New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 10, 1928, Page 6

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The Herald s Square; Grand Centr When automobiles a bowl over mail hox posts is it n sary to notify the autho Washington? Motorists from time to tim reported expericnciug earthquakes in | he oity, but investigation showed | they fooled into that state drove West Main street onto the driveway 1eadirig into Walnut Hill park. were fearful of mind when they from Some day a boy may win & spell- ing contest in this city, but not in | this generation. Tn the words of one | dtsgruntied hopeful, what's the idea of being able to spell the words w hen the printers invarlably get them cor- yeet? ! remain with THE SHAKE-UP Probably there is mo political | shake-up without some good points; and most shake-ups have bad points A political sb to the cause of the political motives that -up is particularly | public t oncrous neral - aetuate it. “To the victor belongs the spoils” remains an axiom that only a thorough-going vivll service sys- tem will elminatc; and if the need for such a system was ever demon- strated in this city it came with the wholesale shake-up indulged in by the new administration. The idea that friends and political workers must have the oflices is all wrong. Yet this, in the last analysis, is what the entire blast amounts to. Mayor Paonessa, of course, never in- | vented the political shake-up system and he has not been the first 1o apply it—although he has made quite a record in the extent of his| official revamping. He unquestion- ably also has vastly incr disgust with the workings ¢ ed public the sys- tem. If a municipal iment must he exclusively a political family, with only those having a hand in it who are friendly with the powers that he, or who were campaign co-workors, then the have it 1 ebh. Municiy the playt civie govt ded to avery low 1 board ings of politics, 1s should not be and politi- rations should not he the politic pected; ping of YOD MAN WHY DISCARD A G( park board portant bod y ¥ a credit man who for his artistic knowledg bailding of New 1 by rdstie to the a Brooks po ideas of a | cation of 1 Walnut i acreag how and 1ot the zeal to do urned | | after Mr. Brooks became identified | with the park board A. J. Sloper, a | commissioner, brought Ralph B. Walnright to this city from Hart- ford, where he was regarded as a coming man as a landscape artist. The combination of Messrs. Brooks and Wainright gave the eity breathing spots two master minds in their upbuilding and beautification, and no one can claim the parks have not been turned into bowers of delight under their care. Mr. Drooks, by the way was the archl- | tect of the New Britaln Institute building, his plan being aseepted as the most attractive by one of the leading architects of the country, and was the only plan which provid- | °d for the library building facing on High street instead of on West Main ! street. The tic beauty me high ideals of artis- that brought to Mr. Brooks this distinction actuated his activities In connection with the parks, and throughout the 22 years ) he gave his skill to the city with- out pay and as a mark of public servier, ag the city charter require The motive back of the severance of this highly efficient chairman of the park board from the position of onor that countless administrations have honored themselves in main- aining perhaps is not far to seek. It Is one of jobs—for any Tom, Dick and Harry that the administration wants the puark board to employ. It so happens that anybedy cannot be cmployed in the parks; a certain tion will be needed at some hither- to unexpected quarter. | furthermost reccsses of the west end. | The trouble is and has been the cost lot the necessity. Bverytime some- body gets warmed up with the idea some official student of economy about the “need for more econon Then the fire statfonAdea take annual eollapse. The chief is to be commended for his stick-to-itiveness. Like & post- !age stamp, he's going to hang on | untit he gets there. | VOTERS AND JOBS It was somewhat of a surprise to one of the official boards the other day to be contronted with a case | where a man, native born, had just become a voter at the age of 29 in ‘order to clear the way for the opportunity of getting on the city’s payroll. | Naturally he dian't get on the pay- | roll. The board justly concluded that | |if a citizen thinks so little of his vot- |ing privilege as to spurn it until it hecomes necessary to be a voter be- fore getting a city job he is not The chief is right about the need | of a fire station somewhere in the | trundles along with the flnl—mn:i NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, THURSDAY, MAY 10, 1928 | will be only about half ef that. At any rate, when all the returns are |1n it is quite certaln that the school first estimates. This ought to be highly satistactory to citizens. It Indicates that the cost of constructing such buildings has materially altercd since the school bullding program was started. BY ROBERT QUILLEN Wite: Something to hang clothes on to show how successful you are. The more we reflect on the sur- vival of the fittest, the more we be- Heve in prayers for the dead. ! Note to Chicag The wild west rid itself of bandits. Haven't Chi- cago trees any limbs? The only person who can get rich by attending to other people’s busi- ness and neglecting his own is Unecle sam. Birth control seems especlally {wicked to the one who never pald a doctor, a hospital and a nurse. properly cualified to go on the pay- i roll. Tt is a citizen's privilege not to vote, 0f course; but the citizen who | takes no interest in voting by that {one fact cannot be regarded quite 48 good a citizen as the person who amount of experlence and skill is| necessary, and unless park employ are to be considered merely as poli- tical sod puddlers proper re unable to give irns for thelr wages the parks si political debts or a source of jobs for political supporters and political workers. 1t the parks are going to be turned Into an adjunct to the local political machine the end of their beauty will rapidly be attained. The park board should be a body independent of political influence. Mayors come and go, but the parks us forever, and no mayor need be thanked for making sport of the parks on the speclous plea that more people will be at- tracted to them it various political expedients are employed. The park hoard for ycars has ben hamstrung for a luck of sufficient funds, but fn spite of the relatively small amount vielded by the board of finance and taxation for the support of the parks the money has been made to cover much ground. Today, after a gencration of effort and success, it is & poogime to change a system of independent park action that has heen nlore satistactory on a basis of money appropriated by the clty than any other department government. What the parks needed | was a wastly increased city appro- tion for their improvement, fn- | cluding the pavement of the drive. ways. What the parks get is a vastly increased city appropriation of politics. LLING BEE As s customary the at such events, boy spellers fared badly at the hands of the girl spellers. In the first place, there were only five boys en- tered in the spelling bee, compared with vis. That left one chance | which can be devoted to the cost of History of out of for any boy to win it, “all thin which of course s belng equal, thiey The are not. boys. less studions generally the girls, and slightly behind in development, m usually fall demands of such a short in the cruclling contest. But wait until the marble shooting ontest starts, That's where they will their elass CROSSING CRASH rostrect crossing over (A1} ) GRADY Woost: Haven railroad in Barnes- r than The worke uld be no place for paying ' of the city | , THE OLD LINCOLN SCHOOK George LeWitt, chairman of the school board committee which dis- ' poses of old bulldings when there is I need of it, seems to have been some- ' what aroused over the fact that we | recently printed an item in these | columns comparing the valuation | which had been placed on the old ' | Lineoln school and the figure at | which it was sold to the lone bidder. | The purpose of Mr. LeWitt, of | course, is to justify the sale of the lold school building for $12,500, | whereas on April 12, 1926, on a photostatic copy of the valuation of ! school buildings appraised by Thomas J. Linder, known as | “Proposal B, the valuation of the {old Lincoln school, exclusive of { contents, was given as $50,000. The |insurance on the building, exclusive | of contents, was $40,000 at that time. ! Mr. LeWitt explains that the old ! Lincoln school bullding was worth | to the city what it was insured for as | |a achool building, but that the sum fof only $12,600 paid for it by the | new owner was amply sufficjent. This is Mr. LeWitt's opinion. Mario Clanci, the new owner of | the school, apparently bought the | structure on a basis of the value of |the land. Getting the property for $12,500 naturally enables him to raze | the bullding as a worthless encum- | brance, and in its place he will erect 'a new apartment dwelling. Such enterprise is to be commended. Had | Mr. Ciancl.or any other purchascr ,been forced to pay a sum approach- ing the actual value of the city's property such an improvement would have been well nigh impos- sihle; there are limits to the sum i land cven In the construction of | modern apartments, especially in thiese days when rents are not what {hey used to be, Up to now it was assumed that the old Lincoln school [would merely be converted | apartments; but in view of the low | price for which the property was into s0ld razing it is made possible. As a | matter of fact, that will be an ad- appe: {part of Lin:oln strect in some re- vantage to the spects, regardless of what advantage | the city Itself gets from the $12,- n | We don't see anything to et excit- illy are. Al ed alout one way or the other, un- | i1ess it ia the fact that the building there last | was sold when there was only one | ance of that | You don't need a breakfast room. 1f you crave discomfort, you can ,crawl under the dining table. lecturer because he comes knows The European |across again |Americans will. | | An outing is a Sunday flivver tour during which mother wonders if she locked the bathroom window. When air lines are established, thirsty Americans won't kick if they can't take a drop until they get across. 1 AR Americanism: Champloning the poor man; retaining a jury system that convicts the poor man only. 1 Does cheerful literature mean America is low brow? Well, Rus- sian literature is gloomy, and look KaL her. It's just the principle of the thin It the minimum speed limit was 45 miles, people would howl for liberty to go slow. The next great international proh- lem 1s to discover whether blood is thicker than petroleum. The dumb shall speak hereafter. 1t only they would wait until then. punishment it is Then | They say capital should be abolished because imposed only on the poor. ing. People who defend and advocate free love are the very ones that jwon’t contribute to the support of orphanages. There’s nothing much wrong in the world when an American can sit down to a beefsteak without feeling that he Is robbing some poor under- dog across the ocean. Little hook review for today: “A |by Frank R. Kent (Century.) Inter- esting party history made irritating by truisms presented as revelations. “Ethel,” rl in or Correct this sentence: id the mother, “is the only her crowd who doesn't smoke drink or pet.” (Copyright 1928, Publishers’ Syndicatc.) Retirement of Park Board Chalrman Called Loss to City With the retirement of Chairman Williain 1% Brooks from the Poard ric Commissioncrs, the city suf- a distinet loss Mr. Brooks, an artist b 1 fers nature, an omobile driver | bidder. Tt should be the business of architcet by profession, has served Squently was sfruck the school disposals committee to see | the city through the park boar Ning in the death of heard the hell When driver natur. and child, 1 to pass o no other train, the when the other he oppesite dirce. Wooster street s ne with the growth The crossing is he- constantly mere dangerous, it at high speed. The v vrossing nearby lHkewise is rous, although to a lesser ex- t than the 1 railroad crossing be- o the trolleys nsually slow down t that point. THE FIRE DI RTMENT Noble of the fire department, ¥ iis annual report, did not overlook the annual remarks about «1 for a new fire station in . The chief was bound 1tion at, of course, having re- to it on scveral fire previous and if a station in tion was necded last year ar before, it ne d there tater certainly s P nt. Booner or other, much or or somet 1 stution will by and chicf ny more, constructed, 1 not need to men- Ty th I another tire sta. then t thom 1t it time, how- er. the town larger have grown so much t to it that thers are more bidders. like congratulating the purchaser of the old Lincoln school. He got a bargain. We teel COST OF SCHOOL BUILDINGS In the New Britain School Bulle- tin, suad by the sehool department to give authentic information about the New Britatn public schools,” the | approximate cost of the new echools in New Britain were duly chronicled The {ssue of the Bulletin at hand is that of November, 1927. In this Bulletin, which was given wide circulation among parents and citizens, the approximate cost of the Benjamin Franklin school, Clinton street, was given at $280,000, This | tigure was somewhat in excess of the 'figure published In the press the previous June, which was $200,000. | Now from the school committce comes a typewritten detafled cost regarding the Benjamin Franklin school which is lower than either of the other enumerated information mentioned. The new, revised and nearly final cost sheet shows that the estimated total cost is $192,615.39. And cven this sum, it is understood, is a little sheet sources of higher than the final costs will prove t0 be. The city at the fime paid $162.- 470 on the s though the balan 24 oo!, a due is merely it is lees than $5,07% and probably estima 1 for ars and has given wmost generonsly of his time, cnerzy |and knowledge that the city might have better parks. | When Mr. Brooks first \lentified as a member of the park {hoard in 1906, that department had {only the care of Walnut Hill park and was struggling along on an an nual efty appropriation of $1,000 Since that time the work and «ponsibilitics of the department have increased tremendously untll now there are 32015 acres of municipally owned park land with an estimated [ valuation of $2.270,00. | Because’of Mr. Brooks' broad | viston, sound judgment and untiring efforts, coupled with years of care- ful planning the park department |was put on an efficient basis with |a definite policy of park develop- |ment and improvement. | Absolutely fair in every respect, {ever willing to consider other peo- ple's views, Mr. Brooks worked for the city’s interest, mafntaining al- ways that the parks belong to the public and that the public should reap all the benefits. He favored 1o one group, but worked that the | parks might bring the maximum of joy and pleasure to the greatest (number of people. The results of Mr. Brooks' wise {1eadership In park matters are evi- dent on all sides and should be a | source of isfaction to him as they | surely ars to his fellow citizens. b signed:— MAXW Editor's note—Mr. Porter has <orved on the park hoard for the | past five years and for the past few vears was active as vice-chairman. the past 22 breanis L & PORTER. will have cost much less than the | Facts and Fancies | how defend the law against steal- the Democratic Party,”) re- | Our “Parents’ Day” Message! i “Say 1t with flowers” Parents’ Day orgetful of the times when they Said it with slippers, folks, when we Lay prone on the parental knee! Poor Fellow! Judge: “What is yeur name Prisoner: “MacDonnell.” Judge: “I mean your given name." Prisoner: “I haven't any given i name—my parengs were Scotch!" Kiss Me Goodnight (By Cristel Hastings) | Kiss me goodnight—and let me go— Your lips are sweet—I know, I kno oh, tomorroew means sweetheart, So kiss me goodnight—and let me go! But, ‘work, me goodnight—I've been here long. Tonight has been like song, {But dawn means work I dare not I shirk— Kiss me along! a lovely goodnight — I'll run | Tour eyes are filled with my dear, oh, 1 would stay forever here, But. I must he on the job at dawn— So kiss me goodnight—I MUST go, dear! dreams, | And, Super and Then Som: Bartlett: “Is Stevens much of & salesman? I mean, could he sell icicles at the North Pole or anything like that? Wilcox: “Icicles at the Pole? Say, that man could rhyming dictionary to seng writer!"” North sell a a popular ~—R. W. Eagan. RBaseball and drama are alike in that success consists in base hits! Pass It On! Billy was fond of Sunday school —especially the singing. One day his mother asked, *Did you sing (something nice today at Sunday | school 2** " replied Billy, enthusi- | we sang ‘Pass along the | wish rag, wring at as you go'.” “Why Billy!"” remarked his moth- {er, puzzled and astonished, “I'm |sure that can't be right—say it again.” Glibly Billy chanted. s along the wash rag, wring is as you go.” When Billy had gone out, later, for a walk, his mother called the unday school teacher, asking, Helen, what did you sing in Sun. day school today? Bllly says you sang ‘Pass along the wash rag, wring it as you go'." Amid peals of laughter came the reply on the phone, “Why, we sang ‘Pass along the watch word, Sing it as you go'!" —Clara B: Thurston. Why the Almond Trec s Pink (By William R. Mulford) Right away back at the beginning of things the almond tree had white blossoms. ' She was very shy and nervous, but at the same time she was very anxious to behave correctly on all occasions. (You and I know what that fecling is!) | You can imagine her excitement when one ay she recelved from Spring an invitation to a coming out party. So eager was she not to be llate that she tried-to keep awake all night, with the result that at the hour when s hould have started she was fast asleep. Luckily a friendly robin, which happened to be passing as she still slept, perched on one of her branches and whispered to her, “You'll be late, you'll be late, you'll be late.” Without a moment's de- lay she fled to the party. You can judge her griet and be- wilderment ‘when she realized that lin her hurry she had come without her green cloak. (That year every- body was wearing a green cloak.) She stood rooted fo the ground and felt herselt blushing from head to foot. or since that day n blushing. the almond | | A Weighty Matter! 1y Kingdom For a Dircction? Leslie (at wheel): “Isn’t this & deuce of & note? These direction signs all contradict each other.” Charles: “They surc do; a regular comedy of arrows!"” --H. H. Danfel | Tom Shns Says— ! The only branch of the air scrvice Ithat ham't been breaking any speed records is congress! . Divorces made in Paris are be- coming popular but don’'t ssem to last any longer than made there! the dresses The school of experience is always a high school. he “Remark” Part Haines: “What was the most re- markable thing you ever heard of 2" Sloane: “The time I tore the big hole in my trousers.” Haines: “You call that ‘remark- able'?” Sloane: “Bure, everybody was re- marking about it!" —=8arah Anne James. (Copyright, 1928, Reproduction Forbidden). QUESTIONS ANSWERED You can get an anawer (o any question of fact or information by writing to the Question Editor, New Britain Herald, Washington Bureau, 1322 New York avenus, Washington, D. C., enclosing two cents in stamps for reply. Medical, legal and marital advice cannot be given, nor can ex- tended research be undertaken. All other questions will receive & pere sona! reply. Unsigned requests can. not be anewerrd. All letters are con- fidential.—Editor. Q. What ia the derivation and meaning of the family name Per- kins? A. It is an English family name meaning “kin to Peter”. A longer form ef the same name is Peterkin Q. In what part of the Bible is the maxim “Cleanliness is next to Godliness"? A. It is not in the Bible but is| taken from the Jewish “Talmud". Q. What is the correct abbrevia- tion for “manufacturers”? A, “Mfrs.” Q. When did James Oliver Cur-| wood, the novelist, die? A, August 13, 192 poisoning. . Q. Where is Devil's Island? A. Tt is a small barren island off | the coast of French Guiana, South | America, about 30 miles northwest of of blood Cayenne. It was made famous by | | the confinement there of Capt. Al-| fred Dreyfue, Q. 1Is the Roman Cathollc Pope ! a prisoner? | A. Since the TItalian government | appropriated the Papal esstates in! 1870, the Pope has rematned within | the Vatican a voluntary prisoner, as a protest against that act. | Q. What is the difterence be-| tween auburn and red hair? A. Auburn is usually applied to a reddish-brown shade of hair. There are other shades of red hair to which auburn does not apply but ! auburn hair is one of the shades of | red hair. | Q. removed from the fingers? | A. A bleach such as lemon juice | or peroxide will do it in time. Q. How can coral beads cleaned? A. Dissolve a teaspoonful of borax in a pint of warm water. Dip the coral in the water several times,| rinse in tepld water and dry. Q. Where does the ex-Empross Zita of Austria live? A. At Lequieto, a small ncanort" on the Bay of Biscay, Spain. Her| eight children are with her. E Q. Was George Washington a | full general? Only b in the Continental | I the town of Hot Springs| in Virginia or West Virginia? A. Hot Springs is In Virginia. Whtie Sulphur Springs is in West Virginia, | Q. Where did the famous Japan- | ese cherry trees around the Tidal | basin in Washington, D. C., come from? City of Toky Q. the Capitol theater city? They were a present from the | , Japan in 1912. | 1s Roxy still connected with | in New York How can cigarette stains be | (incinnati A. He is now director-general of the new Roxy theater and may be addressed as follows: 8. 1. Rotha- fel, Roxy theater, 133 West J0th street, New York city. Q. How long and how wide is tke Amazon river? A. The Amazon river is about 3,900 ,milea long. Between Taba- tinga and Manaos the river has a! breadth of 215 to ¢ miles and it, gradually widens as it approaches| the sea until at its mouth it is 50 miles across. Q. Where i# Mount Everest? A. In the Himalaya mountains in Asia, on the frontier between Nepal and Tibet. Q. How many gallons of water does Ol4 Faithful in Yellowstone National Park discharge at each eruption? A. It discharges every 64 to 65 minutea, a column 150 feet high, amounting to 1,600,000 gallons of ‘water at each eruption. Q. Where are the United States Navy Yards located? A. Portsmouth, N. H.; Boston, Mass.; Brookiyn, N. Y.: Philadel- phia, P Washington, D. C.; Nor- folk, Va.; Charleston, 8. C.; Mare Island, Cal.; Bremerton, Wash Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Q. What is the capital beria? A. Monrovia. Q. How lig whales? A. The largest species is the biye whale, DBaloenoptera musculus, which attains a length of 100 feet Denver ... Detroit Duluth Hatteras . Jacksonville . Los Angeles ... Miami Minneapolis [ 3] 48 38 465 10 Northfield, Vt. . Pittsburgh Portland, Me. NO HOSPITAL MERGRR. New Haven, May 10 UP—Memberg of the New Haven Medical assocla« tion have voted 120 to 18 against the proposed merger of Grace and New Haven hospitals. 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PIVPLES LASTED OVER_A YEAR Very Hard and Small, Face Was Affected, Cuticura Healed, 1 are the larzest 0;:;11411'”: On The Weather ‘Washington, May 10.—Forecast for Southern New England: Gen- erally fair and warmer tonight. Friday mostly cloudy, possibly showers in the north portion, and warmer on the coast. Moderate shifting winds becoming southwest and west. Forecast for Eastern New York: Mostly cloudy tonight and Friday; probably showers in north and cen- tral portions; warmer in south and cooler in extreme northwest portion ; tonight; warmer on coast and cooler in north and central portjons Fri- day; gentle shifting winds becoming moderate southwest and west Conditions: The storm of yester. day is moving northeastward over | the ocean off the Nantucket coast. Pressure is higher over the Atlantic states and clear skies with rising temperature prevail quite generally east of the plains states, A disturh- ance {8 moving eastward over On- tario and a long trough of low pressure extends sonthwestward from the Lake region to Texas and New Mexico. Temperatures are falling over the northern plains states. Conditions faver for this vicinity fair weather followed hy increasing | cloudiness. | Temperatures yestetrday i . High Low 1 41 48] 04 eruptibns which made me very un- comfortable, The trouble lasted for Use Cuticura qu daily for the toilet, assisted by Cuticura Oint- ment when and Bave s clear, fresh complexion, free from pimples and blackheads. Soap e Otatment 78 and ie. Talcmm e, #w v, Wi an” Coticurs Shaving Stick 38c. Atlanta Atlantic City RBoston Buftalo . 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West Toonerville News Item ONE oF THEM CITY FERLSRS HAP A NARROW (24 INCHES) ESCAPE FROM BEINA FINEP FoR PARKING Too NEAK THE VILLAGE FIRE HYPRANT. plal Al ot A DL AR A b LR @Fenusine Foz, 1918, The Sek Synd