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New Britain herald., 1929-09-23
FOOTBALL EDUCATION

i An educator arose to remark the other day that no study in any of the educational institutions. high, medium and low, is as thoroughly taught and as deeply understood as the game of football.
 4 student may be deficient in any other study, or several of them. but 1 it is rare indeed that he doesn't know every trick on the gridiron.
 The football season has started with the usual vigor. It is short season and the game is played hard while the weather is right for it. Virtually every college. noar-concge. prep school and high school in the entire land has an eleven trying to uphold the greatness of their institu- tons. In every fount Of learning buz&es conversation about the merits of the boys in the armor plate suits and their chances Of putting the similarly equipped torrors of some rival institution in their place.
 Books telling all about the fine points Of football are studied with ont being on the curricuIa and with out prodding from the professors or the teachers. To study and talk foot ball comes as natural to the budding mind and the mature individual al or near campus as slipping on a banana peel comes 10 the person who isn't watching his step.
 Football, somebody has said. Is one of the few things about modern education that sticks 10 one through out life. Onco bitten by the gridiron bug the infection remains.
 Taking advantage of this situation, numerous institutions Of learning hay" come 10 lean heavily upon football receipts for that practical Sustenance which means most. It is useless 10 ask. who gets the money" Th" players don't: they play for the glory that is in it. The coaches ar" well paid, usually far better than the best professor on the premises. But there is a net income over and above ell expenses that warns the hearts of the trustees of
New Britain herald., 1929-09-23
25 Fears Ago Today

Councilman John Donlon of the fifth ward will sail October ? with his wife and two children on the Ma jestic for Ireland where they will spend about six weeks.
 A Herald reporter accompanied Engineer W. +. Caldwell when he ran his car down to the new town home this morning and noted the progress that has been made these 1 since MT Caldwell saw it last, nearly q month ago.
 The condition of the funds in the street department has led Mayor l BasSett to secure a statement from the bank as to the amount of money | there is to the credit of the city. He | has learned that the balance on Sep l tember 20 was about $142,0O0, ol | which about s45,000 was to the credit of the general account. The sixth ward democrats will hold a rally in the East Main street armory this evening. The officers will be escorted from the hotel RussWin to the armcry by the Phil | harmonic band.
 Philip Bardeck is erecting a new bowling alley at the Mountain Grove house, on Shuttle Meadow avenue. There will be meeting of the Central Pomona lodge No. l at the East Hampton Grange, Tuesday, Oct. 11th.
 At the monthly meeting of the Lelmsleder club which was held yesterday, the members of the club, through their president, J. A. Jost, presented Richard Nogcl with a suitably engraved gold-headcd cane in recognition of his efficiency in helpful services as secretary of that society.
 One of the pleasantest events of the season was the complimentary tanquet rendered the baseball men by the business assoc,ation and ad- hlrers of the club at Hotel Walker. Saturday evening. Manager Charles Diggie acted as toastmaster.
 The 1oun" Mems r. A. B. society, tt it's meeting yesterday, voted to award the general contract for the erection Of an addition to and re- modelling Of it's present building to Thomas Grove.
New Britain herald., 1929-09-23
COMMUNICATED
WOULD HONOR LOCAL HEROE,
Editor,

Editor.
 New Britain Herald:
 As an old-time resident of the northwestern section of the city would like to state in your paper how l, and other old-time residents feel Tn regard to the naming of the two triangular parks in upper Broad street.
 If they preferred heroes in prefer ence to the old-time residents, could they not find them right here in New Britain, or in above mentioned section, for instance, three boys who fought and gave their lives in the World War-th2se soldiers play ed ball on said parks and lived within q stones throw of them. Or another young man still living in this seCtion-a signer of the petition regarding the names of the parks who fought in the World War hay ing received the Distinguished Ser vice Cross, and CroiX De Guerrc, Did they stop 10 .hink when they named those parks that perhaps in the petition some old-tme resident might have had a son whom they could honor along with the two they did show preference to, and give one to their own heroes. and the other 10 the Polish general; as stated in petition presented to the common council to name them after two other old-tima residents, if they did not approve of the names given. The above mention soldiers are sons of old-time residents of this section
 An old resident from the north western section of the city.
New Britain herald., 1929-09-23

The Connecticut company seems Increasingly disinclined to repair and maintain trolley lines when the tracks become too bad for travel over them in comfort. The substitu- ton of buses for the trolley be- tween Meriden and Wallingford was a case in point. This line, once deem- ed important to travellers between the two cities, has turned into bus route. The buses don't last as long as trolley cars-not by years-but re- placing outworn trolley tracks is an expensive process. Thus one erst- while ''interurban line" after the other disappears, while buses con- stantly increase.
New Britain herald., 1929-09-23

value tenements at less money. Thus, no matter what the tax rate might be, the values on which it is based would be less,
 But that plan would not reduce the year to operate the municipality. If there is less valuation for any kind of property, and the tax rate is not inordinately increased, the needed tax money would have to come from some other source.
 What other source? The question is fair one.
New Britain herald., 1929-09-23
Observations On He Weother

Washington, Sept. os.-rorecas st Tor southern New England: Partly cloudy tonight and Tuesday, possibly ram on the southwest coast. sllrhtlv warmer tonight except on the southeast coast; moderate 10 fresh northeast winds, strong on tbo southeast coast.
 forecast for Eastetrn New York: Mostly cloudy on the coast and fair m the interior tonight and Tues day; slightly warmer in central nor tlon tonight; moderate to fresh northeast winds.
 ForecaSt for New Haven and vicinity: Fair and warmer tonight: Tuesday cloudy and warmer.
 Conditions: There has been but little change in the area of high pressure over the eastern portions Of the country and the crest centers at Northheld, Vermont. Pressure is relatively low along. the South Atlantic coast from the Virginia Capes southward. show CTS prevail in portions of the Caro- linas.
 The trough of low pressure in the western districts extends from western Minnesota, southwestward to New Mexico and Arizona.
 Temperatures remain abnOrmallv cool in the northern districts east of the Mississippi river and light to heavy 1rosts were reported from portions of eastern New York state and northern and interior New Eng land districts.
 Conditions favor for this vicinity fair and warmer followed by in Creasing Cloudiness.
New Britain herald., 1929-09-23

You can get In anawer to any question of fa1c "r information by writing to the pu'I'Ion Editor, New Britain Heral1, Washington Bureau, 1922 New York &N,rue, Washington, D. C., enclosing two eel Is in stamps for reply. Medlrl', legal and marital advise cannot h5 g'Nel nor can ex- tended research le :nGcrtaken. All other questions M'l! receive per- sonal reply. Tls;gred requests can not be answered An letters are idential.-Eiltor.
 Q. I was born in America but married an alien. Am I still d citi- zen of the United States?
 A. If you married an alien after September p, 1922 you are still an American citizen. Prior to that date woman assumed the citizenship of her husband.
 Q. Where and when did Senator Penrose die? How long was he in the United States Senate?
 A. Boies Penrose died in Wash ingtOn, D. C.. December 31, 1921. He was elected as a Republican to the United States Senate in 1897. reclec- ted in 1903, 1909, 1914 and 1920
New Britain herald., 1929-09-23

The Star and all other careful ob- servers, are not pessimistic. They merely wonder when the pyramidine IS going to stop. They know as little about it as the rankcst amateur speculator.
 W nat everyone can agree about however, is that the farmers. clerks school teachers, preachers and all others who were not in on the ground floor will be the losers when and if the deflation comes.
 It IS safe to bet on the future progress of the country.
 It IS safe, too, to bet on the futnre prosperity of Florida. But such faith did little good to those who were caught in the Florida slump re- sardless of it's temporary character
 A bump in the road can do a for rlple amount of damage, though the high"ay may lead to pleasant scenery.
New Britain herald., 1929-09-23

One of the evil features Of pro- hibition is that a horde of get-rch- quick fellows, some of them youths, who otherwise would be intent upon earning an honest living, seize upon the law as yielding an opportunity of easy money. Some of them make 30 much of it that they can afford to 
 forfeit s1 1000 bonds.
New Britain herald., 1929-09-23

putcd to be 70,000 square miles ad- ditional. Q. What relation are my cousins children to me?
 A. First cousins once removed.
 Q. Where may Tom Mix be ad- dressed?
 A. Care of Zack Terrell, Sells Floto Circus, Peru, Indiana.
 Q. Who played the part of Nor ma Shearers brother in "The Trial of Mary Dugan"?
 A. Raymond Hackett.
New Britain herald., 1929-09-23
and served until his death.

and served until his death.
 c. Is Eugene Sandow. the ia, nous strong man, still living?
 A. He died October 15. 1925, al i London, England, from the effects Lit is said, of injuries received in a motor accident some years previous Q. Is there in existence. or on ] record, any airship which is driven by steam engine?
 A. The "City of Glendale" an | all-metal, steam driven dirigible was made in Glendale. California, and passed successful tests. Q. What is the youngest age a girl may get married and in what state may she get married at that age?
 A, According 10 a recent sum- mary of marriage laws Of the states the minimum age at which a girl may marry without the consent of parent or guardian is 16. which ago is fixed by law in the states Of North Carolina and Minnesota. With the consent of parents the minimum age is 12 years in Maryland.
 O. Where are the National Headquarters of the American Auto mobile Association?
 A. Mills Building, 17th and Pennsylvania avenue, Washington, D. c.
 Q. Did the United States pro- duce more wheat in 1928 than Can- ada?
 A. In 1928 the United States pro- duced 902.749,000 bushels of wheat; Canada 533,572. .000 bushels.
 Q. Do airplanes have motors with an odd number of cylinders?
 A. Yes. There are 3, 5, [, and 9 cylinder radial type motors. \ Q. How much did Al Jolson re- ceive for appearing in "The Sing ing Fool'?
 A. He is understood to have re- ceived s150.0O0 flat for the film.
 Q. What is meant by the term classical music?
 A. Music composed by the great masters. The name is especially ap- piled to works in the forms which were adopted by the great masters Of the latter part of the 18th cen tury, as instrumental works in the sonata form and operas constructed after the received traditions; works which have held their place in gen. "r2l estimation for a considerable time and of new works of the same type and style.
 Q. How can square holes be cut in wood?
 A. Square holes may be cut with a skating attachment on a milling or may be drilled square with special attachment to a lathe called the Radbore attachment. The usual way and the most satisfactory is to broach the hole.
 Q. Is if true that apes and mon keys do not eat bananas?
 A. No.
 c. For what masculine name is Caroline the feminine?
 A. Charles.
 Q. From where did the state of Rhode Island get it's name?
 A. It is said to have received it's name from small island in Mar 1 'agansett Bay. called Roode By andt meaning "red island" Accord | ng to another authority it was named for the Island of Rhodes.
 Q. How large is Lake Victoria | \yanza in Africa? How deep is it . md what is its elevation above sea cvcl?
 A. II has an elevation above the i ;ea of $,775 feet; greatest depth, | seemingly not exceeding 240 feet. . Area about 2G,Ooo square miles; ! hat of the catchment basin, com
New Britain herald., 1929-09-23

Of course, the returns are negligible to anyone if he only buys a stock to sell it when it rises. That can be done only in a bull market, as the present one. The point is how long IS the bull market to last? One guess is as good as another. There are thousands of holders of | stocks, of course. who have enjoyed increased earnings-book earnings. But these are folks who owned the stocks long before the present range of prices were heard of. That Is q different matter altogether. For in- stance, person who had enough faith in Radio Corporation years al go to buy it when it was very low could make much money by selling if on Aug, 23 when it was 96. in spite of the fact that there have been no dividends.
 The spectators today, however who are paying high interest rates for gambling funds are not in this class. They are speculating on pres ent prices, not those of four or six years ago.
New Britain herald., 1929-09-23
Milford Democrats Name
 B. J. Pagan for Treasurer

Bernard J. Pagan, for many years a resident of New Britain prior to his removal to Milford, where he is in the restaurant business, has been nominated for town treasurer by the democratic party of Milford. Mir
 Pagan is at present a member of the rolice board and has been active in Milford public affairs for some time
New Britain herald., 1929-09-23
PLAYING WITH STOCKS

Wherever one goes one finds con- versation about the stock market. The incident in town recently, where a New Haven brokerage house sent a representative here with $500, GOO worth of stocks which had been or dered, and which were not expected to arrive by mail for several days is an inkling of what is going on.
 Just as people match pennies, buy prize Or lottery tickets, try their luck on gaming devices at amuse- ment parks, and are willing to trv almost everything at least once, so they play with stocks.
 Most of them have no more idea about calculating what stock should be worth from the report of an industry than they know how to figure the standing of a bank from it's official report. It's all Greek, or possibly Chinese.
 But they dabble in it all the same. The process seems to come natural.
New Britain herald., 1929-09-23

In such q situation. however, it is
 the duty of the city to do all in it's power to help tide over industrious and adventurous citizens who invest ed savings in real estate. The load on real estate should be frightened if possible. It might be that this would save some from losing their proper ty.
 When big industries run into slack times they do not hesitate in calling upon the government for assistance. They even call on the government for more assistance when their books show they do not actually need it. The present time is a case in point.
 Local taxpayers, especially those Of comparatively small means, have the same rights by their local gov ernment; and the local government should be just as eager to be of some assistance as the national govern ment usually is concerning the big ger industries
 Whether this would do any good is another question. Any kind of a straw looks attractive 10 a drowning man.
New Britain herald., 1929-09-23
SHE SAW Hf, WAS,

Clarke: Do you believe in this teleViSion stuff?"
 Barnes: "What is it?"
 Clarke; That person can actu- ally see over the telephone" Barnes: Sure. My wife can. The other night l called her up and said, Darlingish, Ish wontsh be homesh till latesh," and right away she said, I can see you're drunk" "
 Lillian Hubsmann. Copyright 1929. Reproduction For
 bidden
New Britain herald., 1929-09-23

| 1 Dear Joe:
 may call you Joe, mayn't T. | This is the first time I've ever writ ten you and it seems in talking we've always just addressed each other as you" But lately I've had to be out in the morning when vol, come, and l don't want you to mis- understand.
 Indirectly, Joe. it's about the ice, but really it's about us. I'm afraid you are hurt. The superintendent tells me that you don't want to leave my fifteen cents worth of ice unless l am in the apartment to let you in immediately.
 Now. Joe. l do try to be there and l miss you as much as you miss me, but l have a new job and my employer likes to have me get there at nine-thirty. l suppose I could get there at ten if you brought the ice on your early delivery, and in that way we could see each other. but l just cant wait until eleven for you.
 Of course I don't mind. and it doesn't make me feel any less warmly about you when you leave the ice outside the door in piece of newspaper. but it does melt quit, a good deal and it makes the man who washes the halls just a little fretful.
 The superintendent tells me you say that if l would take a twentv- five cent piece of ice it would be worth your while to have him open the door for you every day. So all right. l don't know how it will fit in my icebOX, and I'll have to make good many cocktails to use it up. But if it's question of our part ing forever, leave as large a piece as you feel you must.
New Britain herald., 1929-09-23
ADV ICE!

It was one of Flo ZiegfelG's $ young ladies who recently failed to place the name of Chaliapin when it came mp in conversation. She was told that Chaliapin was great artist. but a man who sang only q few nights a season. That guys d goof.' she mur- mured. sagely. Why don't he take less money and book longer cngag-- ments until he gets well known ?"
 Eddie Cantor
New Britain herald., 1929-09-23

Somehow the average marriage al- ways gets more space in the papers than the average birth. Yet the aver age daddy undergoes more excite 
 ment at such crucial period than the average bridegroom.
New Britain herald., 1929-09-23
MADE, HIM SICK

Mrs. Stores: Out with sick friend. eh? So you expect me to be- lieve that he was really sick?"
 Stores; Was he? Say, you ought to've seen him when his three Jacks bumped up against my Ten Full"
 Ivy Shaler.
New Britain herald., 1929-09-23
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WE'LL SAY THEY NEED IT!

Lots of memory courses designed 10
 help I guy Remember names and faces and
 make a hit thereby. But why not for those glum birds we're meeting all the while Some kind of course to help 'cm re member when to smile?
New Britain herald., 1929-09-23
DOG KILLS g RABBITS

The dog warden today is inves!i- gating the sad case of Thomas Czock of 164 Oak street, who Sunday re ported to the police that dog had strayed into his yard and had killed 37 of his prize rabbits.
New Britain herald., 1929-09-23
Member Andit Bureau of Circulation

The A. B. C. Is a nattonal organization which furnishes newspapers and adver- tisers with strictly honest analysis of circulation. Our circulation statistics gre based upon this audit, This insures pro- lection against fraud in newspaper dis tribution figures to both national and local advert sers
New Britain herald., 1929-09-23

The Kansas City Star in a recent issue weighed the possibilities and found them conforming somewhat with what Roger W. Babson said some time ago. The Star discovered there were horde Of farmers. school teachers, preachers and clerks in Kansas who were vitallv inter- ested in the stock market. That means they were gambling.
 The Star subscribed to the old fashioned notion that what goes up usually comes down; and the higher the ascent the heavier the fall.
 A most unpopular notion during the reign of bull,
New Britain herald., 1929-09-23
Mfmbpr of the Associated Press

The Associated Press IS exclusively en- titled to the use for republication of all news credited to 1t or not otherwise credited in this paper and also local news published therein.
New Britain herald., 1929-09-23

All roads led to Plainvile this aft ernoon, and even the trolleys were crowded.
New Britain herald., 1929-09-23
FOR SHAME,

Barnum: Too bad about that lion tanner, wasn't it ?"
 Ringing: "How's that?"
 Barnum: He got so swelled up over his press notices that he can't get his head in the lions mouth."
New Britain herald., 1929-09-23

Half the automobile drivers don't understand how the other half pay their bills.
New Britain herald., 1929-09-23


 and sell, not keep.
 It is Illuminating indeed to 1 analyZe the returns on some of the most active stocks al prices prevail ing for August 23. Prices have changed little since that date, but the principle still holds good.
 Atchison on that day was selling at $277 share, and was scheduled 10 pay sl0 a year. It is one of the most prosperous of lines. On that i basis, however, the return would be about $.G per cent. (The percentage, Of course, is obtained by dividing the yield by the price paid for the stock.)
 By this method one finds the following yields for important stocks at current prices:
 New York Central, 3,3 per cent; American Telephone and Telegraph. 3; Woolworth, A; United Gas Im- proVement, 1.6; General Electric Is; Westinghouse. IA; Radio Corporation of America. o (cipher. there having been no dividends).
New Britain herald., 1929-09-23

- The Herald is on sale daily in New York at HotaIings Newsstand. Times Square; Srhultz's Newsstands, Entran' Q Grand Central. 42nd Street.
New Britain herald., 1929-09-23
WORSE, OFF,

Mrs. O'Neill; "Is your mother a golf widow'-" Johnny; Nope. We're golf or phans. She plays tool"
 s. G. Holzman.
New Britain herald., 1929-09-23

Everybody by now knows what night club is like. But day club IS called a speakcasy.
New Britain herald., 1929-09-23

The trouble with real estate is that too many buildings during the boom period were built with gold bricks.
New Britain herald., 1929-09-23

The only profitable advertising medium in the City. Circulation books and press room always open to advertisers
New Britain herald., 1929-09-23

Ore dollar invested fo" loo years = 6 ncr cent. compoUndci, WiY earn $&3S.%0. At per cent 1t would earn only s19.21.
New Britain herald., 1929-09-23
ON FINDING AN OLD LOVE
 LETTER!
By Eleanor Granville

By Eleanor Granville What rapturous, romantic days These nervous, glowing lines re-
 call, When We. ecstasy ablaze. Were to each other all in all. My very presence in a room Could banish from the atmos- For you all elements of gloom; Yours did the same for me, old
 dear. Frenquently, too, you used to say: If fate should ever break ou., And we ., should meet some future l wonder how We both would Last Wednesday at the Walder-
 more,
 When l was meeting Bob for tea, saw you down a corridor And you, I'm pretty sure, saw
 me.
New Britain herald., 1929-09-23
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New Britain herald., 1929-09-23

There are citizens, of course, who believe the city could be run with less expenditure. But after all this is merely a belief. When definite figur- ing is attempted the results usually are negligible
 The city is like a man who dur ing boom period bought lot of goods on the installment plan. If the boom had continued he would have been able to make all his payments without trouble, But the boom flop ped and normalcy came back, and he is finding it difficult to meet all the installment payments.
 There have been plenty of indi- viduals just like that.
 And when it happens to an indi- vidual, what does the instaIlment collector say?
 You pay when the installments are due or we'll take the goods back"
 The city cant even let the goods go back to store. It must keep right on paying until the end of the chapter.
 Every city is that way, Every city has financial corns that hurt.
New Britain herald., 1929-09-23

Well, both of us, to tell the truth,
 Were resolutc, if not quite calm YOU dodged into the nearest booth. And l behind a potted palm.,