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Happy New Year
as The year is gone and tomorrow
iii bring the beginning of another.
likening backward we feel that Am-
». am as a rule should be thank-
“!lii for the benefits the prosperity of
This country hns brought to them.
Md there should be thanks in the
hearts of those who have yet to ho-
como Americans by way of natural-
ilatlon.
Looking forward we vision anoth-
or year of prosperity and We tool
that we Americans should be. not
only thankful for what is apparently
' in store for us but We should do all
will our power to help make that pros-
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portly as great as possible.
The Sentinel wishes all kinds of
good luck to everyone. and especially
to its readers and its advertisers. and
- to all those who have in any way
been part of the Sentinel family. 1‘ or
l the benefit of our readers and our
advertisers we intend to become hot-
‘ier and better, ns M. Cone would
‘ III.
And for Norwalk itself. all of
Horwalk, we hope to see many lm-
vsments during 1924. improve-
monts that will add to the Joy of
. . living in this line. growing city or
‘ fours. And for these we should all
Wk together. unsciflshly putting
our shoulder to the wheel of pro;-
rest.
3 s We wish a. happy New Year to
, our Mayor and to the members «1!
. the Common Council and to all the
~ other officials of the city government.
We extend the same wish to the po-
"' lice and the firemen and to the
members of the Kiwanis Club. to tha-
n loath Norwalk Board of Trade. and
o the proposed Chamber of Com-
pierce.
K‘ We wish a happy New Year to the
fooplcs Chorus and the Choral Art
moiety which are working to gin
“Nor-walk more and lrcltcr music.
“It! We extend to our church friend-1.
’99“; ministers. rabbis. ull goo-l
he's.‘ . n
A 111va New Year to All.
Proof Positive
from the Toronto Mull und Empire
An old Scotch pilot professed to
be able to tell the. home port of any
incoming vessel within a reasonable
distance by what acumen still cull
"the out of ht‘r jib." inclining there
‘1'. by her general appearance. To test
i. his powers sn onlookcr called hl's
' ' .iiention to one in the for distance.
filo pilot gnzcd long and earnestly,
‘Ind eventually pronounced her an
.Aberdeen built. ll" proved to In}
right. and n. chorus of surprised
voices inqulrrd how he. knew. “No
pcagulis following her!" he said.
THE WEATHER.
Forecast: Southern Now England:
, ,_MOW. sleet; or rain Monday: Tlurs-
"Lilly snow or rain followed b.‘ old-
or.
mustern New York: Snow in norlh
.Ind snow. sleet or rain in mouth
”titan Monday; Tuesday cloudy
land colder. probably snow.
3 Conditions: A disturbance or con-
pidersble intensity was centered over
New Mexico Sunday night and is
mavlng southeastward. and anather
\‘ss crniral over Illinois ii'id may--
Yisg northeastward. Precipitation
as Occurred over the greater por-
tion or the country since Saturday
”night. It was in the form of snow
in New England and the interior
of New York.
‘ There will be rnln Monday in the
Middle Atlantic states and snow or
sin in the North Atlantic states.
On 'l‘uo-sduy xvi-athei- will be unset-
tied with probable snow in the
K Middln Atlantic and the North At-
.hintlc slates.
‘ Much colder weather s‘l over-
spread the Middle Atlantic slates
'Tuesdsy and Tuesday night.
Storm warnings are diulaycd
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lads: North of Sandy Hook:
geast and southeast and wea-
thick with snow or rain Mon-
..gandy Hook to Hatteras: fresh
. strong southeast and south.
that overcast and thick with
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young m tender .
yarns of traffic with [thex “do,“
crates domed-plotted.,‘fo¢_ 1’qu air
silosisland vampires dread. set down
by scribe-beached. For these their
minds by such trash. ’will need a
good dry cleaning. 1 «think about the
stuff I read when I was young and
tender; 'thswscout who left his trail
of dead. the damsel fair and slend-
er: the Injun chief with painted
braves. along the war drifting: and.
though there was a string of‘graver.
the moral was uplifting. ,I always
felt my spirit rise, when with such
books I tart-led: the wicked drew the
booby prize, the virtuous were mar-
ried. But now we have in Beadle
yarns for little boys upgrowlng: they
read of ghosts in midnight tarns.
and vampire blood a—flowing. They
read stark tales of grisly grief, of
phantom-fest informal. acquiring
thus a bleak belief in foul things and
abnormal. The men who print. the
men who write the rot that. fumes
and testers. shouldhave their pad.
ded cells tonight, among the mud-
houso jesters.
Copyiight 1924 George Matthew
Adams
Culture
The twin causes of education and
learning have sum-red by the dc-
struclion of books, records and
buildings at. least as severely as
those of finance and commerce. and
since. it is in the nature. of things
that more heed should be given to
the concerns of cash than of culture
in the handling of a situation such
us that which now cxlsts in north-
rrn Japnn. it seems desirable and
indeed imperative that every possi-
ble assistance should be given to
those who. against enormous odds.
are striving to reconstruct the
means of intellectual advancement.
says the London Times.
It will not be possible to record
to what extent precisely disaster
has overtaken the universlties. col-
lcpcs and schools of the country.
but the. general need of such institu-
tions may be deduced from the
statement which I have Just ob-
tnlned from Prof. Ssnki Ichlkawa
concerning the Imperial University
at Tokyo.
Prof. Ichlkawa in describing the
events of September 1. told me that,
following upon the earthquake. fire
broke out in the building adjoining
the University Library. The water
supply had already ceased. Showers
of tilvs had fallen from the roof.
and :1 pnrt of the building had col-
lapsed. .‘lnny windows were. smashed
and. although cvcry possible effort.
was made to scrccn the various
rooms in the library. the fire swift-
ly pcuctratcd into them. The dem-
olition of the library, with .1. vast
numlurr of books. was the work of
a. few moments. 0! ”iv quarter of
a million volumes that were saved.
the hulk are such as could easily
have been rcplaccd. The rare
books it was impossible to save.
chcral pcoplc have nlrcndy of-
fcrcd to glrc their own private li-
braries to the university. and many
cx-Duimyos arc vying with one an-
othcr ln oficring libraries whlch are
family hcirlooms. From such gifts
it has been possible to replace a
small part of the lost stock of Jap-
nncsc and Chinese books. which it
would be impossible otherwise to
do. since all the booksellers dealing
in such books have had their prem-
ises and their stocks destroyed by
firm. A large donation is expected
from China. M. l’nul (.‘luudel. the
French Ambassador here. is taking
an active interest in the collection
of any and every book published in
France which the university might
find uscful. and help of the same
sort is coming from Italy.
Prohibition
Norway's anticipated
ment of prohibition is not to be
taken as an indication that the
whole nation is planning to become
drunk. says the Baltimore Sun. The
evils of lntemperauce are under-
stood. and although extreme prohim
bitlonlsts of those parts may feel
that the cause of righteousness is
about to receive a mortal wound it
is reasonable to suppose that those
who are capable of looking facts“!
the face will take comfort from the
knowledge that the corrupting in-
‘fluence of illegal liquor will no long-
er be felt as it has been under the
prohibition regime.
It is not to be supposed that the
majority of the National Legislatures
are much concerned about. the feel-
ings either of the prohibitionists at
home or of the snti-prohibltionlsts
abroad. What they realize is that
Norway is not. ready for prohibi-
tion. that under it the people of Nor-
way have been in a worse state than
the gmwing promises of prohibition
had led them to expect. and that. in
fact. the best interest of the coun-
try demands a return to conditions
as they used to be. ‘
Dalien Town
Hsmtramck. a city of 60.000 in-
habitants. situated within the lim-
its of Detroit. is making a bid for
fame. says the Chicago Tribune. At
a recent mass meeting of its resi-
dents demands were voiced for
“Polish rule," evacuation of the
State police. and removal of all but
Polish people from the community.
A judge of the federal court was
harshly criticized. for an attack on
the local liquor situation. and a lo-
eui justice was booed into silence
when he attempted to speak in
English in defense of the federal
court. He was told that only the
Polish tongue should be‘ heard. ,
{that reveals - a' situation Which
cannot be moriooit‘sd.’ The persons
abandon-
»sonsofliing within. them-clues or
“35%;“.
they introduce to fill-”VIM"? 15°;
MW- .0?!“ '
.conditionr-the really vital weather
responsible fol-that meeting and its ,
' actions ass not Americanuin thought.
spirit or practiceuhethsr they are
3’ natal-liked eithsns in- minder
present-1.
"Not the least important of the
scientific dam ma. mIght be gath-
ered by an extended survey of the
Arctic Regions would be those in
regard to weather condition. a
knowledge of which might be useful
in the making of weather forecasts
for the United States," says a bul-
letin from the “‘ashlngton. D. C..
headquarters of the National Geo-
graphic Soclety in regard to the po-
lar expedition proposed to be made
by the U. S. Navy next spring by
direction of Secretary nby.
"Most of. our weather is not a lo;
cal matter at all." continues the bul-
letin. “but results from disturbances
that originate perhaps many thous-
ands of miles away and 'drift' to us.
Thus our weather bill-of—l’am is
made up largely of a series of mov-
ing 'lows' and might—regions of
subnormal hndhhnormal barometric
pressure—made familiar to many
readers by the roughly circular and
elliptical lines on the daily maps of
the United States \l’enthcr Bureau.
Tu-hnlquc of “'cniher Predictions
“Accompanying these disturb-
ances are winds. hot and cold spell
and rain or snow—the chie’f factors
that make up our weather. Fore-
casting weather consists largely in
detecting new disturbances as they
show up on the western and north-
western borders of the country.
learning their characteristics. and
figuring out the paths that they pro-
bably will follow because of the
prevailing pressures and tempera-
tures ahead of them.
“The great majority of the 'lows’
seem to originate over the warm
sea. south of the Ieuiian Islands in
the winter. and over the interior of
Alaska during the summer. But
some of the conditions that cause
them to be built up in those places
and create the 'hlghs’ to the cast
have their birth farther north in the
Polar Regions. and a better knowh
edge of temperature. pressure and
wind changes there would undoubt—
edly facilitate weather forecasting.
Unknown Region Important
"In the search for the beginnings
of its weather, the United States is
not concerned with the entire Polar
Regions. It is most concerned. it
happens, with s unexplored terri-
tory which lies orth of Alaska. The
outstanding and dominant factor in
the Aretic’s contribution to the
World's weather. [is the draining of
its cold air southward. Air is ‘slip-
pery' and cold air is heavy.
"When a pyramid of cold air has
bgn built up near the North Pole.
the upper part slides down the slope
and flows on: with a considerable
momentum to the south. This it
true all around the pole. But there
are certain channels in which the
flow is concentrated by mountains
and land maaSes. One channel is
down the northern arm of the At.—
lsntlc between Europe and Green—
land: others are up the great river
valleys of Siberia; and still others
are through Bering - Strait, over
Alaska. east of the Canadian Roe-
kles' and up the MaeKensie and
other valleys of Canada. ‘
It is this latter group of cold air
rivet-seas: of Siberia alone that di-
rectly influences thewenthcr, of the
UUnited’ States. .
“Temperature. pressure and what
factors-are not known in the re-
gic- north from Alaska to‘ths pole.-
and are now merely assumed. for
scientific purposes- ely‘ by infor-
once from observati us taken on the
famous ‘Fram’. drift: across \the Add
atic side of the lfoiar Regions. ole-g
curate observations of the seasonal
changes of thefsctors made oaths
ground—or rather
would be of great value iii-filling 9'1!
sclsnee’sr pet-man: cat's-om ‘ m;
'on the .ice’d—r .
WEALTH
Bureau most needs to give additional
accuracy to its forecasts are daily
reports of meteorlogical conditions.
from as many points as possible in
the Northern Hemisphere. For a
long time the oceans were unreport.
cd. but now the radio brings in daily
data from scores of passenger liners
and freight steamers. The vast Arc-
tic Regions and even its edges on
the continents are still largely on-
reported. Thc. for northern Nor-
wegian station at. Jan Maycn Land
has proved exceedingly helpful to
European {not urological services.
With the Opt‘l‘l ng of the northern
hiuckcnzlo valley ~for uil develop—
ment daily reports will probably be
available from there and will prove
helpful to Canada and tlxe‘ United
States as, the Jan Mayen rcxmrls
have proved to Europe. ' .7 ‘
"With aerial transportation de-
veloping rapidly, it requires no great
exertion of “the imagination to see
airship and airplane liners regularly
making the short cut. from America
. to Europe and Asia. over the North
Polar Regions before many years.
"“‘hr-n that day arrives the lust
pieces in the world's weather puzzle.
will probably be filled into place;
for Just as the ships that soil the
ocean now send in observations by
radio, so these ships of the air could
flash back information in regard to
the icy wastes nvor \rhiCh they wore
sailing. This would require a new
technique. to be sure. for gauging
wind velocities and directions and
taking surface temperature and
pressure readings from a swiftly
moving ship of the air would have
their difficulties; But by exploding
smoke bombs and noting the drift.
by dangling instruments near the
ice. and by other devices that sug-
gest themselves to the air skippers
the problems could undoubtedly be
satisfactorily solved."
Rum ‘Fiect's F000.
Here's a nice question of law. and
maybe of morals. too. A coaslwise
vessel that: has been carrying gro-
ceries to the rum fleet 01! New York
has been seized.» and a Federal
judge has upheld the contention of
the government that trading with a
ship on the high seas is not coast-
wise trading comments the Kansas
City Star. The libeled vessel. there—
fore. was engaged a. traffic it
was not licensed for and under the
law Juay be confiscated and sold.
The rum lawyers probably will
have to produce some. sea law of
their own if this decision is to be
successfully attacked. And vnless
it can be overthrown the sllJatlon
of the rum fleet threat s to beco‘x’e
untenable. Alcohol. has been
contended by some of its ingenious
advocates. is a tooth,“ so, ‘lt is well
for the ”rum fleet. But if it should
turn out that alcohol is not a. food,
or only so for-dialectic put-loses.
«the question of food may- "become
more important than that‘of’drink
sloth the bootleggers. Omar could
sing,“ the felicity of a jug} ot'wi'ne.
. and a loaf “bread in as‘wildcrness,
of sand. butv'slrould 9’. wilderness of
sea be paradise eaow with the Jug
10f wine without the bread? _ y
.The moral aspect of theouestion
perhaps. can be left to these-antler:
.eutalists. They, can be counted» on.
to see‘ the enormity-of allowtug‘the.
rum fleet to starve withlnyd‘ght‘ as
the shores of the most. xii-“esp
country iu'ethe world." Maybe it.
.toojla‘te tor putbn :a caverns mast
dinner. but, someihlug'msy be dead
for New'Yesrif no time is“ lost. 5
its heart. would be of incomparablj ’ , ' '
:r'fater Value as:
”has world, to be considered
to give—those martyrs sicnr’rs‘tmffl
RuSSla Transmon
Despite the. determined hostility
of the United States Secretary of
State, it is; evident that Russia is
about to figure. once more upon the
mun of international affairs. says
the Christian Science Monitor. It is
authoritatively announced that Sig-
nor Mussolini. who value to power
on an anti-Communist wave. is
about to conclude a trade agree-
ment. with the Soviet government.
And the recognition of Russia has-
!ong been an item on the program
of both the~IAberal and Labor par-‘
ties. which are now in the ascen—
dnnt in (:rcat " Britain. Action
there about Russia. therefore. may
confidently he expected in the new
year. There is no doubt. too. that
conditions in Russia itself have
greatly changed since. last the ques
lion was seriously dis" 7911..
,Thc militant era. 0. _;tm~natlnnal
Communism 'has apparently passed
away. Lenlno has gone into perma-
nent retirement. Trotsky is recup-
erating. Most of the outstanding
llgures of the revolutionary era have
lost something of their energy and
prestige. The Third Internationale
still issues from time to time wordy
threats against the. cnpltulist world
outside. but: that,“ speaks for the
Soviet government is denied. At the
time of the _promulgation of the
dictatorship in Germany high hopes
were entertained in Ruasiu that at
last 1hr: world revolution. sodong
overdue according to Communist
calculations, was about to arrive.
But they came to nothing. and the
Soviet government. which three
years ago was able to march an
army into Poland. was proved al-
most impotent to affect the situa-
tion in Germany in any effective
way whatever. The revolutionary
movement which broke out in OC-
tobor. 1917. and which for years
threatened to sweep over a. war
torn world. has manifestly lost near-
ly all of its power as a militant in-
tel-national force. . ‘ ‘
Almost the smue process has gone
on inside Russia. Politically Rus-
sia. is still governed by an autocracy.
the autocraoy of the Communist
party. Its methods. though less vig-
orous than they were, are still ty-
rannous. No effective opposition
has yet been able to rear its head.
But Communism in the true sense
of the woi’d has almost disappeared.
As a practical economic alternative
to capitalism it has manifestly
tailed. As Leninc is supposed to
have said. "Experience shows that‘
miss enthusiasm can be effectively
mobilized to sweep away the anti-
quated structures of the past. but it
will not serve as the steady driving
power behind eommunized indusy
tries." ' That. at any rate. was the
point at which Communism broke
down.- It. was found that, in prac-i
tice neither the peasant. nor, , the
worker was willing. to work his
hardest in return for a standard ra—
tionif he had to allow all of his
surplus product to be taken for the
use of the community. " .
Asia :tbs case of France. the rev-‘
oiutionsry era. 'is giving place to a.
extremes yielding to due of .moder-’
period of transition.,_the policy. of
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Dr Edgar A. Gucs‘
DECEMBER 31.
They say you die today, Old Year.
Tonight you cease to be—j
Upon that final stroke of tWelve you
join eternity:
Tomorrow you shall sleep with all
the years that lie before.
Something that was and walked on
earth buth to be no more,
Dead as Old Marley! Dead as»:
leaf that winters 'neath the frost.
Done with the duties of the world.
'and yet not wholly lost.
A thousand years from now. perhaps.
men still will turn and see
Something along the path of life to
mark your memory.
Because you were and in your film1
some little joy you brought.
You still shall live in countless
breasts enshrined l-y gracious
thought: _ .
Children shall wflritefyour name “‘th
glee full many i'happy’moru.
And carry it bravely all throngh life , .
——the year when they were born.
We shall recall you countl times
and after we have go
In all the records men shall read you
shall be living on.
Marbles which mark our lovely
dead. intended to endure.
Shall wear for all who care to end
your lasting signature:
W'hcther by grief or laughing joy.
whether by death or birth.
Fortune or failure's sad mischance.
you still shall live on earth.
Because you were. you still shall be!
We say men live and die.
Yet none that was shall cease to b...
though death has closed the cyc
And you. Old Year. shall still live on
Oblivion cannot steel
The memory of your days on earth
you wore, and shall be real.
You are immortal as the soul. you.
lustre cannot fade.
For you are one of all the years of
which our age is made. .
Copyright. 1924. by Edgar A. Guest
Wireless connections will be in.
stalled at. the Cleveland audit: riun
to broadcast the Republican ccnven
tlon. Wirepulling connections wil'
be maintained as usual.
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3 New Year’s Day ,
NEW YEARS DAY means that we can begin
again. One of the best things to begin. or to be-
gin again, is a savings account.
The City National Bank
South N orwalk, Conn.
INTEREST
TO BE CREDITED
TO
SAVINGS DEPOSITOR
JAN 1, 1924
l WILL BE AT
41/2%
'PER ANNUM
So. Norwalk Trust Co.
Service and Securitfly’J
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REDUCTION ON ALL
HOLIDAY; N OVELTIES
THIS WEEK TO CLOSE
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