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Evening star., 1928-03-27
lMPOST0R HELD.

Brazilian Claimed to Be Nephew
Of John D. Rockefeller.
PORTO ALEGERE. Brazil March -
%. Charged with false representations
In that he claimed to be nephew Of
John .. Rockefeller. Jose Braga, local
resident. has been detained by the
police.
Under the guise Of being related 70
the Rockefellers, Braga offered 70 use
his influence 70 obtain attractive posi-
tions for several persons after obtain
ing from them vav'ous sums of money
for security.
Evening star., 1928-03-27

interesting reading and therefore
more convincing than the others.
By Originality" the Judges did
not mean trick devices such as
acrostics or imaginary dialogues, or
Evening star., 1928-03-27

COHCdiueu lHe llSHl sui VI
material. Out of these, the letters
selected for prizes were the ones in
which the material was written up
with some touch of originality and
humanness that made it more
Evening star., 1928-03-27

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New Britain herald., 1928-01-09

cases, however, where the pupil has not been vaccinated. There are now :5 cases of the dreaded smallpox in adjacent towns and every precaution will be taken to prevent it's spread. The banquet committee have com- pleted all arrangements for the Community banquet Wednesday evc- ming. George E. Dalbey. chairman of the committee. has detailed the duties of his committee as follows:
 Harold Clark. chairman of food Fcommittee assisted by Mrs. J. r.
 Lewis. Mrs. Frank Cobey and Mrs.
 Edward Kahms: Jarvis Dowd, chair
 man of the serving committee. The
 dinner music for the occasion will
 be rendered by radio equipped with
 a. special loud speaker. The ban
 quet will be served promptly at
 o'clock and all attending must be
 seated at that time. Preparations
 for 15o people have been made.
 Dancing will be enjoyed after tho
 banquet. The speaker for the ban-
 quet has not been announced. Raymond Ward is i'll at his home
 on Main street with pneumonia. His
 condition today was reported as
 good.
 Mrs. R. B. Stevenson and son.
 Allen have returned from visit , with relatives in New Haven over i the weekend.
 James Twomey Is s-conhned to his
 home in West Cromwell by illness. | The Knights oA Pythias will meet tomorrow evening at o'clock at Community hall.
 The Modern Woodmen will meet this evening at s o'clock at Athletic hall.
 Mir. and Mrs. George Skene en- tertained relatives from out of town over the weekend.
 Mir. and Mrs. Richard Hubert, Jr..
 and daughter Marguerite of Maple
 Hill were the guests of MT. and Mrs. ; Theodore Carns over Sunday. l Mrs. A. L. Burgreen Is confined to her home on Main street by ill., ness. The ladies of Sacred Heart church
 will hold whist party in the church social rooms this evening at s o'clock. Mrs. George Welz will be the hostess.
 The Ladies' Aid society of the Methodist church will hold & food sale of food and fancy articles at Community hall basement next Fri day afternoon at 2 o'clock. Lost--Deposit book No. 1l5.S. porltr Ga H-js, ,,r,,
New Britain herald., 1928-01-09
WILLIAM WILSON SURPRISED

William Wilson of 1891 Corbin avenue was pleasantly surprised by a number of his friends at his home Saturday evening in honor of his birthday. He received many useful gifts. A luncheon was served and during the evening piano selections were rendered by Mrs. William Will son and Mrs Arthur Jones of Maple Hill and vocal selections by Mrs. Marty Bush.
New Britain herald., 1928-01-09
LEADS IN TOURNEY

New York. Jan. g (UP)-Allen Hall of St. Louis today held the lead in the American three cushion bil- Hard league by virtue of his 50 to 43 victory over Johnny Layton Sunday afternoon. Hall averaged one. run ming out the block in 50 minutes. The young St. Louis star will meet Willie Hoppe Thursday.
New Britain herald., 1928-01-09

H. A. James of 53 West Main street is having his annual sale: 20 per cent discount on entire stock: Dry goods, furnishings, rubber and leather footwear. floor coverings and window shades.--advt
 Clearance sale-bargains all over the store. I. J. Birnbaum,--advt.
 Refills supplied for Everhot water bags. Horseradish for sale. Tel. 359-5.-adyt,
New Britain herald., 1928-01-09

(NEA Service. Washington Bureau) Smiling Mllburn McCarty. who halls from Eastland. Tex. is the brightest page in the United States Senate. Who said so? None other than ice-President Dawes-after Mil- burn delivered the pages address of thanks for the holiday dinner given
 them annually by Hell n Maria.
New Britain herald., 1928-01-09
HIT WITH IRON BAR,
 FIGHTS TWO THUGS
Waterbury Man Attacked But
 Drives 0f ASsalantS
ASSAULTED ON TURNPIKE
School Board Appoints New Teach er-Women Voters To Meet To- morrow Evening Local Man Purchases Milk Company,

As he was climbing into his truck in Berlin near the Silver Lake Inn. Albert Johnson of 64c Main street. Waterbury, was attacked by two young men early Saturday morning. One of his assailants struck him on the head with a heavy iron bar but Johnson was able to fight off his at- tackers before suffering further bod fly harm. A heavy fur collar which the Waterburyman was wearing close about his head broke the force of the blow but not enough to pre- vent a large lump from rising on his head.
 In his report to the local police, Johnson said that he had stopped to investigate his rear light which had been causing him trouble. He was accosted by the two men who asked him for a match. After fur nishing them with match he start cd to board the truck again when the two men attacked him.
 Johnson was able to grab the iron bar from his assailant after a fight but was too weak to pursue the men, who ran away after he gained pos session of the bar. He described the men as being youths about c2 or B years Of age.
 New Teacher
 At the meeting of the school com mittee held in the town hall on Fri day evening. Miss Etheline Pinker- man was appointed to take the posi- tion as teacher in the Kensington grammar school left vacant by Miss Doris Honiss. Miss Pinkerman has had two and a half years experience as teacher in the rural schools un- der state supervision.
 Entertains Performers
 Mrs. Henry Hooker of the High Road entertained the members of the recent revue presented by the St. Paul Tabs and the members of the committee who arranged the revue at her home Saturday evening. Re- treatments were served and an en- joyable evening was passed.
 Meetings of Scouts
 Troop 1. Girl Scouts of the Berlin Congregational church. will meet this afternoon.
 Troop I. Boy Scouts. will meet to- morrow evening at 7:3O o'clock. Emil O. Shjerden. scoutmaster, will be in charge.
 Receive License
 Mabel Alyce Lindberg of Beach Swamp road. Kensington. and Jo- seph Patrick Neuben of Whiting street, New Britain. applied for a marriage license at the city hall in New Britain last Saturday.
 Entertain Guests
 Mir. and Mrs. Ralph Barrett of New Britain spent Sunday as the gueAs of Postmaster and Mrs. A. A. Barrett of Worthington Ridge and MT. and Mrs. Stanley Barrett of Pennington avenue.
 Lucien Gordon of Bristol spent Sunday in Berlin as the guest of friends.
 Returns Home
 Mrs. J. Rose Beiden returned home this morning from Winsted where she spent several weeks as 8 guest of relatives there.
 OIrn Today
 The Berlin public library will be
New Britain herald., 1928-01-09

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New Britain herald., 1928-01-09
SAVINGS BANK MEETING

The annual meeting of the incor porators of the Savings Bank Of Nev Britain will be held at the bank oi Wednesday, January 1S. Director will be elected and other bushes transacted.
New Britain herald., 1928-01-09

Lost-Deposit book No. 1l5.S. Berlin Savings Bank. Finder return
 same to bank.--advt.
New Britain herald., 1928-01-09
Returns Home

Mrs. J. Rose Belden returned home this morning from Winsted where she spent several weeks as a guest of relatives there.
 OTen T01ay
 The Berlin public library will be
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-29
The Senate's First Task

It's the old battle that starts next week when
Boulder dam comes before the senate.
It's the old quarrel between private interest and
public welfare
Two things should not be lost sight of in the COM
ing days.
First Colorado river floods must be cured if eco
nomc ruin and possible loss of life is to be prevented
in the southwest.
Second it is in the main, the power industry that
is directing and financing the fight to prevent con-
struction of Boulder dam.
The power industry does this that the people may
not have Boulder dam for measuring rod by which
to Judge whether utility companies are charging eX-
cessive rates for light and power.
These accusations made before on crcumstantlal
evidence are supported now by testimony and records
of the federal trade commissions investigation of the
matter.
The Boulder dam lob is half done The fight for the
people is half won little courage and intelligence
on the part of the senate bring settlement OF this
problem that vexed the west for so long 1t is the
first task before the senate and it should be dealt with
promptly and wisely.
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and that the nature of the Milky Way can not be
ascertaned without telescopes. However, it is far
likely that Democritus merely made a shrewd
guess
The writings of Roger Bacon, who died about 1894,
been taken by many authorities to indicate that
this English philosopher and experimenter was
familiar with the principles of both the telescope and
the microscope On the other hand, most authorities
agree that he never actually built telescope.
A passage in "Magia NaturaliS" written by Clam
battsta Della Porta in 1881 to indicate that
Porta had put two lenses together to make crude
telescope of some sort. But there is considerable
doubt about this, because Kepler contemporary,
wrote that he examined the methods of combining
lenses of Porta and found them unihtelligible.
Thomas Digges in 1879 wrote in his "Stratioticus"
that his father Leonard Digges, proting by the writ
ngS of Bacon, had put two lenses together as to
make distant objects appear Close evidently crude
form of telescope.
Nothing apparently ever came of it, however, and
so it may safely be said that though few expert
mentors may have stumbled crude telescopes in
the two three decades prior to 1000, important
results followed.
The history of the telescope may be said to start
shortly after 1900 The date usually accepted for the
invention of the telescope is 1909.
There is some question to the inventor 1t seems
quite likely that it was invented independently by
three Dutchmen.
They were Hans Lippershey and zacharias Jansen
of Middleburg and James Metius of Aldmaar. OF the
three, Lppershey seems to be most widely known as
the inventor of the telescope.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-29
Wayward Women

The people, during the coming year, will be asked
to dig up only half million dollars for additional
cells in the penitentiaries men, but provide nearly
that much money for new prison for women.
The growth of crime, or rather the number of con-
victions among women has been SLOW much slower
than among the males
The present prison has met all the requirements for
fifty years. But finally it is to co. if there is 70 be any
sort of either discipline reform among the inmates
Women have held the conservative citadels against
new ideals and new ideas rather stubborny but it may
be prophesied with certainty that in the next few
years the great difference in crime percentages be-
tween men and women will be wiped out.
Crimes committed by women have been limited in
the past Aside from the few of murder in mo-
ments of passion or in seeking revenge women in
other years sentenced mostly for petty thefts
Her sex was presumably bar to the criminal activ-
tiles in which men engaged.
Today woman has demonstrated her equality in the
field Of crime well in politics. industry, commerce
and education.
Each day brings news of women acting as either
principals accomplces in some bit of bandtry She
is found in the fields of auto thevery of forgery
embezzlement.
Of course in the crime of bootlegging she has
been very well represented in crime statistics
Times change. Not even old-fashioned notions of
chivalry which hesated to prosecute any except the
most unattractive of females can stand against
progress. Woman is coming into her own, in crime as
elsewhere.
But when the legislature is asked to spend vast
for prisons and punishment it is not unreason-
able to suggest that few dollars spent in real
survey of crime conditions with view of preventing
it, not merely locking some one up after laws have
been violated.
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CroeSuS' Case Cited

Though few people know much
about Croesus, his name has become
a household word. For more than
two thousand years that name has
been accepted as the symbol of
great wealth. When any one be-
comes enormously rich it is the Gus
tom to call him a CroeSuS, The
symbolism if the name ends there,
but the story carries it to a grim
mer climax.
CroeSus not only died defeated
and comparatively poor, but seems
to have found a greater degree of
happiness in that supposedly sad
state than in the possession of
wealth and power
Like most men, he looked on
wealth and power as offering the
best guarantee of happiness known
10 this world, but, according to ira
dition, Scion set him right.
Scion, you remember, became IA
nous as the law-giver of Athens,
but not until after he had trained
himself for the job by travelling
throughout the known world, study
ing customs of various peoples and
talking with all the kings, scholars
and legislators he could find.
Among others he visited King
Croesus at Sardes, who seems to
have taken advantage of the occa-
sion to strut a bit before the hum
BILE Greek.
After he had impressed Scion in
the usual way, he asked the latter
whom he considered the happiest
man in the world. 1t was his
thought, no doubt, that Scion would
f1atter him by saying, "Croesus, OF
course"
In this, however, Scion disap-
pointed to proud king. Instead OF
naming Croesus, he described the
contented lot of modest acquaint-
ance and wound up by saying
Count no man happy until he is
dead"
That, too, is an aspect of the
symbolism commonly overlooked.
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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE
- DAILY HEALTH SERVICE
DeUeIOb ChiIdS Food Habits Early

intervals permit the stomach to
empty, which promotes better digeS-
ton and gain in weight
Meal times must not be fastened.
In this regard breakfast is the
worst of all the meals, since children
tend to sleep late and gulp their
breakfast in order that they may
get to school on time.
Many schools which have a reg
ular 8 O'Clock hour establish &C.
casionally one day in which the be-
ginning of school is advanced for
one hour.
Here the tendency is again to
hasten the breakfast on that day,
and thus to interfere with the regu-
lar eating habits of the child.
If the child is properly fed at
meal times, there is little reason
for feeding between meals. In
deed, few mothers really know
whether or not children eat between
meals and how much they eat at
such times.
The mother should have record
of such feeding in order that she
may guide the diet properly and
understand the occasional loss of
appetite at dinner time.
Children tend early in life to de-
velop certain food prejudices, in
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-29
Worse Than Drug

The argument that poverty
breeds crime is sound up to & GER
tain point, but the worst crimes
are not, and never have been COM
mitted by the poor.
More people have been robbed and
slain in the struggle of the power
full for more power and the rich
for more riches than from any other
cause. More people have lost their
sense Of honor in trying to keep up
appearances than in trying to keep
out of the poorhouse.
One does not have to believe that
it is harder for a rich man to en-
ter the kingdom of heaven than
for a camel to go through a needles
eye in order to appreciate the risks
and temptations that go with the
unrestrained pursuit of wealth.
The effects of morphine are mild
compared to those of the money
grabbing habit.
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NJ. E..
TRACY
NAYO:
''Up to q Certain Point
Money Is Necessary;
Beyond That 1t Is a Bur-
den."
SAYS:
"XXTHO gets what he wants, "
wv asl,s ThacLra,.v "oy. oettino

WHO gets what he wants, ("
w asks Thackery, cor getting
it, is satisfied"
Who does not want to make a
million, or making it, is ready to
retire?
We keep telling ourselves that
money is the secret of happiness,
but those who have it know better.
Up to certain point, money is
necessary; beyond that it is just a
burden.
Every human being desires, and
rightly so, enough food, clothing,
shelter, and entertainment to have
a place in the parade.
If we stopped there, the creed Of
prosperity would be sound.
The trouble is we think of pros
perity as a matter of grades and
degrees, with the most happiness at
the top.
No one is satisfied with enough.
More, and still more, has become
the common refrain.
You hear people say they would
be satisfied if they had a hundred
thousand, but the majority of those
who get it are not.
The game is to Guido the other
fellow, and that causes most of the
trouble. 1t is a foolish game, be-
cause it offers no chance of per-
manent victory.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-29
Wives and Skyscraners

Rebecca West, English novelist, returns to London
after visiting America with distressing tale about
the hardships of the American woman.
Most Americans she says, 'Ive in skyScrapers
with their women perched high in the air where they
can't keep dog much less keep family" Lives
of American materially inclined thus become
tragic, she says.
This is a saddening picture, and would be alarming
if it true. But as anybody who lives in America
knows it isn't The percentage of families living in
skyscrapers anything approaching the skyscraper.
is so small as to be negligible Rather more than so
per cent of all Americans own their own homes.
The amount of misnformation visiting Britisher
collect about to be absolutely unlimited.
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GLIDING among other things, liver
spinach, cabbage and carrots as
foods which they avoid for one
reason or another.
1t is unfortunate perhaps that ma
ture has placed in some Of the least
tasty food substances the important
vitamin factor that are necessary
for proper growth.
Doctor Register suggests that as
soon as the infant has reached the
age when it can begin to take semi
solid and solid food, the food should
be placed before it AMI the child
left to eat the food or not as it de-
termines for itself.
If the child refuses to eat, he
should be allowed to leave the table
at the end of the meal, but should
not be fed again until the next
regular feeding time, no matter how
hungry it becomes.
If this manner of handling the
child is persisted in, it will soon
learn to eat the things placed be-
fore it.
Farmers who raise animals for
showing at fairs feed their animals
selected diets at regular intervals.
The human beings interest in de-
veloping prize stock should be at
least as scientific as is the farmers.
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BRTOGE33RtNu[

and both East and West are
squeezed. If West discards his
spade, North discards his low club,
and vice versa. Then, if East dis
cards a club and West has already
done so, both Norths clubs are good.
If West has discarded spade,
North wins the last two tricks with
the ace of clubs and the nine Of
spades. If East discards his heart,
South wins the next trick with the
four of hearts and North the last
trick with the ace of clubs.
Although the squeeze on both East
and West at the same time is in
teresting, of equal interest is
North's play of the seven of dia-
monds on the first trick.
If the three we're played instead,
North would be forced to win East's
diamond return.
Then no matter what North leads,
East and West will easily win an
other trick. The puzzle also is de-
feated if the club, or any other than
the ten of diamonds is opened.
Copyright. 1928. NEA Service. Incl
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KEEP THANKSGIVING
NOT A SINGLE CALF
THE M 1 S SIN G LINK

TINE disclosure of this sale of a
i million dollars worth of bogus
antique" italian sculpture should
warn future American buyers to
stick to the old reliable busts of
Daniel Webster.
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Grand Duke Alexander, brother Of
the late car, is coming over to lee
ture about conditions in Russia, but
Alex doesn't know any more about
the conditions than anybody else
who reads the papers, the fact that
he is alive being conclusive proof
that he hasn't been back to Rus
STA.
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Austria wants us to loan her some
money, but she hasn't anything to
offer as security, except past.