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New Britain herald., 1928-11-26
rs Years Ago Today

VI. +. Harmon has brought suit
against the city. He claims that
the High school boys celebrating
their football victory over Meriden
took his wagon and burned it in the
bonfire in front of the South church.
The city is alleged to have given
permission for the bonfire to be
built, and it is charged that the
officials did not exercise sufficient
care to see that valuable articles
like the wagon were not burned.
The Corbin interests in this city
have bought the interest of E. A.
Du 1'loiS i'll the Burdick- Du Blois
Mfg. Co. a cash register business
The annual military service was
held at the First church yesterday.
the companies attending. Rev. DR..
Russell r. Hall knocked violators
of the law in his sermon. The
quartet sang "Tenting on the Old
Camp Ground"
\ barn on High street owned by
the st. Mary's corporation was de-
stroycd by fire Saturday afternoon.
but the firemen saved the threat
cned Humason & Beckley factory.
About 5000 damage was done last
night when an overhnated furnace
started fire in DR.. STYLES home on
, Maple street.
a Christmas story for children by
Elise Traut IS in the December num-
Der of Mind.
New Britain herald., 1928-11-26

countries. Canada was the principal
purchaser.
Q. Why do dogs turn around be-
fore lying down?
A. When the ancestors OF our
domestic dog were wild they slept
in the woods or the open. When
they were ready to lie down. they
first had to trample the grass to
make a place 10 lie down. This be-
came a habit and is one of the in
stincts which have been transmitted
to domesticated dogs.
@. What is the total value OF
gold coined. from the establishment
OF the United States minis to the
present time?
A. Up to the close of business
December 81, 1926. it amounted to
$4.O40,94S.477.5o.
@. What are trap nests?
A. They are laying nests, so ar
ranged that after hen enters she
is confined until released by an at
tendant. The use of trap nests is es-
sential in breeding poultry for both
egg production and exhibition,
where pedigree records are used in
selecting either the males or fe-
males. and has plac in mass selec-
ton for increasing the egg produc-
ton. Trap nests are Of value in
wedding out poor layers. and in
creasing the average egg yield Of n
INV @iyp hrJt
are not generally used on account of
the large amount of labor required
to operate them.
New Britain herald., 1928-11-26
Observations
On The Weather

Washington, Nov. 26.-Forecast
for Southern New England: Mostly
cloudy with slowly rising tempera-
ture tonight and Tuesday; fresh
northwest and north winds, possibly
strong at times on the southeast
coast.
Forecast for Eastern New York:
Mostly cloudy tonight and Tuesday;
probably snow hurrieA in north
portion; rising temperature Tues
day and in south portion Tuesday:
fresh westerly winds possibly strong
at times.
Conditions: Pressure is relative
ly low this morning over the upper
lake region the northwestern and
eastern New England districts and
along the Canadian northwest Dor
der. A large area of high pressure.
central over the south central Mis-
sissippi valley region, is dominating
most of the country and tempera-
lures are considerably below the
normals from the plains states east
ward to the Atlantic coast. Snow
tlurries continue in portions of the
lower lake region, upper New York
state and northern New England.
Killing frosts We're reported from
portions of the southern states.
Conditions favor for this vicinity
partly cloudy weather with slowly
rising temperature.
yocfor5a
New Britain herald., 1928-11-26
4 HEAP o. PAWN

with due apologies TO everybody
BY James ID. Donaldson
1t may take a heap o. livin' in a
house t make it home.
But it takes a heap o. courage
when tn bill collectors roam,
An it takes a lot O. gumption an a
most courageous heart
T. answer L tn doorbell when tn
easy payments start:
Fer it takes a heap O. payin' till TIL
things become yer own.
An it keeps yer pockets empty.
Yes, it makes a Teller moan
At tn number O. installments-'bou
thousan'. more or less
An he wishes he was back again Z
single blessedness.
There's tn payment on ~ washer
an tn payment on tn flivver.
An it's pay upon tn furnace less
yc want L freeze an SILVER.
Comes a Teller T. the door with q
sassy sort O. stare,
Ye may know it's not fer charity
that he's awaitin' there;
He only wants some money-a five
or ten will do
Fer tn patent vacuum cleaner that
We bought in '22;
Or else it's fer tn easy chair. tn
photograph or rugs.
An if .e make excuses he ugly
scowls an shrugs.
Ye en- buy baby buggy or a five
tube radio,
Ye en- buy most anything We wish
for a dollar down or so.
But we've got t. keep on payin' in
most persistent way
Until ye'll sometimes wonder n
there'll ever come day.
While worlsin' at tn office or "
walk tn village street,
There won't be some one lurkin
with a bill fe We t meet
When installments fast are fallin
an the bill collectors roam
1t takes a heap O. payin' fer tn
things that make home!
New Britain herald., 1928-11-26

/, either case defies analysis. The glow
worm never fails to shed its light
and where the light energy comes
! from nobody really knows; at least,
man cannot duplicate it. And in the
case of the glorious sun, scientists
+ have about given up the idea that it
will burn itself up very readily. The
latest word is that every day the
surface Of the sun obtains quite as
much combustionable elements from
space as it eats up. To compute when
it will grow cold or dark is like
trying to compute the end Of time or
! scramble the Imagination with the
connotation of Eternity.
Even in a field where the human
: mind seems to have a fairer show,
that Of economics, we can learn from
animals. Go to the ant, thou slug
| gard: consider her ways and be
wise" said King Solomon: and this
was not figure of speech. 1t is
common to emphasize that the mil
| lenium in mans mode of habitation
has not yet been reached; and this
also is no figure of speech. What
human society, therefore, has for
efficiency and general well-being
equalled that ages ago evolved by
the unthinking ants, the busy little
bees. Even in matters of sanitation
and hygiene many OF the lowly ami
mails by instinct keep themselves far
/ healthier than man with all his
medical lore, his leaning to modern
conveniences, and his bath tubs. The
| more We learn about medicine the
more diseases We seem TO suffer
from; most animals, with instinct
only as guide, rarely overeat.
Nature keeps them fairly hungry
! and healthy.
! Down at Johns Hopkins a savant
| has come to the conclusion that man
could do wonders if he were able to
i snatch the secret of the whale to his
own use. How does the whale, he
asks, dispose Of the carbon dioXide
which he generates in his blood dur
! ing his long periods under water?
Some chemical adjustment is made
| in his body. is the verdict. If man
ycould learn the sccret-that brings
us back TO the first point, Nature
learned the secret without the aid OF
scientists. The whale consumes his
own poisons, or disposes Of them in
manner that is a mystery to man
kind. That's it; just another mystery
that Mother Nature had no trouble
in solving.
This is an age of machinery. But
Mother Nature must smile in her
beneficent manner when she looks at
mans puny machinery designed to
compete with her more accurate
machinery. a scheme Of things that
reaches all the way from the
furthermost star to the dancing
atomical spheres within the palm of
our hands.
New Britain herald., 1928-11-26
TIL, RADIO RODEO

The struggle of radio broadcasting
stations for "better treatment" in
Washington as to the ALLEGATION of
wave lengths will become a sorry
morsel for the next Congress. There
is q belief current down on the
Potomac that the Radio Commits
sion, when it dies natural death
next spring, will not be revived, and
that the entire radio regulation bust
ness will return to the Department of
Commerce. That will mean. too, that
politicians will have their noses on
the radio grindstone. endeavoring to
help their local stations according
to the log-rollng method.
When Herbert Hoover, as secre-
tary of commerce. was boss of radio
control it was thought by sundry
politicians in the capital that the
job was giving him too much of
hold on public affection. and that
this would help him to snare the
Republican nomination for presi-
dent. No less a politician than Sena-
tor Watson of Indiana, himself a
candidate for the nomination at that
time. made quite hullabaloo about
the powers of the commerce secre-
tary," and the astute Hoosier was a
leader in advocating the formation
of the Radio Commission. The SEN
ator's object, of course, was to put
radio control where it couldn't help
a rival for the presidential nominal
| tion-the Indiana senator actually
considering himself as a rival.
Fundamentally the situation is
| simple: There are only a limited
! number of wave lengths and there
are more than 500 broadcastng
stations in this country. The big boys,
of course. think they own the air;
/ the little boys assert Indignantly that
/ they have some rights. If all the big
+ fellows We're originators of programs.
however. there would be more logic
on their side: but too many of them
prefer TO plug in on chain programs.
What is the use Of having cleared
waves for the powerful stations if
they are to be hooked up on chain
program? 1t occurs repeatedly on
the air that such stations as WEAF.
WGY. kDKA and sundry other
powerful headline stations are all
blasting forth the same chain pro-
gram leaving the dial artists sick at
heart when he discovers the situa-
ton. Then horde of small local
stations also plug in on the chain
progra ms. giving the dial tWister
even less OF a chance for variety
OF course. the chain programs
usually. but not always, are Of a
| high quality. 1t is easier and cheaper
to provide an attraction the cost OF
which is spread over 81 stations than
to provide the same attraction for
only one station; indeed, the highest
type of attractions are nearly pro
bibitive If concentrated upon only
one or few stations. But that
New Britain herald., 1928-11-26
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Mr.. Stephen Vitale, Of 127
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1t increased my appetite and made
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New Britain herald., 1928-11-26
MENTAL LAXITY

To Justify an opinion being cabled
across the Atlantic, even by the Rev.
Sidney Arthur Alexander, canon OF
st, Paul's Cathedral. London, 1t
must be particularly striking. Even
press associations, with all their
nearly unlimited resources. do not
snap at platitudes at considerably
more than two bits word cable
tolls.
The exalted cleric gave it as his
opinion that the reading of modern
newspapers induces chronic rest
lessness and destroys the power Of
concentration"
Memory suggests to us. howeveT,
that this, in substance, has been
claimed before But it was so many
years past that the idea today i'm
parts a polish of freshness. Anyway.
with the clergyman enunciating it,
with the certainty that to millions it
will be brand new. it is certain to en-
list considerable Of that pro and con
which makes life interesting.
There may be this "chronic rest
lessness" abroad in the nations and
1t may destroy the power of con-
centration." But it is rather unfair
to blame it upon the newspapers
almost everywhere since the war, in
sections of the civilized world
where newspapers circulate at q
minimum of quantity. as well as in
the centers OF populations. There is
little evidence that the citizen living
in an isolated portion Of some state
and doing a minimum of newspaper
reading, is more likely to be concen-
trated about something
perhaps his daily employment-than
the person in the city who makes a
Bible out OF his newspaper.
Columns could be written on the
subject, il could be taken as text
for an extended lecture, or the
iu..asluicntals of a book. For our
xIF., sn nj hD M
ii at length except as to disagree
WI the thesis as whole. Keeping
ii touch with occurrences in our
time may not seem as important to
q philosopher as concentration upon
the outpourings of philosophy, nor
to theologian as concentration up
on the writings on theology; but
what is going on in the world, in the
nation, and in the state and corr
munity certainly is food for thought
and need not betoken mental laxity
to know about. The canon OF st
PauI's himself surely will not ad-
nit lie considers the discussion OF
the Kellogg pact or the hectic dis.
agreements over naval armament:
of no purpose and a bar toward con
eentration upon the higher things o.
life -----. ..-..-.....--
What people 80 years from now
New Britain herald., 1928-11-26
will term. history II being made in

will term. history u being made in
no small measure by those living to-
day. and those who have lived and
contributed to the stage of life dur
ing the past few decades. If there
is one fault to find more than any
other it u that current events of
importance are not thoroughly
enough dissected and discussed by
citizens as whole. Suspension of the
public press for a month. as the
clergyman suggests. certainly would
not accelerate this desideratum.
New Britain herald., 1928-11-26
JURY DUTY!
Rv Wilfrad A Ro0SA

BY Wilfred A. Roose
1t was just my luck to receive 4
summons to serve on the jury in
the trial of the murder case.
Summoning aIlmy excuses togeth-
err I went before the Judge. ]
would get off the list some way. Just
before was called one Of my
friends told me. Say. they have
chosen one OF the prettiest women
in town on that jury"
Right then my excuses were for
gotten. A pretty one. Ell? And
sometimes the juries on murder
cases were held over a week. II
they have pretty woman on the
jury it won't be so bad. believe I'll
do my best to qualify.
So when my name was called my
excuses were gone. and after long
mination ! was accepted and told
to 20 into the jury room.
My heart beating high with an
ticipation Of meeting the pretty one,
! entered the jury room.
If ever meet the friend who told
me about the pretty one!.!! 1t was
my wife!
And the darn trial lasted four
days.
New Britain herald., 1928-11-26

doesn't take any polish off the argu-
ment that those who would like to
see what other stations are prOvid-
ing should have the opportunity to
do so without running into the same
chain program every few minutes.
Trustified methods may have an ad-
vantage, but it is not an unalloyed
blessing for the folk at the dials.
New Britain herald., 1928-11-26

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question Of fact or Information BY
writing to the Questic= Editor. New
Britain Herald, Washington Bureau.
1888 New York avenue. Washington.
D. c., sncios ing two cents in sta m ps
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advice cannot be given. nor can ex-
tended research DO undertaken All
other questions will receive = per-
sonai reply. Unsigned requests can
not be answered. All letters are con-
hdential.-Tditor.
@. Where il the most powerful
radio broadcasting station in the
world?
A. According to the best avail
able information it is located at
Zeesben. Germany, about 20 miles
from Berlin. 1t was opened Decem-
Der 90. 1927. and transmits on a
wave length OF 1850 meters and
10000 watts power.
Q. On what date will Easter
Sunday fall in 1880?
A. April 90.
@. When was the Absecon light
house built?
A. In 1857.
@. What is the meaning of the
name Schiffmacher?
A. 1t is German name mean
ing ship builder"
Q. In what seasons do crabs
change their shells?
A. Crabs do not change their
shells at fixed intervals or seasons.
but according to the exigencies of
their growth. the change being made
with great frequency when they are
very young. but rarely in advanced
age.
@. Who is Governor General of
the Philippine Islands"
A. Henry l.. Stimson.
9. What proportion Of silver
must an article contain to b.
marked "Sterling:"
A. Sterling is taken from the
standard fixed for British silver
coins. 925 parts silver to Is parts
copper
@. Who Is the author OF the
adage "A little learning is a danger
Gus thing" and where did it appear
first?
A.. 1t is found in Essay on Cri-
ticism," by Alexander Pope. The
verse reads:
Trust not your self; but your de-
fects to know
Make use of every friend and
every foe;
A little learning is a dangerous
thing.
Drink deep. or taste not the Pier
ian spring:
There shallow thoughts intoNicate
the brain.
And drinking largely sobcrs us
again..
@. How did the word machiavel-
liam come to signify crafty?
A. Machiavelli. a famous Italian
statesman and scholar, who lived in
Florence. 1467-1527, had reputa-
ton for duplicity in politics. and
his name has been expanded into
an adjective meaning crafty.
Q. How far is it by rail from
New York city to San Francisco?
A. 1t is $50 miles.
q. Who was the first wife of
Douglas Fairbanks and when did he
marry Mary Pickford?
A. His first wife was Anna Betty
Sully. He married Mary Pickford,
March IS. 1920.
Q. How much coal was exported
from the United States in 1927?
What was the principal market t.
which it was shipped?
A. Bituminous and anthracite
coal exported from the United States
in 1927 amounted to 10.012.000 and
3.S26,00O short tons respectively.
Canada was the leading market for
anthracite. and bituminous was
shipped TO France. Italy, Mexico,
Central America. Cuba, Brazil. Ar
gentina, Chile, Canada and other
New Britain herald., 1928-11-26
LIKES THE ARMY
Sergeant Out OF 1t for Only . Few
Hours,

Albany, n. Y, Nov. 26.-(UP)-
After Is years in the United States
army. Sergeant Boyce F. Kirby, now
in the recruiting service. was
civilian. But only for few hours.
His enlistment expired at midnight
but by noon of the next day he was
back on the job as right hand man
of Col. Raymond Sheldon.
Leave the army? Nothing doing."
Kirby said, I'm satisfied right
where l am, and I'm here to stay"
Kirby began his services In 1919
at Columbus.
New Britain herald., 1928-11-26

And Who Knows the Answer to This
One?
Turkeys alive have just two wings.
we know,
For once in our travels we
saw one,
But there's nothing but wings when
they've roasted the things
And it's ALWAYS our luck to
draw one!
New Britain herald., 1928-11-26
General rooth Passes
4 Restless Night

London. %or. % Lp)-Generai
William EraWW.l1 Booth. comman-
der of the salvation Army. had
restless night. Otherwise his con-
dltion was unchanged today.
New Britain herald., 1928-11-26

If you can quote him to support
your argument. and he has no title
to indicate that his opinion is au-
thoritative, he is d savant.
New Britain herald., 1928-11-26
This Would Make Thornton Wilder!

Bcrnice to Lloyd: why. ]
know Bob is awfully scientific.
heard him say he'd Just discovered
the san Luis ray or something"
New Britain herald., 1928-11-26

The pessimist reflects bitterly that
as an incentive to scratching winter
woolens are about as effective as
summer mosquitoes.
New Britain herald., 1928-11-26
Irai.kly SDeakinU!

Somers: Il sleep best on hair
mattress. What do you sleep best
on?
Robbins: "On the job"
Elizabeth Fisher
New Britain herald., 1928-11-26

There's always bright side. and
the prevalence of divorce proves
that boarding house life isn't what
it used to be.
New Britain herald., 1928-11-26

People had sex appeal in the old
days, too. but the neighbors said
they were just full of the devil.
New Britain herald., 1928-11-26

We are Il far-scattered people. and
agree on nothing except the idea
that it's nice to get living with
out earning it.
New Britain herald., 1928-11-26

Correct this sentence: Use II in
your home for week. said the
agent, land if you don't like it. ]
won't think you under the slightest
obligation"
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New Britain herald., 1928-11-26
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IT might be worse. After building
Il $4,000 kitchen and bath room,
you can finish the house for $4,000.
New Britain herald., 1928-11-26

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New Britain herald., 1928-11-26
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Rennard Does your wife
smoke"'
Barrett: mo. she gave It up.
Afraid Of getting too stout"
Rennard: How soo"
Barrett: "Sh saw headline IN
the paper. WOMEN SMOKERS IN
CREASE"
sylvia Wolf
New Britain herald., 1928-11-26

The Herald IL on sale daily IN New
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Square; schults's Newsstands Entrance
Grand Central, %.ud Street.
New Britain herald., 1928-11-26

Note to Mussolini: The volcano
shows you what happens when
little crust at the top tries to hold
things down.