New Britain herald., 1916-08-05

| things not sanitary A great many l people believe the correct word is 1 F'unsanitary'' and it is not through lack | of education either. It is merely a l false idea. One of the best educated men in New Britain during the past week had occasion to notice publicly 1 the word "insanitary' and called at l tention to the fact that it was a nis- take. Shown that he was wrong, he ad- | nlitted his own error and declared he 1 had learned something. Webster has ' no such word as 'unsanitary." While as a general rule the safety i board seems to be handling the affairs i of the police and fire departments in ! a capable manner, they are neverthe~ ! less not above criticism in their Selec- ! tion of a woman as janitress at pollce | headuuarters. When the appoint ment was made this paper questioned the advisability and it seems to be working out as was expected. A 1anl- l tors work, 1t was thought, included | doing all the chores about the station, including sweeping, dusting, washing, 1 scrubbing, etc. While the present in- cum bent certainly does the work as we'll as any woman could, the fact re- mains that conditions are such that It | is not woman's job. Although it was ! a part of the former male Jan1tOrs ] work to keep the mens ceu-roOm l clean the janitress does not do it. on the contrary the day patrol driver, 1 regular policeman, has to don a pair of
 Overalls and do the work. The police 1 man, among other things has to tckG
 charge of the water tank and every
 morning he has to wash it out fill 1t
 with clean water, put a cake of ice in
 tO
 a janitor should do all of the janitor's
 work and not leave some of it for an
 other person to do When there was a
 man on the job he did all the work It
 was argued that the woman for S6O
 month would be able to do it just as
 well, but 1t seems that she can't
 
 New Britain has had an unusually
 large number of automobile fatalities
 this year in which the victims were
 small children. Although every case
 has been closely investigated by the
 auth critics, there have been no con- victions of automobile drivers for re- responsibilities in these tragedies, which
 goes to show that it is not the autoist
 who is always at fault. During the
 past week a little girl died under con-
 Gitions exactly similar to those which | } couple of months ago. Tn each case the child, through accident, was struck by an automobile At the time neither . child seemed to be badly hurt and it was thought that bruises and fright was their worst afflictiOn. A day later, however, each Ln1lG developed alarm 5 | ing symptoms and was rushed to the l hcspita! where it was found they were suffering from internal injuries and l died scOn after. All of which shows l that parents cannot teach their chtl-
 dren to be too cautious in crossing the
 streets and that the parents cannot be too careful in looking after their chil- dren's health. Tn each of the above cases the children were doubtless giV- en ample medical attention, but there
 might yet be a case where child did not appear to be badly hurt and the
 parents would not think it necessary
 10 call in a doctor until it was too l,tc. No matter how slight an injury
 may seem to be, it is best to have the injured one thoroughly examined by i a skilled physician for it is always better to be sure than sorry. Then there can never be any regrets aris-
 ing from the conscience stricken reali-
 zation that ''it might have been.'
 Of course all children since time
 
 fun to "hop on behind" and steal a ride on a wagon. Doubtless all of the readers of this paper did it Wr en they were children and the children can't be blamed too much for it. But then conditions were different. The streets were not as busy as they arc now and
 there were not scores of autOm Obiles
 wh'zz;ng down the streets cutting in l from side streets and twisting through
 traffic as at present. Parents should
 teach their children, and insist that they obey, not to hop on and off back
 of wagons and always look both ways before crossing a street, Traffic rules
 and careful driving will do much tow l ards stopping accidents, but, the pe-
 destrian himself must meet the man , l in the street at leas half way.
 Official warning has been given to l milk dealers who do business in New ! Britain to hasten in putting their 1- | cense plates on their wagons as re-
 quired by statute. If these milkmen
 do not do this at once prosecutions
 will follow The Idea of having milk
 men licensed Is a good one It not
 only provides another source of rev.
 enue but it makes it possible for the
 inspectors to keep an accurate record of all dealers that their meth ods may
 be watched and their products care
 fully inspected. The plan works out