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New Britain herald., 1930-08-02
25 Fears Ago Today

A large number Of people from this city are planning to go on the annual excursion to Niagara Falls CT August @2
 About 2.10o people are attending the annual picnic Of the Mutual Aid society of Landers today at Sayin Rock.
 Contractors from New York and Boston are planning to put in bids for the sewer contract in this city,
 Only 20 persons appeared before the registrars yesterday. The last session will be held next Friday
 New Britain aerie, F. o. F., are attending the field day being held in Waterbury today.
 The 10th annual session of the Plainvlle NJ. E. camp will be brought to a close this evening.
 It is planned to hold 9 baby show, in connection with the Berlin 1air this year.
 The number of arrests for drunk onncss in New Britain did not head the list of offences during the month Of July.
New Britain herald., 1930-08-02
THE AUTOMOBILE MARKET

For years automobile manufac- turers have been attempting to show autoombile dealers how 10 sell more cars. The plan was simple. First, the installment system; sec ond, the turn-in or used car as part of the first payment.
 The manufacturers, however, did not as q rule get the turned-in cars. These were the property Of the dealers until resold.
 Manifestly, f dealer had too high a ratio Of used cars on hand to new cars, he vas out of pocket until the used cars were sold. A large part of his profit lay in the used cars
 When times were good" the sale Of used cars was much easier than il is now f. as has been claimed. used cars have become a drug on the market, it is only another way Of saying that the automobile dealers and not the manufacturers hay. been holding the bag.
 The bag has been heavy 10 hold
 Meanwhile automobiles in use are wearing out. Within half q dozen years every car now on the highways will have reached the Junk pile. There are 25.oo0,0o0 in the nation. When the trade begins to feel the necessity Of replacing those going to the discard it will be necessary to circulate an average of 5,o0o,ooo new cars 6 year.
 Business is gong to be good some day The bag $ bound 10 weigh less as time flies.
New Britain herald., 1930-08-02
TIE OBSER VER- Makes Random Observations
 On the City and Its People
question:" which read as follows:

question" which read as follows:
 You are the head of an eXpedi- ton which has come to grief in the desert. There is enough food and water left to enable three people to get to the nearest outpost of civili- zaIion. The rest must perish. Your companions are; a brilliant scientist 6C years old; two half breed guides 5S and 32; the scientists wife. in terested mainly in society manners aged 39: her little son, aged s, the girl you are engaged to marry: your best friend, a young man of your own age who has shown great prom isc in the field of science.
 Which would you choose to live and which to die? Give your req sons"
 The Observers purely scientif- iC" answer follows:
 First of all I do not accept the premise that all the members of the expedition must die I would save all of them and bring them home fat enough to make an immediate Hol- lyWood diet necessary. I would dc this by first digging a hole in the send. until l came to water. This is academic stuff Mir. Edison. Any reader of Believe It Or Not or fol- lower of Tom Swift and His Adven- lures in Africa knows that digging down into the sand will miraculous r. produce water. So much for the water.
 Then. with that provided for, would take equal parts of sand and Fchinodermus Cacticus (ordinary cactus). and three pinches of pap rika, salt to taste. and heat them gently over a slow fire. The chem iCai reaction, as you very we'll know would produce beef stew of very edible quality. Other combinations Of course, would give us mince pie and egg and olive sandwiches. so food would be readily provided Also, I might point out that, in case Of shortage of cacti, breed guide-on-the- -half-shell doesn't taste half bad.
 AS MT. Edison would like 10 have the question answered:
 "I would save the young man who shows promise in the field Of science. first of all. carefully wrap ping him in cotton batting to avoid injury in transportation. Then I would save the brilliant scientist. aged 60 taking care that he does not suffer an attack of gout en route to civilization. Last Of all l would save the s year old boy, hoping that he might invent something someday. I would see to it that the wife of the scientist starved first for her so- cial aspirations. She probably drinks liquor. consarn her."
 Still other answers of the Observ- CT to questions are:
 If faced with the problem of get ting the first cable of bridge across all impossible chasm in the year 1900, I would ask Orville Wright to fly over with it, attach it to a car
New Britain herald., 1930-08-02
NOVEL BY SHAW
 EXPECTED SOON
Book Written 51 Years Ago Will
 Be Published

New York, Aug. 1 P-George Bernard Shaw, who began his liter- ary career as a novelist a half cen- tury ago before turning to play writing, is to appear again in the role of a fictionist.
 The dramatists first novel, written 51 years ago but laid aside when publisher could not be found for it, is to appear in September it was disclosed yesterday by William H. Wise, New York publisher.
 This early work will be included in a collected set of Shaw's writings, the first five volumes of which will appear next month simultaneously in London and in New York. The author was 23 years old when he penned "Immaturity," which was refused. Mir. Wise said, by some so After several years of fruitless ef- fort to find a publisher, Shaw put the manuscript away.
 When he opened it to revise it for inclusion in the collected set of his works, the playwright remarked that "it vas like opening a grave"
 'Immaturity." MT. Wise said. deals with the experiences of young clerk who comes to London and i3 unable 10 express himself in his work and in part is autobiograph- ical.
 Four novels bear Shaw's name but the author, after he achieved fame as a playwright, called them pro- ducts of his homage" and relegated them to the dustbins of literature. The first of these, The Irrational Knot was published in 1880, fol- lowed in the next three years by Love Among the Artists" "Cashel Byron's Profession" and "An Un. social Socialist"
New Britain herald., 1930-08-02
IMPROVING RJ RAJ ROADS

The Connecticut Rural Road Im- provement Association. it IS stated. opposes any tax rise in order to get Connecticut out O the mud. |" That IS well The plan, therefore, is to obtain q better division of the road money so that more Of the rural roads can be improved. Im- prove a rural highway between any TWO points and fail to improve a highway between the tno points which is regarded as main" road, and the improved rural road will speedily become the main" high way and the other will turn into ar "unimproved rural road"
 Years ago. when The Boston Pos road was not more improved high way than the Cathode Pass road to Meriden the latter was the accepted route between New Britain and Meriden, utilized by all persons with 'horses and carriages" and by all couples out spooning in such Ve-
New Britain herald., 1930-08-02

ton schemes Fin strict conformity with the edicts of the Interstate Commerce Commission" the Penn sylvana is faced by suit launched by the I. C. c. to divest the Pennsy of it's control of the Lehigh Valley and the Wabash railroads.
 The occurrences within the week in the railroad field promise 10 be far-reaching. and were as follows:
 CD The B. (, o. does not deny 1T is securing control Of the Chicago &c Alton, with rails extending from Chicago to St. Louis and westward 10 Kansas City. This in conformity with the I. (. (. consolidation plan.
 @ The B. 6t o. recently secured control Of the Buffalo. Rochester 6 Pittsburgh, and the Buffalo X Sus- quehanna. Also in conformity with the I, C, (, plan.
 (3) The New York Central agrees to sell 10 the B X o. its o6 per cen. Of stock in the Reading Railroad giving the B. & o. 66 per cent of the control of that line. The Read ing in turn owns a controlling inter- est in the New Jersey Central AS e consideration for the sale. the New York Central receives trackage rights over parts Of the Reading, the New Jersey Central, and the E. R and P, and the E. & s.
 (4 A new trunk line between New York and Chicago IS impending through these purchases, exchanges and consultations. the B. 6, 0. con- templating the construction of ap- proXmately 1S0 miles of new line in Pennsylvania to bridge the gap be- tween the properties, the construc- ton of a bridge al 57th street for railroad purposes. and the construc- ton Of a new railroad terminal or Manhattan island.
 t5) The l. C. C. takes steps against the Pennsylvania Company ownership of the Lehigh Valley and the Wabash, saying the Pennsyl- vania Company IS child of the Pennsylvania Railroad and that such ownership is contrary 10 the Clayton Act.
 Daniel Willard who vas in New Britain recently, evidently believes in abiding by the suggestions Of th' I. C. C. and working hand in glovy with it. W W Atterbury. president Of the Pennsylvania, is continually devising means 10 outwit 1t. The formation of the Pennroad Corpora ton and the Pennsylvania Company are cases in point.
 T. remains 10 be seen which policy pays best in the long run.
New Britain herald., 1930-08-02
THE EMBARGO LIFTED

Seymour Lowman, assistant secre- tary of the treasury performed an abrupt about-face by suddenly lift ing the embargo against Soviet wood pulp, concluding that the stories about convict labor having been employed in the Russian in dustry were not true.
 Thus the Amtors testimony has won a victory against what now ap- pears 10 have been nasty action by assistant secretry.
 That was to have been expected. The reports regarding convict labor came from Helsingfors, Finland. it
New Britain herald., 1930-08-02
In Defense of Ban On Alien Employment


 On Alien Employment
 The decision of Mayor Quigley and the board of public works to employ none but citizens in the street, sewer and subway depart ments may have seemed a bit harsh on those who came under the ban, but there are many arguments in it's favor, not the least important o: which IS the financial considera- ton.
 In the first place it must be re- membered that many of those who found themselves jobless were men who have ayailed themselves of the opportunities Of this country for many years. but have not had suf- ficient interest in becoming a part 0 it's citiZenry to spend the time necessary to prepare for the fran chise. The mayor has been careful to inquire into cases where it was apparent that inability to read or write has accounted for the absence 0. citizenship papers. or where the man concerned has lived here for many years, raised a family. accum- uIated savings, however meagre, and has really endeavored to become q citizen. but who has been unable to gain admission. These were eXclud- ed from the edict.
 Then, consideration must be given ID those who are citizens-and there are sufficient number in this group to fill out complete gangs of willing workers. They are entitled to whatever means of support the government can afford them, and the mayor very properly has placed tl.em in the preferred class.
 Turning to the financial side of the question, it should be remem- bered that the city is required to support it's citizens. but not the aliens residing within it's confines. This does not mean that the munich pality plans to allow anyone to go without food or shelter; aid will be furnished all, but the city welfare department is privileged to bill the tdlt OL NO4l4L'NAINuA 4Oi t4II IIlOlL'S expended on aliens and reimburse ment is made.
 It is very evident that the charity list will grow this year. Citizens should not be required to pauperize thomss Ives while aliens are on the municipal payroll; neither should the city sxpend funds in channels that bring no return when the other avenue is open.
 Proving Mfr. Edison
 Picked the Wrong One
 Thomas A. Edison's tests for his candidates. seeking the title of brightest boy. offer a wide field for the ingenious question answerer. Herewith the Observer presents his answers to the questions, as he would like to give them, some a s MT. Edison would like to have them giv- ell. and as some of the boys prob ably gave them:
 First Of all, the "desert tangle
New Britain herald., 1930-08-02

Ho" the pOi-ce of Detroit are at tempting to clean Gp the gangster situation IS gratifying. even though t may he dujcul. to prove the charges a=aInsf some of them. All known gangsters should be continu- ally harasscd by the police, even phen charges made have small chance Of being proved. They are outlaws and are not entitled to the silk glove consideration by officials. Most Of them are plain vagrants and could he consistently jailed as such.
New Britain herald., 1930-08-02

was disclosed; and every newspap man knows long before this that peculiar reports have come out Of that town ever. since the start of the World war. Winsted, Conn, long gained a reputation as the scene of peculiar animal pranks, due to the inventive genius of a native editor. But Helsingfors has for years dealt in jokes of a graVer hue.
New Britain herald., 1930-08-02
That Never Ending Job at Black Rock Bridge.

Motorists driving through to Plainville have long been inconven- fenced by the closing Of Black Rock bridge to permit the placing of new and larger span across the rail- road tracks there but they were good-natured about it, as they real- zed the improvement would benefit them in the end.
 But the days and weeks stretched into months and they became tired of the detours Then came the tear ing up of a section of West Main street to permit repaving, and traffic had to be further diverted, necessi- tating roundabout routes for resi- dents of the neighborhood as well as motorists driving through.
 And as the weeks went by this process of tearing up moved grad ually down West Main street. creep- ing past street after street and af- fecting more and more people. Now ic has completely blocked off the thoroughfare in front of the colony Of stores clustered about Lincoln SlTttl, anu lut ONllt OL llleSt ness places are adding their walls to the chorus. It seems that it IS now impossible to park in front of their stores. In fact, it is virtually impossible to even drive past them. and their customers are being incon- vcnienced.
 But the tearing up goes on, and the matter of laying the new pave mcnt seems to have been overlook cd. No doubt such details as this will be attended to at some future day. but at the snail's pace at which work is now moving along, the job certainly bellies the communists complaints about the terrible Amer ican speed-up system.
 We really didn't think when we heard they were going to repair Black Rock bridge that they intend- ed 10 tear Up Central park.
New Britain herald., 1930-08-02

Frankfort ou-the- Main. August 2. This IS the birthplace of the hot dog" the franAfurter being named for the city when it was Frankfurt. IL is decidedly Prussian and here Kaiser Wilhelm as well as all Ger man kings were crowned. During opulent days the Kaiser used to steal away for vacations incognito in Frankfort.
 Many Of Americas outstanding German-Jewish bankers and mer- chants migrated from Frankfort. l saw the ancestral home of the fla nous banking family Of Rothschild today on Bornestrasse. once Jews street It is rebuilt after being burn cd by anti Semitic hoodlums years ago
 The Rot hschilds occupied one wing Of the house while the other was occupied by the Schiff family Of whicI. Jacob Schiff, New York banser, Is a descendant. The color and antiquity of the city lie in sec tion known as "Old Frankfort Here life, customs and architecture are unchanged.
 It is filled with 14th century houses and Prussians shaved heads. Most Of the streets are too narrow for vehicular traffic and buildings have graduating projecting stones that form a street roof at the top. Out of the lavender of the past are those mellow facades with painted scenes from the Bible and myth ology.
 In the mid center is the Rombers, a chilly cobbled square with open vegetable market and flanked on all sides by ancient and historic build irgs. including the Romerhaus with kings crowning room. In an alcoVe corner shop in the quarter is where the first frankfurter was made and where that delicacy has been con- tinuously sold for 370 years.
 The home of Martin Luther now filled with antique shops, is in Old Frankfort, as is also the home near by of Johann Goethe, the beloved poet. We visited the room where Goethe wrote Clavigo and conceived the idea of his immortal Faust We stopped. too at the old stone house" built in 1423 and now bierstubcl.
 It was filled with fated Fritzes in the evening of life. sippinS beer. sucking pipes and dreaming Of brighter mornings. The Main levee is dotted with drinking and frank furter stands. I enjoyed my Frank fort frankfurter but I have enjoyed them just as much at Coney Island and the Polo Grounds.
New Britain herald., 1930-08-02

Eight years ago William C. Hart became chief ot police. At that time there was agitation about I. W. ", s, Communists, radicals and parlor pinks. Now, after the eight years. the Communists have dwindled to point where there are only few trouble makers in every sizeable town; and they make more noise, create more disturbances and are arrested oftener than the entire rev eight years ago.
New Britain herald., 1930-08-02
JAIL CHAPLAIN HONORTD

Wcthersfield, Aug. e.-Rev. Dr. William Henry Smith, resident Pro- testant chaplain of the Connecticut state prison. has been elected rector of Christ church, Schenectady, N. Y. The former rector of the Schenecta- dy church. Rev. Father Morse, re- signed recently to go to the church of St. Edward the Martyr, New York city.
New Britain herald., 1930-08-02

hicles. Today, with the Boston Post road well paved and the Cathode Pass road still in more or less pristine state. virtually all traffic to Meriden goes via the Boston Post road and the Cathode Pass road comes under the category Of an 'un- improved rural road
 To make main highway Of any rural road, pave 1t.
New Britain herald., 1930-08-02

July. it is announced, was the hottest month in history On the broad general principle that light nlng rarely strikes twice in the same place, it IS probable that August will be not as hot. But be not deceived; r does not need to be quite as hot as July 70 he quite hot enough 10 he very unpleasant.
New Britain herald., 1930-08-02


 A potato on q pantry shelf isn't like Pullman passenger in all ways. Ii has no cinder in it's eye. Hell might be worse. It might be an eternal succession of rainy days at q summer resort
 To escape criticism. live openly. Who ever heard any scandal about a gold fish?
 Too many reform laws are like aspirin; they make YOU feel we'll by covering up the symptoms.
 Another disadvantage in having a lap dog instead Of a baby is that you can't blame it's meanness on dads side Of the house.
 There was more horse sense on the highway in the cid days, but the horse had 1t.
 There's always a fly in the oint- ment. The more you read and learn. the more vainly you search for something worth reading.
 AS last effort 10 get good price for his wheat, the farmer might dump it in the road and let sucker tourists run over it.
 Americanism; Pardoning g rich criminal because jail fare gives him indigestion: keeping a poor man locksd up A years on perjured testi- nlony.
 Yet loUbrows seem as witty to one another as highbrows do when they get equally stewed.
 f it is true that the sense Of taste brings back old memories, why can't we recognize a familiar high way in the dark?
 When airplanes became common. people on the ground quit sunburn- ing their tonsils And that explains why homicide shocks nobody now, Some women do bending exercises in their bedrooms, and some have husbands who enjoy Sunday papers. And then, some marriages fail be- cause she doesn't seem so desirable when he sobers up.
 Fashion experts say men are to have broader shoulders this Fall. Present indications are they'll need 'em.
 Motto of roadside garage man: Any good thing that I can do, let me do him now. for he will not pass this way again"
 A summer resort is any place where the mosquitoes are worse than usual.
 Correct this sentence: I'd marry him." said the chorus girl. If he didn't have a shirt or his back"
 Copyright, 193o, Publishers
 Syndicate
New Britain herald., 1930-08-02

Mayor Qugley met former Mayor Paonessa in front of the City Hall he other day and both remarked they would like to have the others job. The Mayor, carrying what look cd like a blue print, seemed to have plenty on his mind; while the only thing On the mind of the ex-Mayor vas the nuisance created by speed ncat operators at Lake Pocotopaug.
New Britain herald., 1930-08-02
WHEN Is 1 MAN CNILIZEDr

A question that Thomas Edison. Henry Ford, ct al, missed when pro- pounding brain teasers to 49 bright boys the other day was propounded by Professor (. Deltsle Burns of tho University of Glasgow at q meeting of the Wiliamstown Institute Of Politics. To wit;
 A man in 2 motor car may
 he more civilized than nis fore
 fathers in a horse cart. bu; ho IS
 not vel"
 f not. why noJH
 That IS the question that might have been asked the boys
 But such a question would haye nothing in common with science. modern machinery or mathematics; and answers to 1t might not have tended to slorify the greatness of the fviv,er age. Mir, Ford certainly would have seen no sense 10 the question.
 An answer to such a question de- pends altogether upon what one means by the term being civilized"
 The ancient Greeks got about 1n carts or afoot, but they had glorious civilization for the times.
 The clement Of spirituality. Of mental occupation, IS involved. The man in fast-moving tlivver per haps has less opportunity to think, compared with the man in a horse cart Usually he IS too busy watching trahc and the road ahead to take note Of even the scenery
 But 1t cannot be said for these reasons alone, that the flivver rider is not civilized. At least, the fllvver addict acts civilized until he tries to pass traffic on the right hand side, or tries to pass other vehicles on a turn in the road or while as. cending d hill, or flouts elementary rules Of safety
 Another point; When man really isn't civilized al heart let him get tho -rl,.l1Ape of sjr+i~F at IT sl1-0D0o- bile wheel and he will quickly show lt.
 Professor Burns, like many an- other professor and observer. in- clines to be pessimistic, Note:
 "We have esta ablished-AmerIca is establishing new basis for civilized life; it is possible, but not inevitable. that We shall construct a new building upon il. Western civilization IS blindly creat- ing new problems which it may De unable 10 solve"
 Which leads to a consideration Of the machine age and its effect upon society
 We'll leave f to the WllliamstoUn Institute 10 discover all the new problems and designate the way to solve them.
New Britain herald., 1930-08-02

Mr. Hoover is said to be perplex- d over the necessity Of choosing an ambassador 10 Mexico to succeed Dwight W. Morrow Mir Morrow has set such high standard that 1t is easy to believe no one will be foun4 9 ble to maintain it.