New Britain herald., 1928-07-16
FLASHES OF LIFE: BABY TODAY PRECIOUS
 BECAUSE IT IS REALLY SUCH A RARITY

New. York - The baby of today | is precious because of his rarity. as was the old man of 1870 for the same reason. Dr. Ira s. Vile. in a study for the national committee on mental hygiene, attributes this to a decline in the birth rate and the lengthening of the span of life.
 Washington - Belief in signs is saving life Federation of stop. look, listen at railroad crossings is credited by the American Railway association with helping in 1927 to reduce crossing fatalities four per cent.
 New York - A suggestion that golf clubs be closed to adults on election day comes from Herbert A. Straus. treasurer of the republican state committee. He thinks more persons would vote for president. But Smith plays golf; Hoover doesn't.
 Buffalo - The colonels lady and Judy OGrady Cornelius Vanderbilt and his bride are visiting Niagara Falls on their honeymoon, like lots of non-wealthy folks do. Dusseldorf. Germany - Califor- | nias pride, Lillian Copeland. must make a mighty heave in the Olym- pics. Freulein Whas put the shot ill.a6 meters, a worlds record for | women,
 Paris - A foeman from the north
 has won his way to the gates of
 Paris. The second successive year
 Nicholas Frantz of Luxembourg has
 won the 3,360 mile bicycle race
 around the borders of France. Only
 40 of the 25O starters finished the
 go day grind.
 l New York - An anniversary gift,
 perhaps. Henry Ford is negotiating for the deserted village of Menlo Park, containing the laboratory in l which Thomas A. Edison perfected
 the incandescent light It's 5oth
 birthday is near.
 Washington - The eagle is to
 show the might of his wings. An
 armada of 2O4 naval planes oi
 every type will fight an imaginary
 enemy over San Diego the middle o1
 September.
 Chicago - The worlds most pow erful night beacon for aviators, with twin 8,oOO,0OO candle power lights .. now shines from the Roanoke tower in the Loop section. reaching IS cit ies in its swings.
 New York - Albert A. Bautz, sec retary of the street cleaning depart ment. has had to work overtime be : fore going on his vacation. There i
 such a rush of prohibition gar bage" in September. he explained = that the whole removal schedule ha ! 10 be rearranged in advance, witt = shortened routes and extra men. Chicago - Unemployment anon 5 musicians has led the American Fed :, eration of Musicians to declare wa h on the use of talking movies. whlc - President Joseph x. Weber say II constitutes "a serious menace to cul
 tural growth
 Newport, R. I.-S. s. Pomona 2 lumber freighter. goes aground n entrance to Narragansett Bay; nava ', tug pulls her off.
 s Pawtucket, R. I.-Thaddeus Eur l. eek, F year old youth, confesses 5 :, burglaries.
 ., Lee, Mass--Two more deaths VI septic sore throat epidemic brin ,t fatalities to 2S.
 ,f Camp Devens, Mass.-Three tho' ,o sand overseas veterans of 2e' ,d (lankee) Division pass in revle
 before Maj. Gen. Alfred F. Foo ,,. with Maj. Clarence R. Edwards. Vi r, time commander at their head. to
 II, Van Buren, Me.--Alan C. Rober at customs patrol officer. held in $l,5
 bail on charge of criminal assa'
 after firing five shots into autom to bile of Isadore Dumont who W ar motoring with his family. ns
 ,, East Providence, R. I-John ar poeg of California defeats Arne