New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 17, 1928, Page 6

New Britan Heral Teswed Dally ( (Bunday Txcopted) . At NWersld Bldg., 61 Church BStrest SUBSCRIPTION RATES Yoar $3.00 Thres Monthe 5e "ne Month Entered at the Post Office st New Britain a8 Second Class Mall Matter. TELEPHONE CALLS Business Office . Editerial Roems .... 926 ‘The only profitable advertising medium w the City. Circulation books and press oo slways open to sdvertisers. Member of the Asociated Press the Associated Press o exclusively en- titled to the use for re-publication of xl! news credited to it or Bot otherwise in this paper and also locai published therein. Member Audit Buress of Clrculation THe A. B C. s @ national organization which furnishes newspapers and adve- tisers with & strictly honest analysis of circulation. Our circulation statistics are based upon this audit. This insurea pro toction against traud in uewspaper die- tribution figures to both mational and | local advertisers. credi aews The Herald is on sale daily In_New York st Hotaling's Newsstand, Times Square; Schults's Newsstands, Eatrance tirand Central d Btreet. ————— COST OF EDUCATION One New Britain speaker stated the other day that the cost of edu- cation is high. Fifty cents out of every dollar in tax money in this city, he said, goes for the mainte- nance of the schools. Since then an- other has said 39 cents out of every dollar goes for the schools. Well, what of it? What does it | prove? If anything, it indicates that the school system has been measure- ably developed to a point somewhere in the vicinity of the requirements of the city; and that some other public functions have not been developed to this point. When they are, they too will cost more, and at such time the schools will not require as large a percentage of the sum total of ex- penditures. 1t is a matter of relativity. It the city has been extraordinarily. eco- | nomical in providing some services— | such as water disposal, sewer dis- | posal, garbage disposal—it means | that a small percentage of the total | money goes for these services. New schools were built because they were necessary, could not be longer delayed; and the end is not yet. We have more . and better- trained teachers, a higher adminis- trative expense that goes with a larger school plant. The cost today is | pretty well fixed, and is proportion- | ately higher than it will be when'| the bonds are paid off. It the state law had specified that the city simply had to meet all requirements as to water, sewers, garbage and what not, as is specified in connection with the schools, then the total of such expenditures would be much higher and the schools would not exact as high a percentage of all the 'expenditures. It is quite simple; school costs, proportionate- ly to other civic costs, look high be- cause the other municipal costs have Leen comparatively low. Whether New Britain can continue to keep these other costs low is doubtful; already the water department is planning to expend more than §1,- 000,000. After that money is spent, and should the school costs remain (airly stationary, the school per- centage will automatically drop. .The tax rate in New Britain has been low compared with most other cities in Connecticut. The schools | cost their present ratio of the tax inoney because of this fact. It is to | be hoped that the tax rate can con- tinue to be kept low compared with other cities. Suppose, through the exercise of some species of legerdemain, the tax income should be greatly reduc- ed. The achool costs then might reach a much higher percentage of | the city’s income—yet the total out- | 5o for schools would be the same. 1f, however, the cost of incre municipal services is greatly incre cd—which seems likely within the next five years—the percentage of | school outlay to the whole can be ex- pected to decrease, although actually the cost may stand still or increase slightly. . | We mention these facts in order to combat the idea, current circles, that local education costs arc inordinately high il as- in some Considering them on a percentage basis they may look that way, but upon the total of other costs to war- rant one in coming to a superficial conclusion. The percentage New York State to all other state too much depends of school costs in costs is, if we remember rightly, 34 per cent. This looks lower than in New Britain, but in reality the sum expended for schools in New York has risen seven-fold during the past decade. The reason the percentage in New York seems lower than in New Britain is because New York has made other enormous outlays, which | have more than kept pace with the | school expenditures. 1In New Britain, and many another city in Connecticut, this has net been the | case. We had to keep pace with the increased demands for school lemmmodauons‘ Basically, this difficulty of sleep- | but we could afford to lag a bit in providing other public services. The |is the most irritating part of working | poor. house, = {ana | being. The | tic difference between New York and New Britain is that the former could not 1ag in such expenditures—it has been forced¢!to go the whole route. During the present week innum- erable citisens have visited the schools; they have again been im- pressed with their eficiency. The new buildings have been admired and nobody with a child in any of them has'considered the cost worth | worrying about. They can reason Il not be befuddled by specious arguments about the schools costing “too much.” Citizens know that many more times their cost are | spent for luxury and entertalnment; and they know that the schools are vastly. more important. Operating the schools is every city’s biggest enterprise. Knowledge would be utterly useless for hu- manity if it were not imparted to the young so that they, when grown, became superior citizens—citizens I with better developed minds than we possess ourselves. If the nation is to advance in all things worth while every city must patriotically con- tribute its due share; and nothing we can do is remotely as important as the instruction and training given the young. Cost'is secondary, rela- tive; it appears disproportionately high in this city because we wisely | have concluded it is more important | than some other matters that cost money and which we have been able to postpone until the schools were partly looked after. OUR NEW STATE PARK Taking over of Sunset Rock park by the State Park and Forest Com- mission concludes the final disposi- {tion and conservation of one of the most notable scenic spots in Hartford county. This eminence, deriving its name from the beautiful sunsets that can be seen from there, is known to almost everyone in New Britain and Plainville, being between the two. It will now be improved by the state, a new or repaired shelter house at the point overlooking Plainville be- ing necessary. From the time the Sunset Rock assoclation began cor- respondence’ with the state to the present the environs of the eminence have been allowed to shift for themselves, so to speak. A recent visit showed that a certain part of the public seems to care very little for the appearance of public proper- ty. The park was a joint gift of the Sunset Rock association, and Land- ers, Frary & Clark. The park is |larger than most residents perhaps | realize, being half a mile long, and contains 13 1-2 acres. Most peopie have thought that Sunset Rock re- ferred only to the point where the shelter house was built. The park, however, takes in a narrow strip along a goodly portion of the area of Bradley mountain. This state park is the nearest to New Britain; it is the only state park in Hartford county. Under state jurisdiction it ought to attract the attention of motorists from through- out the central portion of the state in much larger numbers than here- tofore. The highway leading to the park from Plainville road is attracting more homemakers every year. It is not an improved highway in the modern sense, but is far better than it used to be back In the days when the park site was threatened with destruction by a timber concern. It was then, of course, that the site was purchased by public-spirited citizens to avoid its beauty being despolled, and from this time on the Sunset Rock assoclation came ihto association did notable public service in maintaining the site, finally resulting in it being made a gift to the state, which also a noteworthy act. GHT WORKERS The average prefers to work in the daytime rather than at night. But in civilized society there must be night workers. w Britain person has its share and perhaps they are more numerous than mest residents imagine. at night. Unfortunately, not a day worker ever thinks of the hardships, that unnecesdary noises provide for the night worker who is trying to [sleep while the sun shines. THE § O §. DELAY It is being said for Captain Carey |of the Vestris that he could not have |delayed sending out an 8 O 8. call | for ten hours merely to save his em- i ployers a heavy charge for salvage. Says the Herald-Tribune: *. If subsequently, after sending out an /S 0 8. he had found he could re- pair and right his sbip and proceed | without assistance he could have countermanded the call without loss o his line. Claims for salvage’do not [hold ifi law unless the assistance | rendered is concrete.” | No one will ever know why Cap- tain Carey delayed sending out & radio call for help for ten hours. The | venerable skipper is past testifying. ,But regardless of what the Herald- {Tribune says, it is probable that |S 0 8. signals in case of threatened | disaster are delayed for salvage rea- sons. It is true, too, that counter- manding the signals avoids the sal- .vage charges; but such a counter- manded call might be used again: the captain’s record by his employ- ers. Captain Carey was to have been given command of a new ship In a short time. No one can say whether that didn’t weigh in his indecision. We are aware that there is wide- We are inclined to agree that the criticisms are justified. It yiclds a premium for delay; yet it is hard to ;’m;anng a captain who would place |human life in jeopardy on account of salvage damages. Men who at- tain eminence on the sea are not !built that way. But once in a while —who knows? HARSH WORDS “After years of sonorous silence {only punctuated now and then by the |utterance of some discreet inanity, { he (President Coolidge) suddenly de- [livered a sort of dying kick with a viclousness of which few people on | this side of the Atlantic would have supposed him capable. His armistice day speech was in effect a denunci- ation of Europe and all 1t5 works |New England backwoodsman. | ¥From the-“New Statesman,” of Lon- don, which printed a page long edi- torial entitled “Pecksniffian Guff.” Most of the “guff” on this subject is tohnd in the New Statesman and |sundry other British periodicals | which find fault with the American view, The thing that hurts the boys across the sea is the fact they were found out, discovered and exposed in the act of hatching\a secret naval understanding with France, That's what hurts. PROHIBITION IN NEW ZEALAND The *noble experiment” of pro- hibition in the United ‘Statcs con- tinues to be no guide to the thought- ful, selt-reliant dominions of the British Empirc—and the provinces within the dominions. The latest to scuttle the Prohibition ship has been New Zealand, which for three years had all it wanted of this moral issue. Back in 1925 the population of the islands voted dry—and the experi- | ment was begun. Why New Zealand | took this step in the first place has {never been adequately explained, as |it never had “American saloons,” the | hotel bars closed early, and licens limited. But almost all the | dominions seem to have been willing to try almost anything—once. New Zealand the other day, after three years of prohibition, voted for the old system of limited licenses. Of course, New Zealand—like the Canadian’ dominjons—did not make |the mistake of putting prohibition |into some organic law like a Consti- | tution. That isn't the British system: it is the system of fanatics who take an unfair advantage of their fellow- citizens during times of emotional- ism, gnd who are able to spend mil- lisns of propaganda | were money to achieve some,such permanent re- | |sult, ‘at least in theory. Some of the factories have night | shifts in some departments, and whenever that is the case “increas- ed prosperity” is moted for the fac- tories, as no plant would have a night force if it did not possess suf- ficlent work for the day force. More policemen night in th bus men labor by night; janitors are work by than day time; busy in the downtown buildings at night; watchmen must he night naturally employed; dozens of other industries are catering to the pub- throughout the Night more than ever regarding the night workers are complaining noises of the day. At a time when {hey must sleep they do not like to he awak ened by tooting horns, automobiles with their exhausts open, lumbering trucks making as much noise as pos- not to mention other noises unforfunately are a part of city life, the men who try to sleep during the day are hard put to get it. The ideal method would the country. be to live in “where it is quiet,” but there are other considerations about thiat which make even that boon im- | | possible ‘for most of them ing throughout the noises of the day trolley and | [Skull Indicates Mayan Links With Europeans Las Rochelle,. France, Nov. 17, () A stone covered with neolithin sculpture, discovered in the bed of ’Vh" estuary of the river Vie by a {1ocal antiqua Marcel Baudouin, Il the savants guessing. r among its ornamen relief representing a strongly of the as are its a human resembling an pre-Colombian found among the Maya hieroglyphics of Yuci- tan. Experts are quite at {to account for its origin and pre | ence on the shores of la Vendec Veiled Moslem Women Are Subject of Protest Baku, Caucasus, Nov. 17. (#—The 100l teachers of Baku have sub- mitted 4 petition to the central executive committec of the local soviet to forhid the wearing of veils by Mohammedan women. American epoch such a loss Mexico City Banishes | Beggars From Streets Mexico City, Nov 1 2 Mexi- jco City's streets ars t » | beggars. Inspector General of Po- |tice Rios Zertuche, holding that the y waifs, cripples and others who seek alms in the capital's constitute to the city, has ordered that they ha rounded up and sent to the public streets an eyesore spread criticism of the salvage law. | from the standpoint of a 100 per cent | cleared of | Fccts end Fancies is blow-out. A stranger in Chi one who thinks that was When money talks, it too fre- quently says: “Good-by, sucker.” We are an idealistic people and will'make any sacrifice for a cause that won't hurt business. 1f Nature is so grand, why didn’t she arrange a cut-off so food would quit tasting good when the tummy is loaded? Among the disappointments of a European trip is the discovery that real liquor tastes much like the ‘bootleg stuff. Still, the man who thinks he never makes mistakes usually thinks he made one when he selected his wife. All things are relative, and Sallie is a social leader in Podunk Center because her dad is in the State leg- E islature. | Awful thought: Planes flying far !inland during the next war can drop |cooties on noncombatants, It would be nice to have the tariff studicd by a commission qualified to be neutral about it, if Mars would lend us one. ¥ Americanism: Howling for free- dom; joining a book club to dodge the responsibility of selecting your own reading. Chairman: A sucker who is willing to do all the work in return for a little imaginary honor, 1t a stowaway'is a profitless one who has no business aboard, old earth is giving millions of them a ride. It's waste effort when lads of 19 turn criminal to get a thrill. There fsn't any greater thrill than being 19. 1 he uses his napkin to Wipe out his plate at a restaurant, people he- gan to call him a bachelor six years ago. If ten men are equally smart, and one is so astonished by his own smartness as to think the others should notice it too, he is a young intellectual. Some reformers remind us of the fact that Americans began to scorn land-grabbing after taking all they needed from the Indians. 014 Job remarked sarcastically to his friends that no doubt wisdom would dfe with them, so the wise crack isn't new. Note for school boys of the djs- tant future: They are different countrics; one is shaped like a bootleg-and the other merely func- [ tions like one. i - Correct this sentence: “One of her fellows 18 very rich and the other very poor,” said the mother, “but I don't try to Influence her.” Copyright, 1928, Publishers Syndicate- COMMUNICATED Makes Suggestion for Employment Editor, New Britain Herald: The “Facts and Fancies” of a re- cent Herald said this, “Uncle Sam |needs large cruisers that can range |far without coal. You see, most of [Wall Street's loans are made to Wouldn’t You Just Know It Was November? . Wild geese fly South on days like these, While tame ones, on the bleach- ers freeze. The “Debs” begin their soclal fling And sad-eyed poets write of Spring! Pretty, Pretty! Host's son: “Let me see your pret- ty penny,. will you?” Guest: “But I have penny, child.” Host's Son: “Yes you have. Pa said you made it out of the boot- legging business!"” —Mrs. Harry Burson no pretty THE l*‘()' SHOP NEWS WEEKLY Query “There is nothing thicker than blood,” declared the defeated presi- dential candidate the other day. Has he tried postoffice. ink? P Travelogue An explorer says that among some savage Indian tribes it is regarded as improper for a mother-in:law to speak to her daughter's husband. With such refinements of super- civilization it seems very unjust to | call them su\'a!es! .. Medical At St. Louis doctor was arrested after falling down two flights of stairs. He complains shaken before tal . of Len. . having been . Theater Chorus girls, we are tralned to dance inaudibly. This quality seems also to be en- couraged in their singing! . told, are . . Social Women, it is stated, have a keen sense of humor. The more you humor better they like it! them the Needlesst s: “So youwve torn.down the old sheep shed?" Hemslev: “Yes, I didn’t have any ewes for it! . - C. A. Cline® The most unscphisticated young man on record is the one who re- fused to eat onions before going to his first party in the younger fast set! His Father's Excuse! Four-year-cld Bobby and his mother often watched the mail air- plane pass over their isolated ranch in Wyoming. One day it was later than usua), and Bobby contemptuously remark- ed: “Probably some female airplane kept it from starting on time!" —Mirs. M. C. Smith GOTT UND KEMAL‘ By Thomas Adamson Folks, put the old record on the gramophone and listen to effenar Filip recount some facts about Con- stantinople! Helieve it or not the natives ot this burg are Regular Turks. Up to a few years ago they had harems (a disease resembling pyorrhea, lands fay away.” I think this thought7 that is, four out of five had it!), \is worthy of more thought. This United States of America {sends her money outside to promote |prosperity in other countries when {there are millions of men unem- Iployed in this country. Our country may be prosperous as a whole, as the Republicans have just finished telling us, but nevertheless, there s much room for more prosperity. Now that winter is coming on the farmers will need much less help, the automobile industry will slow down, building operations will be slower, ete, Why send domestic capital outside the country when so many men are unemploycd here? Why can't some industry be created to absorb these unemployed men by using this money which is being loaned to other countries? So far as 1 can see, these loans to other countries only > hard feelings between these and the United States. We ady seen the attitude of some of the countries towafd us, referring to lock and a mioney grabher, among their people, off the press. probably as a bunch of crooks and | . The least they say or said |is that we want to control them, {body and soul, demanding a pound of flesh as Shylock demanded it of Antonio. So far as 1 know, our loans were made in good faith, dealing with these countrics in a consid- erate,*business like way, as one hon- est man would deal with another. What is the scnse of making other !countries feel against your country as you would not want an individval to feel toward you? We teach his- tory in schools o that our s¢ our children will profit by the mistakes | lof our foref | T cant why so much of our money goes out of our coun- try when it is not ary. We understand have plenty of men here to do the | | work, plenty of resources in our country fo start anything, and peo- ple to absorb the industry who have the money 1o pay for these products. Most' people of |the United States have a sense of squareness but charity should begin at home. We have the b world under {tion; the best better wages; ;e it can't Our people st country in the most any considera- working conditions: the richest—most but what is the reason be better? Much bet- | ter. have spirit, energy {and common sense. Why not use it to better And J don't [eonsider buiding new warships a ble way v angd ene eve | that advant mo il of . There are hetter our country as a Shy- and | preducts of our | consuming that | but they passed a law against them, and today harems are about as popular in Turkey as gin and beer are in this country! It was here - that old joke about “that wasn't my husband, that was another Fezzer,” originated. Turkey and this country, have much in common. In Turkey, if the husband gets tired of the wife, he puts her out. In this country, he puts her out, and how! . The, city was formerly the capitol of the Ottoman Empire, but some- bydy mustaphas got their Angora. 1t i8 located on the Posporus. The Bosporus is an alimentary canal | cannecting the Black Sea with its |appendix, Marmora. We could keep on giving you data lixe this, but it might get us into deep’ water. The Bosporus Keeps Asia from touching Europe. Europe e to touch, but doesn’t like to bg | touchea! Never mind the noise, Effendi, it is that Stamboul loose again. the old Sultan said, *T . Allah, my kingdom for a “You are too fatima.” the bold Saracen replied, nonchalantly / Kiss- ing the Sultana! If Well-Known Remarks Were Hlustrated “His Pants.” Breath T'm a want somebody that pa H. Moseley . first-class pax and——" AsWwas a large, mustapha | cat with handsc If the bitlical story of the bar- ley loaves and fishes could be re- peated in this city, but instead of edibles the basket would give forth a limitless stock of fire \department pasitions and lieutenancies, four citl- zens who today displayed the gold badge of fire board members might once again return to the pursuits by which they make their daily bread and might once again enjoy a few ‘minutes of rest or a squint at the evening paper. Only a commissioner, or one who has at some time been on a fire board when a vacancy has occurred in the department, has the slight- est conception of the buttonholing a board member receives in the in- terests of candidates. Having been appointed to the board for the express purpose of conducting its business and pre- sumed therefore to have at least a smattering of personal knowledge of the department and its.personnel, it | should not ‘be’ unreasonable .to- sup- pose that the board ‘members: might be in the best position to make the selections. Perhape:they are, but dis- cussion with:members ‘'of the pres- that they are not wanting for ad-' visers. A telephone call comes. “This is such-and-such, Commissioner, will it be possible for me to see you for a minute today?” The commissioner grits his teeth and makes the ap- pointment, knowing full well he's about to get “the ‘business” on the qualifications of this candidate or that condidate. Half an hour of that day already budgeted to something that will propably accomplish noth- ing. gl‘he, candidate himself. I don't like to bother you, but, etc., etc.” The commissioner listens and when he gets through he wonders if it wouldn't be in the interest of ef- ficlency and economy to fire all present members of the department and appoint this individual to han- dle all fires alone. Well, I'm glad to see you on the board; now efficiency will be recog- nized," being another, Nine times out of ten, recognition of efficiency would put him out of the ‘running without question Then comes the candidate who takes half an hour or more to tell how incfficient the other candidates are. So vigorous is he in his condem- nation of his colleagues that he for- gets to set forth a single argument in his own favor. There are also the candidates who can spend an hour telling of his work at this fire or that. He plunged with absolute disregard for life or Mmb into the blazing building and did his work! Dramatic, to be sure, but exactly what the city pays him for. Then there's the old school mate who seeks support on that ground, brother, the neighbor or the steady customer in a commissioner's busi- ness; there’s a million and one rea- sons why each of 12 candidates for the ‘one lieutenancy should receive it. and the same condition exists with reference to the positions as regular firemen, where 23 men are out for three positions. Some are bound to be disappointed. Some will be furiously angered. Some will de- cide there's no justice in the world, while others will immediately lay plans to change their political party registration. The commissioners will make four friends and lose forty— and the sad feature of it from the commissioners standpoint is that, by all the ruies of the game, they will be contronted with the same prob- lem dozens of times hefore the news- papers on an April afternoon come out with a two column head, read- ing: City Hall Shake-up Begins; Fire Board Comes Under Axe Absence of Stray Cat Grieves West End Family Out of a mysterious obscurity “Bunter” appeared, and back to un- known mystery he has returned. He was “only a cat,” hut he was un- usual in many respects and for the weeks during which he was known to the families in a west end nelgh- borhood he endeared himself to [them. And now he is gone, no one | knowing where or how. Bunter first appeared to his tem- porary friends during the late sum- mer. Apparently deserted by some family which had gone away, he gaunt, gray Maltese 10 white markings and sober eyes. He was in a half- famished condition and begged for food at houses along the street, but he did it in a dignified way and would riot attempt to bolt across the threshold unless invited. For sev- eral days he met with rebuffs but finally one family admitted him and furnished him with some milk. After that Bunter appeared regu- darly at the house every day at meal They Shall Not Pass ed” Osterboom, Kale's star rterback, prepared to make the uss! Our hearts were Would it be good? it? It was only a seemcd as hours. lifatime! Not a sound was heard from the spectators. The players were tensed veady for the big montent. The sus- pense of a nerve-racking moment! Then “Red” threw—a wild mo- ment. Was it good? Did he make it? All eyes were upon the clump of tangled players. The dice wobbled, three—nine— jand settled at seven, ted” had wone Kale! in our throats. Could he make cond but it The thrill of a for dear old —A. E’ Burr The Wise Guy! First Cigarette Lighter: “I know 1 don’t always succeed, but 1 try to maintain a reputation for dependa- ond Cigarette Lighte where vou're wrong. old fellow, that in the case of women, anyway. ‘em guessing, that's my sys- “That’s A. E. Cristy. and there's the political or fraternal | (Copyright. 1 Reproduction Forbidden) time and had milk, special food lavished upon once again his flanks firm. He found faver homes in the meighberheed, but was this particular apartment whic! he made his particular home. possessed exceptional and reserve for & cat. He »0 compenionship and the company of the membery family, stretching himsels- out af their feet or following them as they moved around the But he did not eajoy being or played ‘with. He would p! himaelf for hours, but the appearcd as soon as am fered and he would soon truder as warning that he wa be let alone. Yet he was nof surely and would be perfectly ecom: tent as long as someens was Bear him. When it was feeding time he would sit up and beg like a dog, and he was scrupulously careful not to allow food scraps to slip off the paper on which his dishes were placed. é ‘Tn.a nearby home he found an. other large cat, a beautiful Persian of adlvanced years but undiminished gility, and Bunter and Frits passed ent board, would convince gnyo! lq#:' a pleasant hour together. re was a small kitten in another house, and Bunter paid reguiar calls there every day, spending hour after hour playing with the tiny feline and good naturedly allowing himsel? to be batted about by the youngster. Then one day, as if he knew some arduous or fateful event were im- pending. Bunter virtually gorged himself with food, eating more heavily even than during his first semi-starved days. That night he was missing, and he has not been seen since. Many persons admired him ‘as they passed the house and one of them may have stolen him. He may have been run over by an automobile. He may have found the family to which he originally be- longed and returned to them. No one has solved the riddle of his dis- appearance. But behind him he left a little community group of people and ani- mals who felt that without Bunter something of perfect happiness was| lacking. And- especially was this sense of loneliness apparent in the small kitten, who for days waited for Bunter to re-appear and would dash expectantly to the door when- ever he heard a meow, only to turn away in complete disinterest and de- jection as he discovered that the mewing cat was not Bunter. Many Radio Fans Aunoyed By Reallocation of Stations The past week has been a period of distress in the radio broadcasting field through the reallocation of broadcasting stations, according to many radio fans who, since Sunday when the order first went into ef- ect, have tried in vain to make something out of the perplexing sit- uvation, The average radio fan owns an average priced radio set and has been in difficulty since Armisticc Day. It was thcught that the first day or two would result in confu- sion among radio owners because of the change of wave-lengths and thereafter receiving would be as good as before, or better, as prophe- side by those who were optimistic enough to believe that the realloca- tion would benefit broadcasting. To the dismay of many, however, as the days pass on, conditions do not seem to improve and the average fan with the average radio set wonders if after all the old system wasn’t the better. There are others who are .nder the impression that the new order has benefited the broadcasting game and refute statements to the con- trary stating that many of the sta- tions which never before could be gotten, come through without the slightest difficulty and with leas in- terferemye. Opinion is divided, as a number of owkers of expensive sets | © complain that even nearby stations like WTIC, Hartford; WBZ, Spring- field; WEAF, New York; and WGY, Schenectady, heretofore coming through clearly can be scarcely heard. One person owning a set of the most expensive kind has not been able to get WEAF, WBZ, WJZ and KDKA at times, while prior to the change these same stations came in without the least bit of difficulty. Complaints are many and vary and the radio fan is wondering what the ultimate result will be, at the same time expressing mno little criticism of the federal commission's order and the cutting out of some of the nation’s programs. The air is filled with turbulent ether waves, while the irate radio fan expresses iittle appreciation of the new order. Carbon Manoxide Caused By Autos and Gas Heaters With the coming of cold weather many people run to cover behind closed doors—-closed windows and even in closed garages—not because cold air is a menace to health, bt hecause it interferes with one's per- sonal comfort. B With the coming of cold weather, to, the automobile engine fails to start quickly and so the time spent in the garage preparatory to making the morning exit is considerably lengthened and thereby proves disas- trous to one who does his engine coaxing in a closed garage. 3 Idling an engine to warm it in a closed one-car garage may so dan- gerously contaminate the air of that garage as to be fatal to life in from five to ten minutes, the state board of health says in a bulletin. 8o take warning and open your garage doors before starting your car even if the thermometer is near the zero mark. Exhaust gases from automobiles contain a certain percentage of car- bon monoxide which if allowed ‘to accumulate in a closed garage takes a heavy toll of life because the per- son who breathes it has no warning of its insidious nature. This gas is coloriess and odorless and so gives no indication of its deadly mature until the victim is found—oftentimes to late for rescue measures. Deaths from carbon monoxide are due to asphyxiation, just as in drowning. This gas when breathed, rapidly unites with the hemoglobin i ! b i i i fitgy i - - o iy #l i i £ h i ind ] ¥ banked -without sufficient air; fe tunately other gases escaping at.the %0 the condition before tragedy occurs. Not so with gas heaters or burners, howevey Water heaters are often dangerous because carbon monoxide when the flame touches a cool sur- face, and may also happen in gas ral it the flame is turned so high that the blus edne touches the vessel placed over it thus shutfiag out the air which it is necessary to combine with in order to give com- plete combustior Tragedies have been reporte from the use of gas heaters ‘in closed rooms where the heater Was no connection with an exhaust pipe. Occasionally such tragedies happen during zero weather, at night with windows closed, the victim breathing ik deadly carben menoxide gas and never sees the light of day. et Education W Resalts Greatest in City’s History New PBritain parents and teachers are justified in feeling elated at the success of the National Education week in this city. Bchool authorities report that in- interest reached the highest point ever attained here. Newspapermen who covered meetings of school as- sociations corroborate these reports. Attendance at meetings has bsen large, the programis have. been. fn- teresting, the speakers have been very much to the “point ° and the teachers feel well repaid. for their efforts in arranging the gatherings. Under fire- for several years on the charge that they have indulged in extravagances, school commis- sioners have continyed to give this city the best of théir efforts. They have set & high tdeh] and have stuck to their guns. gome of the ava- lanche of criticism has begn in the nature of honest dimgreement; some has been for the purpose of making political capital. The latter should have no place in the life of the mu- nicipality. Education week is a fikture go far as New Britain. is; col ned. The education system woald' be better it the interest excited during the week could be spread over the school year but one week alone produces beneficial results which cohtribute | immeasurably to the pregress of the schools and to the happiness of teachers and children. 25 Years Ago Today - George Kron received a severe ankle fnjury in a basketball game in Waterbury Tuesday night. ‘The hospital authorities have sent a bill for §7 to Chief Rawlings for use of the 'ambulance, but the claims committee has refused” to approve it and there is a squabble over whether the city or the town is liable. New Britain High won the Trin- ity cup this afternoon by defeating Meriden at Electric Field by 22 to 0. Flannery scored two touchdewns and Chamberlain and Roche one h. Mayor Bassett and Selectman Prior of Plainville had a force of special policemen on hand. Final score: Yale 16, Har- vard 0. G The Emmett club will celebration this évening memoration of the martyrs. Tonight at the Russwin Lyceum: “No Wedding Bells for Her.” The Traut & Hine Mfg. Co. has purchased the property of John J. Quilty at North Stanley and Smalley streets and will hold it in reserve for future building. New Britain High school has been taken from the Mist of schoels trom which scholars are admitted by cer- tificates to New England colleges. Principal Akers thinks the decision is unfair. Observations On The Weather Washington, Nov. 17.—Forecast for Southern New Englan In- creasing cloudiness Saturday fol lowed by showers Saturday after- noon or night; Sunday rain and colder, Forecast for Eastern New York: Cloudy with rain in north and cen- tral portions Saturday and in ex- tremq south portion Saturday after- noon or night; Sunday rain and colder. Conditions: Pressure is high from the Atlantic and east Gulf states eastward over the western Atlantic ocean, and over the Cana- dian maritime provinces and from Ontario southwestward to Seuth Dakota and it is abnormally high and rising over the north Pacific states. The Oklahoma disturbance will move northeastward and it will be attended by rains over all sections east of the Mississippl river within the next 36 hours. However, the weathér will remain generally fair along the Atlantic coast until Satur- day in the Washington forecast @is- trict. but there will be a change to considerably colder weather in the lower lake region, the Ohio valley. Tennessee and the east Gulf states Baturday night and in the Atlantic states during Sunday and Sunday night, hold o in com- Manchester