New Britain herald., 1928-01-21
THE OBSERVER-
MahQg Rsndon Observations Oa the City ana lts Psspls

New Britain'a financial stabliity 1, reelected in bank statements Issued recently in connection with annua tmeetingA In every instance | healthy and steady growth wal showa. gains in deposits end seund' ness sf AA banking institutions be. ing reported. Savings banks na' tional banks and trust eempauies made statements which are sratify. iag and which increase the eonfl- denee of the public in orssnisationi which immediately or remotely touch every enc of us. ~
 Sound banking principles gre vital to . community. In New Britain those principles are exampliaed by the men who direct the adaifs oi the banks Check o6 the names oi the directors, trustees or incorpoFat- ors who are responsible Tor tho suc- |ceis of the banks and you will nnd there. men who are intensely inter- ested in preserving the best tradi- tons of . conservative New England city. The same holds true of execu- tives. the men actually in contact with the people. whose names and faces are familiar to thousands and who rub elbows . daily with the human streams that wend their ways in through the doors of the banking houses.
 Ths statements issued this year indicate that New Britain is thrifty and progressive.> Savings accounts are growing in spite of industrial conditions which have not been worth braggtng about Checking ac- counts likewise show an incline. . fact of which any Chamber of Csm- mercs should be proud.
 Manufacturers and business men who contemplate changing locations might do we'll to read the signs of the times in the statements for 1927 issued by New Britain banks.
 Once more modern dancing comes in for criticism and this time. q in many times in the past, from the Senior High school where most of the younger generation are begin- ming to sec the light.
 Our dancing expert has often wondered whether or not high school dancing is as bad as it is painted. In his trips about the city. and in association among all kinds and all classes, he has been able to observe all types of dancing. He has seen the type in the cheap dances and that in exclusive balls and clubs. He has looked in upon high school dances at the Burritt hotel, at the inns. and at the little gym nasium of the Senior High school.
 If one is to criticize dancing he would do better than start on the high school type. In the first place three- quarters of tho boys and girls at the school do not know how to dance and any "toddling." "shoul- der shruggins," wheeling" and other awkward dances are the re- suit of inexperience on the floor.
 If person wishes to observe ob- jectional dancing. he should visit some of the halls in this locality. He would think the world had gone back centuries to an uncivilized age. Conditions in some places are re- marka ole. It ;s we'll that someone spoke to the high school boys. not for what they are doing now. but what they would be doing should they frequent some of the dances in the future when they are ."ster2ing out"
 Twenty-Five years ago.:
 The idea of sitting in ones home and listening to music being played in. a New York concert hall would have been regarded as the figment Of a slightly unbalanced mind.
 Coffee cups were for coffee and not tea"
 "He men" didn't smoke cigarettes.
 The man who appeared at dance