New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 25, 1929, Page 6

the o & Closs Mall Mstter. TELEPHOND uu.-.:' Baitorial Reoms — The enly profitable sdvertising mediuim ™ the u‘t’y. Circulation besks and prem veom aiweye epen 0 advertiesrs Membor of the Aseciated Prese The Aweciated Press o exclusively en- the wee for re-publication eof ted te Kt or Bt ot aad sl herwioe tocal uows publl Member Audit Bureen of Ciresintion The A. B, C. W & natienal erganization which turnishes newspapers and adver- tiners with & etrictly honest anaiysis of circulation. Our circulation statistice are bised upom this sudit This insures pro- tection against traud fn Bewspaper die tribution figures te both uational and local sdvertisere The Herald fo on @mle dally in New fork at Hotaling's Newmtand. Timee Square; Schultz's Newsstands, Entrance Gresd Central, ¢2nd Strest. e e It the Al Smith minority in the Legislature actually makes a “stand" on varlous isues it will benefit the state. Nothing succeeds like & minority that stands up for some- thing and has sufficient spokesmen of keen intellect and prying eyes to make it necessary for the majority to watch its step, That is what is nced- ed in Connecticut. Having sold his stable, it looks as it the Prince of Wales is about to settle down, instead of continually falling down. e The ideal girl grad, as we sce it, is one with good looks. And never mind what she doesn’t know. Another $2,000,000 gift to Yale. By and bye the professors will con- clude they ought to get more of that money. It seems to us that the firm which employs Mr. Coolidge after March 4 will get much more in advertising than the munificent salary paid. THE LABOR THAT IS “SAVED” Old-timers will remember that whenever & good snowfall came to the cities hundreds of men got jobe as snow shovelers. It was healthful work and the money thus dispersed by the city went for the support of citizens, most of them elderly men, at a time of the year when other work was not abundant. Today we have machinery to do this work, and one man operating & throttie does the work of 15 or 20. The men whose snow-shoveling ability is no longer needed can stand on the sidewalks and look on, This is not isolated instance of modern machine methods. The same tendency is meticeable throughout all industry. 8o we find Mayor Paonessa saying that there are many men past their prime in the city who need to be siven work by the city. The mayor therefore favors street improvements in the summer time. To improve streets still requires men despite some newfangled machinery that does part of the work. The amazing increase in the use of machinery has brought problems that are hard to solve. Yet they must be solved if society is not to suffer front self-made ills. THE BRANCH LINE PROSPERS The Waterbury branch line run- ning through New Britain has be. come more important to the New Haven railroad than ever before. Contrary to a general belief to the contrary, more trains are being oper- ated over it. The additional trains are freights, and not passenger trains, which perhaps may account for the public lack of interest. Since new rails were put down several years ago the branch line Is capable of accommodating heavy freight locomotives and also heavier freight trains. That is why they were put down. There would never have been a thought of putting down heavy rails for dwindling passcnger traffic. Trains which formerly chugged up the canal line are now on the Water- bury branch line. A few freights which formerly used the main line from New Haven to Hartford also now use the branch line. Most of these travel through the city at night. Gate tenders are on the job longer than they used to be. Decision to make greater use of the Waterbury branch was made un- der the late President Pearson. It was a wise move. The time was in- evitable when the main line would be unable to accommodate all the freight trains operated over the New Haven road to Hartford and points beyond. As it now stands, freight trains are operated over the Water- bury branch and thence over the Highland division to Boston. This also avoids cluttering up the shore line with too many freights. The fast night passenger service on the main lines, it wppears, cannot be interfer- ed with by the slower freights. The New Haven road divislon as alternate routes. and it 1 Was a wise foresight that improved / Moats | P! is fortunate in |they s having the Waterbury and Highland | with th ST TR them sufficlently to make pessible their better wse. ———eee A BUS LINE THAT ISN'D About a year ago there was much agitation for a bus line between New Britain and East Berlin. Some en- usiasts thought it might as well go all the way to Middletown. the Post Offes ot Now Beitale | But like many an agitation, it vamoosed in due time. East Berlin residents are as keen as ever for the “contemplated bus line,” but seem to realise that watchful waiting is the cue for the present. Our bet is that there will be no bus line to Middietown so long as the gasoline line—formerly the elec- tric—between New Britain Junction and Middletown shows a profit. In order to maintain a profit there has been a. steady curtallment of trains on the gasoline line. This usually happens' whenever a new time table is printed. When the point of diminishing re- turns reaches the no-profit stage the gasoline line wil be abandoned and a bus line between New Britain and Middletown substituted. Rumora | are that the way the profit on the gasoline line is diminishing the ulti- mate bus line will not be delayed for longer than a few years. It isn't & matter of service, exact. ly, but one of profit. Let the profit disappear and the service with buses will commence. BEHIND THE SCENES The latest revolution in China is restricted to Shantung province, where the Japanese are in control of important centers. Suspicion nation- ally is aroused that the Japanese, who have been lukewarm about the Nanking government, are surrepti- tiously involved in this new insur- rection. General Feng, the so-called “Christian general,” is known to have been iInclined toward the Japanese long before the Nanking government was form- ed. He s in Shantung. Some observers do not require more evidence than this that the Japanese are giving their moral support to the new uprising. ART IN TE MOVIES The talkies wil never be the come plete success that they might be so long as stellar stars of filmdom, such as Emil Jannings, do not appear in the new medium. Jannings, not as good a talker as he is a pantomime artist, remains in the silent film. Our belief is he will continue to score heavily. St. John Ervine, British dramatic critic cmployed by the New York World for the scason, said in New Haven last week that the movles are for morons. The fact is, there lsn't an actor on the legitimate stage who can give as convincing an espousal of high art as Jannings. It 8t. John Ervine cannot appreciate or understand this art that is his loss. now WHY NOT SUCH AN ARCH? There is talk of preserving the court of honor at the entrance to Walnut Hill park with a memorial arch. The idea is sound. While it is being considered, why not look to Hartford and note what renown has come to it through the possession of the soldiers and sailors arch along- side Bushnell park. In the Elks Magazine this month pertinent views of numerous American cities are given, and one of them is of the Hartford arch, A somewhat similar arch at Wale nut Hill entrance would be consider- ed by many as a fitting approach to the monument on top of the hill. Of course, it will cost a little money. But 50 did the monument, and nobody seems to have objected. THE RETURNS OF OFFICE Meeting an alderman on the street, we got into conversation with him about the tax rate and pertinent topics when some fellow citizens stroled up and said to the alderman: “Well, I see you are getting your name in the papers regularly of late; you scem to be making quite a noise in City Hall.”” The alderman looked pained. Now, why should an alderman be pained if he gets into print? That's one of the chief remunerations of the job. We rather think most of the aldermen and councilmen like it when they are quoted in the public prints. If it wouldn't be for that the job wouldn't be worth having. PROFITS IN THE AIR We learn by experience. So do the air transportation companiea It was thought for a time that air passenger service would yield good profits. Now it is felt that the car- riage of mail and express cargo is generally more profitable than cater- ing to passengers. This is because pound for pound mail will pay & higher tariff to the alr transportation companies than passengers: that the carrying of air mail and cargo does not involve troublesome and often expensive considerations of accident liability claims, of air sickness, and the extra weight necessary to provide comfort for passengers. Some carry transport lines, of course. but small minority compared reat majority which de passengers exclusively; pend primarily upon mail and ex- press cargoes, and will carry pas- - NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERAL ]cn that they modernize their home m only Incidentally when pernnits. Only In ene aspect ‘cl passenger transportation has the airplane a decided advantage over surface transportation, Mountains and waterways are frequently barriers to rallroad cxtensions and are costly to overcome. This is not true in aircraft transportation; the cost of flying over them 1s no greater than elsewhere. This gives aircraft a com- petitivo advantage which helps to Uear the relatively higher cost of air transportation over areas where land transportation is easler. —_— RECOUNTS AND VOTING MACHINES Can a voting machine ever le? That is what some legislators are trying to find out. At an election in Hartford last year the count was close. It was believed advisable to check up on the returns. But these were “in" the vot- ing machine and could not- be check- ed up without taking them apart, or something like that. If a mayor happened to be elect- ed by a dozen votes the loser would be entitled to a recount, on moral as well as general principles. How to get the recount with voting ma- chines—that is the question, Let the Legislature do something about it. o WOMEN'S WORK— IN THE KITCHEN In this day-when women are re- garded on an equality with men and are supposed to be *out imn the world” wooing an Independent exist- ence, it is something of a surprise to discover that most of this isn't true. There still remain 26,000,000 house- wives'in the nation, and with or without all the labor-saving inven- tions that are designed to be a part of every kitchen, these women work seven days a week, and most of them put in 56 hours of work each seven days—not counting the extra work required in looking after Johnny and Mary, the little elfins’ who sometimes create as much extra work as an old-fashioned Kkitchen range. No less an authority than the bureau of home economics of the Department of Agriculture offers the | figures; and in_presenting them i Miss Hildegarde Kneeland of the bureau emits & clarion call to wom- li that they live in modern kitchens which really save labor; that they put the “nation's largest workshop”—the kitchen—in as efi- cient a condition.as the Industrial plants. We fear that cannot be done. In the first place, it is neccssary for housewives to cook three meals a day, and despite the multifarious modern devices and the assistance of mere man in providing delicacies that can be purchased more or fess whole, a certain amount of work still remains to be done in such homes where cooks or servants are miss- ing—which means the majority. It is | a fuct that most hubbies cannot asaist at the cooking, so that the bet- ter halves must of necessity do all of the important work. The 26,000,000 houscwives are a most stable and dependable part of American womanhood. They may have duties, but they have & pleni. tude af common sense in most mat- ters affecting the American home— which, by the way, figured in the last political campalgn but has not figured in state papers since that ' time. | Enthusiasts such as Mr, Edison have been claiming that the time is not far distant when men will be | able to let machinery do all the| work. Others have been telling us that so many housekeeping machines have been invented that women have been driven out of their homes in search for something to keep them busy. The majority of women still re- main in the home, in spite of the statistics showing that increasingly large numbers of the womenfolk are at work outside of the four walls of domestic felicity. That's how things will remain for q.une a while. MEXICAN ROADS AND BANDITS Road maps of Mexico are getting into print, They show highways con- structed and those under construc- tion. American autoists are being en- couraged to use them. Yankee tourists in Mexico, how- ever, will not be numerous until the sovernment conquers the bandita that infest parts of the republic. The kidnaping and killing of two Amer- ican mining engineers in Guanjato the other day emphasizes the dan- gers that still lurk amid the wide open spaces of Mexico. Complete annihilation of the ban- dits is as important as road building in Mexico. 25 Years Ago Today The Southern New England Tele- vhone Co., it now transpires, will de- fend its action in setting up poles fn the southern part of the city on the ground that it had a permit by transfer, The eily counell years ago voted to allow the old New Britain Telephone Co. 10 sef up poles along | tellows who look as concern ia exercising, the privilege granted ‘the smaller one which it bought out.: The Hart ‘& Cooley Mfg. Co. bought out the New Britain Bram Co. today, The purchasers have been in possession of the Myrtile street plant for the past three years, having rented it in 1901 with an op- tion on .the purchase. The brass company will now be dissolved. Herbert L. Mills pecelved the 33d degree In Masonry at the consistory in Norwich last night. The recruiting office, Sergeant Smith is continuing at the Hotel Beloin, and so far nine cav- aley recruits have heen forwarded to Fort Dadsworth, W. T. Coholan leads in the Y. M. C. A athletic tournament, having 410.6 points. He finished third in the three brogd jumps last night and kept his lead over C. Anderson. H. L. MHls' fleet “Yeliow Kid" won the third and deciding heat with Fred Beloin's “King Direct” at Franklin square this afternoon. It is the intention of leading East Berlin residents to. make another effort for an extension of the trolley line to East Berlin, The line now extends to the . American Bridge plant on Berlin street. | Mr. Moody, instructor in the com- mercial department of the high school, recelved a severe cut in the head at the Y. M. C. A. gymnasium yesterday afternoan, A member of the junior class put his arm through a large pane of glass in one.of the swinging. doors at the school yesterday aftespoon, The young man came out of the ac- cident unhurt. Facts and Fancies Also, the two sides of a triangle are equally guilty. It's a case-of true love if he re. sents the fact that her knees dhow. The Kellogg treaty_isn't the oply effort to establish peace., Wales is popularising dove-colored shirts. It the purpose of capital punish- ment is to frighten others, why isn’t the hanging done at the bail park for all to see? $till, when somebody appears with a perfect solution of the liquor question, cverybody will listen and Every hick town contains & few though they might wear spats if they dared. Ah; well; most of the big jobs are held by men who don't know what Einstein is. talking about Capital is & sensitive thing, and money gets tight when stocks take a drop too much. Why should . 8tate lcgifiature try to think wh:n it can get need- ed additlonal recvenue just by raise |ing the income tax? . Americanism: Spending millions to save the unfit in other lands; spending millions to suppress and jail the unfit here at home. Then, again, scrapping the cruls- ers will afford work for a lot of idle men after the next armament conference. An electrical engineer has devel. oped a device to match colors. He probably makes it work by saying: “And don't stick it in your vest pocket and forget it.” Battleships \use a smoke screen when they wish to put over some- thing In concealment. The Ship of Btate gets the same effect with an executive sessi How pleasant, in a foreign land, to see somebody take something for dyspepsia and know you've found a man from home. » The cynic who thinks Providence doesn’t watch over this country never has studied State législatures. The two agencies that have done most for the emancipation of wo- men are Congress and the drug store sandwich. Outting Prolific Crop! mmurluq:o; signed or talked abo X Woe think the nations might leave out . ¥ Of garden prders now, percha The seed that grows munitions plants! Entirely Fomininet Hanley: “The mavie industry has come into her own.” ° Briggs: “Why do you sy ‘her “Because it's all talk- FOOLING THE WOMEN! By C. B. Declo There ought 1o be & law against mind ‘feaders and fortune tellers. They cause a lot of trouble. Thyy are all the rage as one act of the present day mevie programs. The women folks go wild about them. 1 took the wife to a movie the other night, and when the famous mystic, Satoovi Pagoochi, came on stage, nothing would do but that she ask the Hindoo a question. She had lost a ten-spot that day, and naturally she asked him about the ten-spot. ¥ Satoovi mulled her questian over for & few moments and said, “Mad- ame, I hate to cause any trouble In your family, but & member of your family took the ten-spot—~AND 1T WASN'T THE DOG.” % ‘Well, it caused trouble all right, and I suppose that the wife always will believe that I took the ten-spot. ‘Women are that way. Bo easily fool- ed by such fakirs, And to think I spent two bucks of the ten for candy which I gave the wife! Bibulous Musict Gertrude (at college” gles club concert): “Doean’t Jim Blake's voice 'Yes. Jim's got what you call a blended whiskey tenor!" —Willlam Coyler In the Bible it was considered u miracle for an ass to speak. Now, nothing short of a miracle will keep one quie! LOVE SONNETS OF A CAVE MAN By Don Marquis A Milder Mood! My Love, 1 am not always violent! Somctimes, when gorged with meat, . musing I lle And watch the cloud-beasts crawl along the sky And ramp as if to claw the firm. ament . . . Sometimes 1 am Gent! I tire of mutder, even fetch a sigh To think how oft I've punched you in the eye And gnarled- bludgeons o'er your bean have bent. Do you recall how mocd I tore a Bword-Toothed Tiger quite in two And made from ringing gut sounding wood A joyous lyre to chant the praises of you? Sometimes, my Sweet, When I'm re. plete with food, I only wish to sing and purr and coo! & "most Poetic In milder and Faithless? You called me faithless! Faithless! Oh, absurd! Because I merely gave that Buzom Dame The brief Once Over! Faithless? Fie, for shame! Look to the deed, my Love, and not the word, Not to the wandering glace, Honey Bird! ~ When has my tough missed its aim? Are you not brus'd, my Love? Are you not lame? When you need beating, once demurred? Ah, you call me faithless when you Bee My love mark wrote upon some oth- er Frail! I never struck a woman, Sweet,, for aport! I'aithful I am, T ever was, to thee— Faithless? Why, only last month, wan and pale, Three times you haled me, Sweet- heart, into court! my fist ever have 1 The highway bus is now equipped for everything except argument with interurban cars at crossings. Married sons and daughters no longer live with the old folks. Thero isn't room in one house for all the things that can be bought on the instaliment plan. Correct this sentence: “We have money and friends,” s§id Mrs. New. rich; “what do we rare if the social elect ignore us?” Copyright. 1329, Publishers Syndicate f Second'Man Loses Life By Dropping Dynamite Rutland, Mass., Feb. 25 (UP)— A subterranean explosion of dyna- mite killed one man and injured seven others in shaft No. 5 of the Coldbrook-Wachusett tunnel here yesterday. Roy H. Keener, construction fore- man, lost his life in the gecident. which occurred when he dropped a stick of dynamite while preparing to blast. Those injured, all of whom were taken to a Holden hospital, includea Hugh McVicar, South Lawrence; Joseph E. Lopeaza, New Haven, Conn.; Walter Mitchell, Westfield; Wallace Richards, Worcester; Rich- ard Gully Worcester: William Tess- row, 8t. Louis, Mo.; and Carl Jone=. In the sames shaft a week 2g0 vesterday a similar explosion result- | this stretch, and now the larger ed in one death and injuries to six. A Journcy By Railt More Truth Than— Femdle Lecturer: “I ask you — where would you be if it wasn't for us women?" Male Voice from poker game!” f —Rev. C, E. Barr Elegy 1 had rcad of beings like her. 1 recalled the ancient classics, and their beautiful gods and goddesse £he was a goddess. She was a dipped in wine. Her presence was a breath of rare perfume. Rear: “At a Giibert: “A produce firm.” Jatkeon: “Butter and egpat™ Gilbert: “No, selling cars.” Jacksen: “Cars aren't produce.” ‘Gilbert: “My boy, it you doa't produce with this firm, out yeu o . ~—Albert Lewie (Copyright, 1939. Reproduction Forbidden) QUESTIONS ANSWERED You can get sn @nswer (0 any question of fact or Information by writing to the Question Editor, New Britain Herald, Washington Bureas, 1333:New York avenus, Washingtoa, D. C., snclosing two cents in stamps for reply. Medical, legal and maritas| advice cannot be given, nor .z tended research be undertaken. Al other questions will receive a per- sonal reply. Unsigned requests caa. not be answeired. All letters arc con- fidential.—~Editor. Q. ‘Which states are officlally dcsignated as Commonwealths A.. Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Kentucky. Q. How many Bullding and Loan Assoclations are in the United Htates? A, 12,804 Q. Where and when was Ruth born? A. Born at-Baltimore, Maryland, February 7, 1894. Q. Do tuna fish have both acales and fins? A, Yes, Q. Where is the stinging organ of the “stinging snake"? A. The wmo-called “stinging snake™ is @ mud-burrowing snaks (Farancia abatura) that is indigen- ous in southern, United States. 1ts tail is sharply pointed, but there is organ, and the snake is absolutely harmicss. Owing to very secretive habits, it is seldom soen., Q. What relation = would daughter of my niece be to me? A. A grandnicce. Q. How many presidents has the A. F. of L. had sinco its organiza- tion and who were they? A. The President of the Amer- ican Federation of Labor is Willlam Green. He was elected to the office on the death of Premident Samuel Gompers. The only other man whd held that office was John McBride who served for one year (1895). ‘Q. What date was March 1917, in the Jewish calendar? A. The §th duy of Nisan, 5677, Q. What was the location of the Crystal Palace in New York city and fa it still standing? A. The name “Crystal Palace" was given to a large building erect- ed in 1853 in New York city. The site was 6th avenue between 40th and 62d streets. 1t was. a favorite place for large exhibitions, and was destroyed by fire in 1858, Babe the 8, year liest form was used in Paris in 1663 by the “pctite poste,” estab. lished on royal authority by the Comte de Nog. and the Sier de Villayer. It consisted of a billet bearing a distinctive device and in- tended to be wrapped around or ifi ¢;§¢§ £l £ i i ¢ £ i i > s g« | | ? | i §E 5 g i e £ H 7 !4 i i 5 o i { i % ; g § | ; §§§ I 25 i { i 5 It was published by Chariss Sorib. ner's Bona, §97 Fifth avenvs, New York city, N. ¥, g Q. Is Pharaoh the name of an Egyptian king? A. Pharaoch was the titie of the ancient monarchs of Egypt. Q. Is the bite of a centipede the large tropical forma, however, is painfu! and serious. o Q. It the word “cosmopolitan” & noun or an adjective?: A.. Cosmopalitan g both an ad- Jjective and a noun. Adjectively it means: common to all the world; free from local attachment, The noun means a citizen of the world ~a cosmopolite. Q. What is a “Wampas Baby"? A. One of a group of the thir- tecen most promising young screen actresses chosen each year by the Western Association ®f Motion Plc. ture Advertisers, known as “Wam- pa. Q. Who played opposite John Gilbert in “The Masks of the Devil” and who played the part of the Countess A, Eva Von Berne played oppo site John Gilbert and Alma Rubens played the part of the Countess. Q. Is an International exhibition being held in Spain this year? A. The International Barcelona Exposition at Barcelona, Bpain will open on April 1, 1929 and the Jbero- American Exposition at' Seville, Spain opens March 15, 1928, Observations On The Weather Washington, Feb. 25.—Forecast for Southern New England: In- creasing cloudiness tonight, fol- lowed by rain on Tuesday; not much change in temperature; fresh northeast and east winds, - Forecast for Eastern New York: Cloudy, probably followed by rain Tuesday and in extreme south por- tion late tonight; rising tempera- ture Tuesday in central and north PRESIDENTIAL . Why does @ new Presiden day? How wmany Presidents long hae the custom of taking tricta, Temperatures are moderating throughout the contral and eastern statea ¢ Conditions “for 'this vicinity ' n finess with slowiy 8 rising temperatuge. > ‘Temperatures yesterday: Athaata ... Nantucket . New Haven . Northfleld, Vt. Pittsburgh .... Portland, Me, . 8t. Louls ., Washington . Stomach Disorders u| end ach and intestines. It thing your doctor looks at. at a glance the condition of your digestive syst A coated tongue is a danger sig- :{ those digestive dxpmdcu. Hndl‘:: Tanlac INAUGURATIONS SINCE 178 e ofice on March ¢ instead of been sworn in un sonw other he oath In frant of the Capitol been other lay? How in effect? Who may administer the oatl to & new President? Who notifies a President. elect that he has heen clected? Which President had the mom gorgeous in- auguration ceremeny? Why @id rifiemen on housetops guard the line ef march of one President-elect? liow balie? At whosa inauguretion did the many Pregsidents have had inaugura) crowd smash the furniture, china and glaseware and ruin the rugs and caipets at the White House? What Preste denrial parnde had & procession of log cabine and cider harrels fm it? ‘These and ecores of other interesting. facts ahcut the inaugurations eof trom_Washingto ington Burenu's latest hulletin, to Hoover are covered in eur Wash. tully complied from historical sources: You will want & copy. Fill eut the couyon below and send for it: ~ 'mn‘on EDITOR, Wal 1323 New York Ave. T want a eopy of the bulletin PRESL 799 encloss herewith five cents ———.—-c”rmm'm.._———-‘ Ington Burean, New Brital Washington, D, C. Herald, DENTIAL INAUGURATIONS SINCE in_coln, or loose, uncancelied U. 8 ' '.-’un stampe to cever postage and handling costs: Nanm 'l'l‘lll‘l' AND NUMBER . | e 3 am & reader of the New Britain Herald, The Terrible Tempered Mr. Bang -—— e —— ——) By Fontaine Fox THE TERRIBLE TEMPERED MR. BANG NEEPS IT IN A HURRY AND $OME ONE/HAS -TAKEN Hi$ BLOTTER ! :