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New Britain herald., 1920-01-29
ROB STORES

Auto Bandits Steal Goods AS Crowds
 stupidIy Stare; One Esacpes With
 $5,O0O Gems
 Camden, N. J., Jan. 29.-It took two daring young bandits about two minutes to grab s5.00o worth of dia- monds from the show window of F. B. Wallen's jeWelry store. 405 Broad way, and escape in an automobile this afternoon. They were in such a hurry that they wrecked their auto mobile within d block of the City Hall, and were thrown out, but scrambled to their feet and vanished about two jumps ahead of Chief of Police Gravener and two of his men.
 Broadway, one of the busiest of the business thoroughfares, was well filled with pedestrians about 4 o'clock as an automobile pulled up at the curb in front of the Wallen store and a man hopped out while a companion remained at the wheel and kept the motor chugging. A we'll aimed brick, wrapped in q newspaper. sent the plate glass of the window flying in all directions. while Wallen, five clerks in the store and six patrons stood petrified.
 Grabbing a tray of diamond rings, the thief jumped out to the car and it sped away.
New Britain herald., 1920-01-29
Chiid's Restaurants Clear
 Big Profits in Last Year

New York, Jan. 29.-Childs Co.,, operating a chain of restaurants throughout the country, set a record for earnings in the year ending No- vem Der 30, 1919, the total net profits being $1,65S,005, according to it's an nual report made public today.
 This is more than triple the com pany's earnings in the lean" year of 1918, when the total was 5,109, and represents earnings of $33.77 share on the common stock, after de- duction had been made to cover divi- dends on preferred stock. It was an- nounced that, S1.19O,55S of the earn ings had beer placed in the surplus fund bringing that fund Up to S2,125,- 259
New Britain herald., 1920-01-29
CITY'S EXPENSES
 ON THE INCREASE
Salaries, mcidentals and Water Board Budgets Show Need of Increased 
 Appropriations This Year.

Salary increases, according to the report of the committee on salaries in their budget for the year. will amount to SS,490 exclusive of the amounts necessary to conduct the of- flee established for property valuation the expenses of which are $10.0OO- $4,000 for the director and S6.000 for his four assistants. Last years sal aries were S46.380 whereas the total this year will be S64.SI0.
 In the budget for incidentals, the increase over the amount allowed this year is $4,550. There is an increase of $500 in the advertising and print ing item: $200 for office supplies; ST. 800 for elections, there being two this year; s100 for telephones; $1,000 for municipal records; s1,500 for collec- ton of personal taxes; $500 for card index: S2O0 fer gas, light and heat; $200 for Sundry accounts. The es- innate for recording births and deaths is $350 less than the amount allowed this year. No estimate is made for next year for printing ordinances, for which $7OO was allowed this year but $500 is asked for "charter and ordi- nance"
 The board of water commissioners budget totals. SITS, 15O, which is $2S,- 05O greater than the amount allowed for the present year. In the construc- ton account, s3O,000 is asked. For the present, year. s20,000 was appro- priated and $23,319.90 was spent up to January 21. In the relay account, S4,1s4.23 has been spent and s3,00o' is asked. For this year, $2,000 was appropriated for this account. Other increases are $2,0O0 in the Burling- ton development account; $5,000 in the land purchase account; S1,500 in general repairs account, and s5,5oO in the Burlington account. The amount appropriated for the water depart ment for the present year was $144,- 200 and the amount expended to Jan- uary 31 is $141, ,774.17.
New Britain herald., 1920-01-29

Crossley's orch. at the Elks' fair. .advt.
New Britain herald., 1920-01-29
"FLU" HURTS RAILROADS
Disease Hampering Service, Walker Hines Asserts, Because of Illness to NOrl<mcIl.

ItilcS .ASScfIS. BecduSS or Illness 10
 NOrl<mcI.
 Louisville, Ky, Jan. 29.-Inf1u enza is becoming so widespread in large sections of the country especially be- tween Chicago ana New York, that it is Interfering seriously With railroad freight traffic according to Walker D.. Hines. director general of railroads who was here today to address the annual banquet of the Transportation club.
 Coupled with had weather condi- tionS,' said MT Hines. the infiuenZa epidemic ha* dealt q serious blow to railroad operation. Not only are scores of railro2d men down with the disease, but many more are forced to stay away from their duties because of the death or serious illness, of mem bCTS of their families.
 "Repcr'S received by me yesterday hoWcNt!, ure that both weather con- ditions and troubles due to illness are growing uetter."
New Britain herald., 1920-01-29
EXONERATES MEXICANS.
Judge Then Says Aviators Died of
 Hunger and Thirst.

Mexico City, Jan. 29.-The Ameri- can aviators Comedy and Warehouse, who met death at Las Animas. Low CT California. were not killed by M exicans, according to the report of the judge of the primary court or claims at Ensenada, L. C.. just re- ceived in the capitol. The judge as- serts they died from thirst and hun ger. that no wounds were found on their bodies and that messages scrawled on the wings of their plane told of their slow deaths rom eA- posture.
 Crossleys orch. at the Elks' falr.
New Britain herald., 1920-01-29

This lot also has 26 pairs of High Boots, with low heels. Worth $500 a pair.
New Britain herald., 1920-01-29

CHILDREN'S-Black High Cut Shoes, sizes s Ia to II. Also some Tan Calf and Lotus Calf Scuffer Shoes in same lot, Special at
The daily Alaskan., 1920-12-14
BOARD LAYS HE
 BLAME IN ALLIES

Washington Dec. 14-Speaking Of the operations of the shipping Board ia the early days of the war. WI'- liam Dunpan in his testimony beC0r 'tue House Committee. said. tha: the operations of the Shipping board We're handicapped by the insistance o: ;he Allies. particularly Britain. that they be allowed to use the available facilities in this country for ihe construction of ships. He farther declared that there was a "strcng and hysterical senument' in America that Britain be permit ted to cOntinue to dominate the worlds shipping.
The daily Alaskan., 1920-12-14

M'..M. Huntley came in on tho Je'. after a short visit with rel ativ=s and friends in Seattle and vic inity. Mir. HuntIey will take the wark at Clifton as section foreman as Mir. Rourke went south sooner than he had planed on account the illness of Mrs. Rourke.
The daily Alaskan., 1920-12-14
Jefferson Reaches
 Port On Monday

The steamship Jefferson reachel oort early Monday morning with a small cargo of freight and several messengers. After unloading her freight she left to return to the south. on her next north bound trip she will come with the bulk of our Xmas mail.
The daily Alaskan., 1920-12-14
THREE STAGES
 IN PROGRAM

Geneva Dec. 1.-The Committee ou disarmaments has a program by which the disarmament of the na- tlous will take place in three stagea
 This is the substance of a report to be made to the Assembly of the Loague of Nations by the Committee on trmaments.
The daily Alaskan., 1920-12-14
CHINESE
 WILL STARVE

Pekin Dec. 12-Representatives O. the relief societies who have care fully gone over the situation in China make the statement that tue estirae of those who will die of starvation and disease this winter in the stricken portion of China will number ten and possibly fifteen mil lion people.
The daily Alaskan., 1920-12-14
I.W.W. LOSE CASE
 IN HIGH COURT.

Washington Dec. 13-The Suprem Count handed down decision with reference to the prosecution of the men who deported 231 I.W.W. } from Bisbee in 1917.
 The decision of the court was that the men could not De prosecuted for the uffense.
The daily Alaskan., 1920-12-14
SON 0F D0OLIOG .5HOI AND KILLED

Fresno Dec. 13-Peter J. son Of Congressman Dooling of New York VI ile on a motor trip with Hugo En g.e also of New York was shot and k. lied by the latter.
 The shooting was an accident.
The daily Alaskan., 1920-12-14
0F WAR
 MEASURE ENOW UP

Washington Dec. 12-The House today voted to begin the immediate consideration of the Volstead resolu- ton repealing many of the wartinio laws.
The daily Alaskan., 1920-12-14

MT. William H. Riley a stenogr7 ,pher in the auditors office on tho Waite Pass and Yukon Route and who has been In Skagway since ear ly summer. was a southbound pas selger on the Jefferson.
 Mr. Riley will return to his home Seattle.
The daily Alaskan., 1920-12-14
Popcorn that pops at Asks. 5

Mir. and Mrs. D. l. Stevenson came in on teh Jef. after an extend- ed trip to the east where they have bern visiting with friends and rela- tiVts.
The daily Alaskan., 1920-12-14

Perhaps the large increase In di vorces is due to the fact that lot Ot married men for the first time have found themselves in possession O' enough money to Lirp'a lawyer.
The daily Alaskan., 1920-12-14

William J. Bledsoe. who for the past two Years has been fireman oD the w. P. and Y. Route is leaving on the Princess Mary. Thursday. for an eX'ended visit to Chicago. st. Leafs. and other eastern cities. Eni expects to be gone for few months.
The daily Alaskan., 1920-12-14

Of course if the authorities pursue the home brew industry rccklesSly r may become necessary for libcrty-lov Ing sons to drink the fluid ingredients separately and then swallow raisin
The daily Alaskan., 1920-12-14

Don't buy stale punch board can~ dy !or your Christmas Candy b',t Set Lowney's Fresh CandieB at Kel- lcrs. E ia
The daily Alaskan., 1920-12-14

London Dec. l3-Arthur Hendcr- son declared that Martial Law in Ire land would be barrier to Peace E. inst land.
The daily Alaskan., 1920-12-14

After the show. Hot Red Snapp5r Hot beef Boullion, Hot Clam Tea. and Fresh Raw Olympia Oyster cock t' is at Kellers' fountain.
The daily Alaskan., 1920-12-14

No more Turkey orders taken at Frye-Bruhns after 5 pm. Wednss- day Dec. 18th.
The daily Alaskan., 1920-12-14

The delayed shipment of Christ mas and New Year Post card Greet jugs now on sale at Kellers at ? for , cents.
The daily Alaskan., 1920-12-14

No more Turkey orders taken at FIye-Bruhns after pm. Wednes- day Dec. 18th.
The mirror., 1920-08-19

You may be in the habit of shrinking
from difficulties, feeling that they are too
great or ''too much trouble" This habit
has doubtless grown upon you through
desire to escape responsibility. If you ap-
praised the difficulty and your ability,
each at its face value, you would see the
possibility of overcoming it, just as others
have overcome similar difficulties. In or
der not to feel yourself inferior (for the
unconscious desires above all else to graft
fly its own feeling of superiority you
must find an excuse for not doing what
others have done, and thus you magnify
the greatness of the difficulty as reason
for backing out instead of facing and
overcoming it.
If piece of work seems difficult, pic
ture to yourself the satisfaction and glory
of its accomplishment as well as whatever
other gains may come to you. Repeat this
untiRybu have established habit of mas
terry over your work and over yourself.
-William E. Tosvne in July Nautilus.
The mirror., 1920-08-19
INITIATIVE

The ability to take care of yourself, to
find way of successfully meeting your
own difficulties, to keep your courage
strong in the midst of confusion and ad-
versity, is something to be developed and
cherished.
Perhaps as child this power of initia-
tive was smothered by your parents, atti
tude toward you. Possibly you were re-
pressed, suppressed and depressed until
you became well trained in the habit of
defeat, and all your initiative retired
within your unconscious.
No quality of character is more desir-
able than the habit of victory, the habit
of pushing ahead cultivated and protected
in the child instead of being killed by the
superior will-power of parents and
teachers.
Much of the worlds progress is due to
the fact that parents have been blessed
with wilful children who refused to have
their individuality crushed.
Initiative should be directed in proper
channels rather than suppressed. When
child shows restless, perhaps destruc-
tive energy he should be provided reason
able and constructive ways of expressing
his surplus vitality.
If you have failed to meet successfully
the keen competition of the external world,
perhaps it is because the will to victory
was never fully developed in you. You
can still compensate for this deficiency by
schooling yourself in the habit of mastery
in small things as well as great-mastery
not so much by breaking down the oppos-
ition of others, as by finding means of
getting around or over obstacles, by ad-
justing yourself to circumstances, and en-
vironmept in such way as to realize the
results you desire.
The mirror., 1920-08-19
AMERICA THE LAND OF THE
MOTOR.

There already are between five million
and seven million automobiles across the
land" said a prominent Detroiter, 81
think that it is safe to say that the nation
could buy and continuously operate ten
million or twelve million cars without
reaching what might be called the point
of saturation. Mr.. Ford would probably
put the figure higher. think mine more
conservative estimate, however"
Twelve million motor-cars. 1t seems
absurd, doesn't it? Yet here we are al
ready, car to every twenty Americans,
and in state like Iowa, one to every six.
In theory, and l honestly believe in fact
as WELL you could, if necessity ever arose,
pack the entire population of Iowa into
its own motor-cars and move it over the
state lines overnight, very much as the
Toledo trolley-cars were moved out of
the town and the state. And yet the abb
surdity diminishes as you go around and
about Detroit and see great motor-car
factories going up in many directions
The mirror., 1920-08-19
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Of each querist being used.-Editor.
O-Has there ever been a colored man
in the U. S. senate Pc. D. S.
A=There have been two colored sena-
tors in U. S. senate. They were Hiram
Revels of the 41st congress and B. K. Bruce
of the 47th congress.
Q:-What is the meaning of the initials
r. S. V. PA. w.
A:-These are the first of the French
sentence Responder sill vous plait," mean
ing "reply if you please"
The mirror., 1920-08-19
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The mirror., 1920-08-19

tured that immense areas of virgin rub
ber trees await discovery in the upper
reaches of the Amazon basin.
1t is interesting to know that Kew Gar
do with the development of the rubber in
dustry. An Englishman went into the
River Tapajos region and collected TO-
0C0 seeds of the fcus elastica and other
rubber-bearing trees. These were sent
home to Kew in June, 1875, and were
propagated there-the first Brazilian rub
Der seeds to be sent out of that country.
From the resulting growths two thousand
seedlings were sent to Ceylon and, Incl
dentally, one of these (popularly known
as "Wickham's Baby" from the name of
the collector of the seeds) is still in health
and vigor.
In November, 1875, thousand seed
lings of Hevea brasiliensis (another rub
ber tree) were broubht to Kew, and of
the thirty or so plants that survived
number were sent to Ceylon. Other plants
went from Kew to Burma, Java, Singa-
pore, and the West Indies. Ceylon sent
FIVE hundred to Burma and Madras in
1878, and number of year old trees to
the Straits Settlements.
Thus began the extensive plantations
which now characterize the East. The
trees first planted in Ceylon bore their
first flowers in 1S81-84, and the seeds
grown there were sent to many other trop-
ical countries for experimental purposes.
1t must be borne in mind that until, per-
haps, twenty or twenty-five years ago rub
ber-planting in the East had hardly
reached beyond the experimental stage.
Yet in the first half of 1913, 1900 tons
of rubber were exported from Ceylon as
compared with 10000 tons from Brazil
the home of the original plant.
In 1901 there were $500 acres under
rubber in Ceylon; in 1912 the total acreage
in the island had grown to 100000; whilst
there were in the same year 621, 900 acres
of rubber in Malaga, the average yield to
the acre Tin Ceylon) being four hundred
weights.
Figures are not usually regarded as in
teresting, but the growth of the rubber in
dustry is so phenomenal that the yearly
yield as set out in the following table
justifes their use: Exports from Brazil
practically the only country producing
rubber in those days: 1925, 80 tons; 1880,
1s6 tons; 1S40, 3SS tons; 1880, 1,467
tons; 1860, 2,67O tons; 1897, 21,26O tons.
In 1909, and for the FIVE years ending
1913 the report from Brazil averaged A.
600 tons. The worlds supply grew from
$4,000 tons in 1907 to 10000 tons in 1912,
whilst the estimated yield from the four
principal sources of supply in the East for
1919 amounted to no less than $4,000
tons.-Seiected.
The mirror., 1920-08-19

factories, given over during the war to
the manufacture of munitions, being trans
formed into automobile production. You
recall Akron, with its overwhelming tire
Establishments and Cleveland and Toledo
with their own great motor-car factories.
Or, perhaps, there in front of the Detroit
City Hall you board the interurban troll
leys which quickly race you north to Pom
tiac, where mOtor-car manufacture is CIV
ing industrial briskness, and acre upon
acre of small, neat houses to what two or
three years ago was but sleepy county
seat; or to Flint, where homeless folk have
slept night after night in rows of cots in
storerooms; or to Lansing, where the auto
mobile-factories today quite overshadow
the state Capitol of Michigan in local
pride and importance.
Of these three Flint was to me by far
the most interesting. It seemed hardly
credible that in six or seven years COM
munity of $4,000 folk had grown to 91,s99
by the exact figures of the 1920 census
and the romance of Durant and bort,
the one-time carriage builders of that nice,
old-fashioned town, far exceeds, to my
mind, many of those which l have seen
spun upon theater stage or within the
covers of novel. A quarter of century
ago these men were already in quantity
production, for that day and age Al
ready they had evolved their famous two
wheeled gig-the little "blue Ribbon
which they sold for twenty-five dollars
to the boys in the backwoods of the Mich
igan counties who could not afford to pay
one hundred dollars for regular honest
to-goodness buggy. More than twenty
years ago Durant had brought his pro-
duction of the "Blue Ribbons" up to over
one hundred thousand annually. Then
one day-it was barely fifteen years ago
he walked into the Uttered workshop of a
quiet mechanical genius who lived up one
of the side-streets of the town. The mans
name was Herman Buick, and he had
evolved from scrap material little in
ternal-combustion gasoline-engine.
"Scrap material, indeed" said my
friend, the Detroit maker of motor-cars.
"We were glad enough to get scrap in
those days. Short lengths of brass piping
made good cylinders; brass checks valves;
rubber ~valve-handles, Ay-wheels. We
worked with such material as we could
get in hand, and under tremendous obsta-
cles."
But they worked. The man who stood
behind Buick and who dropped his car
riage-building business-almost overnight
it seemed today heads an automobile in
dustry of his own which is doing busi-
ness of about $3s,oOO,OOO a year, and he
plans in this year of grace 1920 to turn
out 3,1Oo cars each working-day, or about
four to the minute Hungerford
tn Harber's Magazine for July.
The mirror., 1920-08-19
THE ROMANCE OF RUBBER

"Take away rubber and our boasted
civilization would collapse like house of
cards."
Such is the opinion of an English writer,
and, to very considerable extent, it is
true.
The fabric of our present-day society
is built up very largely upon rubber foun-
dations. From tyres to fountain pens, from
electrical apparatus to door-stoppers, rub
ber enters into the composition of many
articles which are regarded as everyday
necessities of life. Yet in 1925 the worlds
output of india-rubber did not exceed
thirty tons.
1t was DR.. Priestley who in 1770-ex-
actly century and half ago-made the
discovery that the substance until then
known as caoutchouc possessed the proper
ty of removing pencil marks from paper
property which led to the remaining of
the substance "India-rubber." Hitherto
it had been regarded merely as natural
curiosity, something with which the
chemist might experiment and which the
traveller might exhibit to his admiring
friends. Thenceforward it had CONNER
cial value, and shortly afterwards it was
obtainable from stationers and others, who
priced it at three shillings an ounce. Fifty
years later-in 1890 Charles Macintosh,
the Scottish chemist who had introduced
the manufacture of sugar of lead and
alum into Scotland, began series of ex-
periments which eliminated in the manu-
facture of waterproof Macintosh CLOTH"
for which he obtained patent in 1928.
Rubber was, however, known to the In
dians of Brazil in the days when the New
World was discovered. Early explorers
tell how the natives played sort of hand
ball game with "seringas" Ia roughly
rounded balD of caoutchouc, propelling
them with head, hands, and knees. They
had method too, of waterproofng cloth
by an application of this milky sub
stance" And in later years the French
sent shoes and clothes over to Para to be
treated in this way and brought back for
the use of the Army. So that Macintosh
merely followed in the steps of uncivilized
pioneers.
The first traveller to make study of
the matter was Charles Marie de la Con-
damine, the leader of French expedition
to Ecuador in 1735, who sent specimens to
the French Academy of Sciences in 1886,
and supplied a considerable amount of
valuable information thereon.
Subsequently rubber-yielding trees were
found in the Old World-in Prince of
Wales Island, off the Malacca coast in
1898; in Assam in 1910; in West Africa
and Madagascar little later; and, finally
in the Cameroons in 1898. In the Amazon
region the rubber grows wild in the jun
gle and it was from these countries that
the first considerable export of rubber was
made in 1920. Even today it is conjec-
The mirror., 1920-08-19

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"Many a man will endorse his friends
character but not his note."
The mirror., 1920-08-19

"The value of experience is estimated
in cents (sense) rather than dollars"
The mirror., 1920-08-19

"A good resolution amounts to nothing
unless carried into effect"
The mirror., 1920-08-19

"No one ever built reputation on what
he was going to do"