New Britain herald., 1927-01-29

soul-racking and back.breakinS work, have succeeded in fixing four standard styles of collars. each one suited to a certain type of face. | There is a collar for the long faced.
 long necked man, tho long faced. l short nNcked man. and 50 on.
 The idea is that the shape of the collar is to offset the peculiarittes
 of the face as much as possible
 wide collars for thin faces and vice
 versa. Under this system wing col-
 lars must be for light-headed peo.
 pie.
 This might be carried much furth-
 CT and mems clothing standardized
 from head to foot and back to head
 again. We might have, in addition to the regular styles in footwear, .
 further diagnonal last for pigeon
 toed men. There could be thick socks
 for skinny shafts and thin ones for
 fat legs. In golf stockings this might
 be carried even a step further 50 as
 to have the stripes or checkerboards
 at an angle, thus correcting bow
 legs by making them appear exactly
 vertical. Of course, collegiate trou-
 sers are already so large that they cover up this defect quite com- pletely.
 Then there might be long coats
 for short waisted men, coats with artificial fronts for pigeon-breasted
 fellows, elastic coats for butter and
 egg men with paunches. and 50 on.
 Some genius may even put on tho market special coats and shirts for one-armed men. Rings- could be made in special patterns according to the length and thickness of the fingers. Broad-chested men would wear string ties and human skele- tons array themselves with flowing ties. Hat manufacturers would pro- duce high hats for flatheads and soft hats for boneheads.
 Perhaps barbers would join in and arrange special facial styles. with smooth -shaven faces for fat men, thick whiskers for chinless men. long boards for short-faced men, and sideburns for sunken-c checked men.
 The board of police commission. CTS evidently believes in the adage: If at first you don't succeed, try, try again." for the recommendation for an increase in the number of officers in the department appears in the budget for the coming fiscal year. despite the adverse action of the common council on two occasions fii the past. The recommendation Is modified. however, the commission CTS asking merely that lieutenaney be created.
 According to report in municipal circles, there is considerable senti- ment in the coNmon council in fa- vor of adding the lieutenancy and 1t will not be surprising If the recom- mendation is adopted. At the pres- ent time. the department has only one lieutenant, and among those in power who do not agree with the commissioners relative to the need for the additional office. the feeling Is general that no particular advan- tage is to be gained through adopt ing the recommendation. except that someone will be promoted.
 When Alderman Judd, president of the council, said, at a recent meet ing. that more patrolmen, if any, thing, are needed" he spoke tho truth. The city is under-policed and has been for many years. More pa- trolmen are needed. and the board of finance and taxation will probably recommend an appropriation suffi- cient to pay for increased strength in the patrol force. Creating offices. however is something else again, and should be done only when a real need is shown to exist.
 As matter of fact, this city pro- bably will always have less patrol men than it should have. One reason for this condition is the difficulty in settling on standard degree of pro- lection. Some who claim to have made a study of the question insist on specifying the number of patrol men in proportion to the population. while others are just as positive that different cities have individual prob lens and it is therefore inaccurate to say there should be certain amount of protection in proportion to stated number of souls in all instances.
 The question for the board of finance and taxation and the com- mon council to decide in this respect is whether the city at large will be benefited through increased efficiency in the police department on account of a new lieutenancy, or is it advis- able, in view of the ever rising cost of government, to prune s2.5o0 from the budget and spend 1t on the streets or other improvements. It is but one of the many problems the of the municipal purse strings will have to attend to when the budgets of the various depart. ments come up for action next week.