New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 22, 1915, Page 6

the city ‘Month. by mall a medivrm 10 ‘and press ertisers. Pn sale at Hota- St and Broad- ‘Board Walk, compure pat Americans me in which fent from the | different and fch' they lived Fed with thosc ington wuas a ourage and degree, Omnipotent len proven on and it an-l 4 was emoration of et Speaker an audience jn during the tionary and prayed He was suc- ame the first ublic and his nan has war ¢ people ever a1’ that he place in -the people and be celebrated untry to the eorge Wash- [ernon or thousands pr be entered osts twenty- place has P some of the and in which e sold, former pur- I, to keep the caused no put the coun- some talk of ake it over plic expense, ;all who care Igestion is an e of Wash- not a place should rine for all not the first ident of first in and tha | be tns Zhe DT. geniu leveloped to a person who s on the Fill regret the e to Saran Q had in a hospital jShe met wi go while act- knee to such i o om ever an- in. Amputa- puld result in might again pation so 2n- ided that the formed and regained she s a lectur- | seventy-first jof working at loday as fame, if aot L which o her will re- | th being a ri- who h prgeons she | ap- | played in this les everywhere pd as one (Jl" jthe stage. She ; ress, play'mgl foles with 1at has given g the great there being ave claimed f being at the ‘women would but her great that she pos- hat her fher vitality or a temporary ork, kept her r confinement ed to increase pt back as it continue her Phe drama has gure and while e lecture plat- a ars | paper corresponden LD' V.‘..’ BRUARY 22, 1915, i STATE HIG HWAYS, While it may be perfcctly proper to chargp‘ the large indebtedness of the 8State to the good roads movement, it is hardly fair to say that the lat- ter was for the motorists of the state. The movement had its inception with the farmers who said that the coun- try such bad shape that a pair of horses could not draw roads were in an ordinary load over them and that | at certain seasons of the year it was out of the question to think of using them to any great extent for transportation af produce to market. The selectmen of the different towns started the movement; they began to improve the country roads, the work was finally supplemented by the state and in this way the highways con- necting one town with another were greatly improved. The automobil- ists were not thought of at the time, but as the machines became more numerous the owners became more activé and their demands were made known around the capitol at Hart- ford. | The state and towns derive such a large revenue every year from autos at present that it has become quite an item of income, and the owners have right to ask that the state, which receives so much revenue, should furnish good roads for the motorist to drive over. But the lat- | ter are not the only class who de- serve recognition, but the question of | finance enters into it and should be considered. It used to be said that the money expended on country roads | was wasted because of the material used. The custom hed been to turn- pike the country highway about every i vear, but the traffic and spring rains ! destroyed the improvements, such as they were, and the repairs had to be made all over again. The old form of macadam has also been abandoned, | the state is taking care of its roads now better than ever, the agitation the a in | sent 1,000 to each Is it possible the legislature more confidence in a finance than the ta ommissioner just cause it think: ter might recommend and because it has failed to act upon his past recom- mendations.—Norwich Bulletin. be- cian gives the sound advice of refraaining from quarreling with your wife at the breakfast table iay it unfits for you for the day’s work. widently some are of the opinion t tc ng a few bricks after supper is the proper thing.—Middletown Penny Bre Presumabl,y the same ferces that put the civil through the senate can be upon to run it through the house, though the fight that will undoubtedly bhc made upon it there will be fiercer i because they are likely to be | opponents. Tlowever, we expect that | the bill will pa; Gov. Holcomb will then have his opportunity.—Water- bury Republican. Save the birds and thereby save a large percentage of the trees, and crops which are annually destroye:d in Connecticut by insect pests and worms. This is the advice which the fish and game commission is promulgating through large posters which have been sent to all the towns in the state. The Commission has had 8,000 of these posters printed and has county.—Hartford Post. The man who is running a farm, where there is abundance of work and chronic dearth of workers, views Wwith mingled emotion. this pother about unemployment. He is also par- dcnable if he is somewhat out of sym- pathy with the moan at scarcity and Ligh price of food. .He is struggling with his problem, which is to get workers enough to make it possible for him to raise the food which the people need and which some of them lack. —New Haven Register. The prediction that the next con- gress will be asked to thresh to has extended into the cities and the improvement can be easily noted there. : E When the state began to improve the country roads by macadamizing | for a certain width the towns refused | to keep them in repair, their condi- | tion soon began to attract attention, | and not a little of the fault-finding ! was directed against the highway commissioners’ office. That has prac- tically all passed away now and it is only natural that it should, for the reason that experience has taught the state and towns how to take care of | their highways, and they are doing so. The work may not have reached a state of perfection as yet, but there has been so much improvement that there is good reason to hope for even better things. The expense is un- | avoidable. The only thing for the taxpayer to insist upon is economy. FINE WEATHER. It will be almost a week before the first of March and yet were it not rfor snow patches here and there and ice of considerable thickness in the shel- tered places one might think that yes terday and today were April days. The | early plants are showing the effects | of the gently tempered sunlight in the slightly swelling buds, while the pus- | sey willows are almost in bloom. The H ground hog was better weather prophet than many of us werc willim:i to give him credit for, His appear- | gnce on Candlemas day was sald c.o“ a | probably definite conclusions the [robléem of crie-cent letter postage seems prin- cipally based upon the fact that several such Dhills are recoverable from pigeon holes and that their advocates have not forgotten them. Small merchants and various trade bcdies are also back of them, and some of the mail order houses, with whom all the merchants bhave to compete. It is claimed that | none of the various propositions for or.e-cent postage is partisan.—Hart- ford Times. The bill in the Kansas legislature to punish women, for ‘creating a false impression” by calsomining the face and usingsother arts does not go far ernough. For example, there is the women of 120 pounds who makes up to apparent 150 and gets away with it until the wind disarranges things. However, the Jayhawker lawmakers should not hector one gsex and ignore similar offences of men. Why not fine the man who essays to cover h sum- merhead” by brushing his scanty locks upward from the ears? Why not put a crimp in the man who wears a dyved mustache in the hope of fool- ing anybody but himself >—Norwich Record. Thoe Birth of Shuttle Meadow Lake. (By James Shepard.) Qur state in eighteen fifty changed New Britain to a town; Our F. T. Stanley very In Mayor’s chair was found. soon He looked the borough o’er and said | We're young and small T know, But greater things are yet to be, We're none too small to grow. lifted to the hills 1a between, were valley His eyes Where presage an early spring and there is:th sparkling springs and meadow some evidence that it is coming for these are spring dayg. There is, | however, bility of a reaction. surely a4 POss It is too early for the departure of the | winter frosts there will be more cold weather and it would not excite great surprise if there was some more snow. The great blizzard came in the second and that about in March is away yet. week three week The air was so refreshing yvesterday | that people crowded the streets and not a few wandered into the where there are still some patches of but sunlight lightful and was being much enjoyed. In some parts of the state some of the spring birds have arrived and news- have some of which parks snow the was “ reported several varieties, are not due, according to schedule, some weeks yet. They have evidently mistakeh the season and have thought are sure to follow. What seems to be feared now is that the frosts may do a great deal of injury that have been forced by these warm days, the peach trees being likely to be a heavy sufferer. But then the peach tree is always said to be in dan- ger but somehow the crop seldom fails to come along satisfactorily. Former State Senator Thomas Spellacy of Hartford is pushing his bill to punish those who did not vote. Hc would have their names stricken off the list for failure to vote and it would cost them $1 to get the name back. For the second offense the punishment would be disfranchisement for ten vyears. The former senator believes the parties spend too much [he tragedienne ental powers countries. money for automobiles, chasing up the men who will not take the trouble to come to the polls.—Bridgeport Post. for | these warm days are a sample of what | to the buds | fair, All drest in living green. in the Mecadoy to be So like a shuttle | In fancy, just | Hence Shuttle | Was known 1} | a loom, same; years ago its name. raised little dam water stay, laid a pipe away. And here they | To make the | And then they | For it to run a to town But to three towns the i through ! Did public water come; Suffield and Hartford pumped it up; It ran to Newington. country To make our waterworks the best Within the state’'s domain, Our Mayor placed the work in charge Of Brother Chamberlain. war the work was { Making a plant so great, The city fathers did resolve That job to celebrate. | Before the done, The Mayor's vard was soon prepared; The street was Washington, | Where they would meet to watch the flow That should be first turned on. | And here they had a fountain bowl ! Where pipe and rose did stand, The water came, the fountain danced To music from a band. | “So then resign the ruby wine Each smiling son and daughter, There's naught 5o good for vouthful blood” As Shutttle s0 Meadow water. Our plant was praised throughdut the state, \ F'en Hartford did adore us, Our city fathers sang a song | Ana an joined in the chorus. Mavor Stanley backed it up: Mayor Stanley planned it. Mind the water shed and brook And bless the men who damnea b has | expert | it knows what the lat- | | the making.” ervice law amendments | depended | morse | | prospects—or the lack of them-—com- | would WHAT OTHZERS 3$AY Views on all sides of timely questions as discussed in ex- changes that come to Herald office. What to Do With Boy Delinquents. (Chicago No study is more important to the | modern criminologist than that of the juvenile delinquent, whether he be incarcerated or at large under pro- bation. The juvenile delinquent is not a criminal, Prof. Gault well says, but he undoubtedly is ‘‘a criminal in What shall we do with Tribune.) him? . The deeper his case is studied the more difficult it appears to be. Hun- dreds of Cook county boy delinquents have been carefully examined and tested and the results recorded are appalling. Many of these boys are polluted and diseased; many are phy- sically and mentally defective to boot. Few of them can be trusted to stay | “reformed” arfter their discharge or release. Usually family influence, en- | vironment, associations and industrial bine to render the moral outlook dark and depressing indeed. Emphasis has been laid on the find- ing of suitable employment by pro- bation officers for their juvenile charges. Employers and *‘big broth- ' have been requested to aid in this work. But employment is scarce for such boys., and the tendency to more efficient management is making such employment even scarcer. More- over, the johs found are blind alley jobs. * The bhoys ‘are fit for nothing | better. And th do not even keep the poor jobs very long. If we are to reclaim them and prevent their laps- ing in‘o vice and habitual criminality we must train them ' for something better. Prof. Gauit and some of our proba- tion officers hold that less emphasis should henceforth be put on mere employment and more on proper in- dustrial and vocational training of the Jjuvenile delinquents. They should be sent to part time or evening schools of the right kind. Arrangements should be made with manufacturers and merchants to give them employ- ment on a half time basis, under an apprenticeship system. What they need most is discipline: and the strengthening of their will. Casual labor and drifting have little or no disciplinary value. The learning of a trade and steady advance toward a goal have such value. Of course, in correctional and ‘reformatory institu- tions work and education might () hand in hand. Is there any reason why institutions for juvenile delin- quents should not be true trade ‘and industrial schools? Crime prevention is nothing but a phrase, or farce, if we fail to cure and reclaim the juvenile delinquent— the wild, disorderly, truant boy. who is not yet a criminal, but “‘a criminal in the making.” The Cemetery That Saved Paris, (Arno Dosch in World's Work.) To the east of Chambry’s few houses runs a bad byroad. Where this byroad joins the highway at the end of a hundreds yards is a walled- in gravevard, one wall running at right angles to the road and facing the open fields. This wall is pocked with Dbullet holes except where the larger loop-holes were kocked through it from within, Just as it stands the: wall should preserved. It proved to he one of France's stoutest defenses. Before it was fought one of the first terrific combats of the battle of the Marne. Against it the German army broke, It had been hurled across Belgium and nearly 150 miles into France, to be stopped and routed before this cemetery wall. As a cemetery wall it is useless now, anyway. The graves outside are almost as thick as within, and they extend to the far side of the plateau. Behind the wall the immortelles were still lying all awry as they had been knocked in haste of combat, Before it the fresh graves mad been dug among blood-red poppies. In every direction, and as far as we could see for a mile, there were graves, some unmarked, which were | evidently filled by blond men in dirty gray uniforms, others marked with rude crosses and by that we knew they contained darker men in badly fitting long bluc coats and red trousers. The crosses were made by tying two sticks together with cord. The win- ter will rot the cord and by spring German and French graves will be alike unmarked. be ngton Cemetery. Star.) cemetery bhecomes more asure of the nation as are laid there. The | at rest there grows. r the southern acrec re being closely dot- ted with white and gray stones which promise soon to be numerous as those in the older or oak-sheltered section of the grounds. Monuments other than-the individual monuments are being dedicated there. Within a few years have been consecrated the Spanish war monuments, erected hy the Legion of Loyal Women: the con- federate monument, the monument to the army nurses of the Philippines and the rough riders’ monument. Soon will be dedicated the Maine monument, and then will follow the erection of the new amphitheater. Soldiers of the revolution, of the sec- ond war with England, of the many Indian wars, of the Mexican war and thousands of the soldiers of the Civil wir, the Spanish war and the Philip- pine insurrection are buried there. Very likely among the Revolutionary coldiers resting there are men who fought in the French and Indian wars, Arlington is close to Washington geographically, but to far by the | roufes of travel. A memorial bridge | link Arlington to Washington in a direct we rectify the isolation of the Lincoln memorial and consti- ashington Arlington and morc a tre patriot bones number of men The new tute in itself a magnificent national monument. 'RUSSIAN RETIREMENT FROM EAST PRUSSIA Dus fo Lack of Sirategc Raiways 10 Goncelrats Troops. Petrograd, Feb, .—Explanation of the Russian retirement from East Prussia is contained in a communica- tion given out last night by the gen- eral staff. Success of the German coup is atributed largely to the lack of strategic railways which prevented the Russians from concentrating “with necessary rapidity on our cast Prussian front forces indispensable to ward off this drive of the enemy.” The general staff asser that the massing of German troops in Iast Prussia was revealed to the Russians on February 4, but that the magnitude of the concentration did not become known until several da later. cause of these conditions, it is stated, withdrawal of the Tenth Russian army from East Russia towards the frontier was decided upon. This was followed later by a further retirement towards the Niemen and the Bobri rivers. The communication follows: Germans Adopted New Plan, “The Germans, after a series of ex- ceptionally obstinate and attacks which cost them innumerahle victims, became persuaded of the im- possibility of dislodging us from the left bank of the Vistula and proceed- ed at the end of January to put a new plan into operation. “Having finished the formation in the interior of their country of sev- eral new corps and deciding to con- tinue the transportation of troops from their west front in order to make a supreme effort against us, utilizing their network of railroads, the Germans were enabled to launch an overwhelming force against our Tenth army, which occupied strongly organied positions along the An- geraph river and the Mazurian lakes. Revealed to Russians. “To assure the success of tnis coup the® Germans transported also part of their contingents from the fronts on the Rawka, the Bzura and the right bank of the Vistula. This gathering of Germans in East Prussia was re- vealed to us on February 4, but the magnitude of the not , determined until later. “Not bheing able, railroad facilities, to concentrate cur ecast Prussian front, with necessary rapidity forces indispensable to ward off this drive of the enemy, our chiefs decided to withdraw the ahove mentioned army from Rast Prussia towards the frontier and far- ther retirement towards the Niemen and the Bobri has followed.’ “In these movements the wing of the tenth army, pressed great numbers of the enemy 29 3e- several days of on through lack by and threatened with being surrounded on | the right flank, was compelled to make a ve: swift turning movement in the direction of Kovno. Extremely Dangerous Position, ““This maneuver exposed the flank of the corps following which, conse- quently found itself in an extremely dangerous position, and only broken and disorganized portion: succeeded in escaping from this district. “‘Other corps of the tenth army, fighting continuously and stubbornly, slowly retreated in the direction marked out for them by their com- manders. On taking up these pc tions the Russian troops bravely re pnlsed the attacking enemy, inflicting upon him severe losses, and over- coming incredible difficulties caused by the deep snow, which covered all the roads. The roads being impass- able, automobiles were not able to run and train were delayed in reach- ing their destination. Held For Nine Days, “Retreating slowly step by step one corps, forming the left wing of the tenth army, held the enemy for nine days on lines which ordinarily are traversed in four days. “On Feb. 19 these corps fell back through Augustowo, retired from the battie at Sphoc and assumed the for- tified po ons indicated for them. Fighting Very Stubborn. ‘At the present moment actions on the German front continue before Os- sowetz, upon the roads from Lomza to Sdvabno, and north of Kadibidly, on the road between Plotsk and Pionsk. In some places the fighting is very stubborn. “On the right bank of the on the roads from detachments have Vistuia, ben relieved by .German troops.” WHITE MAN LYNCHED FOR DOUBLE MURDE Pleasant Hill, Mo., Mob Riddles Wil- liams’ Body With Bullets—Church- goers Discover Corpsc. Pleasant Hill, Mo., Feb. white man, believed to be W. F. liams of Hot Springs, Ark., who urday night took part in a tle in which a policeman and an identified man were killed, was taken from the jail here early Sunday ana lvnched by a mob. Early churchgoers discovered the body riddled with bullets, hanging from the fire bell tower above the city hall. It remained there until noon before being cut down. The victim, who told the police he was W. F. Williams of Hot Springs, Ark., was arrested Saturday night af- ter a pistol battle in which Charles Poindexter, a policeman, and an un- identified man, were Kkilled. Poindexter and another had been looking for men of robbing a Kansas City Southern train near Richards, Mo., last Frida night, when they engaged Williams and the unidentified man, who was killed, in the battle. A Wil- Sat- nolicexman suspelied tenacious | concentration was | tig right | Plotsk, Austrian | pistol bat- | un- | ) I who GERMANY'S BLOCKADE STIRS SCANDINAVIANS Torpedogng of Neiwegian Steamsr Gauses Grave Airam Over Situation. | London, keb. many’s submarine bloc continues to be the chief topic of interest in the United Kingdom, although British | shipping apparently moving \u&])% { its usual freedom. The Scandinavian ' | neutrals, however, are showing much | alarm over the situation, a great sen- sation having been caused in those | countries by torpedoing of the | Norwegian Beiridge Folkestor Representatives fan government | conference today, | Which is awaited | by neutral shippe naval convoy, it ing seriously considered at the confer- ence, but the guarded comments of the show that it clearly that such might | participant powers | war. | 99 12:05 m.—Ger- is the camship off > last week. Scandinav- ing another the vutcome of i with much interest The question of a be- the hol ot are is understood, is newspapers is recognized lead the into the a step neutral Before Court. The question of the right of | crews of five Danish ships to refuse for Knglish be- Question the is now | to sail ports excuse that Germany is not likely to respect a neutral flag. Following precedent, to have made Sunday for such raids, a lone German aero- plane flew over several east coast towns last night, dropping which did only slight material dam- age and caused little alarm. which a popular day seems bombs Fierce ighting Continucs. Fighting in the Carpathian tains still is being fiercely prosecuted by the Russian and Austro-German forces, but apparently without cisive results for either side. These mountain passes are now recognized by army men & forming the most | difficult sections of the long eastern | battle front, and the impression is groywing among military observers in London that the other movements of both the Russians and the Germans are merely strategical operations de- signed to affect the result of the des- perate . struggle at the gateway to Hungary. The French not only claim officially to have repulsed German counter at- tacks in the champagne region, but to | have captured an entire section of | German trenches to the north and | of the woods taken the day be- moun- | | east fore. | Germans Mov Forward, end of the western have moved for- flank of the the region to the eastern the Germans ward on the Alsatian Vosges mountains in the west of Kolmar. 1A front | TO REDUCE TOLLS OF PANAMA CANAL Discovered That Rate of $1.20 a Ton Prepared. 22.—Under {nstruc- Garrison of the at Vashington, Panama, Feb. | tions of Secretary | war department changes being prevared in the | regulations for computation of Pan- { ama canal tolls which, it is estimated, | will result in a decre appr mately 20 per cent revenues of the canal from of freight effected. It was discovered that | tolls under the Panama jat $1.20 ton was being greater th | by This | ference betweer by the canal rules, and a tered | ton as measured under the United statutes for ship regulation. The | defin applied in the | canal congress which for a charge of of the classes the the fixing of | canal rules | illegal, the rate that sanctioned from the de a n rose ait- | ned law. re; es latter Panama provides ion was act of maximum | The new the aggregate {at the rate of must not as computed on ton rules will provide that tolls paid by a vessel $1.20 per canal tdn | the aggregate tolls the of $1.25 per exceed basis ! registered The question | ifically in | connection with ] | deckioads. that being revised con- arose spe lumber claimed s Pacific shippers ille high such coast ally | eharged for | rules' will be promulgated in | formity with an opinion of the at- | torney general. They probably will | result in the filing of many claims | for a refund tolls by ships | which previously have passed through { the | te w The an loads on cunal HIRE-\ AN CAMPAIGN, | Started Under Philade Pubi dphin Depart- | | ment of Works, | i Philadelphia, Feb. 22.-—Under | direction of the depariment of the public | works, a campaign the relief “hire-n-man’ of the uncmployed in- | augurated here today The depart lnwnt expects to secure the co-opera- | tion of churches, clubs and ‘other or- | ganizations, as well as individuals and requests that repair work and other 0dd jobs, “which would be done any=- how two hence™ be done at once, f In this w | for | | months iy, @ statement i *d h | the department says. hundreds of en | out of work would be given employment. It is also planned to get are fore a court which is considering their | Corset Coversand de- | is Illegal—Changes Being | | stonally | breed “McMILLAN'S Special Sale: Drapery Remnants 9¢c yd | Values up to 39c¢ yd On Sale Wednesday Morning at 8:30 n . See until them window time Spec;fl Sale Undermuslins in three sale. Lay in your during this sale display displayed ot sale yur v All new gain lots, summer’s See goods Big Bar now on suppl big window Gowns i Sale Price 49c, Value 75¢ to 98c. ‘Beautiful Gowns Sale Price 75¢ . Value $1.00 Gowns, Skirts and Combination Sale Price 98¢ - Value $1.50 These Undermuslins nicely made, trimmed with the best quality embroideries and laces. D. McMILLAN - 199.201-203 Main Street. CLARK EULOGIZES CEORCE WASHINGTON are Foremost Uninspired Mortal in En- tire History of Human Race. * ¥eb. Champ Clark, addressivg the c Washington, 23.—Speaker gation of a Washington church yester- day declared that George Wi was “the foremoet uninspired in the entire history of the hington * mortal human race.” “Many men have lived ht in but in completeness of charact great this rious world, said ir-reaching impertant asd of and in the {& beneficial results hig laborious achlevements, Washington overtops them all.” His Greatest Service. 1's eatest service, fhe speaker tho 1L W as coniin er-in-chicf of the Revolutionary airmy and the first president of the rept lic, but as president of the comstitu- tional convention, where ¥ com- manding influcnce made possble ihe formation of the republic “It always has appeared queer me,” the speaker added, “that artist historians, poets, preachers and bi ographers have made so little use of the sccen where Washington was on his in the snowy woods of V. ley praying to God for succor for and starving army and, for salvation of country, whilg Lord Cornwalli is well-fod well-clad rnmi\'d in their Washirgtc 10 -~ his nal:ed soldier well-uppoin Great Honor Hor may object ngton occasionally dr bet on 2 horse race ia Recl and General [ battlie b arge. But wners and whicl d and not by our times, In Washington® a: 1y all men nt juley dan wt a 1 cor i ness f thoroughly “Somebody because the plan of ordered 1o ¢ we men by they W in humah inned. [ am he ed the ording P man that he did sometimes it sho ¢ belong to the : did, which st of u President on will de principle address at Washington's Birthday celebration held here Wa and no glad ions of sin, great out any h ington doubt wa POssC ry ind for hon i liver the to be municipal contracts under way at the .carlwst possible date. today under the auspices of patriotle l organizations.