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New Britain herald., 1929-04-22

ITO Helen" Q. On what date did Good Fn- day fall in 1sll!
 A. April 10.
 c. What is Esperanto? 4. \ mechanically constructed language using root words that are common ir the languages spoken by the majority of Europeans and those of European stock. The purpose Is to create an easily learned means Of internationa. communication.
 Q. What is the natural color of Ermine
 A. The fur of the weasel (Er- mine) is white in winter. and is sometimes called White Weasel" In the summer the fur is . tawny- brown shade and is called summer weasel"
 Q. What is the average length of game of tennis?
 A. It is difficult to estimate the average length of time required to play set of tennis. as it all de- bends on how closely the games are contested. In . game between aver age players the sets would probably average 20 to % minutes each. Q. What is the meaning of the German family name Hoen? A. It means a Hun" Going fur ther back the origin is mythological and the meaning is a giant" Q. Who is the author of "Sut Lovingood?" A. C. H. Harris.
New Britain herald., 1929-04-22
25 Nears Ago To-day

Charles Eger of this city has se- cured the contract to furnish music at four of the dance halls at Savin Rock.
 o. F. Curtis. defeated mayoralty candidate, has filed his election ex- penses. His defeat cost him 1925.
 The gas company plans to lay new mains this spring in East street from Smalley to Pleasant and in Prospect. Highland. Star, and Clark streets.
 The High school seniors yester- day afternoon voted to hold their class banquet in Pennington.
 T. B. Sperry has been appointed superintendent Of the local parkA
 A meeting of the soldiers mon- ument committee will be held to. night in Piainville. Ike fund now held by the selectmen amounts to I700 and 1t is hoped to erect a fitting monument. It is doubtful 1T any town the size Of Plainville sent more soldiers and sailors to the Civil War than did Plainvlle.
 New Britain has 2,2SS citizens H. able to the s2 state military tax.
 C. B. Caldwell has received the head, antlers. and hide of what must have been a magnificent speci- men of the caribou family. The ant lers are over three feet in length. Recently Mir. Caldwell received the head and hide of a Rocky Noun. tain sheep.
 Officers elected by Phenix Tenn pie of Honor and Truth last night included Charles J. symonds, w. V T., and A. L. Thompson. W. F. R
 Theodore Wilson's store or Church street was burglarized las, night by someone who tried on sev. eral pairs of shoes before stealing some of which fitted. At the annual city meeting fir Turner hall last night the sum 0, H27,7oo was appropriated in l; minutes.
 The sale of the Panama canal tt the United States was ratified d , Paris yesterday
New Britain herald., 1929-04-22
Questions d1ldA1lswu.'s G'phQfht1Bo'l
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You can get an answer to any question of fact or information by writing to the Question Editor. New Britain Herald. Washington Bureau. 1893 New York avenue. Washington D. C.. enclosing two cents tn stamps for reply. Medical. legal ard martial advice cannot be given. nor can ex- tended research be undertaken. All other questions will receive . per sonal reply. Unsigned requests ,an. not bs answered. All letters are conhdential.-Editor.
 q. Where is Stanford University
 A. The Post Office is Stanford University, California IL is near the city of Palo Alto.
 Q. When should apple trees be pruned?
 A. During February and March.
 O. Is it true that Ireland has no snakes?
 A. The United States Biological Survey says that there are no native snakes in Ireland. and never have been, so far as authentic records show. A few attempts have been made to introduce harmless species. but as yet none have become estab. lished on the island. This may be due to lack of proper environment. climate, disease or other abnormal condition. The slow-worm or lag worm, a legless lizard which super ficially looks like a snake. Is native in Ireland. and may account for the snake stories of that country.
 q. Who is "Cheerio' who broad casts over the radio every morning?
 A. He is Charles K. Field of San Francisco. a friend Of Herbert Hoover. He was a classmate of MT. Hoovers a Stanford University in 1895 and more recently was co-au- thor with Will Irwin of a Hoover biography.
 Q. When did the Third Liberty Loan bonds start drawing interest?
 A. At their date of issue. May g, 1918.
 Q. What Is the minimum age of eligibility as president of the Unit. ed States?
 A. Thirty-five years.
 Q. Who officiates at a common law marriage?
 A. Such marriages are not sol emnized in the usual way. but are an agreement to marry. between the parties followed by cohabitation.
 c. What is the meaning of tho surname Galusha?
 A. It Is a Scotch-Irish name, dc rived from the Gaelic. and means "a stranger" foreigner" and Is frequently applied to an English man.
 Q. How many persons are it prisons and reformatories in the United States? A. The latest Census figures (1923) enumerated 109,619 persons in priso-s and reformatories in the United States.
 Q. Who is the author of the lines 'The glory that was in Greece and the grandeur that was Rome?"
 A. Edgar Allen Poe in his poem
New Britain herald., 1929-04-22

will be glad to hear how other American citizens feel about this case.
 Personally. I intend to write to Washington and find out If these conditions should be allowed to exist or continue. and l hope that many other American citizens will also protest this action. or any similar action, for the good of this country. To be real Americans and an asset to our country we must insist that all people who wish to become citi- zens must be able to at least read and speak the English language. How can we expect them to Ameri- canize If they cannot read or speak! We should admit only those who will become good Americans and an as set not a liability to this, our great country.
 Yours for better American citt- gems,
 Edw. J. Barks
New Britain herald., 1929-04-22

twice, eight eggs the third time. She raised two little onea When they were only ten days old she left them and in IT days they left the nest. In four weeks the male is singing. Last year she laid 24 eggs Her daughter laid six for the first time. I can prove this to be true. l am only an amateur.
 G. P. W. You are, but she isn't!
 S01utiOn! Walter: Why so gloomy, Archie?"
 Archie: i've just come from the doctor and he gives me only ten days to live"
 Walter: Great Guns! Isn't there anything you can do about it?" Archie: Well. l can stop running around with his wife!"
 Scott Frederick Copyright. 1929. Reproduction
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New Britain herald., 1929-04-22

beautiful day as being compelled to see the outcome of an automobile accident along an important high way. To mix blood with scenery quickly erases the memory of the sylvan dales and the concrete rib- bons of winding roads. They are nightmares to all sensitive motor ists.
 It is said that on an average every day sees 75 people killed by auto- mobiles in the United States. And every day on an average sees 2,100 people injured.
 The newspapers, of course. do not give accounts of twentieth of these fatalities: they would have room for nothing else if they did so. The newspapers give attention only to those accidents within . comfortable radius of the home office. and when printing the grewsome account of some distant catastrophe it must be out of the ordinary. such as six per sons of . family killed at one time at a grade crossing out in Iowa. At other times the Iowa accidents- the sinsles-gain no attention ex- cept in Iowa.
 A headline the other day had it that it takes 300 automobiles to kill one person. That of course is be- cause there are 25,00Q.0o0 automo- piles in use-when they are not in garages. There are only half the ac. cidents in winter. when half the machines are slowed away, than oc. cur in summer when all are in use A statistician. therefore. could fig ure 1t out that in the summer time it takes much less than 900 cars to provide one accident. We ourselves haven't time or inclination for such i superfine figuring.
 The small state of Connecticut !s no more damned with automobiles per square mile than many of the larger states Indeed. some of the western states of magnificent dis tances possess as many or more au. tomobiles per 100 of population al Connecticut. Some of them also lead us in the accident ratio per popula. ton or per car. The ratio, let it be unostentatiously added. depends upon speed and carelessness. It il to be hoped Nutmeggers have learned. or are learning. that care. lessnese doesn't pay anybody but the hospitals. the doctors and the undertakers.
New Britain herald., 1929-04-22

Truth isn't like an oil-well pro-
 motor. It lies at the bottom of a
 we'll, not at the top. The old mans son is willing to be- gin work at the bottom. That's
 where the firms letters are signed. Happy thought: You can take a
 mashie and knock garden weeds to
 kingdom come. Maybe some accidents are called
 unavoidable because . born fool can't avoid driving that way. If the hero seems fool and falls into trap after trap. it's because that
 kind of novel makes a more thrill ing movie.
 Good will tours are confession, when a man is especially attentive
 to his wife, he's been up to some- thing.
 Old Jackson invaded Spanish ter ritory to catch and hang two Brit ish outlaws, but he didn't depend
 on other nations to help enforce
 Americas laws. German kultur triumphed, after
 all. The righteous nations are fully converted to submarines and poison
 gas.
 One reason why a great man 1 seems SO great IS because some mo- body writes such excellent speeches for him.
 Americanism: Giving the children castor oil, although you won't take it yourself: trying to enforce laws
 that way.
 How Gales would enjoy hunting l deer If they were huddled in a pen. All wars are much alike. and the ! poor ignorant peon butchered in ! Mexico may think he is dying to make the world safe for democracy. If Mir. Hoover wishes to purify the Republican party in South Carolina.
 why not persuade him to attend
 revival meeting? It requires a great love of liberty
 to rejoice in your triumph over re-
 strictious while applying cold towels
 10 your head next morning. | there are 800 million Chinese; and
 when a white man learns he can
 abuse 70 of them he doesn't fear
 one more.
 1 Funny man. Standing stili and
 holding hose to sprinkle the lawn is work, and chasing a little ball
 four miles to its hole is play.
 Apparently there's no way to de-
 prive a dry Congressman of his i liquor-unleSs baggage smashers can be bribed to drop if harder. ! There are now 346 Harmless" connections to remove superfluous hair. none Of which has decreased { the sale of raxors. l Correct this sentence: ''Henry gives me five dollars a week" said 1 she. "so ! never long for my old job , and my own spending money" Copyright. 1929. Publishers Syndicate
New Britain herald., 1929-04-22
WHEN BERLIN STARTED IT

From the chase columns Of Col Hers it is learned that in the early days of Connecticut industry two Irish tinsmiths named Pattison ap- peared on this side of the water and set up in business in Connecticut. the paradise of the trader. in small village called Berlin" The Pat tisons turned out tinware. which vas sold throughout the country by peddlers.
 Which proves, of course, that in those early days peddlers were nec- essary. That is how the early man. ufacturers of New Eritain-or what is now known by that name-dis- tributed their goods. It was the only way if could be done. for the simple reason that stores were virtually none existent during that early day There were no stores to speak of be- cause the country was very short on towns and very long on prairie" :" The merchant prince of the day was the peddler. who at first went on foot. then carrying their hoods on horseback, then with wagons. In due time the greatest merchant prince of the age-one H. C. Carter-had fleets of gaudily painted wagons traversing the country, each wagon drawn by four horses. When villages began to spring up more thickly. and "country stores" became com mon. the development sounded the death knell of the hucksterins busi. mess on a large scale. From that time to the present Connecticut goods were sold from shelves rather than from wagons.
 When Berlin started as a 'manu- featuring center" back in those days when distribution was through peddlers' carts, the outlook was fol a great development in the future That came in due course but the part of Berlin where it cropped ur was that part which was to be known as New Britain. Indeed. we would be willing to bet a dollar te the hole in a doughnut that the tin. ware products which the Pattisor brothers turned out 'in Berlin more than 100 years ago was the be. ginning of the bigger and bette, output in that line of goods-and many other-which centers in New Britain today.
New Britain herald., 1929-04-22
THE $500, ,OOO,O 900 FARM
 RELIEF BILL

Politicians may be in tight place, as one observer stated, but they propose getting out Of it by handing the farmer a cool $500, o00, GOO. Ob- viously. no such gift is contemplated by the orthodox administration farm relief bill before Congress, but that is to be the appropriation, accord ing to Washington information. which is 10 be made available as loans to "stabilizing corporations for working capital to enable them 10 purchase, store. merchandise or oth- erwise dispose of farm commodities, These corporations will be cooper atiye associations and the like. The proposed farm board would decide who is 10 get the money. The point is, will the money ever be paid back? Some observers of reliability admit all or part of it may never be returned. especially if the stabi- lizing business does not function as is anticipated.
 Another feature of the bill is that what some call 'stabilzing" others call speculation" in wheat and oth- CT crops. Others bluntly term it rigging the market"
 l. Is strange that Congress goes in for these things today when many bill has been passed to make such activities criminal.
 The farm bill is peculiar, too, in professing to minimize speculation; then it goes on to show how the CO., ops. instead of the wicked grain dealers are to do the speculating.
 The farm bill, even without the debenture plan asked for by the Ma tional Grange and opposed by Pres ident Hoover, goes farther into the realm of government in business than any legislation ever passed by Congress. If passed it will be land mark in coupling government with industry during peace times. Yet some of the most able men in both houses of Congress favor the meas ure. Some of these from the first however, favored the McNary Hau- gen bill also. They favor anything that will cause soil -tillers to feel grateful. Unlike when the McNary. Haugen vetoea halted the procedure the present scheme is favored by th' admins, ration and probably will no' be vel oed unless the debenture plar 1 added.
New Britain herald., 1929-04-22
CHILDREN WHO SELL TICKETS

We are disposed to think that the man who told a boy that he could not sell tickets to a church concert and social without license was im- personating . police officer He was in plain clothes. but sported a shiny badge, which the boy might have been deluded into thinking was a police badge, while in reality it probably was some other emblem. People wear so many emblems now adays that it sometimes is difficult for a boy to tell who is police of- ficer and who i. a lodge officer.
 The incident in the West End did some good, however, in bringing to the front an official declaration from the police that children can sell all the tickets the want to without go- ing through the ordeal of obtaining a peddler's license. Any other po- lice department verdict would have aroused tremendous opposition. For children are the most efficient ticket sellers in the world. They i have no compunctions about going from door to door in the effort 10 sell pasteboards for some organiza- i ton in which they or their parents may be interested. Nobody need feel angry at being asked to buy tick ct for something or other, especially when the solicitor is smiling child. The modus operandi usually is that when the child sells stipulated number of tickets-usually ten-he gets in free; and that is like going to the circus.
 We are glad to learn that the po- lice department is really friend Of childhood. rather than grutfly telling children they must obey some useless and impractical law about getting out licenses for the sale of tickets Besides. there is a great deal of selling going on with out licenses. We should like to know. for instance, whether the army Of book agents who continually call upon US to sell us tonnes calculated to enable us to write better edito- rials are reilly required to get out licenses before they can operate Probably not Perhaps even the po- lice chief receives calls from book agents now and then, fellows who try to sell him volumes guaranteed to increase his efficiency as the boss of the bluecoata And even police men have been known to buy such things on the instalment plan in or. der to become better cops. Whenever that happens we wish them we'll. and not inquire too pointedly whether
 their benefactor possesses license to elevate the world.
New Britain herald., 1929-04-22
FOUR KILLED IN AUTO CRASH

Greensboro, N. C., April 22 R- Four persons were killed and two children were injured in an automo- bile accident near here yesterday. The dead were Mir. and Mrs. Walter Burgess, their daughter. Mary. 1s. and Mrs. Nollie Hudson, all of Ram seur. The injured were Virginia Burgess. II. and George w. Burgess, Jr.. 10, both children of the de ceased couple.
New Britain herald., 1929-04-22
DOG BITES BICYCIIST

While riding a bicycle on Hamil- ton street Saturday afternoon. Ken meth Nichols. son of MT. and Mrs. Oliver Nichols of Black Rock ave nue. was bitten in the leg by a dog. The wound was cauterized by a phy- sician.
 Attempts to discover the owner- ship of the dog failed. Dog owners on the street were unanimous in de claring they did not possess animals which would bite anyone.
 Kenneth. excited at the time he was attacked. could not identify any of the dogs later shown him. The dog warden was notified,
New Britain herald., 1929-04-22

Just because selling liquor aboard the steamship Leyiathan IS supposed 10 be d novelty the vessel receives more front page mention than all the other ocean steamers combined.
New Britain herald., 1929-04-22

This legislature gives us the i'm. pression Of having staged many we'll bated hearing but one shy on important new laws, Which may be just as well.
New Britain herald., 1929-04-22
Our Peace Program!

Our Peace Program! Gun-parleys make the nations sore, They hate to give up guns that roar, But fun-parleys would cheer the earth. If they must roar--why not with mirth?
 Poor Girl! Larry: Whats the matter with Mildred? Roger: Poor girl. She's got antithesis." Larry: What the dickens Is that?" Roger: Bookstores on hot lips!"
New Britain herald., 1929-04-22

Slle was aDOut 70 DC mdrF1eu anu
 By Janet Desser
 was an innocent country girl when it all began. But alas, it was not fated to endure.
 My father. a fashionable poultry farmer. had pledged my hand in marriage to the hired man in lieu. as I afterwards discovered. of fifty cents in back wages
 He was a veritable beast. My face went scarlet at the mere thought of 1t all.
 l hated him and his country ways.
 So I left home and sought success among the bright lights of New York. Soon l became head buyer for a large department store.
 Then I met Ralph and my trou- bles began. He was travelling sales man, a drummer, with a face like a Greek God.
 He offered me love-and compan- ionship. And l, poor butterfly that I was. how was I to know he had a wife and seven children in Chicago ? He spoke tenderly into my she'll like ear whispering words of love. drank in every syllable. He breath ed my name. Then he exhaled it. Our lips met elegantly In . refined kiss. was lifted to the heights. Happiness came to me on the wings of the morning. had loved aA only woman can. The afternoon sped by on golden wings.
 Then my babe was born, and Ralph vanished into thin air.
 was disconeolate but soon dried my tears and sought solace in my work.
 During this time had become part owner of the department store Tn which I worked and found man, matters to occupy my attention. put on a mask of gaiety and wal much sought after for parties among the society folks of New York.
 They were real kind to me and l often asked. Janet Desser, whJ don't you marry and settle down?' But laughed at their solicitude and 1 refused many "catch of the sea son" while they marvelled at m, cynical indifference. Then Jim. good kindly Jim Bar ston. sxam into my ken (he uset the Australian crawl stroke ant how:) and the ashes of love wer. rekindled by miracle. He was al itinerant fruit dealer in an exclusive neighborhood and had money tI burn. Our regard for each other va mutual. but on our wedding day thu Heavens fell.
 had gone for | walk in tn moonlight and there blocking m, path was-Ralph. He had com back and stood there feasting hi eyes upon my youth and beauty.
 Go out of my life. Ralph" screamed. swallowing my pride. Blu he did not go. And then Jim cam up.
 And now I have Jim no longer or Ralph either. For he was kille' in a drunken brawl Q short tim afterward. and I have only my bab and my memories.
 Why do I write this. I wonder Well, perhaps some young girl vii read it and profit and 70 my If will not have been in vain. l hop so, anyway.
 And SO my message to you girl is this: when your parents star bossing you and grabbing about you habits. tell them where to get off. they get too fresh. walk out o them.
 Because even if the Primros Path isn't everything that it's crack cd up to be. home life in Americ |, isn't so hot. either.
 But now my babe is calling fc his gruel and l must 60. live fo him alone!
New Britain herald., 1929-04-22
THE ACCIDENT SEASON

Automobile fatalities in Connect cut register from half a dozen a the pretty weather advances.
 Nothing 50 spells the lure of .
New Britain herald., 1929-04-22

Me tm6eI AuuIt bQIVuu ua NUeuSssV" The A l. national oIGauizati"h which fufuishe- newspaper and ed>ei tIsers wlth strictly noneN analys,k Of circulation Gu, circulation statistics are based upou this audit This ,nsurss pro tecricn asatns, fraud in nevspapei dis trlhution ngures to both national and local advert ser>
New Britain herald., 1929-04-22
Ups and Downs of Stage Iifei

First Manager: Why 50 blue, old man?"
 Stage Manager: "Oh. bad luck overtakes everything undertake. My low comedian is laid up with high fever and his understudy has broken down from overstudy.'
 Alden Romaro
New Britain herald., 1929-04-22

The only profitable advertising nsdium "a the City Circulation books and pfe& room aluays open to adverussrA
New Britain herald., 1929-04-22

Every newly born female baby has an expectation Of life Your years longer than that of . male baby.
New Britain herald., 1929-04-22

The Herald 10 on oAls daily In NeW York A Aotaiings Newsstand. 1tmss Square. schult1's NswHtandA Entrance Grand Central. 42nd Street
New Britain herald., 1929-04-22
Inquiry

Editor of The Fun Shop:
 would like to hear from some bird man if he could beat this rec ord of | canary. She laid five eggs
New Britain herald., 1929-04-22

Entered at the Post Oines at Hsw br1tAip
 as Second Claa Mall Matter.
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HAD l BUT KNOWN She was about to be married and then
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Facts ndFancies

Truth isn't like an oil-vell pro- motor. It lies at the bottom of we'll, not at the top.