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New Britain herald., 1926-08-03
4 PLUCKY GIRL SWIMMER FAILS

Whenever q girl attempts to swim the English channel the world takes notice. Several such at tempts have been made recently, and they 'all received more atten~ ton than had the contestants with the waves been men.
 Miss Clarabelle Barrett, a high school swimming instructor of the Bronx, N. Y, was the latest to fail.
 Despite an suspicious beginning and favorable weather this intrepid woman swimmer had to give up when only two miles from the op- posite shore.
 Thus the English Channel con- tinues to defy the best of women swimmers.
 How treacherous its tides, how powerful its currents!
 It is not a matter of the first 12 miles," or a case of she did half the distance in record time"
 It is a case of devoting hours of hard effort to passing over some half miles that are a swirl of ed dies. currents and tides.
 Some day woman will swim the channel; the sex will never be satis- fled until it has conquered this ogre.
New Britain herald., 1926-08-03
Observation On Tie Weather

Washington, Aug. $.-Forecast for Southern New England; Most- ly fair tonight and Wednesday; not much change in temperature; moderate to fresh southwest winds
 Forecast for Eastern New York: Not much change in temperature; moderate to fresh southwest winds.
 Conditions: The trough of low pressure noted yesterday morning has passed northeastward and cen- ters over Ontario and the St. Lawrence valley.
 Showers occurred quite generally from the Gulf region northWard to the lakes and eastward over upper New York state and northern New England. Temperatures are above normal east of the Mississippi river and high humidity conditions make the atmosphere warm, unpleasant and muggy.
 Conditions favor for this vicinity generally fair tonight and Wednes- lay.
New Britain herald., 1926-08-03
IT WAS TOO BIG TO NOTICE

There is a story current in all newspaper offices of the reporter who was new on the job, was sent 10 cover a school board meeting, and returned with the information there wasn't any meeting.
 The city editor, surprised. asked why.
 "One of them met another ons at the door. punched his face, the others all began fighting, and they called il off" reported the dapper young man. r
 They evidently postponed the school program and the poor re- porter had nothing to write about
 Something similar took place when a writer in a financial maga- zine tackled the industries of New England, including Connecticut
 He handled everything but the big Connectlcu brass industry.
 Shoes, textiles, machinery - everything but the brass industry.
 Waterbury was heard from in due course, And rightly. Any reader is privileged to imagine how they cusscd down in Waterbury; and in some other brass towns too for that matter
 That illustrates the trouble with some writers; they do things in too much of d hurry. When they tell HIS that New England is on the down grade, that there is too much of the third generation running 1t, that it's goods are not known in the national markets sufficiently, they don't predicate their lamentations upon enough facts. They are prone to think textiles and shoes are the only things made in New England,
 The next time one of these Wall street writers tackles New England let him spend less time in Fall River. Brockton, Lowell or Holyoke; let him so 10 Waterbury, New Haven, Bristol, Hartford = and for the lusopete, not overlook New Britain,s one of the best little ad-
New Britain herald., 1926-08-03
FLIyVERS IN FLORIDA

Our correspondent in Florida has sent us a clipping from a Florida paper, which was credited to the Tampa Tribune, The editorial took umbrage at our recent cogitation that fiivvers in Florida were as welcome as alligators on sidewalk in Miami.
 California having been heard from, to the effect it invites flivver tourists, and Florida now having spoken its mind, the polls are closed and we will proceed to count the returns.
 "F'forida as 8 whole welcomes them (fivver iourists) as well as California <or New England" says the Tampa paper.
 Our Florida correspondent also sent us another clipping, This was from a paper in Bradenton, Florida, and dealt with the action of the mayor and city council in making il unlawful to maintain a tourist camp within the city
 Trritated citizens sent petition to the city hall demanding the law be rescinded. We feel that many Of our best citizens first visited this city in tourist camp and that many hlgh-class and good people live in tourist camps in Florida and that for our city to discrimi- nate against this class of people would result in an Injury to our city" the petitioners averred.
 The situation in Bradenton imay be uniaue or it may be common.
 Anyhow. at this season of the year. with Long Island Sound closer at hand, and dire heat and horrid hurricanes bcthering Floria more than fivvers, perhaps the subject can be set at rest for the present.
New Britain herald., 1926-08-03
NOMINATING CAR
LINES

The Connecticut company has a number of street car lines in New Britain which are money losers. At least, they barely take in enough tokens each day to pay their crews.
 The Chestnut street and East Main lines are two of these. They are served by the old-fashioned small "hobby-horse" type of car.
 Some time ago it was announced that the Pennington avenue line was the chief lemon on the system. Indeed, there were rumors that the line might be abandoned.
 But instead of abandoning it the company substituted large double truck cars for the one-truck hobby horse varieties, and the lines clien- tele, fearing it might be abandoned, began yielding increased patronage.
 Perhaps, though, they took fancy to the double truck cars and like their riding better.
 Why not do away with all the one-truck hobby-horse contraptions remaining and substitute the larger, easier riding and faster cars?
 The small cars are too slow, and they magnify every bump in the tracks. They bob up and down and jerk sideways like man with a fever.
 Many residents prefer to walk rather than ride in the hobby horses.
 After the experience with the Pennington avenue line one would think the Connecticut company management would be willing to scrap the small tin wheel boxes on wheels and substitute the kind of cars the public wants anc will ride
New Britain herald., 1926-08-03

eight cents to Plainyille and ten to Berlin center, but these rates were made when trolleys were not such things and their run ming was not figured out on ac- eurate cost sheets. The association appreciates what a boost for local trade it would be to have the rates from the suburbs cut and will work bard for its plan.
 William Firnhaber of Water John Lodge, D. o. H.. attended the state convention of the order in South Norwalk today.
 Alfred. Anderson will sign articles tomorrow for a wrestling match with Prof. Mike Lawyer of New York.
 Norman McKirdy, the five-year- old son of William McKirdy met with an accident while playing about the house on North Stanley street yesterday afternoon. He fell and dislocated his shoulder.
 Rev. H. l. Bodley and family are at Canaan.
 pr. c. w, Lee and wife are spend ing two weeks in Massachusetts.
 Max J. Unkelbach and his wife have gone to the Buffalo exposition.
 One property owner on Shuttle Meadow road, near Rhodes ice house is baking the efforts of the street commissioner to improve the road, claiming that he will be dam aged more than benefited by the $1,00O improvements which are planned. Judge Gaffney's resolution to straighten the road is also being held up by the refusal of a property owner to sell.
 City Clerk Thompson made his an- nual report as secretary of the state convention of the P. o. S. of A., held lat Meriden today. Receipts for the year, he said exceeded the eX- penditures by $S2.
New Britain herald., 1926-08-03
RU.THERFORD GETS
 INSPECTORS JOB
Former Deputy Takes Place of
 0uSted HenneSSey

Deputy Building Inspector Arthur N. Rutherford was appointed build ing inspector by a unanimous choice of the building commission at a meeting held in the office last night. He succeeds Edward J Hen nessey, whose resignation will take effect on August fl.
 Mr. Rutherford has held a prom inent part in the affairs of the city government since 1914, when he was elected as a member of the common council His ability as a building contractor was recognized in 1919 during the last administration of EX-Mayor George A. QuigIey when he was appointed building inspector. In 1920 he resigned his position to take a place on the building com mission, and in 1921 at the death Of his successor, John w. Allen, he took over the duties as building in spector again.
 He resigned his position on the commission in 1922 at the beginning of ex-Mayor A. NJ. Paonessa's term of office. In the next election he en- tered the common council as coun- cilman from the second ward. Dur ing the latter part of his term, the building boom had so affectd the building department that Mayor Paonessa decided that a deputy in spector was needed, and after an agreement between the common council and the building commits sion, Mir. Rutherford was made dep- uty building inspector to assist Mr. Hennessey. He still retained his po- sition in the common council until the end of his term in 1926.
 MT. Rutherford was a represen- tative in the General assembly in 1921. At the meeting last night he resigned as deputy building inspec- tor and on motion of Commissioner William R. Fenn he was appointed building inspector.
New Britain herald., 1926-08-03
vertising cities in this tier oi states.
SINGLE HOUSES HAVE CALL

Publicists in various cities report growing tendency to construct more single dwellings. or at least two-family houses, ...5
 Apartment houses, these say, have Sbeen to some extent over built. Except in heavily congested cities and districts, there is said to be an ample sufficiency of apart ment houses in most cities.
 Mortgage lenders are said to be more willing to loan on single houses than upon any other class of residence property.
 If the pendulum Is swinging away from apartments 1t is another sign that the conditions arising out of the war are passing
 But. it is, not wise ito consider New Britain in the same light as most other cities of its size. This is a manufacturing com munity and we have a record of a7 persons to each house within the city.
 We codld have less percentage and feel better.
 In the first place, there is wide expanse in New Britain that is not built up. And the only reason this is the case is lack of sewer sys- tems. streets, sidewalks, etc.
 Our system on the whole is to bulge out slowly and let the other concomitants of building follow.
 The social value of building operators, sub division exploiters, and realty men generally here comes in for favorable notice.
 It is they who nine times out of ten are responsible for the creation of new sections in the city, They are creators, not merely sellers of property. If the city in the future is to have record of fewer persons living in & dwelling it will be largely through their activities in interesting them in places through out the city. now lying dormant, where there Is more elbow room
 And one must not overlook the fact that the first thing a citizen thinks about when he visits the out lying sections with the notion. of moving there sometime in the fur ture" is the construction of a sin gle family house.
 That's the thing that is occurring in thousands of municipalities, and perhaps is the main reason why the singles are gaining in popu- lartty,
New Britain herald., 1926-08-03
CONTROL FOREST FIRES
More Than 1000 Men However, Still Are Laboring to Keep Back Flames in Far West.

Missoula, Mont, Aug. 8 CP-With the western Glacier Park district forest fire situation reported greatly improved, more than four thou sand men are attempting to estab- fish control lines about large stands of timber burning in Idaho, Mon tsna and east Washington
 The Kaniksu, Flathead, Blackfeet. Occur D'Alene and Pend Oreille for ests have been hardest hit by fires which have deyasted thousands of acres in the last month. Reports continue of logging camps and iso- lated ranch houses being leveled
 Campers on Lake Mcdonald at the western entrance to Glacier Park were returning to their cot tages today after fleeing Saturday. when flames menaced. several camps. The eastern side of the park, where most of the visitors enter, has not been threatened by fires.
New Britain herald., 1926-08-03
HANDLING MONEY
AND FOOD

One notes with great satisfaction th, return of 8 public eating place 10 the system Of having a cashier 10 handle the money instead of permitting inc "rthy lucre' 10 be handled by the same hands which handle dollar bills There are enough germs flying about and getting upon food without having them transferred on the wholesale plan from the money that goes into everyone's pocket. and which some times is dirtier than a weeks wear Of laundry.
 Nothing but the most dire dictates of super economy ever. induced res taurants to eliminate cashiers and put their cash registers alongside the food Some Of them few v 4dn't do it; but we 1e talking of
New Britain herald., 1926-08-03
IN kLASS AT KRALY kOILEGE
 (CopJuctcd by NJ. F. J1

Teacher: Mrs. Thereiz. you are in the ladies lingerie business-tell us why a certain garment is called an envelope?"
 Mrs. Saul Thereiz: 50 because it's churst beeg enough you can send it through der mails in a envelope. And we are teenking of naming der newest model bathing suits post cards yet because you can convent ently pin them on a postcard."' Teached; Short clothes and mer- ny ones eh? Tempest, please" Mrs. Saul Thereiz:
 "So wunce oppon a time it wuz
 Preencess,
 Wit jools, witt cash--all kinds good
 things she he'd; -Oi yoi, we'll hef to feenish op to-
 morrow. It's tempest nine und time to gone
 to bed"
New Britain herald., 1926-08-03
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Send all communications to Fun Shop Editor, care Of the New Britain Herald. and your letter will he forwarded to New York,
Those Misleading Vacation

Those Misleading Vacation
 "Eolders!" We'll bet we're not the only ones who spent our whole vacation In searching here and there to find a mythical location. For we'll admit we tried in vain for two weeks to discover That lake-f front view so gorgeously portrayed upon the cover!
 The Bad Man! Tambe: "Yuh wanta know what I is? l'se 8 Widower, black boy-a widower."
 Florian: "Yuh has done lost yo' wife,"
 Tambo: "Nossah-I makes wid- ows."
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New Britain herald., 1926-08-03
TREES AND STATES
 HIGHWAYS


 citation has gotten out pamphlet which is designed to vibrate the tocsins of alarums about the tree situation along the public high ways.
 Laws relating to trees along the highways are every bit as clear as mud. But no clearer.
 Jurisdiction is divided between the State Highway Commission, the Public Utilities Commission, the Motor Vehicle Commission, the state police. the agricultural ex- pertinent station, county commits sioners, town selectmen, and town tree wardens; and in cities the park commissions have various degrees of jurisdiction"
 For some reason dog catchers and tax collectors have no Jurisdiction.
 And strangely enough" as P. l.. Buttrick, author of the pamphlet, says, neither the state park and forest commission nor the state forester is in any official way con- cerned with the problem"
 If this is some of the "Connecd- cut idea" that Senator Hiram Bing- ham has been trying to sell his re- luctant colleagues in Washington no wonder said colleagues in Wash ington are merely good listeners but poor buyers
 The pamphlet has kind word to say about property owners, par ticularly the class erecting gas sta- tions and hot dog stands.
 The gas and dog gentry seem to regard a tree as interfering with the view of bright-colored sign boards; so they chop them down. It makes no difference if the trees are old landmarks and dearly be- loved of the populace. Down they come.
 State highway engineers are re- ouired to secure the consent of To- cal officials before yielding the axe. Some local officials won't permit tree which is a menace to motor ists to be cut down and block all efforts 10 widen or improve the highway. Other local officials don't care a doughnut if all the trees in the neighborhood are turned into kindling.
 Consequently the highway en- gineers sometimes fail to remove trees that ought 10 be removed, while at other times removing twice as many as is necessary.
 Some more of Senator Bingham's Connecticut idea,
 To reform this lax condition the Connecticut Forestry Association recommends definite jurisdictions be established over trees. The recommendation are lengthy but explicit, Anyone having a desire 10 see order created out of chaos in the tree-cutting and tree-planting business will join in approving them.
 The main idea is 10 have a state roadside landscape commission, But We don't see why the forestry association cannot be the commits sion. Perhaps false modesty pre-. vented making the suggestion.
 Action by the next Legislature is distinctly in order. Tree preserya-' lion Is too important in Connecti- cu to permit conditions 10 con tinuc.
New Britain herald., 1926-08-03
FactsondFdncies
BY ROBERT CULLEN

They say Mussolini works IT hours a day. He reminds us of family Four.
 If high taxes would bring the franc back to par, dollar should be worth about s9.60.
 If ever Ananias went to summer resort, we wonder how many blank cts he said he slept under.
 Losing your memory is old stuff. when you crave a big time, just get kidnapped,
 A republic is a land where people yearn to kill their equals instead Of the ruler,
 It's the same in all walks. When you're going bad, there's somebody else warming up on the sidelines.
New Britain herald., 1926-08-03

Another psychic phenomenon is the way the wife can watch you dress and know you have new stenographer
 The laying of corner stones IS fine custom. It gives modern royal Ity something to do. One reason why you seem to wait longer in a barber shop is because there are fewer stories that can be told.
 Ifs girl makes up after quarrel now, it's because tears streaked her original makeup.
 Americansm: A bald man work ing and getting wish-you-were-here postcards.
 Still. 8 lot of big jobs are held by men who cant daffce with either leg. When a European has a hang over the doctor puts him to sleep. In efficient America the sleeping potion is part of the drink.
New Britain herald., 1926-08-03
THE PI-EYED POSTOFFICE lI,Ira IrinlnIt .PnSfmasfprl

Postmaster: Here's a letter from Atlanta for you" Jennie Nive La France: It's from that old forger friend of mine." Postmaster: Whats he say?" Jennie Vive La France: "Oh. he's always singing those Old Southern songs 10 me"
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 Down, home in Dixie. You ought to see You ought 70 see You ought to see My home in DiXie.)
 -Morrie Ryskind'
New Britain herald., 1926-08-03

Katy Didd. Gotta letter for me from my sugar -daddy?' Postmaster: After the way you treated him? Yes, here's one from the poor simp with q speshul deliv- cry stamp on it."
 Katy Didd: Then why didn't you deliver it?" Postmaster: You need the exer- else. Whats he say?"
 Katy Didd: None of your busi- ness. Ooh, he's mad! Listen:
 EXT, U F BIO me
 o G, s it, ?!
 But just U s, and l will hand
 D IC mitt U!" (Katy, you have beaten me o gee, I hate 1T, tool But just you wait, and l will hand The icy mitt 10 youD
 Jessie Costello. Copyright 1926. Reproduction
 Forbidden)
New Britain herald., 1926-08-03
KRAZY KINDERGARTEN lCOnduCted by Dustyl z

Fletcher: ''Kissen deer, name 3 diseases of childhood"
 Kissen Tell: "sniffeling, itching, and dirty-face."
 Fletcher: "Recite the werd ven geance."
 Kissen Tell: Dogs have barks and so do trees, And pigs have a squeel and grunt Boats have paddles in back of them, And trains have vengeance in front. :" Julie R. Brock.
New Britain herald., 1926-08-03
$ Fears Ago To-day

The Business Mems association at it's meeting this evening will make a move in the line of progress which, if accomplished, will be of more material good to the city than any thing that has happened in a long time. The plan on foot relates to trolley fares, The move is to se- cure a five cent fare to Berlin center and Plainville. The rate is now
New Britain herald., 1926-08-03
v.nber .,,,t Bureau of Circulation.

Member Audit Bureau of Circulation. The A. B. C. Is national organization which furnishes newspapers and adVer- tlsers with a strictly honest analysis or circulation. Our circulation statistics are based upon tnis audit. This insures protection against fraud in newspaper distribution figures to both national and local advertisers.
New Britain herald., 1926-08-03
Not a Freak

Salesman Do you wish a two- pants suit for your husband, Madame? One with two pair of trousers 9"
 Mrs. Newlywed: "Of course not! How silly! He has only pair of legs!"
 HI. c. Schuster.
New Britain herald., 1926-08-03

Foreign loans abroad have not been sufficient to materially affect the gold surplus in this country.
 When all factors are duly weighed and analyized in the cru cible of what is happening, one cannot evade the conclusion that we will continue to remain the worlds chief gold and credit mart in the future.
 Private loans made to Europe are always an important factor, but they can be regulated.
New Britain herald., 1926-08-03
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that number which did.
 The rules of good health are op- posed to the system. Let the cashiers handle the money and the food artists what we eat.
New Britain herald., 1926-08-03

Seth Famous, who delivers ice during these summer days, has ac- .cepted a position as salesman for the Quick Delivery Suit Company, who makeG suits for S19.50.
 If Seth guesses at the measure of his patrons like he does in the ice business he's going to have some misfits showing up around here!
New Britain herald., 1926-08-03
TELEPHONE CALLS Business Office ... s25 Editorial Rooms ..,. s26

The only profitable advertising medium h the City. Circulation books and press room aIways open to advertisers.
New Britain herald., 1926-08-03

The Herald Is on sale daily in New York at Hotalings Newsstand. Times souare; schultz's Newsstands. Entrance Grand Central, 42nd Street.
New Britain herald., 1926-08-03

Federal Reserve bank officials may have their own ideas about It. but it is unlikely that they can change what amounts to species of imitation.
 That we are facing period of more or less imitation seems likely; not because we want imitation, but because conditions create it.
New Britain herald., 1926-08-03
Oh. Oh Say. Car You sce---

q think sister likes papa .better than you" said my little daughter Helen one day. What makes you say that?" asked surprised.
 Hast night when her friend was here she kept saying, Sweet Dad dy.'"
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New Britain herald., 1926-08-03
usrhe, n, tbe Associated Press.

MtmDtf UT tTIt atsuOTutU" FE"1F The Associated Press Is exclusively en- titled to the use for republication of all news credited to 1t or not otherwise credited in this paper and also local aews published therein.
New Britain herald., 1926-08-03

Then, tkere is the trade balance.
 Ordinarily it is favorable. It may not be as favorable as it once was, but there is no huge amount of foreign goods being dumped in America. as some observers eX- pected,