New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 26, 1915, Page 8

ts people 'f_, ed to wait hfcold and sthe strong- m aiting sta. iffijult to get itai) the mat- | 8 Jocal color- k [pat the sta- ense. That, ‘fitureu, and uck a building a.d this, per- jhng else, has it, but even g at there was to a move- 5" object the cture by the fitd as if this olved by the a block near ¢ g;ople could t | ‘any incon- Rdving a build- pget, which, un- e copditions features of feity appears to | in a satis- t to be done the business prove is that time the trol- f ‘come to look ‘different light e cities aught elp along the ks to expedite ne. SION BILL on bill has been ot make as good before, when it nd wasg only de- of the governor L because the jwould not permit R’s time the bill fte on the ground ded teachers but ncipals and said, are paid b outlook for the the. first, not that Qus measure, but 6, retrenchment cc at the capitol -efforts are heing tion of providing than a means of in- made by Senator 0 superintendents Lin under the bill jhe case called for, pre no other faults enumerated they ntout e ‘greaz body @asure was The pension sys- and a ‘8s if it should be done, it, the present sys- teachers to keep at feel they should be ers_allowed to take as an act of justice 0 have spent their jeupation and again Beducation. Senator o to these features ghey are what un- fers’ pension bill. 0 reality a meritor- 3 £8 to place school v“?!ll'fle class, so far as iiconcerned, as policemen or whom pensions under "ére provided. b) BGISLATIVE MATTERS, @ Judiciary committee will [ favorably on a bill waich gives Sheriffy of the state the power to e not more than fifty per cent. of he prisoners of the different county alls on the highways of Connecticut. re- It is stated that at the hearing on this measure there were a number who appeared in favor of it on the ground that it would be for the bene- fit of the prisoners to have an op- rortunity to work in the open air and in order to remove some of the ob- Jections to this scheme the work will be done in the'country places, where the prisoners will nofattract much if any attention. Th has been some opposition to the plan on that ground, but it is very apparent that the state farm idea is to be given a trial in a somewhat modified form. There is one feature of the bill, hewever, which has not been made quite plgin and that is the matter of compenga- tion. Who will play the prisoners for their . services or, will the money go to the state or tie county, or will any portisfi” go to the men themselves? | I used to be sald that men employed in such work, even though it 1§’ part of the punishment for vlol}ting the law, should be com- Felflq,%d, the money. to be paid to their families. It no! provision is made for this then it would seem Either the county or the state will undoubtedly receive some revenue from the towns where the prisoners do the work, otherwise the system would scarcely have any value. It would not be a 8&ood plan for instance for Hartford and New Britain to send men to jail and support them there while they made repairs on the highwayat New- ington with' ' no expense to that town. | The system will also entail an addi- tiohal expense because in the first place it will apparently be necessary to employ an overseer to take charge of the prisoners while they worked on the roads in order that the service may at least have some value. It would not do to have the regular men at the jails act as superintendents, for while they may know all about Jail management they might not know anything about making or repairing highways and if the state is to go into this business at all it should be done right. p 4 In anticipating the coming of the baseball season the legislature is going to put itself on record as being opposed to the baseball pools which flourishéd so strongly for a time last year, At the hearings on this meas- ure it was claimed that those engaged fn the pools made a great deal of money, while the winners were due more to locality than to anything else, the idea being to spread them around 80 as to keep up the interest, but whatever may be the underlying mo- tive it is to be stopped and a stiff punishment is to be provided for of- fenders, Another matter that the legislature proposes to have done is to have the general statutes revised so that they may be gotten together in one volume. The last time this was done was in 1902, and considerable legislation has | been enacted since, the acts being em- | bodied in a separate volume or blue book as it is called, for each session. It is regarded as Mdesirable that the laws be carefully gone over and com- piled in one volume and the legisla- ture proposes to have a committee appointed to do the work, FAOTS AND FANCIES, Fox trotting may be declared an excellent remedy for insanity, but there are not very many who will aamit such to be the real reason for its popularity.—Norwich Bulletin. The New York health commissioner 1¢ports that germs in clothing are not killed in the laundry process, which shows that a germ has more vitality than a shirt.—Norwich Record. Connecticut has its reformatory for men and certajnly needs one for women. There ig every reason for favorable action by the legislature on the bill providing such an institution. i columns of e’s. got ‘Whether not feel rest after the ex- Ftions of Billy Sunday we don’t know. But at any rate it can't af- ford onc.—Hartford Times, Thase interested in the problem of employing prisoners will d@o well Yo | consider the complaint of the people ! of Litchfield that the employment of | their jail-birds there in outside labor is against the best interests of the town. The system offers severe com- petition to free labor, ete. 1t again illustrates the fact that prisoners can- not be used in any form or useful and productive labor without competing with some one. The alternative Is idleness and that spells insanity.— New Haven Journal-Courter. g " Money. @ does or does Fhded , of a Hearings conducted by state legis- lative committees waste much valuable time. The people of tne state who are aware of being personally affected by any proposed piece of legislation seldom attend them. They are not held at home, for one reason. There | is no pleasure obtained in exchange for the expense of traveling to Hart- ford and one may' have to undergo considerable humiliation to gratify the caprice of a legislator with more bone than gray matter in his head. The history of Connecticut general as- semblies is so sordid thatr a self-re- specting citizen is risking charges of connection with the “thira house” or the promotion of some measure to put state money intp his own pocket if he makes one or two trips to the capitol during a session.—Waterbury Republican, ¥ A Plece of Folk Philology. (Neqw York Sun) A rather curious bit of folk philol- ogy 1is incised into a couple of empty whiskey bottles sold at auction In this town Monday night. The name “E. C. Booz,” a Philadelphia distiller of the '40s, was blown into those old receivers of iniquity; it is a Penn- sylvaniz-‘4radition,” which has turned up at intervals in~ the'last generation that this wet chemist is immortalized. until the triumph of the Drys, by that concise and baleful word ‘‘booze.” ‘Wellington, Blucher, Cardigan, Spen- cer, Bryon ot the collars, Gladstone have left trivial marks on nomencla- ture compared with his, if his were historical. If legs had been named ‘““Wellingtons” and necks ‘“Byrons,” the paraltel would have been grat- ifying. v Of course this localization of a universal is a myth like so many other stories of origins. The ancient- ness and the moderncss of this sin- gular word ‘‘bouse,” ‘‘hooze,”” proves some rare merit of sound in it. Tt is possible or likely enough that Chaucer and Gower used it, for it is said to go back to the fourteenth cen- tury. In the course ' hearty Tudor times it had a vogue which it has not lost. Kit Marlowe, if we may accept his legend, “hit the booze,” whereus the phophet Daniel didn’t, as the Rev. William Sunday reminds us. Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, the Mer maid crowd, must have known the weighty word, even if they made no literary use of {t. Has, Massinger's “New Way' to Pay Old Debts’ .been revived since Booth's time? What is more perplexingly modern in it— and a good play can’'t grow old—than “No booze”? If it is a “vulgar” word at least it has been in good company in its day; a day not yet come, ap- parently, to its noon. We have seen an immemorial con- troversy stated with this commenda- ble. brevity: ‘“Use booze!” ‘“Refuse booze.” A sort of vagabond strength hangs about this old disreputable vo- cable. Is it the noise the opening or the indignant smashing of the bot- tle? ' Out-of-Date Laws. (New Yark Press.) It is no longer unlawful in any state of the Union for a man to kiss his wife on the Sabbath, but in Mary- land an act of 1723 prohibits cooks and even church janitors from work- ing on that day. In Baltimore a year or so ago there was a great hubbub because the authorities, in response to an unreasonable agitation, attempted to enforce the ancient statute which makes illegal the purchasing of minor articles of necessity or the doing of necessary labor on Sunday. Efforts have been made to enforce it in other parts ‘of Maryland, to the very great inconvenience of many people. The people's minds must necds be vacuous to be content with no rec- reation whatever on the day they rest from their labors, but such would be eir condition did the blue laws z‘lgxdly obtain, There has been just so much application of them in Maryland as to get on the nerves of many people, and the result has been the organization of the Anti- Blue TLaw association, which will conduct a publicity campaign in that state with ‘the hope of inducing the next legislature ' to repeal the ob- noxious statutes. If there happens to be anything in the old laws ?hp][(:ahlv to twen- tieth century life, ‘and ‘desirable,” it can be left standing, but it is fool- ish to let laws remain upon the sta- tute boaks which were ill fitted for a state even when Maryland was wearing its swaddling clothes. Women's Suffrage. (New York Press.) Well-meaning but porters of helpirg the pearing on misguided sup- women’s suffrage are not cause by the stump constantly and in the the newspapers with when women vote the be just around the corner. This newspaper is in favor of women's suffrage; but we do not ad- vertise the reform as a panacea, be- cause it is nothing of the sort, The act of justice in giving women the ballot will not result in the simultancous purification of our poli- tics and the correction of all soc ap- promises that millennium will The only thing that stanas in the way is the question of finances.—Hart- ford Post. Billy Sunday is taking a weck’'s rest two to recuperate trom his, and econowmic evils, We believe that the intelligent use of the ballot in the hands of women can be made a tre- mendous influence for the general good. We believe that women will for Spring Opening Days Store In Readiness for Easter The New Sults Smart models that have that indi- viduality. Priv .98 to $25.00. Spring Goats Children’s Coats, $1.49 to $4.98, Misses' Coats, $4.98 to $15.00 Women’s Cqats, $5.98 to $25.00. Gharmljg Dresses Colored silks and wool fabric dress- es, priced $2.98 to $20.00. _ Wedding Dresses Exquisite new creations spring bride, priced $12.98, $18.00 to $25.00. The Easter Blouses Lingeries, chines. Lingeries, 97¢ to $1.98, Tub silks at $1.98, value $2.50. Crepe de chines, $1.98 to $4.98, that are real beauties, shown in the new spring shades. Easter Gloves Chic conceits that will give a finish- ing touch to the Easter costume. “Smart” noveltiés that will lend in- dividuality to the wearer. Three makes of imported Kid gloves that have stood the test for years. Our *“Jullienne” Kid Glove at $1.00 pair. for the $15.00, tub silks and crepe de Pique sm Gloves Our special $1.25 pair, value $1.50. Our “Laperle” 2-clasp Real Kid Gloves at $1.50 pair shown in all the new novelties. WashaMueskins At $1.00 pair. New sand color with black embroidery at $1.25 pair. Big Shirt Sale Saturday, 39¢ each for shirts worth 49c to T5c. i Fox Trot Ties 50¢, the latest in men’s neckwear. D. McMILLAN 199-201-203 Main Strect. i{he most part use the ballot intelli- gently and earnestly. But it is a mistake for advocates of the measure tc go about announcing that it will Lea political cure-all. There is no such thing. No law, no measure, no reform contains any inherent magic. Jefferson believed that universal manhood suffrage wpuld settle everything. We know better now. We have had other panaceas since Jefferson’'s time, and none have panned out as panaceas. The authors of the initiative, the referendum and the recall promised just what some of the suffrage en- thusiasts are promising. The writing of these measures, or of any others, into the law of the land means little. Everything depends upon the use that is raade f them. We can forge wonder- ful tools of government, but they are useless in the hands of ignorant or careless workmen, “Weare governed by laws, not men,” is the corner stone of our political philosophy: but we soon discover that we are not governed by laws unless we select with unusual care the men to administer them. A politically indifferent electorate cannot expect to get good government under any kind of system. An active and intelligent mass of voters can get good government with any kind. As Ambassador Bryce said, a people who could rally from the Civil war “could work any kind of constitution.” What women's suffrage may do will depend entirely on what women do with the sufferage. OST. STYLISH OUTERGARMEN “MADE IN AMERICA” For Women, Misses and Juniors. Unrivalled Assortments, Entrancing Styles, money Saving Prices. Wise, Smith & Go. 20 SUITS OF POPLIN FOR WOMEN AND MISSES AT $15.98. Modish suits made of good quality poplin lined with peau cygne. The coats have a yoke back.. 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