New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 16, 1930, Page 6

2. EW BRITAIN DAILY New Britain Heral HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY New Britain, Connecticut Tssued Daily (Sunday Excepted) At Herald Bidg., 67 Church § SUBSCRIPTION $5.00 & Year $2.00 Three Month 75c. & Month RATES Offica at New Britain Ma Entered at the Po: as Second Class Mall TELEPHONE CALLS Business Ofca Editorial Roo in the City. room alway: Circulation books and press open to advertisers. Member of the Associated Press The Assoclated Press {s exclus titled to the use for I all s credited to it credited in this paper and news published therein. therwize aiso local Member Andit Buresu of Circulation The A. B. G is a national organization which furnishes newspapers and adve tisers with & strictly honest analysis circulatfon. Our clrculation statistics are based upon this audit. This insures tection Agalnst fraud in newspaper dis- tribution figures ta both pational and local advertisers. The Herald fs on male daliy ! York at Hotaling's Newestan, Square; Schultz's Newsstand, Grand Central, 42nd Street. New Entrance TUTILITY Considerable has been already said futility of effort hesitate lowering to reduce to add concerning the assessments in an taxation, and we anything to the discussion A reduction of be no more effective tion of 80 per cent 15 per cent would than a reduc- %0 long as t city's expenses are not reduced cordingly. A reduction in assessments wotld result in an increase i The one would other. A reduction in asscssments out a commensurate increase in the tax rate would result in a substan- tial deficit In the city's finances. We trust nobody wishes to that happen. the tax rate. neatly balance the with- CITY HALL SALARIES Among the salary increases sug- gosted recently by the salary com- mittee of the Common Council were some worthy cases. They were mixed up with some which probably were not s0 worthy “at this time,” as the | city fathers would say. But the Com- | mon Council made short shrift of the entire batch, throwing them oul | with no attempt at discussion. The result is that not until 1931 will there be another chance for worthy cases of salary increases to get a hearing, and there that the hearing will be substantially is no guarantee | longer or more successful than that which has just gone into city history “Working for the city" is different from other employment. There widespread opinion that many of the jobs are of a that those who hold them ap- pointed for political Poli- ticians are eager enough to do some- thing for their friends when the op- is a political nature, were reasons. portunity offers, but jacking up the salarles during a period of economy is a different That isn't pecially just before a local political campaign. This Those interested in campaigning are ot going out of their way to 100k this respect 1 question altogether always necessary, es- is a campaign year for criticism. In will be more advantageous for salary raising. That s the only grain of comfort anyone can offer the boys and girls around City Hall EXTENDING One of the reposing in C to do with the extending of Myrtle | by way of | MYRTLE STRELT myrinds of resolutions y Hall at present has street to Corbin uvenue, crcating a new cast and west-route from the down- 1 vith euch a plan it will be traffic artery on the town scction the city ever gocs through doing something that clementary city planning would have suggested years ugo, the arose or tuation a 1l thought before was lop vithout guidanee The extension of Myrtic street to Corbin avenue, of course, wonld not in reailty be a route in the absolut becuuse a driv- the would : and th or on for m- stance to turn into Corbin av West hue cxtension of oyond Cor- atorn hin ave ol = high hills < \ part re opinion | 18 known stacles;” vut then engine Bxtending of Our . vhat a road Myrtl o Corbin tund private avenue Wwo it push throug property. ( however, and obstacle. A even tend to climi traffic serlous forced to ctreet—the most of the hottl The sdvantag. MICHIGAN RECANTS Michigan upon the a pint law. The stat was 8¢ criticized enactment some comm ceded to wides; by amending 1 eourse, Gr Mr tence of | made to the sentencey the four other “lifers” d or to “from 7 prescribed under amended | statute, 1-2 to 15 years each.” Suuch sentences for possess- 1or, regardless of how often such possession resulted in convic- tion, surely is drastic enough No one would claim tha 1t Michigar the possession of a statute, is a dry state writer has estimated that there are tho nds of speakeasies ir and ng but teetotale Detroit on nothi the rs are employed in automobile factori non- Mich igan rely off ation fanatict CITY TURNS TO PROGRESS AFTER LONG DELAYS ral W Hall, sow- in City mblings about the Weld 1s presiding re were r disposal Angelo Paonessa ed yste in with a few A words, and George cy. Mayor he was that in hig opinion the episode marked the pearance of Mr. Paonessa Eventa as andidate. out mayoralty subse- quently bore the soft impeach- About had a that time, too, the Lions club verbal jamboree about sewage disposal then now a hardy perennial for dispute Mr tople, as Quigley was there and so was Mr Paonessa. Subsequently Mayor Weld vited then, present a8 also re It is of no at | late day advantage to re at all that was said about . Suffice y that | was the little, sewage dispos: it to s Mayor Weld and he said last speaker, Probably it was one of the shorte speech All the s ever in the club (Mr. Weld) said was to inquire how many present had seen the New Britain sewage beds, Only thres mayor ever or four hands went up, proving to the hilt that nobody to the point. Mr. Weld then re- hefore taking his sert, that cared e about marked it would be an advantage to every- one present—and to others interest- ed who were not present—to visit the sewage beds before discussing the matter any further. Which of course was a pointed ad dress deapite ita brevity. Now today, two yea > sewage rs or more r that event, business is again a prime topic of discussion Mayor Paonessa, regardless belicfs and expressions and state- ments, is in favor of action, having goaded into on the menace of forced the of past been more or less an of mind sub- of the active frame ject because state activity; and also because th construction of a worthy sewage posal system will contribute to sum total of employment he belicves cminently desirable, We suppose stands, or sits before- former Mayor Quigley where he ser of certain about ! wa a firm o systems of disposal and a firm be- liever other system we feel confident ritics Mayor Paonessa used the in som Anyway. t the ex-mayor remains by the way, also to have inclination toward critical attitude, he once telling us it was apparent that experts dis- agreed upon what system happend to and might b well to proceed with caution be the best that it There has been cautious procedurc ever since—meaning nons at all and now the city has arrived at the where in the of left anybody point caution delay name tenable looking is scarcely a position, cven for at the binoculars. The fact mental progross t matter through politica: that progress—at leus ~has been made I3 indicated by the fact that scarcely anyone any longer holds up their hands in horror at the probable cost of & new gystcm. This is being tak en for granted, Only a few there there would have to be years #go was a helief that widespread an intermi- nable delay for the simple reason that a new disposal plant would cost more than the city that that ould afford to spend At time,, when it was pointed out “honds would pay for i the courageous was that bonds, too, add fo the tax rat The impression is now general that lefinite steps in the con struetion of a modern dis- 1l T reagons HOWAKC yasal plant ust around the cor ti propitious, for sev oral (a) The the ( atat nds it to con “orve onnecticut river (h) munleipalities Hoover has neked and President Al states to go forward with Improvement projecis in order to fielp general busin conditions, The ater (c) mayor Agrecs commission ¥ President, (1) To tho best of officials who will he the identified city with pushing matt with the state, 1 conclusion agree Prosdent#and the to he Mayor ILLCSTRATING TWO KINDS OF CITY MANAGERS Wilitam R. Hopki f Cleveland, by Ousting of 5 ty manager o the Cle City Council th day, came fifter six years of service Friends of Mr. Hopkins say he used reasonabl to ac on by tical 1 Whth two class us that there ar city Thos managers, | city counc which t their Boston .. the merely take position t 1 function is to carry ou Cincinnat Denver dominated by Du s 1 thos who spo policies adopted by t! ouncil regardless of whether such leader- ; ship is intelligent or political consideratio programs and become the real leaders in the The main in first-nam office od longer. Northfield, Pittsburgh Portland, y Indianapolis, st Wort Factsand Fancies city to have There ¥ re other cities ch have Me them, however, nota Miami, O Louis homa gton “incinr [ Ir World Almanac for I v total of & it city year before, The po over its managers t By Robert for today ©rs prote itical furore in Clevelar Quillen ot nanager syst 1l As caref t the wall paper. b Heroes and indon the llike until rtraits of nd to marry government has been ever since its adoption 18 2 heroines always se n they you 500 votes port the creature r proposal was def only last anot = Wh vou'll notic do so few the get rich? newspaper spades o kiow Wel storics referen on the subjc ield ager popular ¢ was held a victory for the - * ilways giv some what to do abouu dno by 3.000 votes out | « 1 b 3 ho doesn't a total of 100,010 votes 3 iltra-conserva- | Follett 1028 and not oted for La th in Cleve 1 rotic break should be ing 192 One who gefs that asting in bed when up doing her own wash- tive. in way by h Al Smi om the | 7% I days of 'Tom Johnson his his- the pr to vate the a hattle- tory-making fight on operation of street with Peter der railways Witt of “Fifty years from now the ball headed man will be a thing of ti He is now In a flapper's est nation, preser scarred the Tom | Dast Johnson school have been unique politics in Clevelani Mr. Witt has been a strong opponent of th is no perfect sorld except when ity complex gets on the 1d of « street car and drives its flivver 10 miles an hour. bliss an infe tracks man- ager plan. 1t is usually the organized business ponsible men of a city who ar It s no longer considered smart o serve illicit liquor. There's no fun being bad if the drinks are, too. for the adoption of the city manager | plan of government. They want the - city to be run “like a business | The organized business men in such cities usually also see the first city councils under the city anager plan, after they obtain its panasen DAr g e An educated is composed of their type o 50 ew years after bl agreeable truth 1 lected in the dark needn't de- spair, Borah will find it soon or late. that to it that man {8 r the gove to enforce one rnment prohibition or not adoption, 2 of citizens. The first £ a city adopts the city manager form behest of busi- of government at the ness men, and while their more abler ted to the y government is anist Despising vagrants vorking hard to get h to wander and do no Am ind loafers rich enos ing. type of citizenship are el the ¢ its maximum of efficiency. e The way. After a which brought about er plan and at he wild purr criminals can vet has learned reformed, cat or a under trouble i a to a while the blsiness element the city n- 2 in become apath- stion government must an- is this a crookel man take a law enforcement job, or does the job make him crooked? council again become absorbed CRfele bt Docs their own problems, etic toward civic problems, and 18 to take charge of Reaching for high the giraffe's neck th e's length of his ancestors d 5 mady . and the ould indicate all boarder mit nt politicia the city council . that respect. A politician the constantiy | for ob, A limousine sedan with a glass partition between the driver and the inferiority complex. is always on is just a himse his looking out friends in a political sen st in polities is apt - I except mediocrity. » weather wouldn't he some geniug could do it ness man's inte Nothir Talic ahout th ustice to be tory—hot one year and next frigid th The 4 politicia of politics A Presiden yway, it's a good idea to have d 1o must ap- 1 go-getter i vho grocers S when he knows we ntry 1 am a side line point i he s a side 1 T n Al fclony o Ne ait wesneed is a law making it a 1 to mention war ss he is qualified (o serve in and enough to will cost A Cleveland majori has had suffici for any ma to 10 know ers. | pn ran what 1 by political r « wise would be dominate The their manager They city gan proceeded to ob- well girl the hachelor worthy of him from u lifc who ca an't find s01n¢ tain another of a more pliant caliber : g 1 olitician of the ohl popular politiciar i oLl =it ! e Then. to their ae- 2 school.” justify trumped Correct this sentence are n a poor said the cop to his pris and youw'll get the same t from that Har the “fAred’ move tion MADAgFer. nian, he against The populr oner ‘- i £ will another next ment 3 a rich referendum on retaining the | .o, After three trials at Copyright, 1930, Publishers Syndicate city manager. D reforendums the politicians .cesful in the next husiness interests of may be nore su unliees i i “solid i * awaken to the peril—as the :1 25 Years Ago Today did when the city manage originally cstablished—and forget salesmanship of mpter 1t the Hotl pre the high-pressurd 1d Inst evening cmployes of the 200 people (heir own businesses long enough to heir own Cagino by Ieloin they | o the Iy somé of it to a retention of the e system of government In racketeers cstablished contingency sueh a White Ol par il large nu lof 3 vening. pond with will be ber the political : he toated flooded clectric s will meet the r a ne wage of Chservaticns On The Weather Jan. 16.—IForecust | New Engl Gen- mueh o cold portion tonight; 1ri- 1ed cold; fresh ind Voashington e for Southern « r and buildin: in orde upon t Klinghers 200 chil on the or north © Eastern probal ynd central east Ay onti northwes Ior New, York snow flur- portions cast for Partly cloudy ries in nor and cold tior be I | enion ot Manag 1 {healer 1tin i sh north and rac of plain leyan, the Lyceum York today malk- ith the Co. for their this of man n R city ha thy central Ney and orthwest ing arra Vitagrapl city Saturday W. T Hi tamobile <how boir York City the American winds show for cir Fair colder tonight Condltions At wrence to Florida alifax, N. 8. il in th! I'riday; N ton Have t and IPorecast W n nding the held Pressure §8 low in New from it cen Hat- long ntic st of e con Clerk T il hall er this evening two of will at ompson ann of 0. K South a piddy H th b ol e ¢ Irela Snow tures are stern sections of for a a's band ro readings occur cor and xas ) Oklnhoma ozl to southern BISHOP REPORTED BETTER (U'P)—Bishop cock of the Episcopil who 13 un Nospital for v reported from the Ohio he lower o rog 16 Conditions favor for this vic air wenther wit it 1 nt temy Massachusetts at City Mo nig ns reported rosting very comiortably this morn Atlanta | ;f Questions who | and Afi}slwers i QUESTIONS ANSWERED You can get an answer to any| question of fact information by | writing to the Question Editor, New | Britain Herald, Washington Bureau, 1322 New York avenue, Washingto D. C., enclosing two cents in stamy for reply. Medical, legal and marital advise cannot be glven, nor can ex- tended research be undertaken. All other questions will receive a per- sonal reply. Unsigned requests can- not be answered. All letters are confidential.— Editor. or Ts there | 1ot nd any difference in the light 1 the in wat in vacuum and In vacuum and in travels 186,284 miles per second. Both Foucault in France and Mi in America have measured rectly the velocity of light in w and have found it to be about th fourths as great as in air Q. What are the five largest col- leges in United Statgs in point enrollment? A. York New City, sity light of City, with 36,688 students; York University, W with 24,846 ew N students; Univer of California at Berkeley with 0 students; University of the City of Detroit with 15,000 students; and Boston University, Mass., with 13,065 students, Q. What do the letters “D" on United States coins mean? A. They are the mint marks of the Denver, Colorado and San Fran- cisco mints Q. How many how many democ the present cong: A public farme a in republicans ts there In the present senate, 54 re- and 1 representa- , 155 demo- abor ns, a bor. House 268 reput crats and 1 farmer Q. Who was the father of Quees Victoria of England? Of nationality was she? A. Victoria was the only child of Edward, Duke of Kent, fourth King George III of Engl of German and English emocrats of tatives, ans, what descent Q. When was rice first grown in d States n latte mseventeenth century, a Madagascar is said to have brought a sack of rice to Charleston vielded well, the eulture eventu the part of vessel the from spread, and the staple product , until the Civil war. The cultivation of rice spread rapidly to most of the southern states Q. Why does wood float in water and iron sink in wats A. Wood floats b den wse v rice becs ) me of that stat ause it h Iron sinks its density is greater than of water Has the radio distress signal heen changed? No, | W i watc Q Did George ngton keep A his Q Yes, lie inherited slaves from brother and his wife. Was Floyd Gibbons the world war? A, He lost or of Chatean Q. What execution of nure cuted? . Edith Cavell’ m. October 13, 191 sentence passed injured in eye at the hattle 1918 the war, rerry, was the da ith « what France, in of the a was she execution at 2 a . in pursuane by the German | military court at Brussels, on the| charge that she had assisted English and Belgians to cross the frontier into Holland. Q. Is the new sccretary of Hurley, a Roman Catholic? A. Tatrick Jay Hurley, secretary of war, attends the Protestant Epis- copal church, but is not a membe His parents were Roman Catholic ind his wife is a member of th | Episcopal chureh i Q. Isa Chinaman born in the ['nited States a citizen of the United war, Yee What are furniture monufact the United States siksippi river? e 0 and It Grand Rapids, Mich.; H N. C.; and New York City Q. Does it ever get too cold snow? States some ri to The United States weather | burean says light snow low temp Q. Ts the Bob the Partridge and same Dird? A The ual in th in the is call falls at very tures, Whits th the CGiroust Quall, the “Rot White” north is called a “part- The “ruffe ' in the south. ridge “partrids sant” in t Funeral Mass Held for | Slain Boston Policeman on, Jun. 16 (UP)—A funeral s W celebrated at Sacred church of East Boston today James J. Troy, Boston plain- clothes policeman who was slaln duty Monday night widow and four children the service and a detail of officers acted as a guard torth and “ph m as Hear for while on oy's attended o4 of police honor, Mennwhile, James charged with maintained silence jail where he nding the Iebruary folk county grand jury ‘roy was guarding the loor doorway of a Sonth house Agill was negro in connection in Taunton Roston. Police who captured Threa other South ki ter the Threadgill, murdering at Charles confined of gro Troy, sitting rear End inst escape first- of ag when slain, superior wehing the house for ted by po- arméd rob- in Thre officer s who was w with and lice bery robhery Juth il in nd dwelling shortly id they found revolver from which red in the ne- ou's overcout pocket, murder s one shot had heen & Isi Alask. gold rusl B ¢ h I ¢ hrough snows. A 3 R seen little He There > comic str by the tc be Broadway other city pertance. fanhattan ink of of him s proba are thousa Gotham glitt (Coy rhial the prov catk and 1-drur the cour Nowher clips on the ch Yorl the 1 DOCTOR DESCRIBES DISEASE ‘ PARROT do pec no op of place = 2 of m ually ¥ volvi nt P super bound doesn't They to turn never ction 1 damp! nage umber o months and often v monia . v : d 10 o bird they nee ne b have it in a job aro dises of the carly in > this s brough presenc house wher nothing wi fut oy o e in his pocket me t th of It Broadw gers. DB rooms is from sickness oc- Ay rect 4 had to do ntengded cumonia ver 1chelor make th “Fri lenely bachelors such In inter- as from this draw all the r a companior former psittacosis ey th of Hion o consids same fashion clothas. A n ¥ 2 casies and typical which k parrot, acc lly present in cal role to chop hou ol engagingly ami & contrad h from the br “ooffee Fioni ctory drin pitiful braggad calkes fow the inf with a in dis muct of the trans. rorit ion of t sick s to he 1 app: man consid lemiological indicated each oo 1 wholly rning card printed ing wher nt of thi tiny bacill patron turn bacil the reads, “Be end g Thr . past four mont such negl In another the bedside clocks in all i fllum > roomis. = 1 The dressn autiful king picking up extra chang. gentlemen fr] rlaces in the hey receive Such mannikin ds into hionabl en per and ony hloodst fit beautios also able of great usually ceneral pre prostration, fatal in from s infectec view of thig rd owner t to safeguard v ick from ve. In COMMUNICATED ATTENTION MR, BASSETIE 1ed] 1 contin r he sraduated Point, and had partic 1 War mizhd the sight of Lad courg n Worl he received L ith he me cticu ap yesterday, M the A8’ tendi rnm ere with £o1 rations, sinc li ed the d authoritie duties of the " and Crose far from the zations to state iccumbec Old Unels Bassetta blam the C, h « 1, who Mr 1d ent of for comfort by the for t bility Bl it it ul to the public a gov Red Crosq for the folk But where ther d it Mr 1e up his charge ar t capacity is res to t it, so , he will fir > ¢ modernize that buildin s1 support WALTER RALEIGH MAN INJURED N FATALLY formerly r, M today the nn ind hi; in indry lic arge wash rashed through il, and strucid the from loss o1 right died of 1 lood short 10} com ken iot N telephone Classifie rald—f the nums publ sed and ering Ron with thei 205 to appear el dres vibrant is a business ¢ 5 1 ™ for a of § cons gratis, For nes of those fed Emil, A haic up with toine, 1 i two rre as t 1o rlor welcome wenue, One bobl ducted by Tke Co Patrick Mclaug ng T noand a Al 1s Shipt r Rolfe. - wit in STT NUMBI SET AND And 12t fellows 1 worth, me as one of the most rita know “Mr A half dozen others address “Art.” Nothing calls me makes a fel- =CLIP COUPON ING HOW TO TOOK TEN YEARS YOUNGER HERE —— — — —— = n D. 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