New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 31, 1929, Page 8

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Tie Aerald s on York' at_Hotaling'w Bquare; Schu N Grand Central, Entrance 4204 NEW BRIDGI ere was a PLANS g kep ind no opportunity hlow for such a struct road officials realizi ent 61 and showing a m end the discussion by apy tion, the city does a willingness to do its Wi portion of the for the city will be e railroad pay expense, the Nothing suggested will provide more public satisfaction | the city. st for the it will ¢ A motorist Black Rock span he met between > Bostdn: record-breaking thing of money ently stated that th bridge was the wo ew York and and this ugli Britain Heavily loaded trucks are p over it ! bridge states nothing weighing over every eight tons should cross Such a span on a main highw within a city and crossing important railroad tracks is constant to a menace safety. MAYORALTY RUMORS Rumors are already current that George A. Quigley is out to run for mayor again. No mayoralty election in New Britain is complete unless such'rumors regarding Mr. Quigley Times | ° relatively small. | years | more the company paid out in wages and bonuses the more it would have to boast about in the way of well- motorized planes. So far as the pilots lare concerned, it remains a mystery how they could get snatches of sleep i while close to the drome of the ! motdrs. Sleeping in a Pullman berth while the train is passing a string of freight cars on an adjoining track must be an insignificant féat in com- parison. of endurance flight | | The greatest | with | them all—so far—is now over, | everyone well pleased. The flie popular heroes, the company owning be able to tell the | world how good they are, and the he plane will oil companies furnishing the gas and | | the lubricating oil will be able to run | page ads on the high quality of their | products fine business all It's | around | | durance flight has proved | about aviation that wasn't known before. It can be taken for granted | that airplane engines of the newest models can continue running stead- ily for able to refuel a plane in mid- take turn oving for weeks at An endurance flight, however, loesn't help ation to conquer storms or fogs, and doesn't help to 1 flights over oceans. conquer a ne P may be some other points tion that are not particu- ly aided and abetted by endurance 1 But as a sporting proposition, The &t cived they work very well Louis ry in, indeed. 1 quite as much public attention as some long- distant flights received How long the present endurance ord will survive is a question. | This being quite a season for endur- ance flights, others : store. That they are not 1s danger w On mir in- dicated at h Minneapolis. whole, however, they are far less Jang than attempting ocean hops at lea prove that the re | But it is doubtful whether the en- thing | an indefinite time, that it is | that a pair of skiled airmen | to sleep and | =l the | NEW BRIIAIN DAILY HERALD. was no pleasure in lying on one's back and being put to some incon- venience as torn ligaments tugged at frazzled nerves. During the period of convalescence the accident victim became convine- ed that the famed “man about town™ in New York was nothing else than the care given the stranger—when | he gets into an accident, rarely be- fore. One is reminded of this story by | 0. Henry on reading of the incident at Broadway and 38th street the other night, when a youth fell to the sidewalk and muttered he was | hungry. | One man rushed into a restaurant and bought him six sandwiches and milk; others did likewise, more or less, Another “man about towa' in the form of a doctor, making an inves- 1 the vyouth had beén tigation, said starving Immediately a purse was made up on the spot and the collection for | the youth’s benefit topped $100. Broadway proved itself not to be Its milk of human esemplified to hard-hearted. Kindness was never better advantage. When 1 was discovered later that the youth had been a student at the | University of Virginia, came to New | York to make failed. anded, every heart which his fortune, | and was s had participated in the impromptu must welled with | satisfaction. | But suppose the youth, ssistance have before he | had begun to starve, had panhandled asking for enough to get something to eat? | the pass | with wh | He would have been rebuffed con- | siderably. And if a cop had seen him | 4o it the the starving 1ad would have been arrested and fed in the police station It something spectacular {o cause the men about town, the will- | ing helpers good cause, 10 [ take in any notice. power plant in an airplane has been | | developed to an amazing statg of efficiency; and that a pair of air- men working in shifts can feed it gas until it wears out, if desired. IPLE HOUSES multiple | houses, districts of New England, are not with in other f met sections of the except perhaps in isolated instances. Apartments exist countr in all but they are stone affairs holding from 20 to 30 families. The | three-deckers of wooden construc- | tion, as we are familiar with, are a | peculiar New England product. Peo- | ections of the coun- {m- usually regard them as unsight- 1y ple from other are heard for months prior to the | election. The rumors are especially current after he has made a num- ber of speeches. If he runs it probably will need to be as an independent candidate for the .. Republican nomination. The regular Republican candidate for the nomination, of course, is likely to be Donald L. Bartlett, once defeated but ready Nebody cratic candidate will be. But there & rumor afloat that Mayor Paone: is going to spring a surprise. Many people have been saying that if he runs for a fourth time he will be defetited on his record. The mayor is to run again. knows who the Demo- credited with thinking considerable of his record. He likewis withr believing is credited he ele has had on several oc has as good a chance for 1 tion in 130 as he asiods previ- ously, Afyway, the Paone Quigley nothing ssa rumor good as he rumor is to about ““RAZZING" POLICEMEN One of become mu this city policemen A n he cheap tricks that has t in some parts of for smartalecks to as the s ng goes. person who indulges in such nse stamps himself as THE ENDURANCE TLs7 One's sporting bl heir advant . of course, is en- tirely one of economics. On one plot of land, and under one roof, three | famili be accommodated. | Three single houses, accommodating can | three families, would require three | plots of land and three roofs. | The claim often is made that land in New England cities is not in suf- ficient evidence to provide a separate | plot for every however, is rather unconvincing con- | sidering that in most cities there re- | mains plenty of land that is unoccu- pied. In New Britain, for instance, there | is a plenitude of land in the north- | western section that looks as if it | were part of a western state. Multiple houses are officially on thk wane being said the two- to in this eity, trend towaid one and family houses—with the former remarkable popularity means that more of the d | for housing purposes. And how this has come city’s vacant land is being utiliz about is largely due to the fact that automobiles enable resi- dents to live almost where they please in the city regardless of trol- bus accommodations, © age of the motor is spreading population, is decentralizing it, s once vitally it was neces- sary to live e nothing of the or | “near sort is influencing the decisions of where to 1 this reason 1 that ne reets are be- add and to 1t 1d every city e FHE MAN ABOUT TOW N of O. Henry be found. seeker 1 trolley ent " appare rtunate vietim finds otlessly handle him with care, & step softly. Dreamland atter except that there | roads be annexed to one or two of ) | | such as are evident in the industrial | family. That claim, | markable | imself FLAMING TOO HIGH | 1t is told that a high school fra ternity dance was held this side of We do not know | whether the affair was sponsored by | Meriden recentl a local fraternity or hy one in an- other city., We trust it was the lat ‘lor. The dance scheduled to be- gin around 9 p. m. But that was only in theory. One of parents of an | d youth, who happens to he | our informant, motored to the place | was in and waited nearby. Scarcely an automobile containing flaming youtn arrived until 11 p. m. and later. Then lasted until the festivities a. m. and later | Manitestly such things are an evil. | Although his son had a bid for one of these wild-party fraternities, the | father said the only way his son could join was over his dead body— or words to that effect. A wise parent. There was a time when youths with such proclivities were consider- ed too wild for decent people to as- sociate with, To a certain ex- tent, this still holds good. SECURING CONTROL OF NEW ENGLAND LINES An impression is widely held that stock of the New if the common | Haven Maine the | quoted today then the stock of some of the strong financial railroads is what is heing is worth prices being | worth many times | quoted. | [ New other words, the two major 15 | enjoying are earning money, but if dividends land railroads are helieved a certain advantage. | have an influence upon stock values | then the prices would be much low- |er than they are. The chances are | that the actu | tle bearing upon the stock prices. [\\'har causes the issues of the New | England roads to be quoted at pres- al dividend rate has lit- | ent prices can be | short than that there due to nothing | is a concerted | buying policy heing exerted by inter- New | ests outside of England for control of as much of the stock as reaches the open market | The interests suspected of practical desire to purch stock of the New E P are the New York Central | and the Penn e as much gland roads as ble Ivania. One financial writer zes the situation thusly: Soston & Maine in contr than 20 a ng no dividend this en to a point out of fine the dividend This stro suggests that omiebody is buying for control. Any which acquired the Boston stock held in the treasury ven, could get control b | only a small amount of th: stock in the open market. The sup- position is that the stock is being ac- uired for Pennsylvania. Indeed, ome pretty good judges helieve that 200d deal of New Haven stock 1 been acquired by Pennsyl On ther hand, interests 100k to see turned There I men entually st few standard 1(C ania in- me both over to are few terests the financial well-informe o New! and railroads oy more of the hig trunk lines. Several yea geestions that | the two major New railroad and the Boston & Both | this | vill he annexed to | Nantucket England rail- WepnkspDAY, JULY 31. 1929. the big trunk lines were greeted with indignation and scorn. Now we have it from authoritles that such a possibility is brighter than ever be- fore, and that it is coming about in a perfectly natural manner—through the purchase of stock. \Facts and Fancies | By Robert Quillen All they need to establish peace in the Balkans is a little less prox- | imity. How to stop crime? Well, people stopped making buggies when ad- vancing civilization made it unprot- itable. It the Chinese wish to steal rail- | | roads. they should learn the peace- | 1{\“ Wall Street method. Mr. Babson, suggesting ways {make a millio, overlooked the p sibilities of a refueling station | mid-Atlantic. | There's small choice on Sunday. | The preacher scolds you for being naughty, or you dodge church and | get cussed out by a trafic cop. | it el [ If there is no such things as | telepath:; how does the committee | of ladies know the editor failed to shave this particular morning? fo in Hurrah! Europe can't fight us. The next war will be in the air, and they must wait for an east-to-west wind, and by that time they'll be | over their mad “spell. | Patriotism is the quality that |makes a town worker with ecight | mouths to fed resent the importa- tion of cheap foreign wheat. Now they say the Versailles treaty is a good one Tt must be, | when the nations can enforee it with |a mere 40 per cent increase of arm- | ament, after all Americanism: Cussing for | trying to dodge her debt; leading [the world ten to one in bankruptey | | cases per capita nee | IUs casy for a great man to travel | |incog. He's so polite nohody real- izes he is a great man. Simile for {oday: |1anding a man who turned down by anoth rasy a just been Life won't be so dull when the player must spend the | oping a good left. | You believe in some signs. | When daughter eats onions for sup- | per, that is a sign you may use the car. hall winter devel- must Mayhe juries don’t convict because inobody feels qualified to throw the first stone. Even the smaller towns now have every convenience at their swim- ming pools except a place to wash when you come out. There two kinds men: those who continue to wear knickers and those who have seen kodak pic- tures of themselves in knickers. are of ‘Well, suppose ‘“Lucky Lindy” is rather cool to reporters now. A& man may use a ladder to reach the top and still not want the ladder following at his heels when ha gets there. | Correct this sentence: “It was| {the most becoming hat I ever tried |on. said she, “but T remembered | {my vow to buy nothing more un- less T had the cash to pay for it."” Copyright 1929, Publishers Syndicate. Observations On The Weather Washington, July 31.—Forecast | or Southern New England: Iair nd somewhat warmer tonight; | hursday increasing cloudiness, | | probably local thunder showers in | the' afternoo; cooler Thursday | | night; increasing south and south- | | west winds, becoming fresh | Torecast for Eas New York: Partly cloudy tonight and Thursday; local thunder showers Thursday and probably in north and central portions tonight; warmer except in extreme northwest portion tonight; | cooler in interior Thursday after- | |noon; cooler Thursday night; in- | creasing south and southwest winds | | becoming fresh and shifting to northwest hy Thursday night. New Haven and vicinity: Fair, | | slightly warmer tonight; Thursday | | increasing cloudiness with local | showers in afternoon or night Conditions Pressure continues i high this morning over the Atlantic | | states and the Gulf distriets with crest of maximum pressure near | Miami. Tt is producing thunder storms in the Lake Superior region. A showery area prevails in portions {of the Ohio and central Mississippi | in of the South- | valleys, also portions id the far m temperatu a rday the Southern statr f Maxir ove 90 west ranged at a nun north Atlantic Conditions fair w temperature | eloudiness 008 yesic 3 »er of stations in states, favor for t ather, not much ¢ ed ge in follo casing vesterday ‘\wmu | Atz Roston | Bufralo | Chic: In | Duluth Hatte Los { Miar Minne ntic City i polis A8 Naszhville I New Haven | New Orleans | New York | Norfolk, Va Northfield, Vt 0t 7 | Let's not 1 | One ma 76 | ed her there 4 friend from Boston?" Thorsen: “He died last week.” Wolfe: “High blood-pressure?” Thorsen: No, high-brow pres- sure!"” —Sylvan Evart (Copyright, 1929, Reproduction Forbidden) Questions AT Send all communications to Fun Shop Editor, care of the New Britain Herald, and your letter will be forwarded to New York. Hint! beats Another Hot Weather These days when the sun down so hard, Whatever clse we may discard off our smiles, or jokes They Folks! really keep the heat out, Enough to Cause it! Ylorence: “How pale the moon | | QUESTIONS ANSWERED You can get an answer to any question of fact or information by writing to the Question Editor, New Britain Herald, Washington Bureau, 1322 New York avenue, Washington, D. C., enclosing two cents in stamps for reply. Medical, legal and marital advise cannot be given, nor can ex- tended rescarch be undertaken. All other questions will receive a per- sonal reply. Unsigned requests can- not be answered. All letters are confidential.—Iditor. is Philip: “No wonder, when stop to think of some of the s it sees every night!” did was Henry of Patrick governor Q. Where live while he Virginia ? A. In Richmond, the capital of the state since 1779, Q. Where is the Island Helena? A. In the middle of the Atlantic far off the west coast of Africa. It contains many historic buildings, among them the residence where Napoleon lived as a prisoner. Q. How can honeysuckle | eradicated ? A. The only way is to dig it out, or cultivate the land severely with some crop such as corn to smother the honeysuc Q. What ment? | A. 1t was a condition imposed | upon Cuba precedent to granting in- | dependence to that country, where- by that country became a virtual | protectorate of the United States |so that no forcign power should | ever obtain a lodgment there, and Cuba should contract no debt for which her revenues were inade- quate; and the United States might intervene ‘to preserve independence, order and republican government; | be granted the use of naval and | coaling stations; and that the sani- tary reforms already begun by the | United States be continued. It was an amendment proposed by Senator | Platt of New York to the Army ap- | propriation bill in 1901. hree— | Q. Is a permit required to use a Two: | nom-de-plume? A. No. Q. How many people of Polish birth and ancestry arc in the | United States? A. According to the last census there were 2,436,895 Poles in the | United States of whom 1,139,979 | were born in Poland. Q. What is salt? A. Salt (sodium chioride) inorganic chemical. Q. Describe the flag of Albania? A. It consists of three stripes, red at the top and bottom and black in the center. It contains a black eagle and the gold helmet of Scanderberg, the eagle holding in its talons two guns and two sabers. Q. What are the names of some golf sticks? A. The most common are, driver, brassie, spoon, driving iron, mid- iron, mashic, niblick, mashie-nib- |lick and putter. Q. What is a ship's diary called? A. The log. Q. Who is the Greek diety fre- quently representetd as Father Time? of St. be le, is the Platt amend- ) St If T go to see the play. Of the story I am certa Prompily it gets under w With the lifting of the curtamn Builded all that's said 1 done On the ancient recipe- 'Tis the same old Two A and B in love with | | | One: If T read latest hoolc sy situation: y confidently look For the trite triangulation. 0ld as time, but ever new, Seemingly, this tale of Same old yarn of One und A and C in love with Is. the If T cast my eyes round Far and near and middle distance, Still the formula is found In qur everyday existence. Everywhere T look to act or fiction, life or play— Still the little game of Tnre B and C in love with A. | is an law fulfils, shall wane Nhile the ancient Myriad moons wax, Jack must have his pair of lJilis, Jill must have her pair of Jacks! ang His View! Pygmalion atue.” well, fall Stuyves in| love with Brockman: enly to damc fell he a the | cold, wasn't hard, 2y for —Martha Bennett Education experts “pleasure . students” barred from college The resulting loss from culture would be tritling, but the straia upon 10,000 home towns would be something terribl that be “agree should A Cronus, Q. Who played the Biblical character associated with Joshua in rendering a good report of the land of Canaan? A, Caleb. Q. Who wrote the “Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire? A Edward Gibbon, an historian. Who was Secretary Wilson war cabinet? Robert Lansing. THE EXODUS OF SOME SUMMER BOARDERS 1 VIES TH ER WITH AN ENRICHED VO- CABULARY! Overheard by §. T.ee Robbins L3 this summer sure was ic. It's hin my Aunt's . T'll tell the cock-eyed T don't mean maybe, English of State in the cat's pan A world an’ | | | ;15th annual meeting held Q. On what mountain did Noah's Ark rest? A. Mt. Ararat is the traditional resting place. Q. What relation are the chil- dren of first cousins to each other? A. Second cousins. Q. Did the Graf Zeppelin go to Texas when it visited this country? A. It did not fly west of the At- lantic coast states. Q. When did the big land rush in Oklahoma begin? A, April 22, 1889. Later rushes occurred on the opening of lands in 1891, 1893, 1895. 1901 and 1906. Q. Has the 18th amendment been declared constitutional by the United States supreme court? A, Yes, Q. Which of the countries, Ttalys France or Spain produced the most wine in 19272 A: TItaly produced 35,650,000 hectoliters; France 51,209,910 hec- toliters and Spain 28,325,192 hecto- liters. A hectoliter is equal to 26.42 gallons, Q. of innings played in a major league baseball game? A, The 1-1 tie game of 26 in- nings. played between Brooklyn and Boston of the National league, May 1, 1920, Q. What does the name Janice mean? A. “Grace of the Lord." 25 Years Ago Today 1t is claimed by many people that Main street is infested with many card rooms and gambling joints that should be cleaned out by the police. The board of selectmen met today and voted to offer a reward of $500 for the apprehension of the murder- er of Eugene Bosworth. Colonel A. L. Thompson of this was elected president of the State camp, P. 0. S. of at the in New Haven yesterday. Richard Schaefer and family will spend a few weeks at Savin Roc Clay Cavanaugh has returned a visit at his home in Nor: walk and the St. Louis exhibition. Mr, Cavanaugh had a very enjoy- able time at the democratic conven- tion. The annual clam bake and outing of the local police force was held at Scheutzen park this afternoon. G. M. Landers was reelected pres- ident of North & Judd's at the an- nual meeting held yedterday. Plans are being made for the erection of a brick block on Main street for the Sovereign Trading company. The Russell & Erwin baseball team will play the Winthrop athle- tic club at Electric field Saturday. Riley and Saunders will be the bat- tery for the factory aggregation. Many people in this city are backing the Red Sox to capture the 4 from EYESIGHT EXAMINATIONS HENRY F. REDDELL OPTOMETRIST RAPHAEL BUILDING 99 WEST MAIN ST. ELEVATOR SERVICE “PRECISION OF VISION' What is the greatest numhflr' pennant in the “American league. Boston heads the league by a game at the present time. $ir Harny - FUNRIER Hae ye heard this one ? THE REAL SURPRISE The MacTavishes had invited the MacNabs to dinner and the latter had arrived before Old Man Mac- Tavish came home from his work. “I've got a bright idea, Mrs. Mac- Tavish,” sald Mrs. MacNab. “Dun- can and 1 will hide behind the cur- tain and when Peter comes in you can surprise him by saying that we found we couldn’t come at the last minute!” Soon thereafter MacTavish came hurrying into the house and made straight for the dining room. “Oh, Peter,” exclaimed his wife fn la tone of annoyance, “The MacNabs have just run up to say they can't come!” “And a dam good job,” instantly exclaimed Peter. “That last time that gang were here they drank the place dr Copyright John F. Dille Co. National Newspaper Service FORMER EDITOR DEAD Robert C. Washburn Headed Scattle [ Post Intelligencer Staff—Born in Maine, Portland, Ore., July 31 (P—Rob- ert C. Washburn, former editor of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, died yesterday after a brief illness. He was born in Hollowell, Maine. An uncle, Elihu Washburn, was minis- ter to France during the Franco- Prussian war. Other members of the family are prominent in the flour industry at Minneapolis. Government Aided in 7,002 Miles of Road Washington, July 31 (P—The gov- ernment cooperated with the states in the improvement of 7,002 milee of federal-aid highways during the last fiscal year, bringing the tota mileage of the system to 78,096. In making the announcement, the bureau of public roads reported that |in addition to the improved mileage at the end of the year there were under construction with federal aid 9,526 miles, which will cost about $238.158,495. The government wil pay $96,500,347 of this sum. BEEN Maybe it's an & ing, or present your vacation is a week-el . Wherever it s, chigger,” 18 lying in wait; ; maybe you go to the scashore or the mountain: the wily mosauito, snakes, STUNG? nd; month; perhaps or camp- the busy bee, the ever- centipedes and similar maybe it lasts a spiders, insects have a habit of being inhospitable; poison ivy and poison oak look barmless but cause a lot of trouble; have been known to go off when th fishhooks have been known to mish mushrooms find they have eaten toad mto the eyes: and even cxpert swim Bureau prepared a compact, auth tin on “First Aid for Vacationists.” is & mighty handy thing to have ar penings need quick and effective trea quences. 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This ain’t no chia music, big boy, this is pre-war qual- ity stuff I'm handin’ ye, with the boloney parked outside, by cracky! An' 1 been making jack on the boarders, 10o. Yessiree, 1 got a load o' kale that'd knock your pan goofey. A flocka swell-lookin' mam- mas has bin stayin’ with us thi summer, and what they do to the place ain't nobody's business. ill, it ain't a-gonna cost 2 heap fer repairs an' T'll salt away the difference toot sweet fer a day what's all damp. An' let's make be- lieve I didn't knock ‘em mammas off their seats. Sex appeal ‘at's what T got. I got ‘it,’ 'at's what | | all the gals told me, feller, an® the | | Missus kin laugh that off. ! “Se ya again, I'm afraid, |an’ don't take no lead dime Aces Crops Pathetic Figures Piker | Tirst Actress: | tainly crazy for notoriety Sccond Actress: * | girl would even testimonial for nothir | Mint wlotte Christian Soldier! A= afte th of a storm which an recent rain | 50 8§ | sfully comes up | transportation this story A vouthful suburbanite himself stranded in the girl friend after the | intimate friends out of the city | young man dia He carefully escorted his responsi- | bility to the Y. W and check- getting a receipt from which he promptly young lady's aunt, He n quietly t A found city with his | All her relatives were resourcerul | hesitate long. | theater. no the § mailed retary to the special delivery betook himself No one was comp to Amended Wolfe: “Whatever became of our (*Fonuaine Pox, 1929