New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 29, 1928, Page 6

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The Herald 15 on sale daily ia N York at Hotsling’s Newsstand., Time Square; Schults's Newsstands, Eatrance Grand Central, ¢2nd Street. —— e Noting the extent and size of the tax refunds, one concludes that the champion Santa Claus lives down in Washington. The days are soon here when mud-covered automobile plates will be entirely unknown—for at least a tew weeks. record, According to the realty thing isn't necessary. There are other ways, no doubt; Edward F. Hall, finance minister, might be able to { provide them if he takes a liking to the idea. PERILS OF SKATING; NEED FOR RESCUE EQUIFMENT The great outdoor sport of skating has a peril that can.be conquered only it the skating is done on ice | that lacks deep water underneath. | Unfortunately ponds usually are | deep enough to spell death to those | who break through thin ice, or ice | 1 i that may not be. thin but is weak in | spots. | For this reason an artiticial skat- |ing pond, consisting of a flooded field or similar area, is far superior. At least joy on the ice is not likely to be terminated by tragedy before |the day is done. There innumerable ponds throughout Connecticut which from carly times have been favorites in winter for youth on skates. In view of this the surprising thing is that no safety appliances or rescuc cquipment provided by far- sceing public authorities nearby. Such equipment costs little and does are there are much in a crisis. For instance, in two boys drowned at East Hartford: “They (rescuers) tried to aid the lads in the water but could not reach | or locate them. An hour was lost in securing a boat. . . The bodics were recovered with grappling irons brought from Manchester.” Had public authoritics provided {equipment nearby two have heen saved. was Inactive during 192§, but mort- | sage foreclosurcs were numerous. In spite of this, however, Mr. Hoover carried the city. . Blue shoes are during 1929, it should be especially appropriate when dancing to the blues. coming in style is announced. They The real difference between whiskey and alleged whiskey that the authorities usually destroy the alleged stuff and don't find the other. Metropolitan Chicago is said to have a population of 4.500.000, which ought to revive the agitation in New York to add a slice of Con- necticut to the in order sure continued population league. to in- supremacy in the There is no prohibition in South Africa, but the policemen assigned to patrol the diamond mines also have as brilliant opportunities as the bluecoats had In Philadelphia. a, Another reason why there are so many Democrats in Boston is that the Repuplican mayor and the Re- publican governor have heen call- ing each other everything they could think of, leading many citizens to conclude both may be right. Sam Insull another huge combine. Which is ne news at formed all, considering he has had so much practice at it THE NEW BRIDGE P Everything is quite clear about the bridge project except how it will fit with the powers that be in the state government. There is likely to be some haggling about it, even among those who favor sites for the pro- posed span. Of the two sorts of dis- agreements, that which concerns the cities and towns interested is more serious than opposition among offi- cials, should that acerue. It is essen- tial in such a matter that there be harmony among the interests fav- oring such an improyement, That the forwardlookers in Hart- ford will prefer the bridge at Brain- ard fleld is entirely there should be way to convince the capital city brethren that one of the objects of the bridge is to permit autos and trucks from elsewhere avoid likely: if so, a to the time-consuming traffic to the of that unquestionably congestion incident routc through even a part iartford will reply that they will be with traffic while getting out of ti city no matter where the bridg located; yet that should he const city, interests cursed as no sound should reason why to all other: be forced misery with them The CI are this bers of Conimered [ 18 proponents of this schem vowerful, and come of their mem rers have wh will d 1 do Yo < optimisi to construct th ic re it some good t should fal 3 br and the state always puts up try 1 show of heing ex- mely cconomical wuestion of xpe Success in forci inination E upon what department of the will be expected to bear the cost. 11 the Legislature, 100, merely of the ithor- izes construction out providing the money the that to come hicle fund out ol niotor v presided over by the highway commission r's debartn il then many 2 moon w there is definit Aesires o appropria the public fill out of i v cousins in the Legisiot ind hre rigid d 1o economy. may conclude the A CAMPAIGN TO RAISE THE TARIFF RATES One can come to mo other conclu- sion after noting the tariff agitation in determined effort is under way to increase rates to an unpreeccdented 1. | principle, If tariff protection is good in why not plenty of it, the viewpoint. scems to he Industry is not interested in farm velief, indirectly; that is to it it is certain to increase the farmers' buying then the logical thought is to favor it. Indus- try is tremendously more interested in the protective tariff, and though it may somewhat except say, power nullity any in- crease in agricultural buying power, it at least will insure dividends and prosperity in the manufacturing dis- tricts. There are conservative elements.in Washington, of course, who profess at the cyrrent de- mands for a complete upward re- to be alarmed vision of the taritf, claiming it may prove disastrous to the party in 1932 These scem to think that a certain amount of tarift protection is good, but too much is bad. It seems that Representative Til- son, who spoke at the fariff confer- ence in Hartford, is one of the con- servative individuals who believes a |spoonful of strong medicine may cure while two spoonfuls will kill. Before leaving Washington he gave | out an interview in which he said there is no reason why all the tariff schedules should be revised. “Some are ligh enough, and generally there is no demand for a complete re- vision.” This conception of tariff re- vision dominated the Hartford gath- cring, which only went so far as to recommend upward revision of cer- tain specific articles, Upward revision wanted in Con- necticut, however, may not jibe with upward revision in ofher parts of the country. And the Connecticut Cham- ber of Commerce is not the only in- dustrial commercial tion and organiza- speakers, and passing rcsolutions as to what schedules should be raised. In cvery part of the country there are similar meetings; in every sec- tion there are determined individuals who insist they know the schedules that need priming up. These various organizations prob- ably will be unable to agree as to the schedules needing buttressing; they will bring pressure to bear upon congressmen; lobbies will be main- tained in Washington; literature and propaganda will be concocted and seminated. nally, desiring to hurt nobody's feelings, the tariff plurality in Con- will ple pting what will amount to a gen- 1 “You tickle deals will the most popular The e tariff s them all by ac- revision me and tickle you" abound. olling will he and indoor sport ultimate result will be that th will soar like Colonel Lindbergh on an in favor of just this thing. clected Mr. improve . lioover to he tariff— 4 in our ears was ant in the even than people ntain hich it was dinn; most impor thing paien important ohibition—and there i no logical son why fhe should and enjoy plenty of tarif people not The a wariff as high cded 1o « have ce of havin Hows is du- P waR as one would profer T to S Shipping Board in its agair Cunard ane cannot do ustice sway the case of the | lives might | nd out of Congress than that a | holding meetings, listening to | one's opinion. “The Cunard line has just as much right to engage in the transportation business between' New York and Havana as an American concern. If Inot, then the effort of the U. S. | Shipping Board to put the American flag into foreign ports the world over | !is all wrong. | | The Shipping Board also contends | | that the only nations having a moral | “right” to serve traffic between two countries are ships flying the flags | |of those countries. If this be true, |then the same thing holds good as | before—that the Shipping Board has | been wrong In trying to push the American flag into all corners of the globe. | The seas are free. Th® Shipping | Board should not fear honest compe- | tition. p The first trip of the Cunard liner Caronia from New York to Havana the other day resulted in a full pas- | senger list—this'in spite of the fact | I that the Shipping Board reduced the rates by around 25 per cent under those charged by the British con- cern. Liquid refreshments are sold ,on the British ships, however, and that scems to have a share of the | pulling power. We cannot justly blame the British for ‘the cxistence of the prohibition Jaw on American ships. That simply is our funeral. The rate war conducted by the | Shipping Bourd, should it provide deficits in the Qperation of the ships on this route, will be at the expense | of the American taxpayers. That, !too, is where 1thc Shipping Board errs. Not content with _cutting rates, the Shipping Board has also placed | its liners, the President Roosevelt, at the disposal of the Ward line. The | | hoard scems to be one -arm of ‘tho | government which docs not bdlieve in less government in business. Alighting on {h¢ Shipping Board | | with the noise of a ton of bricks, | {the indomitable New York World | tovered most et the situation when | | | | | Che rigid application of this | principle (the Khipping Board's claims) would mean the undoing of all that the:Shipping Board itself | has-done te put the American flag on the high seas. Whatever traffic it has obtained for American com- | panies has come through the allo-! cation of its ships to services form- | erly monopolized by foreign lings. It has put the Leviathan, for ex- ample, on a route where Rritish, French and German lines once had the bulk of the business.. It has plac | ed dozens of ships on South Ameri- | lcan and Far Eastern trade routes where only foreign flags were once | " seen. In denouncing the British com- pany for putting a single passenger liner in the run hetween New York nd Havana the board therefore | condenins its own policies.” MORE BUSES Another request by the Conneefi- cut company to operate | stead of trolle; able and once important line was | granted by the Public Utilities Com- mission when. it decreed. that the trolley line between. Middletown and Portland can be abandoned in favor | of bus substitution. | Once opposed to buscs on general principles, the Connecticut company seems to be ridding itselt of all decrepit trolley lines and is glad of ! the opportunity to operate the more | flexible bus service instead. Thin is | much buses in- | cars along a vener- | cheaper than spending thou. sands of dollars to improve a run- | down roadbed or to buy or hire new trolley cars. The buses don't jolt along over | poor rails at a snail's pace, either. Nothing slows up general traffic so | much nowadays as trolleys cars. | | MARRIAGES AND BIRTHS | | Economic conditions inevitable have their | reflection in the more ant glades where Cupid abides. | Thus we discover that not only has the birth rate hereabouts been low- er in 1928, but the also has decrease ple marriage rate “Two can live as someone once said; but that must have been during the gay ninetics, when and cheaply as one, bicycles were cottages were built for two plus a large family that could be supported on food costing a | fraction of what it scts one back to- built for two day. It seems that things have come to the pass where lovers actually | look before they leap—something they were advised to do from time ! immemorable ceived though the advice re- scant consideration Too many youn, adays don’t until tately fellows now- until they can utomohile; _and too many of the superior séx decline to proffered < the gents can guarantee to be good pro- marry copt hands unle viders. And in many instances hoth Thus the cconomics hecomes as fashionable as are providers study of playing tridge and widely more ing golf. prevalent than pl: ADtO commu would TION om the pape adio communi- wave that the business of pear cation over short lengths— which is not radio entertainment but trictly the two companics, busi is mot {o bhe monopoly of onw or The most recent lengths 1iocation of short 1he ifics that Ay by Itadio Uniy com mission i Wi s 1 al less Communic he itions a company of Tuffalo the en a part of Kkilocyeles. in competition with 1h Radio e Corparation Mackay of America and Radio | politics. Nothing so complex can be | torials say nothing is because | ish parents? - | [ smont company. There remains petitions for point-to-point services, and the scramble is considerable. Truly, the Federal Radio Commission is be- coming an important public body. Most citizens would dislike greatly to sce the complex radio situation thrown bagk into the maelstrom of solved properly or in the general public interest through the inter- | cession of politics. H Fccts and Fancies When money talks, says: “Charge it, please.” it usually Treaty: An agrecment between nations, denatured with Senate res- | crvations. The cotton gin is another kind. | That funny taste isn't cotton. edi- | you One reason why magazine might get mad if they did. Those occasional - eruptions on | the surface of mother earth, called | cgo eczema or war, are caused by the itch for power, Bhort history of man: At 20 he yearns to uplift humanity; at 50 he | yearns to raise chickens. The cure depends on a corrcet diagnosis,” says a syndicate doctor. Of course., Othcrwise you might send him to the wrong specialist: | You thiuk the moral 90's devel- | cped better youngsters? But where is the profit in making nice boys | and girls if they turn out to be fool- | A German naturalist says mon- keys adore their benefactor instead of calling him a Shylock, so maybe Darwin was wron | Amcricanism: A piano mover tak- ing a vacation and givigg the boy a dime to carry his 30-pound bag. Roughing it, modern styl ing bune, onions. mustards wieners and mixing your own dogs. Buy- | and | hot | A prominent divine says there is no social_competition in hell, but | what makes it hell if it isn't nee- cssary-to keep up with the Joneses? The chain-store idea, fully devel- cped, will help the Government. All the inceme tax can be collected fram one group of hankers in New York. Old-timers sneer lege boys, but the system saves an averag: of three salutes to the rod at co-ed schools. Prosperous times are those which nolody is envious enough condemn the crookedness of big fellows. t hatless col- in to the | In snowball season, the Boy Scout n do his daily good deed just by sting temptation, The missionary’s job isn't so hard Those he tries to civilize can't see | civilization. glass parition Maybe humping against that makes the nose in the back seat turn up more than one does in a sedan. in a | to go.” | snohbishness. [ ing class, | story of a dog and a fox. When she a {de Hooker, {am absolutely innocent. Corret (his sentence. “When m ‘nds come to me, said the flapper, “T never feel the least bit ashamed of my old-fash- ioned parents.” Copyright, 1928, Publishers ndicte | see on 25 I’e—a:: Ago Today The last opportunity to be happy in the old year. Cigarmakers' sou- venir ball in Hanna's armory. Hanna's armory in its restored form never presented a mord attrac- tive appearance than it did last night for the ball of Ferdinand Council, Knights of Columbus. Al the boxes were occupied and galleries were well filled. J. M. Gaffney was chairman of the com- miftee in charge Probation Officer Lyman §. John- son states that probation has proved a success in its first year her Out of 37 persons placed on probation, only four have failed to make good. Chief Rawlings received a letter from a man in Boston foday asking that he find the man’s two brothers here and put them to work, as th are loafers, etmen have deeided 1o Lefore a town mesting the tion of whether addition to the town home shall he built or an entirely new home constructed. Acting on a city ordi ¥ will proseeute all whe fail clear their sidewalks of snow inee. the to and A mild of varioloid has heen discovered the Clayton brick vard. Tiecause this city is endan- ored, the selectmen are consider- ing having the patient removed to the igolation hospital near the town home. Casper Whitney has finally fesued Ml-America foothall scloctions. They include thre: from Yale, three from two rom Dartmonth om Harvard, Minn The tean Princeton. Dartmant Y Minne- Michigar 1 ard, Carlisle 4 Point, Columbia, and Pennsyl- | A or nd Andover is players Princoton ind one cack and order, hest in were otn W vania ranke are 1 Dame 1 Vanderbilt, and Colorado. | efficienc: | things we, | e obtained, and at the same | we could plan for further efficiency. | efficienc, the | Michigan. | | We Cowld Use One Right ¥ow! Wish we had a goat to-eat The tags and seals and tinsel gay That always tangle up our feet A whole week after <Christmas Day! Naturally Would Be! Mrs. Watson Well, I'm all ready “Fine. That's-a wait off —Edward Martin Watsor my mind!” N SHOP WEEKLY NEWS Sports “What can 1 do with my talking- machine ncedles?" asks a Fun Shop | reader. He shouald try exchanging them for used razor blades!" . e “THAT WAY MAD LIES.” Hair Dye for Grey Hairs Everybody who has ever used It cnce has beconic miad after it. —Adyv. in Indian Paper s Tuternational i An Americdn says that in a Soutn Wales village he met two atheists in one day. 4 We refuse to believe that there could have been two Welshmen in onc village on one day who did not helieve in Mr. Lloyd George. [ THE F .. ‘Things That Might Have Been Ex- pressed More Delicately? “He referred to the wonderful work the women of the . church | were doing. “He noticed .as the years passed that womien werc . showing. .mare | backbane."” —Nvighhoring Papey . e soctal 5 stic servant problem 1s been created. .hy, The to lom hav Maids should try to regard, their | mistresses more as equals! Vorce of Habif! Cooper (pointing to man pushing a hat ge):,“That fellow used to 1 push-cart peddles Weston: “How do you know?" Cooper: “He tried to sell the baby | three times yesterda —8. R, Frost . | ther Tt pays to keep straight, but the corkserew seems {o- hold its own in spite of everything! The Tost Penny?! One day in the third grade read- the teacher was telling a came near the end of the story she said, “And the cynning fox jumped 1ip on the stone wall and ran alonk it. and the dog lost his scent.” When she finished the story she called on a little Italian boy in the | clnss to repeat the story. Joe started all right, hut as he came fo end of the story he said. “An’ de cunning fox, he jump up ea stone wall an’ run ong it,.an” de dog, he lose his penny!™ —Ttuth Bennett NONCHALANCE! By Roger IL Sturner Before we turn on the radio et me ask thin question: Ts it wrong for a man to take his stenographer out to lunch? Not f she is a good and the wife do 't know about it. rrrerrrruh! rrrreeerruh? | That must he that new Congo ta- tion. T hear the lons. While T am clearing my throar | 1et me state for my listeners that 7 Teing a husiness man, T was only striving to increase the efficiency of my bust- | ness. 1 found that by taking the ste | nographer out to lnnch much could i he accomplished on this line. Later T found that by taking her out te dinner a much greater amount of could be obtained. In faeq » very efficient. the Nitediwn diversion coula tinre At One night at the Nitedawn wore working very late, as we are planning a great stride forward 1n my wife suddenly enter- od our private dining room! T was dumfounded. The wife was irate! Notwithstanding my 'innocence vas, for the moment, hopelessly lost. Then T thought of the package of Murods that 1 had for just such situation. Nonchalantly T took one of Murods. and lit—out through door—and I am still traveling! we the the WEAK Afier Christmas! Wonderfal Scic “This is very fine How do you make it2” Host. “"We artifici made from < produ grafting pricots Guest femon: 2l s lemong orang pes on Finance and Taxation Board Facing Aunual Pruning Duty ! Soon the municipal pruning | ghears; atter <a.yearislidleness, ‘il r: snipping merrily away as the Board of finance and taxation ex- plodes the pet achemes of city com- niissioners and again discards oft repeated .requests of departments for costly improvements. ffaced with a special tax of one- fifth of one mill wiready- laid to Rrovide additional funds for the sehool board, and with the knowl- |therefore will produce mno more revenue, the board of finance and taxation will be called upon to hack |out all but maintenance appropria. tions It un increase in the mill rate | is to be avoided, As the annual preparation of a budget comes te-the “fore one ‘thing sgems 80 certain as to make in- quiry unnecessary, and that is that the common council will maintain a “hands oft” policy as far budget is concerned. It would be strange if the council failed to profit 1 by its mistake of last year in med- | dling with the estimates of expen- diture after the board of finance and taxation had completed its work, for 4n so doing, the council | nearly crippled the organization of government without any perceptible benefit to the city. cent almost all the way down the | budget, the council reduced appro- | priations which the board of finance had included only after assuring it- |self that they were absolutely nec- lessary. Pursuing its arbitrary pol- Ticy, the council, for inatance, took 10 per cent off fuel appropriations |which were made in the same lamount as the actual’ -expenditure for coal in the preceding yecar. That |these appropriations muat be cx- ceeded in many instances is a cer- tainty. | The school committee after item- !izing nceded repair items, convinced the finance committee that ther: | was- no trace of padding and it was' which - was. - Jess |anawed= 341,000, than _the ameunt represented .as.f |needed, but which was the lowest {point at which the budget prepar- ing group. felt efficiency and ecén- omy could be made to meet. But, [the common council, with no fur- investigation, reduced the item, and the result was a special |tax of ane-fifth of a mill before -the |fiscal year was well under way. The board of public works pre- | {sented its repert showing the streéis |on -which ‘repairs *were - advisahle! 'and under cross-questioning' of the | finance. commissioners singled out | the "nevessary items of street anl sewer work. These, only, were | cluded. Then came the council cut, ‘and what was the rexult? The re- iserve fund for liquor license rebate |was tapped of its entire amount, !which miist be provided at a later date from some other account, and a loan of $25,000 was negotiated, which, naturally, must be paid. | The special appropriation for re- ‘mmlfllng No. |uced below the amount appropri- and as a yesult the station remains {in an incomplete condition. This and the geperal curtailment of worl |other city departments ~which th {common' counell caused with a {financial saving which was negligi- ble will probably be sufficient to im- press upon the ward representatives |that the framers of the charter {were right when they created a |#pecial commission to make up the {estimates of income and expense. Some of the ¥mprovements which {long time members of ‘the hoard of | finance and taxation might label as “chestnuts” will be urged again this year, by departments which have | not - become discouraged by annuab ! refusals. The requests of the board !of health and of the fire commi: |sioners alone would work an in- crease of about two mills, which the |board of public works, police and | health boards would probably match with , special items of about -the same cost: Urged by residents of the western section of the city to again make an attempt to procure for them a !fire station and protection, the fire T board will come forward with a re- quest for a_house, a pumper anc itwo platoons of four men each. The \cost of this improvement would: be between $75,000 and $100.000. The iproposal has been before the hoard |several times and has been turned ‘{down, not on the ground that it is not needed. but because of the cost. Whether the finance board and the common council will feel disposed to undertake the item this year re- mains to be seen within a few weeks. and Jocked th2 deer after him, the edge that the grand list will be no | higher than that of last year and | as the| * Effecting a cut that was 10. per | 4 fire statjon was re- | ated, which was an actual bid figure, | in Makes Random Observations On the City ano Its People “From the same department comes a suggestion, expected to receive more favorable consideration. Tt bas ‘to. do_with " the. .creating .of .a new city service ladder company to be housed at No. 3 station at the jnorthern extremity of Main street. |With two platoons of firemen and |the apparatus, it will necessitate ar J-ppmpnnt|on of $30,000. Under the existing scheme, the ladders to fight fires in the northwestern section of the city must be carried from the station on Elm street, near Main |street, sometimes a distance of two It is considered unsafe to leave the center of the city without |the protection of the larger ladder truck. Because the northwestera [tion and consists mainly of tal buildings. ladder service is consid- ered most important, hence the per- sistence of the department in asking the appropriation yearly. A concert- led move to bring about this im- | provement is expected this year. The hoard of health, urged on by {the charity department and by its lown knowledge of the tuberculosis | situation in the city. is very gnxious to have money allowed this year to recondition the city sanatorium on Rocky Hill avenue and put it in service. One member of the board has traced two deaths to tbe ab- sence of a place in this city in which tuberculosis sufferers might be given institutional treatment while awaiting admission to state | sanatoria. With lives hanging in the halance, the decision on the ques- finance committeemen -to decide. Again, the board will be asked to | provide a municipal incinerator and !change the system of refuse collec- 'tion, a public improvement which has been variously estimated tween $100,000 and $125,000, |need of an incinerator has "been seriously questioned. A com- mittee of the common council { which includes leading members of [that body, agrees with the health | board that it is nceded. But, again. | the mong tion! Mayor - I'nonessa and the board of public works have been pleaded i with to give some relicf to residents lin the outlying districts, where lit- tle \pr no public improvements have been made. They have complaincd that they aré unable to get grocers, coal men and physicians to come to Ithem hecause of the impassable condition of the highway, and they charge_ that the city is causing their properties to waste away through !storm overflows. Scveral years ago {the low tax district which embraced | these areas was wiped away with tacit agreement that,. paying full axes,- they would be given full im- proysements. | The police board, ! statistics, is prey the city is unde | tion which s unde and un- Isafe, as well as inconsistent with the general growth of the munig- [ pality, all will admit. The policemen | algo desire a clothing allowance and {are ready to submit good arguments —at least it would seem they are |R00d, clse the commi {many cities which |their policemen with uniforms would hardly be convinced that this is the right thing to do. An ambitious program of park improvements is contemplated. New Rritain takes pride in its park lands and the park beard is following the desire of the general public when it undertakes to develop them to their maximum uses. Whether the |finance board will sce ifs way clear 1o let this program of beantification | proceed is a question. TUnder this |department’s schedule of expenses this year will be found an item for a municipal golf course. Thousands of men and women, young and old are calling for this means of recre ation, but whether their voices will |be heard above the snip of the {pruning shears is also a question Al the way down the roster city departments will be found cost- 1y items of improvement. Each de partment considers that its recom- mendations stand high among the {imporiant, but it is certain that some of them. most of {hem in fact, |are doomed to some degree of dis lappointment when the board of [finance and taxation announces its findings. be The never i 1 in- | armed with red to show that a condi- now provide | Observer Looks K |And Jovially Reviews 1 | Now is the time for chronologies. IThe end of the year always finds re- !sumes of the vear in politics, in |sport, in scientific advances, in this, land in that. The rest of the paper |is full of them, and the Observer does not intend to be left behind in this manifestation of the seasonal spirit. We thercfore present to the | truck world a list of cvents land trends in 1 which probably have cs the more staid |short chronolog iped sighted Here ! rewly finished Venus de Milo gave gocs: a critical gl a mirror on the opposite wall. She seemed greatly disturbed. At last i she spoke: . “What frightful hips! are too, too solid to reduce! that wretch of a sculptor! shail 1 do?” Erantically, “and . in wild despalr she massuged her -hips until weary arms fell off,.There was improvement. ‘Ofice more came a_cold. ‘stem. look. as of mar- ble, upon her lovely face, and spoke no more! On, n —Signe F. Bowen Reviced Verson! Mother: “Billy. what was the lit- tle motto mother faught you terda Billy::“Just a minute, mother.” Mother: “Biily, ceme here nute and. let me see if rémember - it Willy: “Just Mother: 1his minut Billy should: be s a minute, mother.” ‘Little childr, and. mot, hurried .’ "B Murdock pyright. 1928 Reproduction Forbtdden) . [ ance at her reflection n | And they ‘Whar | there: she | bers, yes- this the ou can | i “Billy' Yon tell mother The linite er |cross-word puzzles. | The.most frequently abused addition to the was “Whoopee! Sound motion pictures spoiled the theaters for those secking a quiet nap. And many of them spoiled the 4 without any def- mah ar passe such used and slanguage her |theaters for people who wanted to ec good entertainment. Out of every 100 persons making telephone calls. 105 got wrong num- This figure is accounted for Onc got the right num- others received incor- ones twice. Britain turncd ont to cheer A1 Smith and vote for Herbert Hos er. And. Hoover being elected and the country made safe for prosper- ity, Santa Clans came again as in per-cent of the residents lof thig city dreamed of makine {transaflantic flights The percent- {aze who actually made Everyone ned. in the last more willing to stay right he Killed in antomobils | zoro p analy [ere ana ceidents, One motorist ot through fhe cen- ter of the city without heing stop- section is chiefly of frame construc- | tion will be a diflicult one for the | of ! and | jongg or, them wae| ped by red traffic lights. It hap- pened at midoight, after the lights bad been turned off. ‘The quantities of sodas, cesmetics, dazzling ties and socks, cigarettes and liquor imbibed by High scheol flappers and their boy friends again |increased 75 per cont. Something like 42 new magazines were Issued. Forty of them surviv- ed. The other two were good.~ The hot air expended on the High school addition debate, if held. in until the completion -* the work, would have been sufficient to hiecat the cntire addition for 15 ears: Sees Jobs for Women as Plentiful as Votes New York, Dec. 29.—“Hecaven will protect the working girl.” “That cant phrase, tcday an amus- | ing anachrenism, was frequefifly uttered 50 years ago as a pious wish. Fifty years from now it will be a silly mockery, for every wo- man will be a working girl and will know, better even than she does to- day, how to protect herself and her job. And she will know, too, other things that will give her a fuller and richer life than she has ever enjoyed before, Such is the prophecy of Josephine Dagkam Bacon, widely know .au- thor, who, in an article in Century Magazine for January, looks . for. ward to sce what the fate of Amer- | ican womanhood is to be. The prophets of a half century 4go could not foresee the woman of today because they could have no concept of the world we live in now, but the scers of today are het- ter situated and can forecast with accuracy, is the author’s contention. My grandmother, “she says, “if anyone had told her that her grand- daughter could take her choice of Koing helow in a submarine or sali- ing above in an airplane, would | have answered, “Don’t be foolish She simply couldn’t believe it. But | she knew whether 1 was going down, down to Hell or up, up to | Heaven, and when and how and P why" Women has come | the last tirty y contintes. 10 got herself an cducation, a vote | and, in many cases, a job. But the end is not in sight, and still better | things ure coming. | But the whole picture of the wo- { man of the future is not revealed to us, “Who would he so demented as to pretend to foresee her cos- time?" asiss the prophetess. “We who seemed headed for trousers, or at least, knee breeches, gazing spellbound at medieval hooks - and trying on Gainshorough hats Somo things, however, =can . he safely predicted, she says. #We are watching at this moment the com- plete transtormation of the ideals of an entire sex. 1 feel safe_in fore- secing, before the next fifty years, an adjustment between thej woman, Ler man, her child and hef job. \ly deughter is not working to r her living—she is working to carn her life, But what will my granddaughter he working for? The vight to a job will he an old story . Bt that job, which every p will have, will be “only a arfing point for hetter * things, thinks the author. T firmly, helieve they will carve out a betted Amer- ica. KEEP UNINUE HOLIDAY IN BRAZIL DISTRICT Fquator long way tn ! Natives Along Ohserve foners of the | “Day of Three Kings” on January & | Recife, Drazil. Dec. 29 (A-—New Year is the climax of the holid: season in Rio de Janeiro but here in the north of Brazil, close under the cquator, January 6, the Day of Three Kings, holds the title of importance. From the carly period of Portu- | guese colonization the' preparation and staging of the “reisados,” as the pageants of Three Kings are | called, has been the big event of the year. In carlier days the re ado wax a purely religious affa | designed to represent the pilgr age of the Three Wise Men in search of the new-born Logd, but its gcope I has heen increased®hy the addition | of popular dances and songs which | have no relizious motive. A person of puritanical tendencics would denounce the reisada as her- ¥ on account of the popular songs ind dances combined in it, but thig apparent irreligious is the most picturesque side of the event. and | 1he actors are earnest in their helisf [that the entire production s in | praise of the Almighty. | One of the rich men of a locality furnishes the funds for costumes and also food for the actors during the period of two months’ rehears- als which are held at his home, On the Day of Kings all the actors form a procession and visit the homes of all important families in | the locality. Observations COn The Weather Washington, Dec. .—TForccast for Southern New England: Pos- sibly light rain Saturday: Sunday parily cloudy and colder. Forecast for Hastern New Yor possibly light rain in south and rain or snow in north portion, somewhat colder in morth portion Sunday partly cloudy and colde Conditions: The as off the middle urbance that Atlantic coast evening has moved north- | castward to eastern Maine. The ine dications are for light rain or snow in the middle Atlantic states Satur- (day. Tt will be colder Sunday over [ much of the Washington forccast district Berlin Has Fog That Rivals London’s Worst | Berlin, Dee. 20 ®—Berlin today rivaled Londor as a city of fog. For decades no such fog has heew known las was observable today mot only in the capital but also throughout the Numerous minor collisions and ac- | cidents resulted from this unwonted te of affairs but the no ! casnalties. st were READ HERALD CLASSIFIED ADS FOR BEST RESULTS