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New Britain herald., 1929-08-15
BLUE IS APPROVED
 FOR DYE|NG FOOD
Candy Manufacturers May Now Obtain Bizarre Color Effects

Washington. Aug. 15.-After Sep tember IS it will be all right with the government if we eat blue lamb chops, blue oysters, blue grapefruit blue candy or blue anything.
 Blue will then be officially added by the department of agriculture through it's food, drug and insecti- eide administration.
 The color will be known as Bril- liant Blue FCT and was thoroughly tested before being pronounced harmless to health and otherwise suitable.
 It will be used mostly in candy unless someone seeks to produce few bizarre effects in other foods. The product is derived from coal tar. Heretofore candy manufac- turers have sometimes used indigo, which has been approved, but ln- digo has had a tendency to fade.
 Keith's theater here, where Wood- row Wilson used to go regularly TOT his vaudeville, apparently is going 10 turn into an old landmark, Of Whlch Washington has so many. It has been dark for more than year now ana although the management has hop- ed either to open it again or rent It, neither hope has been realized.
 Until 1t closed keith's was the capitals most fashionable show house. Cabinet members and other officials patronized it much more ire ouently than any of the other bet ter theatars here. It gained national celebrity through President Wilson familiar presence in the presidential box.
 Keith's succumbed to the disease which has ravaged vaudeville gener- ally. It suspended soon after ar enormous movie house opened near, by to offer presentations, almost the equivalent of vaudeville, along witt motion pictures. The talkies appear to have given another blow to any hopes of reopening.
 No other Washington theater ha' taken it's place as the principal loca amusement center and Presiden Hoover has his own talkies at tht White House twice a week.
 Perhaps the boys and girls else where will be interested to learr that the boys and girls in Washing ton have seen Mrs. Lindbergh ant agree that she is not only dainty ant petite, but also very pretty girl.
 It seems that the. former Ann Morrow takes a very poor picture so poor as to make her look almos ordinary, whereas she really doesn' look like that at all. Observation re veals that she has lovely blue eyes dark, well-shaped eyebrows, hand some teeth and an irresistible smile And she made a hit with the boy and girls who counted themselve lucky to get a good look.
New Britain herald., 1929-08-15
CLUBS DUE TODAY
 FOR LEGION GAMES
District Championship Contests
 Will Start Tomorrow

Final arrangements for the play off for the 11th regional champion ship in the American Legion Boys baseball league which will be held here tomorrow and Saturday after moons, will be made at 8 meeting of the general committee in charge tonight at o'clock in the Chamber of Commerce rooms in the Leonard building on Main street.
 Dale Miller, representative of the National American Legion Amerl canization commission and in charge of the playoff here, will be present at the meeting to outline the plan for the playoff.
 The two games which will be played tomorrow afternoon between four teams will be staged on Dia mond No. 1 at Walnut Hill park. one at o'clock and the other at 4 o'clock The winners of these two games will meet on Saturday after noon on Diamond No. 1 at 2 o'clock to decide the championship of the 11th region. The pairinss for tomorrow will not be known until tonight when the drawings for opponents will take place.
 The teams. representing their states, which will take part in the playof, are Buffalo. New York; Providence, Rhode Island; Pater son, New Jersey, and Bridgeport, Connecticut These teams have won the championship of their respec- tive states in playoffs with other Le- zion boys teams.
 in this city at approximately 6:2o o'clock tonight. The members of the teams, their managers and coaches, will all be quartered in the Stanley hotel.
New Britain herald., 1929-08-15
HoOt Gibson's Former
 Wife Under Arrest

Los Angeles, Aug. 15.-lP1Mrs. Helen Gibson. stage actress and for mer wife of Hoot Gibson. motion picture star, was at liberty under bond today on a warrant from San Diego which charged she had given hotel there a worthless check.
 Mrs. Gibson said it was all a mis- take" She declared the bank had refused to honor s100 check be- cause her signature wos illegible.
New Britain herald., 1929-08-15
First Army Troops
 Leave for Training

Newport, R. l.. Aug. 5.-CP-The first of the regular army troops to leave Fort Adams, here, on 200 mile hike to the concentration area near Westminster, Vt. left today un der command of Lieut.. John r. Far ley. The troopers, all of the mount ed detachment of the 18th U. s. h. fantry, will camp tonight at Ports- mouth, R, ].
 This was the second troop column to start for the concentration area, where 4,000 regulars will be as sembled on September 1 for manouvers. The first unit on route from Fort Rodman, New Bedford, Mass, to East Alstead, N. H. will camp at Medway. Mass, tonight.
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icated with impressive services to SOL
der dead of the Great War, and I'M
der their spreading branches services
for these departed heroes are held on
Memorial and Armistice days.
Commerce and industry are, however,
responsible in q great measure for the
present scientific interest in trees and
for their wholesale planting. AS far
AS 1t has been possible to ascertain, the
systematic culture of trees was not I'M
dertaken on any practical scale before
the fifteenth century, although the an
cient Egyptians, Greeks and Romans
had fruit trees and occasionally or
namental trees under cultivation.
Artificial planting was first begun In
Germany in the fifteenth century and
in England somewhat later. Tree plant
ing in England did not become general
until the seventeenth century and
planting for profit was begun in the
early nineteenth century, when the
scarcity of timber for naval purposes
and the difficulty and expense involved
during the Napoleonic war in getting
supplies from foreign countries made
this necessary. AS this need became
less acute the English turned again to
the cultivation of ornamental trees to
find that they had developed growing
taste for foreign trees and shrubs. Ex-
changes between gardens in other ma
lions were made and tree collections
became fashionable. Today both gov
ernmentS and private companies en-
gage in forest cultivation, sometimes
for timber and sometimes for climatic
amelioration.
1T is interesting to note that the be-
ginnings of arboretums in England
and the United States were almost
simultaneous. The collection in the
Royal Gardens at Kew, said to be one
Of the finest in the world, traces its be-
ginning to 1862, when the Duke of
Argyll's trees and shrubs were removed
from Whitton Place to adorn the gar
den of the Princess of Wales. The first
American tree garden was planted by
course. private collection. but so was
the garden at Kew private in the sense
that it belonged to the crown.
The famous Arnold Arboretum, near
Boston, was started in 1872 and opened
to the public in 1882; the Kew Gar
denS were opened to the public in 184l.
An outstanding difference between these
two famous gardens is that the Arnold
Arboretum, like the National Arboretum
at Washington. was established for SCI
entific purposes: not for park.
Botanical gardens which may include
both plants and trees. are of more an
Gent origin. the oldest having been es-
tablished for the cultivation of medic
inal shrubs and herbs. There are rec
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as sacred by people the world over In
ancient Greece it was believed that each
tree was inhabited by an exquisite
spirit. a nymph or dryad, and there Is
the legend of lovely Daphne, who, pur-
sued by the god Apollo, changed herself
into laurel tree to escape his en-
braces In the ghost world of old Japan
there also existed tree spirits.
In the Garden of the HeSperideS, ac-
cording to the story, flourished the tree
with the golden apples and in the Gar
den of Eden grew the mysterious Tree
of knowledge. On the Emerald Isle,
as DruidS, the ancient CeltS worshiped
trees and India regards as sacred the
bantam groves. placing her affairs and
temples nearby. The many trunks of
this queer tree, often numbering 300
or $50 fully developed stalks, form a
natural colonnade. clustered temple,
which covers acres of land. The
trunks grow from the branches which
overhang and take root, branch again a
score of times and again take root. A
hunting party could camp for days in
one of these groves. The ground be-
meath the trees, protected from the sun
and overgrown with grasses, serves as a
sanctuary for the bright-colored birds
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THE bantam tree is not alone among
strange trees that actually exist
and at which people will forever marvel
There is the upaS. celebrated by Milton,
a poison tree that grows in Java, and
1t is said that If a man should fall
asleep under this tree he would never
awaken. The natives use its poison to
tip their arrows and spearheads
Scarcely less interesting are the tea
trees of China, the coffee trees of Bra
iii, the black ebony and the ginkgo
tree, the link between our pine tree and
some archaic ancestors. The fam
shaped and ribboned leaves of the gink-
go, which grows Justify in Washington
represent pine needles. Worthy OF
mention also are the giant redwoods OF
California, believed to have been young
when Christ was born, which grow 200
and 800 feet tall, attain a diameter OF
80 feet and represent mechantable tim
Der sufficient to build about 20 homes
of average size!
The United States is reputed to be q
commercial and industrial country, yet
even here a degree of reverence at
taches to trees. comparable to the atti-
tude Of ancient races. In many States
the law forbids the cutting of any tree
on public land without permission from
the forestry service, and Arbor day has
been set aside for the ceremonial plant
ing of seedlings and the instruction OF
school children in the value of trees
Not few cities have sacred memorial
groves, wherein the trees have been died.
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sPRINCTIME In THE ARNOLD ARBORETUM

ords of the Medical Garden of Math-
aeus Sylvaticus'' at Salerno in 1909
and Of a similar garden at Venice in
1888. What is conceded to be the first
botanic garden as We know them to-
day was established In Padua in 1888.
Cosmo de Medici founded a garden at
Pisa in 1914 and in Leyden a garden
was established In 1877. Montpelier.
Breslau and Heidelberg established
gardens before 1900 and in 1897 gar
den was founded In Paris to supply the
bouquets worn at court, known after
1885 as the Garden of Plants. Eng
lands first venture was at Oxford, in
1921, with five acres under cultivation.
Today scarcely civilized country ex-
lists which does not have at least one
OF these gardens. They range in size
from few acres to hundreds OF acres
and in many are found large areas de-
voted exclusively to the cultivation Of
domestic and foreign trees. The gardens
at Rio de Janeiro cover 1000 acres and
are the most extensive in the world.
Among famous gardens. in addition
to those already mentioned. are the fol-
lowing: At Adelaide, South Australia:
Brisbane, Queensland: BuenoS Aires,
Brussels, Dresden, Montreal. Nuwera
Eilya and Hakgala. Ceylon, Hongkong.
Paris. Dublin, Glasgow. Edinburgh,
Lahore, Lucknow, Calcutta, Saharunpur,
BuitenZorg. Java South Africa, Singa-
pore, Pennag: Brooklyn, New York City.
the Bronx. Ottawa, st. Louis, Jamaica,
Shonbrunn, near Vienna; Dahlem, near
Berlin, and the KoiskekoWa Gardens at
Toxic.
OF 236 gardens of this character in
the world, Great Britain has SO. Ger
many 35. France and her colonies 25,
Italy %, Russia and Siberia II. Perhaps
because of Its great natural resources
of forest and woodland and the vast
stretches OF its national parks, which
are maintained in their primitive
grandeur, the United States has not APP
preciated, as other nations have, the
value of man-made gardens. AT any
rate. prior to authorization OF the Ma
tional Arboretum. no national garden
that would compare to those OF other
countries had been provided. But with
the gradual wiping out of large areas
of forest land through devastating fires.
through commerce and building, that
appreciation of trees and plants is rap
idly growing, as the recent congressional
action attests. Private collections have,
of course. existed for many years
John Bartrams arboretum. the first
established in the United States, IS
maintained as garden today 1t IS
situated OH the banks of the Schuylkill
River, and was incorporated in recent
years as a part Of the Philadelphia
park system. This plot of ground con-
tains the first foreign trees ever brought
to the colonies.
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where the trees are isolated in open
groves, the individual oaks have trunks
feet and more in diameter. Laurel,
BURBERRY and other plants requiring
acid soil flourish, and toward the
marshes are pawpawS and similar
bottom-land growths. These trees
constitute, in the opinion of botanistS,
an admirable groundwork for the
arboretum.
Not only will the garden be useful
from an economic and scientific stand
point, but 1t will constitute beauty
spot, giving the city dignified and
impressive entrance. In the Spring
time. clad in the fragile vestments of
budding leaves and flowers, it will
attract hundreds of visitors by its fresh
beauty. Autumn will find 1t afiame with
riotous color, on highway that Is being
built up SO rapidly that such color is
becoming rare.
Tourists, including nurserymen. stu
dents, scientists and gardeners as we'll
as those who seek only after beauty, will
visit the arboretum during future years
just as they visit the art galleries and
famous buildings of the Capital For, in
spite of our huge cities of brick and
concrete, trees will never fail to fasci-
nate people in every walk of life
Indeed, If history and legend are con-
sidered, they have always played
conspicuous role They have been
associated with religions and worshiped
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of the United States Government Two
controlling ideas have determined the
character of these exhibits Spain,
which is experiencing a cultural and
commercial rebirth, planned the expo
sition with the dual object of showing
the world what she has accomplished
in recent years and learning what the
Western World can teach her.
The first step taken by the exposition
commission appointed by President
Coolidge, of which former Gov. Thomas
E. Campbell of Arizona is head, was the
selection of Martin Jenter of Mount
Vernon, N. Y, as art director, and he
has supervised the preparation of all
displays, which are designed to be a
visual survey of the whole range of
American life.
X !. X
TEN agricultural industries will be
represented in that departments
section, including cotton, tobacco, wheat
and corn growing. road improvement,
dairying. sheep and wool production and
other live stock. Like MANY other
Americans, the farmer has probably for
gotten how large a debt he owes to
Spain. Spain it was, nevertheless, that
first introduced many of the seeds and
plants from which our present crops are
derived, as well as agricultural imple-
mentS and live stock. Coronado brought
cattle and sheep to these shores in 1870
A Spanish King. Charles III, presented
George Washington with jack and two
lennets the first of these animals seen
on this continent. and from these three
pioneers at Mount Vernon Sprang an
industry now vahled at nearly half a
billion dollars. The names of leading
poultry -Minorca, Black Span
ish and Blue proclaim their
origin. The whole debt TO Spain will be
appropriately acknowledged in this ex-
hibit.
High points in methods of cotton pro-
duction and marketing will be featured
for the"information of Spain and the
South American countries Cotton
picking scenes. maps of cotton areas
| and demonstration of methods of baling
| for export will be included In one dis
play a group of wagons loaded before
a cotton gin will tell the story OF
the improvement of American cotton
through Standardization of varieties in
each community. The foreign visitor
will learn that III this country growers
using the same gin are urged to produce
only one variety Of cotton. so that the
seed which they receive back will not
vary.
In the section devoted to tobacco
growing an ingenious automatic cigal
smoker will demonstrate the burning
qualities and ash Of the various grades
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In 1878. Humphrey Marshall. cousin
of Bartram, planted an arboretum near
West Chester, Pa. Some of his trees
still stand. and are said to be unequale1
even today, except by those planted by
George Washington at Mount Vernon.
TO Marshall goes also the credit for
the first book on American trees. a
treatise that did much to stimulate
their scientific investigation.
X X X
THE Arnold Arboretum, situated In
the Jamaica Plain. about miles
from the Statehouse of Massachusetts.
in Boston, is renowned the world over
for its collection of trees and woody
shrubs. Between 5000 and 5000 species
and varieties Of trees and shrubs, be-
longing to 81 different families and 1926
genera, are to be found, Systematically
arranged and labeled. Specimens from
all corners of the world have been
brought and planted in this poetic place
and distributed to growers throughout
the country-conifers from China and
Japan, the Japanese tree lilac, Thun-
berg barberry, the fragrant white
clematis of Russia. the Amur maple and
the Amur corktree. grown from seeds
from Petrograd, are listed among It's
llipOi
What the Arnold Arboretum has ac-
compliShed on a more or less limited
scale. the National Arboretum will ac-
complish on a large scale. Its location
Is more suitable for the growth of a
large variety of trees. since it lies mid
way between the North and South, and,
furthermore. it will be accessible 20
more than 200 potanists in and near
Washington who are vitality interested
III experimentation with trees anu
shrubs.
During the hearings before Congress
a score of experiments which might pa
tried at the arboretum were suggested
and witnesses heaped reason upon rea
SON for its$estabit hment Nurserymen
pointed out theirS need for Bureau
of Plant Standards" some irreproach
able authority for the identification of
the trees and shrubs that constitute
their stock in trade. This would enable
them to conduct a more dependable
business. The Importance of this stand
ardiZation can be seen when it Is stated
that more than 10000 names of plans
are involved.
The possibility of breeding trees that
would be more disease and pest resistant
than some of those existing now was
discussed; the hybridizing OF trees
along the lines followed by Burbank
with flowers: the introduction of new
trees so that their adaptability and uses
might be studied, and many other posi-
bilitieS. 1t Is well known that the
chestnut trees are fast being killed by
blight, and suggestion was made that
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anish Fair to Strengthen Ancient Ties With America

Spain, while across the cobbled square
is the AlcaZar, Moorish palace used
by Spanish SovereignS as royal palace
since the fourteenth century.
Accustomed to such splendor of archi-
lecture and beauty of nature, 1t is but
to be expected that Seville would be
strongly influenced in planning the
structures. which are to house the ma
tons exhibits. The largest building OF
the exposition is the Spanish Pavilion
on the Plaza de Espana, an enormous
edifice set in half-circle, with CEN
trail court 600 feet across and 40 divl-
sions, corresponding to the 49 provinces
OF Spain, each sheltering the products
of commerce. industry, art and agrl-
culture of its respective locale.
Adequate housing facilities for visitors
have been provided by the spanish gov
eminent, which many months ago inltl-
ated a modern building program The
finest of the new hotels are the Alfonso
XIII, upon which nearly S450,000 has
been spent in furnishings alone; the
Christina. the Palace and the Escobar,
having an aggregate of about 2,OOO
rooms.
A direct shipping service to Spain, i'm
proved railways. 5000 miles of new
hard-Surfaced highways and a telephone
system installed by American engineers
are among lIle QUIET COIiClclc cNluclSco
of SPANS determination to regain her
old distinguished place among the ma
tons and to insure the comfort and en-
ioyment of the thousands of visitors she
expects to come TO her Ibero-An1erican
Exposition from all over the world.
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THE personnel of the American COM
mission in charge of the United
States participation includes. in addi-
ton to former Gov Campbell. Judge
Roderick N. Matson of Cheyenne, Wyo;
Helen Hall Upham of Chicago Helen
Varick Boswell of New York, George T.
Cameron of San Francisco. Agnes Rep
plier of Philadelphia and John NJ. Dem
nison of Baltimore.
There Is no city in Europe which has
gayer personality than Seville. and the
least sensitive visitor feels at once the
lure of Andalusia. Seville has an ORR
entail aspect. due to its history, and IL
eternally vibrates with laughter, color
end music under its cerulean blue skies.
Imposing Spanish grandees, staggering
Moorish princes, new world discoyerers,
the genius of Murillo and Velasquez. all
are woven into the gorgeous fabric Of
Seville, to which the tourists OF this and
many other nations will turn their foot
steps this Spring and Summer.
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hro Ep@n Open MAY BY
Santana sCenraF pneJ States

and the mechanism breaking the light
will do the counting.
A model of the Capitol at Washing
ton. measuring by Is feet. will be the
central figure i'll the exhibit of the Ma
tional Commission of Fine Arts. Emile
Garet, sculptor, devoted three months
to the construction of this faithful
model, which will be flanked by large
views of the best architecture TO be
found in this country. Views also will
illustrate the steps that are being taken
to beautify the National Capital along
the lines OF the original L'Enfant plan.
The debt of the United States to the
early Spanish explorers who dared death
in the then uncharted wilds from Flor
ida to California will be effectively re-
vealed by the Library of Congress eX-
hibit. A large map. in the manner OF
the sixteenth century, will show the
routes taken by De Soto, Coronado and
others, and Photographic reproductions
of Spanish books, manuscripts and maps,
all dealing with the Ibcrian influence on
the history and culture of this country,
will be on view. Cooperating with the
library. the American Library ASsocla-
ton will install model reference library.
This phase of the United States partici-
patton will be rounded out by the play
uiS vi w uAii
Old World music by the United States
Army Band. which is being sent abroad
on this specific mission.
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Tor the location of the exposition.
Seville has provided park and
garden tract of 2,400 acres on the banks
of the Guadaiquiyir River which has
been under intensive cultivation for
years with this object in view and is
now one of the worlds beauty spots.
Nearby is the Tablada Aviation Field.
from which the new Seveille- Buenos
Aires air line will operate, and the ia
nous campanile Of the Cathedral OF Sc
vile, the second largest cathedral in the
world, ranked only by st. Peters at
Rome.
The feeling which inspires the visitors
within the cathedral is one of awe, so
lofty are the supporting columns and
high graceful arches i'll the Subdued
light of magnificent stained-glaSs win
dows. The bodies of several Spanish
kings lie in this cathedral and in a
chapel of the edifice is Murillo'S famous
st. Anthony's Vision of the Holy
Child" In the south transept stands
the Sarcophagus containing, Spaniards
insist, the bones of Christopher Column
bus.
Guarding the cathedral and over
looking the entire city. the magnificent
Giraldo rises into the blue sky, one of
the greatest Moorish monuments in