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

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD. WEDNESDAY, JULY 22, 1914. EW BRITAIN HERALD HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY, ! Proprietors. dafly (Sunday excepted) st é: m p. Herald "Bullding, 67 Church 8t Office at New Britain Matter. d at the Post a8 Second Class Mall vered by carrier to any part of the city 15 Cents a Week, 65 Cents a Month. riptions for paper to be sent by mail vayable in advance. 60 Cents & Month $7.00 a year. 2 only profitabble advertising medium in the city. Circulation books and press reom alweys open to advertlsers. [« Herala wu1 be found on sale at Hota- 's News Stand, 42nd St. and_Broad- way, New York City; Board Walk, Atlantic City, and Hartford depot. TELEPHONE CALLS Office . ttorial Rooms. RILLY ANNOUNCES HIS CANDI- DACY. In a brief interview with a repre- tative of the Meriden Journal yes- rday Congressman Reilly said that ,would be a candidate /for re-elec- bn as a representative in congress, hd he also said that the bellef is neral in Washington that business 11 pick up this fall. No one seriously thought that Con- essman Reilly was a candidate for ther United States senator or gov- nor, notwithstanding the fact that name has been repeatedly asso- ted with these two offices. He has de a good member of congress and thouzh serving only his second term b stands well up among the leaders. e has always had an aptitude for ablic life and in dealing with national estions he has shown courage, abil- ly ana shrewdness of judgment. The tuation has been so uncertain in e democratic party in Connecticut regards candidetes that in the dis- hiesion Mr. Reilly's name was used, ot with his consent and probably thout his knowledge, and it was bmetimes thought it was done by bmeone with the hope that he might induced to seek some of those es and vacate the one he holds, hereby leaving easy sailing for some- e else. But Tom Reilly knows the ne of politics himself; he was not ught by any soft talk and his con- fituents think the more of him. He 11 not only be renominated for con- ess, but he will make a campaign hat will make his opponent sit up nd take notice. He is a good talker in@ what is better still he knows what e is talking about. That is the kind f a combination that people like to sten to. PR Sl R, NO BASEBALL STRIKE. The fans are happy today that there ng baseball strike on as was ex- ected yesterday. President Johnson of the American league is' sorry that the matter was ttled and Chairman Hermmann of the hational commission says he feels the Lame way about it. President Tener as detained on official business ‘in Harrisburg and has had no statement fo make about the matter. The relations between the magnates nd the players have been somewhat trained of late and the latter have ormed a fraternity for their own pro- In this case one Clarence Brooklyn ction. raft was drafted by the hhanagement from Nashville and sent © Newark where ~the salary was higher then it was in the former blace. Nashville wanted Kraft back, Brooklyn .was going to send him hare and Kraft refused to go on ac- ount of the salary.’ He is a member bt the Players’ Fraternity, that organ- zation tcok up the fight for him and as preparing to strike when the pres- dent of the Brooklyn club bought up b1l claim Nashville had on Kraft and e will continue to play with Newark. While the managers of the two big leagues say they are sorry a strike was not inaugurated, they do not ean a word of what they say. They aim they would close all their ball parks but if they did they would lose a great deal of money and they object o that as well as do the players. A rike would also have the result of ving the Federal league a boost that svould not help’ the other leagues. There is need of protection for the managers as well as the players for it the former who have made base- the success it is today, but the Lyeat trouble is that they have be- yme so arrogant as to be almost bearable and if the dispute over ft had not been settled and a resulted’ the game itself suffer and the magnates would y losers in the end. The play- ¢ at least some of them would e }‘9 able to obtain as much v’ ut any other business. Some 2 high salary now vet only a ve any money. They are spend- a on the principle that what is have their wings clipped. The first step in that direction was made when Ebbets of Brooklyn: settléd ' with Nashville for Kraft and although the magnates of the big.leagues say that they are sorry they probably knew beforehand what was going to be done and were agreeable to.it.._ NEW JERSEY WANTS (MI- GRANTS. ‘There hasn’t been much said of late about the ‘“back to the farm movement,” but New Jersey has taken up the cry for more men to till its uncultivated fields, which, it says, amount to more thana million acres. What the state seems to need is immi- grants who have a little money to locate there, purchase farms and en- gage in agriculture. Whether they will hearkep to the call is difficult to say, but there is no doubt but that they would make greater progress toward prosperity if they did. It is a foolish policy on the part of these people to gather in the cities, now overcrowded, where there are so many idle people and where it is dif- ficult to obtain employment. Yet that is what they do and by doing so they simply add to the long list of those struggling for existence. There has been much said of the back to the farm movement; our great friend, James J Hill, says the salvation of the country depends upon it; locating there would mean a good living for many now experiencing a hand to mouth existence, and the added produce would have a tendency to decrease the cost of living, It is stated that there is no place ih the country where large markets are so near at hand as in New Jersey, but the great trouble has been to get im- migrants to work the farms. These are not abandoned farms, either, but flelds which are simply going to waste because of the lack of men to culti- vate them. People are not likely to go looking for these places; there must be some ope, some organization to direct attention to them; in other words to induce people to locate there. New Jersey is simply neglect- ing an opportunity to add to its wealth and importance; it is really sitting down and crying over what it might do instead of getting out and hustling for the help it needs. It needs to get busy at once. FISHER-COMSTOOK DEBATE. Ex-Mayor Fisher of Middletown, democratic candidate for governor, challenges ex-Chairman Comstock . of Montville, democratic candidate for governor, to public debate. That seems hardly fair to us, as we all know the Middletown ex-professor’s ability to talk, while our friend Com- stock is known to be a deep thinker. —Bridgeport Telegram. It would be an Interesting debate, for while Prof. Fisher would be talk- ing Mr. Comstock ¥ould be thinking, and when his turn came he would have a whole mess of stuff with which to get back at him. It might be pos- sible, however, that Mr. Comstock would not make any reply, but would consent to leave the ‘whole thing to the people. Politlcs is a game in which all can. play, but it does not seem as if there is any reason for any undue excitement over these two gen- tlemen, because it does not seem pos- sible that either will be nominated for governor, not on account of any lack of ability, but because of the uncertainty of their leadership and the great probability of neither being able to win at the polls. Because one or both stand for certain things will not make them strong candidates and their platforms, no matter how they are built, will not prove that they should be nominated. Still that has nothing to do with the debate. The gentlemen are entertaining and if the people have the time to listen they would probably be the better for hearing the discussion, The candi- dates should visit every town and if possible they should have a little music as a preliminary to the talks. It would help to put the audience into good humor and it would give it an’ opportunity to decide which it preferred. If it declared for the music a vote could be taken as to whether it was instrumental or they wanted. chin Art and Reality. (Washington Star.) It people only looked the way that pictures make ’em look This world of ours would be just like a wondrous story book. With sprites and elves and goblins flitting o’er the scene And now and then an cffulgent and serene. The men would all be handsome, with athletic grace endowed. Or else they’d be so comic that they'd make you laugh aloud, And women, with their ankles posed witn elegance and care, Would poise their hands and float like gracious spirits through the air. angel all But as we trudge we feel ourselves ** " too’ stout or else too slim, And those. who might be laughable are only, sad -and grim. ‘We would not be so often moved to | him free to rebule others who de not FACTS AND FANCIES. Baseball has been introduced as a rart of the self-government policy for the prisoners at Sing Sing. The game has been beautifully played in other prisons and serves as a healthful and innocent relaxation for the inmates. The most serious problem is likely to be the selection of umpires for the contest.—Bridgeport Standard. The physically vigorous girl has a bright face and merry heart. She is personally attractive. People of ‘this type disprove the old claim that col- 13ge women don’t marry and rear fam- ilies. The time would seem ripe to encourage women to engage freely in every kind of athletics. Give them clothes in which they can rup, and they even beat the boys on the base- ball dlamond. A physically vigorous womanhood means the disappearance of much of the disease that depresses the human race.—Norwith Record: Of course it is quite right for the police of New Haven to arrest per- sons in that city for violation of the law but it is not regarded as according to Hoyle for these same prisoners to be thrown into an unsanitary building dangerous to health before they have been convicted of any misdemeanor. Any one, even a person under arrest, is entitled to protection from disease and a decent surrounding during his| incarceration by the city.—Ansonia Sentinal. A man in Claremont, N\ H., has re- cently been arrested because in a.pub- lic place he made ‘“loud exclamations and outcries, and did then and there draw together other persons and then and there during all said time did make great and offensive howlings, yells, groanings and moanings during the hours for rest and sleep,-to the common nuisance of all the people.” The report doesn’t say so, but it may be presumed the aforesaid offender was a sunburned summer boarder.— Brockton Times. There was a time when congress hcped for a vacation, and there was talk = of possible adjournment in | August. But now some of the leaders of congress have got their backs up, and have determined that they will give the president all. he wants of summer in Washington. It is more than a matter of pique. It is a deter- mination to decide the question whether the executive is a co-ordinate or a predominant branch of the gov- ernment.—New Haven Register. Colonel Willlam H. Hall of Willing- ton, one of the strongest and most independent - republican members of the state legislature is said to be a candidate for Senator in his senator- la1 district. The state machine will probably oppose his nomination as he has not been friendly on many occa- sions when important measures were to be voted upon:in the gen- eral assembly. “Hank’” Hall, as he is popularly known, can always be found voting on the right side, and his strength lies with his constituents. -—Bridgeport Telegram. Absenteeism in Congress hops up as an interesting subject of unpleas- ant talk in both houses this session more frequently than ever before. It is one of the ways in which the mod- ern liberty we take with® one another finds expression. If one offends, it is quite’ one thing to point at him and say so. One member of the house has Just returned his salary for the week during which he was absent campaign- ing. He did it quietly and blushed to find it known. He says he simply conformed to the law. His act sets conform.—Waterbury American. Most men pride themselves on their independence of fashion plates. They laugh at the women for subserviency to the Paris dressmaker. Then they proceed to demonstrate their indepen- dence, by wearing through hot weather the stiff starched collars that throttle their perspiring necks. In the circles of simpler living, a more philosophic habit . prevails. The farmer or the mechanic has nething to lose by dressing for his work. But if the lawyer or business man walked down to his office collarless, and with sleeves rolled to his elbows, his stenographer would ask mamma if it was a proper place for her to work.— Bridgeport Farmer. The Purple Grackle. (Chicago Evening Post.) Today in ' loose flocks foraging through the country go our crow blackbirds, unmindful of the evil eye which every farmer turns upon them, The crow blackbird is not the crow, for it must be known that while the crow is a black bird, it is not a black- bird. Moreover, the crow blaekbird ought not to be so called, for his plumage is bronze and Tyrian purple. Most bird students call him the pur- ple grackle. Our crow blackbird is a rascal, but most .appealingly interesting in his rascality. He will rob a robin's nest of its young or its eggs, and the sight moves you to wrath if not to mur- der. But when you see the marauder moving lordly across the lawn, with the sun full on his feathers, you for- give him because he is so infernally ‘handsome. The crow blackbird is no hopper; he stalks and holds his head high. He is worse than saucy; he is devilish. But we would miss him sorely if man could work his will and kill him and the last of his | brothers and his sisters. No state in the Union so far as we know protects by law the crow black- bird, and yet his tribe shows no de- crease. He is quick to learn the fire- arm ordinances, and where no man may shoot he goes with his wife to Dbegin his housekeeping. The fox and the crow are’ no more wary or cun- ning than the crow blackbird. He is high in the scale of intelligence. He ig the enemy of man, but in this case easy to abide by the injunction is COMMUNICATED. Edwin N. Andrews Writes From Co- lumbia, 8. C. Editor Herald: As a former citizen and native of New Britain, it will be a pleasure for me to send a few words of greeting from this southern city. I am making my home with my daughter, wife of R. W. Gibbes, M. D. A very beautiful home they have. We look from the front door upon four crepe myrtle trees loaded with pink and purple blossoms. They are about thirty feet high and in shape much like the old-fashioned lilac, but the blossoms are much brighter and denser. In the street in front are trees 100 feet high., In the rear are two pecan trees with nuts forming. Several fig trees stand near, with dense foliage and ripening fruit. Bright zinnias stand-along-the walks, and roses, etc., for this is the land of flowers, But we have to pay for it in hot weather, as it is often rimety degrees and sometimes 102.° So I shall not invite New Britain folk to come to see us till say October. After that our little household would certainly love to welcome friends of other days from New Britain. Yesterday we took an auto ride eight miles out. I never saw finer suburbs than surround this town of 50,000. The rolling country gives lovely views. The dark leaved cot- ton \plants are in bloom and I for one rejoice in the prospect of fine crops for this people who fifty years ago brought on themselves the dis- asters of war. You know, too, that this city was one that Sherman's army burned, at least in part. Our drive took us near the old home of Wade Hampton. Only a few brick pillars mark the spot of the splendid mansion on that plantation. A curious sight along the road is the vari-colored clays. A dozen col- ors or more are seen in deep cuts on the road side. There are the white or Kaolin, the dark red brick color, the prevailing sub-soll; bright yellow ocher, two or three shades deep purple, which comes from iron in the soil. These layers are deposited by the action of water. There are several other tints, and I have put up for friends many bot- tles of these clays in layers, which at- tract much attention; my own inven- tion. You know New Britain people must be inventing something! I must not forget one item. I have just returned from the church- vard of the First Presbyterian church. 1 made note of two historic stones therein, One is the white marble slab with this inscription: “Joseph Ruggles Wilson, Steubenville, 0., February 28, died, 1905, at Princeton.” This was the father of our hon- ored president. A like stone at the side marks- the resting place of the wife, mother of the president. § Going a little farther, it was botH{ a delight and a surprise to see upon a good sized granite monument the following name, which will stir the patriotism of many of the readers of the Herald: “Ann Pamela .Cunningham, 1816; died May 1, 1875." This remarkable woman was the one whose perseverance and stren- uous effort saved Mount Vernon, Vi, from neglect and perhaps ruin. She bought the estate in 1860, with the assistance of the Mt. Vernon Associa- tion of the Patriotic Women of Amer- ica. The government at Washington had refused to purchase it of the heir, John Augustine Washington, and thus through Miss Cunningham's self-sacrificing efforts that splendid old home of the father of his country was saved from neglect and vandal- ism for the people of this land. Speaking of tombstone memorials, if you visit Charleston you will find a large number of classic memorials, such as that of Hayne, of Calhoun, of Pickens, etc. But the list of those old time statesmen is too long for the present record. Perhaps ata fu- ture time they will be called to mind. Here at the state capital political matters are at high tide. The lead- ing question seems to be whether to send Governor Blease to the United States senate. We are not to speak ill of our rulers, so I will only say that the best citizens of the state will vote against such a disposition of that particular candidate. ‘With kind regards to all old friends, I am Yours truly EDWIN NORTON ANDREWS: born at 1822; born Defying the Doctor. (Brockton Times.) There is always the question whether the person who defies his physician’s advice is brave or fool- hardy. The line between bravery and folly is so fine, sometimes, that the physician himself might be puzzled—if physicians think on such topics at all. President Wilson, in his recent illness, presented a case in point, the case of a man who has im- portant duties to perform, and lets his conscience rather than his phy: sicilan rule his conduct. The presi- dent may be either stubborn or ex- ceedingly faithful, according to the point of view; or he may have hatched a philosophy of his own, as many philosophers have done, which drives the mind to predominance over bodily ills. In any event, his example is not recommended for the emulation of all men. If there is still a tendency, gained from reading the splendid satires of ancient- wise- acres, to set physician’'s diagnoses at naught, it should be remembered the medical men of the twentieth cen- tury are much better equipped than their forbears of old Rome or six- teenth century Europe; and that the proportion of wise physicians is greater than that of wise patients. There is a belief, often justified, that the man who acts as his own lawyer defends a fool. In many instances he is first cousin to the man who acts as his own medical adviser. WHAT OTHERS SAY Views on all sides of timely questions as discussed in' ex- changes that come to Herald office. Mid-Summer Warning. (Detroit Free Press.) In the heated term many persons are prone to drink large quantities of iced wated and iced beverages of var- ious ingredients and compositions. Dangers lurk in the practice which have been frequently pointed out by competent authorities, but never more plainly than by Dr. Franklin C. Wells, of New York, who the ' other day said: “Cool water should take the place of ice water. Ice water, taken in quantities as it is usually taken on a hot day, may produce a very severe acute indigestion. Taken steadily it will produce ice water dyspepsia, a form of chronic indigestion. “For those who must be active ot subject to exposure on a hot day, there is no better beverage than oat- meal water. It is palatable, demul- cent and nutritious and can be taken ad libitum. It is made by stirring oatmeal in water and letting it set- tle.. This is the beverage given sol- diers during their maneuvers. But- ter milk and old-fashioned lemonade are refreshing and healthful.” Undoubtedly many a case of chronic ill-health might be traced to the in- temperate use of too-cold drinks on hot days in mid-summer. The item- ized warring of Dr. Welis should pre- vent many a person from doing in- jury beyond repair by the ablest, most faithful of family physicians. Be temperate in the use of water. Swear off on iced water. Republicans Want House. (Washington Letter to Brooklyn Eagle.) The national republican congres- sional committee, which has been at work in a preliminary way for sev- eral months, looks upon the political outlook through rose-colored glasses. It will require the winning of seven- ty-four seats now held by democrats to wrest control from them, but the repuhlican managers are producing figures to show that it is by no means a wild dream to expect such a change and they are actually figuring that they will do it. The ' investigating business worked to the fullest limit by the democrats when they gained con- trol of the house in the sixty-second congress, during the last two years of President Taft. Every one of the standing committees on expenditures in the various government depart- ments was galvanized into life, after vears of somnolence. Each committee went to work on its particular. department, investiga- ting anything and everything that promised campaign material. In ad- dition, there were two or three spe- clal committees at work, making things uncomfortable for the repub- lican .heads of departments. So far as actual scandals went, the results of the democratic investiga- tions were meager. But they relied upon the cumulative effects upon the public mind of the wholesome in- quiry, the very idea of an investiga- tion being calculated to inspire 'the suspicion that there was something wreng somewhere. This is exactly what the republi- cans propose to do, if they can se- cure control of the committees by winning the house. They will put every executive, from the state department to the labor de- partmert, on the grill, and will take particular care that the results shall be published broadcast. They will delve into democratic appointments and democratic patronage, as well as policies, and will make a great noise over democratic extravagance all along the line. The latter will be one of their chief features, and the easiest, because government appro- priations have increased by leaps every year. The republican congressional man- agers, while not in possession of ple- thoric funds, cldéim they have enough to cover the country this fall in an effective manner, and they predict that the job of winning the house will be carried through to success, despite the apparently Herculean nature of the task, was| A Rainy Day Business. (New York Sun.) On rainy days there are now to be found at many uptown elevated and subway stations boys waiting with umbrellas on the chance that they can rent them. The days best for this business are those on which rain | has come unexpectedly. When this business was originally started, which was only a very few years ago, the first boys to engage in it let their pa- trons fix the prices. When they got to the house a woman customer would give the boy a nickel or a dime, or maybe more, according to the distance. If the feathers. on her hat were . particulatly valuable and the distance great she might give him a quarter. Now with so many of them out with umbrellas the renting of them has come to be a more cold-blooded business proposition and you bargain for one or discover that the boy has a fixed price.. A Washington Heights ‘woman on a récent rainy day found four boys with umbrellas lined up at the subway exit, droning ‘“Umbrel- las, umbrellas.” “How much?” this woman asked of the first boy she came to, and “How far?” he asked her, and then he said, “25 cents” which she thought was too much. The other boys heard all this and none offered an umbrella for less; in fact, one of the boys said under his breath, ““Let her choke.” Here, you see, was a sort of youth- ful umbrella trust, or at least combi- nation, and they let tihs woman go jaway without an umbrella rather than cut the price. The woman had it in mind to say to them that it would be more profitable to them to do a lot of business at a low price rather than a limited business at a high price, but she didn’t, and if she had they might have retorted that the homeward rush of pepple lasted only a short time and that they had to get out of it all they could while it_lasted. This same woman had another ex- perience with an umbrella boy that was quite different. Descending from an elevated train at One Hundred and Twenty-fifth street to take therea car up Amsterdam avenue she found a heavy rain falling, and though the distance to the surface car was short she wanted an umbrella. “How much to an Amsterdam ave- nue car?"” she said to an umbrella boy at the foot of the elevated stairs, His price was 5 cents—fa and reasonable—and he was straightway engaged. The boy held an umbrella over her carefully on this short trip and con- tinued to hold it for the minute or two that they had to stand in the street waiting for the car to come along, as he did also while she was getting aboard. Then the woman discovered that she had nothing less than a dime and she offered that to the boy and wanted him to take it. But he insisted on giving her back 5 cents change—on sticking to his con- tract. Here was a boy proper, agreeable spirit, and doubt- less there are more boys just like him; but on the whole it might prob- ably with truth be said that the boy umbrella business is now quite differ- ent from what it was when first start- ed. Then, with the nice boy pro- | tecting the nice young lady from the | station to her home and trusting to | her wholly for his reward there was | a little touch of romance in it. Now, | with so many boys in it and with fixed prices and a tendency to charge all the traffic will bear it has come to be just plain, straight, ordinary business, CONDEMS CONTRACT LABOR IN PRISONS National Comwmittee on Prisoa Leb: Mests at Short Beach. New Haven, July 22.—A gathering of over 100 persons, consisting large- ly of club women and D. A. R. mem- bers from New Haven and nearby tawns, was stirred to an enthusiastic endorsement of the movement for prison reform, at the meeting held under the auspices of the National committee on Prison Labor. at the home of Mrs. Ella Wheeler Wilcox at Short Beach yesterday afternoon. The speakers included Thomas Mott Osborne, whose voluntary confine- ment in Auburn prison caused such a sensation recently; Miss Helen Varick Boswell, chairman of the po- litical science department of the Fed- eration of Women’s clubs, and John G. Manning of the American Federa- tion of Labor. Asked about the conditions in the local jail Mr. Manning said he had paid a short visit to the jail yesterday mérning and as far as he could judge by & quick glance about the place, the conditions were in general as well as in most such institutions. Two who showed a or three things, however, he said he § noticed which he had to condemn. “Did you visit the Grand avenue lockup?” he was asked, Mr. Man- ning stated that he had not. “It is! not so much my intention to inves- tigate conditions in this city myselr, as to make you see why vou ought to look into such matters. Every one of you I would urge to learn what the condifions are in your city, and to visit these places and see just what they actually are.”” Several - ladies asked a number of questions on the best methods of finding out the true situation and it seems probable that some of them will visit the various places of confinement for criminals,in the city., No committee was ap- pointed for that purpose, however. Relates His Experience. Mr. Osborne related his exper- iences in prison, and pointed out the need of the reforms which his close study of prison life had convinced him were necessary. Miss Boswell in a short talk condéemned the con- tract labor system. Mr. Manning spoke from the standpoint of the la- bor unions. He declared that con- tract labor was unjust in competition with free labor, but particularly em- phasized the - point of view of the belief of the organized workers lthat any system which made for the de- stroying of the self respect of men only furnished more material to be exploited in use against fighting the labor unions. “The contract system of employ- | ing prisoners is unjustifiable from every standpoint,” said Miss Boswell. “You good citizens of Connecticut should tolerate it no longer. It has been claimed that this system is nec- essary to provide work for prisoners. One man, Willlam H. Whittaker, a prison official of 20 years' standing. | used to take this standpoint, but has changed because of the success he has had in providing work for the| prisoners of the District of Columbia workhouse under the state-use sys- tem; every state can do as well as the District of Columbia, according | to Mr. Whittaker. Also the Ohio board of administration finds it not only possible but profitable for the state to work its prisoners under the state-use system. Furthermore, in New York state, where they say that the system has failed, Willlam Church Osborne found, after investigation, that the convicts couldn’t, if they all worked their hardest, manufacture more than one-tenth of the goods needed in the state institutions and departments. 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The me must work out their own salvation.” Raps County Jail, ‘In the discussion which followed it was brought out that at the New Haven jail the contractors are only paying the state from 9 to 10 cents a day for the labor of a man; also that no means is provided for carry- ing off the dust and the men's faces are yellow from it—this in epite of the strict laws for free factories which give the health officers the right to close down shops not prop- erly equipped for removing dust. At the close of the meeting un- animous endorsement was given to a resolution which recommended the “state use” system of labor instead of the contract system in peénal in- stitutions; the establishing of indus- trial training for the prisoners, and the centralization 'of the comtrol over making supplies for the state and, whenever possible out of doors, on ‘ all such institutions. L | f - b g 00 4% 4 L4 T