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New Britain Herald NBRALD PUBLISHING CUMPANY Teswed Daily (Sundey Excepted) At Herald Bidg.. 61 Church 8trest SUBSCRIPTION RATES 8800 & TYear. $2.00 Three Montha 16c. & Month Eatered ot the Post Office at New Brit as Second Class Mail Matter. TELEPHONS CALLS Business Office ... ¥25 Editorial Rooms .... 92 The oni Circulation bouks » open to sdvertisers. 3 press the Assoeiated Press Press 1p exclusiiely en the use for e publication ol Al uews credited to Wt or Dot otherwime crediied o this paper and slso locai aews yublished thereln. Member Are o e ttiea Member Audit Buresu of Cireulution wona) vrganization which turon re an0 adver tisess with & etrictly honeet wnaiyste of circulation Oui circuiation statistics are Sased upon this audit Thie tnmies tectlon againet fraud in pewspaper d tribution figures to botb national and local sdvertisers. The Herald 1» on salc @aily in New York st Hotaling's Newsstand. Times Square: Schults's Newsstanas. Eutrance Grand Central. 4304 Stieet I Nobo mistaks the Demo- cratic brown derby for a high hat can Looking for that needle in the haystack is no harder than finding wild flowers where week-cnd auto- mobile parties tarried We have about com to the con- clusion that both Wilham Allen White and the Rev. Dr. Straton don’t require so much publicity to make a living. When the talk veers around to the candidates’ wives one can rest sured that the “dead earnest.” campaign is on in Somewhere is town without a gasoline filling sta- tion. But if so it doubtless makes up for it by having six hot dog stu- tiony there is a country The Waterbury to a “rational prohibitionist” and a “rational anti-prohibitionist.” These American refers must be unique citizens down in the brass capital. The scenic Naugatuck™ reads a line in a newspaper in the Nauga- iy profitable sdvertining medium | it | ' normany doubts this Ict them one of them while pay a visit to the doings are under way | ey + Church strest business 1 one who is as wet as a clam under water and a staunch follower ! of Al Smith, we asked him for a candid opinien as to whether he thought 1t probable that Smith would carry the Nutmeg stats Not a chance,” he replicd. “Smith will make a zood run in this state and vastly reduce the Republican | but this is a black. hide- rock-ribbed no Demorrat can earry ke Horaback majority; bound, i ch Republican state it w Henry sounded a Dblast from 3 New Sunday. battle- grounds of 1928 included a reference Field tie propagandist, and 8o we turned in desperation el Herald-Tribuns This resu article Carte the York August by in of e of the to Connectient: and as Carter is no Demo the Herald Republic expoct a Tribune an outspoken n monthpiece, one would 1tickian flourish to the With this Ror reference ta Connectient in view, here 15 what one finds in the article Connecticut much better chusetts for They N and Rhede Tsland are prospeets than Mas the Smith workers. much than Mas They are much wetter than York or even New Jersey SNuither state ratified the Eighteenth Amendment. Both are Republican. although lsland has Democratic Peter Goelet Gerry, who is for his third term this wetter w Rhod senator. running fall.” From this one gets the impression the writer thinks Smith has a chance indecd, a bet- he has of carrying Our opinion has been to carry Connecticut; a ter chance than Massachuseits that he has a better chance in the | Bay State And that's that. At this point a | | motion is made to defer the discus- tuck valley, If there were fewer pub- ! the cities along the would be lic dumps in Naugatuck the even more scenic scenery Our admiration for Scotchmen is unbounded. They stand up under a barrage of Scotch jokes and laugh as if they like them fact, the average Scotch joke is in a class with the decrepit mother law joke, and both are in the class of the motion pictur over 30 times. As a matter of n- scenario done THE SPER It is altogether dedication monument Charles F. more than "HMAKER fitting that the Memorial ceremonics he Smith, the speech at made by who has don: any other man fo put the monument Walnut Hill park and who in addition has donated an artistie the the wading pool. Perhaps orator who might have atop fountain for conter of some famed national been brought here upon pavment of a able flight fancy price would have been to deliver a more resounding of but nothing oratory; he counld sav and re- gardless ot the cmbellishments of spellbinding TUARe would have heart, as it will in the Jan the messa, It not come from the case of Smith The monument tn Emith, not only is a local achicvement the it s something also in nature of a personal achievement the 1 cation sprech Smith over all others 2t man to make the dedi JOY Tt eityv'e playeron IN THE has Leen AVGROUNDS 1 big summer in the 1s Children who in- stincticely diseot e £00d time to be had have heen 2oing 16 them in inereased nin parents and =0 has Tohn Smitheicl rector. The Brook who calls 1t work big field pa of the merons outstanding ovents i th yground held which The instiel © Washinzton school re contly, 11 10 be reprated in order to &ive more than 200 unabls to giin admission at the first per- tormanes PROTTININY fo ser he show was another amazing contri bution to children ppiness Aay the The minor events, listed every have been =0 numerons that cannot be mentioned without requitmg a column or €0 in the teling Playground acticities are work being done in this rity Pride ndered during the summer months 1 The o city 2000 cit)- zens reared ‘3 fneestment in the plavzrounds is vielding hizh 41 vidends, tangible and intangible There 15 constant 1alk of providing more playgrounds More ed. There should be about providing are need no hesitaney them, If anyone sion until after the first Tuesday in November, STREET SIGNS The public works department has been busy of late erecting street signs. Nothing it can do outside of | good meets with such general approval by the public, Keeping the strects in repair The new signs ure being erected upon permanent poles, such as trol- ley poles, telephone and th Special pols avoided, it poles like. to hold the signs are Seems, unless where | no others exist for the purpose. This will mean the signs will have longer life and will not he subject to attack by small boys who delight in twist- ing them the special poles that formerly were part of the and tearing down street sign equipment. The wooden poles put up to hold strect signs fome years ago, on | the names of streets Bud them and they which, in fact, were painte boys made sport of had e were a failure. a tendency to rot at the hase present system of attaching the firmly street signs to permanent poles is far superior, The lettering, too, is larze enough to see at a dis- tanee; and of course, the new paint helps, 1t should administration be the aim of the city 10 keep these street signs doing their dnty constantly. Nothing is more irntating, whether a citizen is afoot or in an antomo- bile, 1o 1ind himself in an unaceus- tomed part of the city and be unable to determine the ficulty in street he street rects or have dif- finding the particular is looking for. Keeping the s order shonld he one of the expensive of the city's services to citizens IN OHIO result of ™! When RUMBLY 1zhinz the the Ohio primary one should recognize fhe tact that drvv sentiment is and alwavs has heen strong in the Buek that has had eve state There it was, indeed the Anti-Saloon 1eague its cadaquarters in o httle town where pri “tribution of dry pamphlets main industry was the Stale 15 one ot the most re- 10 the T'nian on the liguor tion, ¢ land, s largest city, representatives mn Europe and cosmopolitan Neinnati, heavily fa time when formed a large part of our - ion. s a heavy defender of the I Iherty to gt 4 glass ) beer “n on Toledo, also a e of consequen a4 snappy cos maopolitanite and wines md Bt when we e This ¥ the most Mothod the en- tire country timent 35 strong, Nuriercus cities of smaller caliber are about &0 Then the country distriets lites ttheroin Man ahile othe Fram thi et a1 ORio primary 15 ke 11 is a case on the whole. af city aziinst coun try The or vier tersa vote in th od by the exper xevrdingly Ohio primary s interprot ' having been dry If so. Smith wil have # harder time carrying the state in November. " the | alongside | Pickwickian mode of | of rates | senl [ rate {from Hartford at 6.05 p. Lleft in the ting FLORIDA STORMS Betwesn worry over banks which bust,” tial and hurnicanes with torren- rains, Florida and southein sorgia must have Ht'le disposition 161t to discuss the political campuizn. There doesn’t strike is a legend that lightning fwice in the same place, but this evidently does not apply fo high winds and hard rans: for Florida and southern Georgia have had several of these visitations ot nature in a row. Which of course is what cvery newspaper reader al- ready knows, although there is no harm in referring to it as a prelude to a more comprehensive anzlysis The Guif has experienced of which this year Florida storm Florida are a regular weather They advertised i ad merely that nice winds from the Gulf part are not i Florda rature: what we v there s keep the people cool in summer Nothing is said about how hard they blow, any more than Hterature from California ever mentions varthyuake tremors the with These parts of country chmates™ h than They north weather.” 1deal that ave more also possess what we in would call “nasty However, will get even with us by pubhshing pic- nest winter they tures in their ~ how deep the snow is in New Eng land. SLEEPERS IN BUSES Seems the bus situation is as acute The 1d man- in England as it is in America worries of the British railr agers are increasing. What with bus lines springing up all over the tight little like comes the startling information that one bus line has started isle mushrooms along operating sleepers between london and Live pool, the rate being half the railr transportation privilege of sleeping in With each passenger on such a gets a berth, he has a reading lamp it, and his blackened by the porter during the d without the a bunk amazement we read that bus line shocs are | night. The latter 13 a wrinkle that not even a Pullman porter in Amer- | ica does without an extra little tip. The upshot will be a return to the travel which originally was knocked galley by the development of the railroads. As we said other day the west in these battle the In England, as in America, columns the royal hinges entirely upon important matter the inter-city buses do a large busi- ness because they consistently under- the In angland London railroads. the north of North- already in passenger on account of the astonishing the and eastern railroad has an- nounced a reduction bus competition to which it is being subjected. Al other England will e to follow suit; and also those in America railroads in A TIME-TABLE In its endeavor to combat the Bos- & Albany New Haven line has put over one of the BLUNDER ton railroad, the most remarkable bit of foolishness \In its history. A train frem Boston over the Highland division departs m., stand- ard time. Three minutes later a train from Springfield arrives in Hartford the possible fa the No conncetion from springfield train, of conrse, is Highland division throngh New Waterbury. The idea, of travelers from train which runs Pritzin and on to ete course, is to prevent Boston headed for points along the of Hartford from Springficld going by way which B Boston and that city. wonld A Thus entail between far the traveling over the plan works But what of the traveler befween Springficld and Waterbury? Or other points along the hranch line? He is Iurch. at the church, or at the Hartford station Not only ficld to Water fravelers from Spring- ury and other hranch line points are incommaoded, hut sup- pose a traveler is going from Albany to Waterbury, or from other New any point along the Central B & A Springficld the has left the always or even from north He log Then he can v of gets into Hartford after cal connecting frain ait two hours for next train. which of canrse 1e such a delightful experi ence, especially when the traveler in a hurry One of the cardinal prineiples of railroading nused to be that trains on the <hould The New Aeparted principle in this instance titled to 1he connect at Haven from i) unstinted censire same line nmetion cities has deliberately this en- of the traveling publie and i getting it (A SUGGESTION Paving alongside the trolley tracks must he a continnal nightmare 1o the Connectient company, which by pected to keep a eertain Aistance en ot its rails fit the been vach side o travel e mn the will a short time the SRame tracks city thus b We has a smooth surface of eraters alonz have re- P and the woes of I “short time pair motorists ened for o1 nohody sver hie ta the wen note Honzeade ralls on most trolley strects for a long period. There is an organic or fundamental weakness about the newspapers showing | branch line south | pavement alongside a rail that pre- . cludes satisfaction for 1ong. One wonders why the trolley com- | pany dees not go the entire distance and do 4s is done | cities—put in many other down blocks its good wearing qualities, stay put Belgian alongside rails, These possess and give the contiguous asphalt a chance to retain its grip for the longest pos- sible time But we don't expect to see any- thing What places simply doesn't these environs, acerue from this suggestion works in numerous other start in got a Fe ots and Fancies | BY ROBERT QUILLEN The politiclans promise to help farmers isn't like his promise fo favor other groups. 1sn't whis- pered It “A fiy never travels miles” Blah! ten miles from over four Try having a pienic nywhers | was ex- The old-fashioned cakewalk much like the modern javwalk, copt 1t wasn't so jerky 1f there's no other way to get the finger prints of hootlegzers, Doran {might examine all currency above The car coming from the right at Intersections has the right-of-way In all cases, unless 1Us a new one afraid of scratches | | The little things count more accurately than the caddy for. much men they A government bulletin rabhit too easily caught has some. thing the matter with it." Referred to the college boy who thinks he is a devil with the ladies. savs: “A ¥ If Tunney hasn't chosen another profession, we respectfully snggest that his talents should inierest al- most any installment house. | “Every office is cluttered with useless junk.” says an ad. What a way to speak of one’s wife's rela tives! | Americanism: Buying a new car |just to get a new body | S Tl We see by the papers that the de- partment of the interior has heen {insull-ated “All girls can be petted,” savs the modern youth. But to call a flivver | | wonderful is to confess you've never en a fine car. 5 The papers say King jumped over six feet four inches high at the Olympics, but don’t give the name of the hootlegger who supplied the drink. “How will the modern girl turn ont?” Well, as a rule she’ll move the steering wheel to the right and turn out about six inches. Perhaps it would be a better plan for oc p fivers not to let the planes know anything unusual is afoot. | Refusal to supervise Panama’s clection reveals a sublime faith that the boys who owe Wall street have cnough votes, Out where the candidates apply | {he soft conp. that's where the west | | hegins Revolver shooting at the Olympics is pie for America, but think how much more easily we could capture the aash-weight event i | Correct this sentence: My plat- inmm wrist watch, no longer keeps the correet time,” said she. “so 1 never wear it i (Copyright 25 Years 7Ag04 Today Business at the Berlin freight de- | pot has o increased that a 70-foot | addition will be built onto it Work will be started within a few weeks The Linle Shep has had to post- pone its actory league game Satur- day hicause so many of its players are at the National Gnard camp Only about 60 baskets of peaches Wil be picked from the Shuttle Meadow orehards this vear, although ey normally sive thousands of i Lets, The season 1s very bad in Apples are practically , failure as a-crop and the plums | will unsatisfactory vicld. | Only. tobacco is up to standard, the crs on the mountain having e the and hail that h s of the state Nahle notified by the st mght that a window in frady's house on Washington and that burslars h the place. He and Iooked it over but to tell whether or not the thisves had 1aken anything from | Mr. is with his family 1t orchards a 2ive an grow caped W volice TOH ot had ent wind as 4 other p was open been thron dovr 15 nnable Brady, who Westhroo! Seud all communications Fua Shop Edlitor, care of the New Britala Herald, and jyour letter will be forwarded to New York. A Hint for Summer Housckeepers Defeating the Enent Let's hang our tempers on And let the fun-hght shine. There 1s No safer. surer way To keep the grouch-moths all at bay! on | Gave Humsclf Away! [ on: “They captured that crook | vho escaped dressed up o wo- men's clothes 1 Lindsay: “How did they spot | him 2" Seton: “He was going through a | volving-door in the right 4 tion!” re dire L SHERIFE'S SOLILOGUY By ¢ Wiles Hallock They've Lronght the to Creel Spur Clean up from Alamo, Ain't nothin’ nohow like it Jes' fifteen vear o They're goin’ to make a landin 1er airvplanes—on that thar Which used to be durnec place pull a rod-o. TE bus Cor | vere hase | question of fact or information by purty | writing to the Question Editor, New | Britain Herald. Washington Burean. (1322 New York avenue, Washington. things fast 2 When 1 was jest a cub Th West seemed sorta wide — an' vast— But now It's gittin® late i ate, They've estate yive all went cou Yep. changin® vere elbows rub, crowded here nee runnin’ cons went out o turned th' range to real T y club! They used to be a sheep coral Whar them polo-table An' whar they built thet hotal Was a tree like ‘re at AR They're playin' gawlf Horse Fiat! men thet once crat Wes danged good durned Iynchin’ Seen we whar | W ain't jest on Wild an was Demmy- can 7 Usual Lffect! Was Georgia gar te Henrietta with her Parisian gowns Elizabeth: “All but the bill, poor gitl is chic and sorc!” —0. G plca The Jelke AN INEXCUSABLE GIRL! One day Mary Nell, a little who had been going to school fow days and had learned when use or say 'excus me,” was in the back yard hocing when small sister, Katherine, walked behind her | Mary Nell accidentally struck | Katherine a blow on her head with the hoe handle. Turning and seeing. whi done, Mary Nell promptiy cuse me.” Katherine looked at her minute, then “you don't know how fo 'scuse you." —Mrs. A. R. Griffith PURITY MAID 3y Alan Goldsmith n the fooihills of the Blue Ridge | Mountains nestles the little town of | Bolton It was in Bolton that 1 met Maz a little mountain lass, shy and un- learned in the ways of the vorld Beantiful with nature's own hean- | ty, unadorned with dresses from Parisian unaided by beau- | ty specialists. ! 1. wige in the ways of the world, having known the girla of many lands, found in fhis country maid beauty and a purity dreamed of but | never helieved existed. Having lived | in life, 1 conld not helieve that there existed a woyld beyond my | ken. | Threngh many long days and eve- | the southern moon | hreathing romance, 1 wooed her. | Uncophisticated as she was, she had heard of the ways of the world, and che was afraid of me. She w | afrard of my fidelity. Put at last 1 knew that T had lizhted the epark of love in her heart She promised to fly with me to the end of the| world And we together I her girl a to wit | her up | for know 1 shops. with wonld have that night hushand had not gone away have re- turned unexpectedly! Tonr rooms at the Bartlett school | repainted, and the will be are heing schooi hascment white- washed Chawrman of the council building committee and Building In- Tuinbull held evenmg, They feel that the e faulty in permitting wooden frame fire limits and are hold- permit for repairs to veh strect structure. Public inteyest tonight centers on the fight between Jeffries and Cor- bett The cent of the net receipts and the loser Morey spietor last crdinan-es 10 repars within per cont ('hief Rawlings has been requested Uy ~aneil 1o arrest all boys who hop the freizhts and ride from Main 4 Whshinzion streets, and the prac- the ¢ doned Local erday it nitemobilists held a race noon at 5 o'clock, Washington and Broad “They they turned their ma- chines around and raced back At laf tie street the drivers were called npon o exercise all of their lingeniity in dodging a truck that came out of that street. e £oIng slreet from | High | conference | buildings | winper will take 75 per | Pean'y Otto 1 and the Beast! Rahn, of German birth. is foreman of the composing room | fice has now been practically aban- {of “The Topeka State Journal'” He | | boasts a fine crop of black hair! A. J. Carruth, managing editor, as bald as you make ‘em, and is often called “R.O.C.." meaning 1 “Bald Old Chief You know what always happens in such a case—Carruth is invark ably interested in anything that may restore vanished hair! One day | recently Rahn crossed his path. | a Say, “what use 2" Rahn," called Carruth, kind of hair fonic do you en-tonic,” positor. replied the com- Frank P. MacLennan THE CRADLE Heard by George K SONG chultze Mosquito! Mogquito! 222222222770 27277 ! Singing a lullaby; Mosquito! Mesquito! Tho' vou helong to someone else, Tonight yon helong to me, 222272222 27772AT! Infallible? Wadsworth: “There’s no man so wise but that something can’t make fool out of him.” never knew IT to [ for reply. Medical, legal and marital {advice cannot be girven. nor can ex- of [tended rescarch be undertaken. All |other questions {sonal reply. | States 1evenues { largest | ceipts |ed, of the New York Central which {ns from New York to Chicago. a | | distance | per | Itailroad train from Camden to At-| {1antic City, a d | “oldest | A 1 exists | 1o come true | orizinate? | ! Walter Camp's Daily Dozen? | New York € | minute atter the hour? | 14 | court and the time is left fo the dis- [ cretn of the prison officials who | Reid: “Yes, 1 (Copyright, 1928, Forbidd Reproduction ONS ANSWERED You can get an answer to any D. C., encioting two cents in stamps | (equal to one | doliar) | per second for 100 yards? will receive a per- Unsigned requests can- | not be answered. All letters are con- | fidential.—Tiditor. | United postal Q What has city the in the largest A. New York City the | In 1027 the postal re-| for New York City were| sixty-seven million dollars compared has |to Chicago's fitty-eight million | Q. What are the two trains in the United States? A, The Twentieth Century Limit- fastest | of 960 a miles at 48.0 mllm:l the hour Pennsylvania stance of 59.7 miles| in 58 or 61.7 miles per honr Q. minutes, Where is the famous “"Wish- ing Well” in Florida? A1t is located houge in Ameries Florida Grave doubt as to the antiquity of this| house and of the legend that it was blersed by the early [Franciscan | monkg. Persons drinking from the | well make wishes that are supposed within a vear. What is the weight cubic foot of gravel? A, Dry, loose gravel weighs frém | 90 to 105 pounds per cubic foot: dry packed, weighs 100 to 120 pounds, and wet, 118 to 120 pounds. Q. How did the name pen knife | in the so-called *at sv.} ustine a of & A. From the fact that formerly | such knives were carried to sharpen | il pe | Q. 1= Singapore in China? | A, No It is an island in the Straits Settlements 2nd is a British Crown colony Q. What is the the United greatest distance | across States east to| west? A Q 2,807 miles. | Where can T obtain a copy of | the 250 A Trom ing Company evnolds Publish- | Park Avenus, | | Q. Do all execntions occur at one | A. No. The date is set by the perform them at an hour when they will interfere least with the routine | of the prison, | Q. Do all babies have blue eyes | at birth? ‘I (run recklessly and “hog" the road. A. They are not all blue at birth, to the.public, trying %o~ -keep' on but it is only after a lapse of several |echedule, avert accidents, and. be weeks that they begin to take on a courteous isn't the casiest task in definite hue. the world. Q. What kind of a ship was the| The bus drivers thank you for “Emden"? permitting them to use this space in A. It was a famous German |your valuable paper. cruiser that had a spectacular career | CONNECTICUT CO. BUS DRIVERS. 2s 2 commerce raider in the world war, from August 11 to November 10, 1914, under command of Lieut. Capt. von Muller. Tt was destroyed by the Australian cruiser “Svdney off Cocos Island in the Pacific Ocean. An officer and a few mem- bers of the crew escaped in small boats acress the Indian Ocean and Red Sea and reached Germany by | way of Damascus and Turkey. Q. dress? A Paramount Marathon street, The Herald has no wish to gecd- lessly hurt individuals of the' bus driver or any other class. In all fairness to the above there i5 no particular reason to believe that any of them have acted in a discour- teous manner towards their passen- gers, or more particularly towa:ds the operators of other cars on the | nighways. Possibly but one o twe What is Richard Arlen's ad- |individuals have earned by them dis- | courtesy a general condemnation of the operation of busses, but the gravation of discourteous driving he fornia | reached such a point that the rescut- Q. What i the current coinage |ent of the operators of ple: of Abyssinia ? | cars has been aroused. Unfortunit A, The current coins are the ly, perhaps. drivers for the Connecil- Maria Therese dollar and the Mene- | cut Company are coupled in the ty lik dollar. Other silver coins are|mind with all others in a gener.d the half, quarter and sixteenth |condemnation of the group. Coui- (garsh or piastre) of a dollar, and |tesy probably exists in individuals there is also a copped coin, the besa | among the independent drivers as thirty-second of a |well, though the actions of some Lave «von condemnation for all.— Observations On The Weather 16.—Forecast Studios, Hollywood, 5481 Cali Q How fast will a from bullet shot a 30-30 calibre revolver travel A Q 1.735 feet per second What does Audrey mean? A, Sweet simple. golden Q. Is Rillie Dove the real name of the actress? A No. Her real maiden name is Lillian Bohny. Her married name | is Mrs. Ivrin Willat. | Q. How many members of the 70th Congress are Roman Catholics? A. There are five Catholic sena- tors and 35 Catholic representatives. Q. What is the size and weight of the average box car of modern type? A, The average box car ordered in 1927-1928 was 40 feet 6 inches| long. weighed 470,000 pounds and | had a capacity of 100,000 pounds. Washington, Aug. for Southern New England: In. creasing cloudiness followed by showers late tonight or Friday; not much change in temperature; mod« erate south winds. Forecast for Eastern New York: Showers tonight and Friday; not much change in temperature; moderate south winds. Conditions: The southern dis- turbance moved northeastward and s central this morning over western Virginia and territory of adjacent states. It is producing showers over a somewhat limited area from southern Ohio to eastern Tennessee | and showers occurred southward to Florida. The greatest amount was 3.54 inches at Charlotte, North Carelina. A trough of low pressure prevails from the upper lake region souths westward to Arizona. High maxi- mum temperatures were reported yesterday in the north Atlantis states. Conditions favor for this vicinity fair weather followed by showers and cooler. Temperatures yesterday: High 20 90 56 54 86 36 78 88 " kL) 56 85 86 a3 COMMUNICATED Connecticut Co. Bus Drivers Answer 10 Au Editorial. | Dear Editor: For months a fearful accumula- tion of charges has been piling up | in your editorials against the Trolley Co. and Bus Drivers. The climax came last Friday, August 10th, when in your editorial you stated that “The type of man who drives a bus is naturally not the kind from whom we might expect courtesy or the re- finement that goes with a considerate individual.” You also stated that busses are Low 70 72 72 68 68 62 70 Atlantic City .. Toston Buffalo Chicago Cincinnati Denver . Detroit .... Duluth ... acksenville Kansas City 1.os Angeles Miami . % Minneapolis .. Nantucket New Haven New Orleans ... New York Norfolk, Va. . Northfield, Vt. Portland, Me. St. Louis Every possible remark denouncing the bus drivers was made. It does not seem the right thing to do to condemn everyone for the fault of one or a few. Busses run on schedule and many times have to et ahead of a slow driver on a state highway who holds up traftic at 10 or 15 miles an hour. Getting ahead of a car like that is not reckless driv- ing. Many an accident would occur if it were not that the bus drivers | were apt and capable of handling lorge busses. If this person who writes the edi- torial in your paper who is so critical about busses and their drivers, would try to run a bus for a while, he a0 86 an ‘\\ould soon learn that selling rides | Washington HOME CANNING This is canning time; the time when all good women come to the aid of the pantry shelves. Our Washington Bureau has just completed an en- tirely new and up-to-the-minute bulletin on Home Canning of Fruits and Vegetables. It contains full directions with individual instruction for the various kinds of products that may be canned, the method of preparation and treatment the time and temperatures for processing and everything the housewife needs to know for successful canning. Fill out the coupon below and gond for it: P - - - - CLIP COUPON HERE VACATION EDITOR, 1322 New York Avenue, Washington, Washington Bureau, New Britain Herald, B, € NG OF FRUITS AND and enclosa herewith five cents in loose, uncancelled, S. postage stamps, or coin, to cover postage and handling cost 1 want a copy of the hulletin HOME CANNI VEGETABL U NAME .. STREET AND NUMBER l Gy S 1 am a reader of the Herald, T o e e e Family Stuff—Father’s Misera ble Conduct By Fontaine Fox WHEN MoTH G@RADVATED THI¢ SPRING ), HAD ER -ToLP FATHER THAT HARoLD,(WHe GoT A JoB. % -("Pomtaine Fox. 1928 The Bel! Synd

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