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New Britain herald., 1924-12-12
DR. VINCENT THINKS
 WELL OF NEW BRITAIN
fContinucd From First pagc)

Dr, Vincent opened his address by referring 10 community drives and their popularity in America. He told how Inc "EvoIuIon Of the community spirit" na4 devorop, q to a srcmarhahlo dogrcr in America. and said The United States had con- 1rihutcd to civilization that untauc thing, the rr0:1t art oe boosting. "
 SpeaFjn- uf NnW Bruain he said the Cli'lrrn's 1omr uas remark - able irs,t'a"oa 5er' Gy 2 remark able man Of ine..gJ,y. loyalty. i'm agindtior aa@ e -yoa' rai+u He sali New Brjta1n has a ueat to take great stlSfactUou tr '.is home. Tro said ha haI visited 'te New Britain General hospital a.. compared # in his mind "N'h .ao or 4.a other gen. eral hospitals 1- -l- ..atsd all over the world. Uo sri. ''e Lrz'tsn hos pital is moro .u.oe-.s. taaa r.o American osm'., Ias z open nrc- places in tho wards. :"@> on t1o floors. and TO r .it. ,l..t t.a. .-. VII, Il man 1)~rs '.o a's~a-. Am-rio1r hospital he du.~I't lt.r uE.tE.r hc is in laboratory O large
New Britain herald., 1924-12-12

bathroom The New Britain hos nital has taken on some Of the home like atmosphere Of the EnrIish hospital. He stated that the most important thing for the citizens Of any com munity 10 know Is that citv's gen. eral death rate. New Britain's gen. eral death rate is about 12.2 or 1o> "IHrn is the same as that for inc United States hut the city Of MiI- WauEee has a rate Of only 91. He eHpIfned how some Of this is ac- counted for by the growth Of the 7 city from without and that in a con- muni'y where the residents have al ways lived, tho latter would he di Nided into certain age groups and he death rate would be bound 10 go down. "ltoWever," he added. '1t is difficult 10 get beyond that he- oauso old people will die" Now Britain's death rate, he said. coulo he made lower.
 The record Of infant mortality in the United States is, 106, while in New Britain it is only 70, which is good record, he explained f the satisfaction in this record does not lead people 70 forget that the record for Denmark Is 50. Sweden 64. Nor ~ay 61 Holland s and New zea- land 4S.
 Ncw Britain has a good death rato, he rXplaine1 because it has a good water supply, You have ~lann st1'nsmaushjp and ingenuity n r'auUluE for the future. If there is one cood thing in any community le'tcr than anything else it is a good water supply. Because Of its soo1 water supply New Britain only has one caSe of typhoid fever and that undoubtedly came from out or -oo-1.
 You also have s milk supply fha' rones from tUherculor tested COWS ny .s pasteurized and you have urge number oF mothers who are ut'c to supply their babies their na- ,nM food. This plays an important 7arr in keeping down the death rate for infants,
 "Smallpoy can be prevented hut # can't he done spasmodicalIy. Try ing 10 control # spasmodicany is 1ke watting boards 10 prevent fires, then covering them with dry wood and when the dry wood catches fire you say it IS no use to wet them. they will burn anynow
 "You do just tha. same thing when vou do not insist upon every man. woman and child in the com munity being yaccinatcd against smallpox. That's what they do in Europe where the people still think and trust to the infeligefre o' scientists and those who know 10 do what is best, We cannot always io that in America because we have people who do not rropose 10 have 'aotr liberties imposed uron. We are full Of liberty and smallpox.
 Tn New Britain's epidemic you
New Britain herald., 1924-12-12
Bayonne Official Admits
 Investigating Rum Plots

Jersey City. N. ], Dec. 1..-Com- missioner Of Public Safety DaIy Of Bayonne admitted today that he had started in, estigation of reports that he Bayonne police department dur ing the last summer had been in- volyed in operations of bootleggers, and added that he would be pre- pared to lay any facts in the case before investigators of tho federal department Of justice and of Prose- cutor Milton's office when they ap- pear
 Commissioner Da1y said he Mad heard of bootleg landings being made in Bayonne and that he knew of certain docks that had been used for the purpose but not since he was appointed police commissioner.
New Britain herald., 1924-12-12

Whatever satisfaction and pride Is felt in a community, the real test is the question, How widely are the movements for community health and happiness being promotcd?' We ought 10 he thankful for the oppor- tunity and see that we utilize 1t in the best and finest way"
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1924-06-27
EyFLAIA Wy DOGS HOWL
seier.s Eecisre Canine Occasionally
Reverts to Savagery Of Ills An
csster, the Wolf.

What makes your dog lift up his
nose and how'll It's the wolf in him,
say scientists.
For every dog, no matter what his
breed, has a strain Of wolf in him,
wolf having been the far-off father
of all dogs. And just as a reasonable
human being will sometimes give way
to primitive instinct under the infiu-
ence Of some violent emotion, so the
best-trained dog will occasionally re-
vert to the savagery of his ancestor,
the wolf.
Exactly as a man viii often raise
bis head in unconscious imitation of
bis caVeman forebear, so your pet dog
viii at times show the instincts of his
parent wolf. Watch your dog turn
around and around before lying down
before q fire, just as the wolf makes
himself lair; listen to him howl as
the wolf bowls.
The pointer is only en- exaggerated
Instance of mans improvement on the
original dog or wolf. Every dog pauses
before his spring; man selected to
breed from the dog which paused the
longest, and so in time arrived at a
dog which pointed and didn't spring
at all. The greyhound is another in
stance; for his particular job he need
ed little scent and little brains, but
4 perfect eyesight and speed. BY select
ing only those dogs which possessed
these qualities the present type was
reached But every dog, wherever he
lives or whatever use man is making
OF him, comes from the common
source, the wolf.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1924-06-27
URUGUAYAN "GAUCH0" GONE
Natural Evolution Has Resulted In
Disappearance of Most Pic
turesque Character.

While the Uruguayan ''gaucho" was
a full-blooded Indian, in the Argentine
the name was extended to designate
the halfbreeds and creoles who led the
romantic cowboy life Of the great
plains. Here the "gaucho" became in
distinguishable from the "paisano" or
''countryman" of the American South
west, or the 'ranchero" type of the
Mexican agricultural states. Naturally
he then became the enemy of the In
dams, a man of peace withal, though o
somewhat turbulent peace, forerunner
of the great modern agriculturist.
In this evolutionary stage, in the
middle of the last century. the Argen'
tine "gaucho,' with his characteristic
poncho. long boots, tight pants, long
hair tied back about the head, his kerr
chief at his neck. and his high. narrow
brimmed hat, lent barbaric note of
color to the formation of the rural ele-
ments Of the embryonic nation. Sub
jecting himself to wage service on the
great estates, he came to be civilized.
and being so, he arrived gradually at
the extinction which civilization effects
for all outstanding individualistie
types.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1924-06-27

pillow lane
bankruptcy
bankruptcies scale due
to the of agricultural
to
o.
completing
climb
showed lit
1900 values
began Still continued to rise
chiefly because of the of products
higher values Increased
The result land boom BY 1920 the Of land vas
$50 opening bankruptcies
In to n
bought
the 10 the
collapse grains and live
1920 $50
$50 1921 During the
past two there has been gradual increase the average for 1922 being
6000 1923 than 81
the 10 and wheat producing states the upper
Mississippi valley lost their farms.
In years
production material
moving mtoty win
with Bankruptcies will
The tendency prices
prices of land VIII
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1924-06-27
WEALTH FROM LITTLE IDEAS
Devices That Seem Simple Often Net
Large Returns for Their
lnventora.

The pith jam cartoons, used so
much during the war, made the for
tune of the man who first thought of
them, and the man who turned a
piece of wire so that the cord was
held securely in a bottle made an
other, says London Tit-Bits.
The press-stud is a device for
gloves which has sold by the million
and made several fortunes; while
long ago that peculiar little twist In
the safety pin which makes it impos-
sible for the point to do harm, made
money for its fortunate inventor be-
yond the dreams of avarice.
The idea of making the screw its
own gimlet made the fortune of the
Chamberlain family, while the dress
hook with a hump has been a gold
mine to at least one man.
The man who first thought of fas-
tening boot buttons with something
stronger and easier to manipulate
than cobbler's thread struck oil"
and everybody knows what fortunes
the idea Of saving shoe leather by
means of variously shaped metal
plates has made. The first tin-opener.
made necessary by the growth of the
canning" industry, was also a win
ner In the financial race.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1924-06-27
A Jouanese Inuenffon

Japan and China embroider their
colors on their materials. Sumatra
dyes the threads and weaves them in,
India stamps, and the South Sea is
lands paint them on, but Java paints
the pattern on in wax, and dyes the
colors In. Batik, the process used in
Java, is a science, an art, an indus
try, religion, mystery, an inherit
lance and treasure peculiar to this
tropical island. Batik makers draw
their designs in hot wax on white cot
ton cloth, and then color the uncov-
cred portions of the pattern by dip
ping the waxed cloth again and again
into watts of vegetable dye. That the
Javanese have been able to make the
plain cotton so rich and magnificent
q fabric entities Java to a high place
In the world of art. As the batiker
draws, the hot wax flows from the
miniature spout of a very small cop
per cup, or tjanting, which is fastened
securely In one emil of short bamboo
handle. This instrument was invent
ed by the Javanese.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1924-06-27
Honduras Turkeys More
Gaudy Than Our Peacock

Brilliant iridescent plumage distin-
cuisines the Honduras turkey, It being
black tipped with brassy green and
fringed with greenish copper. The
head Is bright blue and yellow, and the
rump region is steel-blue, with brilliant
eyes OF green-blue margined with cop
per marking the ends Of the grayish
tall feathers. It Is said to be much
more gaudy than the peacock, and
though somewhat smaller than our
Eastern wild turkey its meat Is claimed
to be much better.
experiments at geological gardens
indicate that this fancy bird viii breed
with the less colorful Of our domestic
species. 1t Is the only species OF tur>
key, however, which IL native to tropi-
cal lowlands. The Mexican turkey.
from which our domestic turkey Is be-
lieced to have originated, lives on the
high tablelands. It has the Character
istic white-tipped tail feathers Of the
domestic bird. Wild turkeys In Ari-
iona and New Mexico show this fea-
ture,. while turkeys Of the Rio
Grande valley of southern Texas are
partly like the Mexican birds and
partly like the Eastern Wild turkey.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1924-06-27
Worlds Smallest Book
in Library of Congress

Some of the interesting curiosi.ies
at the Library of Congress In Wash
ington are: the smallest book in the
world. the longest printed work In
the world and the largest book ID
America. The smallest book is a copy
of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.
The longest work is the Tu Shu Chi
nese encyclopedia, while the largest
book in America is James Audubon 8
Birds Of america"
The midget Rubaiyat is only three
ighths of an inch wide and one-eighth
of an inch thick. Letters in the book.
even on the title page, are so small
that they can be read only with the
aid of a powerful magnifying glass.
It's 4S pages of Japan paper are
daintily stitched and bound in green
paper. The printing of the mann
moth Tu Shu Chinese encyclopedia
has been called the greatest typo
graphical feat in the world" Three
years were required to print its. 5,2So
volumes with their 100000 pages. The
table of contents alone is forty vol
lines. A copy of this voluminous work
printed at Shanghai was given TO thu
United States by the emperor of Chins
sn 1908. Audubon's Birds of Amer
ica," the giant American book, is forty
inches long, twenty-six and one-half
inches wide and two and one-fourth
inches thick. So large are its pages
that on one of them a turkey is pro
duced In life-size. The set comprises
four volumes. They are bound in
red horsehide and were presented TO
the library by Audubon himself in
1S27.-Detroit News.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1924-06-27
CONTINUE To CLAIM TRACT
knneke JAMS Heirs Still Confident
They Are Entitled to Trinity
Church Property.

Though the New York State Court
Of Appeals outlawed the Anneke Jams
heirs claim to the Trinity church
tract in New York city as long ago as
1856, and again in 1881, the claim still
persists in the minds of some of Mrs
JAMS thousands of descendants.
The various litigations attacking the
Trinity church title were all based ON
technical Irregularities in grants Of
conyeyances, such as the absence Of
seal or signature, or on allegations
that the grantors themselves had no
title. The defense has been adverse
possession and the statute of limita-
lion.
The streets laid out by Trinity
Church corporation in the JAMS tract
were named after leading men in the
church-Yesey, after Rev. William
Vesey, the rector; Barclay, after Rev.
Mr.. Barclay, who succeeded Vesey as
rector; Murray, after a distinguished
lawyer and officer of the church; War
rem, after Sir Peter Warren, command
er of the British naval forces at the
station, who married Miss Delaney
of New York city; Chambers, after
John Chambers, lawyer, born in New
York city, and a leader in civil and
church affairs.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1924-06-27
ROMANCE IN A DAYS EVENTS
Stirring Happenings That Would
Make Excellent Material for
the Writers of Fiction.

A man who for 80 years did not
know he had a sister met her In Oak
land, CAL, the other day in a way to
assure the writer's Of fiction that life
offers events every bit as improbable
as does the imagination, says the Oak.
land Tribune.
The same day, over In San Francis
co, young truck driver discovered
bis brakes would not work. He was
headed down a steep hin and into the
weaving streams of traffic. II would
have been sassy for that driver to jump
and let the truck, the pedestrians and
motorists take care Of themselves. He
chung to the wheel, did his best to
see 1t caused no harm. At the end Of
that drive no one was hurt.
So 1t goes, the run Of the days
news, the stories Of thc street and
home that have nothing to do with
wars and international politics. A
woman sues for divorce because her
husband plays chess, 1900 men fight
an oil fire near Richmond, two airmen
stay In the air 81 hours and break
eight records while doing 4
-
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1924-06-27
"Bootlegged" Coffee

To restrict the use of coffee in Ger
many, Frederick the Great made 1t q
government monopoly, and only those
holding government licenses were per-
mitted to roast coffee-publlcly
Illicit coffee roasting and bootleg
ging Of the beverage were problems
turned over to a corps of coffee
smellers," who went hither and yon
with their noses In the air trying to
detect infringement of the law.
The government coffee smellersr
were the butt of ridicule and anathe-
ma among the crowds in the coffee
"speakeasies."
An old Arabic manuscript, written
in Mecca in the year 1911. says:
Come and enjoy the company of cof-
fee in the places Of its habitation; for
the divine goodness envelops those
who partake of the feast.
Grief is not found within its habi-
tations. Trouble yields humbly to its
power.
ut is the stream in which we wash
away our sorrows. 1t is the fire which
consumes our griefs.
Drink of it confidently and give not
ear to the speech of the foolish. -
Detroit News.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1924-06-27
TOLL LONG ON BRIDAL GOWN
Mothers of Girls on Island in Dutch
West indies Work Six Years
on Dress.

On the Island of Madura, In the
Dutch West Indies, the girls marry
when they are very young. Twelve
years is the average when a girl takes
on the responsibility of making
home. In fact, If she were unmarried
at fourteen she would be considered an
~old maid"
The bridal gown is a very compli-
Gated, gorgeous and valuable gar
ment, hand-woven silk being the base
Of the wedding dress. This is only
the start.
After this beautiful material has
been woven there comes the tedious,
fine work Of embroidery. Thousands
Of tiny stitches are taken and the
most beautiful colors are worked into
the silk.
Even when the gown Is at this
stage Of construction it is quite a
gorgeous and imposing affair. But the
final decoration has not been started
yet.
Now comes the gold which Is add
ed. Into the skirt, around the waisq
and over the shoulders are appliqued
very beautifully. filigree designs of
hand beaten gold.
In Madura 1t takes many a mother
all the spare hours of six years to
make one of these gorgeous wedding
dresses.-Pearsonis Weekly.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1924-06-27
Area Inuolped in War

OF Europe's approximately 100000
square miles of territory, seven
eighths was directly involved in the
World war. For Africa the fraction is
larger, 80 out of 33 parts having been
in belligerency. Asia, with her, IL, 000.-
600 square miles, shows twenty-four-
twenty-ffths of her territory involved,
while Australia was completely in the
throes of war. In North America,
four-fifths of an area of nearly 10,-
100000 square miles is occupied by
two of the great countries that were
in the struggle. Only about one-half
of South America remained nominally
neutral. Therefore of the 52,00000Q
square miles of the globes area, ex-
elusive of Antarctica, more than 49,
100000 square miles belong to the belt
ligerent nations. and the remaining
few millions were more or less af-
fected
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1924-06-27
Deep Soil Is Required
for Growing Licorice

Licorice belongs to the pea and
bean tribe. In this country the planto
flower scarcely once in ten years, and
they do not ever appear to bear seedi
AS long ago as the Sixteenth century
Iicorice was first grown in Pontefract,
near Leeds. Pontefract possesses an
unusual depth of soil, without which
1t is impossible to grow the plant.
The whole usefulness of the plant
lies in the root, which grows to
depth of over six feet. This contains
a substance known as glycyrrhizin,
and it is this transparent yellow juice
which gives licorice its medicinal quail
tiles and its distinctive flavor.
The plants are propagated by sets
or stools something in the style Of
rhubarb, and in Pontefract these sets
are guarded with the utmost care.
Nowadays there are probably not more
than eight or ten growers
The roots often take five years to
mature, and for the first two or three
years other vegetables are grown be-
tween the rows of licorice.
In its raw form licorice looks rath-
er like dark kind Of glue. It Is
boiled down In a cauldron with treacle
and sugar to give it the desired flavor.
Later it is pressed out into a pliable
mass and carried to tables, where
girls make 1t up.
After pounding It to the correct de-
gree Of pliancy, the workers break Off
pieces, which they pull out into
kind of string; and then at enormous
speed they nip off small pieces and
throw them onto a tray In long rows.
In Pontefract 500 people are employed
In this ndustry.-London Tft-Bita
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1924-06-27
Navajo Story of Creation

George Rogers, who has recently
returned from the Navajo country
In New Mexico has obtained some in
teresting information concerning these
tribes. Most interesting is the Nav
ajo tradition of the creation of the
world which is practically identical
with that described in the Bible
First, there was a great god Va.
There was nothing but water and
space. Then va put forth his hand
and the land came up out of the wa
ter. Again va put forth his hand and
the sun, stars and moon appeared.
Then va created man and woman.
These two were the first Navajos.
The legend goes on. says Mr.. Rog-
ers In the Mentor paralleling Gene
sis even. to the rainbow, which ap-
peared in the sky as a sign between
IN and his people.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1924-06-27
10 QUIZ SUBSCRIBERS

The Post OfficeIis again makingde
mands on publishers of newspapers to
revise their mailing lists. Under the
ruling Of the Department the publisher
will not be allowed to mail papers as
second class matter to subscribers who
owe for more than one year, unless
the subscriber has given instructions
to continue sending it for a definite
time and a bona fide promise to pay
Because of this law, We are compelled
to communicate with all onr subscrib-
ers and ask them to cooperate with US
that we may put our mailing list in the
shaperequired.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1924-06-27
Tremendous Rainfall.

The astonishing effects sometimes
produced by cloudbursts are walI
known, but not many Trustworthy
records OF the depth of the rairfaI,
during such occurrences exist. T@s
following instance. therefore. nos
sesses much interest. On Aueust 3
curing a thunderstorm in the FIJI
islands, the measured depth Of tha
rainfall ID a gauge elevated twenty.
nve feet above the ground ives 5
Ieet and / inch The rain continued
thirteen hours. and owing to unmaas
ured overflow, the total amount 70.
mains unknown, but it is estimatsa
Q nave been not less than forty-ona
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1924-06-27
Periis in the Home
Told By Risk Company


Mark Twain once called attersion t
e surrounds bed sim
pssuale die there. Accordir
ga asar 90 CON any. home is n.
81 Irely ssfs piace either. TIL.
concern IeasaS from IN examination
Of IT'S records that out of every ),
accidental deaChs. nine take place IL
TIE hon
THIS nearly one-sixth of the fatal
accidents occur in an environment In
which one might reasonably expect to
be protected from danger of injury
Age, however, has a bearing on the
situation. Children are In greater
peril than when they develop into
youth. and the danger increases as one
passes from middle age. Burns. falls
and inhaling poisonous gases are the
chief causes of fatal accidents in the
home.
We are accustomed to consider the
peril which attends traffic in the street
and employment in many lines of in
dustry. The fact that it is impressed
on us may make us more cautious.
Thus many accidents may be avoided
which would otherwise happen were
we regardless of the danger. Because
we feel safe when within the walls We
call home, may in some measure be
responsible for the accidents which
occur there. Our surroundings being
so familiar the sense of lurking dan
ger in an open fire. or loose board
on a step, does not suggest itself
After the damage is done we may per
ceive wherein we erred. but 1t is too
late to remedy the harm done. We
are never entirely free from peril
whether at home or abroad, but we
are likely to have a keener apprecia
ton of 1t when away from home and
the opposite may be ones undoing al
home.-Pittsburgh Telegraph.