New Britain herald., 1918-09-21

rit school last night Fred Latham will attend Huntsinger's Business col l lege this fall. Work was resumed | today at Landers, Frary & Clark's 1 East Main Street shop, the workmen l taking a cut of 20 per cent. in their ] wages. A. J. Barker of the Yale 1 Medical school, had a narrow escape l from drowning at White Oak yester- ] day when he fell out of a boat. - Stone steps will be erected at St. 1 Mary's church this week.
 September 19-Engineer w. Fl.
 Caldwell today laid out the new trolley route to Berlin. - o. F. Curtis began 1 the joiner work on Col. Bacon's new home on Lexington street today. September 20-Willaim Farley, en- 1 ployed in E. F. Linke's tea store, has gone on a two weeks vacation. 1 Miss Mary Bingham of So Main street has returned from the worlds | fair
 September 21-Char1es D. Ellis and William Richards have returned from l the worlds fair. Michael P. Leg horn and M. J. Ryan have been visit ing friends in Waterbury.
 ". s. S.
 The 18-45 draft is bringing out some peculiar and not uninteresting l truths, particularly in regard to ages. | These incidents have to do chiefly with men who have falsifed either ] knowingly or inavertently, for vari- | ous reasons, concerning their ages and now that they are liable for military duty are trying to secure the admis- 1 sion of their correct ages. This is not confined alone to adults however, 1 for the mothers of several minor boys ) have been to legal authorities seeking advice on the same subject.
 l There is quite a large class of men l it is being found who when they l took out their citizenship papers l mum Der of years ago. gave an age ] really older than what they were at l the time Inasmuch as in many cases l this is taken as the basis of their 1 legal age here they are becoming wor- ried. On seeking advice a number 1 have been told that they had best let 1 their ages remain as they are written | on their naturalization papers or else 1 there is danger, on the truth becom- 1 ing known to federal officials, that ] they may be charged with perjury. 1 There Is yet another case, particu- 1 and young men who. when they were | 12 or 13 years of age, were taken to |
 or fathers who swore that they were IA years of age in order that they 1 could go to work. Now that these 1 falsified ages will probably call the l boys into service quicker than other 1 wise, worried parents are seeking to
 have them changed.
 l Some men. born in foreign coun- 1 tries, when they took out marriage | licenses here gave their ages as younger than what they really were. l Probably this was for reasons of pride l at the time. but now these men are l likely to be inducted into the service
 on their own age record as evidenced 1 in their marriage certificates.
 !. There is yet another cass, particu- | larly Russians, who, in order to es-
 cape military duty in their own coun- 1 try, falsified as to there ages in order 1 to secure a passport. AS it is i'm pos sible for these men to secure authen- l tic birth records from their own war
 torn country, their passport records
 will have to stand.
 1 ". s. S.
 l People are apt to grow weary of the
 continued complaint that Hartford is
 trying to "hog" everything and poor l New Britain is being left out in the
 cold. There has been an inter city
 rivalry between this place and the ad- 1 jacent city for many years. Doubtless 1 it will always continue but the utter l ance of public complaint is childish. 1 One of the city fathers from the | second ward in complaining about the l airplane fizZle of a week ago, told his l colleagues that "our friends from
 Hartford hogged things as usual" l This never does any good and be- | Titles the complainant, whether 1t be
 an individual or a community. If New 1 Britain people think Hartford is get ! ting more than her share let them
 put their shoulder to the wheel and work harder for their home town. But 1 they must not, even in their native
 pride, forget that Hartford is a very
 rich city, has many wealthy people l and many wealthy business houses 1 and, above all, is the capital city of
 the state. These things count for l something when civic favors are being
 handed out.
 1 ". $. S..
 Gee! It was a narrow escape. l sure thought my time had come when 1 that bullet whizzed past my ear" The
 young man in relating the incident to
 his sympathetic lady friend, was
 much excited. He had recounted
 how, on last Sunday, he had taken
 a stroll in the outskirts and had l sauntered into an apple orchard when ] a burly farmer, boiling with rage, had
 rushed at him, drawn a revolver and fired at almost point blank range.
 Yes the old bullet just whizzed past my head, so near that 1 could 1 hear it sing and feel the breeze. But
 before the old murderer could pull l the trigger again I was nnOn him.