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New Britain herald., 1921-05-14
THE MEN, TOO.

or of wearing short skirts en Is getting to be no joke women are not the only ned, either.
 hs the news that the wom- of a certain city has asked lal Government to instruct
 Do arrest women who ap- streets wearing skirts with
 more than ten inches bund and to present the of- court on tho charge of he sense of shame"
 le reformers go a step hey urgo that the mem-
 police force carry meas ( they may be sure the nore than the prescribed m tho ground before mak- rst.
 ply. before advancing to
 part of tho program, 1t |ggested That an interesting
 bo presented on any pop Ehfarc if such plan goes kll along the street. un- might he seen officers of |ding over their little sticks ling. while some charming | he sex wont to be called |ad until the minion Of the tcrmlncd whether or not Hated the ordinance.
 here comes the awful there is planned a boycott
 who are seen accom- pany- whose skirts are found to
 from the ground than per. Tho men will be hu- rther. They may suffer from the fact that they with a woman whose skirt Iy short--but fear of the
New Britain herald., 1921-05-14

"JEST RUNuNATIN'. :"
 tRobcr. RuSScII-N

There's dikes along some river banks that keep the wa ter back am hold the power O the stream within its proper track. There's things along the oceans edge that stays the risin' tide. protectin' fields and pretty homes where hard worked folk abide At timea those dikea grow old an fraiI. the Water rushes tn ouSh- tho folks along the river hast L" sec what they may do. Those breakwaters that stretch taI out from lanG get worn an old; great waves roll up an threat en harm an miser! untold. Like that is fife; some folkf arc dikea or breakwatera to stand against cnoruaching evil that may threaten this. ou, lard.< A littlo hole in that ol' dikc enlarl CT to 9 break: 9 lowering O standards in oun lives meana to forsake with ne'er a thought O others. those who count on us az strCng. to steer the path through decency. avoidin' filth an wrong. It's hard to be human rock, temptations loom so large: bus man may dc it ii he feels Thy brother is thy Charge"
New Britain herald., 1921-05-14

whom to confide-from whom help and sympathetic advice may he sought.
 Yengeful men may sheer at the ac ton Of Judge Lindsey. They may insist that anyone, judge, priest, clergyman. doctor. nurse, husband or wife-all should be compelled to tell everything about crime that they know in order that the guilty may be punished.
 But who are they to say what per son is guilty in the sight of d Judge before whom all shall someday ap- pear.
New Britain herald., 1921-05-14
Lights and Shadows
 (., ~ By John J. Daly
IN MEMORIAM

IN MEMORIAM At the sign Of the Book,
 AS the oldsters remember, Each Spring showed a stock
 That would brighten an embos. There was always a flock!
 Ev'ry Tom, Dick and Harry From block after block
 Came to purchase and tarry. When the hands of the clock
 Pointed high to the ceiling, There was many a shock To a sensitive feeling. With a chain and a lock
 Someone closed all the portals Till the crow of the cock
 Walked the innocent mortals, No one ever could knock
 Loud enough so he'd falter; For the man at the dock
 Was as firm as Gibraltar.
New Britain herald., 1921-05-14

A fair is being held at Turner hall for raising funds for the local hos pital
 The New Britain Cricket Club will hold a practice game at Electric field this evening at o'clock.
 Several local members will attend the 11th annual meeting of the woman's Congregational Home Missionary Union of Connecticut at Bridgeport, May 20.
 T. Frank Lee is visiting his brother John A. Lee at Yale.
 The water commissioners will build a new house soon for the keeper at Shuttle Meadow lake.
 The average membership attendance at, the Boys club for the past week was 507.
New Britain herald., 1921-05-14
IT'S OVER

F'Friday. the thirteenth
 vcd through safely.
 M publicity should always
 the day after" before
 on the significance of And there Is significance
 that it Is passed one may
 hat an occasion like this
 b.
 bm of waiting until the day
 s a purely practical one.
 ught to forget that
 yihlng about any Friday
 to fear. There Is nothing. |upcrstition should be de-
 trouble is that a Friday. |if dreaded senerally. even |ng way. is in fact apt to bie in it's wake. The less
 about 1t beforehand the bte who is about to enter Ice is nervous: the man lk to another on n matter |portance to himself is apt |t hts best: the housewife entertain sometimes be- ed lest all will not so well. |bn is noted where n col man, obliged to take an
 the next day and realiz- france on his subject, was that he was almost III. \ wise professor advised him |g walk In the country with npanion and to forget all |amination. The plan work |shman passed well.
 |ntiats say there enters into nee of assuming q casual feEard to dreaded days, the bought trunsfcrcncc. X lot thinking. half-laughingly, in day will bring disaster, mosphere which influences
 subtly tmpcls others to mistake. which will be ncky" and will bring the lat it happened on Friday. hs it may, it Is not un- n referring to this day, or |baded days, that one is to make mistakes. slips. do unwisc things when d or apprehensive. than |ltely calm. |lse 10 forget all about the 1 |idays: to cease to dread bat may never happen. and
 as it comes. courageous,
New Britain herald., 1921-05-14

before starting on the walk that their Fair companions are. to outward ap- pearances at least, within the law"
 But men in this country need not worry yet-men or women.
 For the reform planned was con- ceived and will be executed. if adopt cd. in far away Budapest.
New Britain herald., 1921-05-14
THE EDISON QUESTIONS.

The statement was made the other
 day in one of our contemporaries that the more the writer read of the
 remarks of Ford and Edison on sub
 jccts other than those in which they
 were specially interested. the more
 the writer admired these men as ex-
 perts in their own fields.
 The Edison Questionnaire," as
 published was, of course, rather a
 ridiculous affair to submit 70 young college men with the expectation that they would be able to answer all of the questions. Few well-educated men, of far wider experience and
 reading than may be expected from recent college graduates, would be able to answer correctly even a high
 percentage of the questions asked. The questions themselves. important and fundamental as some of them may have been, disclosed an ignor- ance on Mir. Edison's part ot the mat ters studied in college and Of the theory on which the modern univer- sity is conducted.
 The natural question to ask-and it Is asked with all respect for the great man: What does MT. Edison know about College?"
 Turning to an encyclopedia one reads. under Thomas Ava Edison's name. these words: He was poorly educated. but in some measures sup piled the defect by assiduous read ing This. in reference to his early life.
 The news of today tells us that he to and reads regularly some sixty-odd periodicals. many daily papers and at least two or three books a week.
 But the final nail is driven in the coffin of the questionnaire by the re- marks of a former artillery officer. l 25 years old. who passed satisfactor- fly. "I think l answered most of | them." he is quoted as saying. mot | from the knowledge I acquired at | school. but from reading, hearing and | after I left school have read a great deal on economic and scientific subjects
 Thus it may be seen that Mir. Edi- son. in deploring the ignorance of college graduates" consciously or really hits at the in- conducted and as their courses are planned. and hits not at the individ- lal who, were MT. Edison's opinion .o be taken as a criterion, has prac- iicaIIy wasted four of the best years of his life in gaining a liberal educa- ion. For no matter how fine the student, or how high the honors he received at college, he would have felt himself pretty helpless with MT. sdison's questionnaire before him.
 Young people planning eagerly to go to college need not be discouraged ,y MT. Edison's comment. Great men. m all lines have had strong opinions ,n matters outside their special Iphere from which the majority of men great in moro general fields have l filtered. Moreover, if one is not Mir. Edison avowedly pre- 'ers to have college men to aid him pr did so prefer until his latest an- It is doubtful if he has his mind.
 And young people who have not lad a college education and who sec 10 means of obtaining one may be to learn. both through the act that Mir. Edison educated him. elf through reading. and from the of one who was successful n his examination. that reading and may do much to educate , man to the satisfa ction, at least, ,f Thomas Edison.
New Britain herald., 1921-05-14
FACTS AND FANCIES
 BY ROBERT CULLEN -

The only place where eat comes be- for sweat is in the dictionary.
 What the Reichsbank can't guar antee, the banks of the Rhine must.
 Necessity is also the mother Of hash and similar post mortem dishes.
 The happicst people are those who never get their names on the front pages.
 Mir Wheeler probably wouldn't ob- ject to a bier prescription for J. Is. Corn.
 The yellow peril will not be real until China takes her queue from Japan.
New Britain herald., 1921-05-14

You plan your next vacation With keen anticipation But where in all creation
 Can you afford to go? Perhaps some invitation Would aid the situation And prove your sole salvation
 Now isn't this quite SO?
New Britain herald., 1921-05-14

Although there is No Place like Home." the reports indicate that some women have the faculty of pre- pairing a pretty imitation for the ben eft of men who have no business there.
New Britain herald., 1921-05-14

That a thing retains the same odor though called by another name would be proven proba oily if the Connecticut company decides to run ''trackless trolleys.'
New Britain herald., 1921-05-14

The result of Governor Lakes study of the Sunday bill took the ''libera- ton" out of his ''deliberation."
New Britain herald., 1921-05-14

There are no exceptions to prove the rules that govern women, merely because there are no such rules.
New Britain herald., 1921-05-14

Buried Booty Luring Police and Kids to the Parks with Spades" reads startling headline. Poor New Britain has no Parks with Spades
New Britain herald., 1921-05-14

Men will wear pants longer this year.
 An economist says we must beware of sharp curves on the road back to normalcy. Also sharp practice.
 Heinie has taught us that all is not lost when the book agent forces us to sign on the dotted line.
 Noah and his boys doubtless worried at times because the world returned so slowly to normalcy.
 AS means of communicating with the land of spirits, that phone line to Cuba will prove more satisfactory than a ouija board.
 The chief stum bling block in the way of safe readjustment is the fact that everybody is trying to force everything down except his own income.
 When you read that the criminal is caught, you know that it is a dctec- tive story and not news item
 If Panama doesn't wish to love. honor and obey, she has the inalien- able right to the love and honor part. honor part o Beer, what informal messes are brewed ut home in thy name
 Bride, to officiating clergyman: Give me a transfer, please"
 1t is some consolation to the tax payer to know that the Allies dun their best.
 In Czecho- -Slovakia they have in troduced bil requiring all men under fifty to have two wives. And they call that self determination.
 Even if you don't need the clock on an automobile, it's a great con- solation at times to have something about the darned thing that will run Dead language: One no longer used Example: Haven't you something at a little higher price?"
New Britain herald., 1921-05-14

To paraphrase an old thought it is much better to cry: Let's at 1t, than Go to it."
New Britain herald., 1921-05-14

There are none so e&asperating al less it be those who initiate to irritate
New Britain herald., 1921-05-14

bromidic person is one whose mental attitude is best described by platitude.
New Britain herald., 1921-05-14

The light that lies in woman's eyes seldom lies until mans action com pels the fabrication.
New Britain herald., 1921-05-14
sALEEBY ACQUITTED.

Man Implicated in Famous Wood AL
 coho' Cases Is Not Convicted.
 = tE
 New Pork. May I4-A jury in Brooklyn last night acquitted Samuel K. Saleeby. druggist, who was tried
New Britain herald., 1921-05-14

The man who hesitates is not lost if such hesitation is purposeful.
New Britain herald., 1921-05-14

The man who is tired of his car Ing it.
New Britain herald., 1921-05-14

The mani who knows what he is voice.
New Britain herald., 1921-05-14

The average American consumed A gallons of milk last year. This is remarkable when you reflect that 22 gallons of this was from a COW.
New Britain herald., 1921-05-14

lot of people pray as though they thought God had nothing to do but run errands for them.
 The most astonishing feature of the situation is the variety and number of non-beverage purposes. N
 And one way to avoid good health is to use perfectly sound stomach as a medicine chest
New Britain herald., 1921-05-14

Bull pen: stockade for prisoners. Also the pen used to write political addresses.
New Britain herald., 1921-05-14

Cndesira ble immiSI ants are those the home country is willing to part with.
New Britain herald., 1921-05-14

Flooding British mines with water means flooding American mines with pounds sterling.
New Britain herald., 1921-05-14

Noah and his boys doubtless worrie, at times because the world returne, so slowly to normalcy.
New Britain herald., 1921-05-14

The chief stum bling block in the way of safe readjustment is the fact that everybody is trying to force everything down except his own income
New Britain herald., 1921-05-14

AS a means of communicating with the land of spirits, that phone line to Cuba will prove more satisfactory than a ouija board.
New Britain herald., 1921-05-14

Heinie has taught us that all is no lost when the book agent forces us t sign on the dotted line.
New Britain herald., 1921-05-14

An economist says we must beware of sharp curves on the road back to normalcy. Also sharp practice.
New Britain herald., 1921-05-14

End of modern novel: And tn, married and interested themselves vamps ever afterward
New Britain herald., 1921-05-14

The average American consumed A gallons of milk last year. This is rema rka ble when you reflect that 22 gallons of this was from a COW.
 Bull pen: A stockade for prisoners. Also the pen used to write political addresses.
 Undesira ble immigrants are those the home country is willing to part with.
 Flooding British mines with water means flooding American mines with pounds sterling.
 End of modern novel: And they married and interested themselves in vamps ever afterward
 The infant prodigy had been told that he must not eat worms. "Et tu5' said he mournfully.
 NormaIcy will meap more hammers used on nail heads and fewer on official heads.
 R. P. M.: Very technical; moaning revolutions per minute" Gauges the power of a motor and the failing power of an empire.
 It is understood that the 1920 crush of cotton seed will provide enough genuine olive oil to last the country three years.
 After a statesman has worn out a perfectly good typewriter framing political notes, you can't blame him. for sending an ultimatuIn
 Now that we have given Colombia S25.9oO,000 to- protect oil interests the two car owners down there may expect to pay more for their gas
New Britain herald., 1921-05-14
25 YEARS AGO

(From The Herald of That Date }
New Britain herald., 1921-05-14

When you read that the criminal is caught, you know that it is a dctec- tive story and not a news item.
New Britain herald., 1921-05-14

Men will wear pants longer this year.
New Britain herald., 1921-05-14

If Panama doesn't wish to love honor and obey, she has the inalien able right to the love and honor part honor part.
New Britain herald., 1921-05-14

The infant prodigy had been told that he must not eat worms. "Et tu," said he mournfully.
The public ledger., 1921-03-25
Sin AND THE DEVIL PUT
PLAINLY BEFORE AUDIENCE
Evangelist Vines Says There Is a He'll
With Fires Twenty Times Hotter
Than Literal Fires to Today.

Declaring his firm belief in a per-
sonal devil and burning hell, DR..
John F. Vines, Evangelist at the Bap-
tist revival, preached to large audi
,ence last night despite the threatening
weather. His subject was "The Sub
tie Serpent" and his sermon was built
about the fall of man.
The speaker pictures the subtle SER
pent of today not as a crawling snake
but In the most attractive dress. He
preached an old time gospel sermon on
an old time theme and yet his sermon
was new from beginning to end and
he held his large audience spellbound
by his most striking examples. This
evening DR.. Vines will preach on the
subject: WHO'S To Blame If I'm
Lost" The song service begins at
7;15 and the new songs being taught
by Mr.. Mckinley are beautiful.
There will be services on Saturday
night and on Sunday DR.. Vines will
speak five times. A great mass meet
ing will be held at o'clock Sunday
afternoon for men and boys only.
The public ledger., 1921-03-25
POLICE AND WORK.
ERS BATTLE IN GER.
man MINING TOWN
Figbtlng Is so fierce That Railroad
station Changes Hands Twice
In Only Twenty
Minutes.

Eisleben, Germany, March 25.-The
street fighting. as result of the Com
munist outbreak, which has been In
progress for the last two days in this
mining town is continuing desperate-
ly, with hand-to- hand combat at the
railroad station and near the center Of
the city.
The rattle Of machine gunfire, the
crash OF hand-grenade explosions and
the popping of rifles has continued
steadily Two thousand police are
holding the eastern half of the town,
while $500 workmen are in possess
sion of the western section. All the
workers are heavily armed and well
disciplined.
The intensity Of the fighting may be
judged from the fact that the railroad
station changed hand twice in twenty
minutes. The police are now in pos
session of the station. Bodies of the
dead and severely wounded are still
lying in the streets. The less severely
wounded are crowded into sheltered
doorways, with bullets raising puffs
of dust about them.
Railroad and telephone communica-
tions have been cut.
The public ledger., 1921-03-25
MASS MEETING IN
INTEREST OF BASE.
BALL HELD TONIGHT
All Citizens Interested In Baseball for
Mays'ille during the Coming Sum
mer Months are Urged to At
tend Mass Meeting at
Council Chamber.

Interest In strong baseball team
for Maysville for the coming summer
months which has been felt here for
several weeks, took some definite
form yesterday when an organization
was perfected and a mass meeting Of
fans called for this evening at 1880
o'clock.
The organization was perfected by
the selection of Mayor Thomas NJ.
Russell as President, Mr.. P. H. Leath-
erwood as Secretary, Frank R. Haucke
as Treasurer, and Dwire Rees as Field
Manager.
For several weeks and months there
has been much talk about Maysville
having a strong ball team for the sum-
mer and now that the sun is shining
hot and the Spring season has arrived,
it is time to be acting more and do
ing less talking. Realizing that there
must be something done quickly, this
baseball organization has called a
mass meeting of fans to be held at the
City Council Chamber this evening at
1880 O'Clock when ways and means
will be discussed. Every baseball fan
and all those interested In seeing
Maysville rank with its neighbor
towns in baseball this season should
attend this evening.
The public ledger., 1921-03-25
Lewis COUNTY MAN
MURDERED; FLEMING
COUNT|ANS HELD
Thomas Horsley, Prominent Lewis
County Farmer, Found Murdered
Near His Home-One Accused
Man Surrenders Himself.

Thomas Horeley, prominent Lewis
county farmer, was found murdered
near his home in the Harris neighbor-
hood Thursday morning at about IL
o'clock by Shell Howard, a neighbor,
who had heard the shot which Is sup
posed to have killed the farmer.
Howard says that a short time be-
fore the shot was heard, he had seen
Horsley in company with Raymond
Denton and JEFF Mannin, horse trad
ers from Hillsboro, Fleming county,
and returning to the spot where he
had seen the men following the shot,
both Denton and Mannin were gone
while Horsley lay on the ground dead
with bullet wound through his heart.
At his side lay revolver, Horsely's
pocket book opened and scattered
about on the ground his money.
Reports reached Maysville this
morning from Hillsboro that Denton
had last night surrendered himself to
the Fleming county authorities claim
ing that his partner, Mannin, had fired
the fatal shot. The men were sup
posed to have been in crap game
and trouble arising over the game
caused the shot to be fired.
Mannin is reported to be a paroled
prisoner from the State Reformatory
having once before been sent to that
institution on charge of shooting
which is said to have arisen about
gambling.
The public ledger., 1921-03-25
YOUNG WIFE ATTEMPTS
TO TAKE Her OWN LIFE
Slight Family Quarrel Causes Young
Wife to Swallow
Poison.

Manchester Ohio. Mrs. Della
Hick-Crawford, 10 years of age, wife
of Fred Crawford, 20 years of age,
took a large dose of corrosive subli-
mate at an early hour Sunday morn
ing after a trivial spat, just to get
even with him for what he had said to
her.
They reside five miles east of Man
chester. A physician from here worked
with her and she says she wants to
live.
The physician says that the chances
for recovery arc against the beautiful
young wife. Mrs. Peter Hamilton,
mother of Fred Crawford, resides in
Manchester.
The public ledger., 1921-03-25
Cardinal Gibbons Dies In Baltimore
After Long Illness-CathOlic
Head In America.

Baltimore, March 25. James Card
inal Gibbons, Archbishop Of Baltimore
and Senior Prelate of the Catholic
Church in the United gtates, died
Thursday, passing away so quietly
that even his nurse, a Bon Secours
nun, could not be sure that it was the
end. She had seen the change that
betokened 1t, but 1t was slight, almost
imperceptible and five minutes passed
while she leaned above the slight, still
form, watching.
Then from the house where he had
lived and worked, in the shadow of
the Cathedral Of the Assumption of
the Blessed Virgin Mary, went forth
the news that he had died.
His grave will be in niche in the
crypt under the high altar of the
Cathedral. A slab of marble carved
with an inscription in Latin in the
north wall of the crypt will mark his
resting place.
The public ledger., 1921-03-25
MISS ELIZABETH GIBBONS
DIES IN CALIFORNIA.

Her very many friends were sad
dened today to learn of the death at
Los Angeles, California, of Miss Eliza
beth Gibbons, at 5 o'clock this morn
Funeral will be Monday afternoon and
ing after months of critical illness.
burial will be made at Los Angeles
Miss Gibbons is survived by her moth
er, Mrs. Mollie Gibbons, and two
aunts, Mrs. Joseph Walton, Of this
city, who was at her bedside when the
end came, and Mrs. Ella Allen, of
East Second street. She was lovely
young lady of many admirable traits
and had hundreds Of friends in Mays
VILE who are grieyed.
The public ledger., 1921-03-25
ESCAPED FROM ASYLUM;
CAPTURED AT MAYSLCk
Colored Man Who Sets PireVto = Nun,
ber Of Barns in Mayslick Escapes !
and Returns TO Old Haunts.

On Thursday bill" Washington,
colored man convicted several years
ago Of arson in connection with the
mysterious burning Of number Of
barns In the Maysllck neighborhood,
and sentenced to nine years in the
state penitentiary and afterwards
transferred to the state asylum for
the insane. made his appearance in the
Mayslick neighborhood. The good peo-
pie Of that section Of the county were
frightened and did not know what It
meant.
A long distance telephone call to the
state asylum for the insane disclosed
that Washington had escaped from the
Lexington institution and It Is sup
posed that he walked all the way from
Lexington to Mayslick.
He was arrested last night, brought
to the Mason county Jail here and a
guard from the asylum will arrive to-
day to return the insane man to the
institution.