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New Britain herald., 1927-03-12
REAL ESTATE SALES

Edward 0. kilbourne has sold three parcels of land at the corner of Carlton street and Highland Ter race to Sarah Grecnstein
 Claus Johnson sold today thre, parcels of land on Beach street to Tomasz Koblaz.
 Anna F.. Murphy sold today land on Somerset drive to John c. and Hattie A. Buckley.
 Charles Olson has sold a parcel of land on Everett street to Liberale and Mary Colin.
 All sales were consummated through the agency of Carlson < Carlson.
New Britain herald., 1927-03-12
Bag of Cement Slips.
 Breaks Workman's Leg

Caiacca Gcnaro, 35 years of age, { Miidletown, is at New Britain Cen cral hospital with q fractured right i leg suffered this morning while working on tho new Commercial Trust Co. building on West Main street.
 Gcnaro. according 10 witnesses, was injured while carrying q bag Of cement to the elevator, the cement slipping from his grasp and pinninS his leg to q wall He was taken to the hospital where he was treated by Dr. Edwin k. Curran. He is re- ported as resting comfortably.
New Britain herald., 1927-03-12
HEADS DARTMOUTH TEAM

Hanover. x. H.. March r lFA- Myles T. Lane of Melrose. Mass. today was elected captain Of the Dartmouth hockey team for next season. Lane is q junior.
 The Dartmouth athletic council yesterday awarded the straight D." cmblematic of intercollegiate cham pionship, to the members of the hockey team which was defeated only once during the past season.
New Britain herald., 1927-03-12
Mrs. John W. Stout

Funera! services for Mrs. John ". Stout Of Warren street will be Erwin chapel. Rev. William Ross, pastor O! the First Baptist church, will officiate. Burial will be in Fair view cemetery. Hundreds viewed Of B. c. Porter Sons on Court street last evening and this morning.
New Britain herald., 1927-03-12
HIT NEAR EYE WITH STONE

As stanley Mlynarski of 40 Ciin, ton street was walking along Grove street last evening, man on the opposite side of the street threw q stone which struck him near the eye and injured him. according to his complaint 10 Officer Cyrus SchoonmaNer. Albert Gryzbowsl<i of 2S9 Farming gton avenue and Stanley Brcnkowsli Of IS Orange street were with him. The identity of the stone thrower was not learned.
New Britain herald., 1927-03-12
MaH Street Briefs

For the fourth successive month, stocks Of refined copper have shown an increase. the total on March 1 amounting 10 21o,o40, ,o00 pounds. a gain of 23,07s,0Oo pounds over February 1. and 39.03s pounds over January l. Compared with the low point in July, 1926. the pres ent surplus represents an increase Of So,l6o,060 pounds. Production In February was .4i.5SiOO0 pounds, drop of el,636.ooo pounds from JaDuary's total. Domestic ship ments in February declined S,SSo.- coo pounds and foreign shipments were off l7,STo.000 pounds.
 Small sales Of heavy melting steel scrap are reported from The Pittsburgh district at siT q ton, an advance Of 5o cents.
 Youngstown dispatches say steel sheet makers are Of the opinion the decline in prices has been checked and that the s2 advance applying to second quarter ton- nages is simply a restoration of the previous level and will be followed by other price increases. Sheet and strip business is still active and mill activities next week will be above so per cent ot capacity
 r. c. Dun 93d company puts commercial failures In the United states this week at 463 against 4So the week before and Al year ago,
New Britain herald., 1927-03-12
City Items

l.. $. Lancaster of 6o Ten Acre Road reported to the police last eve ming that q radiator cap was stolen off his automobile on Court street.
 The police have been notified of the return of the operators license Of Boleslaw Bogdanski Of Sl Broad street.
 Hear Arcadia Ladies' quartet. Camp school, Tuesday, March 15.- advt
 Mr. and Mrs, C. W. Cowles of llnwood street are spending q few weeks at Miami, Florida.
 Twenty snappy vaudeville acts, March IT, T. A. B. hall.-advt.
New Britain herald., 1927-03-12
so MEN ARRESTED

Leghorn. Italy. March I2 P- Eighty men were arrested on charges of activities against the fas- cist regime In police raid on an organization known as tho La Cisna Cooperative association today. X number of rifles and revolvers and c.0o0 Russian rubles were seized.
New Britain herald., 1927-03-12
SPECULAT0RS ARE AGAIN IN SADDLE
Trying to Force Week. End
 Market Up

New York, March ic tP.-Spocu latiye operations for the rise were again in evidence at the opening of today's stock market.
 Pathe showed q gain of 2 IL. points and Gulf Mobile and North crn, Union Pacific. Radio Corpora tion and International Telephone opened 70 points higher, Frisco common and Federal Mining an. Smelling touched new high records. Atchiscu was heavy,
New Britain herald., 1927-03-12
Boy Fractures His Arm
 While Roller Skating

Raymond Nichols, nine year old
 son of Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Nichols of Black Rock avenue, fell while
 roller skating near his home this morning and received a fracture of his left arm. He was taken to the New Britain general hospital where the broken member was set and an N-ray taken. Later the boy was | taken to his home.
New Britain herald., 1927-03-12
Mrs. Ellen Fifnhl

Funeral services for Mrs Ellen Flood of 12 Gilbert street were held this morning at 2 o'clock at St. Mary's church. Rev. Waiter A. Lyddy celebrated a requiem high mass.
 The pail bearers were: Thomas Mccarthy, James Mccarthy, Tim othy Dchan. Martin Kelly, Joseph Hayes and Alexander Beatty. Mrs. Mary T. Crean sang Jesus. Keep Me Close To Thee" as the body was being borne from the church. In terment was In St. Mary's cemetery.
New Britain herald., 1927-03-12
Funerals
Mrs. Margaret Tenn

Funeral services for Mrs. Margaret Fcnn of 12S Dwight street will be held in her home in Northampton where the body was sent yesterday. Burial will be in that place.
New Britain herald., 1927-03-12
REMINGTON NEWS

II was learned last night that the Newington volunteer fire department has received a check for $50 from Charles w. Belden in recognition of the good work done by the depart ment at the fire on Mr. Relden's property on February 24. In addi- ton to the letter which Mir Belden sent Chief Harold Lucas thankinc hlm for the efficient work done. the department has received verbal praise from many residents of tn, town. This is the first time that any money has ever been received.
 It is gratifying to the department to receive this praise In the past I, has been the custom to criticize th. work Of the tiremen and although good work has been accomplished II has not usually been recognized The fact that it is a volunteer de partment has not been taken into consideration.
New Britain herald., 1927-03-12

Dr. and Mrs. Arthur s. Grant ar. entertaining friends at cards this evening at their home on Golf street.
New Britain herald., 1927-03-12

Frederick Ames, son Of Mir. and Mrs. Arthur Q. Ames of Elm Hill who recently underwent m opera ton at New Britain General hos pital, is improving and resting com tortahly.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-26
PITTSBURGH FACES
T|E-UP IN BUILDING
100000 Program May
Be Halted Tuesday in
+. Wage Dispute.

BY the Associated Press
PITTSBURGH. February 26.-Tie.
DIP of more than S10.000,000 worth OF
construction work in Pittsburgh Tues
day appeared certain last night as the
controversy over u new wage con
tract between employers and oft1cefs
On five crafts of the Building Trades
Union developed no apparent means
OF solution
%The five unions, structural IRON
workers, cement finishers. hoistIhg
engineer. steamfitters and sheet metal
workers. have refused to accept a
renewal of the 1926 scale offered by
rke building trades employers asso-
citation and were expected to walk out
after work Monday when the time
limit set by the employers for signing
an agreement expires. Approximate
ly $500 men are affected by the
threatened strike.
Peter S. Dagnall, local president OF
the Engineers Hosting, Portable ana
Steam Shovel international Union,
said last night all five crafts had de
rsanded an increase of 80 cents DAY,
compared with published reports that
a'raise of from 81 to s. a day had
been asked.
crafts, also denied reports that three
OF the unions involved in the possible
strike had made an issue of the nVe-
day week. He declared strike had
been determined upon when the en-
ployers refused to listen to any
change in the 1926 scale.
@Three crafts, the carpenters. nod
carriers and common labor unions.
already have accepted the scale, and
Dagnall said the unions seeking an
Increase did so merely to equallze
their wages with those of the unions
Which have accepted the employers
Offers.
If the strike materializes. work
would have to stop on two new the
Alters and several large Office build
ings, according to F. Q. Reed, secre-
tary of the employers association.
The Pittsburg chapter of the Amer
lean Institute of Architects has gene
on record as being opposed to any
change in the 1926 scale. 1t is be-
lieved to he the first time that build
Ing designers have taken such action.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-26
BUILDING PERMITS GAIN.
january Figures for 2o4 Cities To-
: tai $4,000.

~January building permit gran'e
In 204 cities reached tota. of 81: =
3S2 300, according to reports OF IN
2e4 building departments TO r. w
dodge Corporation.
sSThe above figure represented de-
clii1es of per cent from the January.
1896, record, and 80 per cent from the
December, 1926. record. Compared
with the previous January, 80 of the
cities had building gains and III
cities had losses in building volume.
january ''honor rolf cities chose
reporting more than a million dollars
in permits and 90 per cent or more in
crease over their January, 1926, to-
tals). numbered IL. compared with rs
on the December "honor roll.
The January "honor roll" cities
were: Akron, Birmingham, Ctncfn.
natl, Flint, Gary, Louisville. Milwau-
kee, Newark, New Orleans, Portland.
Greg, and Yonkers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-26
RENT FOUND HIGHER
| THAN COST OF HOME
Prizes Awarded in Cafritz Contest
on Benefits of House
Ownership.

The benefits of home ownership and
he needless economic waste" result
ing from renting year after year were
demonstrated in graphic fashion in
the rent receipt record reward for the
greatest number of rent receipts and
the best stories on rental experiences
conducted by the Cafritz organization,
officials of the contest said today in
announcing winners.
In many instances it was found the
amount of money paid out in rentals
over a period of years totaled more
than the actual cost Of the house oc-
cupied. Morris Cafritz, president of
the company. said. Hundreds of
letters submitted for the awards" ne
said, Showed that money spent for
rent would easily have paid for the
house and at the same time would
have reduced the burden on it's oc
cupant.
Other testimonials illustrated the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-26

point that while youth, at the height
of it's earning capacity, rents and
thinks little of the money spent for a
temporary place to live, old age faces
a serious tragedy with decreased earn
ing power and the continuing ne
cessity of meeting rent bills every
MONTH"
John F. Maury. president of the
Real Estate Board; James P. Schick.
secretary of the board, and Mr..
Cafritz. who were judges of the con
test, gave first award of $3.50 to Mrs.
Patience Trice, who submitted 515
rent receipts for verification and in
spection. Second award of $100 went
to D. B. klinger, who submitted 420
receipts.
Other awards were as follows. in
order of the number of receipts: Mrs.
f. j. Williams, 400 receipts Mrs. Mar
garet Lucas. $40; Mrs. Ella Crawford.
1856; William r. Hughes. 1928; Mrs.
Amelia. Williams. 800: Mrs. Joseph L.
Skinner, 1856; Mrs. Hannah Moran,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-26
Action Against Work.

George NJ. Swift, lawyer of Okla
homa. today filed suit in the District
Supreme Court for a mandatory in.
junction against Hubert Work, Secre
tary of the Interior and in his indi-
vidual capacity. and Hill Moore OF
Oklahoma, guardian of Martha Jack
son, an incompetent Creek Indian, TO
compel the acknowledgment of his
right to share in the property of the
Indian under contract Swift declares
that Work holds S308.000 belonging
TO the Indian which through ltiga
ton covering period of 10 years was
augmented from claim IF $4,000
through his Efforts under the contract
Swift is represented by Attorney
Chester |. Long, former United States
Senator from Kansas: George l..
Chamberlain. former United States
Senator from Oregon, and Attorney
Peter @. Nyce of Washington.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-26
REALTY MARKET ACTIVE.
Upward Trend Shown in January,
Association Reports.

Real estate market activity for Jan
uary showed a decided upward trend,
according to the index of activity com
piled monthly by the National Asso-
citation of Real Estate Boards.
The index. which is based on Off
cial records of transfers and convey
ances recorded in Al typical cities,
registered 10 for the month just past.
This is a rise of Is points from the
index of December.
The January figure is Ia points
under the index figure for January
of 1926. However. in making this
comparison the Association points out
that the January 1926, figure, togeth-
er with the February index number
of the same year. which rose one
point higher. constitute by far the
highest point registered in any month
in the ii years covered by its records.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-26

Spokane on their way to the cost meet
ing, to be held in August. Delegates
will be invited to make a tour of the
Spokane lake region and to inspect the
resources of the region in the way of
farm lands, timber lands and water
power.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-26

The Spokane Realty Board invites
delegates to the coming annual con-
vention of the National Association of
Real Estate Boards, to be held at
Seattle. Wash, to make a stopover in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-26

274: Mrs. Fannie Robinson. 272: Miss
NJ. E. Littell, 266; Mrs. Eliza Logan.
261.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-26

Miss Silenspaa, an assistant cabinet
minister in the new Finnish govern
ment, was once a chambermaid.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-19
Twilight Of the Gods

But the pillar Of fire is only bits of scenery left
over from the Last Great Exodus, the last grandi-
ose trumpet-bare of the bourgeois saviors, the
babbling deasts, the eternal children of the mind
know that not all have proved as fatuous and
Intellectual Wasserman. But take the best of
them: ROLAND ROLAND foresaw the and
hurled his flaming denunciation against it. And
ROLAND remained mistaken throughout the
and suffered for it. But ROLAND has been mott
waited all along by pacifistic humanitarianism
that has much in common with Wasserman's neo-
Christianism.
And Werfel. Franz Werfel, who on the eve of
the World War wrote his poems, Revolutions
Aufruf," ("Call to Revolution") and ode Worte-
macher des Kreges," ("The Phrasemakers of the
War'), would probably smile at Wasseman's naive
faith. But after denouncing the master classes,
neither ROLAND nor Werfel has taken the logical
step in definite alignment with the working class
struggle This step has been taken by Ernst
Toller, the German dramatist and poet, by Imre
Balint the Hungarian novelist, and by few others.
But most of the great leaders remain stuck in the
mud of pre-war idealism. And those who remain
aloof and withhold their aid, matter how SYM
pathetic they may be, become in a the
abettors of the decaying capitalist system that they
denounce.
England Bernard Shaw, "teacup revolution
ist," drol quixotic fellow, a doting sage. Ber-
trand Russell, turned professional popularizer, and
very very careful about Soviet Russia Havelock
Ellis summarizer anthologist Of ideas and a
great scientist, remains isolated. He opposed the
war, but he opposed it largely because it was ugly,
esthetcally unbeautiful, not because it was Grim
inal.
France. It's hard to tell what's happening in
France. Groups and groupets and subdivisions
ad infinitun, gaudy "sms," seeking chiefly mental
aphrodisacs. The free revolutionary spirits of
France have rallied around Henry Barbusse and
Georges Duhamel in the Clarte movement.
In Spain Miguel de Unamuno has become the
leader Of a new nationalist cultural movement
Unamuno, though philosophical neo-Christian
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-19
By A. B. MAGIL

mystic is important as an inspirationaI force and
because of his uncompromsing opposition to both
the old monarchsts and the present dictatorship.
And everywhere they turning hopefully to
Russia, the child giant of preternatura wisdom and
strength. Among Europe's jabbering old men and
hysterical old Russia is shaking off the sleep
of thousand years, and is conquering each day.
not with phrases tears and canned usefulness, but
with plain, hard, prosaic deeds.
And America? The land of the free and home
Of the ETC.?
Before the war. Everything was lovely. Utopia
was only short way up the road. Capital was
understanding labor well and labor was UNDER
standing capital so well and everything was jake.
Pacifism. Votes for Women. Reformism. Anti
Trust Busting. Socialism. Uplift Anti-Saloon
League. Ethical Culture. Ebert Hubbard. Theo-
dore Roosevelt. Woodrow Wilson. LaFollette.
Henry Ford. Taylor System. Pan-Americanism.
Brotherhood of Man. Social Service. Summing
The Poor Working Clawss
Came the WAR.
And what Of the dream of Randolph Bourne and
his fellows? That too has been shot to pieces
With lavender socialism in one hand and the
austere torch of learning in the other, these mis-
sionaries wanted to go forth and SOW the seeds of
a new beauty and culture. But they were content
to sow them within the capitalist state not realiz
ing that only fake, exploited beauty and culture
the monopoly of a select few, could spring from
such arid soil. The interest of these inteectuals
in the working class was largely romantic and
wistful. The smell of a strike would have sent
them scurrying like rabbits into their particular
intellectual holes. Van Wyck Brooks, who talked
so blandly about "a coalition of the thinkers and
the workers." never lifted finger to bring about
such coalition.
Read the gooey, plush-ned prose of Waldo
Frank and rub your eyes to make sure this is not
a medieval monk
And look what happened to Lewisohn After
the insurgent, lyrical protest of Upstream" look
at the complete collapse of Israel" Zionist blurb
Leaders of thought? Bolone!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-19

MIKE CONNOLLY looked out on a fog dimmed
4VA distance of the Frisco waterfront. A swan-Iike
schooner glided from the haze between impatient
ferries. fog-horn moaned. tramp steamer
pushed it's among small vessels like a hog
roofing in flower garden.
Mike Connolly was canned. Fired. Free! No more
tme-clocks, thank Christi Free. To see the tropics
in all their blaze of glory. The palms. The surf.
The breezes that as soft and smooth
For years Mike Connolly had dreamed of the South
Seas Now he was Free
The "Moana" steamed for Tahiti and return Mike
Connolly was in the stoke hole. Seasick.
"Heave 'er up, John-do you good"
"Here get under the ventilator!"
In the open sea the ship rolled and pitched. And
pitched.
Christ what makes EN- leave an Officer"
yeah, and what brings 'em to the sea-"
The ship rolled and pitched.
rs awright mate. E caves lis bloody CUTS up,
but look at i'm work."
The heat parched the skin. Like blast from hell
uncovered. Mike Connolly stopped over his wheel
barrow. He pushed the coal between two boilers.
The ship rolled shoulder touched the boilers and
flesh sizzled. Mike cursed and stopped for
ment. Seasick.
"C'mon kid. We gotta get steam Keep your
tail up The first hundred years is the hardest"
Eight hours off. Four hours work Eight hours
off To sleep-a little. To wash off the coal and
sweat. To eat. To scrub clothes. To heal burns
To dream of-Tahit
Four hours work. Work-for ages.
Gotta keep steam up, kid Let's have some
coal"
The hot Goals burned the soles from his Shoes
His lungs seemed to shrivel in the parching air.
"Not like office Ell, mate? Make man of
you'll"
"Sit down. Rest minute"
The ship rolled and pitched. Like a maddened
demon. Pitched. On and on
"Cheer up, old boy. Only eight more days to the
islands"
Throb-throb--the engines beat like the heart of
giant. Like aching muscles.
"Jm; what is Tahiti like? The natives gentle,
friendly? The air soft and SMOOTH"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-19

THE other night sat in Horace Mann Auditor
i ium in New York and listened to lecture in
German by Jakob Wasserman, author of 1.-THE
Worlds Illusion" "The Goose Man." and many
other works that have caused stir in the world
Herr Wasserman, short, semi-rotund man, with
a beautiful dark oriental face, spoke softly in a
voice full of compassion and sadness. 1t was all
as gentle as lullaby and had to mentally prod
myself several times to follow the flow of his IDEAS
Herr Wasserman spoke on "Humanitaet,"
Humanity. What the world needs, he said, is
humanity And humanity is indestructibe, it will
yet prevail. Revolutions, discoveries, social up
heavals-these mere incidents. Humanity is
the important thing And the religion of humanity
is Christianity
Christianity If it took man ages and ages to
develop into the biological being that he is, why
should it not take his soul ages and ages to become
that pure Christian afflatus that it ought to be?
Christianity is just beginning. "The God that we
must postulate in order that the world should not
fall to pieces, demands and possesses patience"
Humanity. Christianity. The voice of Herr
Wasserman very beautiful, very sad.
Never before had the inadequacy, the pitiful
helplessness of bourgeois ideasm been so starkly
thrust upon me.
This is child, said.
Concerning Jakob Wasserman's merits as
novelist have nothing to say. But besides being
a novelist, it must be remembered that Wasserman
is supposed to be one of the intellectual leaders of
Europe. And in Europe's present crisis, in this
hour when after her four years agony, she is ON
the verge of being betrayed again by the hired
puppets of the master classes, what shining word,
what word of fearless denuncation and scon does
one of her intellectual pathfinders bring us?
Humanity. Christianity.
Once more the berry German sentimentality.
Once more the soggy phrases that one thought the
war had shot full of holes. The old threadbare
bunk in modern dress.
Wasserman is mystic.
Behold, bring you great pillar of fire
Humanity-to light your way by night"