New Britain herald., 1922-01-28
THE OBSER YER
Makes Random Observations
 On the City and It's People

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 was the badge Of poor -but-honost workingmen, although it is said that some Of them learned to smoke l because 1t gave them an excuse once In while 10 stop peeking holes n the earth with their picks,
 When friends gathered at the bier Of friend, they were almost certain to find Il large collection of clay pipos and a plate of fine cut tobacco on th. kitchen table. But like the simple pleasures of the past, the clay pipe has been shelNed for other, and per haps better things, although the strong men Of those days would look with contempt on the white coIa {. boys of Che passing hour who simply must have their cigarette before breakfast or risk an attack of hys- terics.
 At the weekly dinner of the Rotary club Thursday, rebuke softened by the diplomatic choice of words, was administered to Mayor Curtis. The speaker of the occasion was En-
 
 pansion Of the citys water system and whose plan for developing the facilities at Shuttle Meadow had been roundy criticized by Thomas H. kehoe, a former water missioner. Mayor Curtis opened the post pran- dial program by referring to MT. Kehoe's criticism, although he did not mention Mir kehoe's name. and told the diners that he assumed that Mir. Hagen had been invited to speak so he could repudiate the allegations brought by Mir. kehoe.
 President Sprague of the Rotary club quickly set Mayor Curtis right by saving, in effect, that the meeting had no political significance, that it was not called for the purpose outlined by the mayor, and that Mir. HaZen had been invited for the sole purpose of acquainting interested citizens with the work that is being planned.
 Mayor Curtis attempt to transform the Rotary club into a political or ganization was the first experiment in that direction. His unwarranted as- sumption that the gathering was for his special benefit could not very well go unanswered, and the president of the organization did well to point out to those present that the Rotary club cannot be used for political pur poses.
 Those who have been laboring under the delusion that tooth brush manufacturers have exhausted every advertising appeal from every possible angle were surprised to read in the Herald this week of conditions among school children unearthed by the New Britain Dental society and Dr. Harry Protass, who has been engaged to examine the teeth of boys and girls.
 As result of the dentists investi- gation, it was learned that only ap- proximately 500 out of 5000 children examined had clean mouths and knowledge of the use to which tooth brush may be put. It is one of our national boasts that the tooth brush is as essential to our happiness as bathtubs and yet it would seem that we have been boasting without hay ing all the facts before us.
 New Britain dentists are to be com mended for throwing the beam Of publicity onto such conditions. It is now up to parents to insist that their children pay attention to cleansing their mouths and keeping their teeth in condition More germs enter the system through the mouth than through any other channel When the mouth is in an insantatry con- dition, it is breeding place for disease An organized cleanup should be launched.
 Stop the first ten men you meet on the street and ask them this ques- tion: When will business be normal again?" The majority of them, if they have given the subject any con will answer something like this: Well, we can't get back to good times until the export business picks up"
 For some reason or other, the i'm presson has been allowed to gain ground that our foreign trade has ceased to exist. It is, therefore, all the more surprising to learn that to- day. when Old Man Business is sup posed to be in bed with heart faintly huttering and pulse so feeble that it's