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This insuies pio tection agatnet fraud 1n new: dis iution figures to both nath local advertisers o New Times he Herald 1s on eals dally York at Hotaling's Square: Behulte's New Grand Ceptral, 420d 8 THE MAYOR'S COMMUNIQUE HLREWITH CONSIDERED The with one of our editorials tion is found elsewhers mayor takes issus His communics and to sho that the spark of good fellowship is running rampant in this effice we call particular attention to it and hope all readers will carefully In the editorial we gave the credit for putting up one fective fights and nearly winning 1. We make no bones about ing with the mayor about his thesis regarding the high project, but i ment or some tending upset our own I Join his side. He hasn't done this of last Thursday considerable | mayer of his ef- disagres cchool building sty now and here that n produce fignres an argu- 10| | the mayor thesis we'll glad in ! | tion, particular however, and if he others the columins of paper are wide open to him The mayor says that if closer touch city hall we would know three Demiocral licans voted against him on the ligh school’ That statement with communic wishes to sond this news- the in tor with deings at why and some Lot issue only leaves us suspicions o work Let the mayor he miore on. specifie. Ly the way, we tock up that Stankey Works matter yestorday, and it there v hoonr Th bt are other seerots like to own it any have them to compir | wayor gives it as lis the had 1o the fly betieves it would vote if public an oppor- | ity votn on question he winst the high school project. 13ut that 15; 1t be curpent beliof that Al Qur belied is wrong onty a bel may as wiong us the lately Which Suith is that some of us ared, wonld be elucicd yor's beliet 1he ma ou this subject, As 1o whut m¢ dstruction: The Lincoln, 1t vell. Nathan Hale and Vance build- ings. And we would includ. cd lvonstruction to be sandwiched in between the nt buildin masquerading senior high schipol and making it into a modern plant, including torium guch as moderny high schools wean by propos two pr as a a modern audi- iovariably possess The Toopevelt sciiool was used cither school or s a jynior hizh, make the w? possilile wnore, Now it is not proposed to s it built to an o elomentary i to it cost it as a juntor higl, on ing that would b older huildings form reason elenentaey pupils using foveed dtend at is @ matter for ' the Tioard Fduc clected by citizo s Does the myor record as drisi 1 tary pupils “hool to chool p think this with their paronis parents of of 1ise 1ot whot tra ditiens now st acilities a1 liovs it even that is op. way, it at fur ) 10 det ' of the t i<h foo jon to this matter; that's The on whieh dacsn \ mayor wr at all talking « cent of seliool pirpo This bt neglects 1o « it his porcantae for him 1 and manner that will open to doubt Superintendont o peaking hefore November 8 39 per cent of the went 0 the school depart actual in 3809 atated Agure the on tax co wodern | shecl, 50 We suppose the quoted 39 was® a tyvographical error.) There s a difference 38.09 and 48.35, and the reason for | this @ifivrence is what the mayor, we think, should have ta explain. But in {ment each side, quite humanly per- between n care 1o this school argu- | haps. is trying to win en points and |like lawyers do not say too W | | mueh propose to fill in the gaps The school appropriation for March the fiseal year Aprit 1, 1928, to 1929, $1.210 coent is whicl 3809 of the city's tax money. what it sdministration, This is costs to run the schools - liries But the | He wayor gocs ineludes il [tomarily are King and such thing eus- applicd to capital ount The ol of following is printed upon the | A Hsconnt' 81 Londs I school lool ments on bt to (pplisa on these amounts ' 4 ol Ippropriation ) « total appropriation chaol P {5 department £48.150 whol o1 per The that the money on capital account a going to maintain the schools This is Mis privilege and fhe But it 18 not priviles anyone wishing 1o way. so figured i other ities and 15 not so Dgured n cor mon business affair mobile from the 1ayer tance, Would V interest o b on fime h Jements o and them e ‘eredited to the cost of operating OF suppose o man Lo i the through a mottza menthly payments to aniortiz structire would o probably 1 what he woild have to pay a could he ¢ e cost o taining th this question Wi f Maody, lead of th put ) Mool Spenditure ital ount as part of ntoas of operation My Moody* el trneons 1 be looked Moody up e Books, usinz acknowl authori Having done not operatic Tl It mder the othier Teading I Vst from in ot capifal eharges as part o e it tenanes, OF course, Ul el sonr Dinlysis e Uik s ut” with to mis waintenine outliys capital ayor ofore Superintend My stanece that to inelud Holnes, Holims 18 part of th lools is uot il Ahro country declared to regard i | eosts Dininistration as those including the usual syst eyt D addied | h Al of whi it witl, BOLIVIA AND PARAGUAY Ilonor and dignity stand as high Andes in Bolivia and the populace—{hrec out of four of those who work being cmployed as car- | as the riers in licu of rallFyads—secms quite wiliing for a cnange in occu- pation, “We want war,” is reported cry, and as Para- next door 1o be the popular guay happens fo Lo a Lor and oue not strong ciough 10 offer resistance totalling more than a wporting chance for surcess. the yoll 1s to declare war gnd put the neizhbors in their place. The Bolivia is not i reason for the supertension in ir o seck. Troops of 1o two nations had a few disagi the border, and such as exists seems stretehed wents on diploncy to the breaking point it the Bolivia canuot afford a war. mortgaged to Trrenspon- stands virtually Enited bl Lorrowed States interests, governnents of the past have sums that the Lo paid off Its high plateans wational cannot ithin a. e ¥ 30,000 1 i second e rich anually—the lirgest produetion. awned outlet to fhic in producing tons world’s Once the nation Tacific, an bt Chili fought a war over it and now nitrate fields along this 1 from Teru, as weil owns the zreat i also the coust, was duing war that Chili obtained Tarap: Arica and Tacna is the region of Autofagasta from the helpless Bolivians | §9 1t into two parts, | n 100 had constitutions. vears has Folitia three dictators and hivided by Leantifnl natur: lowlands and almost inac- | cessible plateans, where tinis abund- 0t Its eitizenry is composed ‘of a nall | deseent® ruling class The spanish ruling class panish Indians living in peonage. sim of the 1o the Indians low down. last keep ) ibortive revolt year, when | 060 Balf-stary prons tried to ! was quelled sith & Lolivia deseribing the af- | f4ir as “eommunisty 1t is a queer | auntry 1o be named after .\lnvmli Bolivar, who ended 1he rule of Spain i e South American continent. Parag is not much better off | ing the i which are It has ad Its world's 0 | 1mong whwird lands, Fivers, howeyer important highways. 1t is Hier but n than ol fransportation. € A one I jerson Francis Who was the of a benevo- dictator (1540-62) who made " into a flourishing the zu state. 1y 1 pon the death beneyolent dictator, however, heisco Lopez lanad into 1l ries of such ruinous wars that the 0000 was peduced i eight 8 1l Ne T years to less than 50,000 en 00,000 wonten and chil- | ver i listory, perhaps, has ! i war menarch o completely that tii recover- onntry suay has heen slowly two nations, of the type of comic opera’ republies one reads bout oceasionally, now want The conflict; to t another i Hubt el want tle that that s war peo- ‘ greatly, the Ciring to fhink populi- i, spread over many thousands of niiles, does not il the W Enow to this Wh excitement is about, provably docsn't | | | 1 + 10 take scriously what Al Tuvija 1hink Villa people in Lalaz, Cocha o, Potosi, ahout it Ltica then The those in Asuncion, Silvador and Conespeion is a ditterent matter, participate in the it | ) gl war profits and n ftor one side o the otier won onoralie victary calenlat nothing, not even t DEFLATION ] by @' New 3 that large talen out ot izens in was Firook- to think ¢ ving than peo ising them to tion, i boen taken NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1928 | have bought outr 8 panicky at the troubles of those who gambled on margin. When a ! person gambles he dos ht—nced not s so with the knowledge he may lose, and beed not i |against hin. The investor is in a dif- |ferent class. In the lp. riod of years if nec [variably prefits. | | we love the city. We love that .ioppmlumly we scoot away from it, | especially in the good old sunimer And President of these United States plaining that the White Ilou: be surprised if the dice go long run, a ssary, he iu- A RURAL WHITE How so much House it an whenever we [ time. now we even have the coni- | ina| d House, (city is not all that it is cracked up | Les that White 'haps near a purling brook or a | a rural fish-laden lake, would be a supcrior This e almost difficult for than the jarticle. rural home could situated anywhere w0 lo as it is more viitars o | reach present domicile on Pennsylvania avenue. 1 mountain is as clear sunlight a top that the Prsident | to be somewlhere where | as on would like there would not eternal tions by congressional genty hold President necd Perbaps he can seareely vead two paragraphs of Lefore being fronzied caller fair ernment officials, rs the Idie. What the is more time to himself. oflice anything disturbed hy some who ha | oftics ntous ot propound. There is something wronz i the President’s reasoning rural White * wonld however, that Wash Hons | suffice to ’ near ington" to allow chief excutive escape the heat of the We the capital during of ummer. never heard ) “near Washington™ that was any cooler than city except for the Washin senee of hot pavenents ton simply s a torror in wer e, and it immed virons sufter along with it When the President 11 White Touse lic have Vermont [ i nind CONNLCTIONS AT With self-evident the [ERNTHH colder 1 that public demands tin conneetions for at ons lines e ternninal, Troley pafrons with t not i a good x that the put mood discoror car 1o whicl they wish to tran the ot er et the ©, i th et st Geniiy A while hefore car which they first to 15 standing o1 transter point. wait of or o the Ik on a cold day-—or i wet duy is—wcll-nigh appalling The main-traveled dines should conneet sharply with line bus Lt & the " including the neeticut Cone company do. n enough about the comtort and con vonience of Wte public to insure it terminal, attuchod, will not the Dlasts waiting &ood conncetions it should furnish a downtown with warm waiting roou S0 1 to winter i the pubiic forg with- stand of while on - sidewaiks, 25 Years Ago Today Governor Chiamberlain James | Appointed jndge of W anyer Coop oper o ity e Tt to com 1 inmedi sistint ) . o i Iy vy I Johnsor | Jositio I T New how Jar ilments. Both »lal £ nder Monev.Back Guar- oS iTee R LUCKY TIG i Bt Clildren plaving 2 childy 1 | atn fan over word “divares papular in the languag virtie " i charm fr a crn i i | prvtty his Soud all communications (o s Shop Editor, up:..d l)-‘:n Britais Herald your lotier il be forwarded @ New York. all sl t “histinetive Tt ko o W T rof Mrs. it sor when their the stores | | Wiy Caw't They be Original, Too? {“Iiuy Christmas cards! cards—the kind that Ne w Year Unfounded? Gardner falling down.' " Professor Gardi Don’t con Nk rined, ~cards” know they'll all read, “Please I (hearing the “What W a *“Londen ABOUT DIVORCE Latin to wo 150 of 1 ably e t e carded to the natrimeny ¢ stack of chips and starting in Hne of The 15 by cating it 1 1w ont Ty te mferiocking back 1he iy hich 1 jnostiy fist 1 apart - wi b with to fhat 1o hear ith h and Mr. vl of himse: the is 1 Wadehonse I derived tere, nay Lo occasional experiment, as ordinary eitizen, the ridge (reassuringly): T liearing that rumor ever @ chilg siner from meaning be ither in the or » DeWolf Hopper. privitege of losing player in the buying an- is perhaps (he constantly magic I, a fastidions up when first con- ma an re- n wife's relations, inats carhiest stages, wa Prehistorie man con- wir s divorees, with a g an all In wodern Trark Jecordin takes confined o o of Lady hi United orkd e Ll provably il st It an times Place P oan e m the a et he stout I 1 h. 15 and club, taking did Loeping his using his divorce varies 1 n cither in the morni in th Reevor's town m States vou motive un ro try to the drama, English play om in England, it 1 is at drawing of anarters | leads h it of divoree, ver arn that (hi 0 at stars tiniid noviee the v i oy it " 1 1 a th 10 tire Amer n Ji St biow someboly's divores the i | to is not 1 renewed truth—that vticular branch indust makes iea tos of 100 ther 1t is bt off lik pan there are 0 Inhabitants, whil ar Janeholy consolation that the Wpetito Th in fe and v in th the il good g pretty dep that. all t oing cm 1gton, while that take - distinet | the W divor thers o nd i orde o sort of visk of inflaming | Lt this orts, in ¥ a neat witzrland revelation hat (hey we ng can there Th figures cortain ason- for | lics in States gare expected our hat off to Wash- re 1 grounds for sin 1 South is actually Ny [ oltained for such perfeetly ade o 1ake nply 10i afing “arolina, for States it s as refusing +run, omitting fo bring Vi, rin far ahead of a country with such | metliod Jeal and Naturally, every with cvery v nformiy Leinz it pat under ivor s not repulsive only them from i I ¥ it tak n wearing a straw parking ot ) the the 1 takes 1he heart out of an on- | rsevering people, who the of irate divoree-— on instance, perimitted. st gum Japanese, | existing ol ohsticl it ur Placed in | connme cannot the the dog hone hefor to ind see feliow on whieh puils together as o movement ondi nish- ! how hu- seems extraordi- 1 ont e way This is due £ divore: with it arly T 1 t only 1 conside e o T very wsihle from each T male from conld endure al a display ity t arranging erosity \ oy that diveres, wastin Meater AMisg Hefty: o w ire ple, ation h is ¢ e pros n over- spir- ot of lis heor- por- well e that found giving for “Goinz BUY-BUY cith Miss Hetty ™ ' Wil ) t %0 “Uh, T'd love away result e fo instead of heing 1h s degener- Fieh! night i | save Lave you secured the scats?” Mitchell: “Oh, come, surely you're not so ‘heavy as all that!” —S. D. Webster There will never be a decrease in : price of mistakes cven though are made in large numberst Disquietin, A baby's voice came out darkness. “Dimme jinky!” it called. The Boston mother started affrightedly. “Mercival Heaven!” she cried breaking into cold perspiration, “Can it be that wy child has forgot- ten the chemical formula for wa- ter?” of the up Much Needed Now! Larkin: “Who Is that stranger who is langing around your house 2" Hughes: “He's an interpreter. Larking “What's the big idea? Hughes: “Oh, he can talk the old- fashioned langusge my wife and 1 use, and also thy slang that our | children use! — Josephine Loring (Copyright, 1928, Reproduction Forbidden) Fe cts and Fancies That desire to kick the pants of fonlish and jovons youth isn't inspir- ed by superiorify, but by envy. 1f the State ean break the Com. and kil without deing | can't it break the other mandment wrong, wha nine? The cave man had wealne 1o sissv nspired i the jung i1 that Jasts until our day. but beasts Tie all means educate the girls. omebody must gqualify to do the Wing for finaneial wizards who dropped out at the fourth grade. The vantages, real ad- afs ten string: ar girl has few e jnst of imitation pearls for Christmas in- pop stead of one The Adifterenee public ks golfer and zoltow In ehief i 4 prin in the fween te club | secns to waist el bt having room for think s e \ I oyou too | eapensive, how hy not visiting relative P crything except mammal's teeth g without tooth pasts Wiy the listoris S0 far as the old-timers are con- fhe split in the south didn’t extend to the word damyankee, corned Feclin fions Decanse B | | : to us the Americanisn other sueh cor Fato gave Gpple we can't cat Tevit the and for that. the Nobody else meek in- would inheritance, | sehool buildings here to be | ridicnle | nificant: other Grippe isn't like a bad cold. Grip- pe is what you bave if you know you won't be docked for time out. Fable: Onco an office man got the afternoon oft and didn't waste the forenoon getting ready for it. You just think the play isn't given by the original New York company liccause you can't imagine New York standing for anything so punk. Correct this sentence: *“A passing grade is good enough,” said the pa ent, “ad you mustn't negleet your out-door play in order to study. Copyright 1928, Publishers syndicate, COMMUNICATED itorial on High School Addition ditor New RBritain Herald: 1 realize it is not the very hest policy for a mayor to take issue with the edtiorials of any newspaper, be- ause 1o do so would keep both the mayer and the editor quite busy. I am certain, however, knowing you as 1 do, that you will welcome cor- rection of any misstatement made. I am referring to your editorial of last Thursd “Overriding the veto for H. 8. addition.” If you were n closer touch with doings at ci Fall you would not congratulate 11 three democrats and some repub- licans who voted against me, be. cause you would then realize just hy they did so. Tt was my duty to bring hefore the public the facts I had gathered, and When T did so it was not with the idea that T would scare the public. I am content to rest any question on the intelligence of the publie. Had the public an opportunity 1o vote on this question, 1T lieve they would have voted against {it. Opportunity on the part of the Upublic to register its sentiments would have changed the prevailing apmion that the public considers the investments so far made in money An) when yon speak of modern construction, 1 hope you not in mind any construction which is sandwiched in batween fwo old buildings. Do you know why the Foosevelt school built more elahorately fhan some others and why it cost more? It was because it is intended tor junior high school It not infended for use, the school committee have saved $30,000 to $7 0ne en it. There was loud protest when it was about fo be built, but the school committe: noits . as usual. Ome pavagraph in particular sur- prises me. You take issue with my well spent have e, was such should was Istatement that nearly one-half the meoney atin taken from the public in fay. is spent on schools, and it You clavin bhut of the money is so speut, and the tay colleetor's office. | vefer you to that office again and request that you check up on whether it is 85 per cont you im or 4.5 per cent as the tax I know it you per cont ot collector cliaims and to he. In that written as connection you This discrepaney s figurcs that be just as comment on unre this e quioted My may lahle,” only | is 1o say that 1t is a poor rule that | docsn’t work hoth ways. Tuttles congresamian navy yard to in his dis hig parcify rict, necds the v Vot I auarrls with fust before Christinas, whether it's a result or Scofeh s sweetic n't tell hlood you of hot Llood Us fug at o vl their can teil just by lool ) eptpie, that they would Jike dumh maid a butler, iy you to i to get to hirc Anothor et expinsio Wiy inereaso job that and fire 2ood i iy [ gives vou aut The Bell Synd to, but “Spunky” Edwards’ Monk:y Looking at the wuestion f N squarcly, you must agreecit is the logical o delay th buildirs 4 or & years. Tn the mean tane, the school board wonld Lotter site for real. modern high school and build in a central piaee. When the prosent school, wa bl mizht have heen consid to be contrally loeated veleynent to the north it ranst ced that the school is at onc me end of the eity, and ar to Kensington as it Belvidere or North Tiurrift Perhaps there are some who feel irly thing it a be i ex- fust is to strect new sehiool be huilt north of vailvoad teacks, notwithstanging thi 1 belicve there are almost fwic niany children there there south of the railroad tracks, With n addition to the school of roos, it ecan D seen that there is no prospeet o senior high schiool nerth of 1 present reudily firmly he- | find | but with de- | 1 [was wrong when 1 suggested that a railroad tracks for 20 ycars to come. 1 have expressed my vicws and have gone on record. Let those who have opposed mc go on record, and some day they will be called upon to justify their actions. But one more statement in your editorial calls on me for reply, that Leing the claim that T did not make a coustructive recommendation. How many times have we bheard that the school committee is the group which Is vested with full au- thority in matters of education, and can you conceive of the board heed- ling my recommendation? In my message to the council last wesk, T vrged that portable schools and part-time classes be done away with first. There is what you might call a recommendation Let us ece whether-it is followed out. In view of the way the editorial page handled this matter, T am ask- 1 2 Mayor Paonessa Finds Fault With | ing that the public be given an op- portunity to rad this letter in your columns. S8A, Mayor Qbservations On The Weather Washingten, Dec. 11.—Forecast | for Southern New England: Fair tonight and Wednesday; somewhat warmer in west portion; moderato west winds. Vorecast for Eastern New York: Partly cloudy tonight and Wednes- day; somewhat warmer Wednesday moderata west to southwest winds. Conditions: The eastern area of high pressure is centered over the Appalachian distriets. The disturb- ance noted vesterday In the far Canadian Northwest and far south- west prevail as one long trough of | 10w pressure over the Rocky moun- | tain districts. 1t has two centers of minimum pressure, 20.48 inches at Modena, Utah, and 29.46 inches at monton, Alberta. Canada. Raing were reported from the Pacific oast states and the Southern Plaing |states and enows in Maine and {utah Temperatures are moderat- ing slowly in all portions of the 1 | | conntry Conditions favor for this vicinitiy {fair Aweather and not much change Lin temperaty Temperatures yesterday Low A anta I 1tuttalo . Chiago Cincinnati Denyer Detroit | Patutn | 1t | Ka fos Angeles Miami | Minneapolis | Nantueket INew Haven [ New Orleans . New York Norfolk, \ Pittslrgh 1ortland, Louis ashington | Loy sas ity Me Appendix in Bet With Doctor Brownsyille, Tex., Dee. 11 (UP)— Al Gutierr a garage wmechanic, did net have the love of a Portia to iw» it from paying a “pound of flosh.” | Consequently, [ s “pound jover the p Gutierrez gave up of flesh” but not from heart where Shakospeare nged for Shylock to fake a paund of flesh from Raseanio. Gutierrez paid with his appendix. While repuiring the antomobile of Charles Celaya, Rio Grande city banker, the mechanic fold the own- |er e found a squeak in the springs. Celaya was 80 cortain the squeak was in the stabilizers that he backed up his contention with $10. Gutiers {rez, unable to post cash, finally cov- cred with his appendi e Jost the Let and today, after physicians had pronounced him re- covered. e delivered the appendix to the banker in a bottle, SAD MERALD CLASSHTED ADS BLEST RESU By Fontaine Fox THE ONLY QUY IN “THE NEIGHBORHoOD THAT I1SN'T JUST SIMPLY CRAZY ABoUuT THE MONHKEY.