New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 12, 1929, Page 6

———-—————————————-—l———'—__——{_" local celebrity, and must be more New Britain Herald HERALD PUBLIBHING COMPANY important, considered as news, than a head-line attraction on a chain | broadcast. That point, Ibrought up by Mr. Hart. too, was Tssued Dally (S ay Kxcepted) At Herald Bldg., 67 Church Street The newspapers have mnot been, and are not accused of having been negligent in giving radio appearances of BUBSCRIPTION RATES $5.00 & Year $2.00 Three Months 76c. & Month due local artists. After all, that is more important in Eatered at the Post OMce at New Britain as Becond Class Mail Matter stimulating interest in such a broad cast than a write-up later, especially notice of | | | living, | if there is criticism involved. For it TELEPHONE CALLS Business Office 425 self-evident Editerial ,Rvoms ... 926 is a fact that has become to those identified with such ters that no local artist cares for honest criticlsm, That holds good | whether following a formal concert | mat- | The only profitable advertising medium | in the City. Circulation books and press room always open to advertisers, [or a broadcast. Nothing in a story of | a concert or a broadcast, however, | has the interest of onable criticism. As nothing 131 ot Assoclated Press Ie exciusively en- Member of t The Associated Press titled to the use for re-puulication of | all news credited to It or not otherwise credited In thia paper and also lucal news published (berein. per well-aimed and reas there is always room for | | criticism. But the artists say it is ail | Member Audit Bureaa of Circulation |right so long as the other fellow The A. M. C. la & national orgauization which furnis pewspapers aud adier- Cwrs with & strictly honest agalysis of cireulation. Lur elrculation statist are wased upon this audit. This insures pro- tection against fraud in pewspaper dis- tribution fgures 1o buth pativngl and locai advertisers, gets it. This touchiness about valid | can have other effect | than stimulating no great desire to | appr: no be critical, nor even to take undue notice of an event. | The big-time prof New | a5 The flarald fs on sale daily In [ just as lotaling's Newastand, Times | K et schultr's” Newsstanda, Entrapce (scarcely find time Grand Central, 42nd Bireet e END OF THE DROUGHT So far as Central Connecticut is concerned the drought is over. This may not be much to write about from the city man's standpoint, but that noth- | »ssionals may be but they could to bother about y dart flung at them in the pub pres; touchy, | eve lic Besides, any big-time | | celebrity has had plenty of oppor- | ;lunlt_\’ tc become acclimated to a percent |and it serves to aid him,in trying | | to avoid having bad the | stage. For a radio editor to opine | | that Buck and Wing dealt in nothing | | but stale jokes the night before may | [be a true statement and well de- | | served; but let the same critic say ge of unfavorable criticism, days on rural residents will ag; ing has been more important this summer than the heavy rain which drenched these environs Sunday. The lightning spoiled radio recep- tion—but what did that matter? | The water in the | streets discouraged | but again, what did that matter in | the face of the inestimable good that | accrued from the downpour? In view of the rain, and its value to & sun-baked land, nothing else matter- ed. And so the week starts normal. In- deed, we wouldn't care if there were a little more of the watery deluge. | Jim Jones of around the corner did not set the studio on rire when ‘e | broadcasted the highways and e AT previous evening | and something would burn up right | in town. | The metropolitan papers employ | | music critics who during the winter | scason are hard put to attend all the ;cwms scheduled almost nightly. We | [have yet to find any of them de- | voting the same effort to reviews or} radio broadcasts, no matter who the And out-’ | performed over ‘ artist or the orchestra. | LOBE-GIRDLING | AIR-VOYAGE And now the Graf Zeppelin, with the eyes of the world on her, will at- tempt to make the first flight of a dirigible around the This great air liner is destined to have first page attention throughout this epoch-making voyage, and if suc- cessful will well earn the public ac- | claim so generously accorded it. l But the globe-girdling trip is not yet done, and there are problems |tion. The same ahead that may defy all the skill of | down the line. Dr. Hugo Eckener. Mooring masts are | s not plentiful in northern Siberia, nor | sus is the tremendous hop across the|they have no cause for complaint, in Pacific, from Tokio to California, to {our estimation. After all, it is the | public's reaction that counts. No pro- | THE standing novelties | the air—which happens occasionally | | “likewise receive no critical atten- | tion. This attitude may change if the | radio ever becomes more enterpris- world. ing than the concert stage. But at | | | | | | i | present, it a new symphony of 1m-} | Hall, there probably would be no critical notice taken of it until it re- | ceived a conventional stage presenta- rule holds good all o long as local artists reccive cient attention before the event be regarded lightly. | But we will not need to wait weelks | fess ever been able to | for the result of this air adventure. |put anything over in the face of a | Except for delays in ports of call, | hostile reception by the public, and | been able to cry down | ional critic notably Tokio and Los Angeles, the |no critic actual flying time will be compara- |an artist in the face of a favorable | tively little. A ship that can cross |reception by the majority of the pub- trom Lakehurst to Freidrichshafen [lic. When Bill Jones from around | in 55 hours will not be tarrying in |the corner broadcasts all his towns- | northern Siberia for long, nor will it {men able to listen in are well able | take an interminable to judge whether it was good or bad the northern Pacific via the coast of |or medium, and what somebody on | Alaska. If misfortune does not inter- | the newspaper. says may not amount | vene, aviation history will be most [to much.~ It may be | honeyed words in print, but they do the |no good to the reader if he thinks | is not a time to cross nice to see | notably advanced. Incidentally, ~millions earth's inhabitants will an liner for the first time, and some n(!prrfetl medium so long as weather conditions and various sorts of inter- ol | see air | otherwise. Besides, radio the owners of the buldging eyes will not have even heard of such things. | ference have a |broadcast. A performance may be LOCAL ARTISTS ON THE RADIO |twice as good as it sounds from the it way of marring a may be worse This being a world in which things or it has receiving set, | to worry about never cease, th it sounds due to mechanical | seen. portance were to have its premierc | busy | over the air instead of in Carnegle | lights, making them look spick and | span. Indeed, no other city property :ome to pass that local artists who broadcast over the radio believe they are entitled to some journalistic at tention—after the event as well as vefore. The editors and the artists are do- ing spective sphere. the worrying, each in his re- The question was brought to our attention by Theron W. Hart, who in effect hypothetical case: propounded the following “Why is it that when a musician plays before a local audience from 50 to 200 or perhaps 500 people he always gets a story in the papers, ind perhaps some well-merited criti- but let play over a local radio cism; the same musician station to an audience numbered by the thousands he gets no attention at all after it is over—also no criticism 2" We are supposed to be competent to answer that question. Maybe we It extent a ire, may are not depends somewhat upon the of nd state the sympathi Our sympathy goes out to the artist, just as it does to an needing it. But sympathy solves no problems and butters no bread. And it doesn’t answer questions. 1t would be a development of con- siderable dimensions—if f newspapers took to counting up important radio not of im- portance to artists broade: red. lividuals. sting events after they occur- especially 1t sections of the with reference to in- does occur that some press printing radio comment refer to the head-line radio attractions before and after. But this usually has nothing to do with the efforts of local artists. To a com- munity, however, a local artist is a SRR AT % of | | manipulation of the machinery by | the studio experts. Maybe this is why | the professional critics on the metro- politan dailies carefully avoid risking | their reputation with the va machinery. The automobi | | | JOY-RIDING IDIOTS | head-on collision between an and a trolley car on the | Harvard bridge in Boston was a pure case of five joyriders running wild and not caring what happened. The motorman of that the trolley gave ev lence proves all one know—he only saw the flash of the | auto’s headlig T bridge—and the crash joyriders were cross- ing the on the wrong side of the road—at a clip of more than a mile & minute. All those in the auto were young peopl Against suc defe What motorist fools there h is no de- e inno- chance s ar the joy-riders at ent against of is accounts of such wig driving of It a pack 1a m hap- penings that discourages night driv- ing for many citizens who prefer to safe and not take their lives their hands. How idiots in the first place ob- tain licenses to drive is one of the mysteries of the automobile age. | SYLVAN SHADF | LAKE STRE No ON one can traverse without being struck by one thing— its | These re trees not striplings. They were not plan in majestic rows {the year before last. They've heen | there and a long time. They stand high serene, sentinels that continue | needs to and then there was | Lake street | NEW BRITAIN DAITY HERALY. MONDAY, AUGUST 1z, 1929. 's present with |change has occurred. Automobiles |are yielding revenue to boat lines— to bind New Britain its past. Lake street may be one-sided, in |something which the most veteran of a sense. For a part of it there is the | boat captains never suspected as pos- Lock Shop pond and land devoted to | sible ten years ago. s. It scems strange to- | It is fortunate that this develop- ment has to the aid of the | coastwise boat industry atter auto- ing has reduced passenger busine: Whether the income from auto transportation balances the loss of industrial us day that paing were once taken to come plant rows of elms on the industrial side of the street, But when that was done things were different along 1t was a street of sedate not yet Elm street and reached its present state. The pond industry had passenger revenue is a question, but it at least must closely do so. once was what it now isn't—to get —_ e it down tersely and clear. And Lake street today is a vista between two rows of fine trees because the old- of its future. Facts and Fancies By Robert Quillen The ladies may be catty, but men do the pussyfooting. timers thought well Their idea of art was trees along the thoroughfare. The Dattles valiantly against encroaching indus- strcet no longer Money is absolutely essential to happiness, if you haven't anything Ise to be proud of. trialism. On the northern sector the situation is lost; but on the southern side the line holds wonderfully. Flanked by the shade of the over- | auove. hi wwiul neat, hd they oo hanging branches, serenely satisfying | it an “endurance” flight! to the eye as it meets the vista of a | the southern side ains the incontested boundary of the original West End residence dis- trict. And intersecting it are some of the most quiet residence streets in the city, all of them having no inten- Why broadcast a medley? The six | other radios in the apartment at- tend to that. sylvan corridor, rem: | | Think of the poor illiterates who [can't read the daily papers and ,don't know how many people were | killed yesterday. tion to yleld to commercialism and, in fact, lately protected by the zon- ing law. The best labor-saving device o far discovered for women is a hus band. The elms along Lake strect are | among the tallest hereabouts. A row [ Think how thieves would prosper if officials were afraid to express {an opinion concerning the law that | forbids theft. of elms in New England fashion is a feast for the eye. Lake street has a banquet. ST and discover how much worse you STREET ART might look. The iron disks which the city has placed down on various streets—at a | The radio tenor isn't like a mos- quito. The mosquito makes you suf- | ter after it stops singing. cost of 50 cents a disk—are all right for disks. But the careful observer will have noticed that either the disk factorles failed to turn out enough to supply the demand or else the city | thought there was something about white lines painted Americanism: Building machines to lessan labor so we can have mor: time to attend to one another's bust- ness, on the pave- 5 A great man’s conversation seems ments which could be more casily dull to you because stecl —doesn't make sparks fly when it strikes Thus we have, e “lines" disks and painted lines also. The two kinds of traffic guid- ance work very well side by side. More autolsts halt in front of white lines, and more pedestrians seem to see them, than the disks. But the lines need constant repainting, while the disks don't, A week or so ago painters were refurbishing on some streets, of : America just seems to have mor- insect pests than other countries be- of the nativ Washington might solve that problem of precedence by remem | hering that the biggest feeling one present always pays the check. Among the things daughter learn- ed at college is the theory that pa- jamas are a house dress the go-and-stop The idea of refueling in flight may have been suggested by watch- ing daughter hesitate in the dining room on her way to the garage. seems to be better taken care of. No stranger, motoring through the city, is allowed to let the appearance of the Black Rock bridge and ap- proaches be the thing by which the town is remembered. New A tory in England is a manufac- turer who cuts wages to show the voters what awful things under a Labor Government. Britain is bound to" have the best-looking sig- | nal lights on helps any. A good way to learn sia and China are contending for i3 | to wait and see what takes. the circuit—if that | what Rus- The rubber stop “flappers” which have been attached to the pavement at certain street infersections add a unique note to our varlety of street art. These impress most by their visibility, being unlike painted on the pavement, numerous motorists Perhaps it would be cheaper to pass a law providing an antomatie il sentence of one year for each young man who inherits a mililon. this sentence: the word “stop" which saw. Correct boys pet her,” s she could marry she wished.” $®pyright “All id the gossip. “and any one of them it rarely But what the town still needs are | 1929, Publishers some safety zones in the middle of alcat yndicate certain street intersections, where pedestrians when half way across would have a chance to await wide their chances In comfort. Some citics are plastered with them, greatly to the advantage of both tire and foot trafic. When such safety zones are Hae ye heard this one ? A HARD LIFE Sandy MacGregor, having attain ed the ripe old age of eighty-nine, was looked upon as the village “wiseacre,” and it pleased him im- | mensely to be thus honored. Sitting on his porch, in the early evening, he was wont to drop pearls of wis- | dom to of his fellow citizens {who happened over for a pipe or painted white they are particuarly useful. The city of Westerly, R. 1., is a striking example of such painstak- ing care by its traffic chiefs. The idea can well be developed in New | Britain. AUTOS ON THE BOATS Time was when the Sound boat lines along e a and the coast generally b depended upon freight and passen- gers for sustenance. The lines that werc passenger excursion boats were always in the minority, but they wer the boats with which the public was | best What change however, has taken place in most of these ships acquainted. a since the automobile came into use. not worth one of living Baid these occaslons, sits still &' the time, he clothes, an’ f he ahoot he wears oot his shoes." Which reminds me of the Scot who went into the five-and-ten centss store and asked where the bargain 1ent was. The common on mon method is to have much space on the lower decks glven over to now automobile freight | traffic. Connecticut motorists, wish- ing to o to Long Island, “motor | The Narragan- | across the Sound” on a boat boats baser plving along sett Bay are in quest of auto traf- fic also. Some ferries try to interest gcarcely any other than auto tourist showing how they can ‘“save 6 miles” or so by crossing a body of e American Note to China Is Received China, Aug 12 (® reply to the recent note Chinese government seeking ibolition of extra-territor il- vas received at th king ign office today The note, which was 1 ngthy, will be handed C. T, foreign minister, tonight rrives from Shanghai. Although its contents not divulged it was understood Unated ates had failed to meet China's requests. Washington, however, was said to have expressed its willing cusa the subject turthe nationalist government, perfectly X water instead of motoring around it Lake Champlain, the *northern gateway to New England,” is speck- | Nanking, Amer of led with auto ferry boats which the bl under construction at the southern end will scarcely eliminate. | oges And long distance motorists, wasting | o7 to b a night's sound Wang sleep while keeping put sleep in a on the move, often their ca when aboard ship and the same state- | roomni wera The on same boat! metamorphosis holds A good over the entire seaboard. Dow ness to dis- crossed the Chesapeake for seve Withsihe generations, sold a Longfield, 17 violinist made in Italy redda Kansas strument passenger boat to year-old v in- 57 years buy one having room for 30 or 40 autos on the low- Y er deck. On the Delaware the Tt's a comfort to visit the beach | cause ours feeds on plants instead | happen | the winner { i the | hni munications 1o M ltor, care of the New Herald, and your let «) 1o New York, Shop b Britat will be forwa Sun dials are exceedingly attractlve | things, we know, most of us lack gardens to park ‘em in and so advocate fun dials, take so little space, fact we cach display one we wear a smiling face! A Bad Reminder! Circus Boss: “Don't be afraid to go in that lion's cege. He won't| hurt you. A lion in captivity is s harmless.” Rastus: “Maybe dat's so, but ef he puts his eye on a cullud | man he might think as how he was back in Africy agin and forglt him- self!” | ‘ Is Your Sun Dial Functioning? | ! But | we Folks, they | | In when “Eye Specks yo' won't know me!” MALE By Asa Geery Hairy-chested He-Men, Brave and bold and free Stalking hither, thither, to ners of the earth; Men of might and vigor, x feet tall, or bigger, Waking booming echoes with their anger or their mirth. men, the cor- | Giant-muscled He-Men, | Mountain Men or Seamen, Rolling down to Rio or wherever | else they roll; 1 Full of nerve and daring, ! Valorously faring Every trail of danger Ie tropics to the pole. from Horny-handed He-Men, Six feet two or three men, Battling with the elements, a-sailing or ashore; Fstablishing new borders— | According to the orders | | 0t some dyspeptic little runt of | five-feet-three or -four! | anyone give | eriginaily | Liiver An (su “Can an wild | animal 2" | Betty (eight): “Lion |m Teacher: “Right. Now t domesticated anima | Betty: “Dog. | Teacher: “Correct. Now an ani-| mal which is sometimes wild and | metimes domesticated.” “A husband!” —ose Gaines Reproduction Who hojogy ? A. Idgar Lee Masters. Q. For how long did Houdini re- under water in ed casket? A. One hour, thirty-one mir and thirty-one seconds. Tope? Q A recd! session) e wrote “Spoon Teacher nmer example of a me a ates Has there No W ever been a negre ons to b Giantism, regarded dis- ely connected with the e known as acroniegaly (which chiefly manifests itself in argement of the hands which some biologists as a . 1929 IForbidden) Questions and, an en- and fect). think |an excessive development ot the an- terior lobe of the pituitary gland. Q. What woman did President sior Miss Ada Comstock, President of Radcliffe College, Cambridge Ma | Q |ast plcture in | son appeared? A. “Kit Carson.” Did Owen Moore appear with | Lon Chaney in “The Road to Man | dalay? DUESTIONS ANSWERED Gy e ey A ety You can get an answer to any are now in circulation? question of fact or information by | A, It is impossible to estimate writing to the Question IZditor, New |These coins were issued from 188 Britain Herald, Washington Bureau. |to 1912, inclusive. 1322 New York avenue, Washington. | D. C.. enclosing two cents in smmps‘ | | What was the name of th: which Ired nickels Observations The Weather #6r reply. Medical, legal and marital advige cannot be given, nor can ex- tended research »3 undertaken. All other questions will receive a per- sonal reply. Unsigned requests can- not be answered. All confidential.—Editor. Q. A On Washington, Aug. 12.—Forecast for Southern New England: Partly cloudy, not quite so warm tonight, except on the southeast coast; Tues- day partly cloudy; gentle to moder- | ate northwest and west winds. Forecast for Eastern New York: Fair, not quite so warm Tuesday, partly cloudy; gentle | moderate northwest and north winds Conditions: During the past 24 | hours showers have been quite gen- cral in the central and castern sec- tions. Several places along the At- lantic coast reported more than an inch of rain, There is no defined storm area this morning east of the Rocky mountains, Moderate tem- peratures continue to prevail in all the northern districts, The rain- | fall of Saturday and Sunday was much heavier in the vicinity ¢ New Haven than anywhere clse. Conditions favor for this vicinity fair weather, with slightly higher temperature. Temperatures yesterday: High 90 76 T4 74 86 88 82 82 6 74 88 58 70 84 74 letters are “Black Watch?” A Highland Scotch regiment formed in 1638 as mili tary police, and regularly orzanized as a regiment of the line, 42'd foot in 1793. The name “Black Watch” is derived from the dark-colored tartans of its uniforms. It is now territorial regiment, officially styled “Royal Highlanders.” | Q. What are fishberric i lawful to employ them for bait? A. Fishberries are the fruit cocculus coceulus and are used in capturing fish. When made into a paste with flour it is readily eaten by fishes, and produces a speedy but temporary stupefying effect dur- ing which the fishes float upon th: surface of the water and are readily taken. “Cocculus indicus” the trade name of the berries used by the Chinese in catching fish. The contains an acrid poison. which intoxicates or stuns tho fi until they can be caught. The U. § Bureau of Fisheries states that the use of tishberries for bait is pro- hibited by law. Q. From what trict was Oscar dy congress? A. The first trict of Illinois, uegro population Q. When did A. August 15, Q. What is ment by gross ton nage, net tonnage and displacement of a ship? A. Gross tonnage is the cubic ca- pacity of a ship below the tonnage What is the of Atlanta Atlantic City . Boston ... Buffalo .. Chicago .. Cincinnati Denver Duluth Hatteras Los Angeles Miami Minneapolis antucket Nashville .. ew Haven rongressional dis- Priest elected to Qoo Congressional which has a dis larg: o= sert H. Gary die? 1927, caused by certain morbid processes, | Hoover appoint on the Crime Com- | Thom- | tonight. | to | e e New, Nortolk. Nortl Pittsbu tland, Washi York Va gh IN PRISEN RIOTING Alleged to Have Smuggled Re- volvers o Kansas Conviots P — he in here toda smuzgled Kan mutinied Lansing, Kans., Two women were Leavenworth jail charges of having to prisoners at the penitentiary who week. An arden T. Armine disclosed that i ltols used by the six convicts who escaped from the prison had heen purchased by Margaret Pale, olias Billie McDonald, and Pauline Wehh, The latter was said to be the widow of William Webb, one of the twe convicts killed during the riot. The women were arrested in Me- Pherson, Kas., but denied any con- nection with the break. Questioning of convicts has re- vealed the guns and ammunition were sent inside the walls concealed in coal cars. | 25 Years Ago Today | Thomas J. Smith was elected a | delgate to the C. T. A. U. conven- | tion at the meeting of the Y. M. T. | A. B. society last evening. Plans for an improvement to the building were made. The Black Rock baseball team de- ted Plainville and the Nigger yesterday. sanitary inspector is being kept busy this week answering nu- merous telephone calls’ from people | who are complaining about chickens. ! Edward; Whitman fell from the Rlack Rock bridge vesterday and landed in the railroad tracks below, | He escaped without serious injuries, | The water in Shuttle Meadow !ke has now dropped to 12 feet and 10 |inches, Three years agg the water | dropped to five feet. The water com- missioners state that@there is no reason to worry over a shortage. The health board will meet to-. morrow evening and will inspect the list of candidates for the office of milk inspector. Rt. Rev. Bishop Tierney came to this city today and blessed the Po- lish orphanage on Orange street. Priests from all over the state wit- nessed the ceremony tev. Lucyan Bojnowski is at the head of the or- phanage. the on last investigation by V Milt two | fe: | Hil | The the natural habits | of the fowl, 134 turkeys are being raised in complete confinement at the Pennsylvania State college ag- ricultural experiment station. In defiance of New Orleans . deck, plus the area of any enclosed s space for stores above. The . JRE-&I) HERALD CLASSIFIED ADS net o register tonnage is the gross ton- nage less space for machinery, and ws quarters. Displacement is the volume of water a vessel dispatch- The lifeblood of human exchange What It Really Was! Summer Boarded: “Look yonder. What beautiful patches of emerald, what wonderful streaks of green what magnificent spots of tur- quoise. Isn't that a remarkable sun- | | set!” | Farmer: “That ain't no sunset.| | That's the hired man's | out on the line! —Mr. Why not call the | | pants hung Ole Olsen Talkies the Mellow-grammar? The Whole Topic of Overheard Louise: “I Conversation! | by Melvin Kaf | think it's disgusting | the way everybody you meet nowa- days is always talking about sex appeal or something. | Herbert: “Yeah, it's sort of sick- | ening." | | Louise: “Isn't it, though? T hon- | estly think everybody's getting aw- | fully sort of degencrate or some- | thing.” Herbert: “Yeah, T guess ‘hat's| { right.” | Louise: “T mean everybody's sort of talking about this ‘B. U.' thing | now, f'r instance.” Herbert: “Yeah?" Louise: “Yes, you see, ‘It' used | be A.' and now they call it | |‘B. U | Yeah 2" | Yes, isn't it foul? You of course stands for this | al only everybody yon hear | talking about ‘IT" now calls it the ‘B. U, which stands for 'Biological Urge'—can you bear it?” Herbert: “That's certainly limit | Louise: “Gosh, T honestly gt mad I could shell peanuts when you | hear men sort of talking about a | girl and saying It-y! f'r in- stance, she's not ‘IT-y’ or something fecause I mean it just sort of shows sou that men haven't really any re- spect for women any more or some- thing."” Herbert: “Yeah, that's the looks, all right.” Louise: “But I mean how on | carth can vou expect men to have | any respect for girls who keep talk- ing about this sex appeal and things like that all the entire time, do you know what I mean?" sex app the o 5 o's way it re | No Worse Than | Employer: “Mis your incor Others! Thompson petency you expose every Stenographer: “T do not. My skirts bit shorter than the other around here!” —Mart | aren’ girls' a Brown Urgent An obliging person copied the fol- lowing extract, verbatim, from the daily-record sheet of a local social- | welfare agency | *retephone ! which she in immedi ate need of ince, Said there were only two things left for her to do—Till herself moral woman from Mrs. B—— In d she was assis an or hecome im- Worker Jones adiised | displacement of a vessel | water. This will give the es, measured by weight in tons. The can b figured by computing the volume of sel below the water line an! . if floating in fresh it floating in sali displace- years, Uncle Sam has changed the sl and many people are asking themsel Our Washington and informative bulletins o function of money. prehensive of money from the time when shells tells all various water, or by 35 5 about metallic mint money gets into circulation, what is * money of the United States in detail; how mutilated currency facts. Fil} out the coupon below and money the marks, deserites mert in tons. Q. What the total the United States? The latest estimate §03,862.000. Q. How many miles of railroal are in the United States? ' A. The last compilation for De- 7 shows 249,131.14 miles I wealth of curren ma is $320,- MONEY 1322 EDITOR, New York Avenue, Washin cember 1927 Q. How high are the Tian-Shan mountains in Turkestan? A They rarge in altitude 16,000 to 20,000 feet Q. What is the principal moun- tain range in South America? A. The Andes Q. Who was the “Great Conde?"” A. A celebrated French Prime Minister under Louis XIV named | Louis 1I de Bourbon i and postage encloge herewith five stamps, cents in to cover postage & v {rom NAME STREET AND NUMBER .... cITY 5 Se i o Bureau Washington Bureau, 1 want a copy of the bulletin THE MONEY OF THE —_—— MONEY fs money. For the first time in many ze and designs of its paper currency ves questions about the history and has prepared one of its com- n the subject. It covers the evolution and sking of animals served as money; of the the United States, where various kinds of coinage, it is tells how legal tender,” and describes the paper telly about the mew reduced-size U. §. be redeamed and other interesting send for this bulletin: coined, f— = = =— = =CLIP COUPUN HERE — — — — = New Britain DG Herald, gton, NITED STATE: coin, or loose, uncancelled, U. nd handling cost STATE 1 am 2 reader of the NEW BRITAIN HERALD. I | [ e e D e l!wx to 'phone later in the day." The Terrible Tempered Mr. Bang THE TERRIBLE TEMPEREP MR. BAN& PHONES THE BROADCASTING STATIoN . aine Fox, 1929