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New Britain herald., 1923-07-14
THE RED LANTERN.

We do not hate the warning sign the red lantern that tells us there is danger somewhere in the neighbor- hood. If we have any feeling at all The lantern may be dirty, even, not a good looking lantern at all, yet we are glad that it is there just the same. We would not like to have the world deprived of all its red lan- of holes and break legs and arms if all the red lanterns were taken away. If the red lantern is put in exactly the proper place it is sufficient warning and it Is better than a great blaze of light which might scare some people away or make them angry-might do some harm that the small red signal light would not do
 There are many people in the world who are, in fact, red lanterns. They see danger and they speak their humble word of warning. They have the tact to speak it at the right moment and they do not shout it from the house tops in such way as to anger people. They serve their purpose and do a great deal of good. They set people thinking, not ntagonistically but earnestly. They do not frighten others, and their warnings modestly spoken, are taken in the spirit the warning is given.
 The are others who. conscious of their own faults, nevertheless would like to be just the right sort of red lsnterns-would like to be able to give these warnings in just the right way. But they have not the tact, or. perhaps, the chance or ability Yet they feel the warnings must be given. Perhaps they speak them too loudly and anger people; perhaps they give their warnings of danger at a time when those to whom they speak are not in the humor to hear. But they go blundering on, wishing they could do all the good they want to do, but failing in many instances.
 There are others, too, who are so conscious of their own proper con- duct and who have such a high | opinion of their own wisdom that | they take delight. not in being mod .st little red lAnterns, but rather in aiming the rePuN aen for being lead
New Britain herald., 1923-07-14
WANTS BETTER, PROTECTION
 AT RAILROAD CROSSINGS
Common Council Committee to Seek Improvements at Elm Hill
 and Church Street

The railroads committee of the common council met last night and voted to request the New Haven road to provide protection at the Elm Hill crossing and for additional pro- lection at the Church street crossing. At Elm Hill it Is planned to ask for a flash signal similar to that recently placed at South street crossing, and at Church street an extension of the gates to afford protection at one cross over not now protected is calculated.
 At the request of Mayor A. M. Pao- nesso, Corporation Counsel J. H. Kirk ham will write the Connecticut Co.,, asking that an electric switch be in stalled on Main street near East Main street so that traffic may no longer be held up when the switch is being thrown with hand bar.
New Britain herald., 1923-07-14
NATION PAYING UP.

This week Roger Babson, com
 menting on the fact that business
 stands at 1 per cent above normal as 1t has been for some weeks, states the well known rule that before a
 man starts out expanding he should
 first pay up his bills. This Is what
 the nation is doing, he says. and he
 is glad of it. He, calls attention now
 to the fact previously commented
 upon here, that the prosperity which
 threatened to develop into period
 of imitation, has been checked. Busi-
 ness was about as good as the country
 could stand at this period of readjust-
 ment, in other words When that
 time is finished we can go ahead
 safely
 Tn commenting upon recent deci-
 sions of the United States supreme court Babson assumes the investors
 point of view. This should be re- membered in reading his remarks which indicate that he is well satis- fled with such decisions which have seemed to favor '"the interests" One of these decisions prevents legisla- lures and commissions from making confiscatory rates. This protects the public utilities corporations. It makes more safe, he says, telephone securities. electric lights and power securities and street railway securi- ties He says little of how the de- cision affects the people who are not investors.
 Babson is pleased that the Kansas industrial court cannot fix wages or regulate them except in cases of ex- treme emergency. If people can go to other markets or can do without the product of certain factory, then the court can not interfere with that i! factory. There is no great emergency | justifying court interference. He | makes great point of the decision that prevents chain stores from sell ing nationally advertised goods below the price charged by the manufac- turers. He says these chain stores sold such nationally advertised goods below the market price in order to get customers into their stores and then sell them something else. He says this Is bad. Statistics show that business has been harmed more by price-cutting than by price-fixing.'
 The encouraging paragraph of letter says: There is much good news constantly coming out The great improvement in the con- iition of the railroads; the corrective attitude on the part of labor, and the late developments in the foreign situation are all optimistic factors"
New Britain herald., 1923-07-14
25 Fears Ago Today
(Taken from Herald of that date)

Professor Max Mueller the artist will leave town in few days for Boston where he will open an art studio.
 ". E. Martin, the tobacconist, is enjoying an outing in the vicinity of Hartford.
 Arrivals at Short Beach from New Britain include Burr Johnson and family.
 Robert and Howard Parsons, sons of c. B. Parsons of Vine street, left today for Woodmont where they VIII put in few weeks camping.
 Michael Souney of Engine Go. No. left town for a brief visit to New Haven and was expected home last evening". He failed to put in an ap- pearance and the members of his company have about decided that he has been captured by Spanish spies, for use in the defense of Santiago.
 At meeting of the board of po- lice commissioners last evening, the application of John Carlson for an appointment as Special, police officer was received and laid on the table for further consideration.
 Town Clerk Penfield is arranging for the annual reunion of the Thir-- teenth Regiment, c. V, he being chairman of the committee appoint ed for that purpose. It is likely that the reunion will be held at Savin Rock the latter part of next month.
New Britain herald., 1923-07-14
ZONING.

Attention is called to the story In this newspaper published yesterday regarding the plans being made to
 have a zoning system adopted in New
 Britain. The advisability of such a
 course has been referred to frequently in these columns, the motive being an
 anxiety to see property values en-
 hanced here, and a desire to see the Inevitable growth of the city devel- oped along proper lines.
 The zoning idea is nothing more nor less than one which prevents needless harming of something good. Bringing 1t down to an easily com prehended illustration it results in a plan that every man follows in re- gard to his own property. A person owns a lot upon which he has built home. If he puts up a garage cer- tainly he will not place it on the front lawn. The garage will serve It's purpose just as well back of the house, where 1t will not interfere with the view from the front porch or the view of the house as seen by passers by. A garage in front of a house certainly detracts from the value of the premises, suggesting, as it would, the necessity of moving it to the rear. Certainly garage at the rear adds to the value of the premises.
 But in city it is impossible to move manufacturing plants or other business structures once they have been built. Build them in the proper place in the beginning and they add Il. the advantages of the city. Build them in the wrong place and many nearby property owners suffer. One case in this city is known where the establishment of certain store close by caused tenants to move from a three-family house, and brought down the rent of those apartments. The greatest, care should be taken, of course, in preparing and deciding upon the zoning ordinance. It is for this reason that a beginning should be made now so that no mistakes will be made in presenting the plan when the time comes and the authority if
 t.4 given the city by the legislature to ! adopt the system.
New Britain herald., 1923-07-14
FOR EVERYBODY.
World

We want world peace. World
 peace will come only through better
 understanding, nation of nation. We
 want to cure the unrest in this
 country: to have capital and labor
 understand each other better; that,
 too, will bring peace in the country. A universal understanding can come
 most easily when people meet more often on common plane-when, more frequently than is the case now, all men have a common interest.
 Recently there was a big prize
 fight. Bankers rubbed elbows with clerks and laboring men. That sit uation is merely suggestive. So, too, is the situation suggestive when all sorts of men sit side by side at baseball game, or stand near together in the street and listen to news in which all are interested. But these conditions. being merely suggestive, are not sufficient. There results no true intercourse between man and man. One knows the other very little better after sitting beside that other at a ball game than he did before. Probably never will social gathering bringing all sorts of men together be popular Each man will have his each group will have its in terest. Nor would the various groups or persons have very good time. Anything that makes men have the same interest for the moment comes nearer bringing that universal un- which would cure unrest. 1
 Yesterday a great manufacturing concern of this city staged a golf | for all it's saIesmen. This | event is mentioned not because the | concern is a New Britain industry, nor because the game was golf It . s cited merely as one time when men were thrown together possessed, for he time, of one common interest. It S safe to say that there Is, today, a better understanding between these nen and their employers ts1a there
New Britain herald., 1923-07-14
Observations on We Weather

For Connecticut: Partly cloudy to- night and Sunday; not much change in temperature: light to gentle winds, ostly southerly.
 Conditions: The pressure is high this morning over the Rocky Moun- tains and the north Atlantic coast and low over the Lake region. Showers have occurred during the last. "A hours in the upper Mississippi valley, the northern portion of the Lake re- zion and on the south Atlantic coast No marked change in temperature has occurred in any district east of the Rocky mountains Cloudy wealth CT prevails along the coast from Florida to Maine.
 Conditions favor for this vicinity partly cloudy weather and not much change in temperature.
 Washington, July 14.-Weather outlook for the week beginning Mon day in Atlantic Gulf states: General ly fair, temperature near or some what above normal but occasional and scattered local thunder storms are probable.
New Britain herald., 1923-07-14
Silver and Roses for
 Chief and Mrs. Noble

Chief and Mrs. William J. Noble quietly observed their 18th wedding anniversary yesterday with their fam fly at the shore. Upon returning to New Britain last night Chief Noble was presented with 8 silver service set, the gift of the f1remen of New Britain, and at their home they found a beautiful bouquet of American Beauty roses from the members of the fire board. Chief Noble said this morning: Mrs, Noble and were very finely treated despite the fact that our anniversary day fell on Fri day, the 18th"
New Britain herald., 1923-07-14
THE OBSER YER Makes Random Observations
 On the City and Its People

dark days ahead. Indeed, he is very optimistic because of sound banking |conditions. Among other things, MT.
 Kaufman said There are doubtless
 many grave questions on the business
 horizon which will bear watching on
 the part of bankers and executives
 responsible for the prosperity of the
 country. But in the main there is
 nothing to cause business interests
 any undue anxiety.
 Tt is safe to say that all danger of
 money stringency has been perma-
 nently removed from possibilities
 threatening business here. Our high
 ly organized monetary-credit system
 Is now on such an effective basis that
 so far as 1t is humanly possible to sec all dangers of business retardation, from the banking standpoint, are for ever removed"
 | Some time ago the Herald" carried feature story of a drug store in New Britain which was owned and man. aged entirely by women. In the story the writer drew on his ina agination by painting a word picture of an imagin- ary drug salesman, who claimed he was representing The -Thetical Drug Co.,, and was looking for "the boss"
 The term Hypothetical Co.,, was coined for the occasion in all inno- cence and it was not thought. for an instant that this part of the story would be accepted as literally true. Yet it seems neighboring woman entered the store a few days later, called attention to the story in the Herald" and said: "I'll bet that sales man was my nephew because he works for that company" The anniversary of an event that stirred the American colonies which, years sinks into insignif1cance, oc- cured this week. It was the battle of Fort Duquesne, fought on July 6, 1755, when the middle west was wilderness inhabited by Indians and penetrated by only few pioneers.
 We all like to think of our generals with flashing swords leading their men onward. But on this occasion, no less a person than George Wash ington took conspicuous part m retreat which was admirably effected.
 Fort Duquesne, occupied by French and Indians, was about to be attack ed by General Edward Braddock, commander of the English army. The Indians were discouraged, realizing that they were outnumbered by the | forces under the English flag. It was | with difficulty that the French com | induced them to join in an | of the English who were to attack that night. Finally they were persuaded that this was the course of wisdom. About 230 French and 700 Indians left the fort under cover of darkness.
 As the English approached, the French fired into their ranks and the Indians uttered blood -curdling battle cries and slunk into the underbrush. The English were completely sur prised. They could not see the enemy md fired at random. Their ranks be- came confused as the French and Indians, from their hiding places. swept them with lead. The British began to fall back. The Indians crept ID on their Hanks and harassed hem from every angle.
 General Braddock in an effort to ally his men, forced his way to the ront but even his bravery could not prevent rout. Five horses were hot from under him. At last, he was , brought down by a ball in the side. l
New Britain herald., 1923-07-14
Ryan of Pension Dept. to Be Tammany Hall Secretary

New York, July 14.-Daniel L.. Ryan, chief of the pension division of the finance department today was reported to have been picked as sec retary of Tammany Hall to succeed Thomas F, Smith, Killed by taxi. The secretary of Tammany Hall serves as secretary of the democratic state convention and is an important fac tor in party politics. MT. Ryan be- gan his car>er as a newspaper man.
New Britain herald., 1923-07-14

was day before yesterday. That ii
 the sort of understanding that leads to mutual recognition of the rights of others.
 Today the man in the street, in many places, has no chance to play golf. But 1t is the only game we know where great numbers of men and women, for that matter, may meet in a contest at the same time. It makes one plane for all to stand upon. Some day the game will be universal. All may have chances to enjoy it. Then it will serve, as any other game would serve, as a meeting ground for all sorts.
 This newspaper, seeking way to increase the Fresh Air Fund, plans a golf tournament not because of the game itself, but because by its nature it allows Of such contest be- tween men from all walks of life men and women who want to aid the fund. Quite probably the manufac- turing concern planned it's golf tour nament because this was the only game which would bring together all the men among whom it sought to intensity the friendly feeling-the only game which would bring em- ploye and employer together. That sort of inspiration is worthy; it is the sort of thing that will tend to cure unrest. When any such game, al- lowing all men to meet thus, as is the case in England, becomes uni- versal, all men will meet thus more often and better feeling will obtain. Most men are pretty good fellows. Employer and employe are glad to find that out.
New Britain herald., 1923-07-14

great tanks in America, he doubtless rubs his hands in anticipation of tourists.
 You know why diamonds are more valuable than pebbles? Then doubt less you understand why laws no longer are respected.
 English papers are funny. They print a lot about world politics and very few heart-interest stories by popular murderers.
New Britain herald., 1923-07-14
Los Angeles Woman Is on
 Republican National Com

San Francisco, July 14.-William H. Crocker. republican national commit teeman of California. announced to- day the appointment of Mrs. 0. P. Clark, wife of Q Los Angeles banker, as member of the national commit. tee
New Britain herald., 1923-07-14

Spain has lost out as a heavy weight, but she still has ambition enough to keep Morocco as a spar ring partner.
New Britain herald., 1923-07-14

It probably is too much to hope that government ever will celebrate be-kind-to business week.
New Britain herald., 1923-07-14

The orliy profitable advertising medium In the City. Circulation bobks and press room always open to advertisers.
New Britain herald., 1923-07-14

"They cant come back" said Luis, "so Your chances, Jess, are slim" And some sad day Old Time will say This very thing to him.
New Britain herald., 1923-07-14

Fame is fieeting, and one can't re- member what half the men did to get cigars named after them.
New Britain herald., 1923-07-14

The English don't apply those fun ny names to their Pullman cars. They save thepn for race horses.
New Britain herald., 1923-07-14

It isn't at all probable that there will be a permanent split between the allies until all the axes are ground.
New Britain herald., 1923-07-14
Member And,t nurenn of clrcuIatlon.

Member Audit Bureau of Circulation.
 The A. B. c. is 8 national organization which furnishes newspapers and adver- tisers with a strictly honest analysis of circulation. Our circulation statistics are based upon this audit. This ,nsures pro- lection against fraud in newspaper dis tribution figures to both national and local advertisers.
New Britain herald., 1923-07-14

Also Firpo was the conductor who punched Jess return ticket pur- chased for his "come back"
New Britain herald., 1923-07-14

It will be funny if 8 president rides into office on a jitney; usually they ride in Oh a popular grievance.
New Britain herald., 1923-07-14

Example of zero in enthusiasm: A wheat farmers fierce pride in the Leviathan.
New Britain herald., 1923-07-14

The statistics of heat prostration are so complete as to leave no cas- ualties to charge against the boot leggers.
New Britain herald., 1923-07-14

Is silent about is how to be polite though given the wrong number.
New Britain herald., 1923-07-14

The reason movie making strains the nerves is because the last reel no longer can be taken up with kiss.
New Britain herald., 1923-07-14
Member Of The Assot,nted Press.

Member Of The Assoffnfcd Press. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication ct all news credited to 1t or not otherwise credited in this paper and also local news pab- iislied herein.
New Britain herald., 1923-07-14
Facts andEancies
 BY ROBERT CULLEN.

Etiquette is the science of over coming your share of human nature.
New Britain herald., 1923-07-14

The millenium is yet a long way off when nothing can make nations love one another except common enemy.
New Britain herald., 1923-07-14

Willard stayed down flor the count.'' Well, $123,113 Is worth counting.
New Britain herald., 1923-07-14
TELEPHONE cALLs

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 as Second Class Mail Matter.
New Britain herald., 1923-07-14

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New Britain herald., 1923-07-14

At any rate the decline of the mark will teach the world how to pro- nounce figure. with 17 ciphers in it.
New Britain herald., 1923-07-14

Henry Ford must be man of parts"-Ford parts.
New Britain herald., 1923-07-14
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 (Issued Daily. Sunday Excepted) At Herald Bldg. q Church Street.
New Britain herald., 1923-07-14

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-03
THE ICE BOX TO FAT

ing room. So no one heard the nice Cookie man cry Out when Hookie, the Goblin, came up behind him and captured him. No one except the gentle cookie COW.
 Now. I have you, Mister Cookie" Hookie, the Goblin, cried as he stuff fed Mir Cookie in large paper ba g and tied a string around the top.
 My! Won't the Cookie man taste good?' the Goblin said to himself. He is made of chocolate cookie dough and covered with white anu red icing; just like candy!" And Hookie, the Goblin, took the paper bag upon his shoulder and started towards his home.
 Poor, kind. nice MT. Cookiel He did not enjoy being tied up in a paper bag and being carried away by the Goblin. For MT. Cookie knew very well that the Goblin would nibble him when the Goblin reached home.
 T wish Raggedy Andy and little Weekly would rescue mei' MT. Cookie thought to himself. But they will never know what has become of mel
 After Hookie, the Goblin, had walk ed with the heavy load on his back for quite way, he became tired ~ guess I will sit here and rest bit, he said.
 But he had been sitting only & moment when he hoped up again crying, Dear mel I must hurry and get the cookie man home, for there is q great black cloud coming and l
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-03
t ~AayentArss # Kassedy, Ann
 Ka9Aedy AMAy

Now that the Snitznoodle was member of the Cookie household, 1t made things easier for Mrs. Cookie.
 Not that Mrs. Cookie had ve~y much to do. No not that. But when Mrs. Cookie baked lovely cake chicken and stuffed 1t with ice cream and chopped nuts and chopped cher ries and pineapple she never had to throw any of it way. The Snitz- noodle was sure to eat all that was left. ~
 And besides the SnHtznoodle always did" the dishes.
 The way the Snitznoodle did" the dishes was to take them all out in the yard and eat them.
 | was q lot easier than washing them and the dishes were made Of thin stuff like Nabiscos and covered with icing to make them look like china I'll bet almost any little boy or girl could have eaten a peck of that kind of dishes.
 So after dinner, the kindly Snitz- noodle had taken all the dishes out in the front yard to eat them and he was having a very pleas ant time; and the nice Cookie man had gone out in the back yard to give the cookie cav and the cookie pigs six buckets full of granulated sugar for their dinner.
 And Raggedy Ann was pretending to play the cookie organ in the liv