New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 7, 1928, Page 6

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The Hersld 18 on eale dally s New Tork et Hotallng's N Times Square; Bchults's Newsstands, Emtrance Grapd Cestral, ¢3ad @treet. ————————— Local police probably will be in- terested in reading about the short time parking rules being adopted in a horde of cities as a sure method of alleviating the downtown traffic problems. Merchants everywhere are beginning to realize that long- time parkers in front of their places of business do not indicate that the parker is buying goods. Nine times out of ten he merely is using tho city streets instead of a garage and discourages real customers from reaching a store with convenience. This being a presidentlal year, everyone with senatorial ambitions in Massachusetts i6 anxious to be the tail to the presidential kite, in spite of the fact that the man considered to be the big kite in Massachusetts, Mr. Coolidge, is not running. So far five candidates have announced their willingness to be the nominee | on the Republican ticket. One of | these will have the pleasure of run- fing against Senator David 1. Walsh, | who as usual isn't worrying abnul]‘ the outcome. The park Clyde Ellingwood, appurently started his duties in a manner to meet with the upproval of the city’s athletes who use the parks when it new has doesn’t rain.’The new superintend- | ent is reported to be the acme of courtesy, anxious at every turn to be of service to the baseball players, tennis players, and what not. Elling- wood is making no mistake in adopting this attitude, which in his case seems to come natural and is not due to any temporary desire to mollify the so-called sporting public. Courtesy always pa good will. Comes a gentleman and tells us that the “reds” in the city have been told ue that in the city are which organizing. Another “half the Italians red,” a ridiculous appraisal was aptly denied. This is rather late in the day to the red scare but it is a_ free has a right to get excited about the stories. As for ourselves, we still cling to the notion, but- tressed by cold statistics, that there are fewer reds in this country than in any other. In the recent German work country and anyonc election the Communiste registered 5,500,000 votes, which is a greater ratio to the population than the third party in the U. & registered during the 1924 election. The is a resonant term which sounds im- pressive. Another equally sonorous term s “Greater Hartford.” To hear “Hartiord metropolitun area” the boosters in the capital city talk Hartford is “destined” to take in &/ large slice of Hartford county. They haven't yet figured upon gobbling up New Brtiain, but then, no one can tell what the future has in store, New itself, however. is also getting “greater” and has a metropolitan arca that is not to be sneezed at. With Maple Hill and Elm Hill knocking at the gates ot the eity and demanding an early cntrance it scems entirely likely that we are making practical heads vay while in Hartford there is more talk than Which also causes us to wonder if Berlin and part of Kensington care to be identified with New Britain? We are perfeetly reasonable about it, wishing them to join us if they do not wish to, But the latch string is always outside the door. Britain headway. not, SUNSET ROCK RK The plan of the Sunset Rock As- sociation to present it to the state for a park has everything to com- mend it. When the state owns the promontory the scenery will not be changed, but the character of the surroundings no doubt will be great- ly improved. 1t is the function of the state park commission to prove the grounds, provide paths, plant trees and otherwise improve the acreage under Its jurisdiction. This work can be performed hetter by the stute than by a private or- #anization, unless the latter has a plenitude of money to expend for im- superintendeng | , especially in | the purpose and for the benefit of the publie. The Sunsct Rock Aasociation has had commendable public enterprise, Formed at a time when the scenic eminence was in danger of being despoiled by commerce, it did a laudable service in saving it for posterity. At that time state parks were scarcely thought of, especially not in connection with Sunset Rock. The assoclation’s structure at the top of the bluff has been well ap- preclated and often used by hikers and visitors generally. Unfortunate- {1y mischievous boys also have visit- ed it from time to time. As a state park it would no doubt also insure the frequent visits of state police or official caretakers, which would be | something gained. | There is no question that scenic- ally Sunset Rock is one of the most attractive parts of Hartford county. Knowledge throughout the state and county that the state has accepted the area for a park will also induce more visitors to share in the out- look. As the name would imply, a sunset view on a good day from this eminence is an experience long to be remembered, one that cannot be surpassed by many a mile of travel to other parts of the state. A SLOW SAND FILTER Although W. L. Hatch, chairman of the Board of Water Commission- ers since 1922, has seen fit to re- sign, he has the satisfaction of having won a victory in connection with the approval of city hall to build a slow sand system of filtra- tion, which he and the board advo- cated, rather than a mechanical or rapid sand system. The memoranda regarding filters, issued by Chairman Hatch on June sons for preferring the slow sand system for this city. It is notewerthy | that the councilmanic advisory com- mittee, which presumably investi- gated the claim that the firm of | Hazen & Whipple of New York, In constructing the Providence filtra- tion plant, had changed from a slow sand system to the mechanical sys- tem, is satisfied that the slow sand system is the cheaper and better method for New Britain, | Chairman Hatch in his memoran- da based upon the cngineering firm's report of 1920, succinctly pointed out that each system has its advantages, but the mechanical rapid system was developed to meet the demands of sections of the Unit- ed States having waters high in tur- { bidity and color. That is to say, where the water is highly colored | or ca 8 suspended dirt or turbidi- ty, rapid sand filters are almost al- ways used. But where the water is | comparatively clear, as is the case at Shuttle Meadow, and the color is correct, then the slow sand filters may be used. A paragraph from the | report. “There are more turbid and colored waters in the United States than clear low colored waters and this explains the greater numboer of mechanical filter plants in existence here and the fact that more of them are being built. It is a fact, er, and one that the hoard is in a position to demon- | strate, that for the conditions at | New Britain the slow sand fil- | ion system will cost less to | build and much lcss to operaic than will the rapid sand sys- tem,” | Mayor Paonessa reterred to the Providence system as one worth in- vestigating. This was fair. But con- | ditfons in Rhode Island cannot be | the same as in central Connecticut. | As a matter of fact, the filtration | system Hartford was more worthy of considering. conditions of the water supply in that city being | similar to those In New Britain. In | Hartford the system iunud with success and satisfaction. | The advisory committee and all con- | cerned ugree at last on this first step, the choice of a type of fiiter. The Board of Water Commission- ors, after having shown that its plan was logical for this city, finds that Mr. Hatch is willing to step Nwn from office, James J. Watson will be his successor as chairman. The chairman is paid 1,200 & year, the of the board to re- in slow sand is only member ceive pay. Mr. Hatch is entitled to mendation for an able and consci- entlous espousal of the city’s inter- ests during his six years of public office. He did com- yeoman service in causing the city to realize the im- portance of an expansion of the water system, which the mayor took lize a means of pro {10 citizens. It wa that the Common lapse and decided to the [ by Chairman Huteh, but later upon | discovering that Edward 1% Han und his Board of Finance and Tax- ation were prepared to pass favor- ably upon the project, or had done #0, took renewed heart. Even then it was deemed necessary. on the mayor's suggestion, fo opoint a special advisory committee for the i plan study, which finally has backed | the orizinal scheme. ng employment only last March ouncil took a ostpone for further &tudy plans presented Al SONALITY TOLR Efforts seem to be under wa: have Al Smith do more talking person” than was at first planned. That be an advantage to Emith. , thoroughly gave the board's rea- up with vigor on assuming office as | Speaking over the radio reaches a large audience, but after all, to a man whose hold upon the public is largely one of personality, who possesses a magnetic approach to the hearts of men, a personal glimpse by the largest number of people will mean something tangible for the candidate. If Smith can make 49 public ad- dresses instead of 13, each before audiences as well as over the radio hook-up, it will be just that much more gained on election day. In speech-making he has a tre- mendous advantage over Hoover, who is regarded as a poor public talker. Let Hoover confine himself more to the radio, which makes no demand upon personality and that something which hits an audience amldships. Smith has the field as an ingratiating public speaker and should take advantage of it. MRS. SHAVER'S ACT Mrs. Clem i. 8haver, wife of the Democratic national committee chairman since 1924, did an astounding thing in attacking the party’s standard bearer. This species of back seat driving in politics is quite new. Though one cannot blame Chairman Shaver for the outburst, the likelihood is strong that his influence in the 1928 parly organization will wane. He has béen identified with the anti-Tammany wing of the party and on July 11 a new national chairman will be chos- en. That's the part that hurts in the Shaver family. The claims of Mrs. Shaver that | the candidate is a “charlatan and a | faker™ of course are too ridiculous |to require comment from any | source. Her candid announcement |that the platform is a “joke” is made of the same cloth in view of everyone's knowledge that it more definitely grapples with public ques- tions in most of f{ts important planks than the Republican plat- form does. Platforms may not |amount to a great deal In our day, but at any rate the Democratic ex- hibition s somewhat better from any angle than that of the grand old party. LD EXPORTS AND STOCKS Keen observers of the trend in Wall Street have placed an index finger upon what they believe is { the true reason for the recent fluc- tuation in the market. No less an authority than the National City | Bank of New York, it its most re- | cent statement, has included & sum- | mary of what it concedes to be “the prineipal factors in the money mar- ket over the last five years.” The | chief factor, it is quite reasonably {shown, has been the import and ex- credit by the stock market. The country's holdings of gold in- I‘r-er(‘nsflrl from $4.049,000,000 on June | 30, 1923, to (he peak figure of | $4.610,000.000 on May 1, 1927. or by 1$561,000,000. Thus the banks, ca pacity 1o issue thelr own credit was 'augmented, so that the total loans |and investinents of all banks in the | country reporting to either the na- ‘tional or state authorities increased from $43,758,000,000 to $53,934,- 1 000,000, or approximately $18 of |credit expansion to each $1 of addi- | tional gold. Bank deposits increased in proportion. “These figures fllus- | | trate the pyamiding of bank credit | upon gold reserves.” says the report, ‘a practice entirely legitimate with- in safe limits and which obviously | greatly increases the service of the reserves.” This great expansion of credit | was not needed to supply the crdi- | nary needs of trade and industry, but furnished great possibilities for ‘tmding in securities. Congequently | brokers' loans went beyond $4,000, 000,000 and there were some ob- servers who believed they would go ymuch higher. But the rediscount | rate was raised to 413 per cent and zold began to be exported—$600.- ;\’VI}JZ'UO since -last September. This | loss of gold was approximately five- | sixths of the gain in the period from {1923 to 1927. This would have been & calamity under the old banking system, but the Federal Reserve system intended to protect against such emergencies by provid- ing a reserve of credit. The gold was exported without a correspond i ing contraction of credit, it is ex- ! plained, the large reserves having served as a cushion to partly absorb | the shock. is “If the oustanding veolume of bank credit had been con- tracted as the result of recent gold exports at the same rate as it was Increased when an equal amount of gold came into the country,” says the report. “the stock exchange would have experienced a liquidation which in comparison with that which occurred last month would have been as a cyclone to an cvening zephyr.” We have no doubt, however, that there are optimists in Wall street— speculators on the outside looking in —who do not believe a word of this. They see nothing but a huge ad. vance ahead, irrespective of gold cxports. Conservative-minded peo- ple. however, will regard the bank report with being more in conform- ity with the facts. These facts are that pursuant to the importation of vast hordes of gold credit expanded and with the return of gold to Eu- | going up forever will {on Thanksgiving. | port of gold and the absorption of i and the bull market was advanced;’ rope liquidation set in. To a reason- able person the evidence is quite conclusive. Facts and Fancies Another explanation of several things is a girl in $3 stockings pick. ing 19-cent cotton. Strange that nobody has invented a fly tray resembling a bald head. It really takeca three days for a pjcnic: one to prepare for it, one to enjoy it, and one to scratch. Let us be grateful for sorry peo- ple. They afford the necessary con- trast to make others complacent and happy. “Fill 'er up”: Ap Americanism, referring to the gas tank. Vulgar if apoken to a waiter in reference to your sweetie. Perhaps it there was a young squirt along to make her giggle, daughter wouldn’t think it such hard work to steer the vacuum cleaner. that it Patriotism is the quality makes all docters seem quacks they disagree with your doctor. It is estimated that 3 per cent of those who think stocks will keep on ave 8 turkey Some cosmetics are so useless, however, that the most liberal use of French in the advertising can't put them over. home do Americanism: Bringing souvenirs; wondering what to with them; throwing them away. The old-time political speech aroused more enthusiasm, but the audience had more enthusiastic liquor. The measure of a man is the amount of mouyey required to make him begin talffing about the *com- mon people.” Awful thought! Can it be that Engliah dialect in American novels is as horrible as American dialect in English novels? A he-man is onc big enough to endure his wife’s bossing without feeling resentful. Love is the quality that makes a girl scem wonderful even after you iscover she is an awful liar, | Mrs, Coolidge needs a good rest. You can’t move out and leave dust and carpet tacks everywhere If you know the people who are moving in. | Bomehow a rest doesnt seem so (hecessary if the boss doesn't hesi- tate at all when you mention a va- catfon. Mad dog: Any thirsty, heat-tor- mented dog seen by the man who says the car that hit him was going ninety miles an hour. | Correct this sentence: * mail pilots may be killed, jome air- said he, { “but circular letters must be de- !livered ten hours earlier at any | cost. Copyright, 1928, Syndicate 25 Years Ago Today ‘Thermometers along Main street registered 98 degrces at 3 o'clock this afternoon. This was considered quite the limit, and there were few people on the street except the po- ceman on duty, and even he sought shelter under the trees in Central park. | At the coming Business Men's out-l ing the New Britain merchants will meet those of Bristol on the dia- nmond. The local team will be com- posed of M. P. Leghorn, If; H. F. Damon, G. W. Klett, 1b; Bunney, J. M. Halloran, c¢; H. |P. Carroll, cf; A. A. Bampson, $i {George Vivian, rf; T. W. Q'Connor, P; substitutes, H. L. Mills, H. T. Eloper, J. J. Higgins, J. M. Hallinan. The 8tate Police Chiefs' associa- tion will hold its annual meeting at Stamford on the . first Tuesday in August. Chief Rawlings is the first ice president. John Sloan, Jr., will attend the {Temple of Honor meeting in Calu- met, Mo, in August. W. J. Raw- lings and A. L. Thompson are also representatives from this state but ;will be unable to attend. City Clerk !Thompson will attend the O. U. A. iM. convention at Wheeling, W. |Va.. in Scptember. | New Britain 8wedes are to observe the 100th anniversary of the birth- day of John Ericsson on Friday, July 31. They do not know what form the celebration vl take, but they feel they should do something big In memory of the man who in- vented the Monitor. | A meeting of 8. Mark's church ‘will Dbe held this cvening. The church has arranged for the pur- !chase of the . H. Allis property on |Lexington street for use as a par- ! sonage. | It was said today that the repub- {lican town committee would select the probation officer. Truant Offi- .cer McCue 18 being boomed for the iplace because his work is along iparallel lines with that of the new lofticer. Jennings & Gravi of Hartford |have made a bid for the Opera house, and the directors will meet this evening. Riding on trolley cars is the only way to escape the heat these days, and crowds of young ladies in their white gowns and peek-a-boo slesves re seen on the ears, by their duck-class escorts. Publishers Because There's No Shortage of Fanatios! natics—we shun ‘em, we'll bet you do, too, But here's what we're thinking, if all the world through Fanatics would turn into funatics, Folka, Then there'd be no shortage of laughter and jokes! Catty Thing To Say! Lucy: “Why has Muriel got it in for you?" Walter: “I can’t understand it. I simply make the remark that she eat enough to keep a cat —Grace L. Rosenthal THE FUN SHOP NEWS WEEKLY Topicel “The ability to weep at will is a gift,” says a novelist. It often procures rate! one, at any o s o Medical A Scattle man who claimed to have lived for three months on two apples a day was taken ill recently and had to undergo medical treat- ment, We assume that the doctor was away at the time! Musical Musical compositions by the wives of Henry VIII were recently played in London. It is stated, however, that the compositions were not the main cause why Henry VIII changed his wives so often! Social A popular song-writer says he is going to devote his leisure time to poultry-farming. It will be a proud day for him when he succeeds In making his hens' lays as profitable as his own! 2R Kind-hearted Bachelor: “You must take me to your church some Marie (not toc young): “Oh, sir! This is 8O sudden’” —C. A. Buehler, IRES AND (-'"AR(-'OYLEB The Inevitable! From the moment when he first opened a geography, Jimmy Mos- kinsky was fascinated by rellef maps, 5 During every spare minute Jimmy sat fashioning mountaing, with .a thick paste of flour and water, on sheets of cardboard. ‘With a slight touch of his fingers he would change a mighty peak to a low hill, or, with an added gob of paste, he would transform a broad plain to a towering mass. His teacher prophesied Jimmy would bhecome an eminent ge- ographer. His parents agreed with her. 8o Jimmy grew to manhood. To- day he is still making relief maps. But now he is known as James J. Moskine, she internationally famous plastic surgeon! —C. Warden La Roe . . The Man Who Would Be King! (After Neeing the Queen Jenkins Decides to Try a Little Royal Stuff on His Wife) Jenkins: “Arise vassal, and fetch me tonight's paper! { Mrs. Jenkins: talking to? Jenkins: “Bring me the paper and my carpet slippers, varlot! And back out of my presence when you go! If you are real good I'll let you kiss my hand!" Mrs, Jenkins: “Who do you think Say! Who are you “I'm Kking of this house- hold, I'll tell you that. and I'm go- ing to rule over it with an iron hand from now on! Yonm may kiss the cuff of my trousers.” Mre. Jenkins: “You're going to rule me with an iron hand, eh? ‘Whagt! After me ruling you for twenty years with a wooden rolling pin? If you're king. here is where you get crowned, right now! You may go out in the Kitchen, -your majesty, and kiss the dishtowel!" —&idney R. Littie “East is East, West is West, And never the twain shall meet!” The Worst of Crimes? Floorwalker: “You act excited What’s the mattcr?” Clerk: “Call the store detective, Guick! A woman just stcpped out with a step in!"” —Raymond Hubbard Character in & man creates power. Character in a woman ereates wrinkles! Page What's Her Name? Edson: “They've been talking —THE OBSERVER— Makes Random On the City and Its People White House Doors Opén. to & Great American ‘When March 4, 1929, dawns a ma who started life under handicaps and who blazed his way to the stars in spite of difficulties will step into the White House as president of the United States. He will have reached the zenith of citizenship, a goal which, in theory at least, may be attained by every citizen born in America. He will have sent ringing again down the corridors of time the declaration that America is a land of unlimited opportunities. From humble beginning to the Lighest office at the disposal of American voters, a position admitted at this day to be the most exalted in the world, will be the path which he will have traveled. 2 Nothing in the history of the United States is more assuring to the rank and file, Nothing so clearly exemplifies the possibilities extended to every man who has prepared him- self for civic service and responsibil- itles. When this man who will be the next president was born no one could say that he would some day be the head of our government. In fact, the odds were against him. It was not by chance or blind luck that he paved the way for his elevation. He has paid for the honor which will be accorded him by development of character and by service to his fel- lowmen, Events have determined 1 that he shall be the leader of a great natfon. Destiny has so shaped his coursc in life that the portals of the White House are swinging out to ad- mit him. More than 100,000,000 people will acclaim him chief. The man may be Herbert Hoover, engineer and administrator, or it may be Governor Alfred E. Smith, humanitarian and also adminis- trator, Until the electors declare their preference not even the most astute students of politics can pre- dict with any degree of certitude which it will be. But it will be one or the other, and with his inaugura- tion there will go forth to the world | the message that America offers its | greatest treasure to the man who | can prove his worth regardless of humble origin. Silencer Being Placed | On July Fourth Ceiebration The Iourth of July grows tamer | I overy year, and soon it will be only | a day in the month. The boys who used to light two-foot firecrackers | and shoot off six-inch bore cannon | may not have known whether they | were celebrating the anniversary of | our freedom or were merely Killing time until they burned down the | stable, but at least they put & | punch in the day and made it long | remembered. The younsters who | stood on the corner and held Roman | candles in their hands probably were less concerned with doing fit ting honor to the signers of the | Declaration than they were with acoring dircct hits on the bucks of | the people across the street, yet | they made the day different from | the third and the fifth of lho“ month and left visible traces which | did not disappear for months, if at | all. | Now the firecrackers are shrink- | ing cach year, the city has taken | over the nightworks #o effectively that individuals no longer want to compete, and in many towns the | sale of blank cartridge is already | taboo. The police are enforeing stricter regulations, drastically cur- | tailing the celebrations on the “night before.” This Fourth was the quietest in yvears, and there is no telling what the future may hold. Probably the noise-making will grow even less and less until it Is finally forbidden and the Fourth becomes a sort of Saturday in the middle of the weéek. To prevent s losing the character of a holiday, we should suggest that steps he take to retain some sort of individ- uality for the day, Below is what might happen about 1950 it our suggestion were carried out—and if the restrictions which will probably be in force by that time are ob- served. In other words, this may be absolutely the very wildest sort of Fourth possible in that coming year. The day will open with a sunrise meeting at Walnut ‘Hi» park, when | patriotic airs will bé sung. In the | morning there will be a huge parade | with floats representing the various | events in our national and munici- pal history, although none of the wars will be depicted, a8 that might involve the display of firearms. The drums of the bands will be muffied and the horns muted in Kkeeping with the spirit of the day. At the conclusion of the parade exercises will be held in Central park. The Declaration of Independ ence will be read. and school bo; will read prize essays on “The iChanges In the Shape of Men's | Trousers since the Scparation From | England” and by school girls on “Chocolates of 1950 vs. Tafty of 1776, The afternoon will be given over to sports at Willow Brook park. There will be a Maypole (or “July- vole,” if you insist) dance, knitting ond crocheting contests, a free-for- all game of quolts, a barrel race, flapjack turning contests, and other sports of that general nature. At sunset the flag atop Walnut 1 Hill will be lowered ceremoniously {as & group of Girl Scouts sing a {lullaby. Of course, thefe will be no sunset gun. In the evening at Stanley Quarter park, there will be a fireworks dis- play consisting of the burning of 300 giant sparklers. And, no doubt, several over- enthusiastic people who cheer or applaud various events on the day's program will be arrested for mak- ing untoward noise. | quite a long time about that project of sending a rocket to the moon. I wonder why they't hop of 2" Jarvis: “Maybe they're for good weather, or else waiting they | the An Imaginary Rich Man, Dying, Leaves a Mossage The Great Man lay en his death- bed. His physicians had given him one week at the longest to live. Even his wealth could not halt the hand that was reaching for him to gulde him into the Purple Beyond. Land d castles were his. Servants an- swered his call and bowed to his every whim. Industries trembled at his voice. Elections had balanced pending his decisions. His lawyer had put his earthly estate in order and the will convey- ing millions to individuals and insti- tutions had been signed. The law- ver, who had been a life long friend, sat in silence for a minute or more and then, with the light or curiosity in his eyes, sald: *You have lived nearly to your allotted span. You have amassed wealth. You have reached the pinnacle of financial success. Can you, in a few words, express any one great truth that has been hammered home on your mind while you have been doing all the great things that you have done?" The sick man stirred, cleared his throat, slowly opened his e}es and gazed at the ceiling. The silence was broken only by his labored breath- ing. Finally he spoke: “Yes, this thing has been impressed on me, this above everything else—there isn't any Santa Claus.” “The lawyer was puzzled. Tt seemed to him that his client was in a state of delirium. The sick man noted his expression and with a wan smile sai “I am not raving. T mean just what I say—there isn't any Santa Claus. Nobody in this life gives you anything. You must earn everything you get. It is the law of compensation. That's what T mean.” If more young fellows would get this brief resume of Life into their minds and keep it there, the world would hear less whining and whim- pering. The young man, unhampered by sickness, who declares that he hasn't had a chance should realize that chance does not stroll along Main street r v to be buttonholed. It lurks up side strects waiting to be sought out. It plays hide and seek but it can be canght if the pursuer is determined and backs up his de- termination with persistence. The history of industry in Ameri- ca reveals the engrossing story of men who started at the bottom ris- ing to the top largely through their own efforts. It may be chance that they made the acquaintance of men who enabled them to enlarge their field of opportunities but they laid the foundation. Schwab, a clerk in a grocery store, was ready for bigger game when the time came. Chrysler, an engine wiper at eight cents an hour, prepared for bigger things and was ready to scize the opportunity to grow when it was offered to him. The book of progress in industry could be thumbed over and over and on page after page the story of a rise from obscurity to greatness could be read. Trouble with most of us humans | is that we're too lazy. We expect someone to die and fill our pockets with an inheritance. Or we expect the boss to single us out for what appears to be a soft job vith a large salary just because he has taken a fancy to us. Or we won't climb the trecs to pick the fruit, expecting that it will drop into our hands. Or we stop in smug complaisance when we ha 4 imagine that we have “arrived. That's why there are so many Young men who stand along the curb and watch the successful busincss men ride past in their motor cars and complain that they haven't had & chance. All the barriers in the world cannot stop the fellow who i determined to get over them, around them or through them. But they will never overcome while they wait for Santa Claus, in the form of luck, to come down the chimney and lay his bag of good things in front of the fire- place, There isn't any Santa Claus. Carbon Monoxide s Menace to Household In connection with the proposed ordinance requiring householders to connect their gas water heaters with vents so that carbon monoxide gas may escape 10 the open air, it is interesting to note that the state board of health this week issued a bulletin on this subject. The in- formation contained therein is time- ly in New Britain which has not been as progressive as several other citics where laws for this purpose have been adopted. Carbon monoxide is a deadly poisonous gas which steals upon & person without warning as to odor, according to the bulletin, It is a product of incomplete combustion. In the ordindary hot water heater, the gas is mixed in the burner with a primary supply of air and the burning mixture also combines out- side the burner with a secondary supply of air in the heater. If the air supply is plentiful and no ob- struction exists, the combustion takes place completely. Occasional- ly an excessive primary supply of air may cause flash-backs and flames are thrown through the ports at high rates with dangerous re- sults. Fortunately, people usually recognize this condition and turn the gas off. The most important cause of trouble is the lack of pri- mary air supply, particularly in hot water heaters. This may be due to gradual clogging of the inlet air ports with dust or possibly to faulty adjustment. The gas flame In the heater .then may rise to the point where it strikes on the coil pipe con- taining cold water. The resultant cooling may reduce the temperature of the gas below the combustion point. The incomplete combustion allows carbon monoxide to escape into the room and may cause sick- ness or death. The venting of kitchen ranges is always desirable but the probability of trouble from these is remote. Trouble is possible if the burners are set too high and the inner blue cone of the flame strikes the vessel haven't found an American eager te hop off on it!" —Irwin Radder . (Copyright. 1928, Reproduction Forbidden) Girl placed over it. Gas plates for heat- ing water in the laundry are an- other possible source of trouble. The fact that gas plates and kitchen a8 ranges are usually under guper- climbed a few rungs and | vision, are used customarily only for ahort periods of time, and are frequently accompanied by steam and odors which require ventilation, all helps to lessen the amount of trouble from them. The so-called ‘“radiant glow” type of stove has been found likely to produce carben monoxide gas whenever the radiants glow over three-fourths of the dis- tance from the bottom to the top. This type of stove is not so common in this part of the country but is frequently used whero patural gas is available, An important fact is that it is only the carbon monoxide deaths that come strongly to attention. There is no record of the headaches or general weakening of health by breathinig in this * poisonous com- pound. Carbon monoxide deaths and sickness are easily preventable by proper precautions, NOAH RUNS INTO TROUBLE WITH CAR Roadside Mechanics Overhaul His Flivver—and Permanently (Contributed) Dear Andy: No doubt you and the two dizzy blonds which we dated for a show and a feed thrown in was disap- pointed the other night when 1 fails to show up but after 1 explaing about the hard luck I had with my flivver maybe you'll realize 1 wasn't to blame. It seems that hard luck and me chums together like a col- lar and tle. 1t's almost midnight on a country road as I'm returning from an outa town errand ‘vhen the en- gine coughs itself into convulsions on account of the gas tank going dryer than a desert traveler with- out warning. A nearby farmhouse, with garage attached, looks like a place where T can get help. I enters the yard and tosses some gravel against an upstairs window to attract atten- !uon. A sleeply looking guy in pa- |jamas pokes his bean out (also | something that may have been a table leg but looked like a double- barreled shotgun to me) and de- mands, “What do yuh want?” I explains, “I got a flivver outside and—" “What do yuh want me to do, buy it?" he asks, sarcastic. ! tells him all T want is to buy a cou- ple of quarts of gas so's I can get home and I don't mean by pushing the flivver. “A party of picnickers stopped here this morning and took every- thing but the poison ivy,” he re- lates for my benefit, I'm telling him T'm no picnicker and his poison ivy is safe from me, when he inter- rupts, “And they'd have taken that 00, if their arms wasn't already full of roses and rhubarb plants.” To be sociable 1 asks why don't he keep a good wafch dog. “I did own a bloodhound,” he answers, “but he bit a city slicker and died.” Secing no help was coming my way I bea it, muttering, “nice sociable guy but not really blaming him on ac count of knowing what he-has to put up with, tourists and such. Anyways 1 makes the mistake of leaving the flivver by the roadside and hoofs the 3 miles to home. The following morning I returns to the scenc of my troubles, and finds them doubled. My poor Lizzic had undergone a complete overhauling, with none of the parts put back. 1t had once been a touring car but was now a stripped-down roadster and looked like something the kids dragged about the streets on Hallo-" ween, (I had heard about the handy “roadside mechanics” that had more nerve than an -aching tooth and took everything that wasn't nailed down, but this was the first time I've ever seen the re- sulta of their Jabors). All of the cylinders was missing —and permanently. Every tire in- cluding the spare that cost me $4.98 at a bargain sale, was gone. Also the starter, magneto, fenders, hood, not to mention the coils, battery, timer carburator etc., and the tools under the seat. Even the picce of suspenders that was doing duty in place of the fan belt was gone. It seems like everything was removed but the rattles and body squeak (If the motor was running they'd probubly have taken the engine ex- haust). The body was still left on the chassis so 1 guess it must of i been too heavy to carr way. The steering wheel was also left but maybe they overlooked it or else didn’'t have a driver's license and was afraid to take a chance on the highway. A sense of humor must of belonged to the “roadside mechanics” because a note was dangling from the windshield, which read, “Thanks for the spare parts. Will be back for the horn later.” As I'm gazing sadly at Liz- zie a gurage repair car stops be- side, the driver once-overs what I'm looking at, and states, “I'll put that gas wagon in running condi- tion for 60 berries.” “Yeah,” I an- mwers, turning my pockets inside out and picking up the lone dollar as it hit the ground, “if 1 had 59 more we'd talk business. Anyways the only way you'd get her to move faster than 13 miles per hour would be-to put a charge of pervous dy- namite under her.” 80 th®'s how come, Andy. I failed to show up and my Lizzle that was once able to gallop about like an athletic mule got towed to an suto “cemetery” where I'm hoping they'll put her on top of the heap and let her rest in pieces, Noah Count Observations On The Weather ‘Washington, July 7.—Forecast for Southern New England: Fair and slightly warmer Saturday; Sunday fair. Forecast for Kastern New York: Fair and slightly warmer Saturday; Sunday partly cloudy. Conditions: The Atlantic coast disturbance is moving slowly east. ward, being centered Friday even- ing south of Nantucket. The indi- cations are for mostly fair weather Saturday and Sunday in the Wash- ington forecast district. It will be slightly warmer over 1 i