New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 1, 1928, Page 2

during the year, met income in the final quarter fell to §1 3, nearly 10 millions under the previ- ous quarter, and more than 23 mil- below the will direct the du-u\lltlu course, ¥ Mrs. Stanley M. Hunt will teach — Is Blamed on Live Competition 'SLEEPING AILMENT cooking, supper being prepared at ‘cach lesson. The class in hooked rugs will be taught by Miss Florence Rice. Clubs will also be organized at this E UNDY CONPLETES per- od of 1926. Net income for the full yoar amounted to $105,366,9 “TRIP OVER WATER Is Given Gala Rocoption at 8t Thomas, V. L. Too Many Undertakers and Manufacturers of Burial Goods, Survey Commit- “The extravagant charges on the part of certain undertakers are largely due to an effort to make & living out of a very small volume of business,” the committee comments, |indicating that the class referred to is made up largely of the “broker” " CLAIMS ONE LIFE Another Waterbury Woman Also Thought Victim ‘Waterbury, Jan. 1.—(M—One time, The Bociology club, directed by {Mrs. R. H. Barlow, meets twice a month, Miss Dorothy Wisker, pres- dent, dirccts the Baturday after- {noon excursions to near-by social centers. The H-King club plans cross-country tramps on alternate Saturday afternoons. The Literature DX Thrill Buffalo, N. Y., Feb, 1 UM—Radle pared with $134,837,95Y in the year Again for Title, Rldifl Fllll M“ M Because of the increased number| Los Amgeles Feb. 1 (UP)—Jack of shares outstanding, due to the 0 per oeat stock dividend last year, the | corporation’s earnings on the com- men stock dropped to $1.05 a share. ‘This apparently was Jeas than a Dempsey has not retired from fight- ing and hopes to be abdle te meet Tunney again, he smid in an inter- view here. type of undertaker who possesses practically no equipment but hires paraphernalia from casket houses or | other undertakers. Strong condemnation of these hir- 8t. Thomas, Virgin Islands, Feb. 1 UP—This American Island today celebrated a public holiday in honor ot Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh, | whe flew here from Maracay, Vene- tee mm quarter of thie $4.88 a share earned in the final period of 1926. Earn- ings for the year lkewise showed a wide discrepaucy, declining to $8.80 2 share against §17.09 in 192¢. Last “My eyes are all right,” my legs haven't gone back and I expect tn fight Tunney some time soen,” he said. “There is nothing definite settled fans in Buffalo and vicinity yester- day afternoon heard the chimes of Big Ben on the parliament bullding in London and for nearly three hours listened to a program broad- club has for its program the discus- sion of recent publications, The Business Girls' club offers to its members a jolly time. Miss Ethel Prior will direct the Girls’ orches- death from sleeping sicknecas and an- other in which the same disease may have been a contributory factor, oc- jcurred in St. Mary's hospital here New York, Feb. 1—The situation suels, over islands and waters which have figured large in the history of exploration. Bwinging along a crescent of 1,050 miles, over the coast of Venczuela and the lessar Antilles, Lindbergh of an ever-increasing number of un- dertakers and burial goods manufac- turers, all fighting for commercial existence in the face of a& limited volume of business, has been large- ly responsible for a rise in funeral costs to a level that often deplete: ing practices and other merchandis- |ing methods of casket companies is voiced by the committee. “Middlemen and jobbers have never developed in this branch of he industry,” says the report, “The iyesterday. The Waterbury hospital {reports a patient who is being | watched as a possible case. Harry N. Berger, 22, of 210 North Main street who was -found in his room unconscious Sunday noon, died in 8t. Mary's hospital at 4:10 o'clock | I'is also planned Then the Book club, tra. A club for ukulele enthusiasts affiliated with the well-known “Book- of-the-Month” club will read the latest fiction, This group has started a Lending Library of the popular possibility of cast from station “2LO." There had been no previous an- nouncement of a plan to attempt the re-broadcast of the London station because of some doubt as to the doing it euccessfully year's earnings were computed en & basis of 7,116,235 shares of common stock outstanding, against 5,083,035 at the end of the foregoing year. Last quarter earnings per share were insufficient to pay the regular in respect to my bout with Tunney,” he added. Dempsey denied reports that he would manage & heavyweight fight. er, saying he had not thought of en- tering the managing game, quarterly dividend of $1.75 a share on the common stock, and a deficit of $4,963,499 resulted after divi- dends were deducted. A like divi- dent was declared on the preferred, | After Going to Funeral maintaining the year's disburse- | Douglas, Masm., Feb. 1.—M—John ments on both issues at the rate of | Howard, §8-year-old Civil war vetere $7 annually, after deducting the last jan, trudged half a mile from his quarterly deficit, the corporation |farm over snow-covered roads yes L made his way with clock-like preci- sion. He passed over dozens of is lands, large and small, which be- came inscribed on the maps of the world with the voyages of Columbus, with unvarying speed. The flight was eompleted in ten hours and fif- teen minutes. manufacturer deals directly with the retailer. On the face of it, this is an apparent economy. But to reach {the public through the funeral di- rector, certain practices have grown up which are wasteful and lead to many abuses, “Manufacturers’ showrooms have |the cstates of low-income groups, {according to the advisory committee on burial survey, which has con- cluded a two-year study on the en- Itire burial industry, But culpable| {though the industry may be, the| committee holds that a part of the responsibility must be laid at the and Robert 8trigl, announcer at sta- tion “WMAK" in the absence of J. R. Loundsbury, station master, last night gxplained how it happened. yesterday without having regained | novcls. | consciousness. Dr, John Wertheimer The members of the Education | |reported the case to Health Officer | Committee, who endon? these |E. J. Godfrey. Dr. Wertheimer stat- | courses, are Mra. Carl £ Neumann, | ed that all tests while the patient|chaiman, Mrs. Louis Slade, Mrs, A‘; Welllngtor Muir of Walnut street, was ill were negative and that doc-.| H. Scott, Mrs, R. H. Barlow, Mrs. | o knort, a radio engineer, had been tors were puzzled to diagnose the | W P. Dyer, th Clara Wuhburn.\"pe"mcmm‘ for some time and | disease, Miss Lola Littlehales, Miss Mira |ynic afternoon had such good suc- '0ld Civil War Vet Dies . s | v 4 Lindbergh flew high. He encoun- | door of the public—incl these | Multiplied rapidly in the past 20 : e e Elizabeth Wain- o t 4 tered alight headwinds and @ NttIs kamo low-income groupéomhich py|Y6ars: Theso wers originally intend-| Mrs. Bolle Robillard, 35, wite of | Foster, and. Aiss Flistheth WA/ o that o notified station | showed a surplus for the year of |tcrday afternoon to attend the fu- rain. The flyer said the alr Was | reason of its growing demand for|®d SIMPly to acquaint the public | Willlam Robillard of 8helton avenue, | ght. ;*““' 4 e WY, A WMAK. $12,812,134. This compared with Ineral of his friend, James Chase, with newer types of merchandise. |died in St. Mary's shortly before 4| tional Secretary of the Y. W. €. Al nr yfyirs house was connected [surplus at the close of 1926 of $25,- lonly to drop dead in the latters slightly rough, but not enough to 4 hamper his progres 1 The chain of the West Indies over § which he flew appearcd to be very claborate funerals, has helped to| run up the average cost of burial. |Gradually, however, undertakers of The adv .ithe smaller type, particularly, ,.“.,];ln;,i;;?:y :::;?e‘;e :flnh::y brought families to the showroom to - select a casket, and the manufac. is directing these courses and will | gladly furnisa information regard- | ing membershin in classes and clubs. | 866,552, |door-yard in Bouth Douglas Mr, {Howard was a native of St. Johns- |bury, Vt., and was a resident of this town for 45 years. o'clock this morning, about three {hours after being admitted, Mrs. {Robillard had a tooth extracted Friday and the wound bled exces- by a New York telephone company line with “WMAK" broadcasting ; station at Martinsville, where Lon- don's program was transmitted over Omaha has 87 public grade achools and five public high schools. . beautiful, he sald. He Saw no ob- prominent clergymen, physicians, 5 A ! | don 1 E stacle to aviation along the trail he |lawyers, social workers, journalists|PUrer's salesman completed the sale. sively. 2 SPRING EE'"“ | 545 meters Piano solos, voices of a o |and tuneral directors, headed byfrne manufacturer, in such transac- Medical Examiner Dr, A. A. Crane | speaker and singers came in as il |Lawson Purdy, sccretary and gen.|UCN" Sets the retail price, and in|performed an autopsy on the body | - | clearly as from a local station, list- A presidential salute of 21 guns announced Lindbergh's arrival after the firing of two cannons and the | ringing of church bells heralded his | approach. But even as he appeared there was a short period of suspense as it was feared Lindbergh might find the tield prepared ‘or his landing un- cral director of the Charity Organi- zation soclety of New York city. The study was directed by John C. Geb- hart, former director of the Depart- ment of Social Welfare of the Asso- ciation for Improving the Condition of the Poor. Must Eliminate Weak There can be no rellef from the |doing so he followa the usual prac- |tice of marking-up the wholesale price to cover the funeral director's overhead and yield him a profit on the entire funeral. When the fun- eral director insists on a higher | mark-up, the salesman leaves the room and permits the undertaker to set his own price. This practice, |{whether deliberate or not, has made today and announced that the cause Nothing Important Expected to De- | velop at Annual Session of Amer- ican Club Owners. | of death was uraemia. Dr. Mec- Grath said that some of the wom- an’s symptoms were similar to those | |of a sleeping sickness patient and | {Dr. Crane admitted that Mrs. Robillard may have been suffering from sleeping sickness although the | symptoms did not show in the Chicago, Feb. 1 UM — With the | New York Yankees not represented and attendance of spokesmen for {one or two other tlubs doubtful, c¢ners reported. The re-broadcast will be repeated again today, it was announced. 1.5, STEELEARNS " FABULOUS AMOUNT Yellow or haz- d autopey. | ) sultable. B“;;"::u:': t;l‘r?:r ml“'?s present situation and no appreciabla|the casket house the party to une nothing important was expected to ardwan a Sl couree thrce WIS lowering of funeral costs, the com.|faje and exorbitant pricing methods develop at the annual spring meet- b e ‘”’c' smmicrcial | Mittee believes, until the business of |of the worst type of undertaker, 1 rej avialoF'fFeti Porto Rico made a test flight recently to try it out but re- fused to risk landing. Lindbergh, however, did not keep the erowd of 2,000 in suspense long. He swooped down and make an ex- cellent landing. From 2,000 throats arose a cheer, as the cannon boomed .and the whistles of the ships in the harbor shrilled their grecting. burfal Is concentrated in fewer hands through a weeding out of weak and inefficient units among both under- takers and manufacturers of burial | goods. However, an indication that this development already may be under way within the industry itself was found in the recent organization by key men of the profession of the Ifuneral Service Bureau of America Undertakers Hire Equipment “Similarly, as has already been in- dicated, casket houses in large cit. fes rent paraphernalia and hire per- |sonnel to undertakers with no es- {tablishment. The prices ‘charged |are remarkably low, There is every |reason to believe that the casket | manufacturers, in making this serv- |ice available for & particular type of undertaker, are taking a loss. This, { !ing today of the American league | Ratification of the league sched- Al[] Tl] SM”E IN[i {ule and “a few things I have been | | talking over with Commisioner Lan- | dis,” were on the program, accord- 10ne on Cape Cod Said to Have: Aided Rum Runners |ing to President E. 8. Barnard. Significant of the new regime fin | matters discussed with the |club owners. President Barnard's| | predecessor, Ban Johnson, and Lan- 246,545, Yeur Just Boded Shows Prot of 164 Million Dollars | New York, Feb. 1 (—The Unit- |the league was the statement thated States Steel corporation today re- com- {ported total carnings of $31,247,529 missioner would be laid before the lin the final quarter of 1927, bringing the aggregate for the year to $164,- This compared with total Serves Everybody Yellow Cab is an all around public servant. It knows no class distinction; its courtesy and { convenience are available for one and all. One of the Virgin Island belles which proposes to set up “a business|loss must eventually be placed on'| I dis were ot outa alinost from: tha S0 1 8 e learnin of $199,058,869 for 1926, . gave Lindbergn a bouquet as M® plan making for economy of opera- |the prices charged for burial goods| 2 I Simn ot ithe commimibnste sppolols | et m;m, for. tho Uast quirier People from all stations and walks of life make ] stepped from the planc. He Wastion, general standardization of for all types of undertakers and| Bosion, Feb. 1 UP—A private radio | ment as supreme head of organized |of that year was placed at §53- up Yellow Cab’s patrons. Business men, phyai- - then welcomed by Captain Waldo !jnethods, and providing the public | passed on to the ultimate customer. istation on Cape Cod was one of the |pageball, 1502, 25, sians, school teachers, nurses m. 13 Evans, U\ 8. N, rctired, g0vCrnov |\ith the opportunity to exercise| “It may be tllrlyu‘quenlloned; |m-tol-dnte‘ appurtenances of a rum- | e fiiierriexillieicn s WAy sihe Siane eel GBI 10&.# flléfim of the islands. frco choice in the light of accurato | therefore, whether e present |running ring which the government| , i i te crations s—all 2 Py sl Active Hardwape Demand (steady decline in steel operation: and social affairs: Annapolis, Md., Feb. 1.——Mid- lacted. 6. Interfor Decoration will be taught | o i shipman Gordon H. Kellog, of | Elaborate Tunerals “Sold” 62 per cent in Brooklyn. For estates | by Mathias F. Zimmerman, gradu- 3 PRLCIOUS DAYS HAVE Media, Ohlo, a sccond class man at| “When an industry is confronted |Of between $1,000 and $5,000, the |, ¢q of the School of Fine and Ap- Lindbergh will hop off about 2/ o'clock tomorrow afternoon for San Juan, Porto Rico, 75 miles away. and adequate information.” “The educational work of the bu- reau, if wisely directed, will clear up many abuses in the funeral busi- | methods of merchandising of some | of the casket companies are not un- necessarily costly and do not further | contribute to a vicious situation by charges smuggled hundreds of cases | of liquor ashore with: the protection| I8 Expected in February | |of t:ouxluua_rd men. i New York, Feb. 1.—Though cur- | In outlining the case to & federal | rent sales are only averaging fair in | ool AR AR Age is no bar to the enjoyment of a clean, safe | ride in one of our cabs. Old folks as well as g . 3 bzl dertak- |jury here, Assistant U. 8. Atlorney|tne Jeadi ‘bolassle. Hapdware: San Juan will present Lindbergh ness,” the committce comments “at, helping small, inefficient un: e . the leading wholesale hardware g £ with a parchm>nt scroll proclaiming the present time the public has no|€rs to remain in business.” {Hubert C. Thompson declared that inarkets, the trade freely predicts children find protection and pleasure in Yellow him “—Magmificent citizen and | means of discriminating between| Charges also are brought against John Magnus, Boston and Newton (an active February in all lines, and | Cab service. Both know they are s guest of honor of the city of Sam Juan.” The city already is decor- .ated with flags in his honor. From fan Juan he will go to Santo Domin- g0 and then "o Haiti. A mahogany paper weight loaded a\thmetal from the anchor ring of Columbus’ flagship, the Santa Maria. fyep his, aerlal successor | whcn'"?.lndheuh‘;rrh s af Haitl. The relic will be presented by the Union Sportive Des Socictes Halt- enne, The Santa Maria was wreck- ed in Haitlan waters, shortly after the discovery of Haitl by Columbua | on Decemper 24, 1492, The anchor was salvaged und sent to the Chi- cago worlds fair in 1893, the Phila- good and bad funeral directors, be- tween low-cost and high cost estab- lishments. idence of disorganization and waste in many branches of the burial industry is claimed by the commit- tee, but it holds the chief uneco- nomic factor to be the overcrowding of the fleld. “The burial industry,” the com- mittee reports, “is one industry in which the demand is fixed by natur- al causes. It is obvious that neo amount of advertising or sales ef- forts can increase the demand for funerals. During the last twenty- five years while the population has isteadily increased, the annual death undertakers who advertise complete funerals at a low cost. “The advertisements one sces in newspapers, telephone directories, | €te., are for the most part mislead- !ing and insincere, In every city | ‘complete funerals’ are advertised as low as $100, with ‘chapel free.' The practice generally is to use these ad- { vertisements as ‘Balt’ Once the | family enters the establishment it is {lmportuned, regardless of its fi- | nances, to eelect a more expenshe funeral than it can really afford.” | Something of the effect of present- | day funeral costs on those who have to pay the bill was revealed by the | committee through a study of sever- estates in garage owner, had obtained by brib- | particularly in staple shelt mer- jery, confidential charts showing the | chandise. Mild weather in a large | | position of coast guard patrol ves- | yoction of the country has retarded | |sels and also the secret code used |the pormal development of winter by the coast guard goods demand and inventory re- | “Magnus communicated to the rum | ool GBS B ighter thand {ships by means of his specially built | o 0T O |radio station and thus enabled them | WO UIPECICE L ear L:?,,l‘::l‘;ol'"‘f"'s;“‘m of unfriend- | yiorg active according ¥ Magnus 1s one of 11 defendants| [TOM Jjobbers. Prices generally are who went ot tolal before Judge|r and peactleslly sil pHoe ade |James A, Lowell. Five of the others InsumEnts have been Wpwand, {were former members of the coast 1 | guard, including Carl G. Halwartz of | RFAD HERALD CLASSIFIED ADS| Winchester, former exccutive officer | in charge of coast guard base 5, at | East Boston. ! | Halwartz wan described as o “go- | to reports, § gybsafeguards when they step into a Yellow ab. Because all can afford the low cost of Yellow Cab Service, it meets a universal need. By keeping our rates at a consisten level our usefulnessto the multiplied a hundredfold And that is as we would have it. Our ambition is to be a useful acquaintance of every family in this city—to be a distinct help to people in all sorts of service and emergencies—and to be liked and trusted by everyone, delphia. sesquiceatennial in 1925 and |rate has dropped sharply. The net|al hundred decedents’ veen” g . e ~ the Antiltonn exposition at Santiage, |result 1s that the annual number o |New York eity, Brooklyn, Chicago {betvoctl” between Magnus and the ,YG!I‘OW l?]fi?fl ;loseflllgess lto this community lies Sante Domingo, in 1027. The an- deaths, With a few minor fluctua-|and Pittsburgh and cases of Widows | . veq by Thompson with detailing in its ability to render the greatest good to the chor was in the nations palace at Bort-Au-Prince when it was blown AP in 1912, It Is now in the head- quarters of the gendarmerie of "aiti. Middy Is Killed in Fall From Chimney aval academy, to his death the United States vither jumped or fell from a smokestack naval hospital yesterday, authorities discloscd. Midshipman Kellog, who was the Navy’'s breast stroke entry on the ugrsity swimming team, was one of the most popular men at the Naval ddademy, authorities said. He was admitted to the hospital on Janua 3 to receive treatment for a nose affliction. A few days ago physicians said academy adjoining the | has remained practically sta- tionary. Yet it is during this period, with a practically stationary demand, that the burial industry has had its greatest expansion, both as regards the number of persons and firms engaged and the total money volume of business trans- |53 per cent of estates under $1,000 | iho y W, C. A. begins on February | with a fixed or diminishing volume | Percentages of absorption are 18 and | ;1inq Art, Miss Charlotte Segur, art of business, it must choose between |15 per cent respectively for these|y.,chcr in the Hish school, two alternatives: either more high- [Citles. Not unti] the estate reaches |y oo design and craft. Miss Helen | cr-priced goods must he sold to the |same number of customers or the volume of business must be concen- trated in fewer hands through the climination. of wuneconomic wunits, Ffom our study of the industry, it is appurent that both manufacturers of burial goods and undertakers |have chosen the first alternative to they noticed Kellog was apparently | suffering from a mental condition and authoritics summoned his par- with his mother this afternoon, and 4 sort time later his body at the base of the smokes hundred foot structure. Mae Murray’s Hushand » Says That’s What He Is *8anta Monica, ('al., Feb, 1 (B-—Tn | plants and funeral establishments, ery, Miss Dinlap; Embroidery, Miss | Hlrope, David Mdivani claims the' “The process of ‘merchandising COnnolly; Seran Book, Miss Mather; | ttle of Georgian prince, but when upward’ is by no means confined to Social Games and Stunts, Miss Doe; | arrested here on a speeding charge the burial industry, but nowhere I'resemaking, Miss Whitmire; Brow- | vesterday he gave his occupation as «lsc is it found in so aggravated a | S°TS. Miss Johnson; Boy's Glee, < . etana | (Sentor). Miss Diradloy. 1 : Co. announce the opening of their Mdivani, who Is 2§ years old, is “We ordinarily associate competi. Girls’ Gles Club (Senlor), Miss (Small Sizes) new service in New Britai the Rusband of Mae Murray, the fion with lower prices to the public Olson; Senior Debating, Walter Ha- ce In INew britain, film star. He is a brother of Prince Mdivani, the husband of Pola Negri, Polish film actress, surrounding death modify the lisle; Junior Dramatics 3, Miss Me SE— 0 ur. | Lam: Sunshine Club, Miss Robinson | Truck Covers at.Very Reasonable chasing a funeral, the bereaved fam- _ Senior Dramatics, Miss Coombs; Tomorrow Prices. STU DEBAKER ily has no fixed standard; they do | Travel, Miss Atherton; Oil I'lim(iv\x,‘ of Crue' Disappointment S |not shop and compare prices, and | Mr. Glover: Show Card, Mrs. Hur-| At COMMANDER: World's ; takers and its ct on funcral Athletic Clun, Mr. Brewster, Mra.{ Sn5icipation dus to the fniuence of cient service guaranteed. Champion Car costs, the committee points out that | Hines: Seasonal Games, Mr. Zeieler, tion, which you can iy free by Sim- r 5 while the annual number of deaths Miss Tarr; Junior Bovs ee. Miss m{:“nim'é Uéa [rwup;»_nl bell(o v rose but 2.3 per cent between 1906 Given: Junior Sclence. Mr. Sala iy Ju X5 SN 5510 v G o * . o t., V' 'y 3 BB e e e e s ade: | B Taieice By v g E TN R e e Wik (e ew Dritain Awn 1495 ers in the countiry incrensed 51 per ture Book Club, William Hale: and am mrhe it was Dr. Elde mna Few Hours. cent—roughly 25 times as fast. Con- Art Neediework 2, Miss Daker; His- SCrintion that made it pos I A 5 sequently the ratio of total draths tory Club; Miss Page; Junior De- | mgt"v:r;h:firzx?dc:::x,—wl{-\vfi;‘o l;-aegfl'-, | to total number of underakers has bating, Mr. Smith; Literature, Miss ' want children should at once write ent m decreased during that period from Lihby: Geseo, Miss Molander. e B ot C In T This Stock 83 to 56 Girls' Glee Club, Miss Donahue; | e Dok of msiractian” ‘'ome In Tomorrow — See This Stoc! y & . ' G 3 i invaluable book of instruction. F 18 25,000 miles in But even thiz is not the whole Girl Scouts, Miss Ostr Basketry, yo‘u1r conventenco fill out ;hc":,nupt?; E' F' SENELL) ProP' | #to. 1so was learned that a Miss Tt Miss Porter; Pe and mail it today. { % s than 23,000 SUEERR NG o s 2 | TTAARE St Ko Koot Awnings Tents Flags minutes—nothing fun: in a locality are handled by Mis Clark: Junior Dramatics 2, e i e ol wnin en 8, from 10 to 23 por cont of the under. | Miss Powell: Junior Dramatios 1,| | Sk Dien Waterproof Truck Covers ¢lse on earth ever fakers. In New York city for in- Miss Downes. Flease send me 2 foee tria) of your treat- ) sfance, it is estimated that 44 per Art, Miss Hitcheock: Banjo-man- | mont for Sterilite and tion cn how . W i pl‘o ran <o far so fast cent of the business is handled by dolin-Uke, Miss Wesker; Craftwork, | e PR 2 l‘c 453 West Ma"‘ s.t" Tele ne ¥ her Cont of The 20t wnderiakers| aa Horibert Draiting. Me. Srotn; o & _David S.Scqall, Pres. A% Rear ' 502 or 5294-J there, leaving other 92 per cent Boatbuilding, Mr. Gritzmacher; | | 8¢ Adiress L to strugzle along on an averaze of School Paper: Editorial, Miss | orR.F.D._. =~ - At the Shdw' two funerals a month Jacobs: Reporting, Mr. Adame: | | ci 357 MAIN STREET the exclusion of the second, by ‘mer- chandising upward,’ regardless of costs. Not only have more expensive goods and more elaborate s of funerals been sold to the public, but the number engaged in the business has increased all out of proportion to the demand. The pub- lic has. therefore, not only been persuaded to purchase each year more expensive merchandise and more elaborate funerals, but forced to absorb the overhead and profits of a multiplicity of manufacturing and the gradual elimination of in- flicient units. But the sentimentally, vmotionalism and social conventions are in no mood to drive a close business hargain.” Giving further growth in the emphasis to the number of under- Extravagant Charges Explained ,applying to the New York Board of | Child Welfare for pensions, and an 'ev(‘n larger number of cases of in v oy 18 uragos p ers’ ‘nflou- ?:cth"‘ of “the ‘Eduntfyy | From these it was learned that the |average expense of hurial absorbs 1in New York City (Manhattan) and $20,000 are the inroads eof funeral i costs considered negligible. | GENTRAL . H. §, GLUBS na 3 « o eh | Peopie’s Ovganizailons and Sponsors for Present Semester Announced— | Boys and Girls' Interest High, | Junfor high school met in their re- spective clubrooms yesterday after- noon for their weekly club meetings, this being the first meeting of the teing mada2. The list of clubs from which the pupils made their choice land sponsors of the clubs are as follows: Sewing, Mrs. Prescott; Embroid- Irterior Decorating, Miss Wi : Art Needlework, Miss Hoar; our Footed Americans, ley; 8pecial Dramatics, Miss Leahy; enior Science, Mr. Cleary: Latin, Miss Sanderson; French, Miss Cnt- ting: 8 ¥ Publishing. Mr. Drabble SWintat The club memberas of the Central | present semester and assignments | Miss Car-} | patrol boats which protected the un- | {loading of liquor cargoes. A Term Clastes [ At Y. W, C. A, Announced ! “The Winter Tern of Classes at | PASSED! will | | Kelley, also in the school depart- [wment, will be in charge of the| basketry classes. Mrs, Jane E. Dill | | when.” f i | You Can Try it Free Hundrods of married women, child- for years, suddenly find them- 1ves in a gurts of the most blissful | i & + anticipation duo to the influencc of OF BUYING LEFT! Thursday’s SACRIFICE 14 BOYS’*100VERCOATS THIS 10-DAY DRIVE TO GO Out of Business will be the talk of the town for years! Come and be one of those who will be able to:“remembey- / greatest number—and for the least money that will enable us to continue to serve, Hail Them Anywhere Phone 231 Pay What the Meter Reads ANNOUNCEMENT, The New Britain Awning & Tent Awnings, Tents and Waterproof Telephone your requirements to 502 or 5294-J—Prompt and effi-