New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 12, 1929, Page 20

. THINESE CELEERATE P01 W6IT 1 5 Poliicians Hated Lincoln; People -~ BRT E": REPUH}E SHORT ‘w THSYEAR) Always Lo!ed Him, Bowers Says BIRDS ATWITTER O FROSTY TWIGS January is $39.07; Less Qeveeses 0 0 R A Nty Dawn of Year 4639 Also Ob- served in San Francisco San Francisco, Feb. 12 (P— Chinatewn was decked with flags and lanterns and littered with ex- | ploded firecrackers today as this nit of the Oriental worlu cetebrated two notable events—the beginning of the year 4639 of the Chinese era and the sixteenth anniversary of the found- | ing of the Chinese republic, | The mew year celebration which lasts a week, began Sunday. How. ever, today had special significance. since it was on February 12, 1912 that the republic was established | and since today is the first anniver- | sary in a long time that has found China nominally free of internal | strife. | China has experienced many va-| rieties of revolution and change, since the first new year's celebra- tion in 2711 B. C., when the emper- | or Huang-Si ruled arter 1912 the! Chinese began to count time from | the establishment of the republic. That had no effect on the tradition- 1l celebration. | Stick to Traditions | Chinatown today s modern and | even has been dalled futuristic, but it has «hown itself as ancient as Cathay Sticking to traditions. “Gahnga Fah Choy La Mah" (which is as near to "Happy New Year” as one can get in English) resounds throughout the Oriental colony. Twice during the week there is the parade of the great dragon—a clotia creation about 100 feet long, with| a fierce looking papier mache head, | into which several Chinese crawl to | furnish it with power to writhe| through Graut avenue. And there| are the dances of the Chinese ac- tresses, who descrt the native the- aters and perform for the public. | During the New Year celebrations tes that on the first| gather and serve cere- The next day visits all debts paid. The! season is a gala one for children for all friends of the family bestow | upon them pennies wrapped in red | paper. | Y. W. C. A. Pinnacle Club ! Has Valentine Party Spanish ladies, vagabonds, sailor boys, little girls and many others held sway at the Y. W. C. A. elub rooms jast evening. The club rooms were attractively decorated for the Valentine party, which was given by the Pinnacle club. The scc::c was & colorful one of hearts, and flowers, bright caps and pretty girls. Montica Tinti was in charge of the program and introduced new and in- teresting games. Dora Cararini, in | the role of a Spanish lady, and July Jennings, in that of a Turkish lady, received prizes for the most attrac- tive costumes. Asmilde Zucchl re- ceived & prize for the best boys' cis- tume and Mary Tintl for the most unique costume. Helen Yuniskis re- ceived the prize for the team game and Sylvia Olson for single guessing | game. Mrs. Duncan Shaw and Mrs. W. M. Johnson and Miss Fossett, Miss | Misterly and Miss Hayes of the Y. | W. C. A. staff were guests. Spanish Club Social Friday to Be Best Ever | Every effort is being expended byl Andrew Guilliano, Spanish instruc- tor at the Senior high achool, to have this year's annual Spanish club party the most successful {n many years. The party will be held at the Central Junior high school auditor- jum Friday night. Mr. Guilliano is a skiliful decora- | tor and the work of preparing the school auditorium for the occasion is done almost exclusively by him with the assistance, at times, of members of his club. The decora- | tions are always Jn red and gold which serve a two-fold purpose in that they are the colors of Spain and of the schooi. There will be a short play entitled, “T'wo Brothers” after which danc- ing will be enjoyed to music fur- nished by & seven-piece orchestra. Within & day or two it is expected that a committee will be chosen from the club to assist Mr. Guilliano with the details of the event. Coal and Iron Police Again in Difficulty Pittsburgh, Feb, 12. P—Coal and tron police, of the Pittsburgh Coal company, who were subjected to & searching special inquiry by a sena- torial inquisitorial committee during the 1928 investigation of bituminous Than December. Washington, Feb. 12 UP—If the |gangamon county court room, average per capita circulation of | walls of which once echoed the voice money in the United States is an ac- | of Abraham Lincoln, and painted a | the Emancipator curate indication, each person in the | parallel between nation has $2.69 less now than he|and Stephen A. Douglas, his had at the end of 1928. The monthly circulation statement 1928, it amounted to $41.76. olidays it totalled $8,431,099,373, of | Bowers said. h which $3,694,297,038 was held in the | “Politicians scorned Lincoln to the treasury. Gold coin and bullion in|eng of his life, and the people will long political rival. “Had Lincoln and Douglas issued by the treasury shows that|died in the first year of the per capita circulation of money | war, the historical status in the country on January 31 was!would not have $30.07, while on December 31,|from that of the other. of history was developed, or brought Total money in circulation on|out, by the sufferings and struggles January $1 amounted to $8,211,579,- of four blood-soaked, tear-drenched while just after the Christmas|years of loneliness and anxiety,” the country aggregated $4,126,600,-|]ove him to the end of time. 052 while money in circulation to- Mrs. Bertha Sibley Asks Authorittes | 51" From State Instition. Following the receipt of two let- ters from Dave Panco, 22, who is awaiting trial in Hartford County jail on a charge of having carnal knowledge of a minor female, efforts will be made by the girl's mother Mrs. Bertha Sibley of 87 Arch street te have the authorities release her daughter who is 14 years old from the state institution where she is un- der care. it was learned today. The case attracted considerable | failure. publicity recently, when the gay ne’er-do-well. “Lothario” went to the trouble of|mijtted to the bar, Lincoln went to ordering everything in preparation | the legislature, where he was soon background of success; “No two great leaders of oppos- talled $4,656,964,322. Federal Te-!ing forces in all history have been serve banks and agents held a total | more strangely identified in their of $1,710,242,710. careers. They were cast for oppos-, e nd ing roles in many a drama of their MOTHER WANTS GmL HDME day. ‘Thelr lives touched at many points, and as long as Lincoln is re- membered Douglas cannot be “By all the dictates of convention to Release 14 Year Old Daughter |all the advantage in the contest should have been with Douglas. When he first looked out upon the world from a neat cottage, in the thoroughly settled town of Brandon, in Vermont, Lincoln, the his fourth year, was_toddling about a sordid cabin in a Kentucky clear- ing. The father of one was educated and successful physician; that of the other the most tragic of all failures, an unsuccessful illiterate Douglas had Lincoln of “The year that Douglas was ad-| for a princely wedding party. His| joined by Douglas; and these actual financial standing however | youths instantly took rank as de- was soon ascertained, and the plans | paters and managers of men, . were frustrated by the police when |1t was Douglas, not Lincoln, | they took him into custody on com-|offered the constructive measures. “And then Douglas forged ahead where he made some purchases on| with his election, at 30, to the na- A The next three or two. It was later charged in po-lyears are the least inspiring in the The most fruitful with the girl whom he was to marry. |4n that of Douglas. Lincoln and he was bound over to the COUNLY | tereq congress without grestige of plaint by one of the local merchants, credit, promising to pay within a day | tjonal congress. lice court that he had indiscretions | Jire of Lincoln, jail pending trial during the Marcn term of the criminal court. King George Sits in Sunshine at Bognor It was said His Majesty passed only a fair night. The gale raging through the dark hours caused him some disturbed periods as it beat at the windows. This morning, however, after the sun came out, his doctors professed themselves as not dissatisfied with his conditionr, The household at Craigwell House feels that as soon as the cold abates the king will be more likely to show a definite improvement. Foch Has Relapse; His Doctors Confer Parls, Feb. 12.—(UP)—Marshal Ferdinand Foch has suffered a slight relapse and a consultation of five today. visiting the patient recently, Sold and Serviced By 503 Main Street New Britain RADIO Sold and Serviced By BLAIR & BRODRIB 170 Main Street mining districts, today again were in the spotlight following the beating to death Sunday of John Bereskie. Santiago, Pa., miner. Tieutenant W. J. Lyster and Privates H. P. Watts and Frank Slapikas, the former accused of be- ing a ringleader and participant, and | the latter two, participants in the murder,«are under arrest and police claim to have infomation from eve | witnesses that Lyster beat Bereskie | with an fron poker “until the poker | hent double.” ‘ MISSOURI PACIFIC EXPANDS } Washi Feb, 12.—(P—The ourt . railroad asked the | onri F e rity transac- lay to approv ity ¥ a necessary to allow surchase ipment. The 185,000 of of $9.505,000 of NEW €q Jorrow $7 1 h orporation will w roiling stock and the cost of the n will pay the balance in cash | ——— WHEN IN HARTFORD DINE WITH US. Don’t forget to take home some Maryland oysters and fresh crackers. HONISS’S 38 Uuate St Aartford, Coma. (Under Grant's Sioee) BOSCH RADIO Sold and Serviced By ANDERSON ELEC. CO. 163 Arch Street the civil of ene differed greatly The Lincoln child reputation, : “This to me is one of the mys- teries of Lincoln. Nine years be- fore the great debates eleven years before the presidential contest of 1860 no prescience could have fore- seen the possibility of the reversal of the‘positions df Lincoln and Douglas. “When the Kansas-Nebiaska act called Lincoln again to face his old antagonist it was a mnew Lincoln |again to face his old antagoniat, it antagonist a new Lincoln appeared, —a deeper, sadder .stronger, simpler humbler, nobler Lincoln convinced| of the elemental truth of his posi- tion. Henceforth until the last phase, Douglas was dealing with what we now know to have been phantoms and fighting shadows, Lincoln with inspired vision was ' struggling for the eternal verities on which depend the cause of humanity and the ultimate preservation of American democracy.” Emnloyment Situation Poorer During January Hartford, Feb. 12.—(M—Oppor- tunities for employment as found by 'the six free public employment bu- |rcaus of the state labor department |fell off in January. figures for the month issued today, showed. Of male applicants 53.1 per cent (were supplied with positions as agaipst 57 per cent in December, and for females 76.4 per cent as against |80.2 per cent in December. Total applications for employment were: Stamford ¢24; Hartford 1,067 New Haven 6G91; Bridgeport 833; ;:\'ut:rbury 761; Norwich 976, total ,652. Applications for help were: Stam- |ford 299; Hartford 788; New Haven 575; Dridgeport 685; . Waterbury 646; Norwich 189, ! |272; Hartford 762; New Haven 539; Bridgeport 562; Waterbury 604; Nor- wich 189, HARVARD FIVE WINS Cambridge, Mass., Feb. 12 (UP)— Leading all the way, the Harvard | {basketball team triumphed easily cover Lowell Textile here last night Springfield, I, Feh, 12 UP—|anysort and left it in two years Ciaudo G. Bowers of New York,|without the ennancement of s | Robils aDd Biuebirds Seen on keynoter of the last democratic na- ~ tional convention, stood today in the Shuttle Meadow Road The ground hog is discredited again, Instead of being six more weeks of winter in the offing, spring is on the way. True enough, it was only 20 degrees above zero at $:00 o'clock this morning, but the sun is higher in the heavens, the days get warmer nearer middday, and the robins and blue birds are out, Mrs. Gerda Fay of 490 Lincoln street, who takes an early morning stroll every day when the weather permits, accompanied by no one but her formidablc appearing Irish ter- rier, this morning saw one blue birds and three robins chirping merrily on the trees along Shuttle Meadow road. The birds did not seem” to mind the cold weather and chirped & cheery good morning to the solitary hiker, as they seemed to twitter a promise of early summer. Mri. Fay also saw a number of partridges there, When interviewed by a Herald re- ported this morning, Mrs. Fay said she was reasonably sure that they did not wear rain coats and rubber boots after last week's flood. This is the first bluebirds report- ed 1n this vicinity this year, A young woman in Eim Hill saw a !robin during a snow storm on New Year's. REPORTS “BUNR” IN CELLAR Morris Cohn complained to Lieu- tenant S8amuel Bamforth last night that someone has been going into a cellar at 240 North street at night of late. Officer Eugené Kieffer in- day. Col. M, W. Delaney of Hartford is general chairman. Visiting horsemen will be taken to the riding clubs in Hartford this afternoon and . tonight a banquet | will be held at the Bond hotel. The following circuits are repre- sented: Bay State, Orange County, Green Mountain, Massachusetts fairs and Connecticut fairs. There will also be a number of saddle horse men represented. This 1s the first time that the show horse group has attended the meeting. ‘ENTERED IN MEET Boston, Feb, 13 (UP) — Edvin Wide and Ove Anderson have been entered in the two-mile run at the Caledonian club games to be held at the Boston Garden February 23. vestigated and found that the cel- : lar door had been pushed in, but there was nothing in the place but bty by the score of 32 to 20. sad Selve, 35¢ Bognor, Bussex, IFeb. 12 (P—King l l | George had his first experience with ’ Bognor sunshine today when after 3 yesterday's cold biting winds and i gray skies the dawn today broke 1 clear. ’ Woost_er Street l}esident of New Haven Gets 131 Stations In Few Eve- nings In Spite of Maze of Hig h Tension Wires Which Cause Generally Poor Neig hborhood Reception. of his six physicians was called for | Jogseph Boccamaielle in Communication quipped | The latest unusual Bosch | NSRS Eian. I “Summer Booster” e model “28” Edition “‘6'\ per- | t formance to come to public . 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