New Britain herald., 1926-11-06

| Persons who make practice o1
 observing the tunctionings of govern.
 mental bodies are wondering just
 what is the trouble with the healtt
 commission, which in former year.
 was one of the most active of the
 IT city boards, but which in the past two months has not met. The fact that several matters of importance
 are pending before the board makes
 the situation a more aggravated one
 than would be the case were there
 none but routine questions to be pro- pounded before the commissioners. Newspaper items to the effect that
 "the scheduled meeting of the health department was postponed in the ab- sence of a quorum" are altogether too numerous under the present
 health department regime, in the
 opinion of many who are interested
 in government. There are several
 property owners and taxpayers who
 have aplied for permission to con-
 duct chicken markets near the cen-
 ter of the city. Establishment of a
 policy on this type of business is of
 vital interest to them; in fact 1t is
 of vital interest to all present and
 future property owners and house.
 holders to know what the likelihood
 of live chicken market in their
 immediate neighborhood is. But this
 matter has been lying on the table
 for nearly two months now, and "the
 scheduled meeting of the health
 department is postponed in the ab- sence of quorum" An extensive addition to the slaughter house is in course of construction. Other boards make practice of being in con- stant touch with building operations placed in their charge, but a major portion of the slaughter house addi- tion has been placed during the period when there were no health board meetings and consequently no round-table discussions on the progress of the plant.
 City commissioners are selected to the best of the appointing authori- tvs ability from among those who snow an active interest in the work cut out for them. Some time ago a city official suggested that council members who miss consecutive meetings be asked to resign. This proposal. it must be admitted is a bit drastic. But, if commissioners are going to remain away from meetings consistently, wouldn't it be advisable to adopt this or some other similar method of assuring that the city's business will be attended to by the persons designated and at the time designated?
 The realization of just how much is wasted on football tickets each Saturday struck us as singularly en- phasized by an overheard conversa- tion tyou know the Observer has to eavesdrop lots more than is good for hlm) on the street the other day. One sweet young thing had just met sweet young thing and in the middle of the sidewalk on Main street they carried on a conversa- tion about the recent Yale-Dart- mouth game in tones that could have been heard at the West Main street entrance of Walnut Hill park. What they said was something like this although 1t was impossible to take down the flow in shorthand as there is limit to the speed that shorthand can follow diligently and the two passed that limit without an effort.
 My DEAR, you should have seen the perfectly HOT time I had at the YALE DARTMOUTH game or Brown or one of those games. Tom my told me but I've forgotten WHICH one but I think it was or some other of those BIG colleges. I mean, they had GOES of cheeres making a lot of NOISE and BANDS and KICKING he ball around and I was just thrilled to TEARS. We went down in Tommy's big car and we passed about EVERYTHING but the Chi