New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 23, 1914, Page 6

h o “came any- vard play- § as they did lood the chill of | t while Connec- | § silent, and 36 to 0 make it so. ENT AND CONGRESS. some talk in Washington ident attending the execu- Bions of the senate during the eration ' of nominations and ffies and to have members of the binet participate in the proceedings In the house. The former is a matter which is already provided for by law but the latter in order to be affective siness state, jold sim- it also at’ if the s expense ‘well theo- al results hed. 1f there saloons the for it, but conceive of jo many years’ foners in no compelled to it they are he is a suitable that his location at which liquors jgreat majority of ' obeying the law ‘national organi- it on that point. _violations just. as fiof other laws, but fdiness would sim- revenue to the iquor to be sold is a deplorable mmunity. The instance, have and if there fanted a drink n't get it he d defective eye- e wave of pro- its origin in the n the colored peo- but that is no proof lto take in Connecti- e number of saloons fle a matter to be kept nt of the county com- t in the interest of the s or the cause of tem- if. they do not measure red degree of efficiency dther manner of granting ould be adopted as such best be regulated by those ority if they perform their properly. The conditions In Britain may be regarded as pos- f proof of this statement. The L lay is well observed here; the Bk of saloons afe about one for ,"'!“ ghousand population; the com- ssitmers themselves have made it and the passage of the proposed I would practically mean that the enscs here should be somewhat les- ned and the city deprived of a reve- e which it needs in its business. he whole movement is an admitted bring about prohibition in anecticut who have watched the trend in this gtate for vears or who are acquainted with its history do not believe that the ald commonwealth to adopt any such law lan to and those of events is. ready Harvard such when There was a time when @id not turn out trawn and muscle as did Yale, i did not turn ol:\l such great foot- 1al! players, but this year it has (’li rged it, and in the contest at the 1owl in New Haven Saturday the blue cived one of the worst beatings in e history of the game as played by the great college teams. It was a one- gided contest; to use. a slang phrase Yale was never i it and the fact that the crimson rolled up such a large number of points for itself and pre- | vented the blue from even scoring, [ fells the tale of supremacy as clearly nd succinctly as it can be told. But then jt was worth going miles to ¢ aper 70,000 people gathered to- men with requires a change in the rules. ‘It is the president who is held re- sponsible for the doings of his party. ‘When electfon comes around an issue is made against him of all of the failures 3f congress and so long as this is true then it would seem as if'he might well be placed in a position where he would be nearer to the body that makes the laws. It might not be the best thing in the world, however, to turn the cabinet into the house to participate in the proceedings unless it be to explain some matter in which the president is interested and even then the discussion should be re- stricted to the one topic. The presi- dent is also responsible for the cabi- net, vacancies having been created in that body by reason of diverse opinions and if a member was per- mitted to debate in the house he might give expression to the same opinions and widen the breach that sometimes occurs in the cabinet. A President Wilson has it a practice to go direct to congress with his message and it appears to be a wise and judicious move, and if an ar- rangement can be affected by which he can be brought into closer rela- t)bnship with the law making body it might be productive of much good. made DISCUSSING PROGRESSIVE PARTY Rev. Dr. Lyman Abbott and Amos Pinchot have ' been discussing the progressive party, the former think- ing that its influence will be felt in the future as he thinks it has been in the-past, he attributing various re- forms to its influence, while Mr. Pinchot feels that no real good was accomplished. Whether it has or not remains to be seen. The spirit back of the progressive party began before its actua] organization in Chicago. It opposed the principles of the republi- can party doctrine as enunciated by Joseph G. Cannon and other stand- patters and it was this influence which served in a measure to bring about the defeat of the republican party in 1910. Since then that party has lost the presidency but while it has reclaimed some of the country it will hardly ever attempt to enact the legislation to which so many of its own members objected and in this re- spect the progressives or the senti- ment it represented may take some of the credit. 1t was apparent to all who give se- rious thought to political movements that no party based on such a plat- form as marked the organization of the progressives could hope to live. There was nothing to it except the disappointment of one man and he simply objected to decisions that had long been accepted in republican na- tional conventions. He made a great run in the campaign, but he has since tried it’on the old issues and has been .beaten. It i=s not likely that the progressive party will ever cut any figure as a separate political organization in any future campaign. It would seem as if ‘that must be apparent to every one. Mr. Pinchot has felt the sting of defeat more than Dr. Abbott. He has been through the fire and he has come out badly singed. It is mat- ura] that he should take a despairing view of the new party. Hc went down with it and the organization with which he was previously affiliated with will not be in any hurry to non- or him with another office. M A BLACK HAND CAUSES A FIRE. The excitement attendant upon the explosion of a bomb in the Bronx court house and the attempt to blow up the building in which the office of the district attorney is located had not even had time to subside when a fire of suspicious origin caused the loss of eight lives and possibly two more, in New York yesterday. One of the tenants had been receiving Black Hand letters, demanding that he pay £1.000 to a certain person he was di- rected to meet and his refusal {o do cc is believed to have caused the Blackhanders to set fire to the biilding or blow it up, which some thiflt was done, the ohject being to punfh the VIONDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1914. he money. bme very bad people inly cannot be -~ any Ople than those who wilfully to a building and burn up the ftes. It is not the first time that ich things have been done in that ity and in some others as well. There of Blackhanders in evidently arc a number prison but there are some vet at liberty who ought to be there. There need of great police ac- tivity in New York: men who do such a deed as was déne in that city should be apprehended are a menace to the city and the people; they will seemingly not stop at anything and it is of the greatest ance that they be punished. ‘e difficult to apprehend th: police sbould devote ail : : to cap- turing them and the i can be re- lied upon to de the r To eight or ten people (o death is a serious is because they imno burn crime and those who were responsible for it are not cntitled to much sideration from the public. con- FACTS AND FANCIES, Speaking of the song, “It's a Long, Tong Way to Tipperary,” the copy boy says he'd rather be the man who wrote it than the poor geek who walked it.—Buffalo Express. Children playing with matches started twenty-nine fires in New York city in three days. They undoubtedly started several hundred more in the rest of the country.—Waterbury Democrat. As only three fatal accidents are reported as the result of the deer hunting season that has just close1 in New York state, it must be that the lesson of great care in the use of fire arms is at last beginning to be learned.—Bridgeport Standard. +,The drop in meat prices in Chicago indicates that people are eating less meat. In many instances the con- sumption of meat could be cut down materially and the benefit from. a health point would be noticeable.— Middletown Penny, Press. Cotton is seven cents a pound in New York and nineteen cents a pound in Germany which indicates that the cost of living as well as other things in the dominions of the Kaiser, may be higher than is usually considered pleasant.—Waterbury Republican. According to one importer some- thing like ninty-eight per cent of the tovs ordered abroad are actually here already, 'so in the usual plentitude Christmas shopping promised to be quite as confusing as ever. And in that prospect everyone wil be happy. Norwich Record. There are those who argue that since woman has been encroaching so insistently upon " what is generally called man’'s sphere, the days of the ‘gentlewoman are passing. Even the word has an old fashioned sound. The cry is that woman is bent on sacrificing her feminism on the alter of ambition. —Bridgeport Standard. New York has appropriated $20,000 to teach the school children how to bathe. That money is better expended than any other suth used for educa- tional purposes. To be scrupulously clean is half an education. It is also to march half way on the road to health and physical efficiency. A clean, healthy boy is bound to be educated, if he gets no more school- ing than enough to teach him to read. —Bridgeport Farmer. With all the suffering abroad caused by the great war, especially in Belgium, uppermost in our minds, and the vast amounts which are being sent for the relief of the sufferers from this country is it not wise to stop and take a look around us at home to see if something cannot be done for the roor and suffering in our own land? Not with the idea of lessening our charity for the deserving sufferers in Europe but rather increasing our gifts by contributing to the needs of those in America who are without the necessities‘of life.—Hartford Post. Tillman’s Navy Idea. (Boston Herald.) Senator Tillman of South Carolina has come out in opposition tb our en- tering on an expensive program of en- larging our navy. He says that when the present war is over we shall have the largest navy in the world and the benefit of other nations’ experience to show us how to increase its efficiency. It is entirely clear now that our navy is undermanned and improperly equipped, unfit to engage in conflict with a first-class power. But under the watchful policy of President Wil- son we are not likely to become en- gaged. The warring nations of Eu. rope should prefer to have us remain neutral, a possible purveyor of food and supplies. So we may with safe- ty await the outcome of this war and learn its lessons. Operations on land have shown that we have something to learn from the Germans in the construction, move- ment and operation of great siege guns. Operations at sea render it a question whether the development of shonld proceed along the of constructing superdread- noughts or bmarines. and whether there mM& nat be developed the sub- marine destroyer, as there h“as been developed the torpedo hoat destroyer, and whether there may not be found some craft or device for the detection and destruction of mines. Tt is more important just now that we overhaul our present equipment and place it in the most efficient con- Gition. and that we prepare ourselves to follow whatever. poliey this war may demonstrate to be the wisest, than that we rush into large expen- ditures along lines of construction which may be proved undesirable. { ing WHAT OTHERS S3AY Views ou all sides of timely questions as discussed in ex- changes that come to Herald oftice. Warden Osborne’s Prison. (New York Sun.) Sing Sing, where Thomas Mott Os- borne is to try his hand management, is the most discreditable penal institution New York maintains, It is a relic of the past, infested with disease, inadequate in accommoda- tions, and cu d by a tradition of graft and politics. That Mr. Osborne is willing to risk in the physical and moral surroundings it furnishes the trial of his theories of penology testi- fies little in favor of his judgment, but it shows that he does not lack courage, The enormous wastage of the puni- tive methods now generally followed is universally recognized. They exer- cise no moral rceformatory influence, and not infrequently their effect on the bodily health of their subjects has been such as to render it-impossible for the best intentioned man to main- tain himself in any decent occupation after serving his term. Having robbed their victims of self-respect, inocu- lated them with disease and deprived them of hope, taey brand ‘“Outcast” on their foreheads, clothe them in a dress that advertises their shame, and turn them loose to receive the re- buffs, careless, selfish or malicious, of an ignorant and unsympathetic world. With flesh and blood the wrongdoer pays the nominal price exacted by so- ciety for his criminality, only to find when the gates open to rglease him that in. many ways the lot of the con- vict is far better than that of the ex- convict, Against such a consummation of what should be a reconstructive process, humane men and statesmen alike have protested for generations. The economic waste not less than the cruelty of the system and its fruits have never enlisted intelligent de- fence. Nobody has said that the state, society or the criminal benefit- cd permanently from the measures adopted; all have recognized the no- torious failures that have marked the treatment administered, the corrup- tion, extending far beyond the prison walls, it has' engendered; and it has been perpetuated only through the apparent impossibility of devising means to achieve better things. In these circumstances prison refornr has long languished:; the subject as a whole is repulsive, its details are un- speakably vile; and crack brained en- thusiasts who have linked themselves with it have contributed their share to restrain sane and responsible men from devoting serious thought and ef- fort to the attempt to mend matters. It is unfortunate that Mr. Osborne has allowed himself to become identi- fied“with some of these sentimental- ists, Yet from this association it does not necessarily follow that he is in- capable of a sound, enlightened and beneficial discharge of the duties of warden at Sing Sing. He has shown sufficient intelligence t6 keep a large fortune; he is beyond the temptation of vulgar bribe taking; he knows what bodily cleanliness is, and its value as a moral toni and his itmpulse is to maintain discipline without neglect- ing the duty of making provision for the future of the men committed to his charge. He will undergo the sobering modifications brought about by direct responsibility, and have the heartening consciousness that his rec- ord at Sing Sing cannot be worse than, though it may be different from, those of his predecessors. To Warden Osborne we wish suc- cess. Teacher-Mother Question. (Newark Evening News.) Apart from statutory provisions and such technical legal questions as the jurisdiction of school boards, the teacher-mother problem is a four- sided one. It involves, first of all, the efficiency and morale of the school and school system, which are really thae rights of the school children, and it involves the teacher-mother, the home from which she comes and the unmarried teacher who is devoting her life to her profession. On be- half of each of these four interests it is possible to set up claims. The claim that is entitled to first consideration is that of the child— everybody’'s child—preparing for life work in the schools. His or her in- terests stand predominant. The school system exists for them. If; therefore, the morale, efficiency or discipline of the schools is in any way jeopardized or prejudiced, then the case for the teacher-mother become merely the case of the single indiv. dual against that of all the children. If her temporary absence upsets tae course, disarranges schedules or im- pairs discipline, the school would be right in insisting that the loss be compensated in some way, and the teacher-mother must be prepared to prove that, because of her mother- hood, her added value overbalances the havoc her absence may ‘have wrought. The rights of the children are above that of any individual. The home claims are imperative. The many hours’ absence of the teach- er-mother at school deprives her own child of her personal attention, and this loss to the child. as few, except extreme theorists, will question, is a loss irreparable. Those who assent to this_will need to satisfy themselves whether, in each individual case, the economic gain to the domestic budget by the Auplication of bread-winners is important enough or urgent enough to warrant such a departure from the soundest relationship between mothe! and child in the home. The celibate teacher deserves espe- cial recognition for her claims. She nas undergone the work of prepara- tion with the purpose of making teaching her life work: she is forego- marriage for that purpose; she is dependent upon her work for her and, under ordinary cir- cumstances, she may be counted on to give to the school the most con- tinuous, the most single-hearted and undivided fealty and attention. In | order that the best teachers may be | attracted to her callig, it should be | surrounded with safeguards. She has | a right to expect that she will not be discriminated against in favor of com- petitors who owe a divided allegiance | and who, from the naturé of the case, are more apt to be fugitive. | Such are the cardinal principles. | There are, of course, other considera- | tions of no small moment; such, for | instance, as the question whether ma- ternity in itself may not be an asset | from the instructional point of view, | or/ again, the social effect of imprint- | ing upon the teaching profession | among women an indelible stamp of cglibacy. But at least the four sets ®f claims enumerated ought to re- ceive their due weight, and most in- dividual cases may reasonably be set- tled by their careful adjustment, The Best War Literature. (New York Evening Post.) Concerning the value of”their con- tributions to the literature of the war, judged only by the test of good writ- ing, notable testimony of a negative sort ways borne the other day by Prof. Sadler of Leeds university. Lecturing before the national home reading union in London, he gave a list of the memorable things that have been written or spoken during the war. And whom did he single out for mention? Our high-flying men of letters? Not one of them! His be- stowal of the prize for literary merit was upon some of the British official | dispatches—written in great haste though they were—upon a speech by Mr. Asquith, upon Kitchener's letter to the soldiers, and upon President Wilson’s call to prayer for peace. And then this audacious professor of literature added insult to his neg- lect of the professional writers by af- firming that some of the newspaper articles about the war had been of a high order. Think of that! Ranking mere journalistic hacks above the shining lights in the literary sky! After that, it does not surprise one to find Prof. Sadler saying of most ot the poetry occasioned by the war that it deserved no better fate than to be dismissed with a smile, He re- marked that most of the poets who ‘had broken out in verse reminded him of cooks doing rhymes by the kitchen fire when they ought to be getting dinner ready. This was said before Kipling's poem of today on Lord Roberts was published, but that production—as flat as the Flanders of its scene—could only lead him to make ‘nis assertion stronger. He might even recall Scott’s un- happy poem about Waterloo, apropos of which it was said that of all who fell by shell or fell by shot, none fell half so flat as Walter Scott. Our Potential Reserve Army. (New York Evening Sun.) The news from Washington that the war department is farming a reserve army of 150,000 in co-operation with military schools and organizations ad- vocating the building up of a national defense machine is particularly grat- ifying at this time. While the Eu- ropean war has not been altogether responsible for this, since the field instruction camps for college and high school students last summer preceded the first shot on the continent, never- theless the great war has contributed toward interesting the public much more actively in this subject, and there will undoubtedly be a general demand that congress support Secre- tary Garrison and the other army heads in this highly important pro- Ject. Such an army of 150,000 men, to be compased chiefly of college, high and military school students, wouid probably not include the potential re- serve of the veterans from the Span- ish and Philippine wars and of the regular’ drmy service. In any event, by adding to the 100,000 men of our regular army (the actual enrollment now stands at 96,000) the total of close to 125,000 in the organized state militia, plus the 150,000 of the con- templated reserve corps. we should have at least a semi-trained force ready for immediate call of 375,000 men, or more than nine army corps. Admittedly every militia man or re- serve could not respond to an instant summons. A good percentage of older men and married men in the state guards would not be available for a campaign. But on the other hand the personnel of the state guards changes approximately every three years; that is to say, the 16,000 en- listments in New York state repre- sent some 40,000 men who have re- ceived militia training within a de- cade. Therefore the gaps in the ranks could be more than filled with men of equal training. On this basis the 125,000 militiamen in the United States represent a possible 400,000 of those wno have been in that service, inadequate as it may be, within ten| vears, or at the least sufficient to raise the entire potential first line and reserve forces to twelve army .corps, or half a million men, before one ab. solutely raw recruit need be accepted. City ltems The “No-Name"” club held an auto | party in Meriden Saturday night. C. C. S, club masquerade. Foresters' hall, Berlin, Nov. 24. Judd’s orch. 25c. —Advt. Attorney William F. Delaney has returned from a short business trip to Boston. ! There will be a meeting of the | board of public works tomorrow night. The ice committe of the common council will meet this evening. It is probable that a srcretuy will be chosen to sucesl Alderman Spittler. | Thomas O'Keefe and daughter of New Haven spent Sunday with Mr. O'Keefe's sister.Mrs. Denls Riordan, of this city. i Miss Anna Whalen. a teacher in.} the Smith school, spent the week-eni | igesignation as chairman of the New | probation officer. with friends in Waterbury. A mceting of thé second grade McMILLAN’S. TH ANKSGIVING McMILLAN’S. LLINENS Substantial Economies for every Our usual custom of placing carly advance orders for fine enables” us to offer Linens Bring This List With You After Inventorying Your Linen Table Damask By the Yard Mercerized Damask at 39¢, 50¢, 39¢ yard. All Linen Damask 59c, $1.25 yard. Our special Linen Damasks at $1.00 79¢c, $1.00, yard should not be overlooked. Napkins to Match. Pattern Table Cloths Special at $1.98 and $2.50 cach. Napkins to Match. Hemstitched Table Cloths. .Special at $2.98 and $3.50 each. Special Table Sets Table Cloth and Napkins, set $4.98. 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Silk Hosiery, Dainty Neckwear, New Reliable Gloves, Waists, S8ilk Petticoats, Jewelry, Leather Goods, Ete. D. McMillan 199-201-203 Main Street. teachers was held this afternoon at 4:15 o’clock. Superintendant 8. H. Holmes lld“ returned from a convention of school | superintendants in Boston. The health department has re- leased the quarantine on a case of dip- | theria in Wilson street and has been notified of a new case of the disease ; on Winter street. Howard Stearns of Boston is spend- ing Thanksgiving week with his par- ents, Mr. and Mrs. Y. J. Stearns of Maple street. J. Herbert Wilson, formerly of the New Britain Y. M. C. A. but mow lo- cated at Pittsburg, has forwarded his | Britain Playground commission * A Thanksgiving donation party will | be given by the College club this eve- ning at the home of Miss Florence A Camp of 67 Russell street. Miss Elsie Osborne will speak on her work as Come one, come all, to the Hayseed ball, Thanksgiving eve. State Armory, Arch street. Admission 25c.—Advt. the were of attended Saturday Thornton Among those who Yale-Harvard game Miss Sadie and Arthur Maple utrv!, Denial iscmade by the relatives of Mrs. Daniel Kilduff, of Stamford, | of the reported account of her death. As stated, she wandered from home and was found, but omly in an ex- T | 420 Church St. hausted condition. her home. Beautiful candles for table, Woman's change, street.—advt. She is now ilj-at - Thanksgiving Court Box and Side Tel. 54 Pleatiwg, —udvt. Accordion The postponed meeting of the High school Parents’ and Teachers associs ation will be held tomorrow night in the High gchool hall when Superin- tendent of Schools 8. H. Holmes will give an illustrated address on *““The Proposed Kxtensior. of the High School Course.” HONORED AT O LU AW - Member ity. Willia Kranowitz Elected of Sigma Al William student at university school of Journalism, has been eleet- of the Gamma Chaptet of the Sigma Alpha Mu fraternity. Since his election to the Kranowitz of this eity, & the Columbia ed a member Freshman Mr, Kranowitz has been prominently idens tified with™ that organization working hard debating society at Columbia, and an endeavor the now in secure a position in Trianular debate versus Cornell the University of Pennsylvania, Freshman