New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 22, 1914, Page 6

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 1914. | 'NEW BRITAIN HERALD HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY. 4 % Proprietors. | Tawued datty (Sunday excepted) at 4:18 p. m. B At Herald Building, 67 Church St ‘ at flow Britaln tter. Entersd at the Post Office ; as Second Class Mall | Detiverea by carrier to any part of the oity | o for 16 Cents a Week, 65 Conts & Month. +! Bukacriptions tor paper to be sent by mal Paysble in advance. 60 Cents & Month, $7.00 & year. The only profitable .dvertising medium 1o the )!”D Circulation books and press reym slways spen to advertisers. The Herald will be founa on sate at Hota- ilpg’s News Stand, 42nd St. and Broad- way, New York City; Board Walk, Atlantic City. and Hartford depot TELEPHONE CALLS. Dastness OfMce . Raiterial Rooms ———————————————————— WAR IS ON. The president of the United States stands as the master of the situation and Mexico. between this country Congress has been slow and while it _talked as to the grounds upon which there should be action toward that ' country, he acted and none too soon. ' Had he permited the landing of arms and ammunition for the Mexican army his dilatory policy would be denounced from one end of the coun- try to the other, but instead his po- gition is being commended for the ‘pavy is in control of Vera Cruz and ‘the stars and stripes are floating over the custom house. There has been some bloodshed, some of our have been killed, many more wound- men ed, but no matter what congress may say or do now the war is on and the United States of America in the first battle has been victorious. This 1s no time to dispute over the cause ‘which led to the conflict or to talk of the great honor and glory and perhaps the reward that will come to those who may distinguish them- elves in the pending trouble with [Mexico, but there is no mistaking the fact that there will be kind words for Woodrow Wilson for the promptness ith which he acted in ordering the apture of the custom house at Vera kept talking The war is on now ruz, while congress bout what to do. pnd there is no turning back until the whole question at issue is settled nd at such a time there are no dem- perats or republicans; only A‘mericans, nd the proper place for congress is If it isn’t jhen there may be something else do- o ;be with the president. & when the Mexican trouble is at an nd. ; There need be no fear of the out- ome so far as actual hostilities are oncerned, but now that they have tarted the entire program should be rfied out as quickly as possible, | SHAKESPFARE IN SCHOOLS, ' Henry Clews, the noted authority on ancial matters, suggests that it ould be a good idea to have actors feite Shakespearian pieces in the ublic schools, and some other authori- es inquire where such actors are to he pund. It would be almost impossible find them in sufficiently large num- prs to do all the work that would be quired of them if the above sug- on were generally adopted. There e not many great Shakespearian ors in this country and unless jose selected were of the best ey would have no place in our pblic schools. It would not be ough for such teachers to be espearian students, who kmnew ® lines and could recité them from gmory. It would be necessary for em to understand Shakespeare, to jderstand elocution and have abil- to impart their - knowledge to hers. There are not enough of ose to go around, but what could done and which would help won- rfully would be for the schools to ‘e Shakespearian plays and when p lines had been committed to ob- n the services of a good Shake- rian actor to drill the cast thor- ghly, have the play then produced 'h all the necessary details be- e the remainder of the' student Hy and in this way the instruction uld reach all and the Clews idea uld in a great measure be carried . This expense would not be heavy i would give sufficlent prominence tHe study of the works of the t dramatist. he suggestion of Banker Clews is jely because there is a disposition to it prejudice to creep into the of Shakespeare in our schools, e having been one of his greatest lys eliminated from many educa- al institutions because of a belief it Teflects on a certaln race. people are very strenuous on point, too, so that it looks as if fuight be necessary to eliminate he Merchant of Venice” for instance further study and there is no Shakespearian actor of any merit in this country who would not feel that his work was incomplete unless he had played Shylock. MAYOR ;IAKES APPOINTMENTS. | Mayor Quigley has started in making his appointments and he so far has made good selections. It is not qquite clear, however, why Mayor Quigley should recommended the appointment of the present sealcr | of weights and measures for the rea- | son that there does not seem to be| any vacancy. This appointment used | to be made by the board of public safety in accordance with a provision of the charter, but in 1911 the legis- lature passed an act which imposed that duty on the mayor of the city sub- ject to approval of the council and did not specify any term, the under- standing being that the appointment would be during good behaviour. In appointing the present sealer Mayor Halloran did not specify any term and, of course, there is no vacancy, the occupant simply continuing in of- fice. Possibly Mayor Quigley may see this matter in another light. It was also noticed that in appoinz- ing Dr. Reeks to the health board he recommended him for the office of superintendent which pays a salary of $2,500 a year, while according to the| law that official is appointed by the | committee itself. There is no harm | in recommending that Dr. Reeks be | appointed superintendent as the place calls for a physician, but some are inclined to interpret the act as a de- sire on the part of the mayor to in- fluence the board in the selection of their officers. This, however, may be far from his thoughts. Mayor Quig- ley has given the impression that he intends to surround himself with good Heutenants and if he does he will have taken a very important step towards making his administration a success. He has made & good start. on have COUNCIL CAUCUSES, The caucuses of the republican and democratic members of the common council have passed off smoothly, Alderman Christ has been nominated for president pro tem and P. J. Egan has been named for another term on the water board. This action was ex- pected. Committee assignments have been made and when the common | council meets there is no reason why the session should not be & harmo- nious one and the actions of the caucuses ratified without friction of any kind. When that is done there will be absolutely no reason why the question of politics should not be eliminated for the balance of the year, Mayor Quigley has pledged himself tc give New Britain a business ad- ministration and that cannot be done unless politics is cast aside. The per- scnnel of the new council suggests in the main a body of intelligent men who may be reasonably expected to do the right thing for New Britain. There is always much work to be done at this time of the year and the sooner itis taken up the more quickly 1t will be accomplished. A new ad- ministration generally has more or less difficulties in getting under way but the eyes of the city are on Mayor Quigley and there is much speculation as to what he will do and how he will do it. His unexpected election and his victory by a tremendous plu- rality have all served to whet the ap- petite of the city to learn what is to be done and mext to the excitement ircident to the war, the inauguration of the new mayor and the interest manifested in the makeup of his cabi- net all tend to make a Jocal question in which New Britain is anxious for the details. | Trustful Ma. (Detroit Free Press.) Ma has every confidence in Pa, She says she knows he always does what's right, He's not at all like some folks' hus- bands are, et Whose conduct very often is a ! fright. She says that she can trust him any- | where An’ know he’d never think of doing Wrong, But when he meets a widow, young an’ fair, Ma never leaves them chatting very long. Ma never has a single doubt of Pa, An’ she is very thankful, too, for that; She says she knows he’d never go too far, Besides he's growing old an’ bald an’ fat. But just the same when friends for tea, An’ Ma has shown 'em where their places are, Although she trusts him most implic- itly She never puts the pretty Pa. we have girls by The habit that some boys have in this vicinity of throwing stones at trains is such a viclous and danger- ous one that it should be effectually discouraged by railroad and police of- ficials. Passengers are entitled to protection while they are on trains of the New Haven road and this pro- tection has been conspicuously lack- ing of late from hoodlums along the right of way. An example made of some persistent offender would tend to materially improve conditions,— Ansonia Sentinel. When is an arrest not an arrest? That’s a problem that has been trou- bling people in this town for a long time, One man, accused of an of- fense against public morals and de- cency, may not be placed under ar- rest, nor asked to give even a ten cent bond. Another man whose per- sonal tax remains unpald less than sixty days after the bill may be hauled out of bed and marched to the police station with a great clat- ter, and there made to give a bond for appearance in court. Of course it's only natural for lawyers who leg- islate themselves into jobs at great expense to the city to feel that they are the law, but they ought to wake up.—Waterbury Republican. A boy of eight was killed in Dan- bury by an automobile last night. He was to blame. He was playing after school and didn’t get out of the way. A boy of six was killed in New Ha- ven by an automobile last night. He was to blame. He was playing in the street in front of his own home and ran right in front of the car. The drivers were not going slowly and carefully enough to stop in time, and were not held. In New Britain last night two boys, twelve and seven vears old, were struck by a trolley car and injured severely, one of them seriously. This was a little more than the average day in Connecticut, even though the list above is not exhaus- tive. But the average Is pretty high. ‘Waterbury contributes a tragedy now and then. The slaughter of the in- nocents goes on because they are thoughtless and reckless, like the little fools that they are, and the men who drive the heavy cars cannot creep along slowly enough to save them, if they are going to get any- where.—Waterbury American. Most Dangerous Man, (Columbia; State.) Today the south remains the only section, which, in the always some- what qualified sense, can be called “American.” Today, with all the shift and change from old conditions, it has a prosperity not so dazzling as that achieved by the immigrants to New York and to the great centers of the west in the making of mammoth fortunes, but a prosperity which does not carry armies of unemployed on its beck. TIts hereditary millionaires have largely disappeared, but its propor- tion of self-supporting and ambitious men of effort is largely greater— among Americans—than that of any other section. Today, Richmond, a great city, has become one of the chief centers of a new financlal system, winning the dis- tinction by virtues of progress, as well as of location. Today the president of the United States is a southern man in his every instinet. Five members of the cabinet are southern men. The leader southern man. The leader of the southerner. We could continue to expand the lst, but it Is useless to do so. Bear this in mind, however, that before the war between the sections, when a policy was to be announced, when a course of action was to be taken, when a debate was to be resolved into its salts of logic, it was to the south that ithe nation looked for the expression which was to voice America. It is a thing worth pondering that, forty-nine years after Appomattox, at a time when the prestige of the United States s admitted among the nations, when what we think and what we do become the index of what shall be done and what shall not be done in half of the globe, the men who ore shaping these great policies, who are establishing the gospel of Americanism, are the sons and the grandsons of the remnants of that army of Lee that fought to the taking of the last gasp at Appomatox. The most dangerous thing in the world is the man who is “let up,” after he is supposed to be “licked. of the house is a senate is a Slavery in Rhode Island,” (The Survey.) The supreme court of Rhode Island is soon to decide, for the first time in the United States, whether a convict is a slave, ward of the state, citizen, or what not. William . Anderson, formerly a convict in the Rhode Island state prison, has sued the contractors. of that institution to recover wages for his labor during imprisonment. The Rhode Island constitution prohibits slavery as slavery, no matter what the form may be. The limitation, “ex- cept as a punishment for crime,” pre- sented in the federal and most state constitutions, is lacking in Rhode Isiand. It is upon this that Anderson bases his suit. Behind him is the na- tional committee on prison labor. As the constitutions of Vermont and Maryland are similar to that of Rhode Island and prison contracts are in operation in both states, similar cases may be filed. To southern members of congress, the suit has brought attention to the fact that slavery is not necessarily negro slavery. It has reminded them that Indian slavery long existed in the Providence plantations; and the oratory of the fifties and sixties may row find echoes in a congressional in- vestigation of “slavery” in a New Emgland state. Anderson claims a damage in that his mother and other dependents were | left in poverty. Fifty cents a day was paid by the contractor to the state for his labor and the use of the prison buildings, light and heat. How much of this was for his labor and how much for the use of the buildings, light and heat, the contracts do not make clear. No matter what the decision, it is conceivable that there will be a ju- dicial statement as to what proper rates of wages really are and that the court will define conditions of employ- ment and other interesting questions, The proceedings are somewhat com- plicated by the fact that another case is being brought by Anderson against another contractor in a federal court. WHAT OTHERS SAY Views on all sides of timely questions as discussed in ex- changes that come to Herald office. Next Lincoln Anniversary. (Philadelphia Bulletin.) April 14 a vear hence will be the fiftieth anniversary of the great trag- edy. In that rounding of half a cen- tury there will be much of the sa_ime sort of significance in the comparison of the part and present that there was last year at Gettysburg in a like style. It was then shown that the veterans of the north and the veter- ans of the south had reached the final stage of conciliation among themselves, that the memories of that | awtul battlefield could be recounted | by one another without resentment, | and that henceforth they would be proud of having lived to see the day | When they could stand hand in hand | as sons of the same country under | the same flag. In a still greater de- | gree will that sentiment be expressed | not simply by the veterans but by the men of the generation which succeed- ed them, when the commemoration of Lincoln’s death shall close the era | half a century. It is altogether like- ly that from among the southern peo- ple, both the survivors of the war and their descendants, there will | arise scarcely less of patriotic rever- ence for his place today in the annals of the republic than there will {in the north, and that reciprocally | among ourselves there will also come | to be felt something of the ~same | appreciation of the virtue and chat- | acter of Robert E_ Lee as the flower of southern manhood. When south- erners like old Joe Blackburn with their loyalty to the stars and bars, are applauded by their countrymen of the confederacy and by the south- ern press for their patriotism in serving or wanting to serve on a commission which will erect in honor of Abraham Lincoln a memorial as distinctive in its grandeur as the tomb in which Napoleon rests on the banks of the Seine, we may well re- joice in our outlook on the future as a truly united people. Every 14th of April brings us near- er to the full realization of Stanton’s noble words when at the bedside he saw the martyr draw his last breath —“Now he belongs to the ages.” Senator Poindexter’s Roosevelt Boom (New York Sun.) Senator Miles Poindexter of Wash- ington seems to mistake altogether the present drift of public opinion, In his speech before the Indiana pro- gressive state convention on Saturday he forecasted a great boom of Colonel Roosevelt on the theory that the peo- ple are dissatisfled with the demo-~ cratic party’s activity at Washington and desire a regime of increased fed: eral interference in everybody’s busi. ness. There is every reason to be- lieve that the people are sick of fed- eral interference and desire to be left to their own devices, at least long enough to find out how recent inno- vations operate. - g This general and growing attitudn is shown in no way more clearly than in the present disinclination to g ahead with the president’s program of trust legislation. There can be no doubt as to the reluctance of | congress to proceed with these mea- sures. Loaded with possibilities of trouble as they are, the representa- tives and senators whose seats fall vacant are afraid to take them beforo their constituencies as accomplished facts. Only a week or so ago the bills—now jocosely spoken of as the “Four Furies"—were regarded as in extremis. Only a lively pulmotoral effort by the president restored their flickering vitality, and his act fell far short of winning the hearty approval of the administration press. The president’s most ardent and uncom - promising supporter in this city point- ed out at least a hundred reasons why the bills should be laid over to th» next session. The fact is that if Colonel Roose- velt should find any sort of consider- able support for his ambitions upon his return from the jungle, it would probably be based on the mollycod- dle view of him which is taken by many of his admirers that his bark is far worse than his bite. Not a few might pr¢fer an administration of menacing but harmless epigrams to one of plausible but dangerous experi~ ment. This view may be humilfating to tmue progressive sentiment, but there is a tremendous lot of truth in it. The country wants a rest. How He Could Tell, (Ladies’ Home Journal.) A Georgia “cracker” tells this story on his own people: He says a north- ern man who had settled in Georgla was visited by a friend, who asked him how he liked the place and the people. “Oh, all right,” replied the man, “Now tell me,” asked the friend, “what is a ‘Georgia cracker?” How can you tell him from another per- son?” “Well,” replied the northern set- tler, “you see out in that fleld s black object?” “Yes,” said the friend. “Now,” said the mian, “that may be either a ‘Georgia cracker’ or a stump. Watch it for half an hour and if it moves, why, it's a stump.” The day of the horse thief having passed, the day of the automobile thief is here with a vengeance. The new desperado is harder to deal with, because there is practically no limit to | the distance which he can put be- tween himself and his pursuers, and | the problem of identification is very much more difficult. The appearance of a horse could be altered but slight- ly without serious injury to the beast, but the appearance of an au- tomobile can be changed so complete- ly that its manufacturer could never recognize it.—Bridgeport Telegram. of the Civil war review in the light of | The Butler Statue. (Springfield Republican.) There are certain wholesome preju- dices, and one of them is the “preju- dice” very many people in this state | entertain against an appropriation by 1 | the legislature for a statue in honor of the late Gen. Benjamin F. Butler. One may search Massachusetts h tory in vain for a public man mo exposed to criticism than Butler, or | whose military record excites so lit- tle admiration. The chsession of the Massachusetts house in' favor of the proposed Butler statuc seems to con- vict it of esteem for one of the chcap- est, flashiest, tawdriest, most dema- Bogic figures American politics pro- | duced in the nineteenth centur:; An equestrian, or milita statue above all things would be ridiculous. Butler performed much good servico in the Civil war, but he was utterly | incompetent as an army commander | and he had to be removed, because of incapacity, at the request even of | Gen. Grant, over whom Butler had acquired a strange personal influence. A military statue to Butler would be a perpetual humiliation to Massachu- setts and an object of derision for the Test of the world because; as a soldier, Butler did nothing to entitle him to the high honor of such a memorial. The taint of personal corruption will ever cling to Butler's war rec- ord. One of our foremost historians, after careful Investigation, has d® liberately written: “I need not hesi- tate to affirm that the weight of t historical evidence implies that But- ler's course in money matters during the Civil war was not what is ex- pected of men placed in positions of trust; beyond reasonable doubt he was making money out of his coun- try's life-struggle.” What a glorious epitaph would be this judgment of the same historlan, if chiseled on. the Butler statue: May we be spared in future the need of such servants who, efficient as they may be when their country’s interest and their own do not clash, are yet willing to rigk prolonging her agonies for the sake of private gain. In politics, Butlér's record was ter- ribly marred by his warm support of Jefferson Davis for the presidency of the United States in the Charleston convention of 1860. Becoming a “black republican” in wartime, he was a deplorable extremist in the re- construction period so hateful in memory to the south, and it is im- possible now to find wisdom in his vindictive attitude in the impeachment proceedings against President Andrew Johnson. He left the republican party because he could not rule it in Massachusetts, and he left the demo- cratic party in 1884 the moment it | preferred Grover Cleveland to himself as a candidate for presldent. As a lawyer, Butler was one of the trickiest and most unscrupulous who ever practiced before American courts. Granting all the good that Butler did, and which his advocates em- phasize so insistently, still it would degrade the fame of ths common- wealth and menace the civic ideals of our youth in future generations to have this statue erected on Massa- chusetts soil by act of the great and general court. It would be a great abuse of the legislative power to single out for so exceptional an honor a man whose statue, erected at public expense, would be an everlasting offense in the eyes of so large a proportion of the people of the commonwealth. Formal Mourning Passing. (Columbus, O., State Journal.) The notice of the death of an emi- nent man in London contained these words: “His wife and family will re- spect his urgent desire that no out- ward sign of mourning should be worn.” In referring to this notice the London Times says: ‘““The prac- tice of wearing mourning has long been sliding into disuse, and probably the next twenty years will see it abandoned altogether, at any rate, among the wealthier people.” According to the London paper, all badges of woe are disappearing from funerals, The black rosets on the horses’ bridles and the crepe on the hats and sleeves are seen sel- dom. So it is with black-edged writ- ing paper and black-edged cards. It is all going, because mourning not needed, either for memory or re- speet. Here are two paragraphs froi the Times article: Those whose sympathy we value will give it us, without our adver- tising for it; it will seem all but in- decent to go about the world demand- ing sympathy of strangers. And if we believe that those who have left us have still the power to observe our doings we must believe that it is our hearts, not otr clothes, that they will read. / All of which may seem a little un- feeling, and yet it is only to give an idea of the changes that are going on in the world of mourning. Seeing England By Motor 'Bus. (Louisville Courier Journal.) The formation of a company to link forty towns and cities in Eng- land by a motor ’'bus Toute in com- petition with rallways for passenger patronage will recall to many of the older citizens the pleasures of stage coach days. Travel by stage coach took the traveler past the front doors of the homes along the route. It brought him into close touch with the life of the countryside. He knew something of the customs and manners of the section he traversed. He even formed acquaintanceships along the way. Modern transportation facilities whisk the traveler from one city to another in a swirl of smoke and cin- ders. Nothing is learned about the people of the. panorama that is seen from the car windows. A traveler upon the railroad from Kentucky to New York knows the states that lie between Kentucky and New York no better than before he made the jour- ney. And how many Louisvillians are there who know a score of the 120 counties that compose the state? There are surprises, many of them delightful, to those whose business or search for diversion chances to | fered the | ed A e improve thelr acquaintance wnh' | sights and scenes and persons half a | hundred miles from their homes. | There are many well-traveled Louls- | villians to whom considerable aec-l tions of Kentucky are less well known than France or England or Italy, Private motor vehicles have of- advantage of an opportun- ity to become as intimately acquaint- with the neighboring countics, or states, 2s did the travelers of stage coach days, in addition to the great advantage of rapid transportation. Public motor ‘buses should win a ready and regular patronage. They wili not be scorned by the discern- ing American travelor in England, for inasmuch as the passengers will be largely Engilshmen, ana xamlyl “local” passengers, a seat in the motor 'bus will offer a better view of England and the English than can be had from the tonnezau of a private automnobile, The motor ’'bus idea is one that should be developed. Such a service as the English company plans will hardly inaugurate competition that will be destructive to railroads. It will supplement the established trans- portation systems and add charm to travel in England. Town Tree Planting. (Worcester Gazette.) The town of Southbridge is show- ing its public spirit and enterprise by entry into the tree planting con- test. The movement is under the au- spices of the town branch the Massachusetts forestry association which is offering a prize for the city or town which sets out the greatest number of trees in proportion to its population, The prize may be an incentive to stir towns to this work, but any mere money offering is of slight con- sideration with respect to what fu- ture good will result from the setting out of trees. The trees along the pub- lic streets of Worcester are one of the glories of the city. Shade trees are one of the best and cheapest means of city and town beautifica~ tion to be had. However, it 1§ not only in towns proper but along the roadsides in suburbs and country that shade trees should be set. Massachu- setts roads are peculiarly adapted for such Work for when laid out they were made of generous width and wide spaces are found to either side of the traveled ways. It is to be hoped that towns gen- erally will catch the spirit of this work. as Southbridge has caught it, and that the plan of setting out at least a few trees each year along streets and highways will be adopted. of How “Gath” Reported a Race. (George F. Babbitt in Boston Herald.) In the old days when the Harvard- Yale ‘varsity races were rowed on Saratoga lake I reported them. On one occasion rough water on the lake necessitated repeated postponements, first from Thursday to Friday, and then to Saturday, when Harvard out- rowed Yale. After watching this con- test from a &pecial launch, I re- turned to my hotel at Saratoga to make my report. While I was thus engaged George Alfred Townsend came to me, saying that he had at that moment received a dispatch from the New York Herald asking him for a full report of the race. The famous Harvard oarsman, William Blaikie, had been engaged to do this work for the Herald, He was a very con- scientious Christian, and he belatedly notified the Herald that he could not report the race for the Sunday edi- tion, The Herald, thus suddenly left in the lurch, sought Townsend's ser- vices. He accepted the commission, but, owing to the latness of the noti- fication, he was embarrassed by the fact that he hadn’t seen the race at all. It was in this plight that he; came to me asking for some of the salient features of the event. I gave them to him in a very few words, telling him the relative positions of the rival boats at different points of the course, the varying strokes, and how they finally crossed the line. Dick Dana and Bob Cook were the re- spective stroke oars, That was all the information Townsend wanted. He then sat down and wrote his dis- patch, When I bought the Sunday | New York Herald next morning I found a two-page double-leaded story of the race, signed by Gath. Using the meager details I had given him, he had managed to make a remark- ably graphic report of the contest. It was as picturesque as it was graphic, and it was widely comment- ed upon as a wonderful piece of re- is no reflection on this who has just dled at the age of seventy-three and whose pen name was “Gath.,” to say that this Saratoga achievement was a fair ‘ods. McMIL Your Opportunity to Purchase Laces and ] LLAN'S Embroideries at a Big Reduc- tion in Price Several thousand yards we offer the public. Values most unusual for such fine grades of Laces and Embrold« eries, representing only such kinds that are most in demand. .Therefore attend this sale and select your Lace, or Embroidery Dress now. 27-INCH EMBROIDERY SWISS BATISTE FLOUNCINGS Baby patterns at 69c yard which would be a bargain at $1.00. 27-INCH ST. 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