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New Britain herald., 1927-10-26
Modern Building

Tho proposed building will h. thoroughly modern in every respect and will nc either two or thr,, stories high with the main entrance on the ground floor. The basement will provide for the heating plant only. < swimming pool will adioiu the proposed ;" foot to 7n foot .,yu- nasium. Lockers will hc provided in the gymnasium.
 X separate entrance 10 the swim. ming pool for women is 10 be pro Nided, in addition 10 separate lock CTS. From the ladies' entrance there will also hc access 10 the gymnasium which on occasions may be used by women.
 The plans also call for a large game room, with proper facilities for the use of the games by juniors and seniors Of the Boys club.
 The plans also provide for a room for the printing department and the class in carpentry and mechanical pursuits. Other class rooms will be provided for in the plans now being worked out.
 The library room will be located sufficiently far enough away from the gymnasium to afford the ro- .ttrir.l
New Britain herald., 1927-10-26
Fire Board NrCtiu.

.s Tho board of fire commissioners will hold their regular monthly meeting at s o'clock Friday evening. il,f1i,r
New Britain herald., 1927-10-26
Animal, Bitten by Mad Dog

The dog which last Sunday bit four cows and d bull owned by Har- ny Baldwin Of Terryyille had a posi- tive case of rabies, according to the report received by town authorities from the state laboratory. Each animal was bitten in the nose by the dog, while standing in the barn of the owner.
New Britain herald., 1927-10-26
Youths Bound Over

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The Building Committee

The building committee is com posed of Frederick c. Hughes. chairman: Townsend G. Treadway. Dudley <. lngraham, George k. Marsh. Karl A. Reicho, J. E. An- drew, Paul E. Sessions and Edson NJ, Peek, Tho committee in pre- pairing the plans have on frequent occasions consulted President Ed ward Ingra ham and James Dobson. superintendent Of the Boys club.
 Charles $. Palmer, the architect, is well known in this city. having designed the Bristol hospital and the NurSsS homo
New Britain herald., 1927-10-26
Wife BrScrtrr Arrested
Evening school Registration

2G6 pupils were enrolled in the
 evening schools last Monday eve ming. according 10 an announcement
 made yesterday hv the board Of ed ucation. The Americanization classes had the largest enrolment with a
 total Of l33, dressmaking courses attracted the second largest number with sc WhIl" - were enrolled for the cooking course. | for mechani- cal drawing and nine for shop
New Britain herald., 1927-10-26

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Enters Hospital for Treatment

Mrs. James R. Degnau of IS kenney street entered the Bristo hospital yesterday afternoon for ob S1rXatiOu and treatment
New Britain herald., 1927-10-26

Damon's Hlll, Pennington avenue. l. js expected that there will be several important matters to be act ed upon. It is also probable that Mrs, George Tryon will arrange a speclal entertainment feature for that evening.
New Britain herald., 1927-10-26
Community Health Meeting

The first Of q series of public health meetings will be held in the high school auditorium this eve or health. the board of education. trle Visiting Nurse and Family Vel fare association and the Employcs Protective league. Admission will be by tickets, which have been dis tributed 10 the children in the Nari- ous schools.
 The speakers of the evening will be Dr. l.. R: Thompson, surgeon in charge of the United States Public Health Service Of Washington. D. C.. who will talk on "PreNention of Colds'; Dr. William II. Coon, health officer Of Bridgeport, whose topic will be Communicable Diseases; and Dr. John l.. Rice. health officer Of the city Of New Haven. who will speak on Stamping Out Diph- thoria'
 Dr. F. E. Robbins, local health officer. has been Uagiug campaign dEtilSl IApioln anu urges lIdl campaign of immunization be start ed in the schools. This is tho pri- mary object Of this evenings meet ing and all questions will be an swercd by the speakers.
 Thermometer Drops to 2S
 This morning was the coldcst of the fall season. thermometers in many parts of tue city dropping to as low as 2S degrees,
 I. o. o. F. Meeting
 The regular weekly meeting Of Pequabuck loge, I. 0. c. F, will be held at s o'clock this evening in ArCanum hall
 Mothers Club Meeting
 \ meeting of the Mothers club Of the Prospect Methodist church, will be held at s o'clock this eve ming al the home Of Mrs. l.. K La.sher at 247 High stret.
 Injured Boxer in Hospital
New Britain herald., 1927-10-26

was certainly guilty Of reckless driving. It was nothing but a pure case of reckless driving. he said. Latina was represented by Attorney Monroe $. Gordon.
New Britain herald., 1927-10-26
Will Conduct Mission

Order will be in charge of the mis- sion for Italian communiCants of St. Paul's church. kensington. which will be held next week. beginning at a special mass on Sunday morning al 2 o'clock. Rev l'r. Frrrari is a mission at St. Mary's church in New Britain d few weeks ago
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1927-04-01
"APOSTROPHE TO WAITE"
(By Judge A. w. Arlington

God-there He brews it, that beverage of
life, health-giying water
And everywhere it is thing of beauty.
cleaning in the dewdrop, singing in the
summer rain, shining in the ice gem till
the trees all seem turned into living jew
els, spreading a golden veil over the set
ting sun or white gauze around the mid
night moon, sporting in the cataract,
sleeping in the glacier, dancing in the
hail shower, folding its bright curtains
softly around the wintry world, and wav-
ing the merry co1ored iris, that seraph's
zone of the skies whose warp is the rain
of earth, whose wool is the sunbeam of
heaven, all checkered DER with celestial
flowers by the mystic hand of rarefaction
still always it is beautiful, that blessed
life waterl
No poison bubbles on the brink, its
foam brings no sadness or murder, no
bloodstains in its limpid glass. Broken
hearted wives, pale widows and starving
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Look at that, we thirsty ones of earthi
Behold i'll See its purity! How it glitters
as if mess of liquid gems! 1t is bev-
erage that was brewed by the hand of
the Almighty himself. Not in the sim
mering still of smoking fire, choked with
poisonous gases and surrounded by the
stencil of sickening odors and rank cor
ruption doth our Father in Heaven pre-
pare the precious essence of life, the pure,
cold water; but in the green glade and
grassy dell where the red deer wanders
and the child loves to play-there God
brews it.
And down in the deepest valleys where
the fountains murmur and the rills sing,
and high upon the tall mountain tops
where the native granite glitters like
gold in the sun, where the storm clouds
brood and the thunders clash, and away,
far out on the wide sea, where the hur-
ricanes howl music and the big waves
roll the chorus heralding the march of
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1927-04-01
CAN THE PROHIBITION LAW BE ENFORCED?

the federal district court and they must
handle all litigation, both civil and GRIM
inal, arising in 10 counties containing
nois.
There are IS times as many local judges
in Cook county who can hear injunction
cases. Suppose that the 5000 policemen
IL Chicago, instead of filing 80 paddock
cases a month with me, where one judge
can give up only few hours of each
week in the hearing of such cases, would
file Is times as many per month i'll the To-
cal courts. Is it not safe to assume that if
the federal government could close more
than 1000 places in four years, the cor
poration counsel with an appropriation of
more than 100000 year, and the states
attorney of Cook county, with an appro-
priaton of 100000 year, and with IS
times as many judges. could have closed
$4,000 in four years9 Is there anyone
WHO believes that if seven hundred fifty
million dollars worth of real estate, in
stead of fifty million dollars worth had
been padlocked during the past four years
that the manufacture and sale of liquor
as business would now be in existence
in Chicago?
Yes, liquor laws can be enforced but
not by politicians. The law enforcement
machinery must be placed in the hands
o. those who believe in their enforcement
AID enforeibility. That day is not yet
here but it is on the way. The Volstead
Act has given the government weapon
by which recreant officials can be driven
from power. The office of sheriff loses its
attraction to politicians when they find
that the county bastle must be run as a
jail and not as pay-as-you-go plan hotel.
Other law enforcement offices will no
doubt become less desirable when final
ly commences to dawn upon the unterri-
fed that public office calls for she per-
farmance of certain duties and that lining
up the boys" is not one of them.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1927-04-01
WOMEN AT WORK

Our superintendent of the Woman's
Department of the Southern District of
Illinois, Mrs. Lillian S. Haynes, has been
doing notable work organizing the church
women in several of the larger towns of
her district. This work eliminated in
whole week of luncheons and dinners
January 1922.
Mrs. G. M. Mathes, our superintendent,
and Miss Graccio L. Houlder, an Aus
tralian prohibition lecturer, spoke at these
meetings. The local chairman arranged
the programs, supplementing the speeches
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with appropriate music. Different or
CARNATIONS served the meals-The Wom-
ans Christian Temperance Union, the
GIRL Scout Mothers and the Women's
church societies.
At one of our luncheons, as young
girl played stirring march, the Chris
tian Citizenship Committee filed in,
headed by the church chairmen, church
by church, thus dramatically represent
Ing the potentia1ity of the church of
Jesus Christ when concentrated upon the
enc task of securing righteous govern
ment. The pastors of course co-operated
IT. every way possible.
Miss Houlder, out of her experience
with the youth of Australia, as Girl Scout
commissioner; as worker at the children's
courts; and as campaigner for prohibition
in the great struggle in her country, was
abe to give messages which SO stirred
and thrilled her audiences that these COM
irunities have secured her services for
lecture tour in February. She closed each
speech with a text which Mrs Mathes
seized upon in her talk which followed,
as she explained the technique of the
work to be accomplished. Cards were
passed and pledges signed for co-opera-
ton in the various items of service.
At the great Convention of Brewers of
the World, held in Paris IN April 1922,
one of the leaders made an address in
which he said:
at must be remembered that every
year tens of thousands of the Older drink
ers are passing out and we must recruit
from the youth of the world. Therefore
we must Cd inculcate in youth desire
for alcoholic beverages and CD we must
make prohibition in the United States a
failure or at least make it appear to be
a failure"
The church people are beginning to
suspect that the vets, discouraged by their
failure to weaken the dry forces in Con-
gress, have turned their attention to the
cities and towns, hoping that by electing
wet mayors they will be able to carry out
these injunctions,
Therefore the general chairman in each
town is organizing her church commit
tees to put 100 per cent informed,
unified church vote in the ballot box and
thus elect a dry mayor in the spring
election
The following are the names of the
general chairmen in the various towns:
Mrs. VIM. Reisacher, Granite City;
Mrs. Joseph Edwards, Collinsville; Mrs.
L. M. Armstrong, Edwardsville; Mrs.
Louise Butler, Belleville; Mrs. Bertha
Utley East St Louis; Mrs. A. H. Work
man, East St. Louis; Mrs. Geo. Nichols,
East St. Louis.
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for the last four years United States dis
t:ict attorney for the State OF Illinois.
Few men in the country are in better
position TO discuss this question than Mr..
Olson. Basing his observations on four
years experience "A enforcing the law in
the second largest city in the country,
facing all the problems in connection with
the various congested, foreign population
and dealing with gangsters, gunner and
reckless criminals, high and low, natu-
rally collected in great metropolitan
center. Mr.. Olson believed that the en-
forcement of the prohibition policies is en-
tirely possible and desirable. Here's
what he says:
Mr. Olson, asked for an opinion as TO
the cnforcibility of the Volstead Act,
said: "My office has convicted over 5000
booteggers in the past four years,
larger number, | am told, than any other
prosecuting office in the country. We
have secured more than twelve months
padlocks than any other office in the
United States. l have had occasion TO
study the bootlegger at close range. |
kfow the network Of his protection, from
the gunman in the valley" clear up to
the hypocrites who sit i'll high places.
The booze business could not exist in any
community without the protection OF
crooked officials. The liquor law has not
made officials turn crooked. 1t has only
provided the already crooked officials with
an added source of revenue. The graft
ing officials who protect the bootegger
for price are the same grafters who have
always protected gambling. prostitution,
adope-peddling, thievery and other forms
of crime. 1t has been estimated that the
graft collected from booze, vice and crime
in this district amounts TO the princely
sum of thirty millions of dollars a year.
The budget of the district attorneys of
lfce during my term has been approxi-
matciy ninety thousand dollars per year,
and the results | have been able to &C
lcomplsh were gained within that budget.
The influence of thirty millions of dol
lars of yearly graft money is a force to be
Feckoned within politics. 1t reaches into
high places. 1t finances campaigns. 1t
will stop at nothing to prevent the prose-
'cution and punishment of its benefcaries
or to diseredit and destroy any honest
public official who refuses to touch its
dirty money or to listen to its seductive
offers of political advancement
My four years experience has con-
WINGED me that the manufacture and sale
of liquor as a business can be stopped in
this district whenever the government re-
ceives proper cooperation from local law
enforcement officials. Even without such
cooperation the problem is not unsur-
mountable but it will take longer. The
most effective weapon to enforce prohibi-
'tion is by injunction, but local authori-
.ties refuse to invoke that remedy in the
local courts. Section % of the Illinois
prohibition law gives the corporation
counsel of the city of Chicago the same
power to close by injunction as the
United States district attorney has under
the Volstead Act, ard the circuit, superior
and county courts have jurisdiction to
hear such cases The Chicago police de-
psrtment brings into my office the evil
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orphans shed no tears in its depths. No
drunkards shrieking ghost from the grave
curses it in fords of eternal despair. Beau
tifu1, pure, blessed and glorious Give me,
forever, the sparkling, pure cold water.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1927-04-01
WASRINCTONIAN HOME

actment of the Prohibition law, of voting
to close the old Home at Ogden avenue
and Madison street in Chicago, and to
sell the property.
The Washingtonian Home was estab-
lished as liquor cure during the Civil
War, and for sixty years frequently hous-
ed 800 alcoholic patients at one time.
For forty years l have been in close
touch with the work of the Washington
ian Home in retaining drunkards; I
have talked with many hundreds of the
patients and almost without exception
they have told me they began with beer
and wine, and became addicted to whisky.
Due to lack of patients, the great five
story structure occupied by the Wash
ingtonian Home for sixty years, was clos
ed three years after the prohibition law
was enacted, and signs reading as fol-
lows were posted in all the windows:
Beer and Wine brought 100000 alco-
holic patients to this Home for Treat
ment; the Dry law makes this cure no
longer necessary"
With the proceeds of the sale Of
tiC Old DuliuiuS, TIC w dSllHSlOlldl
Home Association has erected the
first unit of millon-dollar general hos
pital at Irving Park boulevard and West
ern avenue, Chicago, which will open
shortly with 100 beds
Alcoholic patients will be received, and
free treatment, including board, will be
given inebriates who, either by them
selves or their friends, can not pay for it.
An encouraging sign, as to there being
less drinking, is that the number of pa
tients now in the Westinghouse Home,
receiving treatment for alcoholic addc-
ton, is sometimes as low as five, and sell
dom exceeds fifteen; during all last year
there were only four alcoholic patients
under IS years of age.
Fifteen years ago our firm did most of
the printing for the Kelley Institute at
Dwight, Illinois, and for the seventy sim
liar institutes throughout the United
States.
| made frequent visits to the parent in
stitute at Dwight, and sometimes saw 400
patients in four lines taking the treat
ment. | sat at table there one Sunday
at dinner, when seven of the ten diners
were physicians from various states un-
der treatment for liquor addiction | men,
ton this as indicating that the printing
industry was not afflicted to any greater
extent through the ravages of the liquor
traffic than other industries and profess
sions.
A few weeks ago I drove down to
Dwight to see the transformation which
I felt certain had been brought about by
the Prohibition law
I found the Kelley Institute, with its
capacity of several hundred patients, now
a great military hospital; the Kelley cure
was being given in bungalow not far
distant, and I learned, on inquiry that
frequently the number of patients scarce
1y exceeded dozen. also learned that
men i'll their twenties were now very sell
dom brought in for treatment
DR.. Hamilton and Michael Ward of the
old guard were retaining drunkards as
of yore, perhaps five per cent of the
number treated in the good old wet davs
so afTectonately referred to by the liquor
The Washington times., 1927-04-14
MAY
CONE EAST

California and washington prob,
ably win send crews to the inter
collegiate regatta at Poughkeepsie
In june While California was rep
resented last year, and Washington
again sent its Fights, the Bears had
announced that they would not
come East again unless they beat
Washington for the Pacific coast
champs
The miracle has come to pass,
California has beaten washing.
ton. In Their annual race last
Saturday ON the Oakland Esfu.
airy the Huskies lost to the
Bears for the first time since
1920. California won the three
mile race by three lengths. In
17:27.
Experts who saw the race laid
the defeat Of Washington largely
to the loss of Hart, the great No. 6.
who was stricken with smallpox
several days ago., However. Cali.
fornia, under KY Ebright, former
coxswain, has made great strides
in the last two years.
Now that California has won the
coast title. It is sure to Jme to
Poughkeepsie. Washington also is
practically certain to be represented.
Columbia, Cornell. Pennsylvania.
Syracuse. the Navy and wisconsin
also will be on hand. SO that an.
other corxing regatta is in the
offing.
The Washington times., 1927-04-14
CurIey Club1nen VIII
Hold Tennis Meeting

Tennis win be the subject at a
meeting tonight Of the Curley Club,
$40 Rock Creek Church Rd.
Plans for the new organization
are well under way and those in
charge have secured the services OF
two well known players to act as
coaches. Luke O'ReiIIy. former
amateur champion Of New Orleans.
win take care of men players, while
Miss Mary Olmstead, Of Pittsburgh.
viii teach the fair racqueters.
Matches with teams OF New York,
Philadelphia and Boston have been
arranged for the Sundays after
Easter. Several local matches are
in the making.
The Washington times., 1927-04-14

q few weeks ago now will have to
fight like the dickens to keep in
the running until they get their full
strength back.
Baseball Is like that. And the
chances are that there win be q lot
of tough breaks for lot OF clubs
before we get from number one on
down the list through 154.
fCopyright, 1897 BY Christy Walsh
Syndicate YncN
The Washington times., 1927-04-14
Finnegan Matched
With Chapman
For Title

NEW YORK, April a.
Honeyboy Finnegan and Red
Chapman, Boston featherWeights
regarded as the leading con-
tenders for the title, have been
matched for q bout in Brooklyn
on June s. Promoter Fugazy
will present a gem-studded belt
to the winner.
Meanwhile Johnny Dundee.
indicated featherweight cham
pion who relinquished the title
two years ago because Of in
creasing weight, is planning q
comeback.
The Washington times., 1927-04-14
make q throw from second base
to the plate the game would start.

II
Day after day he kept on. And
finally he finished the season
pitching ~ games in as many days
and winning rs of them. Els only
defeat was at the hands Of the Buff
falo club. and the score was . 70 ..
There was a record.
It has never been equaIIed since
never will be. It stands clone.
and unapproachabie Walsh and.
Matty. Bender and Plank these
have written their names high In
the armament of baseball fame.
But there was only one Rajdbourne
even as there Is only one Ruth.
Small wonder then, that the old
timers who remember that accom-.
plishment still label him. the great
est OF them all.
The Washington times., 1927-04-14
AMITY TEAM LEADS
ODD FELLOWS

With but three weeks remaining
before the seasons close, Anity con.
tinues to lead the pack, enjoying a
four-game lead over Mt. Pleasant.
The latter team. likewise, holds a
comfortable lead for the runner-up
nosifinn
The Washington times., 1927-04-14
ENTHUSIASTIC CROWDS
DEMONSTRATE THRILL
Of PAST|NE LIVES
BY Babe Ruth


new YORK CITY, April 14one game big
ooesn much of line anything
hpt that first game this season has proved thing
" proves that the scandal talk last
And lot Of the crabbers and calamity predicted
holes. So 1870 80 $500 80 sA
I've bigger crowd at any
season than there the Stadium
anyone stayed because they thought baseball crooked
tnere certainly were others to fill the place.