New Britain herald., 1925-06-20

Hisles, VIC pass over the channel. watching the channel-swimmers struggle past, and arrive on the con- tinent to continue our tour bylmeans of guide books, movies and gossip.
 Pars-The center of the gay life of the world, where drunken counts and Apache Indians continually seek the beautiful young American heiresses after the latter have been divorced there. The Arc de Triomphe is part of the select society circle. The Eiffel tower is the great wire less station where the ether waves are curled and exported to the whole world. The Bois do Boulogne, an- other great sight. is huge hot dog stand made Of wood from loans ark. Paris is filled with fanatic asylums, as 1t is very easy there 10 go inseine. Every other day is a holiday, when the cabinet resigns and people throng the streets shout ing "Vive la France!" and cheering for the return of Napoleon. Edu- cated people no longer believe that the Latin quarter is the French cur rency: they realize that Roman cur rency is now extinct.
 The rest of France is a cheese-like mass of holes, caused when the Ger mans shelled the French pea crop. No one should leave the country without seeing the cathedrals. h writing about one of these, Rheims and Rheims of paper have been used up.
 Germany-A land of thriving in- dustry, starving workers, secret militarism, and absolute pacifism. where the monarchists are support ing the republic and the opulent government is unable to pay inter- est on it's war debt. Germany still has the. note habit which 1t contract ed from Woodrow Wilson, and any night the tourist may hear the Teu- tons tootling these notes almost mu- sically. The greatest goose step oi all was when the kaiser stepped over into Holland. A man with a counterfeit Confederate dollar bill Is a millionaire in Germany. The Rhine river is a great sight; the water is so thick with salt that watches float on it. Germany has congress or diet, the diet consist ing of Cologne. Hamburg and Worms.
 Italy-The land of the black hand and black shirt, of black hair and black eyes, where Mussolini sits on the throne and makes King Victor A mere phonograph. The Fascist composed of the descendants oi Caesar and Pompeii. arose whei they were strewn about the land by an eruption of Vesuyius. The city of Rome Is the home of many old debating clubs, and every day new forums are dug up. The Italians love amusement, and some circuses which were there in Nero's day still remain in the city.
 Russia--Knowing that tourists were not allowed here, we carefully maintained the spirit of the Bolsne' wiki laws and omitted 1t from ou' book tour.
 And now we return homeWarc greatly enlightened by our travels II our Morris chair. By staying a home instead of risking our stom' achs on French pastry and German noner bread. we were able to main tain our health and add 20 pounds to our weight and three inches t' our girth. And yet they say traVe broadens one.
 Snonsors O ia big playground h the fifth ward will be interested t' know that the National Safety coun oil saws that if this city will provide more playgrounds for children, ieW CT youngsters will be killed by auto mobiles, That adequate playground ; actually do prevent accidents is tn declaration of Earl J. Reeder, ot m , National Safety council, who ha made A series of traffic surveys Il various communities to ascertain what causes accidents and what cal he done to cut down the terrific los , of life and limb. Mir. Feeder is con fdent that the lives of most Of tn 25,OO0 boys and girls who have beei killed while in the streets during tn past five years could have been con served if those children had peel , properly instructed regarding tn necessity of caution and if there hal . been recreation centers for their use
 "Ohservations in several commnnl Itv safety surveys have indicated distinct relation between the Iocatio of pIaygrounds and child automobil fatalities" says Mr. Reeder in hi . report. This is particularly tru where effective supervision Of play grounds is provided and where play grounds are properly located wit respect 10 heavily travelled streets. Authorities claim that play grounds will draw children under si years of age within a circle of quarter mile radius and childre
 from six to 12 years within a hal mile radius. Where, however, heaV fly travelled streets traverse thes areas, children may not be expecte to cross such streets for playgroun
 facilities. This difficulty has bee s overcome. in some cases, by provid v ing block patrols of older childre
 10 accompany the younger ones {
 and from the grounds,
 fairgrounds should not be place r adjacent 10 through traffic street
 Likewise, such through traffic street : running parallel and only a fe' t blocks apart should have one (
 more playgrounds between them
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 "Chldren must play. If they ha' r not the space and facilities for re'
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