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New Britain herald., 1928-09-01
Women Are Producers As We'll As SpeIltlers

Women have been called the worlds greatest spenders, but the Womens Bureau of the U. g. De- partment of Labor is picturing them in a different role, as producers of much of the goods that all of us buy, in a motion picture, within the Gates" being released for gem eral use today. One in every five workers is woman, the film says, quoting the C. s. census of 1926, and for every four women who stay at hoine one woman goes into gain- full employment, a quarter of these tenering the business world 10 make within the gates of the factory, some part of almost everything that is sold in the market place.
 Beginning with primitive times, when the woman manufactured in the home nearly everything that her family used, the film shows the de- velopment of the factory system, which drew the old cobbler from his own little home workshop and the woman from her home spinning | wheel into the din and '>iSk1e of mass production. As d concrete ex- ample of women's present-day par ticipation in this system, the course of the entire textile industry ia shown through the making of g single shirt. This tale of shirt begins with the picking of the cot ton in the fields; follows the fascin. ating processes in the mills by which the raw cotton is turned first into thread and then into cloth; goes with the bales of cloth to the shirt factory; shows the variou. women at work on the different parts until, when they are asser .- bled, a garment ready to sell across the counter isturned out How thai garment is sold to Mother" wht comes to buy it for Dad" and how it reaches it's final destination 1T Dads" hands at home is part o the story. The picture ends with ar appeal that the S1a million womer at work in this country be given [ fair chance and good working con ditions flor the sake of a greater America"
 within the Gates' will be len by the Women's Bureau to respon sible borrowers upon payment of ex
 press charges to and from Washing
 ton.
New Britain herald., 1928-09-01
DoINt; MUCH FOR LITTLE

Post office sub- station No. ] In New Britain has been hors de com- hat for some time. This institution formerly existed on West Main street and possessed all of the char acteristics of regular post office except that there were no postal clerks. The proprietor was supposed to sell stamps, issue and cash money orders, attend to parcel post, and what not. Furthermore, postal customers were supposed to receive preference to other cus- toners in the store. For all this he got paid by the yernment-not a big sum but perhaps enough to pay for the electric bills.
 It is no wonder that post office sub stations are not popular with merchants who are often impor- tuned to accept a contract with the government where it is desired to establish such station. One west end merchant once told the post off, {, flee that he would donate space in bis store for postal business if the post office furnished a clerk, but was told the post office could not afford it. In other words. the mer- chant was supposed to furnish and ray the salary of the sub-station I post office clerk. In such cases the clerks who are supposed to do the extra work for the post office love l the job with splenetic fury. They'd like to see sub stations where eel luloid cats are entirely out of place Post office sub stations undoubt. edly are a convenience to the public in outlying sections who thus do not need to travel to the main post of. flee to get money orders. If the post office really wants to provide such conveniences it ought to pay more to maintain them. The present
 contract, rendered to sub station
 merchants, is so one-sided as tt
 make all merchants seeing it begir
 to weep.
 Of course, the post office depart
 ment thinks mescnant ought t be benefited by having a sub-sta
 tion in his place of business. Sucl an institution, it may be argued
 brings customers into the place fo stamps. ct cetera- and these ma finger to buy other things. But tha is an advantage that any merchan . 1 can enjoy without being the bos Of sub station. He can sell tn stamps in reasonable quantities an , let it go at that. thus deftly avoid , ing the other responsibilities incl dent to money orders and parcel
 post. That is what the wise one
 are doing, in fact, and they don expect to sign any governmer T contracts for the purpose.
New Britain herald., 1928-09-01

prohibition enforcement act. gen. erally known as the Mullen-Gage law.
 And Tammany, which runs New York City, has been thrown into the campaign as | heinous animal. viper poisoning the body polite.
 We are of the opinion that the Chicago and Philadelphia police departments, and th6 political ma chimes of those cities, look a sight more like poisonous monsters thar the comparatively mild New York organization.
New Britain herald., 1928-09-01
BUSES IN NEW ENGLAND

The New Haven railroad, so the tfI1cial statistics show, is operating more motor coaches than any other railroad in the United States. It is operating 254 buses over 59 routes, the routes totalling 1,767 miles. Its closest rival in bus operation is the Great Northern railroad, which oper- ates 133 motor coaches over 52 routes, over routes totalling 4.945 miles. The Great Northern of course operates it's bus subsidiary over more extended routes than the New Haven, which accounts for its large mileage.
 More bus facts. The third largest railroad owned motor coach con- cern in the country is operated by the Boston & Maine. serving Massa- 6etts and the northern New Eng land states.
 New England, therefore. possess ing the first and third largest rail fsad bus lines, is well plastered witf ffiotSr coach lines. But that does moi mean the remainder of the country b less developed in this respect. Il anything, it is more developed. Int difference is that in New England the two leading railroads seized thu opportunity to operate buses rather than see them go into the hands o Independent competing systems, a' has been the case elsewhere to : large extent.
 In New England the railroad-o own Cd bus lines do not always compet with the railroads but are supple mental to these. Thus, where tn railroad lines give good service on sees less of the inter-city bus lines But they reach many country tow Which otherwise would receive littl Service from the branch railroa lines.
 Another important point: Tn motor coach lines in New Englan do not make practice of cuttin f6tes far under the railroad rate fine New Haven and Boston Maine. owning so many buses, ar fiot trying to injure themselves b letting the buses get big slice ( the passenger business. This is dt velopment that is not so good ft New England. There is nothing lik independent competition to force Il railroads to a realization that the rates are too high. There is boun to be less of this in New Englar in view of the ponderatinc bl ownership by the railroads then selves.
New Britain herald., 1928-09-01
1itclifield Hills Start to Tell the World

A seven point program has been adopted by the recently organized Litchfield Hills federation, the or ganization has announced in its first publication. recently distributed. The folder describes the work of the federation, lists it's officers, and , includes pictures of Litchfield Hills scenery.
 The seven points of the program are announced as follows: "1. Good roads and the increas- ed trade and traffic facility they provide.
 g. Constantly develop new rec reational facilities of a desirable character in all suitable locations.
 8. The attraction to Connecti- cut. and particularly to the Litch- field Hills. of desirable residents, the building of permanent homes, ample schools and community insti- tutions. and the development of commercial facilities that will serve an increased population at reason able cost the year round.
 "4. The Identification of our highways, parks, lawns and publis buildings and grounds. and the gradual construction of roadside footpaths for all pedestrians.
 "5. The elimination Of objection. able outdoor advertising and un. sibhtly refreshment stands and the substitution therefore of structure. of beauty as well as utility.
 "6. A square deal in bushes. transactions to all visitors within our borders.
 '7. To maintain bureaus of in formation and to disseminate throughout the nation publicity ana literature reeva1ine the beauty ans charm of the Litchfield Hills" g. Hustling Youngsters Mako
New Britain herald., 1928-09-01
THE OBSER YER Makes Rsndeo Observations
 Ou the Cjty suo Its Peee1e

and all voted In sppes,tien ts the petition. Finally when the hearing was clesed and the cieFk announced that evsryens present had vseD4 in opposition to the question. large number of voices sang tst in dis approval Upon questioning the resi- dents in their native language. a member of the bard discovered that they were net in opposition to the proposed work. Incidentally the en- gineer had explained carefully at the beginning of the hearing what the city intended to do but his speech was lost on his listeners. Upon a re-vote the entire gathering voted for the petition.
 Situations like this rise weekly and try the patience of the board. The owners put themselves on the de- fensire at the beginning of the hearing and fail to hear half of what is told them. When it comes time for the clerk to put the subject to vote, he tells the gathering to answer "yes" if they are in favor and mo" if they are opposed when their name Is called. The result is that the clerk receives anything but the desired answer. Some will stand up when their names are called and will re- main silent until the clerk ques- tions them. Others will say "here, that's me" and other such replies, forcing the clerk to repeat his ques- tions
 Many times people have replied yes as the clerk read oht their names when they really meant mo- The clerk generally reads the list over when he has completed the call and in many cases indiEnant property owners have taken the floor to state that they did not vote i'll favor of the proposition. When the clerk asks them if they answered yes when he called their names they admit that they did but they thought that he wanted to know ii they were present and did not know that vote was being taken. These are only few of the experience, that the board has to contend witi and 1t requires great deal of pa.
 tenee on the part of the commits
 sioners to sit through hearing.
 weekly without losing it's temper.
New Britain herald., 1928-09-01
"WEARING ONLY A SMILE"


 righteously alarmed and justly in- dignant at the elimination of a painting Of a womaA wearing only a smile" from an art exhibition that was given in the Y. NJ. C. A. of that place.
 The Y. NJ. c. A. may be a heck of a place to give an art exhibition, especially if there are going to be any pictures like that in the col lection: but it IS apparent that Westport does not yet boast d municipal auditorium or an art gal lery, and artists must accept what there is or not have the exhibition.
 The Women's Town Improvement Association, under whose auspices the art exhibit was given, evidently believes that there are many ways to improve the town and seem to be- l;eve that nude painting can inn prove the town as we'll as almost any other art object. It should be said for the w. T. I. A.. however. that it shares the indignation of the , artists, blaming the entire unfor- tunate affair upon the Y. M. c. A., pI I, ,,l, trt | the janitor's wife had complained. that the picture was not fit for ! children to look at. Nothing was said, it will be noted, on the prob- ability that the picture was not fit | for men to glimpse.
 We can afford to laugh at thls episode and are rather thankful for the opportunity, there being SC many things in life that cause tears that anything which induces laugh ! ter is to be welcomed
 Our observation mas been that art pictures without some examples Of the nude just ain't." The form divine when draped. according to a good artist, doesn't seem to be al. vine at all. Obviously, we are mol experts in the matter, merely hay. ing looked on with amazement al such times when we ran into al art exhibition. We are not artistic enough to appreciate everythin, artists do, merely having wondered sometimes in our dumbbell man ner, how models could be found l. stand the gaff.
 Always anxious and willing t lend shout in favor of High Art however, we herewith join in de nouncing the Westport y. M. C. Not one. but six such picture | should have been hung up in tn gallery If there had been doze or so we would have taken a tri to Westport ourselves and tried | enhance our education upon tn true emotional meaning thus con veyed.
New Britain herald., 1928-09-01

identified with the two grade cross- ing escapeA says of his second ex- perience that no bell was ringing on the approaching locomotive, no warning whistle was blown. This puts part Of the blame on the en- gineer or fireman as we'll as the crossing tender, as the latter depend to some extent upon hearing the whistle or bell of approaching trains,
 But the railroad. as usual, is "in- vestigating.
New Britain herald., 1928-09-01

If policemen go to work driving an automobile, why not let them patrol their beats in one and thus cover more territory? Some of the outlying sections under such circumstances wouM See a policeman occasionally while such speeders as noted the cops auto might step on the brake instead of on the gas.
New Britain herald., 1928-09-01
Long Speeches Tax Paticsisc
 Of Roa,1l of Public Works

Many interesting and amusing ln- cidents occur weekly at the hearings held by the board of public works. That is, they are amusing to every one but the board and the clerk. Numerous hearings have been held lately concerning questions that in- volved residents of foreign birth and they, speaking literally. had run the | members of the board ragged.
 People come to the hearings with set ideas concerning the questions | involved and in many cases have a wrong version of the entire matter. | The engineer, soon to sense that they are on the wrong track. will carefully explain in the simplest language possible just what. the l board intends 10 do. Immediately three and four speakers take the floor and work themselves to high pitch of excitement. They speak on everything blft the matter itself and again the engineer will explain. They start talking among them- selves, and almost without fail, one Of them will take the part of a leader and in hot language, will ad. dress them in their native language This causes a shaking of heads in assent and finally the board is ready to put the question to a vote.
 The clerk will read the names and instead of answering yes or no, the property owner will get up and de. liver an oration of extended lengtf that no one but himself understands After he is through the clerk will
 ask him patiently whether he is 1T favor or not and will finally receive his answer. This is repeated all th,
 way down the list. At one hearin, exactly 20 men involved in th'
 hearings spoke at least five minute
New Britain herald., 1928-09-01

When the dear girls roll down their stockings or wear none at all everybody takes notice. When mere man lets his stockings roll down they are still where they can't be seen and it makes no difference 10 anybody but the manufacturers ol 1lrters.
New Britain herald., 1928-09-01
sports

Not single lynching was report ed anywhere in the United States during the first four months of this year, and this is said to be a record for 40 years.
 Lynchers of the old school are comparing memories of the slump of 'SS.
New Britain herald., 1928-09-01
ii.tSDs CGDD!ING
Judge S-ys Heals 1n Institutions
 l.Nt.l.r Than Tn Hc.n.


 l'ottsEillc. Pa. Sept. 1 Up)- The people of America loN" their criminals too much, in the opinion of Judge Forrest R. Shanaman. of Berks county. and as T result "are threatening to defeat the very pur- pose Of courts in imprisoning law breakers.
 Judge SIianainan declared that the meals served m the average county jail and state prison are bet ter than those served in the homes of 1raiority of in" working men of the country.
 Fl" also cited on. instance ir which q prison has radio installed for the usc of prisoners in 30 per cent Of is cells.
New Britain herald., 1928-09-01
Observations On Ht Rtatk<r
FOR ECAsT

Eastern New York: Faif saturday and probably Sunday, continued cool
 Northern New England: F4it Saturday and Sunday; not much change in temperature.
 Southern New England: Faif and continued cool Saturday and Sunday.
New Britain herald., 1928-09-01
Muscular Christianity in the West

Muscular Christianity in the Nest
 "A blackjack in the hands of a
 negro choir master stopped the source of blue notes at the services in the Friendship Baptist Church yesterday, and, though the leader
 and inc singer were unconscious. the worship continued.
 Deacon Thomas Chapman dis liked the soug notes and, silently drawing black jack. felled Casey l McCurick Jones. baritone, who was singing off key George Washing, oil 1 McGayock. h9sso. objected. and tearing a telephone from the wall
New Britain herald., 1928-09-01

The new United States currency, since the bills will be only tv-o-thirds the size of the present ones, will save g.. p0n 900 because 12 bills will b" printed at one impression instead Of eight
New Britain herald., 1928-09-01
CONDITIONS

During the last t4 hours Ah6wer1 have occurred in Southern New England. temperatures have fallen in the north Atlantic states. The weather will be partly overcast Sat- urday and Sunday. It wili continue cool over northern districts Gatur- day.
New Britain herald., 1928-09-01
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We're Honestly Worried!

We're Honestly Worried! Again from picture supplements the bathing beauties smile. And since they and their costumes too, just weigh less all the while
 They'll be reduced to nothingness if this keeps up, it's clear. And then what will the papers do about this time of year?
New Britain herald., 1928-09-01
Music

At recent open-air concert near London the audience was annoyed by moSqUitoes.
 At first the gratified performers did rot realize that the outburst of frenzied clapping were determined efforts to eXterminate the pests!
New Britain herald., 1928-09-01
felled Deacon Chapman.

felled Deacon Chapman.
 Later when Sergeant MulvihilI dropped ill. as was his custom, the choir. led by McGavock. was singing Throw Out the Life Line while both Deacon Chapman and Jones Jay unconscious. side by side in front of the choir" Chicago IIlD Tribune
New Britain herald., 1928-09-01
Tairksl Too Luri:!

Mrs. Bonner (defendanD DC you think there's any chance of my being acGuitted?"
 Her Attorney: I'm not so sure Madam. Oh. WHY didn't you shoot your husband when you were ter years younger1"
 Louise Bennett tCopvright. 1928. Reproduction
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New Britain herald., 1928-09-01

The people who brag about going to Europe are the kind you didn't see over there in 1918.
New Britain herald., 1928-09-01
The Tanning of the Shlrw

Mrs. Bigler: What did you say to the maid when you found her sitting on your husbands lap?"
 Mrs. Byers: T told her she must change her position." Mrs. Milton Doray
New Britain herald., 1928-09-01

Maybe our best men keep out oi politics because they don't wanl
 their records examined.
New Britain herald., 1928-09-01

The more a great man tries to explain his success. the more you wonder how a man like that ever got anywhere.
New Britain herald., 1928-09-01

Judging by the speeches of the candidates, the search for the "most important issue" is still go- ing on.
New Britain herald., 1928-09-01

True. the modern kid knows more meanness than boys knew in 1890; but he also knows more about everything else.
New Britain herald., 1928-09-01

Americanism: A theoretical dis
 belief in the existence of classes;
 an actual eagerness to talk and be- lieye and act as the best people" do.
New Britain herald., 1928-09-01

To arrive at the cost of sending the kid to college, take the catalog figures. add $500, and multiply by
New Britain herald., 1928-09-01

Nobody has yet devised a way to throw political mud without getting the hands dirty.
New Britain herald., 1928-09-01

Now let's try the blindfold test and see whether famous ladies can recognize the kisser.
New Britain herald., 1928-09-01
THE FUN SHOP NEWS WEEKLY

Medical Dogs, according to az scientist, never go mad as long as they can get plenty to drink. The same applies to some men!
New Britain herald., 1928-09-01

A friend in need frequently isn't friend when he isn't in need.
New Britain herald., 1928-09-01

It seems there are no tram roD- bers in Mexico. They are always bandits.
New Britain herald., 1928-09-01

Another way to get yourself hat cd is to return from the city and tip the fellows who remained in the old home town.
New Britain herald., 1928-09-01
Science

A telescope has been produced that will magnify star million times.
 Most stars use a press agent for this purpose.
New Britain herald., 1928-09-01

You cant tell. Wien a comnun- ity is dry, 1t may be either a moral state or temporary drouth.
New Britain herald., 1928-09-01

College equipment. 1900: Two middy blouses, a skirt and a dress college equipment, 1928: 12 sport outfits, 10 frocks, 6 evening gowns.
New Britain herald., 1928-09-01

Evidence: All that mass of fact
 which the jury forgets when the lawyer begins to talk.
New Britain herald., 1928-09-01

Hustling Youngsters Make Hay During Summer Vacations
 Not so long ago thousands
New Britain herald., 1928-09-01
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New Britain herald., 1928-09-01

The story tells us that Diogencs got sarcastic about finding an hon. est man, but doesn't name the make of the used car he had bought.
New Britain herald., 1928-09-01

Ho. hum; you meet 8 woman who seems 10 have brains, and then you see what she married.
New Britain herald., 1928-09-01
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There's one nice thing about buy ing overalls. The clerk doesn't use a little French 10 make them seem more attractive.
New Britain herald., 1928-09-01

Correct this sentence: "Oh, my dear," she cried, "l hadn't dreamed of your giving Iue a real diamond engagement ring"
 Copyright, 1928, Publishers
 Syndicate
New Britain herald., 1928-09-01
Another VersiO0I

Another versiOO! Carey: These crowded street.
 cars are stifling in this weather Hendricks: Its not the heat, it's the humanity" -Raoul Blu4nberg
New Britain herald., 1928-09-01
Facts sad dFancies

Fable; He was a barber and did not read the baseball news.
New Britain herald., 1928-09-01

It isn't the herd instinct that makes cars bunch on the highway. but the fact that the idiot in front enjoys loafing at 10 m. D. h.
New Britain herald., 1928-09-01

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New Britain herald., 1928-09-01

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New Britain herald., 1928-09-01

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