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New Britain herald., 1930-01-27
25 Years Ago To-day

A meeting of the New Britain Elns was held in tIanna's armory yester- day. The majority of the members were in favor of forming a lodge rere. Most of the local Elks are members of the Hartford lodge.
 Rev. Lucyan BojnoWski made his annual report at the masses in the Sacred Heart church yesterday. He stated that the present debt of the parish is sG3.350.S4 He expects the entire amount to be paid of in five years.
 The Eagles, who will 30 to Meri- den tomorrow evening, will meet :.t Steeles livery stable at $50 o'cloch.
 The Lyceum orchestra will rend ?. music at the formal opening of the new cafe in the RussWin hotel thIs evening. A large number will attend the affair.
 Judge E. F. Ganney and M. (. Webster have been appointed to re port prices on q site for new school in the eastern section of the town.
 Sinse the blizzard. the birds have been dying in large numbers from starvation. II is reported that II least ,O0U sparrows have been found dead in this city.
 F. l.. Hungcrford has given Rep escntative Bcrgstrom two bills to present 10 the house tomorrow for the hospital appropriation. The hos pital is seeking S2S.00O. President Philip Corbin Of the American Hardware Corporation d. nled today that the Union Mfg. Co, is to become q part of the corpor.t- ton. New Britain people are becoming | used to the illuminated clock i'll .hC South church stoeple. After April i. the city will assume the cost al | lighting the clock.
 A NeWington man went wild yes terday and tried to stab woman and shoot two men. He was armed with d butcher knife and sev3r i chamber revolver.
New Britain herald., 1930-01-27
SAVINGS BANK DEPOSITS UNDER PROHIBITION

The increase of savings bank de- posits during the past ten years is undeniable. That this increase is due entirely or even partly to pro- hibition IS open to debate. There are distinguished debaters on both sides of this question.
 Prohibitonists claim, of course, that the increase is due entirely to the effects Of the dry era.
 The other side comedies nothing of the sort.
 In the first place, the past ten years-until very reccntly-haVc seen the most pronounced industrial prosperity the country has ever oX- perienccd. Whether this industrial prosperity has been due to prohibit ton is doubtful
 But during the past ten years the country has not seen the greatest agricultural prosperity in it's history. Thousands of banks in agricultural states have gone broke during that period.
 If industrial prosperity were due 10 prohibition then agricultural de- pression ought also to be credited 10 prohibition. We have known Of no prohibitionist making such a claim,
 And in passing this point it might be added that it is in the depressed agricultural states where prohibition is most popular and in the prosper ous industrial states where it has been most unpopular.
 If the increased savings deposits in the industrial states has been due to prohibition-or prosperity gen eralIy-thcn what about the un- questioned prosperity of Canada?
 Take Ontario for instance, province whose people are more like Americans than those in any other Canadian province.
 Toronto, it's chief city, has been growing swiftly. is modern and pro- gressive, and compares faNorably with any city in the United States Of the same size.
 The prosperity of the province is reflected in every city and town. Wages on the whole are not quite as high as in the United States, but the cost of living is comparatively lower
 Ontario. except for a short period, has been wet. Savings deposits in it's banks have been steadily increas- ing all along,
 Let prohibitionists explain that
 In our own modest opinion, there are so many factors involved in the volume of savings deposits that they cannot be utilized 10 prove anything pro or con.
New Britain herald., 1930-01-27

to maintain a large lead of persons engaged in the industry when re. gardcd from this complete angle,
 All of which, however, docs not help Lynn just now. The shoe ma chinery plants are located at Bevcr- ly and other towns, not in Lynn Congress seems intent upon regard ing the shoe industry as not requir- ing protection. The shoe industry seems too much concentrated to in fluence the actions of the coalition in the Senate.
New Britain herald., 1930-01-27

learn than that? Self-preservation is the first law of nature; and in this age self-preservation most cer- tainly includes a thorough knoWl- edge of how to escape the penalties of carelassness and thoughtlessness by the early cultivation Of prudence and carefulness.
 Similar studies could be made with profit in every class room in the city.
New Britain herald., 1930-01-27
CATHOLIC MISSIONARY
 PRAISES PROTESTANTS
Speaks Highly of Christian Associ- atcs and Says He Would Give
 Them His Last Cent

Speaking of 10 years spent in the foreign mission field, Rev. John Lynch, Rcdcmptorist priest, made plea for the Catholic Medical Aid association at St. Mary's Catholic church yesterday.
 AS for the Protestant missonar- ics," he said, T would give my last cent to them. They have wonder. full men and women, and they are given remarkable support by their home churches and especially the churches in the United States" he said in speaking of experiences in Madagascar, China, the Philippines and Africa
 Asking for funds for medical sup plies, Father Lynch said, T could pack all the supplies in your New Britain drug stores and send them to the missions and they would be gone in week. Our first move on entering new territory is not to start preaching for the natives will not nave IL but 10 SCL up d snack ana fill it with medical supplies and several tables for operating. Once we have cured a native he is our friend and will listen to talk about his soul.'
 Illustrating the cooperation exist ing between the Protestant and Catholic missionaries Father Lynch told how Presbyterian missionary supplied five expert nurses to care | for seven nuns who were dangerous | ly ill ill one of the mission settle-
 mcnts. When the priest asked for | the bill the missionary doctor re piled that he was always glad 10 give assistance to the Catholic mis- sionaries.
New Britain herald., 1930-01-27

New Britain is a city in which church membership is large. The last report of ono Of our churches shows remarkable progress. What would happen if every member should attend services at the same time is this-there would not be ha H., enough room.
New Britain herald., 1930-01-27
SHOCKS THAT SHOULD SHOCK
 BUT FAIL TO DO SO

Dt .NIiI io 'o tNo
 Walter w. LigSctt, magazine writ CT, who found a brilliant theme in crime and vice conditions in Bos- ton, imprcsscS LIS as making a fair offer to the investigators in The Hub. He says he is not interested in seeing some pint bootlcsgcr jailed but is willing to tell aplenty if the authorities arc prepared to push along every trail to the very end, which he says would result in the jailing of numerous highcr-ups in the city's political life; and also state politicians.
 In one thing he is wrong, how ever. He says the facts that could bc unearthcd would shock the na- tion."
 The nation is calious. II has been shocked too often before. It was Barnum. or some other circus gentleman, who once declared everything in this country is only a nine-days' wonder On the tenth day the public is thinking about some- thing else.
 We have been accustomed to read ing about dire doings ill Chicago and it's suburbs. Right now the city Of Chicago is clearly bankrupt Chicago no doubt is shocked but We elsewhere are merely surprised.
 There have been stories of terrible corruption in Philadelphia, especial ly political corruption; also some cX- poses of rum rackets with which politicians were identified. Brigd- dicr-General Smcdley Butler once "cleaned it up'--in theory. But it's still about the same, and nobody seems shocked.
 If the leader Of our metropolis New York-ever succeeded in shock ing the nation it was q long time back; in TWeed's day, for instance. It's rather difficult to shock New Workers nowadays: they're used to too much
 One city after the other could be listed to prove quite concluslNely that the nation has become quito shock-proof. Even the oil-scandals of several years ago did not shock the country as they should have done
 It is deplorable that we are not shocked so easily any more. This lack of susceptibility to being shock sons, among them a widely current belief, perhaps, that the dcyelop- mcnt of the times has resulted in many profitable rackcts based upon working agreements between politi- clans and the underworld. Such politicians, as Mr. Liggett says. gain their share Of the proceeds while posing as quite estimable characters and popular fellows, able to swing elections, willing to pose as reform- CTS when occasion demands. some of them are politically dry and per sonaily and financially wet,
 Hypocrisy has been multiplied; super -op;inists bury their heads in the sand and say alj is we'll; crime commissions are formed and their first efrort is to make sugt 'stions to amend the bill of rights m the Con- stitution in order to eNalt one amendment over the others
 In some ways we are not pro- gressing. When man cannot be shocked over evil deeds. when he takes them as matter ot course, when he becomes callous 10 what in an earlier day would have been termed "a public scandal" he is be- coming less Of worthy citizen.
New Britain herald., 1930-01-27
NEW SKI RECORD

Westby. Wis, Jan. v (tlD-A new worlds record for ski jumpin:; belonged today to Alf EnScn, 20 year old Wcstby youth who came to this country six months ago from Norway. In a tournament here yesterday Engcn jumped 1S7 l-1 feet, surpassing the previous mark held by Walter Bratlund of Iron wood, Mich, by , 1-2 feet.
New Britain herald., 1930-01-27

New York. Jan. @7.--DidrN of a modern Pcpys: Up singing m the bath until someone rappcd naNt door. Nor did I blame them soev"T. So to walk and stopped in to see Ray Long. Jr, who said he did not want to be an editor like his Daddy because it was just "pinnins anI pasting."
 Home to find an absorbing letter from q man who lost his fortune In New York four years ago and is n q South African village of 600 sous. a dcrclct, but happy philosopher. Then to all afternoon tea with my wife and to sec sonc ship modei', which fascinatc me more than great paintings,
 All evening at my typewriter, hat- ing promised to deliver q sCrccd or morning post, but at midnight hal finished but four lines, so abandon cd it albeit am desperately in nc. of money. As who isn't these days And in despair awake until the con- ing of dawn.
New Britain herald., 1930-01-27
Member Audit Bureau of Circulation

The A, B. C. IS national organization which furnishes newspapers and adNer- Users with a strictly honest aualysis Of circulation, our circulation statistics are based upon this audit. This insures pro- lection against fraud in newspaper dis. trihution figures 10 both national and local advertisers.
New Britain herald., 1930-01-27

The mayor of Chicago is nick named Big Bill" That appears to rhyme with the city's slogan, T will" But also, poetical license con- sdered, with Empty till"
New Britain herald., 1930-01-27

An investigation of the activities of 6J.U00 part time continuation school girls between the ages of 14 and r in New York state discIoscs that 23 per cent, or nearly onc- fourth, spend three evenings a week their evenings there.
New Britain herald., 1930-01-27

Innumorabla beauty and ham dressing parlors i'll New York are able to make weekly expenses with the Saturday afternoon rush. Edncs O. smartly sowncd women wait Ill line at the entrances for their SI.- urday chance. on Broadway it is fl equently necessary to make ap pointmcnts two weeks advance for that day.
 It is the day women business executives have the care lines or the week removed with faciIis. Perky little girls of the small tel5 hats must have Saturday bob 10 enhance charms with boy fricnls, old, young and middlc-aged want their manicures. And so OH.
 Something about the intimacy Cf beauty salons makes tongues WaG. They would be great spots for cavesdropping tabloid tattlcrs, Or dinarily tight-lipped women sudden lN find thems Ives Gabby and ro- revealing secrets to lvonncs, Adcles and Ninas.
 Hair parlors have become sicv23 through which high scandals of the town are sftcd. A feminine famllac- ity that would be impossible else where is bred instantly Above the Whir of drying machines. even we husbands waiting in antc-rooms are able now and then 10 hear salty ru- mors.
New Britain herald., 1930-01-27
Member of the Associated Press

Tho Associated Press is exclusively en- titled to the use for republication Of all news credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also local news published therein.
New Britain herald., 1930-01-27

If it's done by some important guy who doesn't earn his bread by writing, it's >ugar-coated propa- gGnda.
New Britain herald., 1930-01-27

Tho Herald Is on sale daily In New York at Hotalinss Newsstand Times square; Schultzs Newsstand, Entrance Grand Central. 42nd Street.
New Britain herald., 1930-01-27

Alr. Brisbane keeps repeating that the most active creatures are meat eaters. EXasperated things-fleas.
 Religion seems 10 be losing ground? Well, dancing masters To Sc ground, too, when everybody lear,!s to dance.
 Girls superior to the flapper type are few, but quite numerous enough 10 supply the men superior enough to prefer that kind.
 Don't let them rattle you, M". Hoover. A dozen frogs make 6 lot oi noise in a millpond, but the null grinds the wheat.
 Still, if there were no fires il Washington. how would they get rl,i or old and worthless official re- ords"
 Now they have soda fountains on battleships. and that rattle you hear i.5 Paul Jones turning over.
 AmcricaniSm: loO million people attending to business i'll obscurity while headlines are made by feH thousand who wouldn't be missed. Yet in the summer. when the :n-
  door temperature is go. the doctor doesn't say your cold is d result ot having the house too hot.
 The old Mississippi is much lie rich social leader A lot of little rivers must contribute the material to make the ois one swell. We are an idealistic people and conscience urges us to free the Fili- pino and boost the price of sugar, Another good test Of will po"sT for woman, is to take five dollars and enter a ten cent store.
 Big towns have good short enter tainments, but hick town people can watch a young WidoWer for months.
 Common sense may be virtue, but think of the disaster to business if people should stop keeping Ip with the Joneses.
 Walking is Scod exercise, and Il would be more fun than an electro hickey if you had 10 pay s155 for the right to do it.
 Lobbyists may be wicked. but it's nice to have somebody in Washing ton who can furnish the facts.
 Correct this sentence: 'l love he! as she is sad the middle-agGd bachelor, and l wouldn't have Il 1T changed in any detail.'
 Copyright, 195O, Publishers
 Syndicate
New Britain herald., 1930-01-27
Connecticut Senators
 At D. A. R. Hall Opening
By GEORGE II. MANNING

Washington Bureau. x. E. lcraldl
 Washington, D. c., Jan, v - When Constitution Hall, erected here by the Daughters of the Amer ican Revolution, is formally open ed January 29, Senators Hiram Bingham and Frederic C. Walcott, together with Mrs. Bingham and Mrs. Walcott will be among the guests occupying the Connecticut box.
 Katherine Arnold Ncttleton, of Derby, Conn.,, state regent of the D. X. R., has invited both senators and their families to be her guests at the opening ceremonies and barring unforeseen circumstances that would necessitate other plans, the Con- nccticut senators will attend.
 X light year, astronomical term of measuring distance of far-otf heavenly bodies, is about six trilllon miles.
New Britain herald., 1930-01-27

the deaf old lady" has given way 10 q polite reference to the stock market or another fall of the French cabinet And for those of us who cup willy ear for little gossip, it is a pity.
New Britain herald., 1930-01-27

Well, why shouldn't the class be held back by the dull pupils. Tha;s the way a good democracy works.
New Britain herald., 1930-01-27

The only profitable advertising medium in the City. Circulation books and press room always open to advertisers.
New Britain herald., 1930-01-27

Alr. Brisbane keeps repeating that eaters, EXasperated things-fleas.
New Britain herald., 1930-01-27
LIFE, IN LIi5IEI\

Missionaries 90 to Liberia to con- vert the hcathcn and raise the standards of life. Those Of Us who are interested in what happens to the missionaries, or how living in Liberia happens 10 differ with life in New Britain, can an hiking from the tollownG choice paragraph which recently appeared in The Churchman:
New Britain herald., 1930-01-27

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New Britain herald., 1930-01-27

The old time barbershop was
 where an older generation dish 'l
 the dirt" It was a fountain of idle
 tattle and groundlcss rumor, But modern shops with their sanitize'l
 deodorized and white tiled glitter
 have the chill of a hospital receI"-
 ing ward. The walls are no long F adorned with prints of Maud $. %r
 John l.. The pinkish glamour of the Police Gazette has given way to the
 glazed opu 'ence of periodicals fea- turing riding-ro- hounds and gossip oi Newport. Gore are rows of indi- vjdual mugs with painted lodge en- | blems or other insignia of one s place in the business world. The IIddicS and GIScs, who between slaves or hair cuts could blink of a tune on the banjo or guitar, are
 missing. The slightly Rabelaisi m story about the "Pullman porter q,
New Britain herald., 1930-01-27
Facts and dFQncies
By Robert Cullen

Excitement over a public question would seem alarming if people didn't get equally excited about visiting prince.
New Britain herald., 1930-01-27

".At first said the writer. my evenings were q long drawn ou; ast-nieht-cvcr, Centipedcs on the floor: lizards on the walls. flying cockroachcs fully two inches long darting about and just sat with my eyes glued. first on one. then on the other pest. and waited to get mt. Now l can go on undressing at night and only look half a dozen times at the giant spider (tour-lnch span) which lives on my medicine shelf. But I sink under my mosquito net and put out my candle with a quick gasp of relief. I'm still whole. After a few moments of darkness papa and mamma rat start tralnlng the little rats around the walls and then Charlie our pet house snake, drives them off and quiet rCiSnS.
New Britain herald., 1930-01-27

Perhaps there are just as many insects in Connecticut as in an equal area Of Liberia But where we shine is that we have them trained 10 stay out Of sight most of the timc-cs, pccially in winter.
New Britain herald., 1930-01-27

Religion seems 10 be losing ground? Well, dancing masters To Sc ground, too, when everybody lear,!s to dance.
New Britain herald., 1930-01-27
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New Britain herald., 1930-01-27

The old Mississippi is much hHe rich social leader. A lot of little rivers must contribute the material to make the ois one swell.
New Britain herald., 1930-01-27

Girls superior to the flapper type are few but quite numerous enough 10 supply the men superior enough to prefer that kind.
New Britain herald., 1930-01-27

After all. men are grccdirr Tor gossip than women. We may greet it with d slight shoulder shrug and a disarmmg little smile. but secretly We 'oat it up.' More rcputations arv torn to tattcrs by mon in spcakca 5v bedrooms than over tcaCUps in the drawing rooms.
New Britain herald., 1930-01-27

know one of those loose wr;SttI male butterfly 5ossips who inVarian- ly has q juicy morscl Of scandal dt his tongues end, and | profess to a certain abhorrencc publicly, but secretly am always ticklcd pinh when he pranues in.
New Britain herald., 1930-01-27

We arc an idealistic people and conscience urges us to free the Fi!l- pino and boost the price of sugar.
New Britain herald., 1930-01-27

Yet in the summer. when the :n- door temperature is go. the doctor doesn't say your cold is q result Of having the house too hot.
New Britain herald., 1930-01-27

So far--and it is none Of my husi- ness but I'm poutinS aSain-all have seen hostcsses do in tea rooms i5 to run off with the menus.
New Britain herald., 1930-01-27

Americanism: I2O million people attending to business in obscurity while headlines are made by a fe" thousand who wouldn't be missed.
New Britain herald., 1930-01-27

Now they have soda fountains on battleships. and that rattle you hear is Paul Jones turning over.
New Britain herald., 1930-01-27

Big towns have good short enter tainments, but hick town people can watch young WidoWer Tor months.
New Britain herald., 1930-01-27

Another good test Of will DO" .,, for a woman, is to take five dolla IS and enter a ten cent store.
New Britain herald., 1930-01-27

Common sense may be a virtue, but think of the disaster to business if people should stop keeping Ip with the Joneses.
New Britain herald., 1930-01-27

Walking is gcod exercise, and Il would be more fun than an electro hickey if you had 10 pay s155 for the right to do it.
New Britain herald., 1930-01-27

Lobbyists may be wicked. but it's ton who can furnish the facts.
New Britain herald., 1930-01-27
QUESTIONS ANSWERED

You can get an answer 70 any question Of fact or information by writing 10 the Question Editor. New Britain Herald. Washington Bureau. 1929 New York avenue. Washington. D. C.. enclosing ;- cents in stamps for reply. Medical legal and marital advise cannot bo given. nor can ez. tended research be undertaken. All other questions will receive per- sonal reply. Unsigned requests can- not be answered. All letters are ntlal.-Editor.
New Britain herald., 1930-01-27

Don't let them rattle you, M" Hoover. A dozen frogs make 6 lot oi noise in a ,nillpond, but the mt!l Grinds the wheat.
New Britain herald., 1930-01-27

Correct this sentence: "I love he" as she is,' sad the middleag1d bachelor. and l wouldn't have Il 1T changed in any detail.'
 Copyright. 1880, Publishers
 Syndicate
New Britain herald., 1930-01-27

Still, if there were no fires il Washington. how would they get rli or old and worthless official re- ordsr
New Britain herald., 1930-01-27

And while I'm so super critical here's q telegram from way out yoA- der in Dcs Moincs with q sting: We are pretty fed mp reading abont your spats. Have you no other ac- comp 'ishmcnt?"
 l do q falrly good string trick.
 Copyright, 1880, Mcknight
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The border vidette., 1930-07-19
DESTROYING OUR FORESTS

The wanton destruction of
timberland is one of the most
tragic phases of our fire waste
record.
Ia period of ten years, bet
ween 1916 and 1925, au average
of 81 ,O21 forest fires occrred each
year, entaling an annual des
truction of property value of
$20,994.916 It requires 40 to
100 years for a tree to reach
maturity. Yet. by fire, whole
forests can be totally destroyed
in a few hodrs.
Great fires. wiping out all
timber over broad areas cause
lhe extinction of wild life, radi
cal changes in climate aud dam.
age to agriculture. The state
and national governments do
everything in their power to
prevent such catastrophies. But
they cannot be successful with
out public cooperation.
Tourists, by carelessness with
tobacco, metches and camp fires,
are leading offenders. Some of
the worst forest conflagrations
in our history have occurred
when camping parties moved on
without completely extinguish
ing their fires.
It should be our patriotic duty
to help protect and conserve our
great forests.