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New Britain herald., 1929-01-30
25 Fears Ago Today

Inspector .Turnbull, Chairman Mercy, and other members of the building committee resumed their inspection of the city buildings and public halls today, They examined the Holmes & Hoffman buildin~, in which the city clerks office is To- cated: the Vega. Turner. and Bar. deck halls on Arch street. and the railroad block. MT. Platt. member of the corporation owning the last named, has agreed to have addition al precautions taken.
 A. J. sloper and T. w. Eddy were reelected directors of the Adkins Printing Co. at it's annual meeting last night.
 The New Britain Turner's defeated the Bristol firemen in a ug-of-war { in Plainville last night and won . handsome silver cup.
 Co. Is basketball team was roundly walloped by the Berlin team last night, the score being 21 to 1.
 Charles Prior has resigned as hilling clerk at the Plainville freight station after five years of efficien: | service.
 Lieut.. Frank H. Johnston. as 6 member of the staff of Mai Charles B. Andrews of the Putnam PhalanX. will be guest at the din- ner which the major will tender his staff at Habenstein's next Satur- day.
 New Britain will take increased interest in the state conventions thi. year. as the city is to have a mem, Der on the state republican com. mittee and another on the demo cratic.
 Agitation is again being renewed Cor state trade school in Hart ford. although at a hearing in 1S9: it was shown that New Britain would be the best location. New Britain is centrlllv located and. be cause of the hardware shops here i, the pupils could easily be. taugh the use of tools and how to mak' machinery.
 A number of annual meeting !; were held today. A. J. Sloper wa among the directors elected by tn, New Britain Gas Light Co.,. and wa also reelected president of the Nes Britain National bank and sec-e tary-treasurer of the Russwin Iycc nm corporation. Charles F. Smitl was reelected nresident of Landers Frary, & Clark.
New Britain herald., 1929-01-30
FOR BARGAINING PURPOSES

It is beginning to be clear that the administration regards the cruiser building program more in the nature of an opportunity to bargain at the next disarmament conference in 1881 than as something requiring im- mediate practical attention. The big navy men insist that the IS cruisers be started within a specified time limit and that they should all be under way as soon as possible. President Coolidge opposed hurry from the first. being satisfied If they were authorized and not under con- struction by the time the disarma- ment conference began. The hope that President-elect Hoover would favor time limit and thus not agree with the President has now vanished. Mir. Hoover's view appears to coincide exactly with that of President Coolidge. All of which leaves the big navy senators in some- thing of a quandary. True. they might be able to pass the navy bill. but unless they had sufficient ma jority to override presidential veto the outlook would be for no victory in the premises.
 Possessing a paper navy so as to be able to say to the other 5-5-3 sigma certain things the paper navy might be constructed is a new wrinkle in naval preparedness.
New Britain herald., 1929-01-30

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 As I unAssstanA t. tAess veeAs vsee Tt thsss ee ths psalmtet Ut vses sDsksa by Jsceb tn Eey1e. vAsa hs vas pFssented to KaAg fAarieh. by hts sen Jsssph. ts Ths incdsnt is found in osa. t7:e-s. "And Pharaeh said unto Jaeea, Hev cid art thouH. And Jar osb said unte Pharaoh, the days sf the years of ny pilgrtmass aFs an hundred and thirty years: few aAd evil have the days of the years Of my life bsen. and have not attained unto the days of the years os tho life q my fstAsrs In tho days ee their piisrinaSe.'
 It is possible also that the speak or may havs had In mind the words in Job ll.l-
 "Man that s born of woman is of few days and full of trouble.
 CRITIC.
New Britain herald., 1929-01-30

share of eliminating such . crossing. until eight people were killed there at one smash.
 The government is sitting pretty. It is able to hand down soms good ad- vice, only the states and municipali- ties are faced with stern realities that prevent the advics from being accepted as 100 per cent perfect. We rather think the necessary improve ulents will continue.
New Britain herald., 1929-01-30

city which happens te bs the home of . county commissioner receives an advantass therefrom. Thers may be some advantages we arc unable to discern. but if %, they are pretty small advantages
 The members of the county com- misioners do not represent the cities where they happen to live. The board is not species of county legis- lature. There are only three commits sioners and representation of the cities and towns of the county mani- festly is impossible with such small number. The boards business ii similar to that of board of di- rectors in a corporation. and it trans acts the business of the county in line with such efficiency as it is cap- able of mastering. There is no pos sibility of representing" anything: the board represents all the people of the county.
 During the eight years when one commissioner has lived in New Brit ain what advantage has that been to the city? Nothing at all, except in the general satisfaction of having a com missioner live here.
 With this thoroughly understood, local pride still impels us toward satisfaction if county commission CT continues to be resident here. There happen to be two candidates from New Britain and one from Manchester. The silk city is said to think it is time it were represented on the board. If the city had the ex- perience that New Britain has it would realize there is nothing in it to get excited about.
 The county commission is an i'm portant body. to the county. Being an appointive body, only those who stand high enough with the Hartford delegation in the Legislature are eligible. It is because of the system of appointment and the lack of de- pendence upon the will of the people in the premises that there is little popular interest regarding who hap. pens to be on the board. This body functions with less publicity thar any public board of prominence ir the county. Most of the time nobod, cares what the board happens to do think or plan. and the willy news paper reporters long ago regarded i as a purely formal and routin, gathering. Yet we would be willing to wager that many good stor! I turks in the background of the com missions activities. There usually i more of ballyhoo as to who is t, be a new mmissioner-when term happens to expire-than wha the board does after the selection made and the ballyhoo dies out.
New Britain herald., 1929-01-30
COUNTY COMMISSIONER
 POLITICS

It is reported that candidates from several cities of the county have am bltions to be represented upon the board of county commissioners. The attitude seems to be that when a commissioner halls from a certain city there is an advantage in it for that city. We fail to see where any
New Britain herald., 1929-01-30
POPULATION AND REPRESENTATION

Since the Fenn bill has been un- der way through Congress citizens of Massachusetts have had an oppor- tunity to study not only the bill, but it's effects; and by the time they got that far they began inquiring how it came that Massachusetts will lose a congressman under it's mathemati- cal provisions.
 It is hard to understand. for in- stance, why the Bay State. which has gained in population, will thus fare ill; while Connecticut. which has gained about in the same ratio as Massachusetts, will gain a congress- man.
 The gains of congressman contem- plated in Ohio and Michigan are based upon the population increases of Cleveland and Detroit within the past 20 years; that of California upon the gains incident to the re- tirement there of middlewesterners. Neither Massa chusetts or Connecti- cut can show anything like such gains in population.
 After, as is it's wont. the Spring. field Union analysed the dolorous outlook incident to losing congress man in the face of expanding popula- tion, that newspaper came to the following explanations:
 Though calculations now made may prove to be fairly accurate they are nevertheless based on esti- mates only of the results of the mex, census and also upon the uncertain factor of the so-cailed major frac- ton principle incorporated in the act. Under this principle stat, might gain or keep a representative if in the division Of its 1880 popu lation it had fractional remainder of more than one half of the fixet numerical basis of presentation. ol might lose, if such remainder were less than one half of that basis"
 All of which sounds perfectl! clear-after the third reading Any way, Connecticut will gain a con greSSman If the bill gets through That won't help the Democrats
New Britain herald., 1929-01-30
LOCAL EXPENSES

 lecture on the need of curb ing local and state expenses. Now that the federal government is re- ducing expenses, we are told. the state and municipalities have good model to follow. Instead. state and municipal expenses are consistently increasing.
 This is perfectly safe way to ad- vertise governmental economy. It no doubt succeeds in fooling some of the people but not all. The facts are too self-evident.
 The government is paying off it's war debts. It could not help doing so. seeing that the recent conflict is now ten years past. In another ten years the debt vii automatically be reduced still more as the liberty bonds are paid off or reduced to a low point. In another decade. in fact, the governmental debt prob- ably will De less than ten billion dol lars
 The states and municipalities are not paying off war debts. All they are doing is to catch up with im- provements that were periodically neglected during the war. including schools and roads. New Britain is no worse off than thousands of munich palities. and everyone here knows certain Improvements simply must be made within the coming years. What advice can the government give us about these that is worth the weight of the paper? None at all We can be as economical as Scotch. men-assuming Scotchmen are as l economical as the jokes about them i claim-and we would still need the improvements.
 ! Would the federal government have us quit building highways, oI schools, or have us neglect water iworks?
 tirely within its Jurisdiction. Ina city is Washington, D. C. Wha economies are being practiced by thu government in the capital? Non' that anyone can notice. The govern ment simply never gets through i'm proving Washington. and the cost i higher per capita than in almost an other city. The government is tryin to make a beautiful capital in Wash -ington, work that has bee
 progressing as long as anyone ca
 remember. Other cities think just a much Of themselves as the govern
 ment thinks of Washington.
 When one comes to state expense
 the situation is no different State are faced with the necessity of meet ing the demands of the people withi . them who drive automobiles. Woul the President have it that all tn
 states build their highways on th : 50-5O plan-obtainin half the cost . from the government on the fcder; 5 road aid law and paying the otht l half themselves? The President. f we remember rightly is strongly or { posed to the system. thinking state f should meet their own expenses. ' And some states are so situate 9 that they must build vast bridg' s and tunnels. These cost many mi ) lions. Practically all of them al 2 faced with the need for eliminatir ] dangerous crossings at great e,
 pense. Only recently an economic 5 county in Ohio refused to pay i
New Britain herald., 1929-01-30

The middle class Is the one that folds napkins carefully for the next meal.
 Every knock is a boost, but sometimes it's just boost for the garage bill.
 Some Washington correspondents will enjoy their job after March '. and some don't care for statistics. Patronage doesn't prove that peo pie like talk with their movies. They still buy radio sets in spite of static. That critic who says American writers lack imagination hasn't seen the new seed catalogs.
 Copyright. 1929. Publishers | Syndicate
New Britain herald., 1929-01-30

The plan to construct new city hall is another of those things which nobody any longer mentions. A safe bet is that the city hall will remain where it is and how it is for 80 more years-if not 60.
New Britain herald., 1929-01-30

Statistics have been dug up to show that the number of married women who work has doubled in 3S years. And this in spite of all the labor saving machinery for the kitchen.
New Britain herald., 1929-01-30

One way to prevent an engineer from driving his locomotive too fast is to have such bumpy tracks that II will be uncomfortable riding. That plan works on some jerkwater lines.
New Britain herald., 1929-01-30
POETIC JUoTICE! By Harold ", Rust

POETIC JU0TICE!
 By Harold ". Rust Mack's boss was mean and small and low. ;..
 And not Mack's equal in the least, But still he was the boss. and 70
 Felt free to treat Mack like n
 beast.
 That very day. for something new,
 He'd lectured Mack unjustly. too. Poor Mack went home that night. to
 A letter from some lawyer there. Informing him in language kind That to great wealth he'd fallen heir: And would Mack call and let them know a.
 Ills pleasure soon? We'll, Mack guessed %! Of course Mack bought the business then, And hired away from other firms Some managers who'd treat the men
 As human beings, not as worms: !, But. first of all. he fired that boss: And no one mourned much at the loss.
 And then Mack bought . touring car,
 And when the former boss he'd He'd follow. smoking his cigar.
 And spatter him extensively Of course. twas all dream. But say, Why can't things happen ONCE ] that way? The Beautiful and the
 Esther: " hear the Aircraft Stu dio has shut up shop on account of labor trouble"
 Claire: Yes, they couldn't come to terms with their striking beau ties!" HI. F. Grant.
New Britain herald., 1929-01-30

The trouble with the cigar industry seems to be that nobody smokes them 10 avoid a cough or as substi- tutes for marshmallows.
New Britain herald., 1929-01-30

One of the mysteries of the Legls- lature is this: Who writes all the bills and who reads them?
New Britain herald., 1929-01-30
THE FARMER LEARNS ENGLISH Ny Alexander T. FrOtl

THE FARMER LEARNS ENGLISH By Alexander T. Fr,h Gee" said the college professor of English to the Farmer. this is certainly a pretty layout. I'll say h is,"
 "Yes." answered the farmer, i've like to think that this view from our verandah is really quite as beauti- ful as any landscape could be. My wife often compares 1t to Versailles" 1
 They were sitting together after supper on the verandah at Meadow brook Farm where the college pro- lessor of English had just arrived as boarder.
 Its certainly a peach, all right" said the professor.
 'I like it especially" the farmer went on, "when the sun sets and the twilight steals over it all. It gives one a sort of hushed feeling-I can't express it-but something al- most reverential"
 T know what you mean" said the professor. ''it gets your goat"
 ''I try in vain to think beyond it, to penetrate into deeper mystery be- hind"
 "And 1t beats you to it." mur- mured the professor sympathetic ally.
 ''The quiet" said the farmer. "ap- peals to me. As I grow older l can no longer stand the noise and clat- ter of dry city. It makes re feel l T can scarcely put it into words but almost-"
 Almost bug house." said the pro- , lessor of English. , "At any rate. "concluded the s farmer as they rose presently to gc 7 inside. T am very glad and very much Lonored to have you h re I want my son 10 go to your college , with English as his special subject and now that you are here, I'll have a chance to talk it all over."
New Britain herald., 1929-01-30
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New Britain herald., 1929-01-30

The Herald Is on sale daily in New York at Hotalings Newsstand. Times Square; schultz's Newsstands. Entrance Grand Central. 42nd Street.
New Britain herald., 1929-01-30

New England winter roses: Blos- soming on cheeks.
New Britain herald., 1929-01-30

Nature keeps the balance. A he'll cat wife usually has an uncommon ly good husband.
New Britain herald., 1929-01-30

Fable: They were the wealthiest people in the village, but they selected a simple and inexpensive tombstone.
New Britain herald., 1929-01-30

The reason radio reallocation made things worse was because broadcasters argued and listeners merely hoped.
New Britain herald., 1929-01-30

The only profitable advertising medium in the City. Circulation books ana press room alvays open to advertisers.
New Britain herald., 1929-01-30
COMMUNICATED

"Critk." Offers . Correction
 Editor of Herald:-
 Dear Sir:
 I would like to correct a state. mcnt that was made in an addres, given at meeting of the Rober' Burns club last Thursday evening. The speaker in his closing word' alluding to Robert Burns said-"Ir the words of the psalmist-'Briel
New Britain herald., 1929-01-30

If is as clear as dirt that the state has not solved the dirt road problem.
New Britain herald., 1929-01-30

It's a great country. The woman who now uses three linen towels in making her toilet once Quarreled with brothers and sisters for the privilege of breaking in the cleau towel on Saturday night.
New Britain herald., 1929-01-30

A Vulgar Story Wont you have another cookie dear?" asked mother of little Mar. ion.
 No, I'm full," was the child's re. ply.
 You musn't say that, it's vulgar cautioned her mother.
 The following day mother agair asked. Have a biscuit. dear?" No, Tm-I'm-eh--eh-Tm s< vulgar" Marion answered. -Ernestine Carmichael
New Britain herald., 1929-01-30
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 ANYWAY1 We hope they'll not make sugar plums" For. politicians greedy thumbs Of all that sugar that we saved The while the warning nations raved!
 Tho ReAanai Terry: Too bad. Was he crip- pied that way at birth!" Scott: No. he's been sleeping on g day bed!"
New Britain herald., 1929-01-30

before sentence is pronounced?
 Will Irwin says the little things count most. They sure do. They've usually counted about ten more strokes when you claim an S5.
 Another way to have path made to your door is to let the public know you gave ten thousand to some worthy cause.
 Americanism: Kicking because 70 much of the magazine is advertis- ing; spending the evening reading ads because the stories are bum. Prominent among the unemploy- ed in many communities is truth.
 Even if capital punishment is right, it seems unfair to limit it to the crime of being broke.
 Another little thing we need is a , law making a sentence 10 fife con finement automatic when the killer is excused because he isn't re. sponsible.
New Britain herald., 1929-01-30
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New Britain herald., 1929-01-30

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New Britain herald., 1929-01-30
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New Britain herald., 1929-01-30

''0h. send him to ua" assentsd the professor cheerfully. "We'u leAFn 1: to him all Fight."
 HSeofy e 1AeD Speaker: we den't want ens law for the tieh and another Ia" for the poor!.'
 Member of audisnce: Why not? We've got enough laws to 70 around. haven't wei"
 -Mrs c. H. cootes.
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 The shadow upon her husbands brow was becoming habitual. now. and 1t deepencd day by day. ;~Am I as dear to you as l used be ?she suddenly asked him. for her misgivings left her no peace of mind. The man shivered!
 "Everything is dearer In the su- burbs than anywhere else!" he ex- claimed, taking her hand in his and looking steadfastly down into her great. gray eyes.
 Iud0Oes and Out3
 Madge: go you arc going to mar ry that famous athlete?" Dorothy: "Yes."
 Madge: ''They say he's quite an outdoor lover."
 Dorothy: Yea and he's not % slow on the indoor loving, either!" Rev. c. 6. Marrs. Copyright 1929. Reproduction For bidden.)
New Britain herald., 1929-01-30

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New Britain herald., 1929-01-30
TELEPHONE CALLS

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New Britain herald., 1929-01-30
Facts ndFancies

A sucker or boob or chump is one who pays too much-like pounding rocks for two years for $50.
New Britain herald., 1929-01-30
A Vulgar Story

As an omen of success. industry is better than a four-leaf clover!
New Britain herald., 1929-01-30

No such thing as luck? How many times do you owe your life to the fact that . train want con. ing along just then.
New Britain herald., 1929-01-30

If our shirt buttons acted natural every time they met our laundry man!
New Britain herald., 1929-01-30

''0h: send him to ua" assentsd the professor cheerfully. "We'u lsAFn 1: to him all Fight."
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-12-29
The s'Four TO Eight"

For one thing. there arc less
hard and fast classiheations and
every woman who is in tune with
the new spirit OF dress bases the
divisions OF her wardrobe to a
great extent on her own particu-
lar needs. Boundaries z no
longer set by the three meals OF
tbe day. An important group OF
dresses belongs TO the class
known as the -Four 70 Eight
sorq-informal evening-or form
a. afternoon. OF the same genus
we're The dresses known last
summer as daylight dinner dress
e. ~hich will undoubtedly be
revived again when the days
have Heightened.
Sports clothes have a much
more direct bearing on the dress
problems OF most women. Dresses
that might be chosen for tennis
are also appropriate for busy
hours indoors or in the garden.
A tweed suit that Is suitable for
rolf may with a different choice
of accessories be chosen for prac-
tical street wear. The same
Jodhpur costume that a young
woman selects for winter sports
is also appropriate for hying.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-12-29
Gloves at Night

A pair OF large cotton gloves
of the sort that h~od-carriers are
supposed to wear is very useful
III bcautifyinF the hands. III
bought a pair the other day for
ten cents. The twenty-five ccrt
sort we're too thick and shapely.
Mine arc made OF unbleached.
feccc-linrd cotton with thumbs
and fingers ot almost double size
and they are finished with cuffs
OF blue ribbed cotton that ft al
most snuElv. \ am sure \ never
invested VA dime to better ndvan-
.tage in my life. Now when my
hands are the least bit rough OR
dry n apply a good hand lotion
and put On my plovcA Then ~
read or rest and after hftcen
or twenty minutes + take tha
gloves or and my hands are "all
better"
If YOU find III necessary to wear
gloves at night on account rf
chapped hands BY an means use
this sort for they arc so roomy
that they do not construct the cir
cuIation. and are quite light in
weight. Besides II Is a simple
matter 10 wash them.