New Britain herald., 1924-03-29


 gets up and teeters on his heels
 sticks his thumbs in the place sleeves
 would be if vests had sleeves. swells out his chest and thunders a command at the female members of the office force. Do they shriyel up and will before his glowering glance? They do-not. They take out their com pacts, power these noses, appear un- | concerned and remark in cold tines: 'Applesauce."
 The male who wins the red flannel medal this week is the man-it must have been a man--who drafted a mo- tice issued to the office employees of the New Haven Gas Light Co.,, in which appears the statement: Tt is common knowledge that the manage ment does not favor bobbed hair. While the company does not contemp- late taking any drastic action it is being given serious consideration. Those to whom this applies should take it as friendly advice" The Observer is indebted to the John who composed that little song without notes for the laugh it creat- ed. We have not enjoyed exercise of our risibi.itics for a long time. The world seemed to be common. Noth- ing was original. Spring was begin ming to lose its appeal. In fact life was becoming dull and uninteresting. l But when the ukase of the New Ha- ven Gas Light Co. glided before our eyes we laughed so loud that we up- set our saucer of tea on a nice clean 1 table cloth.
 So the management does not favor bobbed hair. We wonder if the man. agement consulted It's wife before writing those immortal lines. Or, Con your way, low suspicion) perhaps it was the mant. sement's wife who in spired them.
 Perhaps the young ladies whose hair is bobbed do not look with favor ol the neckties the management's wife picks out, or the fancy vests he wears. But they simply smile and let it pass.
 However, the management isn't a heartless management. No, indeed. Note the lines: While the company does not contemplate taking any dras- tic aciion, it is being given serious consideration" Bless our aching sides. that is kind of the management. 1t is a concession that is almost unex- pected in those days of strictly busi- ness" Ii shows that the John who wrote .t isn't a ruthless person. Hc would not take poor working girl and put her out on the cold door step and order her never to return.
 If Barbara Frietchie were alive to- day and did to tho rebels what she is said tc have done in Fredericktown, stonewall Jackson might have shout cd: "Who touches hair on yon bobbei head" etc.
 It is difficult to understand where the management Of the New Haven Gas Light Co. has been for these many years. Doesn't it know that if women want 10 vote, they'll vote: if they want to wear fathers golf pants on tho street. they'll wear 'em: fl they want to deck themselves in all colors Of the rainbow and add few touches on their checks and lips, thoy'l do 1t? And if they want to bob their hair, no eonceited John will prevent it. They spell Emancipation with a capi- tai F., and pay no attention to the second syllable. And who's to blame them?
 Now, with the advent oN the warm days we've been having, comes spring fever, another excuse for not wanting 10 work. Tn the summer it's too hot 10 work, in the autumn you feel tired because of the hot summer you've just been through, in the winter it's too cold and now it's spring fever.
 What person has ever been free from it? When the snow vanishes from the ground and the sap begins to run in the trees it makes a fellow peeyish 10 have to be cooped up in stany office, probably right next 10 a steam radiator that's working overtime, now that the winter has gone.
 That's 6 funny thing about steam radiators. They apparently get the disease in the winter that corresponds 10 spring fever. Tn other words. they refuse to percolate. But let one warm day come along. well, you cant stop 'em. They buzz and boil and sizzle all over the place and the big boss cusses and the little boss cusses and the hired hands cuss. They cuss the ianitor when it's cold, for not having neat, and when it's warm, for having too much heat. And
 Well, to get back to spring fever. It's a terrible feeling when there's work to be done and the boss is glar- ing at you and you cant seem 10 keep your eyes open and you think you'll just shut your eyes for a moment and you do and tho t1ist thing you know there's a dynamite explosion right next 10 your car. only it's the boss and he's wondering where that copy" is.
 Haven't you noticed how these warm afternoons drag Haven't you been seized by that longing 10 get out in the country on hill. where you could lie down under q tree and look at the sky and imagine things and maybe 20 10 sleep? Haven't you? So have VIC.
 Although not unexpected, the open rebellion of Alderman John r. Gill Of the second ward and Peter J. Paiew- ski Of the. fifth ward caused no lit- tie discussion in republican circles. The Grand Of1 Party will need all the cooperation it can get this year and the detection Of these faction leaders vili force the republican lead CTS to work ail the harder 10 over come the additional handicap.
 Alderman Taiewskis stand has been known to his friends for many weeks. He declared himself on the occas;on of tha announcement that