New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 23, 1915, Page 6

Jlher regular contract. B8 srounds blicans en- U public ex- me rather a. matter :d do so no sound ¥ © money advisable v“‘:i“ of budget as | finance and fnated and at ity up where Ind good, but is going to improve- haye. The . to_be high 3 rebtxhlfcans onsibility 'for vz the demo- (no party ob- . It would | sides might stion and try Democrats as pay the tax _flect one as DBJECTS. attention to necticut com- ed tax on its posed under a islature. Tts lve hearing & most novel "the corpora- during the alone and jld be ‘ess adds that counsel for ris sound it ‘citizens: who pr- stdewalks, i paving It is a tax on ed upon to s never take ing up the e city council br sacking up con- ex- ade taxation ut the towns ke when it e trolley com- contract for ixcept where the company [ke a contract between the ide; it claims t through the planned only pd when any of those an infringe- ly the rights oily lawyers eply and the e best form of the towns is y its taxes to B its lines run. have an op- their own and get in taxation e an corporation swhich makes it impossible for him to the pres= not want and judging pretty near oward it can get SPRINKLING. Jaat in holding up the Kling contract, Mayor § mind looking into the j the city doing its own #similar investigation BRINE the second year of Bt while some inter- ere. elicited there wa g.ngihlc gained and the iving the city do the work @oned because there was no irée to take. The board of ‘orks thought toat ~money )e/ saved by purchasing the _making a contract with some ¥ho had horses, and thus escape gost of sprinkling on rainy days 3 \l" Wwh S was made in A price was obtained on the carts, but there was only one bid for horses obtained in addition to that of the Walker com- pany, it later declining after think- ing the matter over, to enter into the business on such a basig because of a fear that it might disorganize its bus- ness. The city did not deem it feas- ble to. purchase the horses, but it did have in mind giving some attention to an automobile which was in pro- cess of perfection for sprinkling work and which was then being given a no allowance HERALD, TUESDAY, MARCH 235 1915. rather than less before is paid over.—Ansonia mor: the money Sentinel. Charities which or workers more make work easier comperent are the ones which pay. Those which put a premium on idleness may sometimes be necessary as emergency measures for the relief of hunger ovr cold but they leave the load just as heavy as it was in the first place and probably | heavier.—Norwich Record. fracases among ind down there to such mat- that there If Killing and negroes are excepted small attention is paid ters—it is perhaps true not much more of the crimes of olence in the south than in ‘the north. But there is this difference, that in the north there are few kill- ings that are not either the work of members of the criminal class or else the consequences of ignorant passions among the submerged strata of scciety.—New London Day, Just how close the people of Bridge- port are to the hearts of the duly | clected officjals was demonstrated in the recent hearing on the project to establish a municipal ice plant. This is a project endorsed by the people-— twice endorsed, in fact. There never was any question from the start but that the people wanted 1t. But the aaministration—very cautions in such natters—decided to take a vote upon | it. Accordingly, the vote was taken and the people said in a very decided manner: “Give us the ice plant.'— Bridgeport Telegram. COMMUNICATED. Neutrality of Sunday's Meeting 1s Be- ing Questioned. Editor Herald:—Will you kindly tryout in a Massachusetts city. It was expected that it would revolutionize street’ sprinkling because it would take the place of the car as well ‘as the carts. It was felt that New. Brit- amm would eventually do itd own sprinkling and it was believed that while the first cost might be heavy the work could be done cheaper in the end. | Sprinkling streets is city a Tnecessary work and the better and more complete the service, the better it will be for the city and the people. 'As new streets are included lis®, so must the cost in the increase and the larger the bill hecomes the greater will be the desire to have the work done by the city if it can be done at a less cost than at present. Under the present system the sprinkling is done as well as it can be done by con- tract. { WARDEN OS30RNE. ‘‘Recent reports that Thomas Mott Osborne is about to resign as war- | den of Sing Sing prison are based | generally on the statement that he is breaking down under the strain, or that he has had an attatk of grip continue ‘the task he has under- taken, or that the failure of his ex- periment has discouraged him. There are many who dislike his views ag to prison management, or cbject to him personally, these last being generally such as have suffered from -his honest-attempt to reform abuses in the institution.”—Hartford Times. It would be interesting know just what Warden Osborne thinks of the methods of reform he has insti- tuted at Sing Sing prison. There are men engaged in prison Work and who are also interested who bhave been saying that there will be day to in penology Sing Sing They argue an uprising at some that will startle people. that Warden work out well the prisoners some day that they are not to be trusted as he trusts them. This argument is pre- dicated on the belief that all men who g0 to prison are bad and that there is no good in them. There was a more misleading statement, be- cause there are Osborne’s ideas will for time, but that in the institution will him and all a show others \ never a great many men who go to prison once only; they go there for various forms of and which way indicate a vil- disposition. There are, of course, bad men in prison, but taken as a whole they are in a minority. The policy which Warden Osborne is trying to establish is that prisoners have a right to be treated decently, : offenses in no lanous quote President’s Wilson's proclama- tion of neutrality concerning public speaking. I thought that T under- stood the meaning of the word neu- trality, but after attending the so- called neutrality meeting Sunday afternoon, March 21, T am in doubt as to the reality of such a word or its meaning. I am an American with the interests of the American govern- ment and people at heart. AN AMERICAN, President Wilson has been quoted as saying that the American people should not show any public prefer- ence for any particular nation en- gaged in the war, but there is noth- ing in his proclamation issued August 4, 1914, which covers the point raised by the above communication. The proclamation is a somewhat lengthy document, too lengthy to be quoted.— (Ed.) a If Deathbed Releases Are Restored. (New York Sun.) The workmen’s compensation law was enacted to protect the victims of industrial accidents and thefr depend- ents from legal delays, greedy em- ployers, soulless lawyers and the chicanery of unprincipaled adjusters. It went on the atute books of this state under a mandate of the people that revised the constitution to make the statute possible. After only cight months experience, and consequently before a definite opinion ag to the merits of its pro- visions can be formed, the republi- can majority in the legislature has engaged in a desperate effort to amend it in such a way as to permit private settlements with injured workers and with the survivors of those who lose their lives. This change has provoked the bitterest charges from members bf the major- ity, and the astonishing spectacle of an appeal to the caucus to jam through a measure that cannot by the widest stretch of imagination be re- garded as political was presented in the assembly. Resort was had to every device of terrorism known to the legislative boss to coerce votes in its favor, while its opponents openly declared that the casualty insurance companies, and no public need, had written the new law. We have already expressed our opinion as to the plight of the suffer- er or the survivor committed to the gentle ministrations of professional accident adjusters and the lawyers for the employe The ancient evils of ambulance chasing and deathbed releases are likely to be revived, If | they are, let the lawmakers who amended the law look to their fu- {ures; the men who fought for the compensation law will not soon for- get the restoration of the conditions they once successfully struggled to escape. v March. York In this day of levelers when some | of the oldest of our institutions are { shriveling under the cold eye of mod- ernism it is cheering to find that the good old-fashioned March wind, so| (New Press.) without any of the severity that has for many years characterized tae trcatment of prisoners, and that they will do more when shown kindness than if approached with a club. War- den Osborne evidently likes his work, but he is strongly opposed “to capital punishment, He has not been feeling just right since three murderers were electrocuted a short time ago at the prison. He was not present at the execution. FACTS AND FANCIES, The action of Governor Holcomb ! in reappointing all of the compensa- tion commissioners whuse terms ex- yire during the governor's term of office has apparently taken the wark- men’'s compensation commission out of politics entirely and placed the commissioners in the class with the common pleas court jucges who are and more the taxable ed and then ed to e arnings or any e so often orporetions, | und it is to be presumed that merelzepbyr& invariably reappointed by the gover- nor upon the expiration of their terms.—Bridgeport Post. New Britain has already five claim- arts to the reward offerec ror the ap- long missed, is essentially unimpaired by criticism or the lapse of time. We find it flourishing today with renewed strength and vigor, and it has been flourishing with great success and persistence all month. We had beén losing faith March wind as an institution. 1t seemed to be going the way of the lion-and-the-lamb tradition. March had grovn to bhe as temperamental as April. And April is merely tem- peramental after the debonair fashion of Moliere. Therc was get- ting to be something of Ibsen or the Greek tragedians about March. Sometimes it came in like a lamb and went out like an alligator. Again it surged in like a lion and howled out like a hvena. Sometimes, "as this year, it has been difficult to tell whether it was a badly trained lamb or a well trained lion, like the me- morable Wallace. But by the splendid wind this month March has vindi- cated itself. About the first day it began to send blustering breeze along and has set about keeping it up to the mark with commendable consistency. In fact, it was getting to the point where it might be over- done, when the weather bureau in the i output of of vrehension of the Zebris murderers promise soon gentle | Rhode KNIT UNDERWEAR Spring Weights for Men, Women and Children Separate Garments and Union Suits in all styles. The following lines of reliable makes of Underwear that arc knit to fit: ““Carte “Winchester *Porosknit™ “Richelicu,™ Mills,” “Roxford,"” and B. V " R E E v TO MOTHERS given away “VANTA" buttons in all s No Made wool, all wo. Diaper Patterns “Bedo.™ "REE to mothers this | week at Knit Underwear Department. KNIT VESTS to hurt the little tots. zes, one to six. Part ol, silk and wool. Priced 50¢ to $1.00 garment. “Vanta” ers, Knit priced 25¢ to 60c garment. Bands and Bind- “CARTER'S” MAKE Infants’ Knit Vests and Bands, all grades, priced 23¢ to 60c garment. CHILDREN 12 1-2c, CHILDREN 25 CHILDREN UNION Ask to see them 'S VESTS AND PANTS 15¢ and 25¢ Garment. UNION SUITS. 5c and 49¢ Suit, 'S “PEARL UITS. 49%c suit. WAILST” Combi- nation of under waist and pant. WOMEN’S UNION SUITS. Lace trim sizes, 29c. “Richelieu,” and Winchester Price 50c, 59c, all styles. and $1.00 Su med, special 25¢. Extra “Bedo,” “Carter’s” Suits for women 75¢, in 85¢ 1it. CUMFY CUT VESTS 12 1-2 Shaped V each. KNIT P Lace trim each. ME Spring weights in Shirts, ¢, 15¢c and 25c¢ each. ests and Bodices at ANTS AND TIGHTS, med and tight knee, 25¢ 'S U DERWEAR. Drawers and Union Suits, priced 25¢ to $1.00. D. McMILLAN 199-201-203 Main Street. Welsh Rivals_for Tipperary. (Lloyd’s Weekly, London.) Cymric going to be inspired and sustained by Not the ieast impres- sive sight today, and during the last weeck, among the Welsh units training at Porthcawl has been the gathering Cymric musi of ‘the soldi When the n men takes t tle to the sound chorus, which experts haye described as the finest world. The Chorus, and some of the valleys, the characte which ardor organization known, as the Welsh Army Male Voice men scores of Histeddfods, practice sings at Porthcawl partake of attract to the on the battlefield c. ers for choral singing. ew Welsh army of 40,000 he field it of a Cymric martial music _in just formed as the recruits include finest singers in the Welsh who have competed in the soldiers’ first-class vicinity r of concerts, is will go to bat- war the is of the | hall large numbers of residents off the town and visitors. Miss Gee of Denbigh, an ardent pa- tfiot, of Welsh w is distributing a fine selection ar songs, | blexed, with a request! for the rendering of these and less| inging of “Tippera " / New Ha (Christ The New Hartford r big capitalists, Wall round holders in Connecticut, Lslan over street a little shareholders; 1 ten shares, fifty shares, own from 144 own 1,0 shows trtbution of quently eno concern of fairs of the No word sible quarte into a critic agement. edge and co difficulties b ment on every lieve that a as to the al pose, dent of the man is per ganization. public mittees, i sures the pu and has no newspaper organs. a fight making numbers, 500 plainly the determination ven Road Ownership. ian Science Monitor.) York, New Haven and by banks, by by the big State street. 1n it 12,000 stock- Massachusetts, 5,000 4,000 in New York, 821 in d, 4,000 in other states 100 abroad. Of 26,644 2,210 own from one to or has in | the Jackson county [ no silence; ilroad is not owned by the | | with studied precision upen the floor. | picture of that rude room in 9,688 own from cleven to: Of the total only to 1,000 shar 01 shares and over. cnough the the stock; it shows elo- ugh, we think, the deep New England in the af- company. is uttered in any respon- that could be construed xism of the present man- There is common knowl- mmon appreciation of the only This esetting the new manage- | side. We do not be single sincere doubt exi bility, the honesty of pur of the pre Howard Elliott. This ssing trade or- commerce, slative com- behalf. He as- blic that he has no lobby, He is preservation raad, for the and protection——the very existence—of one of the greatest railroads potentially in the country, a raitroad of immea. gurable inportance to New England and the east. it. He is seeKing the sup- came along at this late day with a|port of the people, and if these claims southern | can be substantiated he should have 201} |y wide dis- | APHENOMENAL PRE-EASTER SALE of STYLISHMILLINERY AT CONNECTICUT’S LEADING MILLINERY DEPARTMENT WISE, SMITH & CO., Hartford, Conn. Every Imaginable Variation of the Season’s Prevailing Styles in Beautiful Over 300 choice models to se ular, new colors, beautifu trimmed be su rich fancies and Ltifu Be wings, os indeed a big bargain. tunity., Duchess sailor and classy dress with preuty and take adiuntas $2.98 Trimmed Hats lect from, including tii pop- The all flowers, novelty This i oppor- 300 very shapes se come in T Imborted bows, is 11 ribbon velvel of 1d this GENUINE HEMP SHAPES All the newest styl at of gennine vaiu for equal come to member genuine GENUINE OSTRIGH PLUMES. $1.98 YALUE $3.00, i SALE PRICE 20 inches lon inches wide, trich male stock, heads. in all toned great price i ralue plumes ext effects, $1.98, WHAT OTHIRS 3AY Views on all sides of timely questjons as discussed in ex- changes that come to Herald oftice. A Good Judgment of Moonshin In the Interesting People depart- ment of the April American Mazagine appears an article about Judge A. M. J. Cochran, a federal judge who, a part of the time, sits in Breathitt county, Kentucky—which, by the way, is no longer bloody. However, they still make lots of illicit whisk in Kentucky and these moonshiners are donstantly up before Judge Cochran who, although a just judge, treats them like a father and tries to make them see that what they do is really wrong and against the law. Following | is an extract from the article about Judge (‘ochran: “From eight o’clock in the untél nearly six at night, I court room and watched the pathetic line of moonshiners and boot- | legers go by. There was no bitternes in their faces; rather, they were per- mystified. Why should the | government ‘parsecute’ them for mak- ing their own corn into whisky in | their own homes, any more than for making their corn into bread in their own ovens? Couldn't the officers ever understand that the bad roads made it impossible for them to get their corn to market in any except liquid form? A few little dollars—what was that to a big strong government? But when your total family income for the vear is only seventy-five-dollars, and You see your corn going to waste— “It was a wearisome business. They were so awkward, so slow in their answers, so childlike in their mental processes. The judge had told me in | the morning that his head ached ter- ribly. Toward evening 1 expected to ! see his patience break. his self-control explode in a burst of rightcous wrath upon their tedious dulln But no explosion came. T.ong after the lights were on he sat there, and it was still: “‘Come up, Henry,' or, ‘Joe, you'll have to speak a little louder,” or, ‘Now, Jim, just tell the jury in your own way how that still could be in | your corn field for six months and you not know it. | “T hale been in other federal court rooms where the judge sat behind ma- | hogany amid a cathedral-like silence. | There was only a plain oak desk in courthouse—and il day long men shuffled in and out, while witnesses and jur- ors. lawyers and spectator: mornin in the ragged, | sat | | { alike spat But there was dignity and with it a wonderfully transform- ing spirit of kindliness “Over against somhe distressing erit- icisms of the courts 1 like to place the Bloody central just the same-— Breathitt, with its friendly figure at the simple des “Ten thousand ragged, men and boys have Judge Cochran in the past thirteen vear mumbling their threadbare pleas.” And one might think, to hear him calling their names, that they were his grownup children, and he the moonshiners’ father instead of the moonshiners’ judge.” wide-eved §ood before The Steel Trade. (New York Times.) The report of the steel corporation abounds in contrasts. It contains the record of the highest wages for labor and the lowest earnings for capital, of the lowest prices and the smalle carnings from products. Low no dividends on common high wages are a trinity ings, some of them much disguised. Who is happy or who is benefited? The weak point in the philosophy of those who would produce prosperity by command is that things shall con- tinue as they are, except as modified by the order. The fact is that the beautiful simplicity of a price covees a complex which cannot be disturbed in any particular without disturbing all others. 1If it had been possible to of ble: Genuine guaranteed This plume comes colors " also Pre-Easter sale the | face, REMEMBICR WE| TRIM HATS Frec of Charge, Do not pay to have your hats trimmed for we do it for without any ditiona: the latest m IMPO Flower trimmings | own g and 10 | 81,00 | Os- you ad in and tonable| expert it you shapes) of| cost, ra heavy st f by trimmers, buy youwr and materials us. in for this , .regular intended. If it had been possible to reduce profits without reducing em- ployment, that would have been an- other blessing of a sort. The reduc- tion of profits and the loss of employ- ment for lahor in the same proportion as for capital are a misfortune com- mon to both. If it had been possible to reduce both® costs and profits of producers tigether that would have been a blessing for consumers except for the disclosure that the interests of producers and consumers cannot be separated. Try these generalities by some specific facts from the history of the steel corporation. Monoply and ex- tortion were its alleged faults, Its share of the business never entitled it to be deemed a monopoly, and has ‘decreased. The prices in the trade averaged about $39 per ton in 1901, rose to ahout $40, and in 1914 were wbout $31. The company’s profits per ton have never been so large as in its first complete vear, 1902, when they were $13.25. In 1914 they were timated at $6. Taxes and wages show smaller variations but tend cspecially taxes. They began at about $2.000.000 and increased to $11,000,- 000. Wages have averaged as low as $677 per man per year, but in 1913 averaged $9 In that maximum vear the wage disbursement was $207,206,176 T.ast yvear the payroll was $1 ,907. The rate was main- tained, but the nnmber of workers fell from 228,906 to 179,353 es- same in percentage the decrease in employment being 21.65 per cent. Since its formation the company has disbursed in wages $1,945,200,801, and its a and liabilities balance at $1 3,492. It has been said upon the highest labor authorty to be the greate enemy of labor. It is in- comparably the greatest paymaster in its class | (New York A Socicty for the Cruelty to the Rich has long been | needed in these United States. Those | unfortunates are not only baited by | the government, in many forms, not | the least active and curious wanifes- | intion of which the Hon. The . Walsh, chairman of the Federal Comuission on Industrial Relation and by politicians and microcepha of many names, but virtue and healt; sc excellently personified by the Hon. Harvey Washington Wiley, join the chase. The children of “the yic arved or starving in their purpl palaces, savs {hat indefati hunter. They 3 d don’t get the right kind of nutriment. Pity the the famished rich! Eat candy, too, these plutocratking, just like the young of commom folks. Shouldn’t, mustn’t; feller than serpent’s tooth, is the “sweet tooth™ which bites so many miilion of 1z one in error with the poor rich in- habitants o fsoft Campanian nurs- eries. Dr. Wiley doesn't say so, but a sociologist of his cannot but | view with alarm chocolate, fed to sol- diers, as another cause of the “grow- ing degeneracy” which produces war and dyspepsia and everything else in- human diabolical and intolerable. Something must be done. Some- thing will be done. “Wealthy pai- ents” are not fit to bring up their children. The government ought to | take those victims of nine away from the fine foolish tables where no scientific regulating hand doles out | the proper diet. But there is some reason to believe that “rch” children are brought up, as a rule more sin ply and Spartanly than those of the | merely well to do; and “the poor” are | too often generous, lavish, reckless, | sadly given to idolizing and spoiling: their offspring. Tooking facts in the are not mothers and fathers unequal to the task of providing the right number of calories for the youny folks? It is one of the hopeless puzzles of | historical conjecturc and reconstruc- | tion to account for the existence of 20 many people in this country before | this wise and blessed age of omni- sciolistics and universal meddling. | Those large pioneer and colonial fami- | Sun.) | Prevention of ble zerm | mproperly, | or amount sorrows of | i gifts is increase wages and shorten hours, | and to leave all other factors as they | stood, it would have been the blessing lies gor: on the heéartiest, homely, | ill cooked, destructive messes, what right to life and health can they have ifartford hemmp shapces nomenal sale we have big stock just 100 dozen wreaths upward, | The de- | crease in both was almost exactly the | | mouths the ' or | Thre HATS NO wo ALIKE 98¢ es und colc varied You in thie as- at 98¢, I this D8C, ] hemip vhpes will pa méeed § awhoere, > e s ols it only f parchase fo1 RTED FLOWER WAEATHS, 49¢ Wreaths are the most stylish « of the son and for this phe- celected from our beautiful for only ses of that will go on sale had? Let us look back with such charity as we can muster on mothers and fathers of those dark ages. Now at least we know that only a man can instruct a mother in her business; and as for the fathers, they are about to be sent about their business by the superior sex. An Interstate Baby and Child FMeed- ing commission is bawling need; and we name the Hon. Harvey Wash- ington Wiley, secretary of the de- partment of interstate bables. Planked Shad Time, (Baltimore American.) When you raise the epicurean prop- osition to the nth power #&nd then figure it down to an irreducible mini- mum, is there anything in the way of table luxuries that comes nearer to being the poet’s dream than the planked shad? We hope we are not mentioning the planked shad too early in the season. It is better to be a little sooner in reulizing on the planked shad idea than a little later. | The shad is with us in a limited way and the time to plank him ls when you can get him-——or her, we should say-—for the biggest and best of the shad family are the fish, or fe- males. As to how to plank the shad, see the enlightened cook books. The finest of the shad breed that | come to the Baltimor: market are generally trapped off Tolchester or else come from the fisheries just in- | side the Susquehanna river. These are | the heavyweights that follow the deep | water channel and g0 maange to dive below the sqifare miles of traps that | string for a hundred and fifty miles [up the Chesapeake Bay from the ocean entrance. Toward the upper re | glon of the bay or within the river water shoals and the big ones get trapped. Tast year theie Wwas great complaint among the Upper Bay fishermen because of the beljef that the trapping svstem lower dewn has developed intn something i proaching a complete Wacikade of the up-stream movements of ocean fi Y roe Lewis, 1n ot.) (Juda Morttmer Houston She siept aid, nts to sl zhe was toid t might: 1 when i the dying day call And nowi Came her Toaked thic four in “y Ana my hat Aaaa4 of cours . &he pin we talked in the fading "oy f oult augking around, baby " ol the [ And we loved And we were vorried somowl of the egan to blink looked back of the parlor Aoor. ‘nd the n more kitchen, and more anl ere ® worrted: T went upstair 1zh the empt hair rooms, saw the Put And then 1 kne in one r found that little rhoe! half a think In A . rosm T foliowed the t through upstairs hall tn another everyvhere in the twt little garment led ehoe! & ail went The An room ht gloom Was some nd that trail Right bed! And there sh Her head asleen across the world to Yer daddy’s 1dled heap on nnd fast And she lay therc througt long, dark knew When her when The dawn came and he rose again, To go his way to the distant town: 13ut late this morning she wandered down The stairs and said head!— “1 like to sleep in my daddy’s bed.” nd she slept right The hours; and she never vaddy came to the bed, or such sleepy-