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New Britain herald., 1927-01-27
This Morning New York Reported Codest January p in 6 years In Several Cities Fires Drive In- habitants From Homes in Scanty Attire Welfare Organizations Have Many Calls For Help.

New York, Jan. 27 Rl-The mer cury in Uncle Sans official ther- mometer atop the Whithall build ing at the Battery dropped to one degree below zero at o'clock to, day-the coldest January 27 here in fifty-six years.
 For nearly two hours the ther. mometer remained nearly stationary and then the mercury began to rise, standing at two above zero at 5 a. m.
 An hour later the mercury jump ed upward three more degrees and the forecasters predicted that fl would rise steadily during the day.
 The intense cold caused an un- precedented demand for accommo- dations at municipal lodging houses. Thirteen women and two children were among the 52o accommodated at one house. The Salvation Army and the Bowery Mission supplied beds for women while 200 men slept in chairs at the Hanley Rescue Mis- sion in the Bowery.
 During the sub-zero weather fire in a five-story tenement house in East 145th street drove eighteen families into the street. The ten- ants in their night clothes climbed down fire escapes and neighbors sheltered them.
New Britain herald., 1927-01-27
Both Sides of Senate Unit in Criticizin6 Proposal Offered
 by Coolidge
SENATOR COUZENS SEES
 IT AS UNFAIR POLICY

Senator Reed Makes Some
 Startling Charges in His Argu-
 n1entS.
 Washington, Jan. 27 R-Presi- dent Coolidge's tax credit plan. pre- sented to the senate yesterday by Senator Reed, democrat, Missouri, was attacked today from both sides of the chamber.
 Senator Couzens, republican, Michigan, said he favored immedi- ate tax revision but agreed that the Reed tax refund amendment to the s1S4,oOO,o0O deficiency bill would enable corporations to retain part of the taxes they had collected from the people.
 Dissection to the amendment was voiced by Senator Glass, democrat, Virginia. on the ground that it would be of no avail to those who had paid heavy taxes last year put would pay little or none this year.
 Lenroot Also Opposed
 Adding his voice in opposition. Senator Lenroot, republican. Wiscon- sin, in charge of the deficiency bill, said he had opposed the presidents plan immediately after it was an- nounced last summer.
 Resuming his argument for his amendment, Senator Reed declared that spokesmen for the president in the senate had interposed a point of order against his proposal in order to prevent this congress from carry ing out of the expressed will of the president"
 T am not undertaking to. speak for every demo ocrat," he said, "but think I know the sentiment iQ the hearts of every democrat in the chamber well enough to assert they are all in favor of tax reduction They stand ready to rectify the wrongs that have been done."
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British Proposals London, Jan. 27 R - The pro-
New Britain herald., 1927-01-27
About This State

About This State
 Torrington, Jan. 27 R-Mini- mum temperature of degrees be- low zero was reached here during the night. This was the second time this season that the tempera- ture had reached this low point. The cold was so intense in Harwin- ton late yesterday that several per- sons attending the funeral of an old resident there had their ears frozen.
 Bridgeport, Jan. 27 R-Ther- mometers in Bridgeport registered four below zero at 6 o'clock this morning. In the outskirts Of the city readings were reported as low as 10 below zero. The Pequonock river short distance north from the harbor was frozen over for the first time this winter.
 Meriden. Jan. 27 R-The coldest day of the winter was ushered in here today with eight degrees be- low zero being recorded in different parts of the city at a. m. An un- official reports of IS below was re- ported from the north end at z a. m.
 Ansonia, Jan. 27 R-The coldes, temperature reported here this morning was eight below zero, though thermometers varied con- siderably in their recordings. It was easily the coldest day of the winter. All outdoor construction work was suspended and those whose duties compelled them to face the wiAtry blasts felt 1t keen- ly. Temperatures in Derby, Shel- ton and Seymour were practically the same as here.
 New Haven and Hartford
 New Haven, Jan. 27 R-The cold wave which swept over Connecticut last night spared no locality and thermometer readings everywhere this morning were the lowest of the
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Milford chronicle., 1927-09-16
PRACTICAL HELP FOR FARMER
Grange Urges Larger Appropriation
For Research Work

The Crane is taking an active
part in the concerted effort being
made at Washington to induce the
coming session of Congress to make
larger appropriations for research
an experimental work in agricul-
ture, and farmers throughout the
country believe that this is one of
the most practical forms of farm
relief" that can be sought. Recent
ly representatives of more than a
dozen national farm and industrial
organizations appeared before Bud
get Director Lord, urging that in
creased funds for such work be in
cluded in the budget to be presented
to the 10th Congress. This group
was led by the Grange represent
atives at Washington, Fred Brenck-
man, and a strong case was made.
xEver since it was founded the
Grange has stressed the importance
Of experimental work, urging indi-
Vidual farmers and community
groups of them to devote part Of
their efforts each season to such ex-
perimentation, and out of it to i'm
prove the quality of their farm
operations. Moreover, hundreds of
Grange meetings every year fature
based upon the results
of experimental work on the land,
with livestock breeding, etc.
Milford chronicle., 1927-09-16
EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS

The only real relief for a bad cold
seems to be cussing.
The law of gravity is about the
only one that plays no favorites.
Many sealskin coats being sold
this winter were worn by rabbits
last winter.
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The best love charm with which
to hold man is a diploma from a
first-class cooking school.
The Objectionable thing about
reckless motorists is that the bones
they break are not always in their
own heads.
1t is now feared that bobbing may
cause badness. 1t is certain to
make the hair shorter, at any rate.
Marital vacation" is euphonious
term for whichever it be, whether
temporary or permanent separation.
Milford chronicle., 1927-09-16
FARMERS VACATIONS

Never a time in America when so
many farm people took vacation in
summer as now, and the contrast
over the custom of 25 or more years
ago is very great. One of the i'm
pOrtant factors in bringing about
this change has been the Grange,
which is continually stressing at its
meetings. better organized rural life,
more efficient farm operation, the
increased use of machinery and a
shorter working day for the farmer
and his family. Along with such
discussion emphasis has been con-
tinually placed upon the need of
farmers getting away from home
once in a while, seeing how other
farmers do their work and alto
together getting a broader viewpoint
of their industry Many vacation
tours, farm inspection trips, outdoor
Dicnics and similar outings have
been carried through by the Grange,
and especially since the coming of
the automobile, has this organizat-
ion urged upon the farmer folks
everywhere the necessity of
change of environment once a year
at least, as much needed by them as
by people in other emplOyments.
There is every reason for believing
that the Grange has rendered real
service to rural people by promoting
this thought, as well as in the many
other directions that it has served
the people in the open country
Milford chronicle., 1927-09-16
IMPROVING REFRIGERATOR
EFFICIENCY

When the refrigerator fails to hold
ice from Saturday to Monday it is
proof either that the box is not prop
erly insulated, or that the doors do
not fit well, DR.. Martha Manning as
serts. This excludes undue chipping
for household purposes.
The best remedy for an inefficient
refrigerator is to buy a new one,
which repays the investment in
saving of ice, in food conversation
and in guarding the health of the
family. Meanwhile, matters may be
improved by covering the entire re-
frigerator with a heavy blanket,
leaving corner open so that the
food compartment doors may be op-
ened. The ice-cake itself never
should be wrapped.
1t is important that any refriger-
atOr be well iced. The volume of ice
never should be less than half the
capacity of the ice chamber.
Milford chronicle., 1927-09-16
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A WONDERFUL COUNTRY

Electric light is displacing kero-
sene in the country and gas in the
cities, yet the consumption of neither
Oil nor gas has decreased. On the
contrary, more gas and oil are used
than at any other time. New uses for
them have been found IND uses for
electricity besides for light are con-
tinually being developed. The use of
electricity for power and heat has
only just begun.
There is no limit in sight to the
expansion of the electric business,
for population is continually increas-
ing and wealth is accommodating. But
the creation of this business out of
nothing is but one manifestation of
that stupendous miracle which is
another name for America.
During the time in which the cleo
trio industry has been developed. the
automobile business has become one
OF the largest in the country, the
radio has hundreds of millions in
vested in production of receiving in
struments, the people have money to
buy and maintain these things and
the money they have paid to the pro-
ducers has gone in wages to hun
dreds Of thousands of workmen and
to dividends on hundreds of millions,
if not billions, of accumulated capt.
tai.
That is what electricity is doing
for this nation.
Milford chronicle., 1927-09-16
WHERE LIARS ARE RIVALS

There is one spot in the world
where the fine art of lying is culti-
waited. This is Gascony, in the south
west of France. For hundreds of
years the Gascons have had the rep
utation of liars, and a whopper from
any source was called a "gasconade." ="
Far from being ashamed of their
fame the GascOns are proud of it.
They encourage the art of lying, pro-
claiming that lyin for the pure fun
of it is the ideal. Formerly at the viii
lage of Moncrabeau they had an Aca-
denny of Liars which awarded deco
TatiOns TO the most distinguished
liars of the country. They now have
an annual spring fete there where
the best efforts of the amateurs are
repeated before the old men who are
the most competent judges.
Stories of snakes beginning at the
tail and swallowing themselves until
nothing was left; of cats fighting un-
til only the tails remained wagging,
and others equally as impossible
form the staple of the entertainment.
Just like the academy in the past
general opinion now cares nothing
for the artistic or literary liar. They
want them native and spontaneous.
Writers in France neglect no ma
terial with which to make books, so
collections of "gasconades" have
been published. Their real merit is
in their cleverness. There must be
some line of reason, or deduction, as
in the story of the destruction of the
sea serpent in the lake. The Gascon
said he rolled down a slope of four
bags of lime which the serpent
swallowed as they reached the wa
ter. This made him thirsty, so he
drank up the lake, and, of course,
could not exist without his element.
Another feature of "gasconades" is
the element of boasting-wonderful
things personally accomplished. /
A French scholar believes that the
Liars Academy dates from the Mid
die Ages. 1t is well known that in
that period there abounded all over
Europe such strange associations of
every kind.
Milford chronicle., 1927-09-16

immunity from this direction. Sug-
gestions are made for the extended
use of airplane carriers on battle
ships and possibly on liners and
merchant marine. The casualties of
recent attempted flights have
brought demand for laws to regulate
stunt flying. 1t may be necessary to
have an international conference to
cover the subject properly.
Many years have passed since
conservation" was a live topic in
Congress. In the days when Clifford
Pinchot clashed with the then Secre-
tary Ballinger, the discussion of the
subject brought "bad blood" within
the official family of President Roos-
evelt. The controversy over Boulder
Dam and other irrigation and power
projects will be followed by plans
for the conservation of oil and coal.
The government engineers and other
agencies feel that there has been
too much waste in oil and records
show that our supply is not mex
haustible. The increased use of oil
and gasoline burning machines has
caused drain on the oil fields. Leg
islation covering these subjects will
be on the calendar this year.
SoS
REMINDERS that it is time to or
der Christmas cards is the first
"shop early warning.
SoS
1T is EASY to acquire a reputa-
ton, but it takes a lot of hard work
to make a good one.
SoS
HARD WORK beats finding a
four-leaf clover as a sign of good
luck.
Milford chronicle., 1927-09-16
S=oGo
ELIMINATE CAUSE OF TRAFFIC
DEATHS

Compulsory automobile liability
measures have been introduced in
practically every legislature that has
met this year, but in only one state,
Massachusetts, has such a measure
become law. A measure almost iden-
teal with the Massachusetts law has
now been introduced in the Georgia
legislature.
One Of the strongest arguments
advanced by proponents of compul-
sorry automobile liability insurance is
that such a law would make it GER
tain that all persons injured would
receive damages. The argument will
not hold, for persons hurt through
their own fault-and these cases are
many-cannot collect damages.
In Massachusetts company has
been upheld for refusing to insure a
risk because the driver got drunk.
In some states, to meet this kind of
cases, politicians have gone to the
extent of seeking a law compelling
companies to insure every risk.
Why should an insurance company
or the state be forced to insure a
known bad risk? The state could
simply refuse to give him an auto Ii
cense, thus really contributing some
thing constructive in the fight on
traffic accidents. This type of driver
spreads death and suffering from
which there can be no adequate rem
edy or reparation any more than |
from the horrors of war.
We should strive to eliminate the
cause for the great traffic death
rate, not to sanction measures to
make it easier for them to take
place.
Milford chronicle., 1927-09-16
THE MELANCHOLY DAYS

Everybody kicks about the wealth
er, but, as Mark Twain so sagely OBJ
served, nothing is ever done about
it. Nothing, that is, except to in
flict upon the strangely submissive
male sex the order to don straw hats
on May Is, and to take 'em off on
September Is.
The old thing that the salesman
said would last q lifetime because it
was a panama has gone through an
other seasons hard campaigning. 1t
has got flappy at the brim again, and
there are stains upon it.
Along about the middle of July, the
thing was such a public nuisance
that the neighbors began TO talk, and
your wife sneaked it off one Satur-
day afternoon and had it cleaned and
blocked for you.
But such operations work no per-
manent good. A straw hat loves
dirt about as much as a small boy
loves it. The day after it was clean
ed it blew off, and the neighbors be-
gan talking again. This time you
were adamant, or at least what you
said sounded as if it were spelled
something like that. You were go
ing to wear that hat all season. So
the goodly wife got out an evil-smel-
ling bottle of straw hat cleaner, con-
fiscated your tooth brush and gave
the hat going-over.
So you forgot it. You forgot that
the neighbors snickered when you
passed by their pOrches of an even
ing. You forgot that when you hung
your hat up in a public place other
people snatched theirs from the
hooks as if afraid you were going to
attempt a switch. The leather band
was just becoming set to your head,
and the hat was comfortable.
Whiff- Off comes your hat Not
a plagued wind this time, but rule,
custom, convention, tradition. You
resolve firmly to wear your hat a day
beyond that arbitrary date, Septem-
ber Is. But at the last minute your
nerve fails, and you rush to a fur
store, and they trot out 81
hats that you don't like, and you pick
up the one you tried on first and buy
it.
Pack away the panamas and the
the bankoks and the SEN
nets. The melancholy days are
come, the saddest of the year. You
are doomed to go once more through |
the process of breaking in a hat.
Milford chronicle., 1927-09-16
SoS
PUBLIC FOOTS THE RILL

"Why is arson so prevalent in Am
erica? asks the magazine, Safe
guarding America Against Fire
''Why is it that today, with more
and more agencies, public and pri-
vate, ferreting out and bringing tc
justice the incendiary, the crime re-
mains so common? Why is it that
the fire loss today in many lines OF
business has become reliable baro-
meter of the condition, profitable or
the reverse, of these businesses?
First and foremost, is the state of
public opinion. For some reason not
entirely plain the American people
persist in winking at the most usual
form of arson, the fraud fire to OBJ
tain the insurance. People do not
comprehend that when they wink at
fraud fires, they are winking at no
one but themselves. They do not
seem to understand that when in
surance companies unwittingly pay
a false claim, the ultimate losers
are not the underwriters, but every
insured property owner.
arson losses are betrayed out of
the pockets of honest policyholders
in two ways: directly, since the in
surance company merely collects
from the many to reimburse the few
who suffer loss; and indirectly, be-
cause the more fires and the higher
the burning ratio, the higher the rate
that must be paid for insurance pro-
lection. Nothing, it would seem,
could be any clearer or more ration
al than this; and yet the American
people for generations could not, or
would not, grasp it.
Slowly now, but surely, the pub
lie attitude is changing. But there is
yet entirely too much sympathy
wasted on the individual who can
put it over on the rich, soulIess in
surance company'-when, in reality,
he is putting it over on nobody but
his sympathetic friends and neigh
bors. Only when the altered public
attitude towards arson becomes gen.
eral, will the incendiary's torch be-
gin to flicker out in America. Mean
while it persists as the chief factor
in making this country the land of
the self-destroyer of property"
Milford chronicle., 1927-09-16

The American farmer is slowly
working out his own problems
through diversified farming, better
marketing organizations and more
intelligent adjustment of production
to market demand. Conditions can
not be created in Our Country by
legislative fiat where the inefficient
can succeed in agriculture or any
other branch of industry.
The truth of the matter is that the
most important and fundamental
things have been done for agricul-
ture. Through the Land banks the
smallest farmer can borrow money
at rates paid by the largest corpor-
alton. He has been freed from the
limitations of the antitrust laws, so
as to permit the utmost freedom in
regulating production and distribu-
ton through cooperative organiza-
tions. The Tariff Commission has
used all it's lawful powers to limit
the importation of competitive agri-
cultural products and the govern
ment will continue in every reason
able way to aid the farmer in work
ing out his problems.
The machine age has arrived in
farming as in all industry. The mod
ern tractor with the equipment it
can handle is making the farmer in
of many of the labor
problems which formerly beset him.
So it is up to the Delaware farmer
to think over the changes in all
kinds of farm management, in crop
in planting and planning
to meet all kinds of seasons. Farm
ing is just plain common sense Jap-
piled with industry at the proper
time and place.
Milford chronicle., 1927-09-16

A YEAR TO THINK 1T OVER

When President Coolidge said: II
do not choose to run for President in
1925" it caused Our Country to con-
slider what would happen if our
present sound industrial structure
and returning farm stability was
tampered with, under a changed ma
tional policy.
1t makes no difference with what
political party we are affiliated, we
still must earn our bread and butter
through regular and steady employ
ment. 1t may be good sport for pol
iticians or political parties to heckIe
each other with criticism. But when
a public official of whatever party,
who has guided his country through
a troubled period in the worlds his
tory with increasing prosperity and
reduced taxes, decides voluntarily to
turn the reins of government over to
a successor, he shifts the RESPONSE
bility for continuation of sound gov
ernment onto the shoulders Of every
citizen-they must express their
opinion.
Milford chronicle., 1927-09-16
DON'T ABUSE THE
REFRIGERATOR

Mistreating the refrigerator, so
that 1t is not able to function prop
erly, results in high temperatures
and a waste of ice, says DR.. Martha
Manning, home refrigeration expert.
The ice block never should be
covered, with newspapers or other
wise, to retard it's melting rate. This
will result in high temperatures and
spoiled food, inasmuch as there is
little refrigeration without a free
circulation of air around the ice
cake.
Hot food should not be put into
the refrigerator, as this raises the
whole refrigerator temperature, and
may result in the deterioration of
other foods. The practice also wastes
ice.
The housewife or cook should
train herself to open the refrigerator
door as few times as possible. Food
materials which will be needed at
about the same time may be remov-
ed together on tray at one time.
Have the refrigerator inspected
from time to time for loose hinges
and catches. Leakage of cold air is
expensive in wasted ice and increas-
ed temperatures.
Milford chronicle., 1927-09-16

Mrs. Mortimer Browning returned
on Friday of last week to her New
York home, after a summers So
journ in Milford.
Miss Dorothy knight of Dayton,
Ohio, who has been dividing some
weeks this summer between the
homes of Mrs. Wilson Vinyard and
Mrs. T. Carlisle Collins, will leave
for Wilmington next week to be the
guest of Judge and Mrs. Hugh Nor
ris, and perhaps return here for a
short time.
Milford will be quite lonely with
out these summer guests, who, aside
from pleasing us with their pres
ence, have added much toward Mil
ford gayety, in being the excuses for
the giving of so many parties. But
soon, no doubt, the winter activities
will begin, in their customary quick
succession.
For the present the carnival has
been claiming the attention of Mil
ford women, to the exclusion of So
cial affairs, even the two bridge
clubs failing to meet this week.
Members of the Kings Daughters
have been occupied soliciting cakes
and candies and selling them in their
prominent booth. The Ladies' Aux
iliary of the Fire Company, with the
assistance of other women of the
town, have been busy planning and
preparing for the delicious suppers
served on the carnival grounds every
night, and particularly for Saturday,
when a large crowd is expected.
Milford chronicle., 1927-09-16
%5oS

THE SOONER farmers, fruit grow
ers and other producers on a large
scale quit pursuing the fatuous the
ories of socialistic advisers about
disposing Of their crops, and adopt
plain business methods, the better
for all concerned.
The same business methods that
make the iron. steel, banking and
manufacturing business on a large
scale successful, will help solve the
farmers problems.
None of the above-named and a
thousand other kinds Of business de-
pend very much on socialistic poll
cies. There are times of big yields
and small yields, big profits and
small profits in every business, but
there is no universal success-nos-
trum to insure success in every line
of business and to every member
who engages in it.