New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 28, 1928, Page 6

“NEW BRITAIN be sxponaes of the state and still re- | been & recerded teduction of all matning out of debt—or at least, | other snoking comgbustibles. 'what passes for that blissful state;| ‘Connecticut's tobecco indusiry has The eystem 15 Uke that of & man |been 1aboritig for several years un- earning §10,000 a year, and having|der a falling market and the num- expenses of $15,000, He gets to earn- | ber of methods devised to stimulate { é 2> ¢ eEg 7 ] { it i £ Modern versien: “There's no plass home-like."” £ ; i at the Post Office at New Brit- a3 Second Clam Mall Mastter. TELEPHONE CALLS Business Office ..., 953 Editorial Rooms .... 926 The omly profitable sdvestising medium in the City. Circulstion beckes and press reom slways open to advertisers. all news credited in this paper end also nows published therels. . Momber Audit Bureay of ‘the A, B. C i & patiesal which furnishes newspapers end adver flsere with a strictly honest anaivels of circwlation. Our circulation gtatistics are Vased upon this audit. This tasures pro- tectlen sgainst frsud in sewupaper tribgtion figures to both aatiopal Jocsl advertisers. dte- end The Herald 1» om ssle dally {n New York at rlimnun.'- Newsstand, Times Square; Schults’s Newwstands, Betrance Grapd Central, 4lad Street. pE————— Commendable contractions: *To- nite"—in theater ads. “Thru"—in theatrical titles. And yet some folk elaim the stage does not educate. The question developing s whether Senator Reed and Governor Smith will fight according ¢o the - Marquis of Queensbury Trules or with ‘soft gloves. Or will it be just another of those cat and dog fights. The ballyheo and commotion cuused in Paris by the gevernment barring visite' by “opers papas” to the ladies of the ballet behind the sacenes indicates that opera in Paris depends upon more than music for its popularity. fi N 1t got into the papers that when ing $16,000, and then has a surplus of $1,000. The difference is, however, that in the case of the state the increased income means more money from the public. Genulne intormation regarding’| the expenditures of Connecticut are found in the state manual, which is the eficlal volume printed under the direction of the' state for the guidance of such as happen to get hold of it. The expenditures of the ¢ | state since 1917 s there given as fol- lows: . 1817 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1928 1924 1925 1926 . oo $ 9TTITE 12,608,034 10,179,605 19,374,856 19,288,022 20,437,810 21,208,977 24,127,500 27,140,367 27,974,468 The tigures for 1927 are not yet in a state manual, as the 1928 volume is not printed until June. Ed- warg F. Hall, state finance minister, has announced, however, that the expenditures for 1927 were $30,620,- 561, The state's expenditures have been increasing at a steady ratio, and went up nearly $3,000,000 only Inst year. The state's income has n- creased at an even greater pace. Bince 1920 state revenues have in- creased 113.2 per cent, while ex- penditures increased 61 per cent, ac- cording to Mr. Hall. Income comes from taxation—direct and indirect. Around ‘election time the impression is emphasised strongly that taxes are low, etc. How taxes can be get- ting lower and the state’s income increasing so radically at the same time is something for the voters, to fathom; but half of them don't a greater consumption of cigars have been diverse and devious. None of them have worked. Cigavette con~ sumption increases yearly, and the remainder of the industry experi- ences a-decrease. What the Connecti- cut tobacco industry loses is more than gained by the clgareite indus- try of North Carolina, where most of the government’s smoke revenues are collected. IDEALISM The charge frequently i§ made | that Americans are a mercenary | race, worshipers of the goddess | success and chasers after the al- mighty dollar, Proof that the charge is not true is found in the constant incréase in {the expenditures for schools throughout America. Schools repre- sent idealism in democracy. Buch mercenary things as new po- lice stations, improved stregts, addi- tional fire stations, and almosat alb other civie emterprises can wait so long as there is need for new achool bulldings. This is the story in almost all cities. This attitude towards education means recognition of the fact that the rights of the oncoming genera- tion are placed ahead of everything else, that they cannot be ignored, that delay canuot be brooked 1t is the quintessence of idealism; soniething for pride, if we care to feel that way. AN EXAMPLE FOR OTHERS Governor Fuller of Massachusetts is being roundly congratulated upon his budget measage, which called for a tax reduction of $3,600,000. The recommendation to the legislature calls for appropriations and taxation on a level closely approximating The average faituve who says he has aiways dous his should add the word “friends.” 84, it may not be wise to make Hoover President. You don't use & eteam. engine to Tun a sewing ma- chiue. 3 It the dead can look back ‘from the spirit world, Monroe prolably doesn't tecognize his doctrine. New alibi:’ “My dear, I flirted with a woman just to worry you and help you lose welght.” A hick town of by the time you can get Ligh gear. is one you are out into Modernism: Buying a beautifully designed radiator cap with some kind of car attached. Some day a Latin will have more than sixty followers and then he'll have to invent & new rank. He couldn’t be a mere “General.” “Bave the surface and you save pretense” of friendship can't make South America forget intervention. Americanism: Blaming all of the country's troubles on Prohibition or Fqual Suffrage or whatevér you don't like, Who cares a hoot about the f. 9. b. price of a car? Why don't they tell us how much & month? There's one great advantage in be- ing President. A man learns where to get clothes that fit. * There's one way to get rid of an all” 1s a good paint slogan. But & |vented a mirror that’always makes it L 3 £ 13 i i g ie il £, g 3 1 T i £ 4] | L if + 119 5“‘-5 fil i ! i f 8 gs ‘Profoaston! B o Bhop Ptk the 107 talk Gurt u o ttle thow'rt Should mever come from us! ey ‘| Then canst : H 23f £ i i i f =2 ] § 4 ] i i Diner; “No, you'll dpl" But as' for scholastic ~—Mrs, Lyman M. Bellis, |Girlie, thou win'st by & mile, Them, as Mr. Einstein might say The Fun Shop News Weekly LA J in discussing his theory of relativity, dAmnthw:lthlM is our sentiments. rawn W] under an ancsthetic igot out of the chair and smashed ":;,:,’”;':‘::h‘wg: ;:n;:“m'l: 1every window in the office. the Herald last Thursday an an- He evidently belfeved in ancless | o ncoment of the honer pupils at ] gt ¥ New Brtain High school Pho male chest, wi is wont to project with | g -blank old he the inflation of sex superiority, fm- ‘WME i i mediately assumod & concave Posl- | The salutatorian then strides to tion. The hat, which has always cir- !the front of the stage and, making cumcraniumed at a delioately ad- {no pretense of memorising, baldly justed angle, came down over the reads his speech. Then comes @ ears. The fect, which have carried Imusical program, and because it is us elastically in pumsuit of many. |perfectly evident that none of the many buses mornings because we graduates have suy talent, profes- would insist on having another alice |sional musiclans have been engaged of cipnamon toast and marmalade, (to render womething which sounds secmed tmable 10 withatand the ab- |like something a little better than a normal welght of the body and car- 'cross between a woman's acreantl ried us slinkingly through back ;and a convention of men who smoke yards to our domicile long after the ;the wrong brand of cigarettes. This shades of night had made objects.is followed by the valedictory, and ipdistinguishable. An inferiority |the girl who delivers it candidly complex sank its fangs into our states that the wpeech was written spirit. by her father, who copied copiously Out of elght puplls who won gen. | rom George Weshingion's “Fare- » 4 cral honors for three years at High 'm:'t‘l’f."" Weisa ecndhecuiadboad | : H fire ! “What a difference!” This is a . | duily yemark as motorists roll over the mew highway, in their more ‘or less expensive cars, between the New Britain city line and Worthing- ton Ridge in Berlin, Only a shor, ‘while the lives of motorists forced to travel over Beach Bwamp Toad was a constant nightmare 8s they thought of the harrowing ex- periences they had to endure, The surface of a washhoard was smooth in comparison to the Berlin high- way. When a driver struck the road tn: £Ar began to heave and roll like a ship lost at sea in a storm. Through pure physical strength the i unlucky driver managed to maintain a grasp on the all-important steer- ing wheel. His mind was keyed to a high and feverish pitch as he strain- ed his earg to catch the sound of a blow out or the sinking sensatiop ene endures as the springs decide to give up the fight and the car sinks ;)I\ the rear axel with a sudden lojt. £ a car succceded to make the school, there were only three male . weiva conside; cated and Stretch without any apparent dam- representatives, Not such & bad we're free ,;:i :0? at last. 4 lage a word of prayer frequently showing, one might say, but When ‘yvo (ho)) goon be dissipated trying | Passcd through the-lips of the nayi- the things that are sald to a dis- to forget the past. gator which gencrally changed into paragement of the madern girl &re mpoughts of flunking, cranky teach- harsher language the mext day s considered, there doesn’t seem much ers, unlearned lessons soon will | the motor began to miss or some un- left for the male to boast about. fade. 5 explainable sound kept up a con- b g “Goodby, old high school, I'm so happy I fear I may dis. Twelve years' work is now all done And at last T can have fun, Lindborgh . The author of “Three Weeks" de- clares that Lindbergh basn't "it” —but, gee, { | That fellow doesn't meed it much as long as he holds onto “wel” * v . International A Frenchman claims to have in- its beholder-look charming. Ladies are of the opinion that it is worth looking into, anyway! e s e Diplomatict We're friendly now with Mexico, The nation's joy in this we share, | Soon we expect to hear the new They’'ve found a lot of oil down there! Social An apple ple. weighing more than a ton was cooked at Yakima, Wash- ington. Fun Shop contributor says his | wife has never made a ple as big as very m———— e e > that although her pastry is wvote and the other half don't think | Pre-war days. oll-stock salesman. You can offer to But the worst is yet to come.|ywe will soon be toll-slaved crea- |tinual rattle from hidden recesses * the American Binkers' association held :its convention in Houston the city was not exactly dry. Now what does that signify, we wonder, in view of the convention to take place . there in June? about it. Connecticut *'pays as she goes” simply by collecting more than she pays out, regardless of the increase pald out. 8imple, isn't it? ——re—— Sepator Bingham's effort to have » presidential commission investigate the §-§ dissster-to the exclusion of all other commissions has gone for fiaught. There will be & p. c, all right, but there also will be a con- " gresional commimsion. It looks rom this distance that mutual distrust is not altogether unknown in Wash- ington. We have been wondering what be- came of the old-fashioned New England winter until we read of that | snowstorm in New York state. | That maple sap sald to be run- uing in New Britaia a too much | Itke hootch. And the Uive caterpillar found must have been looking for & place to keep warm. — The new auditorium being built in | Houston for the Democratic conven- tion is designed to be cool, its sides baing designed to catch the breezes | from the Guilt. But how about the hot air from Ambama, if you get what we mean. 3 The budget of the German repub- Mo calls for 2,000,000 marks as & subsidy for aircraft this year which helps to explain why commercial axiation is 8o successful thereabouts. Nothing succeeds like a subsidy— except in the good old U. 8. A. Hoover's religion having been looked into, the presidential contest | begins to take on the appearance of a religious festival. | \A congressional committee having ssked officials of the Brown-Boveri company to explain the proposed four-day passenger and mail serv- ice from New London to Europe, the. city on the Thames has renewed its fajth that it eventually will become & great ocean port. New London has the. faith and hope; the critics or cymics will supply the charity. The city's youth have taken a step forward in the schools; -which of course reminds dutiful parents of | how time is passing, and soon the children wil know more than the parcats can remenib When it is sought to make an esti- mate look important it is termed “conservative.” Automobiles cost less, but the harassed autoist is confronted with | an increase of 16 per cent in acci- | dent liability insurance. Thus every- | one owning a car has a financial | stake in the reduction of accidents, | Every time damage is done by a col- lision the others have to help pay | for it. | satisfled. {vet CARD GAMES There was a time when the main card games which occupied the at- tention of social gatherings consisted of half a dozen specles the names of which are nearly forgotten. Hoyle has s0 many card games listed that it is more than pardonable to for- get the names of what even were prominent examples. Of course, al- most every he-man remembers a few | games he has had at poker, and te hear him tell it somebody always had all the luck. What we were get- ting at, however, was that more' than 47,000,000 packs of cards were #0id in the United Btates last year; and if our judgment is half as un- erring as customary we should say 46,000,000 packs of them were {used to play bridge. Bridge is a great game—for any- one who can master it properly. The element of chance still exiats, but there is also much more of the in. tellect necessary; although this ia not saying soctal games run into 90 per cent of the latter. There was & time when nobedy knew a thing about bridge; today it is the popular card game. (The “the” ought to be in capitals, except it is contrary to our editorial usage to be too em- phatic.) Uncle Sam s perfectly satisfied, as he exacts & tax of ten cents & pack on each set sold. In spite of the huge sale of playing cards, however, the industry has not experienced un- alloyed prosperity, for nearly twice that number were manufactured, and only 7,000,000 packs exported. If the pinochle and set-back play- ers in the newapaper offices lost more cards, thus being forced to patronize the industry oftener, may- he the manufacturers would be more Trouble with a pack of cards is, it lasts a long time. TAXES FROM SMOKE The millions of smokers in the United States had an opportunity, if | they happened to note the figures, to see what beneficent taxpayers they are. The most lowly individual who smokes his blackened pipe and likes it has contributed to the $387,427,880 which the government obtained as revenue from the to- bacco industry in 1927. This is a larger sum than the estimated ex- penditure for the U. 8. navy next | year. The smoke tax is one that no- body 15 supposed to feel. It is one of those indirect taxes which is highly lucrative to the government “scarcely noticeable” to the payees. As a matter of fact, a goodly portion of the “high” prices charged for tobacee, eigars and cigarettes since the war is due to the inevitable tax, which was hoisted during the This is the governor's answer to the plan for wholesale salary in- creases for state officials, a cam- palgn that has gotten under way on Beacon hill. The Bay state governor not only ir opposed to increases—al- though admitting there may be in- equalities which should be equalized —but has shown where large sav- ings can be made in other directions. Talking about economy is one thing; practicing it is quite another. The governor of Massachusetts has |shown he knows how to improve on talk about it by taking appropriate action, Bay state politicians, however, may possess a different viewpoint. | One way to get votes is to feed fod- | der to the boys. That is one of the weaknesses of the system which | ekes wsport of the taxpayerw’ money. 25 Years Ago Today (From Paper of That Date) ——— At a special meeting of the Porter & Dyson company huld last night the following were elected directors: P, Corbin, A. Corbin, and George E. Dyson. The resignation of F. W. Porter as president and M. G. Porter a8 secretary and treasurer were re- celved and accepted. P. Corbin was elected president and George E. Dy- son secretary-treasurer. Co. I held a rattling smoker in its headquarters at the armory last night, with Captain A. H, Griswold presiding. Ex-Captain W. J. Raw- lings, ex-Lieutenant-Colonel A. L. Thompson, Captain W. W. Bullen, H. L. Curtis and C. H. Mitchell were guests of honor. The following civil officers were elected at the annual meeting: Treasurer, Captain A. H. Griswold; - historian, Bergeant W. J. Dyson; company clerk, Private Eddy N. Smith; janjtor, James Hattings. Important developments are prom- ised at the annual meeting of the Russwin Lyceum Stock company Monday afternoon. The lease is at present held by Thomas J. Lynch and J. Claude Gilbert, who have managed the theater Wince they moved from the Opera House ten !years ago to cater to the tastes of | the amusement loving people of New | Britain in a more pretentious struc- ture, Jt is understood .that when thelr lease runs out they will sever connections. Jacques of Waterbury is sald to be after the lease, but the sentiment is for the retaining of control by New Britain men. As & sequel to the trolley acci- dent involving cockfight spectators last Seturday bight, Attorney C. F. Conlen has filed notice of an ap- peal for damages on behalf of one of the men who were in the carriage which the trolley struck. With February the Boys' club will pase its 12th birthday. It now has 433 members. The officers of the |club are: President, H. D. Humph- rey; secretzry, Mrs. C. B. Stanley; treasurer, M. 8. Wiard; directors, A. J. Sloper, Mrs. W. E. Attwood, H. B. Humason, E. M. Hulbert, Mrs. M. J. Coholan, M. C. Webster. Observations On The Weather | | swap him the German marks you have been holding as an investment. 2 Wt The chap Who marrics for Honey doesn’t need much vocabularly; just “Gimme” and “Yes, Ma'am.” It isn't stupidity that keeps the people from reading “high-b.ow"” books. It is the fact that the high- hrow writer hasn't the wit to avold being dull: It will help you to be a philoso- pher it you will try to remember what you were excited and indignant about at this time last year. One thing that makes the re- former's job hard i the fact that people look him over and &ee nJ particular advantage in becoming like him, have Correct this sentence: “We [ “and two doctora,” said the village they never knock one anothe: Copyright, 1928, Publishers Byndicate. ANERICANS LEAN 10 GO-OPERATION Trend Is Combination Against Rest of Trade Work Havana, Jan. 28 UP—A trend to- ward: organisation of the Americas inte a close cooperative agreement against the competition of the reat ‘of the world in agricultural products servers at the Pan-American con- ference. First approval to two resolutions tending toward such organization 'was given by the conference’s steer- ‘ng committee. One resolution, presented by Para- guay, requested the conference to advise the Pan-American union to call & conference of representatives of the agricultural and cattle indu tries of the American nations to con- sider methods of cooperation be- tween government agencies and pri- vate enterprises. The other resolution provided for the establishment of a Pan-Ameri- can agricultural and livestock insti- tute as & permanent commission to secure cooperation among all Amer- ican countries and thus enable them to attain & maximum production and to compete successfully with the producing countries of the rest of the world. The steering committee also decid- ed to give women an opportunity to present their project for equal poli- tical rights for women in the Amer- icas. A woman's delegation will be allowed an unofficial hearing after one of the plenary sessions when the congress is technically adjourned. A plenary session was called for conference commiitec on union approved a © | wite. | came home one day and found the hard for its size! RIS S fScanning the list of special honors, it was discoversd that the girls far dutnumbered the boys. Names which 4 revealed their owners as being mem- ,bera of the sex that scoffs were as infrequent as ralsins in commercial | Too Loving? Buckley: “So Morley divorced his I can't understand it. Every- one loved her.” Mucy: “That was the trouble. He under the car. Drivers were unable even to think of making time as they journeyed through Berlin, It was just a matter of getting through the stretch without damaging the vehicles. tures, but at least we will be Then comes the big event. The speaker of the day—or rather his private secretary, since he himself was too busy to come—takes Pos- and cattle was noted today by ob-! today in hnoor of the memory of\ Cuba’s great patriot, Jose Marti, who took the ficld against the Spaniards in 189; The Pan-American . vaidin bread. In every branch of zeasion of the platform angd begins: knowledge, except those taught at,‘“You are now golag iuto the world | the trade school, girls proved them- jof men and women. You have| selves superior. It was & orushing 'grown up. You need advice, we old | blow to the self-gloritied male. buzsards think, but you wouldn't o Let's see about these girls. They |follow it it I gave it to you, I know ,::."::;,to:,efi‘: &fl;‘gifl,fiifie",fifl awing easily along the sidewslk and ;you will do just as you please 88’ first houses on South Main street. nteor “like magples, spemingly jlong as your parents’ money holds vVigtors in many cuses wero forced Without a care in the world, They out and that you will stop drinking o getour through other ways in dance late at night, according to and smoking only when the bottles| orjey to reach New Britain and o0r aples, and their responss to the and packs are empty. I know You'yuch valuble time was lost by | breakfast bell is lethargic. Appar- |want to have me finish this addresn. y,,5ine55 men wno needed ev L ontty they do everything except|l know you will have no USo fOF|,,inyte, Tho rasult was that Now Study hard and what i the result? your diplomas, and. to CONSeIVe priin ost the busines ot Y estton ‘s repeated: What s (room in your attics I touch thls yonwno wo Mg L i the reault? In & fow words, the re. |[match to the whole pile of them. y.. prifg it who. ol 7athes o o that they carry off the ma- |L know you aren't even listening to| N n i Mantard Merts Sorty of honors in scholastic me. And I know I'm glad of it, for | |“ “M ‘ng i Hartford, Meri- Loty of monors e nan. (I know ite the worlds wors den or Midlctown rather than sphisveshant, ARE BBk, Bk n [spesch | travel over tho Berlin road in order e e Dl wee the firet | He Jumps over the. footiights and | € 88 Jer males, the The new highway represents one i - |joins the mad acramble to get out in | '] :::fl::yuv “t.o‘ :n:i wl:‘c'l;ir‘nllh:he Prer {time for the second show at the ' of the biggest accomplishments of local theaters. i the state highway department dur- softly) is the peer of the human {ing 1927. It has raised the stock of race, mothers over the eternal resting| (ome in, euthanasia, don't step {Berlin a hundred fold. ‘Better Fire Departnient Service places over their loved ones over- v e e ae T Bead o previous to knock. boys living along the route of the | The new road guarantees better eny ment!" b Farmington avenue trolleys continue | fire protection from New Britaln N ine Writer: *‘How about | T0e OWirrer ':w"‘""‘l‘;“:rmz‘; to make & practice of hopping on-| The engines are able to rcach Ber- Poker > Kantent Bonie Y Brots -k L L8 P A s Chun fliat | A1) 0L Cargias they paseigionk the |lin 2 short time after the alarm is Query Put to Famous Title Writer; [Ny Britain PoopIe O become | FOULE: ! rounded, giving local property own- ot Oamen I Pagts | MnutBUIL ke WaliC, - Sous As. the cars are in charge of n |©Fs & fair chance of having their Newspaper Man Wants to Get Even, uch more popular it the drives| "oy crew, it is impossible for | houses or business buildings eaved. Bays.” were kept in better shape. the motorman-conductors to operate | The highway will be kept in first o Title Writer: “That Nightt» | Of course, winter is upon ué and| gh, venicies and waich the rear end | class condifion by the st highway Headline Writer: “Headline Writ- the park 18 not frequented by many | 0o\iy0 warie time. The crews are | department. During the winter snow or Asks $10 Loan; Broke, Is Plea; beople sceking reltef from the heat,{er o s "o oige unusual vigilance | Will prove o trifling matter. Men will Need- Ald." but still 8 large number of automo- | " Coe biro i voad hecause the ears |be at work clearing the road within Movie Title Writer: “Later!” bile owners use the drives in Pro-1 v "oy ouoy o ongested district |an hour after the storm has started. Headline Writer: “Will Probe ceeding from West Main street to!'hfl.e the streats, in many cases, ara| Al in all; the people of New Brit- Loan Ban; In Rage, Fowler Bids some other section of the city, OF | yooq freely by boys and girls for ain and Berlin are well pleased with False Friend Goodby: Will Re- |vice versa. The driveways are not,’hnmmd purposes. Boys take ad- the new highway and nothing but member Insult, Claims.” in such a condition as to warrant|ygntage of this situation and fre- edmiration and praise is heard from Movie Title Writer: “And & des-'a “We point with pride” speech. | quently climb on the rear atep or autoists who travel on the former porate lover plants s tender ~Kiss| There are gullies, ruts bumps. ! hang on the back and ride for | “Washboard Boulevard.” upon the upturned face of the one |holes, hills, dales, valleys 8fld | piocks or until they are seen by the | who means the world to hlm, 80 crevices and it is impossible to es-| motorman-coniuctor, who s forced MZEN “Il T ANKS people still like to drive through the | strange, therefors, that boys Mke to park. ‘The new memorial has at-|hop on trolleys and “steal & ride.” short cuts to the western and south- | cannot operate their cars and chass western parts of the town and there | boys at the same time. of style but a slipper of persuasive eloquerce may be found in most must I, like the sinking sun creeping ‘cape all or pearly all of them. Anl¢o stop the car and chase them‘ tracted many to the top of the hill | There is & thrill shout the venture. 0m M F“e Hm mm.ge is no doubt that traffic problems| The solution of the problem lies well regulated homes. Harmful to Business Interests Strangers coming to New Britain were astoulshed at the deplorable condition of the highway and their fellow next door loving her!” —Julia F. Bammis. The Movie Title Writer and the Hoadline Writer Get 4 (Imagined by Jullet Tuckman) . Movie TAtle Writer: ‘“Came the dawn, and with it, Mr. Fowler. How are you?" Headline Writer: *‘Quite Well," Admits Fowler When Queried by Movie Man; Offers Cigar.” Movie Title Writer: “As the eater- pillar welcomes cabbage, 8o do I welcome this clgar. Headline Writer: “Well Known ;Newspaper Man Invites Friend to 1Apartment to Meet Mate, Kiddles." Movie Title Writer: ‘As the whispering pines ~ on enchanted mountain siopes shake their heads in the crisp breese, so must I shake mine. Grief such as known by Regardless of repeated warnings m Connecticut company employes, | Getting something for nothing has | Tex., dJan. -28 P — Blackened and twisted sheet metal of a dozen oil tanks today marked the site of & spectacular fire here that caused one death and resulted in damage estimated at upwards of 1$100,000. Yive men were injured slightly. Starting yesterday afternoon with a terrific explosion in one of the 3,000 barrel tanks of thé Humble Ol and Refining company, the fiames spread to 11 more tanks, filled for the most part with gaso- line. Fred Hendricks, chemist, who was inspecting the tank when it ex- ploded, was hurled high in the air and fell back into the fire. His body was not recovered. Other employes were thrown to the groupd, and in the excitement incident to spreas of the flames, reports were circu- lated that several persons had per- ished. The fire continued in the evening. with flames shooting hundreds of feet to dissppear in a huge cloud of dense black smoke. Visible for long distances across the open prairies, hundreds joined the 6,000~ 0dd residents of this two-year-old ofl boom town to watch from points of vantage along dikes protecting down over the dull horison, bld you gutomebilist gets & rather rough'gway. an everlasting urew:u' ride if he drives through the para. L Headiine Writer: « o Jump In | “yy thare was anow on the grouad |a univereal appesl. There it & cer- | Take A avises Hieatiin Mo r ek lean ks whs 0 hnce-te i fhin dilight S0 becnerion possessed | Movie Title Writer: “FINISI” the roads, that would be something | of something for which payment is | 3 else again. But the weather has|mot exacted. “One Eye” Connolly | been comparatively mild and many | iives in every one of us. It is not $100,000 in Texas and there §s still an excelient view | But the action caunot be excused | = of the surrounding country {rom the | on these grounds. It is a dangerous| yi.camey, (highest point. practice, oftentimes resulting in in- | go & < The roads, as we have pointed | jury, and should be stopped. The 3 | |out betore, are practically as impor- trolley crews have reached the end tant as otber streets, as far as con- | of their wits trying to devise ways dition goes. They afford convenient and means of stopping it but they would be relieved to some extent if | with the parents. Boys must be told a good paving job were done. of the danger they run and if they do mnot accept the warning in ths Twenty-five years ago: Tight spirit and persist in the prac- Brown derbies commanded re-tice a liberal application of a slip- spect. per in the right spot should be re- ‘Women wore high shoes and sev- | sorted to. Woodsheds have gone out cral othér things not highly popular now. e Mustaches were measured by width, breath and thickness. Kaiser Bill quite & boy. The youngsters believed in Santa Claus. Political inclinations divided familles and split up homes. Dances began at 7 p. m. and end- ed four hours later. Strawberry festivals were quite the rage, in season ef course. ‘What'll you have?’ “was a fa- miliar expression. Present day bootleggers were still shining shoes. People were old at 50. Divorces ostracized the parties For many years New Britain has been pointed to with polite, more or lees, condescension as a city of “for- cigners.” If thc assertion is based on the amount of foreign blood which flows in the veins of its resi- dents, there would be grounds for the statement, although it would not reflect on the community. - But fi- gures printed on the first page of be Herald today refute the dispar- agers and silence them effectively. The population of this city is es- timated at 80,000. The statistics re- ferred to, which cover the subject of Otherwise, You're Correct! Mrs. Sanders: ‘What a beautiful :llt!ln boy! And what big blue eyes he has and what golden hair! Dim- ples, too, hasn't he? Well, well. T didn’t know your baby was s0 big and strong.” confMct and Bas remained in a high Mexican proposal for the reorganiza-|" Mrs. Graham: “That's not a dim- ‘Washington, Jan. 28.—Forecast coneerned. other tank farms. Someone has asked us if “ain't” is ) &ltitude ever since. a good word It “alw't’ it you have| The Teport of the internal revenue tinie $6.8ay it | department, which has just beem made, also « forms healthy reading for the Comnecticut tobacco growing industry—entirely too healthy, in fact. It is related therein that the to. bacco tax increased by nearly $16,- 060,000 last year but that the entire |Increase was due to the larger con- sumption of cigarettss, there having Question Is a stronghold a stronghold when Sandine has aban. doned it for another? CONNECTICUUT FINANCES ON UP GBADE There is such & thing as doubling | for Southern New England: Cloudy Saturday, probably light snow. Sun- day generally fair, colder in western Massachusetts and Connecticut. Forecast for Eastern New York: Cloudy, possibly light snow, colder Saturday; gemerally fair Sunday. Conditions: The disturbance tha was centered over Lake Su- perior yegterday morning has moved southwesbward over Lake Huron. The indications sre for light snows tion of Pan-American union’s g0V erning board. In the past the am- bassadors of the various countries and the United States secretary of state formed the governing board. Under the Mexican proposal, either the ambassador or any one elsc chosen by his government may rep- resent it on the board. Mr. Hughes in supporting this plan asserted that the Washington government would appreciate noth- Saturday night or Sunday in south- ern New England. ing more than to have positive ac- tion taken in this matter. iple, it's a freckle, and the eyes aren’t blue, they're brown. That's| not golden hair, either, it's a dirty blonde, and, moreover, it isn’t a boy ; This is Mre. Hart's, it this “Twenty-three-8kidoo” was a cur- rent slang expreasion. “Nellle, the Beautiful Cloak Model,” was a current theatrical uccess. Athlets wore ments. The Teapot Dome was one of the wonders of nature. hirsute adorn- afternoon!” —Mrs. L T. Blum. — She was a plasterer's daughter, _ but she loved a wise crack! This ‘age 18314 to be the frank- est that the world has ever known, but at about this state of the year— and again in June—events eccur (Copyright, 1928, Reproduction Forbidden). state of birgh, show that of the total population 56,445 are native born Amcricans. Of these, 48,387 first saw the light in Connecticut. New York’s contribution comes second and Massachusetts, where the Pil- grims first set foot om American soil, is third. A perusal of the city directory re- veals many names which the man or woman of Anglo-Saxon descent tinds difficult to pronounce. But behind the names are hearts which teat for the American flag just e 1,500 MURDERED Canton, Jan. 28 UM—Advices from the northern borders of Canton province today told of the sacking of two border villages and the mur- der of 1,600 men, women and chil- dren. There are no Americans in the vicinity. Four thousand alleged communists from Hunan province staged the raid on the villages. No other details were given,