New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 4, 1929, Page 6

6 NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1929. THE PRESIDENT ON PROHIBITION other He group I ! member of the I. C. C. He is wh is 1 and his infl New Britain Herald [ HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY tnown as a liber | 1t ission has be liked fa | said the day that prohibition | considerable. ot is Tssued Daily At Herald Bl (Sunday Excepted) 61 Cburch Street is something that \ has failed | about everybody talks | railroad whi but which few do anything | profit by his presence on the Con . SUBSCRIPTION RATLS a vem 32.00 about. President Hoover, Influential R reappoir in his mes- n spublicans a sage to Congress, concluded it with against his luen 3500 Three Alonths rather tial his 1 forceful 1 ression he considers these observations on pro- | i Republicans favor Sghionth W nomination t | Pre | | pir v | he has antagon him. To others the situ- | ation as to prohibiti at Mr, mber enforcement, giv- the o ident stman’s term e needing more conc « De 3 effective e many who thoroug] n- 2» Becond Class Mail Matter, and attention. During his ten years on the I. C zed certain interest TELEPHONE CALIL Rusinexs Ofice Editorfal Rooms s n remaing more | regard him as a | or less hiope | radical The only proftable advert in the City. Circulatlon room alwaye opes to ttising medium books and pres advertisers Congress seems n wishes 1l ringen inte gent opinion (hat severely criticized | | acceding to Presiden methods of the Van Sw t ppointment oint | ests in i Union Cleveland statio Member of thie Assoctated The Amsociared Prese 1o cxclumvcly en titiea o the use (o1 re-jublication ot all news credited 10 1t or not ntlicrw.ee | It credited In_this paper and news published thereln, Pross collaborate a dissenti inio: t Sustman, 1 “Nick: ru a little later the majority of presid on Commission, including Swering et his oint- | jected the Van Plate tion in railroad circles, It happe the Vau ens are quite influential in 10wn 1t so at the failure of merger” plans, causing a Member Audit Burean of Circulation lielpt The A. B. C. is & natioual orzanization which furnisties Dewspapers snd adv tisers with a strictly honest analvsia ¢ circulation, Our circulation statistics ere based upon this audit. This insures pro- tection against fraud In newepaper dis- tribution figures to both national and local advertisers, such action, would be 1 plead- it it wppointed 5 th Republ can affairs in Cleveland; indeed, R. Nutt, a Cleveland bonker wl has identified is now President thinks should He ot new. favors 1 | an “immediate” concen- been with the responsibility and | Sweringer treasurer of th n National Com The Herald Is on sale daily York at Hotaling's Newsstand, Square: Schultz’s Newssiands, Grand Central. 42nd Street. tn > Times Entrance | hening of enforcement by Department of Jus- i tee, ar Repul agencies | of |transfer to 11 the government by |o | Touse. detections t of the inctions of Other di v's policic railroad i, men strongly Only 21 enough days to Christmas; which prosecution, functions which | approve and of sting are of not you have plenty wre lodged in the prohibition il friends and a lot to think about Treasury bave owned fto a belief in goverr e : ontrol ur distribution le; es shouid and of in-|ment ownership of the railroad Mr. Ford, who doesn't believe strial alcohol and alized bev- | President in Santa Claus, insists on playing a good Hoover is strongly oppos doctrine. Yet if eny to Mr. Eas to the reason, or belie remain in | ed to such a one, using the pay envelope I'resident should I v« suggestions t by of a sleigh ve been ad- Con a renomination for count of others for that matter, oy not | vocated In o past, and failure Da dne Gnestions P mission this on ac of action hy Congress might MERIDEN CLEANS HOUSE The eity election in Meriden, held |'© 1 attachm to other ponents would hesitate to nounce that powerful railroad inter influencing tration. This wouldn't do an iota ¢ g0od. Even t watch his step Mr. Eastman same place on the Holmes - of the moment; or perhaps ; yesterday, was onc of those overturns lior oEins e 0 A no hurry to make the changes with- | ests were the the in municipal politics out due The modifyin investigation and study President s and simplify when ¢ peeved rank and file becomes at something or other for Tonglyy tdvors & Ercsidenbilg the in such has ing pro- things. occupied tl which the party in pos Not only er T elected mayor but is blamed Malor e dealing w he large - o aling with the large num- | of prosecutions unde he fed Democrat, in a most e a | eral acts, and also favors a codifica- | ticc Justice Brande the decisive and Democratic into office. manner, the whole | tion of the laws relating to prohi- | have occupied e and they by et on Supren! Tnotd 1 many years will be dominated hy the went | bitiol There many voices | Court are lLighly thonght the nation. C. is to be exclusively nta cor ; a the the points. and if action in tered liveral a | opinion the I club for mon Council for first time in future is no faster ‘han in the throughout past present spectacle 5 Democrats, as will Education, The den to character statutes enacted during 40 years will 1 conservative railroad opin ldin serfou carthquak Meri- BeeTs tobhene EAniorial vio gely guide procedure for an | ion, a governmental agency publicans painful mental injuries. Yet Mr. his to railroad desires without nounced vic indefinite time, ding the s | | Again M his previou ed evolved, Hoover has recourse to L orfw 1t struggle, then Mr. Lastman has n | g business on the Comr | But it more than m 1 T opinion that a Maloney, who ran ahead P 12 on, legal mechanism, suoum the Commission t to induce law enforcement, hut that this must | of be Al $mith got in Meriden in Novem- ber, 1925, Mr ned in that city of Malon ticket, had fewer votes than is not suflici ely one of those rai road side-kicks such as altogethe Smith a total Mr It reduction in come through the individual ltoo many state regulatory bodie to he, better him for a reappointment. 7329, whil cooperation of the citizen, happen then the Presiden do y secured “only” 7T is can no than to when one examine: total e “However niechani; citizen we the : the dependent laws for the protection of | a8 and all that he holds insist on sclecting the | particular Jaws which he will obey, [ he undermines his own sarety and that of his country. His titude may obscure, but it cannot conceal, the ugly truth that the lawbreaker, | whoever lie may be, is the enemy of iety. We can no longer gloss over | the unpleasant reality which should { be made vital in the conscious 8 of every citizen, that he who condones | or traffics with erime, who ia indif- ferent to it and to the punishment the criminal to the lax ormance official duty, I the mc effective for breakdown of socisty votes of the Republican Re nete " vho upon some all that he dear, shall FOOTBALL AND FINANCE Probably mayoralty candid tained Herbert den that sult with that ob- Meri- is by Hoover in u unimportant, Hoover obtained §.204 Meriden, while Horace 17, the Republican mavyoralty of yesterds 1 There dissatisfaction was inevitable that th turthier analysis o o ove- Mr. in becomes votes discussion. The gridiron game every linked of Doolittle, where has been late wit andidate financis tters of one sort or ai received 3 other; if it is not a case of v Ito certain institutions of seems to hav 1 Mayor s overhead it is the problem incider with the publican Wales L., related to i arning i edministration deBussy an of as to insur [l {subsidizing player: by so This ge nan family strong of otball A teams. £ xpose influential 3 ; racket i o in said to have had a s or hat a species of high- pe is not ) is to eliminate th likely t thin of is himselp | Foundation recently the administration. Mr. Doolittle of be agency urriedly forgotten. The course was deemed deBussy on was to blame for what to do every msatisfactory the . sourc cism if a once and | administr was| These are idealistic words 1ot to be degrad pro foriy 3 {amatenr sport is the same party hat refer to the prohibition law as ; to mire of financi was enough. Al others; most particulacly T e 1 fessionalism mhe Republianin prohibition law because that nost frequently hroken will in his ideal- den got topheavy The There are many who I eptions T danger sign Lot ey st Legislature place the 1 regulation the defining 3 the naEroY h the sident 420, rumor loaded trathi t con ‘traff wuthori : o of local actory fro i ple in hands of the y include good and with dire reports Norite 0 i the worthy citiz who cunnot sympat hize i 5 « ns con- an upsct was officials the all as police o Various lism, Others who politicians did communiti la plain equivalents in with lig cfforts i will e 10 im- office, thronghont the st woowa (¢ | prove its enforcement hail his X inclination sponsibility | F ‘ R where it dou 1. upon | Words with satistaction B hag been mad void the possibility of doubt 1 Dition and little done as lilson sa the part no vast improvement b nzol in the writing of laws, and Coj i New Have de ju Meriden Meri 50-Ca vote ¥ tion Counsel Persky of New & after diligent THE. RECALCITRANTS | e ndte to China | ; A\ \alysis, has discove flaw jn the 1z of legislatic WARNING 3 0 there is 2 LiC imson’s : ; lled res . tween the righ iinds these iwo r for a repetition of s : transferred police depar that they t ire signatories that ments and the righ veto st held is no logg pact and it s | the e by councilmanic bodies, those things (hat are ad- e Pl Have r and Center jachinery ad New e bt no good in o . tance, in 1 the alde v, however, is regulatior b mal we wen ma win ti cont:ibution to 5 for Gregson Police Chicf Smith to ¢d in most ) 1 them cifective, ¢ language, without h this formulated by a body pow lareup in L the | under i corporatic thirds new law ast two. counsel supports legan when China enough, but wh erme railroad. & 2 jusist on vetoing the police chief largely indeps do party operits setween of lggislatic 1reached its BE s transierred police cor and now no to " veto st mission held llows on ndne- by the aldermen, there is n Russian remar In a adjustment.” the The hirn el vy of by Haven Journal-Courié ed sore the party an rue- - newspapers, indecd, discover both £ Vefore the corporation d 1ot ¢ to it. Continuing. it say municip. no shape to | 80 around 0 2 all i ssin knows Nothing is vent the aldermen, rules in Gre unsatisf But in have world is to pr £ the new pol Center stree from vetol alderm Wdjust . while t police commission would have eve power to logislate \all o quite o |again. Tt may be sai course, 11 " lsuch an outcor 485 | ple; that's what all tion whether to reappoint or not ‘olxo\ll'l\blfl for ten said abo B of [ the provision in the state constit a the | tlon which made it the duty of t Gonmissions| BONCENAX MG SlEnNaciafotiphich |approved three days after the no0L an ordinary | journment of the general assembi herded pre nt of nitely China wanted a Tregson ang i ctory, nor ficld prove them would Do rufes to public convenict Democrat n the e no power 1o the knowledge that ) to Doolit M Malone r he ASTMAN President ON THIE Hoover for re- | CONMI SION election, or to the te who will fac ok o 18 hig imp B Republics ess he problem when he reaches the I fivst c nist With ext two vears reappoint Josepl Eastman pendent voters Massachusetts as a niember o 2 acts ministration is force Interstate Commerce Mr. a get licked, Eastman is and certain conservative Republicans semi-dangerous For one thing, he wrote an Swering- | man. Van | haberdasher's ad. f course, frequently visits the White Years ago he is said to | the adminis- I. C. C. that Jus- is to be renomi- | cost o giving the annual high school ['tobtbull classic would come up for | cost or | arnegie purely [A PLAW IN THE TRAPPIC LAW | el counsel | Northfield, Vit ot at|The point is that a law with a loop- u- [hole is & bad law, and a law with . | potentialities of defective function is " | no better, The principle by which an “ [administrative board Is given the to | legislative right as in this case is wrong; and the law by which it 18 10 more satisfactory.” -4 2 s oy send atl communications (o fun Shop kalltor cuve of the New Britato Herald, and your tetter wil) be forwarded to New York s is acheved Te Facts and Fancies x- | | By Ttobert Quillen “Lthyl stops knocking,” meet Mr. undy Those Christmas Trimmings! Now that we've purchased a gifts on the list By gum! There's ample reason To feel that a tree’s not the only thing That gets trimmed for mas season! C Lithyl, § i 3 fow s, | “The situaticn is sound,” says the I'resident. And fury. S the Christ- Don't despair of the cxmen ry murder race ordinary means st to make on respectable by o Walting Him! “What's W't you for n, Tralfic watt e O you sac ides to headline, humor in h ai signals Uncle Benn: 1 can, but| ninute or ye switch ‘em | from ‘Stop’ to ‘Go’ and then back o | ‘Stop’ again. Whyinell don’t ye make | up vour mind what ye want to do?" rens tiese Yon 1dlines, o c- don't | ‘Coursc | ¢ | eve s0 | 1t never to act like a You never heard of a sub i | dized cheer leader. . : | “Wearing suspenders with a bel 10| i5 a matter of conformity,” pays wild ARRIVALS AT A CONCLUSION By Dorothy Parker Consider a lady gone reck I love, | In novels and plays: to|You watch her proceed get | ery of for| A roseate ha Acclaimed as a riot, seream She flies with her beau fo les Alpos Mar(Tine moves in dream The | 1 | savs a Convexity, howev- er, deserves part of the credit. 08 in | he d | a not Il heroes, d ¥ crect too. to win monuments They also the, sh | | in a drap- | foo! smash other up 8- | a wow, and | = s | = A statesman matter of vet said than b but would rather President, may principle, wet as ha t none n- | be And a mist of a mutual - rest of her days Panic A turbulent time during which those with little spare can buy gold dollars for 40 | | In life, if you'll has been Obhservant of such, A lady in love is more decidedly Dutch The thorn, so to say, is revealed by the rose. The best that the nose. These authors forced to Don't listen to o t ] | Americanism: | fate of other themselves | thinking of Americans ment of Providence to of | world how. change n- | cents. - frequently in Laughing that - at the thought of Heaven; the instru- teach th races chosen 1- th she gets is a sock in and playwrights, I'm suppose, around much! s well that a worm | can’t talk. It probably wouldn't say | janything but “yes.” o | as get | His Method! Hanley: “So Beach is spending a Xnocks. | fortune advertising his mints?” s0 hard| Parker: “Yes, he wants | | to be on everyone's tongue! Clark e . : — is is| Alas! When opportunity everybody else is knocking | vou are - : name afraid (o trust it | 4 | ! et Power Don't scold man hecauss |only animal that kille « | prompting of hunger grace to h | he's the without the It's no a e outgrown cannibalism. | 1= gl al: and if he 18 | i« reduced to it a man will be proud t thut his beard is tough the the Self-respoct : is essentis i, o |of the | The more yists, country learns | about Iol more it doubts | their ability to influence anybody worth influencing 1 KNOW WHAT You'RE THINKIN' ABOUT. YOU'RE. THINKIN' 1'M T00 FAT -FOR VAUDEVILLE , You oLp GROUCH! 1 DARE YOU (el o 1 s | | The office i | World Tour. on the | grouch, 8 the American jag. back from a sun never sets nt sa the money been been Well. suppose | speculated with haa It wonld have or 50, anyway. vou for in ape i e car gone ja yvear Jane says the are meat is that to catch most eaters. active ler he ex- I | planation to L e you don't have active arass, Correct |inter this sentence: “[ in her acti feminine movie fan, notice what she wore Copyright, 1920, Publishers Svndicate was said 1 <0 the didn’t 1t . n that o e | One the 1estion | | “Where ing to?" 1 ot answer is the to modern [N era go- jazz Qbservations On The Weather Dec. 4.—F o) w England: Cloudy colder tonight; Thurs- ¥ partly cloudy, fresh west wind d | possibly storms on the south coa time Forecast for Ia Clondy with snow nd north portions Thursday; slightly colder central portion forigh winds. Forecas vieinity: I tonight; Thursday ness Condifions Iy low along | this morning T- | pressure pre | Pacific fes Middle regions. portions o to | o going into one era and out| another! | He The agriculture class had | classifying different foods, ! teins, carbohydrates, etc | “Now, Paul”” said the teachar, | “suppose vou have corn on the cob { for dinner. do you know where 1o put them? “Yessum Knew e | heen pro- | = 0- Washington, cast for Southern N |and slightly in my mouth Helen 1- |t " | t tern New York 3 AL flurries in central | eht and | incast | fresh w ic | P SOCIAL EVASION Ten Ways to Dodge a Cocktail By Richard L. Goodsell Sorry, old man, but I'm on gon for a month.” "By George, I'd like a big deal on this evening don't want to get foggy is relative- | he in-laws are coming over fou border | dinner. and you know in-laws! 1 of high | don't want to give 'em an opening: North | no. sir! to the| i coast | 1ately, in h Haver slight and colder cloudi- to Iy mnd Air to. but ut i pori increasing 1 Pressure the northern A long ridge ails from the southeastward South Atlantic ' n, st and old liver's been don't dare.” do you know how many Uve | ather prevails in - all i naq this afternoon? Well, sir, I met | t the conntry except foriiyo g(her fellows and we started at |slight snow finrries in some sections | j .0 ” [of the Laks region upper Ohio | Ly ley. lrn\)u‘x.nv‘v: re modera- to pass, eI 1 L on Scotch today Conditions favor for fhis e partly clondy weather and n cha in 1 i rday High Kicking up | 1 o Sy il ot and Tye concentrac- 1 can't 'S in this, gin? r- 80! the 3een interior ad 3 o an ix vicinity | \ of much | at “Doctor's orders, H Ao absolutcly He'd Temperatures yes ke throa Sorry, but all over climb that car | good night!” “\Why, this 1"t “1 can't awalke i my { the 1f 1 tree I've got to drive town tonight up another Low clks or | Atlanta Boston Buitalo Chicago Cine Denver Hatteras Miami Ainneapolis Nantucket Cashville | New Haven " New Orlean ed | New York 15 o 16 | 12 | dsn 14| 10 4 is ainst the la n 1t 2 on the level. Ko me and if 1 don't get my cight Lours I'm a hollow shell next day.” Any man who would continue to press you, after you have sprung all | this, offering little short of n m 1.os n- o is ks Personally, we always swallo A Fool Though! “Did a dancing Mildred: “I Bruce you know fool 2" didn’t they call Pittsburgh St. Lonis | Washingtol know yon co ~~Barbara Pruyn 1s | Sl en | oda Shoppe Ownership Passes to Mrs. Cronin rs. Mary B. Cronin foday became sole proprietor of the Soda Shoppe | on West Main stroet, according to | papers filed at the office of the ecity clerk. Mrs. Cronin purchased the Wi yale interest of Mys. Gertrude A | I Dwyer. The restaurant was oper- N fated by Charles Bernstein, who sold ut |it to Mrs. Cronin and Mrs. Dwy ri - |geveral weeks ago. | 8T he | — — he| 2ore people are depending d- {them every year—the Herald's Xmas The Subtle Sex! Browne tots playtime in the Let's play radio Teddy All T be The i were nurser. station," having he e Bl said right,” agreed Mary the sty teller,” No. sir. T'll be the story | You can be the announcer. Mary Jane consldered the avely. Very well,” she said. “Here we on|go. This is Station T and M J Browne, ladies and gentlemen, and Jane. teller. matter 1929, | struction | built | necticut to | subject referring to factory ve | mission lorder until i lod of w lor {of progre | evening. Good night, all. Modern Help Problem Roberts: “How many have you now? Clark “our. Robert “IFour? nurse, I suppose.” Clarke: “Ye and a nurse the cook and a cook tor the nurse Samuel Berliner 1929, Reproduction Forbidden) COMMUNICATED POLLUTION or WATERWAYS DISCUSSED BY STA COMMISSION manufacturers to instal for treating waste prior to discharge into a public waterway. | The great 1roblem is to discover | some method of treatment for these | wastes which will comply with the lnw. It seems quite obvious that | the legislature, in passing the act| « ting the commission, was not willing to place in the hands of an executive agency of the state au- thority which would permit de ing an industry in order to pr pollution of a waterway. The commission has felt that was justified in requiring that com- {munities of the state should treat | |their sewage before discharging it into a stream. A nation-wide sur- vey, conducted by President Hoover {when he was secretary of commerce, d that approximately 85 per| of all pollution reaching the | rways was due to domestic sew- Whether or not the figur iz t of Connecticut true that in volume is very much in excess of caused by trade wastes. this form of pollution is public question and concerns| individual member of the va- | rious communities. The means of | treating domwestic sewage are well understood. There is no great dif- {ficulty in advising any given com- | munity what form of treatment of its sew will best meet the situ- ation. This matter quired methods servan A cook and a for| o1 (Copyright | it | | shoy | cent Iwat E New B W itor receiv itain He Conit vour Nover heading 1 a orial published under Tmprovement In the next to paragraph you state should practice preaches in respect 1o stream pollu- tion and you intima that from the Connecticut State Hospital at Middletown is being discharged into the Connecticut river. Yon will, 1 am sure, be pleased to know that in 19 the state began con- of an Imhoff tank for treating the sewage from this insti- | tution. The tank was put into op- | eration in the summer of 1928 and since that time has been operating | efficiently and well. In this connection est you to know that the state water comission very beginning of its existe been to correct poliution for which the state itself responsible. Iin following out this policy, modern sewage disposal plants have been at the Norwich State Hospital, Connecticut State Farm for the Mansfield State Hospi- Training School, the Con- Agricultural College and the Connecticut State Hospital, and plans are in preparation for a plant be constructed at the new stat hospital to be built at Newtown. In wddition to the institutions 1 much work has been done at smali- | er institutions in improving the plants in existence. It can satcly sald that, with thé exception of two or three of the state institutions where, in each reason exisis for the delay, the has done just whal you propose ou make the following ment: “This ma r of factory wasf for some never refe to by the state water commission.” A cursory perusal of the second bi- ennial report the state wat commission, a cop sent you earlier in show that the state has devoted and has in correcting pollution factories arc responsible 7-34). The same report his subject at considerablc and points out the fact that wast materially from the overing pollution dud 10 domest cwage. In the former the law (uires that the in forbidding pollution by factory waste. must ad- the industrialist by what meth- od his ‘wasfe can be so treated tha it will be harmless to the stream. 1t further provides that the method by the state water not insofar correct for stato it least cortainly the orcing it pollution { Moreover, n concludir the what it suggest that a every sewa as been presented to community in the state which now discharging its untreated sewage into a waterway. With the exception of but a very small num- ber, among them New Britain, all lof the various communities of the state at present time engag il\i in some of correcting this |condition. Very recently, as you |note in your editorial, New Britain |has decided to take up the study of this very important question | 1t might be pointed out that tho legal limitation as to the debt limit |of a city is a serious barrier to se- [curing more rapid wrogress. Ap. propriations for a sewage treatment nt come into direct competition | with the demands for all other mu- |nicipal projects such as streets | parks, schools, police and fire de artments, welfare wor etc.,, ete. It is only human that the nceds o: the age system arc provided |for after all others have been met. | The result is that the sewerage sy tem in most Connecticut communi- ies is antiquated. inadequate and in had repair and that no money can be found for providing sewage treat- ment. We are therefore confronted in this day of our modern and muen vaunted civilization, with a sitnation whe community considers it uite proper to discharge Its filth into the nearest waterway with complete disregard of the rights of ower an residents. You tefer {0 this situation in di pollution of the Connecticut sewage of Massachu- setts cities. This fact has long been used as an argument why Connecti- cut should no nothing about | correcting conditions for which they responsible, 1t would appear to quite within the bounds of pos- sibility that if Connecticut proceeds to clean up the river within its houndaries Massachusetts will do likewise, 1t is wlso quite possible that in case Massachusetts did not follow the good example set by | Connecticut. Conneeticut havin i hands” could go court | rolief from pollu- by her sister state. “clean hands" Connecti- would without doul consideration, for this situa intel nt meth- necessary funds for utility. T a part shouldt manner. . eve might inter- the policy of from the are It step the Women, tal and list case some special reason each of the water which Ve was will ripar cor to cussing this |river by the denl whici pag discuss: length the la differs provisions sion much study done a great for (Ser s cities he ry e visc ‘clean into and d tion caused Withont cla y the preseribed con cut’s s ant only it i providing essential must b onab! nd inequitable oncerned Inasmuch been devised unrea receive Th tion od as cost 1§ remedy as is an the public properly em and as o means for treating industrial waste the 1y certail of it fol- lasses lows that v it sewerage Systo the water sy finunced in houscholder n, safe r shall ¥ He foul it and Ate cannot has found some treatment which plies with the law vioneer laboratory issue an meth com- fbe The, el same requires that : and ample supply of be piped his resid- allowed it and then call (he city {o remove it from pre without any direct cost to him. This is illogical, and he should | Lot |charged @ rate in the same manne Wesleyvan and Yale univers by (48 he s charged or the water which the state has had the assist-|Which is delivered to him, or one Shceloiithor peclive chemical |rate which should cover the cost of departments in efforts to solve sore |both is perhaps preferable. The im (hese very difficult and compli- |mediate result would be to place tho problems. A very great deal | system on a self-sustaining it would then be revenu s has been made and the | basis. on in many cases re- honds could be issued for | Lo This involves of wa rescarch industrial va- 1t to to upon the rious classes The dus very fact that Connceticut’s in- 15 use so varied in character makes this part of the commission’s | work exceedingly difficult ments have beea in effect slderable period of (ime ries are lisen Arrange- for with v con cated sewerage As | producing, | commis: has |of funds to keep the 11y |of the pollution at this purpose in excess of the & pen cent debt limit just as it now pro- vided in the case of a water sys. tem. Moreover, it would allow thos. responsible for the provision of sufficient sewcrage system, ing wage treatn to (his utility on a businesslike a includ- financ basis nt | This is utterly impossible under th. present method. There is tionary in aging the nothing new or revolu- this conception of man- municipal sewerage sys- tem. Jt is in operation in towns and cities in the United States. The longer some intelligent, method of handling this essential public service is delayed the great- er the cost to the various communi- ties of the state. Two of cur largest cities are a the present time engaged upon the project of providing treatment fo- the municipal sewage. In cach the cost will be in excess of 3,000« 000, Actually the cost of the se age freatment plant proper wil mount to only about one-third o: this total. The balance will b spent in providing the necessary in- tercepting sewers and rellef sewera which have become necessars through the growth of the city and, more important, through the lack sewerage sys- tem abreast of the development of the municipalit We enclose hcrewith a copy of our last biennial report which dis- cusses some of these matters more in detail. cas We dre very glad that you have seen fit to place this very importanc matter before the citizens of New Britain. The commission would b very glad to supply vou with infor- mation on the situation which exist in your city in case you care to de- velop further this subject of sewaxge treatment and elimination of pollu- tion of the waterways of the state, Very truly yours, STATE WATER COMMISSION, By: §. H. Wadhams, Director. The Herald welcomes such vital matter reprints the above letter. Th> writer gathers from it what is, to say the least, a surprising revelation to him. Admittedly he has not studied the matter, and does not know the source of the pollution, but he has repeatedly seen and smelled, during the past summer, what appears to him to be a grea. volume of polluted water pouring into the Connecticut river at Mid dletown at a point just below thn State Hospital, through a drain which hie has always understool was used for hospital sewage. Hence the remarks in the editorial. We note that an Imhoff tank has been installed and is working. That is indeed interesting. Perhaps would be well to trace the source the point of the instruction on and glad- a drain.—Editor. COMMUNICATED An Appeal for Christmas Gifts for Patlents The Connecticut State Hospital at Middletown is preparing (o observe the Christmas holidays with appro- festivities. Every effort will be made to make the season one of rejoicing: and as an aid to such end. gifts for friendless patients, and for those whose friends financially unable to provide . will not be very acceptable to them, much appreciated by the management fts of welcome appreciate loves, ate are but hospital any de but men ties. hats, seription will b patients always handkerchief hose, tobacco. pipes, candy while women patients appreci- aprons, handkerchiefs, gloves, hose, or wearing apparel of any de- scription, candy, efc. Packages should he the Connecticut Statc dletown, Conn., and marked “Christ- mas Donation.” They should be sent %0 a8 to reach the hospital not later than December 20. If the donor will also write name and address upon the package, prompt acknowledg- ment of the gift will be made. addressed to Hospital, Mid- Nine hours duty every da: sleep, four hiours oif v, and special inspec- tors for food and slecping accom modations will le compulsory for terman domestic servants if a bill to go before the German parlia ment hecomes law. Waiting Fori the Blow 7to F:aliri (SFoatzjne Tox, 1929 l)tislll suggestions, this concludes our program for this By Fontaine Fox JONES COULDN'T UNDERSTAND WHY His WiFE (A FAMoUsS BACK SEAT DRIVER) HADN'T SAID A WORP ABOUT THE WAY HE WENT OVER THAT LAST BUMP.