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New Britain herald., 1921-02-17
COMMUNICATED.

A New Idea on the Platoon System. Editor New Britain Herald: Dear Sir:
 Allow me the space of a few inches in the columns of the Herald on the question of the firemen's two o-platoon system.
 I firmly believe that $50, ,OOO a year can be saved, and for the next 10 years to come approximately $500, 900, before the city firemen should be on a two platoon system.
 Why not have a partial two platoon companies and the Hook and Ladder company, class them off in 1, 3 and , and ?, and 6. Put No 1 and No. ? stations on two-platoon system, 3, f, 3 and 6 the old way. After a month take out one company in each, 1 and ? and transfer with and 4. The next month the other two companies in 1 and transfer with , and 6, and then alternate every month thereafter.
 This system would put the men on six months of two-platoon and six months the present way. At the same time this transferring of the men would give them better training in performing their duty and I believe it would not be quite so monotonous on their nerves as it is now, being stationed at the same place all the time
 The Hook and Ladder company can be taken care of by adding one or two men and alternate accordingly.
 Respectfully Yours,
 One Who Wishes to Help the
 City and Bremen.
New Britain herald., 1921-02-17
Salary of Berlin Judges.

Berlin, Conn.,, Feb. 16, 1921. To Editor New Britain Herald:
 Relying on your undoubted court esy and good nature I am asking you to publish tho following:
 notice in your esteemed publica- tion of even date an article concern ing the town court of Berlin, wherein our representative, MT. Deming, has introduced in the general assembly a bill increasing the salary of the judge and prosecutor from $250.O0 to $5oO.0O per year and quoting figures showing about how much each official receives for each prosecution. Tho writer tells us that there have been 79 cases to date, but fails to state the fact that the fiscal year will close on July 1st thus leading the readers to believe that our poor hard working court officials will be obliged to keep up their strenuous work until Janu- ary 1st to complete the year. Now MT. Editor and readers of The Herald, I believed when we elected MT. Dem ing as our representative that he vas supposed to represent the interests of tho voters and taxpayers of the town of Berlin and not the selfish and sordid interests of two out ot our twelve hundred voters. I have been a resident and taxpayer of Berlin for many years and I fail to see where justice has been dispensed any better or any worse during the term of the present incumbents than before their reign. do not know of any law tliat will prevent our present court officials from resigning at any time they be- come dissatisfied, and I honestly be- lieve their places could be filled in such a contingency. I believe that $25O.00 as prosecutor with about $1,200.0O as tax collector and good yearly salary from a large prosper ous concern should keep the wolf from MT. Lewis door and amply compensate him for services rendered and, furthermore, I have not heard of our worthy judge applying to the town for assistance. I believe the taxpayers of the town have burdens enough to bear without handing out any bouquets at this time. Pity us, O Lord. when the school board gets through with us, is fervent prayer of mine and I shall expect to hear great many taxpayers say Amen There has been for a few years a reckless expenditure of public money. many foolish expenditures, and why continue the evil by adding even one more?
 hope that our court officials will say that under tho circumstances they will be satisfied with the pres ent salaries, and even they must know that tho H has been knocked out of the high cost of living. and the cent has been taken out of gasoline.
 Sincerely yours,
 A TAXPAYER.
New Britain herald., 1921-02-17

4. & B. society pool rooms as try outs for the society pool team in preparation for the coming tourna- ment with Wallingford. The first games will be played at 8 o'clock. Those who are to try out tonight are: 'oseph Smith vs. Thomas Rouskie; William Burke vs. John Meskill; "
 liam Began vs. Martin Welch; ThOfn
 as Crean vs. James H. Riley; James Luby vs. Walter Murphy. .,-a
New Britain herald., 1921-02-17
FACTS AND FANCIES
By ROBERT CULLEN

History of a Government scandal: Public prints, committee. pigeon hole.
 Italian ships coal up in America, with a very strong and profane accent on the up
 tariff may help the corn raiser. but it won't make him a dollar-an-ear man.
 The tire hisSed and subsided. Another of those darned income tacks," it complained.
 Well, well: there is no call to worry. MT. Harding won't take all the advice he got.
 An economist complains that our currency is no longer fluid. It is still fluent, however.
New Britain herald., 1921-02-17
SOVIETS EXECUTE
 THOSE THEY HATE
Do Not Even Bother About
 Holding Trials

Berlin, Feb. 17.-Prisoners in the jails of Soviet Russia, when. con- demned to death, are called out to be shot by soldiers who stalk into the cells after midnight. declares M. Schwartz, of San Francisco, the so- cialist who went to Moscow to at tend a congress of the Third Inter nationale and was imprisoned there for four months.
 On a previous statement, Mr. Schwartz told of the death of his she began to end her imprisonment in Moscow, denounced communism in Russian and said he was going back to America to tell the workers there the actual facts about the Russian situation).
 Tall and gaunt, his black hair and beard heavily streaked with grey the American, who had been a bolshevik before a visit to Russia 'saddened and enlightened" him. described in a supplemental statement, the cold fear and trembling i,! which soviet prisoners wait for the visits in the dead of night.
 They always come between the hours of one and two o'clock he said "A bolshevist soldier walks into the crowded cell and in the instant si- lence calls out the names of the men, or women, who must die. In the iail where I was, they marched the pris- oners down a stairway and into a courtyard. We could hear the vol leys of the firing squads. Many men were called out for execution from my cell during those four months. Few of them knew why they had been condemned, but generally it was un- derstood they were 'counter-revolu- tionaries.' They were shot without trial"
 After a time the prisoners became inured to these visits and, in the filth and monotony of prison life, ceased to care whether their names were called or not, MT. Schwartz said. Cheery greetings were often passed as the condemned men were marched out. The men about to die would say their good-byes. wave their cell com rades a so-long, and those remaining would cry out:
 "Good-bye. See you later"
 Throughout the first few nights, however, MT. Schwartz said he trembled as with ague. and his clothes, sven to his overcoat, were wet with precipitation. Other prison CTS, some of whom had been in the Jdil TUT TlOTe IndH year, LOOK the matter cynically and told, him with apparent relish the horrors through which they had gone.
 When at last the summons came to Schwartz to leave the cell he said he was certain he was going to the place of execution. But they led him upstairs instead of down. He was taken before an official named Feld- man. in whose hands was the power of life and death over all the pris- oners in his charge. This man said he had reviewed Schwartz's case and . the American was free to go. Then
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said the reply appeared to satisfy the soviet official, who affected a pleas antry and dismissed him.
 If every bolshevist in America could spend a few weeks in a soviet prison," he concluded, there would be no more followers of the red flag at home"
New Britain herald., 1921-02-17

II cant see how this Tn Union There Is Strength helps me-" said tho fly as he got stuck on the fly paper.
New Britain herald., 1921-02-17

IL Mary had little lamb
 Whose fleece was black, not white. How could Miss Mary find her lamb If he stayed out at night:
New Britain herald., 1921-02-17

Headline says King George Makes Significant Statement in Address to Parliament" So, you see, even kings can do il.
New Britain herald., 1921-02-17

Lawyer and Coal Man in for members of bo:h LII nEs personally. there's a com bination you can't beat
New Britain herald., 1921-02-17

We are informed reindeer may re- inforce beef supplies soon. Please leave two alive for MT. Santa Claus
 Fraud" headline. Much as we respect
New Britain herald., 1921-02-17

The Russian proletarian is doubt less happy when he glances up and observes that the foot on his neck is Lenine's and not the Cars.
New Britain herald., 1921-02-17

Don't Ever Marry at Palace Theater," headline. And yet the Pal ace. like our other theaters, often staget amusing affairs
New Britain herald., 1921-02-17

woman in a tantrum is almost as dangerous as a woman in high powered car.
New Britain herald., 1921-02-17

While the earnings of worker7 fiuctuate the wages of sin remain stationary.
New Britain herald., 1921-02-17

That balloon trip to Canada taught one lesson. It demonstrated the need of a boomerang attachment for the gas bags.
New Britain herald., 1921-02-17

A nation says it is threatened with utter collapse if something doesn't happen. and then nothing happens, not even the collapse.
New Britain herald., 1921-02-17

When the gunman takes oLf in come and scatters it to the winds, he has the grace not to call it an appro- priation.
New Britain herald., 1921-02-17
COUNCIL.

bd proceedings oL In. ono might say |t of repartee be- D Alderman Peon-
 old story.
 |eins had on the buncil to provide |the blishment |r veterans asso- |pnonessa remark
 been able to on Walnut Hill the soldiers, while replied that they hot "squandered" |n tho Alderman's he remarks of a |ccrning one who |ted to have been honey 'squandered D tho signiiicanb |king care df the tndod to undoubt-
 is possible to do tn the formalities ution for $11.0oo
 as referred back 5 progress.
 h of the two |or the hremen
 that tho-council
 wants the firo-
 that arc human.
 course has been rested sufficiently
 for the Bremen h as arc enjoyed N able to he pre- neting whore the bod by tho voters have the same
 be no complaint there is an oqul to express them |the movement or blight on the mat ent ono morning V by one of the rcd a street car.
 ed my sever-year
 hool and got him bothcr died q year minutes I've had
 rc was no express evident; the fire |httcr of course. It Iout knowledge on |ninn-he was not da.r Perhaps this open the eyes of m. possibly, make k the city meeting
 to get that small Bremen more than his fathers time.
 the additional \ the mill tax will so doing.
 ature of the ses- ng up of the ques-
 of tho Common
 hisles of safety Aission was some
 believed that the ouncil perceived
 n trivial matter
 nee in every case. Fained to wonder ne if New Britain D the size of New tnnce. The police on the spot. The e n great help to D pedestrians. The |wueh places should ems to be no good Reorganization. or
 board. should not
 adlBE tho details
 othcr qnmrs
New Britain herald., 1921-02-17

A man who thinks he knows wom- m must think again-if he has an
New Britain herald., 1921-02-17
THE "SUGGESTER."

The "Suggester' tx the man to whom all Public Spirited citizens appeal when Hhey have. som Good rprk they Aw\ - D. The sug- VT erything and
 Rersons 70
New Britain herald., 1921-02-17

These pititUl pictures of thin and naked people in Europe mehow remind one of a portrait of a de- butante.
 Why this newly awakened interest in Austria" Did the Powers overlook someting worth taking?
 The world is so nearly bankrupt, it's a wonder statesmen don't insure it and set the alarmed thing afire.
 The reason the child can't under stand t;,e logic of adult principles is because the child mind is honest.
 They say the Hoover family once had coat of arms. No doubt the central figure was dinner bell rampant.
New Britain herald., 1921-02-17
.u ,f Ejaculation.

hmtionAt organization and advsr-
 N honest 7 .Alynls Of
 Ejaculation statistics audit. This insuroa fraud in newspaper
 |to both national and
New Britain herald., 1921-02-17
efald.

ACE dlu. 1
 DMPANY. | tMd) nt A:fS
 chureh street. at New Britain ll Matter,
 ALLsi
 .sss...s.'.s' ss..sss.sss"ss rt RfnK medium In M books and press advertisers to~lmted Press. emclustveiy entitled .alration of ali news othsrwias credited lso local news pub
New Britain herald., 1921-02-17

held tomorrow afternoon at the Y. M. c. A.
 The Meriden Wheel club will meet with the local Wheel club to propose having a bill presented to the legis- lature for putting a tax of 50 cents on bicycles,
 An effort is being, made to reor- ganize the local Republican club.
New Britain herald., 1921-02-17

ct New Britain Sli Matter
New Britain herald., 1921-02-17

History of a Government scandal: Public prints, committee. pigeon hole.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1921-01-27
REALLY NOT SO. FtATTERING
Younger Lady'S> Explanation Of Rec
ignition of Old Friend Had a
Certain, Sting, ia It.

A cabinet officer said at a dinner,
aprOpos Of certain criticism on his
department:
"POlitics-alN politics.. Nothing, not
even woman, is as crNel as politics,
and yet woman can be. very cruel''
The secretary then. told a story
about the cruelty of woman.
Zone Easter morning. he said, 1.-TWO
ladies met on, the Atlantic City board
walk with little outcnies Of surprise
and Joy.
"'Why, Name? said the older lady.
How f1atterfDg this ISL
'Flatteriagv said the younger
lady, with perplexed: air. How so z
"'You haven't seem me- said ths
older lady, for II yaars-and yet you
recognize me, so tea speak, right off
the bat. That means / haven't
changed so dreadfullE, doesn't it?'
."'Ohr she said,. 'yoN see, reosg>
nized your bonnet r"
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the same experience again with no
embarrassment whatever. His first i'm
preston then, besides Astounding, in
credible establishment, was that she
had quite knocked out his breath. But
let it be said for him that he recov-
cred with notable prOmptness. His
own arms had gone up and closed
around her, and the girl had Wriggled
free.
"But you mustn't do thatr she told
him.
''But, good Lord, girl! You did it
to me! Is there no justice in women?"
But I did it to thank you for this
lovely gift. For remembering me
for being so good-and considerate.
You haven't any cause to thank me-"
lie had many serious difficulties In
thsnking it out. And only. one con-
c>Ision was obtainable-that Snowbird
Kissed as naturally as she did any
ching else, and the kiss meant exactly
what she said it did and no more.
But the fact remained that he would
have walked good many miles far
Their if he thought there was any pos
sibility of repeat.
But all at once his fantasies were
suddenly and rude1y dfspelled by the
intrusion of realities. Dan had been
walking silently himself in the pine
needles. AS Lennox had wondered at
long ago, he knew how by instinct,
and instinctively he practiced this at
tainment as soon as he got out into
the wild. The creature he had heard
was fully one hundred yards distant,
yet Dan could hear him with entire
plainness. And for while he couldn't
even guess what manner of thing it
might be.
A cougar that made so much noise
would be Immediately expelled freB
the union. A wolf pack. running by
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sight, might crack brush as SfeelN ;:
but a wolf pack would also say to.
vale the dead. Of course it might be
an elk or a, steer, and still more likely,
a bear. He stood still and listened.
The sound grew nearer.
Soon it became evident that tie crea-
ture was either walking with two legs.
or else was four-foOted animal pgat-
ting two feet down at the same int
slant. Dan had learned to wait He
stood perfectly still. And gradually
he came to the conclusions that he
was listening to the football of am
other man.
But il was rather hard to, imagine
what a, man might be doing On this
lonely fsfA. OF course it might be a
deer hunter; but few we've the valley
sportsHen who had penetrated to this
far land The football was; mach too
heavy for SnOwbird. Y1Ae steps were
evidently on another trail that inter
sected his own trail one hundred yards
farther up the hill. He had only to
! stand still, and in an instant the man
| would come in sight.
| He took one step into the thickets,
prepared to conceal himself if it be-
| came necessary. Then he waited. Soon
the man stepped out on the trail.
| Even at the distance OF one hundred
yards, Dan had no difficulty whatever
in recognizing him. He could not
mistake this tall, dark form, the soiled,
slouchy clothes, the rough hair, the
intent, dark features. It was a mar
about his own age, his own height
but weighing fully twenty pounds
more, and the dark, narrow eyes could
belong to no one but Bert Cranston
He carried his rifle loosely in his arms
He stopped at the forks in the trail
and looked carefully In ali directions
Dan had every reason to think that
Cranston would see him at first glance
Only one c1ump of thieket sheltered
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GOOD AND LOGICAL. REASON
Mrs. Jones Knew Exactly What She
was Doing When She Selected
Baby's NakMss.

that allimportant part OF naming
their new baby.
Mn. Jones' who, by the way, detest-
cd work, and liked netting better than
to sit in front Of the fire and watch
ether people do it, wanted the baby
named plain BILL"
!, Mrs Jones had different views.
81 shall name the baby William OIL
wer Robert Kenneth;" she asserted.
] 'Bat why all those nGrnes?" asked
her husband.
Because" replied Mrs. Jones, tart
!ly, IF you look att the initials you wiki
find that they spell 'WsriS,' so perhaps,
when baby grows up he will take to"
! it better than his father"
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TO SHOOT OR BLUFF?

Synopsis by his physi-
clan that he has not more than six
months to live, Dan Failing sits
despondently on a park bench, won
dering where he should spend those
six months. Memories Of his grand
father and deep love for all
things of the wild help him in
reaching a decision. In a large
southern Oregon city he meets
people who had known and loved
his grandfather, q famous from
t1ersman. He makes his home with
Silas Lennox, typical westerner.
The only other members of the
household are Lennox's son, Bill"
and daughter, "Snowbird." Their
abode is in the Umpqua divide. and
there Failing plans to live out the
short span of life which he has
been told Is his. From the first
Tuil!ng's health shows marked
improvement, and in the compan-
ionship Of Lehnox and his son and
daughter he fits into the woods life
as If he had been born to 1t. BY
quick thinking and a remarkable
display Of nerve" he saves Len
nox's life and his own when they
are attacked by mad coyote.
LennOA declares ne Is ESlHCdEAd-
ton of his grandfather, Dan Fail
ing I, whose fame as a woodsman
Is a household word. Dan learns
that an organized band Of outlaws,
of which Bert Cranston is the
leader, is setting forest fires. Lam
dry Hildreth, q former member of
the gang, has been induced to turn
states evidence. Cranston shoots
I hi f@
Whisperfoot. the mountain lion,
springs on Hildreth and finishes
him.
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CHAPTER Ii-ConA'nued.


And as for Whisperfoo-the terror
that choked his heart with blood be-
| gan to wear Off in a little while The
man lay so still in the thickets. Be
| sides, there was q strange wild smell
In the air. Whisperfoot's stroke had
gone home so true there had not even
been a fight. The darkness began to
lift around him, and strange exulta-
ton, a rapture unknown before in all
his hpnting, began to creep into his
wild blood. Then, as a shadow steals,
he went creeping back to his dead.
Dan Failing had been studying ma
ture on the high ridges; and he went
home by a back trail that led to old
Bald mountain. The trail was just
narrow serpent In the brush; and
it had not been made by gangs of
laborers, working with shovels and
picks. Possibly half a dozen white
men, in all, had ever walked along it.
1t was lust the path of the wild crea-
lures, worn down by hoof and paw
and cushion siace the young days of
the world.
but yet it had Its advantages. 1t took
him within tN'o miles Of Srowbird's
lookout station, and at this hour of
day he ha6 been particularly fortunate
in finding her at a certain spring on
the mountain side. It was rather sin
gular coincidence. Along about four
he would usually find himself wander
ing up that way. Strangely enough,
at the same time, it was true that
she had an irresistible impulse to go
down and sit In the green ferns beside
the same sprirg. They always seemed
to be surprises to see one another. In
reality, either of them would have
been considerably more surprised had
the other failea to put in an appear
ance. And always they had long talks,
as the afternoon drew to twilight
''But don't think you ought to wait
so late before starting home" the girl
would always say. YOU'RE not a
hulnan hawk, and it is easier to get
LOSE than you think"
Ard this solicitude, Dan rightly fig
ured, was a good sign. There was
| only one objection to 1t. 1t resulted
| IN an lu1CECACC L11dL size
considered him unable to take care
of himself-and that was the last
thing on earth that he wanted her
to think. He understood her we'll
enough to know that her standards
were the standards of the mountains
valuing strength and self-reliance
above all things. He didn't stop to
question why, every day, he trod sc
many weary miles to be with her.
She was as natural as a faWn ana
many times she had quite taken away
his breath. And once she did it liter
ally. He didn't think that so long a:
death spared him he would ever b'
able to forget that experience. 1t wa
her birthday, and knowing of it il
time he had arranged for the deliver.
Of certain package, dear to a girlis]
heart, at her fathers house. In tn
trysting hour he had come trudgin
over the hills with it, and few expert
ences in his life had ever yielded sue
unmitigated pleasure as the sight Q
arr, glowing white and red, as she too
y: it's wrapping paper. 1t was joll
"a gift, he recollected-and when sll
Ead seen If, she fairly leaped at hin
Tier warm. round arms around HI
: neck, and the softest, loveliest lips j
: me ~orld pressed his. But in thos
lays he didn't have the strength ths
he had now. He felt he co1ld endul
~
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dt trial. I have been very glad that
did, for now feel much stronger and do
Ill of my work. tell my friends when
they ask me what helped me, and they
think it must be grand medicine. And
it is. You can use this letter for a tes-
timonial if you wish. "-Mrs. HARRY A.
WILSON, R. F. D. s, Clearfeld, Pa.
The experience and testimony of such
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doubt that Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound will correct such trou-
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as backaches, bearing down pains, dis
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blues" a woman cannot act too PROMPTLY
IN trying Lydia e. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound if she values her future com
fort and happiness.
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Relating her experiences I'm pur-
chasing presents for Christmas, our
next-door neighbOr said: II simply
couldn't get into Blank & Blanks on
account of the crush-and getting out
was wOTse."-BOstOn Transcript.
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In the Tornado Belt.

'Taking your piano lesson, are you,
lear?" said the farmers wife to her
laughter.
eyes, mother
"Where is your fatherT
I'm the cyclone cellar, mother pr
Yonkers Statesman.
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Gifts.

The greatest grace of gift, per-
haps, is that it anticipates and adj
mits of no return.-LongfellOw
Every gift that is given, even
though 1t be small, is in reality great,
if il be given with Observation-Disclosures.