New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 22, 1928, Page 16

ular education per pupil against the amount expended on religious edu- ca'xon per pupil in state and coun- From his statistics and data he el hod e e much money is spent per secular education of a child as on the religious education. This is part- Iy due to the fact that public school to more than 900 nds the Sun- k-day vaca- about 137 30 PERSONS READ RELIGIOLS I7ENS 30,000 Pages of This Literature Used Daring Gampaign Thirty-nine persons have more than 30,000 pages of literature in connpection Wit reading campaign conducted by New Britain Council of Religio Education, according 1o a repo The report was ma ¢ at the last mest workers for the meeting was held Congregational Following the supp hour, Rev. A. D. Heininger. man of the leadership school committee. annou results of the reading which has been in progres: February 1. Miss s of the Stanley Memorial ch Miss Margaret €mith of the ity Methodist church gave pers testimonies of the value whi had received from r¢ the books and art suggested by the reading committee. The New Britain tute cooperated in this proje adding & number of new books religious education. Rev. Raymond N. G - ident of the New Britain lm.mll o religious education, presented 39 certificates to those who had c pleted the requirements of the cam- paign. Reading 500 pages of re- ligious educational material was considered one unit. Mrs. E. W. Clary of the First Congregational church received a certificate for four units, which represented more than 2,000 pages. ‘The following is a summary of the reading campaign, 39 persons | representing seven churches read a total of 30,515 pages. Plans for the community leader- ship training school in the fall and spring were announced by Mr, Hein- inger. Arrangements are being made to conduct a school of two semesters of five weeks each. The | first semester to begin October 15th | will eloss November 12th, and the second eemester to begin Jan. 21st and close Feb. 15th. “Paying for Religious Educatio was the subject of the addreas given per the things finance the ligions educa- ntiment for er church e educa- ch i 1get Tomkins and [cClu 4\\ on educational rch. leadership a ¢ period of worship. v. Theodore 8. Dunn, &ssocia pastor of the South Congregatiol church, acted as host and was charge of the arr:mzflm.rrw te al “Kidnaping” Case May Not Be Taken to Court | Wallingford, Conn., May 22 (U'P) —The c; soni, Meriden mother charged \\nh kidnaping her own two childre from her estranged husband's hovum here, was postponed foday and in- dications were it might not be prosecuted. Mrs. Massoni still has the aren, Phyllis, 4, and Edward, 2, and her sister's home at Meriden. Both Mrs. Massoni and her sister were ar- rested last night after the former, accompanied by an unidentified by Wallace I. Woodin, general secre- | man, had entered Massoni's house tary of the Connecticut council. He and taken the children away in an compared the amounts spent in sec- |automobile. CANADIAN, NATIONAL -TO zv:lkuzn! IN CANADA Crulse through the wmarchless ocenic besuty of Alasks—s paradise of snow-capped mountsins, swesome glaciers, totem poles, wildfiowers. Seo Prince Rupert, Ketchikan, Wrangell, Reduced fares from afl U. 8. A. points connaction_with Canadian Nationsl R ways to Vancouver. Optionsl routes. Compartment Observation cats equipped with radio. Stopover at Jasper National Park. Fate, Vancouvet to Skagway ‘and rerurn, including meals and berthea ten-day voyage= $90. All outsidetooms. Mail coupon. TRNARANNATIONAL-Fitawe Taune ThetLargest Railway Systemyin-America Mm«lmmcfiulmuaon Alasks T. E. P. PRINGLE Nome .. 333 Washington S0 Bowon, Mass. of Mre. Anna Kline Mas- | chil- | NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY, MAY 22, 1928, WHERE SCORES DIED IN MINE BLAST | The tragic scene above at the Mather Co llieries near Pit scores of times wrecked by a gas explosion. | United States Bureau of Mines, are car: 1| surface, tsburgh, Pa., will be re-enacted it is believed, before the last of the bodies have been removed from the mine Rescue workers, part of fifteen crews under the direction of the ing to an ambulance one of the bodies brought to the ce 1o it that his wages go to her. assures Zenon “that as soon as god releases him” (that is n he recovers) she will send lad back to his job. the whe MOTHER LOVEOF ANCIENT EGYPT " Papyrus of 257 B. C. Tells Maute Story York, May a woman, speaks again from a Bile picce of papyrus to remind modern civ- ilization that mother love is as old !as humanity | The me written in the uni- dialect that devel- after Alcxander’s conquests, date corresponding to It is one of the Zenon pa | pers whicli Igyptologists regard as | singulhrly precious. This collec- tion, onily part f which is at Co- Jumbia, comprises accounts and let- ters of all sorts kept by Zenon and is assistants, who were entrusted Ly Apollonius with the administra- tion of the reclaimed acres. Th bank and tax records, letters re- garding business affairs on the farms, private corrcspondence and promissory notes give priceless in- formation on the econom: and le- gal as well as the cultural aspects of Egyptian civilization during the first centyr; after Alexander's con- quest., of silent for 22 centuries, ge. penned in Egypt 2,185 years ago, has been found in | Columbia university's collection of | papyri and has just been trans- lated by Dr. William Linn Wester- mann, Egyptologist and professor | of ancient history. It is a letter | expressing a mother's solicitude for | her sick son, who is in the employ of a large landholder | A Greek woman named Simale is the correspondent. Writing to-one | Zenon, the manager of a parcel of newly reclaimed land on the edge of Philadelphia, above Cairo, she complains that her boy, working in Zenon's houseliold, is being mis- treated by a servant named Olym- pichus. Upon hearing of the lad's troubles she had gone to see him. | “And I found him lying down, she says, “and though 1 kept laughing demeanor, it was enough when 1 saw himn to grieve me decp- ly. Olympichus came in and sail | he would beat him until he really did feel worn out, and therefore I | beg and beseech you to give your |attention to these matters [tell Apollonius (Zenon's superior, | | the treasurer-general of Egypt) how | my hoy is heing constantly mis- | | treated by Olympichus, as if he himself were to hlame for his sick- | nes Simale also whether Olym- pichys had ordered that any pay be given to her son and that Zenon The Columbia collection com- prises 480 pieces and is second in size in this country to the PApyrus | Mbrary at the University of Michi- gan. DProfessor Westermann ex- pects that their translation will be aten year task. He s being as- sisted by D. Clinton W. Keyes professor of Greek at Columbia. DISMISSAL EXPLAINED Philadelphia, M (UP)— Dr. Edgar A. Singer, Jr., chairman of the department of philosophy at the | University of Pennsylvania, said Solomon Aucrbach, 21, logic in- etructor, was not appointed for next year because of “irrcgularity in meeting his classes and his frequent absence from minars” and not be- cause of his admiration of Soviet Ruesia. TWIN DAUG RS BORN Twin daughters were born last night at Mt. Sinai hospital, Hartford, to Mr, and Mre. Nathan Noveck of 29 Hafch street. The father is the well known proprietor o at Hartford avenue | st and North today | pharmacy | '(,ul (hases Blother | In Front of Taxicab Christopher Mirante, aged three son of Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Kensington a Yellow ( avenue struck by Bdwin T. Allen of strect, about 6:45 last evening at Arch street and Kensington avenue, and is under treatment at New Brit- ain General hospital. The boy's sis- ter, Rose, was chasing him, and Al- len, who claimed to have been driv- ing at the pproximata rate of 20 miles an hour while turning left into Kensington avenue from Arch street, brought his car to a stop within a few feet after striking him. At the hospital today it was said the ¢ 4 was resting comfortably and did not appear to be seriously injured. Motorevele Officer Louis E. Harper investigated the accident by 4 Church and found no cause for police ac- tion. Myrtle Street Repairs | To Begin in Two Weeks Repair of Myrile street, west of concrete highway, will begin | within two weeks, Mayor A. M. | onessa and City Engineer Philip A Merian decided today at a confer- ence at the office of the mayor, The | condition of thiz road has been the subjcet of frequent complaint in re- cent months, hence the decision to hegin operations when the road roll- er has heen released from r\'\n*l\mg work. want in a the Classified sification The odd small fohs is advertising for your work. ¢ painter yon . turn now to the « Service." Ad section “Business man who does quick jobs, jobs, ‘ab driven RESCUE MAN ALIVE IN MATHER MINE (Continued from First Page) in Lroken FEnglish. I started out and something push me back. An- other man came and we wait to- gether hours and hours. We didn't talk much. After two days he started out alone. That's all.’ “We carried Bucsha back to the | shaft. Part of the time his mind was clear and he spoke rationally. At other times during the mile and a half trip to the pit mouth his | mind wandered and he talked of |things that had occurred in his boarding house some time before. He had been under a hard strain for 55 hours. “But when we got to the pit mouth lie got off the stretcher and was able to walk to the cot in the emergency room. He sald he wanted coffee and it was given to him. This seemed to revive him. Pass Bodies “On the way out we passed three or four bodics of men. One of them { was that of the buddy Bucsha spoke !of, who started to make his es- |cape from the pit after twe long | days and nights of waiting. Tt took |us an hour to carry Bucsha to the | | shaft. | “We may find more life within {those blast-torn chambers soon. | 'm going back In as soon as T can et my team together."” Special calls were sent to Waynes- . Pa. and other nearby towns more doctors and nurses to be on hand when the rescuers reach the main group of entombed men. Fov junder a hundred It is thought that somewhere within these depths a group of 100 men or bodies will be found to- gether. It is known that 100 men, members of the night crew, who had | just taken their position a few min- | utes before the blast came were to- | gether. They may have bheen able | to barricade themselves against the | gas. To Try Farmer Under 100 Year Old Statute Newtown, May 22 (UP)—Hearing on the case of James Pato. accused ear-old statute of “failure to rear his children with reasonable diligence” will begin to- morrow before Justice P. H. McCar- thy, it was announced today. Pato, a prosperous farmer, was| arrested after statd humane authori- ties found his son living like a wild | creature in the woods after an ar- gument with his father. The boy was taken to Bridgeport hospital by Richard Barlow, county humane agent, and was understood to be sufficiently recovered from the effects of exposure to appear against Ihis parent tomorrow. Ordered to.Summon Waterbury Grand Jury ‘Waterbury, Conn.. May 22 (UP) —State's Attorney L. L. Lewis to- {day instructed Sheriff James Geddes {of New Haven to summon a grand jury to meet at Waterbury Jure 6 for consideration of the case of Louis N. Leopold, local merchant, and Morris Shelnitz of New Haven, confessed Incendiary, accused of complicity in a fatal “insurance fire."” Three persons, two boys and an accomplice of Shelnitz, died in the fire and explosion at Leopold's fur- | niture store here last January. “The Store of Bargains” The Popular 494 AIN T.. Cor. Lafayette Price Store w Britain, Conn. 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