New Britain herald., 1924-12-13

sle'72 of which Connecticut fur
 hished ss5,si1.sl, the iarges
 amount In It's history.
 Members of the Commission hay,
 expressed the hope that this year'l
 sale will net at least s1oO, ,0Oo A.
 plans have been made for tho ex.
 pansion of anti-tuberculosis work
 In number of cities and towns
 Preliminary reports of the sale
 which began November 2s and
 which will end on Christmas eve
 Indicate that this goal will be
 reached.
 We thought we could dispense
 with the cross word puzzle craze
 with just one arraignment in this
 column, but fin spite of what we think of the public for succumblng
 to such an imbecillc pastime, 1t would seem that another word l from Us will be needed. It is hoped that 1t will suffice for now and all time. First of all, we wish to thank Webster's dictionary for permission to use material printed in this, the first paragraph of what we modest . ly believe will be one of the best essays, themes treatises or what have you, on this modern method of disrupting families.
 The cross word puzzle has in- vaded all fields. We remember hav- Ing said that before in the past, but 1t is a good thought and about the only one the writer has on the sub ject.
 For example, Mother Goose rhymes, although somewhat re- moved from the subject in mind, may be expected 10 read as follows in the future:
 Mary had little word in four letters meaning the young of the sheep,
 Its six letter word meaning a sheeps covering of wool was white as a four letter word meaning watery particles congealed into white or transparent crystal flakes in the air,
 And everywhere that a four let ter word meaning girls name went,
 The lamb was sure the ininitive of a verb denoting passage from one place to another.
 We thought we'd never get that poem completed. Especially on the word, snow. So many definitions of that word occurred to us--
 Of course. we haven't a thing against cross word puzzles. They are all right. The main thing with them is that they are too easy. This writer has no difficulty at all in finding out what an anthropomor- phic semi-erect denzen of the tropical jungles is. He merely does the rest of the puzzle and then the letters fit perfectly.
 But those puzzles are really edu- eating the human race and chorus men too. Another thing, they have proved a boon to comic magazines, without which no one knows what would happen to the people of this country
 And say. have you noticed the way in which our up-to-date pairs of sweethearts are taking advan- taee of this new fad? They're say ing 1t with cross word puzzles. Be- ing old and gray and married, the wisdom of using the brain for such nonsense cannot be seen. But read ing horizontal" only may have its advantages. A girl would look silly bringing a cross word puzzle into a court room as evidence in breach of promise suit. And, ten to one, the judge would get 50 inter ested in solving it that he would forget about the case. AS for the jury. they can't agree anyway, 50 why should they all solve the pug gle in the same way?
 But just wait until tho college periodicals startkon the cross word puzzle question. They haven't got that far yet, being deeply involved in the evils of drink and the Fol- lies, but just wait until the fad hits them
 Well, the papers gone to press, and we'll have to quit. That cross word puzzle today is a hard one, we understand, and we'll have to get busy. See you never!
 Announcement that the public buildings measure introduced in congress includes an appropriation Of s225,000 for a site and new post office building in this city occa- stoned some surprise. It was got known hat New Britain was in need of new post office. It isn't known yet. This city is fairly well off so far as facilities at the post office are concerned although 1. It is propable that an addition will : be needed before many years have passed. The decision to have all i parcel post matter taken care of in ! a new building on Court street will | have the effect of relieving pres- sure in that department.
 Instead of making useless plans for the construction of new federal | where they are not need i ed, Washington should pay a little attention to cutting the miles and | miles of red tape that exists in the post office deparment. Postmasters, who are local managers, are unable to lift a finger 10 improve the seTV- ice unless they have sanction from A case in point hap , pened In this city not so long ago. ! A new street was opened and sev- aral modern houses were erected. . Concrete sidewalks were construct ed and concrete walks led into the houses, There were no Instructions. . Tn spIte Of this, the residents of a., ...o., ,rnrs unable to ret mail