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New Britain herald., 1929-06-27
WE TAKE PRIDE IN THE CITY HALL

How many residents of New Brit ain knew that the City Hall-for. merly the Russwin hotel. is one of the best proportioned buildings in country? Not many. Of course. al- most all of us have considered it a handsome building. that there is something about it's structural lines that separate it from the average building. Now we know, from an article in scribner's, that it was the masterpiece of Joseph NJ. Wells, q coadjutor of the famous architectur- al firm of Mckim. Mead and White the latter no other than Stanford White, whose life was ended by a bullet from a gun held by Harry Thaw.
 We are not all architects: and worse still. too many of us cannot even surmise what is perfect archi- lecture, depending upon the opinions of experts as a guide. But there are few of us who cannot sense. at least in some small measure, whether building is worthy of be. ing chased as architecturafly out. standing. Some of us have felt this way about the Russwin building. not. ing the exquisite proportion of its lines and the beauty of its details: but it was only a feeling, a faint emotion. and not based upon expert Now we know what others of note think about the build. ing, and that can have no other effect than to cause us to appreciate the distinguished old structure | lit- tie more than We have been doing.
New Britain herald., 1929-06-27
Observations On Me Weather

Washington, June 27.-Forecast for Southern New England: Fair tonight and Friday; warmer Fri day; gentle northwest winds shift ing to southerly.
 Forecast for Eastern New York: Fair tonight: Friday increasing cloudiness followed by showers in afternoon or night; slightly warmer in north and west portions tonight: gentle variable winds.
 Conditions: Pressure Is hish over the middle and south Atlantic states showery areas prevail in portions of the southern states and over scat tered areas of the central and northern Plains states but continue without much change elsewhere.
 Conditions favor for this vicinity fair weather with moderate tenn perature and pleasant humidity.
 TemperatureS yesterday:
New Britain herald., 1929-06-27
AN AMBASSADOR WHO STICKS TO SIMPLICITY

At last. an ambassador to Great Britain who does not think it neces- sary to appear before the king and queen in silk knee breaches and patent leather shoes with silver buckles.
 When an American ambassador to the court Of the king of Afshanistan wears ordinary raiment the king of Af6hanistan is well satisfied and does not declare war.
 The American ambassador to the Court Of St. Jamess should not need to be ordered to dress himself in ancient costumes in order 10 look presentable
 When the British ambassador in Washington Is presented to the President and MrA Hoover nobody specifics he should be dressed in colonial costume.
New Britain herald., 1929-06-27

been sst before him. Restlesely he went for . stroll in the park. cast. ing hungry. covstous slaness at every youth with . peanut and every babe with . nursing bottle. Suddenly he vas accosted by an in. dividual who said:
 '.say bosA you couldn't give . poor fell6v a~dime. could you? l haven't had anything to eat sincs this morning."
 BOTH LOADEDl Mrs. Kress: My husband arrived home last night just as a burglar vas carrying away . load" Mrs. Harvin: Did your husband stop him?"
 Mrs. Kress: No, George had a load, tool"
 -C. T. Lee. Copyright 1929. Reproduction
 Forbidden.)
New Britain herald., 1929-06-27

apples as fast as possible. but werh. ing e that thsrs will bs minimum Of bruised fruit and broken twtea and hmhs."
 Q. What president of the United states teok the oath of seglcs on Sunday?
 4. Ruthsrford B. Hayes is the only president who took the oath on Sunday March {. 1877. In other eases whore the fourth Of March fell on Sunday the oath vas taken on Monday, namely. the second in- ausural of James Monroe, March 5. 1891: Zachary Taylor. March 5. 1917.
 Q. what>is . good cement for marble:
 A. An excellent cement consists of { parts of gypsum and part of finely powdered gum arabic. Mix intimately. Then with . celd solu- ton of borax make into 2 mortar like mass. Smear on each face of the parts to be joined, and fastsn the marble together. In msndtng colored marbles the cement may be given the hue of the marble by adding the color to the borax solu- ton.
 : O. Has Russia had any capitals except St. Petersburg and Moscow since the world war?
 A. No. The name St. Peters burg. however, was changed to Petrograd at the beginning of the war-and 1t is now called Lenin- grad.
 Q. What is the theme song of the motion picture "Outcast?"
 A. Another Kiss" by Victor schertzinger.
 Q. Who is president Of the Re- public of Liberia ?
 A. Charles D. B. King. He is a native born Liberian negro.
 Q. Who coined the phrase America the Melting Pot?"
 A. Israel Zangwill in his book bearing that title.
 Q. What does the phrase Pro Bono Publico' mean?
 A. For the good of the public.
 Q. Can iodine stains be removed from upholstery?
 A. If the stain is old it will be very difficult. perhaps impossible. to remove 1t. The best chance is to try sponsing repeatedly with dilute ammonia.
New Britain herald., 1929-06-27
PLAYING UP THE WRONG LURE FOR vACATIONIsTS

It waS about a month ago that the New England Council. endeavorint to discover what tourists and va cationists liked about New England. sent out | questionnaire and learned that the preponderatink joy hinged upon New England's scenery"
 ssms of the New England railroad vacation guides need to find this out. One of these Euide-boeks which came into our hands the other day had 60 or more pages. Most of it was devoted to pictures of hotels instead of scenery.
 Which is good as far as 1t goeA but doesn't include much of the very thing that people come to New Eng. land to experience. Living in a hotel is no doubt . happy experience. but one does not need to go far from the old home town in order to do that.
 What tourists visit New England for is to see the scenery they have read about: the mountains. the lakes. the rock bound seashore. They don't come to New England because there are hundreds of hotels mentioned and pictured in some railroad folder.
 We do not hesitate to refer the New England railroads to some of the folders issued by the interests operating the vacation industry in the great and far west. The book lets are filled with pictures of things to enjoy. mountain scenery, trails. mountain roads great natural parks. and such like. The pictures and the descriptions of this offer the chief lure. not pictures Of hotels.
 If New England is going in for the vacation lure industry it might as well learn how The New England Council gave suggestions after it's questionnaire. Some of the booklets in circulation do not contain a single picture or a paragraph of descrip- tiOn about the natural scenery O. New England
New Britain herald., 1929-06-27

You know, Sarah. you should fly from temptation" urged the elder.
 "Ach, flee yersel," zrunted the womt.l.
 "Rut, my dcav Sarah. all the Village knows that have flown." meekly replied the elder.
 "Aweel, Jamie Broom" came back tho answer, ''by the look 0' ye' ye auld carl, ye wad bs nans the worse O gten yer w1nys anither flap!"
New Britain herald., 1929-06-27

By H0Dert N. F1ScueF Nowadays there's little meaning For a person to be cleaning
 When . man attaches Doctor
 to his name He may be . chiropractor Or a painless tooth extractor He's entitled to tho title just the
 same. Or perhaps he is a preacher Or | lecturer or teacher. Or an expert who cures chickens
 of the pip; He may keep a home for rummies, Or massage fat peoples tummies, Or specialize in ailments of the hip. Everybody is . doctor"
 From the backwoods herb-con
 cocter (or) To the man who takes the bunions
 from your toes; From the drowning dieticiah To the snappy electrician Who shocks you loose from all the
 body's woes. So there's very little meaning For a sufferer to be gleaning When a man attaches Doctor" to
 his name. He may pound you. he may starve
 you, He may cut your hair or carve you, You have got to call him Doctor all
 the same.
New Britain herald., 1929-06-27
NEED FOR. SWIMMING POOL
 IN FIFTH WARD

\ communication in this news bapsr called attention to the fact that the eAildrsn h the fifth ward lack . swimntnS peei. We believe the com- bletat is we'll founded and that the park board should less no time in providing such . psol.
 Objsctiea by the fifth warders to Identification in Stanley Quarter bark, however. is not we'll founded. The city can we'll afford to make that park. and every other park. as beautiful as possible. The communi- cation declared . spot known as Swanson's pond. with contiguous land. ean b. purchased for park pur. Desse at . reasonable price. If Q. why not? The city should let no op. Dertunity escape to purchase any Dlet in any section of the city for Sark purposes if it can he had at a reasonable price and if it meets with . public need. City Hall should never consider itself too poor to look after its citizens: and that most assursdly includes the children of eitisens in the fifth ward.
 The picture painted by our con-
 esr of children in the fifth ward
 - on the curb stones and hay. J09no place in which to play ex- cept the public streets is a we'll meritsd reflection upon the city. That is no way to treat the children of citizens merely because they are poor. or because their parents work in the factories.
 Let there bs more kicking in the fifth ward until something is done about this pressing problem. We are in a mood to assist at every ,ppor. tunity.
New Britain herald., 1929-06-27

Attsrnsy Frank ?. NcEvey. who l. Mayer 0uilfeile's brother-in-lav. Friends of the administration VIII welcome this inclusion of one who can be depended upon to watch out carefully for the interests of the mayor and an administration in which hs has taken . friendly fam lily interest," says the paper.
 The delay in appointing the com mission. adds the editor. naturally will delay itS final report. Al . con- sequence no report will be available at . time when it would do the most Sood-in time to be of use as a guide in the political campaign which will soon take shape in Waterbury to determine who will manage its municipal affairs for the next two years.
 Meanwhile it is now definitely known-and . fact brought out while the governor hesitated about who to appoint on the commission that the actual deficit of Waterbury is between l,50O. 900 and 5000. 900. The mayors forces no doubt will claim this Is more in the nature of an estimate and that the deficit isn't as large as the lesser of the two figures mentioned.
 The governors commission doubt less will be able to discover the true state of the deficit to the last penny. and then, three years from now. there can be an election about It. if nothing else pops up in the pcliti- cal arena in Waterbury.
New Britain herald., 1929-06-27
Looks as if the West End fire sta ton will cost more money than was anticipated. Which will mean the an- nual instailments will be larger.

If the Sunday afternoon movie opening project were an issue be- tween the theater magnates and the elergymen there would be sense to postponinE the hearing because some Of the clergymen will be away dur inE the summer. We thought it was an issue between the theaters and the public.
New Britain herald., 1929-06-27
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Two Light Cruisers
 Offered for SaIA

Washington. June c7 N-Two dc. commissioned light cruisers. the New Orleans and the Albany, no longer fit for naval service. are to be offer. ed for sale by the navy.
 The ships were purchased during the Spanish-American war from the Brazilian government. The New Or leans participated in the engage ment on Santiago. Cuba. against Cervera's squadron. The Albany saw service in several expeditions to Gen. tral America during the frst decade of the century. They were used to escort conveys out Of New York dur- commissioned in 1922.
New Britain herald., 1929-06-27
Facts and Eancies
BY ROBERT CULLEN

BY ROBERT CULLEN
 The success of the talkies proves that a hungry man will eat tough meat If you deny him the other kind.
 The secret of success? We'll, a home run is just a pop >ny with a little more energy behind it.
 "The successful farmer raises everything he needs" Including blow hands.
 Chase adorns the new $lO,O0O bills. But as 2 rule. people who get money of that size get 1t with out chase.
 Pyorrhea isn't specific disease. It's just whatever you have that necessitates $lS5 worth of work.
 It's still a nick town if you can recognize Saturday by the number of cars on the street.
 The crossword puzzle is about gone, but anyway it wasn't as much fun as trying to guess what the talkie is saying.
 All the supreme court need do to make its embargo against pacinsts absolute is to extend its jurisdictlon to the stork.
 War will end sometime. Doctors quit bleeding patients to cure ty- phoid when they found out 1t didn't work.
 Americanism: Denouncing an un. tidy neighbor; cleaning your own premises with great enthusiasm and sweeping the dirt behind the door.
 As we understand the Hearst prize winner, 1t won't hurt to pc run over by fool driver If he s drunk on mere wine.
 Uncle Sam isn't really a Shylock. The three balls that reveail his oc- cupation are base, tennis and golf balls.
 If metropolitans are go superior. why is the most popular colyum the one that sounds like a sewins circle?
 You don't need lessons by mail 10 develop will power. Just practice passing . crowd without stopping to 
 Mir. Coolidge spraincd his arm while fishing. Ufually it is douc while telling.
 Men flyers have beaten homer pigeons in q race, but pigeons still lead in the relative number of landings made on purpose.
 Peru and Chile can cement their friendship by means of competition in sports if they can arrange some way to have the same number of winners
 MT. Bleasc is determined to make foreign diplomats dry, 20 evidently there is somebody else there who can be counted on for free drinks.
 Correct this sentance: ''If that was my tooth." said dad to daugh. ter. T wouldn't neglect it another day"
 Coryrig 1929, Publishers Syndicate
New Britain herald., 1929-06-27
AUTO BUMPER RIPPED OFF

Officer Delbert Veley received . complaint at 2:50 yesterday after- noon from E. Miller of 201 Dixweil mobile was struck while parked in front of a store ct 405 Main street and one end of the front bumper was snapped off.
 The officer learned from . clerk In a nearby store that a man inquired for the owner of the automobile. but his identity was not learned.
New Britain herald., 1929-06-27
WHEN HIGHWAY COSTS BEGIN TO ALARM

In the belief that anything having to do with new highways. road costs and gasoline taxes is of wide popular interest, T. +. Ass, profes. sor of highway engineering in the Iowa State College. has written q piece for the Engineering News Record.
 Our hair having stood on end at the engineering and financial fore- casts, we take the trouble to pass a whiff Of it along for general con. sumption.
 In the future. according to the professor, the country will have to spend on an average twice as much for road Improvements every year as was spent during 1923, regardless Of the widely current belief that with new highways being constantly built the saturation point will soon have been reached. According to the pro. lessor. there will be need for many times as many thousands of miles of new highways as tho most sanguine autoist thinks necessary-at least, that is the impression one gets from his thesis.
 The funds for this saturnalia of new highways, he opines. must come from the following sources:
 Increased federal sid.
 Increased taxes on heavier ve. hicles.
 Increase in the gas tax with 5 cents per gallon aa the maximum, this money to be used entirely for state and interstate roads.
 State taxes to supplement local taxes for local roads.
 Increase in the use of bonds. these to be retired after the highway sys- tems have reached the stage where new construction will decline. Use of special assessments and excess condemnation where marked in- creases in property values will result from improvement projects.
 All of which sounds as if there are different sources for highway funds. In the last analysis. however. all the money comes from the same source: From the pockets of the people. It matters little whether it is paid out through state. federal or gasoline tax sources-it springs from what the people earn to pay.
 It will surprise the pay-as-you. goers in NutmeSia that the profes. sor believes bond issues will be of growing importance in the manufac- ture of new highways. Sentiment in various states. he says. is veering 10 bonds. Headed by a proposed issue of 2.s million dollars in Texas" he says. bond issues to be voted on in 1899 probably will total one-half bil. lion dollars"
New Britain herald., 1929-06-27
ORANGE JUICE!

Our sympathy was appropriated, expressed on last Saturday to one of our most corpulent acquaintances who had gone to a doctor about his weight and had been ordered upon four.day fast. A glass of orange juice twice a day-nothing more.
 On the evening of the third day the gentleman awoke from a nap in which he had dreamed that | thick, medium-rare beefsteak had
New Britain herald., 1929-06-27
No Disturbance! /!

No Disturbancci Joan: Was it | quiet wedding?" Leonard: "Yes. Her father satis- fled Ralph's creditors just before the cert mony!"
 Mother R.
New Britain herald., 1929-06-27
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The Bsst Excarstoa Steamer! Some people like . ferry boat. But when we've leisure hours to
 while We always take the merry boat From Care to Humor's happy isle!
New Britain herald., 1929-06-27
FLYING

FLYING
 In village in the south . church elder was admonisAing . female member of his ''district'' for indulgins in strong drink. He was not setting . kindly reception frem the lady. who was known to have very ready and bttmt tongue.
New Britain herald., 1929-06-27

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New Britain herald., 1929-06-27
THOUGHTS
THOUGHTS While Mindlng . sleeping Infant Belonging to Someone Else

THOlIHTS-
 While Mtnding . sleeping Infant
 Belonging to someone Else
 By Walter William Wolr
 Well, this isn't bad. just sitting here in the next room. Wondtf if it is going to wake up. Its mother didn't say anything about that. Wonder what I'd better do if 1t does wake up. Maybe I could make 1t stop crying by making faces at it.
 Wonder what that noise Is: Sounds like a baby, but any no,se would sound like a baby to me now, the condition I'm in. Cats make noises like babies - wonder if it is a cat. Guess I will have to throw n shoe. Funny YOU throw shoes at cats, but not at babies. Maybe 1t isn't a cat Maybe I better open baby's door softly and peek in. Yes, and maybe I better not, too! We'll, why did they leave me here, any way. as long as wouldn't know what to do even if it did wake up?
 think I'll go in the bathroom and shave. Might take my mind off babies. Wonder why they leave its shoes on the washbowl. Not . bad place, though. at that. Babies certainly have tiny feet. Wonder if it is really asleep. Wonder if It tiny dreams, too. Suppose it's any fun being baby?
 I wish this baby's father used the same kind of safety razor that ! do. Different shaving cream, too! Funny taste some babies fathers have. Wonder if the noise of run. hing water wakes babies. Suppose just when I get lathered up the apartment catches fire! Worth the chance 10 get this beard off.
 Wonder if I'll ever have a baby ? Now. what an idea, Men don't have babies. exactly. think I would like a baby. So many unmarried women have told me they loved babies. I always discount it heavily.
 Why is bathroom such a noisy place? Wonder if it heard me drop that soap dish. My God, it did! Now What'll I do?
New Britain herald., 1929-06-27

Fhs Usrald is os ssis daily h Nsv Fsrk st hotaliags Newsstand. Times oauare; ecAults's NswsstasdA Cntrascs 0ssaA ceatral t3nd Street.
New Britain herald., 1929-06-27
mPSY TIRXYi

Hughes: Things are just the op- posite of what they used to be years ago"
 Blair: You're right. We've got a fireless cooker and an iceless re- frigerator."
 Mildred Pels
New Britain herald., 1929-06-27

Safety Measure!
 Uncle Ezra: ''Benn Hoskins tells me he's off tobaccy. Wonder if he got the reform bug after all these years?"
 Uncle Fred: Nope. He'd got to maxim his jaws 90 20 fast that the friction was ieniting his whiskers!"
New Britain herald., 1929-06-27

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New Britain herald., 1929-06-27
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New Britain herald., 1929-06-27

Correct this sentance: "If that was my tooth." said dad to daugh. ter. T wouldn't neglect it another day"
 Cory right 1929, Publishers Syndicate
New Britain herald., 1929-06-27
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New Britain herald., 1929-06-27

MT. Bleasc is determined to make foreign diplomats dry, 20 evidently there is somebody else there who can be counted on for free drinks.