New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 16, 1914, Page 6

{EW BRITAIN HERALD BERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY.' Proprietors. Saily (Sun exoepted) at 4:18 p. ™ &t Herald Bull ‘:V‘.‘ CiD‘ Chmh L #7ed at the Post Offios ex New Britatn Second Class Mall Matter. att l’umtrmwp‘n“mt y for 15 Conts s Week, ¢ Conts & Month. ptions for paper to be sent by mall Payable in advance. 60 Cents & Month, $7.00 & year. only profitable advertising medium in the ty. Circulation books and press Tu)m always open to advertisers. atd will be founa on eate at Hota un:'- News Stand, 42nd ;'. ::dwn‘m way, New York City; Boat Adlantic City. and Hartford depot TELEPHONE CALLS. An impression has gotten abroad at the new mayor appoints the airmen of the different commis- ons. This-is not so. He appoints e members of the boards and they h turn elect the chairmen. It is oubtful if any ope has any inside formation concerning the appoirt- hents as yet. Mayor-elect Quigley hys that he has not done anything bout the matter up to the present; e has until the third Wednesday in ay to make his appointments; that acmonth away, and the mayors have iways taken about all the time al- pwed them. There are various rumors afloat as b what Mayor Quigley may do and is quite natural that there should e such reports, the Herald having uring the campaign explained that change in the administration would ean quite a change in the person- fel of the city force. One change come and the other is the nat- al outcome of the other, but Mr. uigley bas said that no efficlent of- er need fear anything from him and the general impression is that all efficient there is more than the verage amount of speculation in ho will be ruppohned and who will retired. It must be apparent that the com- hissions, as they now stand, are mnot h sympathy with the ideas promul- ted by Mr. Quigley in the council Ina on the stump and now that he as the power to bring some of the ficials into harmony with himself is only reasonable to assume that e will do so. New Britain has ome preity good men on the dif- prent boéda, made 80 by experience, t then politics makes strange bed- llows and according to custom. the W mayor may want to do some lousecleaning. This is the season pr it. * CONNEOTICUT’S NEEDS, Senator Joseph W. Alsop made a peech in Bristol Sunday last, and Imong the things he said was that advanced system of government needed in Connecticut, but that he ad no sympathy with, those who had een ' continually finding fault with he state. What is needed in thisstate is the ibolishment of the old borough sys- 2 under which a lttle town with handful of voters has the same lumber of representatives in the bwer - branch of the legislature as few Haven, the largest city in the te. So long as that system con- nues just so loeng will there be com- laining and just so long will there e political injustice in Connecticut. lenator Alsop might help in the work if reform in this direction, and it is party wwould join with the dem- racy some progress would soon be de. This system has not been ntained until the present day be- ause anyone thought it was right, jut because that element in the state.| f which Mr_ Alsop is a member has en opposed to a change. The farm- rs have never been willing to give in n inch on this question, they have jways fought it and with a few ex- eptions they have been backed up republican leaders. It is this system of representation t has brought censure on the tate and it will continue to do so jong as it is maintained. The cen- re ought to continue because in the ng run the people may become so jjsgusted with the arraignment that hey will put a stop to it in the only flay it can be done. NO WAR AT PRESENT. It may be noticed that the Amer- an people may dispute among them- slves as to what may be best to do regard to local regulations, but at when it comes to dealing with other country Americans are pretty to get together. It is so in gress in our attitude toward Mex- The latter has been insulting country. President Wilson has ded an n,nloty. and if it is not eomln: then the proposition is seize Vera Cruz and Tampico and Huerta does not make the expected ipology by that time then possibly United States may enter Mexico ind_ establish & government there in interest of icivilization as it did Cuba. Congress is with him on that point. i This country for good and suffi- cient reasons has refrained from in- terfering in Mexican affairs @nd it has no intention even of doing so now, but it cannot be expected to re- main passive while such a character as Huerta offers insults to the Amer- fcan flag. There is nothing in Mex- ico for this country and there is no reason for any thought that the trip of the battleships down there now has anything in the way of conquest in view. that is done, Huerta, Carranza, Villa and the others can continue their hos- tilities and kill each other If they choose to do so. This is no time for hysterical demonstration but rather a time for the people to keep cool and preserve a level head. NEW BRITAIN HONORED. F. V. Streeter has been elected de- partment commander of the Connect- icut G. A, R., and he is the second New Britain man in the history of the Grand Army to hold that position, the first being Postmaster Hicks, who was elected thirty-two years ago, New Britain is proud of its old sol- dlers, of the new department com- mander, and appreciates the distine- tion that has come to it this time. Commander Streeter has been a brave soldier, he is today a good citizen, and New Britain is delighted that one of its veterans has been so signally honored. COMMUNICATED. Benefits of Political Advertising Fx- plained By “Democmt P Editor Herald: As was to be expected, following the republican landslide of Tuesday, there {s the usual amount of “What did I tell you,” and “I knew just how it would be,”"—now it is all over. The republicans, justly, are claim- ing a great victory. But how was it won? Not, I belleve, with any change of political preferment or dissatisfac- tion with the present administration of the country, but simply by a united party; effective intelligent work; per- fect organization; ideal weather con- ditions; every plan of action prac- tically mapped out and carried out to the letter; a place ang part for every man and every man bn the job to do his duty. Could anbj: prepara- tions fail to bring the desifed result? Very much of this success is di- rectly attributable” to Mayor-elect Quigley, personally, Mr. Quigley has been in the.fleld, as a candidate, for nearly two years, and with every suc- ceeding day his name had become so prominent and fixed as the-candidate for mayor that it was impossible to pick up a newspaper Wwithout being confronted with the fact that Mr. Quigley was to be the next mayor of New Britain, Mr. Quigley is a shrewd advertiser—he knows the art and value of advertising from A to Z. It is the advertising he. has done, and what has been done for him, that makes him the mayor of New Britain. Any man with this temerity could have had the same number of votes to his credit. What did the democrats do this time? Did they begin the contest two years ago? Have they had any ward caucuses, prominent speakers or get- together rallies? Did they try to find out how many voters they could rely upon; will they profit by this. experi- ence? Echo answers, will they? The same line of aggressive work and planning, not only in politics,.but in business, in war, or any other wn- Adertaking, will win... We had a very. Bractical tiuatras tlon of this keeping everlastingly .at it in the campaigns .conducted by the late Gov. Geo. M. Lilley. for: con- 8ress and the . governorship, - when . the sentiment of.the state was. all inst him. No one thought he had & “ghost of a show” in either cam- paign, but for two years prior to each election. there was not a billboard or newspaper in the state that did not contain Mr. Lilley’s portrait, with in- structions to “Vote for Lilley,” or “Geo, M. Lilley for governor.” Cam- paign buttons or souvenir badges dec- orated the lapel of everyone's coat who would wear. them; hundreds rof thousands of booklets and leaflets were' scattered broadcast containing his views and principles, Of course, Mr, Lilley had “the stuff” with which to back this aggressive, audacious advertising that won for him both the elections. ‘We are now approaching another state election and, Mr. Editor, the writer makes this prediction, that the party, or individual, getting imte the campaign first, and keeping before the public, is the man or party will win this fall. > Will the democrats, as usual, wait till the last three weeks before elec- tion, when the republitans, progres- sives, socialists, prohibitionists and other parties have the pick of the voters, before doing something’ for themselves? A DEMOCRAT. Health Commissioner Goldwater of | New York city is a believer in pub- liclty regarding the public health de- partment of all cities. He is setting « fine example to the country by pub- lishing a weekly bulletin which in- cludes among other items of current interest the names.and addresses of those prosecuted for violations of the sanitary code, the nature of their of- fenses and the disposition of their cases in the courts. Thus the public 18 kept informed of the places where unwholesome or improperly foods are sold and the offender suf- fers more, doubtless, from such ad- vertising than from the payment of fines and costs.—Waterbury Repub- Hean. -« | There must be reparation for the indigmities offered and when | labeled | NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, THURSDAY, APRIL 16, 1914. GOOD ARRAY OF NEW BOOKS NAMED IN INSTITUTE'S LIST THIS WEEK For Farm and Garden. Flower Gardening, by H. 8. Adams. “A manual which gives plain direc- | | tions and covers much ground in a small space. It gives special empha- sis to perennials and will be useful to the amateur gardener in any local- ity. Contains a flower list and direc- | tiong for obtaining seasonal effects.” PR Garden Farming, by L. 8. Corbett, “Comprehensive, scientific but prac- tical and easily understood manual of American methods of cultivating veg- ctables both in the field and under | glass. Valuable to market gardeners, | truck farmers, home gardeners and { students.” o Pigeon Raising, by Alice Macleod. market breeder this book contains practical suggestion: PR w. Plant Culture, by G. Oliver. . e | Sneep Farming in America, by J. & Wing. .o Sheep Management. A handbook for the shepherd and student, Frank Kleinheinz. | “Both books were r the library by the Storrs Agricultural i college.” .5 ow Suburban Gardens, by Grace Tabor. “Author feels that the highest beauty is attained ‘only when a sane utilitarian spirit is suffered to guide; when efficiency leads and bheauty fol- lows after to adorn.’ " She gives vul- uable suggestions for planning grounds and gardens for the real benefit of the owner.” oa o Literature. American Literaturc, by W. J. Long. “A companion to the author’s Ifis- tory of English Literature. A fresh, inspirational treatment in which the distinguishing feature is the empha- sis placed upon literature as an ex- ! pression of the national spirit. Very full on colonial and revolutionary lit- erature with little attention to recent writers. “It is something of an event to be confrontea with a text- book which fairly burns its way into |{ the mind and heart of its reader. Despite the unpopularity of such ex- pressions we are tempted to say that he had a vision, an inspiration which he has turned into concrete book form.”’—Boston Transcript. s o Complete Poems, E. A: Poe. ‘“The most nearly complete collec- tion ever published. Eight poems now first collected are given. no great merit, though “An enigma” is extremely ingenious. The memoir is based on F. W. Thomas’ manu- script Recollections of E. A. Poe and . contains much new and valuable in. | formation.” . .o I'ires, by W. W, Gibson, “By the author of ‘Daily Bread, remarkable dramatic monologues in unrhymed verse. “No one can tell a better story in verse or invest common things with a subtler romance. Among these grim and moving pictures of plain folk it is hard to choose, but we should single out ‘The Wife' for its tragic irony, and ‘Flannan Isle’ and ‘The Flute’ for their imaginative pow- erf—Spectator. .o From the Porch, by I Ritchie. “Thackeray's daughter has drawn upon her store of memories for the most entertaining of these papers. There are reminiscences of Dickens, George Eliot and Charlotte Bronte, Mrs. Gaskell and Mrs. Oliphant, the founding of the Cornhill Magazine, and monographs on the artists More- land and Alfred Stevens and some lit- tle known literary people, all in the author’s own graceful style. Thack- eray figures but slightly.” . e Greek Lands and. Letters, by Francis ** @, and Anne Allinson. “A work that is original and very successful in execution. Each Greek province is presented with its modern cHaracteristics, and the incidents' of mythology and his- tory associated with it pointed out, largely by means of extracts or sum- maries from ancient Greek authors. Many of the translations from Greek literature are the work ‘of the au- thors, who have striven to render the thought as literally as possible.” .. Kinding; a comedy drama in three acts, by Charles Kenyon (Drama League Series of Plays.) “The first of a series which is to include the best plays current on the American stage and some of the most important European plays of recent years, not otherwise obtain- uhle in English.” o Lady A. in plan Modern Short Story, by L. L. Note- stein, and W, H. Dunn. “The theory is made clear by analy- sis and discussion of a dozen short story masterpieces; treats the sub- | ject as a work of art.” PR | Poetic New World, compiled by L. Humphrey. “A collection of poems.” P H. Southern Prose and Poetr: | by E. Nimes and B. R. | o ow ! Fiction. Idiot, by F..M. Dostoyevsky. “A very good translation haps the most characteristic | works.”—Athenaeum, | “In the present volume the glow- ing faith of the author in life and humanity fairly leaps from the pages, sweeping the reader along into a magnificent appreciation of the epic splendor of existence. N. Y. Times. PR Liliecrona's Home, by Selma Lagerlof, “This is a story of more general appeal than anything else by this writer and her accession to the Nobel honor roll will bring new readers to compiled /ne. of per- of his “For the inexperienced fancier and | by | -ommended to | They are of | the translation. It is an idyll full ot delicate feeling and fancy, and not without a touch of northern magic. | Nation, ow e | Lovely Lady, by M. H. Austin. | “The author's delicate touch, the play of color, and the aspects of fairyland that rise from every page, s well as the little practical lessons e sees fit to insert, leave the reader in no mood for criticism.”—Nation, ; . ox | Mainsail Haul, by John Masefield. | “There are fanciful stories of the sea and of sailors and true stories of | 0ld sea rovers, Ward, Jennings, Knox {and Coxon.” { “In these tales are splendid pas- ! sages of description.”—Review of Re- views. | PEPEN | Mixing, by Bouck White. “What the Hillport neighbors did ‘tn make their town a more livable | place. They reformed everything from thé minister who led the reform to ! the leader of Shantytown, Tony Re- i bito. Poorly written, but its ideas |are good.” . i On With Torchy, by Sewell Ford. . x Pelle, the Conqueror; Boyhood, by M. | A. Nexo. | "“A minute and faithful picture of !the life of a Danish peasant as lived by Pelle, a Swedish lad, who was i taken to Denmark by his father. This has been caNed the Jean Christophe of poverty. It spares the reader none ; of the hardness, but the spirit of the boy rises above all and redeems the | book. Has much the same feeling tbut more hope than Frenssen's John | Unh1.” . Wanderer's Necklace, by R, Haggard. “There is plenty of incident of the most stirring sort. It is a fascinating tale of adventure. and in its telling lacks nothing of that persuasive charm of which Mr Haggard has so many times shown himself a master, Momentous events and stirring scenes and hours of suspense come in swift succession.”—N. Y. Times. e Book Notes. Judge Donovan’s Bible cost cents a part, not fifty dollars, e 50 Connecticut libraries received some valuable gifts last year. New Haven.—$60,000 from Carne- gie Corporation (for three branches.) Rockville.—$25,000 by the will of Mrs. Harriet Kellogg Maxwell. Seymour.—$50,000 by the will Charles B. Wooster. Wallingford.—$500 by the will Hilton Rembert. . The Good Work Novels Do. “Novels have * been increasingly with us for a round hundred years. For several thousand years men have taken pleasure in prose fiction. Like the ruler, the priest, the trader and the artist, the story teller has Dbeen Wwith us from camp fires to cities and from huts to palaces. We cannot shake him off and would not if we could. He has made us known to ourselves. At his best he has inter- preted life for us, broadened us and mellowed us; at his poorest he has diverted us and dimmed the memory : of our troubles. “The novel today seems to express the present man more fully than any other form of ' literature. It can touch all subjects, express all feel- Ings, teach all doctrines. Unless all signs fail, it is sure to widen its fleld still further, to become still more | widely read, to teach us more readily, | to set forth character, history; the- { ories, ideals and doctrines moge com- prehensively.,”—From “The Newark- er.” of of FACTS AND FANCIES. With a population of over 45,000 New Britain has but 7,621 names on its voting list. Like Bridgeport, New Britain has a large element which is old enough to vote but does not take the trouble to be naturalized and register.—Briodgeport Post. A Nebraska law permits towns. to vote on the Sunday baseball question. Twenty-two towns took up the matter recently in election and seventeen voted in favor of it. This seems the most just way of tackling a problem which comes up with the regularity of ! the season and which will never be | scttlea until some such action as that in Nebraska has been taken,—Meriden Record. Residents of Connecticut enjoy fa- cilities no other state can offer, so ‘dnn'f g0 north, south, east or west, | but remain here Till the soil, work the same as you would in a strange ! land, live under better conditions; but work, and you will find out that this state is above the average and the opportunities golden, if you but take advantage of them.—Middletown Penny Press. The New Haven has nothing to. hide. The lawyers who aided the di- | rectors have nothing to hide. Every- | thing was honest. Nothing was stol- | en. Everything was clear and legal. That is why all of those corporations | and gentry fight so hard to hide | things. The less there is to hide, the | harder they try to hide it. The more honest they were, the more they | strive to conceal it.—Bridgeport Farmer. Tocal Causes Did Tt. (Waterbury American.) Local causes must have had most | to do with the republican tidal wave in New Britain, but the result shows | that the appeal to party loyalty, the necessity of submitting to discipline, and the duty of supporting the ad- ministration, has lost some of its hold on voters here in New England. It will be shown ever more clearly, we expect, in the fall congressional elec- tions. ! Halloran! ECHOES OF ELECTION An Amllnmauoyl. (Hartford Times.)' Victory.: perches on the republican standard in ‘New' Britain! ere is no disputing the decisive" character of the result in the big manufactur- ing city. George A. Quigley wins by 1,660 votes over Mayor . Halloran. This result is brought about by Mr. Quigley securing no less than 1,643 more votes than were given Mr. Taft in the fall of 1912, carried the city by 166. In the memorable election of 1912, it should be mentioned, Mr. Roose= velt polled 1,458 votes in New Brite ain, FEugene V. Debs secured 297. The difference between Mr. Taft's vote and Mr. Quigley's is quite well represented by the 1,458 which went for Mr. Roosevelt, and the difference between Debs’ vote of 297 and the 141 which were given yesterday to the socialist candidate for mayor, or 458 plus the difference between 297 and 141, which is 156. This mathe- matical calculation results in 1,614, a figure the plurality which Mr. Quigley finds credited to him. It would seem then that Mr. Quigley, who has been vociferously promising many reforms of a material nature to the some- what cosmopolitan population of New Britain, owes his election to an amalgamation of the bull moose and about half of the socialist vote. From this, no doubt, the republicans will derive not a little encouragement for the greater struggle to come in the autumn. Meanwhile let it be understood that New Britain is a mighty interesting field for observation during the new mayor's attempt to emulsify promise into performance. Something Dropped Hard. (Ansonia Sentinel.) The New Britain democracy dropped with a dull sickening thud yesterday at the annual city election and took the count. It was a very sudden and entirely unexpected pro- ceeding, for, in view of the election in Hartford, Connecticut democrats were pluming themselves on the fact that they were not only holding their ground in the face of business de- pression in the state, but were even gaining a trifle. To these optimists the returns from the Hardware City are almost a tragedy. There Is not a peg of hope to hang one’s hat upon. The landslide carried everything be- fore it, not only the mayoralty, but the council, the commissions and all of the minor elective offices. The battle was fought on purely local issues, although the republi- cans did have occasion to point out at several times the responsibility of the democrats for present business conditions. But there was nothing in local issues or in the difference be- tween the two men from the stand- point of popularity to explain this tremendous reversal of former elec- tion figures. The reason must be found elsewhere and it is altagether probable that it is the first free ex- pression of a pretty general feeling of dissatisfaction with the way dem- ocratic government is working out in terms of prosperity for the worker. New Britain is primarily an industrial city and the business ' depression, while not felt nearly as severely there as in some other places, was vet one of the moving forces that | explains the decisive actions taken by the electorate. It is not generally wise to draw any conclusions as to national affairs and policies from lo- cal elections, but this event in New Britain is so difficult to explain from the viewpoint of local politics and goes so far astray from the predic- tions of New Britain politicians, who all figured on a close contest, that there must be reason to look for the explanation outside of the men or city issues. Connecticut democrats, who regard- ed the preponderance of 34 votes. for Lawler over Cheney in the Hartford election as a glorious vVictory for the party and an endorsement of the Wil- son administration, are kindly invited to make some appropriate remarks upon thé result in New Britain. The Turning Tide. (Bridgeport Post.) The tremendous republican victory in New Britain seems to be one more straw to show that the political tide is turning. Ordinarily a city elec- tion does not mean much. But when a community with six or seven thousand votes makes a great politi- cal change and does it, too, against| a candidate of the admitted great strength of Mayor Halloran, there is more than the ordinary meaning in the verdict. 1 The republicans carry New Britain by over 2,000 plurality and by a clear majority of 1,800! The vote polled, | too, was the largest ever cast, ex- | ceeding the presidential vote of 1912 by 300, thus showing public interest. | Compared with that election the re- sults are significant. Then the re- publicans carried the city by 161 plu- | rality and were in the minority of 1,650, the progressives polling 1,- 478 votes. Today there is a clear republican majority of 1,800, and that | is gained against the democrats led ! by so splendid a candidate as Mayor | 1t is impossible to ignore the mean- ing of this change. New Britain is one of Connecticut’s greatest manu- And Mr. Taft very fairly approximating | ‘McMillan’s. your duty to attend this Hotel and Rooming House Keepers, BLEACHED TABLE DAMASK. (58 inch wide) Linen Week price 25¢ yard. 60 in.,, 64 in. and 70 in., exception- ally fine damask. Linen week prices 39¢, 59c and 79c yard. 60 inch wide Silver Bleached Da- mask. Linen week price 78¢ yard. HEMSTITCHED TABLE CLOTHS Linen week prices 89c, 98c, $1.25, $1.50 each. ROUND TABLE CLOTHS Scalloped edge. Linen week price 98c each. ALL LINEN TABLE CLOTHS Round and square. Linen week prices $1.98 to $6.00 each, MERCERIZED LUNCH Linen week priced 50c All pure Linen Lunch Clgths, at 75c, 98c, $1.25, $1.50, $1.75 fach. SCARFS, SHAMS AND CENTER PIECES. 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With such a system Mayor Halloran would have been re- elected. New Britain’s New Mayor. (Meriden Record.) The big vote cast in the New interest in the candidates for the mayoralty which must have pleased every one concerned in civic affairs as well as the politiclans who were working for both parties. To one not versed in the inside workings of the municipal affairs of facturing centers. The same con ditions operated there as in Pate son and Passaic, N. J., and the in the vote is of the same c ter. Its slignificance is clear. voters in manufacturing center do not believe in tariff which helps only | foreign manufacturers and workers. No other pos pretation can be placed on New Brit- | ain’s vote. | It is to be deeply regretted that so | splendid a public official Halloran as Mayor | is the victim of this con- | dition of affair He made a fine | run, going 400 votes ahead of his | ticket. But no strength saves a man in tidal wave years. The outcome is as we feared when commenting upon Mayor Halloran's renomination. | the time. New Britain, the size of the plurality of the republican nominee was some- what of a surprise, since, an the sur- face the administration of Mr. Hal. Joran had seemed to progress with- out untoward friction. Unless we are greatly mistaken Mayor Quigley will prove an inter- esting chief executive. 1f signs do not fail, he will be mayor all the His rather picturesque career as alderman indicates a line of endeavor which will spell progres- siveness and will put New Britain in the vangu of Connecticut cities. He will have a republican council which ought to aild him materially in putting through legislation in which he is interested. He starts off well equipped and if he doesn’t make good Britain election Tuesday indicated an ; it cannot be attributed antagonism. to political Two Elections. (Meridep Journal.) Two elecons have been held with- in a short of time in Connecti- cut cities on the surface con- ditions are @mzzling when the casual observer ti to ascertain from them the trend state or national politi- cal feeling, The democrats take great joy in the fact that an honored and successful . mayor of the repub- lican faith was beaten by an untricd youth in Hartford and the republi- cans with greater glee even rejoice that Mayor Halloran, of New Brit- ain who has been in office four years, loses to a republican by a big major- ity. There were wheels within wheels in the New Britain electjon, forccs at work that caused big changes. So it is in all local affairs. Men win because of merit or friendship and they lose because of petty politics, because of factional rows and be- cause of a thousand things that are not known or understood outside. We will have to have a state elec- tion before we can understand just how people .feel about President Wil- son and his policies and until that happens all must be conjecture. With thousands of worshippers turned away from services on Easter there ought to be some way to over- come that lost efficiency for the go- to-church movement. Would Baster programs every Sunday do it?—Nor- wich Bulletin.