new home rises skyward on a corner steeped in Washington newspaper history. It is described as one of the best appointed and most com- pletely outfitted of its kind, and already the membership, embrac- ing representatives of the leading newspapers of the world, has moved in. Overlooking the White House and the treasury on one side and under the shadow of the towering ‘Washington monument on another, the club quarters occupy the two 1op floors of the 14-story National DPress building at the corner of Yourteenth and I street North- west. Fourteenth street between ¥ and E long has been known as ‘Washington's “‘newspaper row."” Already the new walls are ab- sorbing newspaper history of the capital as members of the *Old Guard,” who organized the club 20 years ago, sit contentedly in their new home and reminisco of times which havo brought virtually every leader in world's affffairs into associ- ation with the club during the pe- rlod. Taking advantage of its own tal- ent, the club, under the direction of Felix Mahoney, a Washington artist, has given particular atten- tion to interior decorations lining the walls with replicas of various newspaper mats. The spacious au- ditorium, seating 1,000 persons, is worked out in a unique color |magazin scheme. Graham B. Nichol is the only sur- viving officer of the first club, but the roll still carries many of the charter members. At the first in- auguration in the new club this month J. I'red Essary, chief of The Baltimore Sun bureau here, be- {comes president, succeeding Louis Ludlow, representative of The Co- lumbus, Ohio, Dispatch. The list of past presidents in- cludes Robert Armstrong of The Los Angeles Times; George Au- thier of The Minneapolis Tribune: Frederick J. Haskins, Frank Lord and Avery Marks, all Washington inewspapermen; Carter Field of The New York Herald-Tribune; John T. Suter of The Associated Press; Henry L. Sweinhart of The Havas News Agency: A. H. Kirch- hofer of The Buffalo Evening News; Theodore Tiller of The At- lanta Journal; Uuric Bell of The |Louisville Courier-Journal, and Ar- thur J. Dodge of Washington. The club early adopted a policy of accepting no gratuities or gifts, monetary or otherwise, from out. side the profession and proudly ad- heres to it. One of its members, James William Bryan, dreamed of the new building and through tha mammoth project. The $10,000,000 building is oper- ated under the club, and it is the |plan of newspapermen that this building eventually will be theirs, free of debt. 530 4 HONTH COLUNBUS WAGES ‘This Was His Pay While Dis- covering New World Chicago, Jan. 20. P—Chtistopher Columbus received an annual salary of $320 while he worked at the job of discovering America. His trust- ed aides, Captain Martin, Juan, and Anton Perez, were on the pay- roll for $192 each year. Prof. Ruge, German investigator, has figured out the actual cost of the Columbus expedition in terms of today's money, it has been !learned at Northwestern Univer- aity. The monetary unit then was the maravedi, a term of Moorish ori- ducted tour to America's shores at 1,140,000 maravedi. The good queen Tsabella, after i she had gathered up all the loose maravedi she could lay her hands on and had augmented the pile by taking the family jewels to a Spanish *unele,” had the round sum |of $7,206 to give the ambitious voy- iager. Tho city of Palos scraped together a few maravedi and came across with $7,500 more. In the course of the centures the value of the maravedi decreased until 1t was hardly worth a quarter of & cent. Ruge came to the conclusion, af- ter an examination of various de- crees of Ferdinand, that the mara- quarters of a cent in modern money at the time Columbus fared forth. Tiis pilots received $128 to $153 aunually, and the union scale for the gailors of the vessels was $2.45 a month. The fleet physician’s sal- ary was all of $38.50 a year. SHIPYARDS BUSY, Tondon, Jan. 20 (M—Tonnage un- | der construction in shipyards of | Great Britain and freland last year | equalled, if not exceeded, that of all the other shipyards in the world combined. Mora motor ships than steam vessels are being built, NEW YORK EDITOR EXPELLED. Rome, Jan. 20 (UP)—It was offi- clally announced yesterday that the general sectetariat of the fascist party abroad had ordered the ex- pulsion from the party of Agostilo De Biasi, editor of the New York “Carroccio.” pushed { gin, and all historic documents give | the cost of the first personally-con- | |vedl was worth less than three- | NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 1928, CASH YOUR FACTORY PAY CHECKS HERE SATURDAY is Pay-Your-Bills-Promptly-Day of National Thrift Week, now being observed . . . but Raphael’s is one store in| New Britain which does not have to press its customers for payment . . . Raphael’s sells for cash only, so no “Please Remit” and “Long Past Due” statements come from this store . . . On the first of each month no one is in debt to Raphael's... and Raphael’s, by selling for cash only, helps you to save money and practice thrift daily. RAPHAEL’S—FIRST IN STYLE and VALUE! 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