New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 1, 1928, Page 2

ANDY JAS TO0TH PULLED N SECTIONS Deatist Was a Piece Worker, He Believes (Contributed) Dear Mary Ann: Am sorry I couldn’t take you to the talkies the other night and will explain so's you won't think I was ill en account of having too much turkey. It was an aching tooth that kept me away and if there's anything that bothers a fella more than a sore tooth it's another just like it. Anyways I'm holding into my jaw and trying to kid myself that the pain would leave without doing anything about it when my old pal Noah Count calls and sug- gests that T visit his brother, who is a dentist practising on the third floor of the big building on our street, and have the tooth yvanked. We arrives and after getting in- troduced I tells the dentist I've got| a tooth located away back in left| fleld or some place and would like to have it pulled all the way out. I climbs into the chair and after he| sees the cause of my being there he! injects some stuff to deaded the nerves and which made one side of my jaw feel like it did last Saturday All night, up to closing time at 12 o'clock, the birds were played for. Dice and cards, played by hundreds in every saloon, decided the ques- tion of ownership and finally the lights went out and the happy win- ners, turkeys under their arms, wended their way homeward, prob- ably not bothering to figure the cost of their winning until a day er two later. Some of them knew they had won, while others only thought so, depending entirely upon the individ- ual capacity for the beer and liquor of that day, and the degree of cau- tion exercised as everyone “set 'em up” in Keeping with the treating practice in vogue. Policemen of never forget the that holiday raffles. | Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's were the outstanding occas- ions for the flipping of the dice for the big prizes, and year in and year out the squawking of the gobblers and the ¢loquent arguments of their winners holding forth under street lights at every corner along the wauy home, comprised the accepted night carol of the season. Chase After Prize Pigs Ducks, chickens and pigs were also raffled in the saloons, and many a veteran patrolman can recall the chase after fat porkers released by mischict makers from the custody of their winners just as the homeward journey was started. Up one street and down another, into back yards and over fences, sometimes a dozen or more men went in hot pursuit of a frightened pig which had been won and bought back and won over at the football game when it got in the way of some bimbo's celebrating fist. “This won't hurt you,” grins Noah, handing his brother the for- | ceps, or pliers. T says nothing and | ‘Not much.” The way he' sald that “not much” cheered me | np the same way a life sentence! does the guy tha sraight and narrow path, “Another underfed wiscerack like that," T tells Noah, “and you'll wish | vou had 4-wheel brakes so's you | could stop in time to prevent tum- bling down a flight of stairs after I| bounces you outa the office in your | cars.” The dentist grips the pliers, | the pliers grip the tooth. 1 grips! Toth arms of the chair so tightly that they developed body squeaks, opens my face a little wider like | wheh I'm vawning on all cylinders, braces my hoofs on the foot-rest so heavily that Noah remarks some thing about I thinks I'm behind the steering wheel of a flivver. and breathes a silent prayer that the dentist would do his stuff without | stirring up any more painful memo- rics than necessary. I A strong pull, complete with a| right and loft turn, makes me realize that every Nttle movement has a meaning all its own and just | as I'm about to let out a yell never heard at colleges the tooth is out (%0 T thought). “Wow,” I mumurs, | losing no time getting outa th | chalr, “that was a fough baby.” | “Wait a second vs the dentist, | “the tooth broke and I've only got half of it.” T looks at him dumbly and tells him I'm for calling it a day but changes my mind and walks | back to the chair as happily as the guy who's sweetic jilted him for the fifth and last time as T realizes the raspberries 1'd get if T told anybody | again a hundred or more times in a night. Hardly less comical, from the viewpoint of all but the victim, was the joke perpetrated by fasten- ing the legs and head of a chicken to a wooden block so that when wrapped in paper the bundle had the appearance of a fine pullet. The skidded from the | cwner, if he was not careful, thought | I he was carrying home the bird he | had won, (some winners preferring to have the prize killed), only te tind on opening the hundle that someone had substituted the decoy and walked off with the holiday din- ner.” “Men about town” in that period can recall numerous characters whose personality and little pecul- farities probably will never be du plicated. They scemed to be in a class by themselves, possessed of friendships they would not lose for money or realty, still rated as poor laccording to the appraisal of their |cally, head of the fellows. Some of them were habitues of the saloon, while their appearance more or less fre quently, but all of them, it seemed, were on hand when the birds we heing pla ing the games seriously, they entered into the spirit of the pl with nothing in mind but the desire to win, and the way they thumped the table as they sighted an ace in full view as the swung “the best trump” was traditional in every saloon. As practically every saloon had its champion, so did each champion have his temperament. Known to all the players were the “lucky” men, making up a class to whom the goods cards seemed always to be dealt, especially at times when the phize hung on the next hand. In the dice games, too, some had hut to shake the box and spill out the period will | POLISH STUDENTS WL LINK CLUBS New Britain Residents Active in Oldest Society of Kind Of interest to the Polish people of this city and especially to those | who are interested in the education- |al progress of their children is the | formal announcement of a congress |of Polish students’ clubs which will take place December 27 and 28 at the Polish National Alliance college in Cambridge Springs, Pennsylvania. The purpose of this meeting will be to link all the students’ clubs in the varlous centers of education into one federation for the purpose of foster- ing good-will and friendship among ents in the American colleges and uriversities. Although not gencrally known, | Connecticut Poles and representa- |tives of the Polish race in New Britain have piayed a great part in the forming of one of the cldest and | largest student organizations in the cast. Back in 1915 a small group of students in the various institu- {tions in Boston got together and conceived the idea of forming a club. They all were members of different college organizations, but felt that in time their numbers would grow and an organization for | the purpose of fostering good fellow- ship would be essential, an organ- ization where students of Polish ex- traction could asscmble and discuss | problems of mutual interest and en- deavor. It was not an easy task in the beginning to make the students understand the necessity of such a club, but us time went on and each school had a representative in the club, work went on more evenly |and the circle began to expand. | Other citics followed the footsteps |and today Polish student bodies are crganized and incorporated in fully a dozen educational centers of | America, | " Among those who first conceived | the idea in Boston were Dr. B. Lu- !tecki, at present on the staff of the | Isolation hospital in Hartford; Prof. | Stephen Mierzwa, well known lo- department of Drake university, cconomics at Kosciuszko Foundation in New York. As years went by, the member- ship of the club increased till in 1924-25 the club numbered nearly 100 active members, students in the \difterent institutions in Boston and lenvirons. Oddly enough, during these same years, the New Britain contingent was perhaps the strongest jof all, and Connecticut was the best |represented outside of Massachu- | |setts. B. A. Grzybowski, at present auditor of the City National bank. | |was president of the club in 1923 24 and during his presidency the club showed a considerable increase {in membership. Membars of the lo- [cal contingent always figured on committecs and were active at all (times in working for the building T only had courage enough to get wp il T o N e pest score of the |up of the club. Among those who half a tooth pulled. “Year,” grins Noah, “what's your | hurry?” “I suppose,” 1 nswers witheringly, handing him such a | freezing glance that you could al-| most ice skate on it, he audience | liked the performance and 1 gotta | do an encore.” I opens my face again and is all set for the agony when & slight yank which didn't hurt me any more than i you'd| massaged me with the business end | of & broom brings out the rest of the tooth for which I was thankful and the dentist 2 berries richer. Well, Mary, when T calls on you to- night wWith a white shirt sleeve wrapped around my jaw to hide the swollen part I hope you'll recognize me and not wallop me over the bean with a table leg on account of thinking I'm an Arabian sheik or something fresh from the desert. ANDY DALE. HOLIDAY RAFFLFS DI WITH SALOON night, while others were known to stand around all night without com- ing within striking distance of a creditable mark. Custom Once Popular Here Ended by Volstead Law One of the good old practices of the days before the public saloons were legislated out of be rveplaced by the “blind which are described in the tiger: courts viry frequently, has been missed in | November for the past several years, and as there secins to be go prospect of its return, the probabifity is that | the only pleasure the youths of the tising gencration can hope to derive trow it is to listcn to their elders tell of it and probably sigh because it is no more. Thanksgiving turkey raffles, the prizes being won in dice and card games, were the events of the 11th month of the vear, and regardless of what else took place the eve of the great holiday, t loous were sure to be crowded as the hirds went out of the show windows and into the waiting arms of the win- ners. Awarding turkeys by drawing off tickets, purchased in advance in stores and from members of lodges fastering the raifles, is tame and un- exciting wl ever the outcom ac- cording to the old timers who leaned against the bar all evening and well into the night, sometimes winning a bird or two, and often coming away empty-handed. Turkeys In Saloon Windows A week or two in advance Thanksgiving witnessed the prepar- ations, much to t delight of the small boys who spent hours in front of the saloon windows watching the Kking gobblers strutting back and forth in suwdust. apparently cblivi- ous to the fate aiting them only a short time off. The saloons on Main street, Lafayette street, Hart- tord avenue, Broad street, East Main strect and several other locations, well known to the men of drinking habits of that day, made it a big event and it was with an « 10 bus iness that the proprietors w thefp plans. laying in a ply of free lunch and that the card tables wers equipped, the better to insure pleasant evening for the patrons of . stence to est our | | Just | once Among the new- family is Dr. George H. Bodley, who has gave much of their time to bring (ing together Polish students and |organizing them in a strong educa- ;l\onnl circle were B. A. Grzybo 19. additions to professional upstairs Reception had Room 606 fitted up. By partitioning the original space in half, Dr. Bod- ley provided a commodious reception room in the south and a consultation room on the north contain- ing dressing and sterilizing rooms. economical and convenient. " THE COMMERC TRUSTCO (EWBRTAN iy Al the many hundreds of Polish stud-| who Dbesides being president, was vice president, secretary, editor of the monthly publication and served on many committees; Attorney Mar- tin F. Stempien, Dr. Henry Ciessyn- ski, Dr. B. Slyss, W. Bens, Leo Waskelewicz, the Misses Helen and Genevieve Cleszynski and Leopold Krzysak. The club at present has a mem- bership of approximately 60 and an alumni of about 300, busides honor- ary members including such person- |ages as Ignace J. Paderewski, Gen- {eral Joseph Haller, Prof E. Nowak. | Ambassador J. Clechanowskl and others. The club numbers among its present members and the alumnl, men and women from all parts of the country, a large number in Eu- rope and a member in Charbin, | China, who incidentally is also one of the organizars of the club. In recent years the club began & | move for the organization of a fed- |eration and together with the Po- lish University club of Philadelphia conceived the idea of getting repre. sentatives from the different clubs to ‘get together in Cambridge Springs. Miss Genevieve Cieszynski iof this city is one of the members of the committee which s working on the proposition, and among the clubs represented are those of the University of Pennsylvania, Pitts- burgh, Syracuse, Michigan, Wiscon- isin and the Chicago, Illinois and | Northwestern of Chicago. AERIAL GAM—GE First of Its Kind in England Estab- Hshed at Reading Reading, Dec. 1 (UP)—Relleved to be the first of its kind in Great Britain, Reading is to have an air varage with lock-ups for private owners. It will also have a quick gasoline service, repair shops where all spare parts will be in stock, and a depot for planes flying westward from the continent. ‘Work on the lock-up hangars will be begun this month, and it is ex- pected that the “garage” will be ready for opening in the spring. In addition. a service of air-taxis will be run. There will also be school for flying, and sight-seeing tours a lar chars-a-banc. DRAMA WITH EGGS | Wilwaukee, Wis, Dec. 1 (UP)— | Charged with selling storage eggs as tresh from the farm with the aid of {a character actress, rural costumes others made | Jowa and at present secretary of the | ang farm props, Herman Spalding, | head of a produce company here, {has been arrested for violation of | state health laws. A health department inspector | found, Mrs. Mary Chapple, 50, sell- ing cggs at a south side green | market. On her truck was scrawled “Farm Products” in quaint lettering, She was dressed in heavy shoes, bluo | gingham and other pastoral effects. But the eggs were months from | a hen, tests showed. Under questioning the woman ad- | mitted that she had been hired by Spalding to give the proper atmos- phere and obtain high prices for his wares, | DRINKING GIRLS “AMAZING” | Gary 1Ind, Dec. 1 (UP)—Per- haps the most amazing thing about this country is the capacity of the American girl in consuming bad liquor, Baron von Hirschfield-Hagel- berg of Germany sald during a visit | here. Pardon Us, But—May We Introduce Our Office Tenants? George H. Bodley, M. D. QUERATIONG ANSWERKD You can get an answer to any question of fact or Information by writing to the Questinz Kditer. New Britain Herald. Washington Burean 1123 New York avenne. Washington D. C., encioeing twe cents In stamps for reply. Medical. lega! and marital advice cannot be given. nor can ex- tended rescarch be undertaken. Al other questionr will receive 8 ner- sona) reply. Unsigned requests can- not be answered. All letters are con- Adential.—Tiditor. Q. s there any law compelling an elector to vote for the candidates of his party? A. " No. But to Keep faith with the people who elected them they always do so. The only exception occurred in 1320 when ope of the Monroe electors voted against Presi- dent Monroe on the ground that no president except George Washington, should receive & unanimous election. All the other votes in the electoral college went for Monroe. Q. In the presidential election of 1920 did Mr. Hoover recelve any votes on the democratic ticket? A. In 1920 Mr. Hoover received the support of $03.213 voters in ten states in republican presidential primaries and 24.367 voters in democratic presidential primaries in three states. Mr. Hoover, however, did not receive any votes in the presidential election, as he was not a candidate. Q. 1s sulphuric acid used much commercially? A. Directly or indirectly it fis used in hundreds of industries upon which the comfert, prosperity and progress of mankind depend. It is used in the manufacture of other mineral acids, and many organic acids. It is essential in one process of manufacturing sodium carbonate. Enormous quantities are consumed in making artificial fertilizers, alum, ritroglycerine, glucose, phosphorus, bleaching ,electroplating, refining and metallurgy. Q. Why is a football field called a “gridoron”? A. The name gridiron was given to a foolball field because, viewed from the grandstand, the markings make it look like a gridiron, Q. Where is the blue scal on United States paper money imprint- ed on the bills? A. At the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, Washington, D. C., where the money is printed. Q. Under what act are Chinese and Japanese prohibited admission to this country? A. Bection 13.C of the Tmmigra- tion Act of 1924 prohibits the ad- mission into this country of Chinese, Japanese an dother immigrants who are not eligible to American citl- zenship. ! Q. How many Lithuanians are | there in the United States? To Dr. Bodley D Consultation We Furnish: Heat Partitions Electric light Good neighbors Central location Janitor service Owner management Fi Hot With an abundance of fresh air and light from the west Dr. Bodley has, we believe, a layout that is at There's an equally suitable layout here for your par- ticular needs. re-proof ‘construction and cold running water An attractive building entrancze Abundant daylight and fresh air Courteous ¢levator service by unj- formed operator A. According to the last census' there were 135,068, Q. When were the first watches made? A. Very early in the 16th cen- tury. Peter Hele, the clock maker of Nuremburg, Germany, is usually credited with the invention. Q. Did Kentucky and Missouri go republican or democratic in the election of 1924? A. They went republican. Q. Who is the present national commander of the American Legion? A. Paul V. McNutt. Q. Who controls the Salt River irrigation project? A. The project has been turned over to the Salt River Valley Water Users Association, C. C. Cragin, manager, Phoenix, Arizona. Q. How does the wheat praduc- tion of the United States compare with that of Canada? A. Preliminary 1927 figures by the Department of Agriculture show wheat production for the United Btates, 871,691,000 bushels; Canada, 444,282,000 bushels, | Q. What state produces the most | wheat and corn? A. North Dakota, wheat; Towa, corn, . Q. How was the scale of the Fahrenheit thermometer arrived a A. In 1714 Fahrenheit con- structed the thermometer which bears his name, using three fixed points for the division of the scale. 666 is a Prewcription for | Colds, Grippe, Flu, Dengue. | Bilious Fever and Malaria. | 1t is the most speedy remedy known. & diameter or- More that eC:the sen.: GRANDMOTHER OF 38 ‘West_Polat, Neb., Deav 1 (UP)=— Mra Catheripe Straman of this eity the thermometer on the mouth or| Was & grandmother for the $3rd in the armpit of & &-umy man, and ' tile recently when & daughter was holding it there unfll it acquired tha | bern ‘to her youngest son and temperoaure of the body. He then | daughter-in-law. divided the distance between , the melting point of ice, 33 degrees, and T TS R the bolling point of water, 213 de- grees, into 180 degrees or half the number of degrees in a circle, Q. Is our son one of the largest of the stars? A. Our sun is comparatively an insignificant star; there are many stars enormously greater than the sun. 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