New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 27, 1915, Page 6

B HERALD 1 BISIITNG COMPANT. priotors. a) at 4:15 p. m. itns. 57 Church St wilaing, N 1tain omce at_New Br B e Mian” SMatter. ; ¢ the city or w0 ARy PATt © N ek 65 Cents a Month. tor paper (o be sent by mail 4n advance. 60 Cents a fonth, $7.00 a year. ofitable advertising medium in " Circulation books and press ways open to advertisers. will be round on sats at Hota- Stand, 12nd St. and Broad- York City; Board Wa'k. City and Hartford depot BLEPHONE CAYLS. ce. .. .. ™ . WETMORE DEAD. ‘B. Wetmore had ‘busines line Pboy in the it o bsition a most career in the man- He plant in this city. be- Corbin century ago and rose | that jeoncern. have lgreat deal hard- ness and must have been a for that great things Wwhen the hour of treasurer of He must about the an corpo- | hese do not count, of deatn no one can postpone that, ant he It man prince or pea it [a pleasure, e life’'s journey is alize that he has been unt the that his been carved where it will to the divine W r, for a | about to of | howev in world, r years, and that his mem- be his crumbled 1t th C. E. Wetmore, who lived g among us, who was known n the city that him who was identified with an fhat is known in muny climes ever civilization His death ‘had been expect- feral days, but even when it fl the final it was received recalled long after into dust, gave has raised announceement with gen- 8’ CLUB GARDENS, itain does not show as great Bt in the Boys' club garden t should and as it deserves, continues to grow and im- any will remember that the value of the crop last year 0. This yield ito be larger and the value juperintendent Crawford has progress with the in the club management arden work. It is the lat- les in for the greatest | vear the 1= derful because as a general thing s not due to the natural ent of the city he will [8r participate in the gam without Leen béy; Jinooa admin it there have b in ttle rted to lal inclinations. ball diamond is never so op- s it is on the potato patca! getable garden, and the boy numer- which persuasion mixed force has had induce the depart from following The heat on physical in order to be induced to spend his spare | e laborious pursuit of agri- ust have a strong hand for and is being directed in | it are bound to yield a large e of usefulness later on. ovs' therefore, is a good work because it em- e trafning in a line of ef- h has been regretfully neg-: caused an increase in the expenses and which have ussed in this country for the years, The boys are there- be encouraged in their work, ¢ who contribute in any way the perfection of this en- i1l help a worthy undertak- may be the mecans of creating fion in thgee vouthful minds lead to careers of industry es that will also be a henefit | ople in general. 5 i club, en- | ESTIGATE NEW YORK CITY. the New York legislature has on its hands it g atten- he big city. There is a new there this year which seeks more money from the city juld be taken on the principle play, and now it is proposed an investigation of its finan- The state has made in- before and n Senator Lexow had a hand police was the object of the d no matter what was said | oliceman he wag not allowed d himself except that he could switness stand and tell what and allowed himsclf to be | ness | bétter things when the clouds of ad- {15 in reality ! merriment that shone from his eyes i ny, who had met so many and whose | that on one occa- | said about New Yark eity, but in prac- tically every instance the object of the investigation is politics pur sitrple. There have some revelations when it is all over there is a change ir the administration, the program is reconstructed and different head but always with enough and always heen of rottenness, but conducted under a resemblance to the old conditiens to show that while one ring is out there is arother People often in. are these reform movements their origin and so elated over discoveries that they are led to believe that foole@ with becuuse of they be- com mil- Inum is coming. o at time to erect a to Dr. Parkhurst because of his attitude on political reform 'in that city. The mcvement was not successful and the the It was pro onc memorial reverend gentleman is not as popular there now as he was then, GREAT “MOVIE" ACTOR GONE, Unless a man is very poor and has no friends ng wi peng of regret somewhere; if he ha a hume and there are relatives, a tear will be shed for him, as the thought seizes his survivors that he has gene and the niche he fills life inc his pass cause a never to return, as his useful- increases and in cur everyday eases, so does the of the mourning for wher he dies, wie causes us to forget our troubles, | brings the smile of happiness t) the face of childhood and who en- dawn of extent him { The man who amuses, who alles us to see the golden had begun to gather about us, | the old | versity a great intuence in werld, and so voung and regret the death of John wiose round, jovial face was known so well in the motion picture world, today Bunny, | who has amused so many by the odd- ity of his ways, the good nature and and the ludicrous situations which his fertile mind evolved for the pleasure of the people that he will live with his admirers as does the hero in the story book. There-isn’t a child of theater-go- ing age who did not know him, and many a little head was bowed when the newspapers, which tell us everything, esid yesterday that the jolly actor had died and that he would never be seen again in the “movies.” Stage characters have come and gore and only a very small number created a ripple when the end came, but that cannot be said of John Bun- face pat- rons of motion pictures as the man who. lives up stairs, the teacher in the city school or the next door neigh- He had a fine reputation as an before he became was as well known to the b a screen ar- but it was as the latter that youth best and him mature aze knew him them all to mourn for ¢ whose coming meant pleasure, lavghter instead of tears, joy instead and presented a was carried in memory when the lights of the theater were extinguished and the stage was once of sad:ue! picture home mecre given over to darkn Cbharles F. Thayer, who died sud- Norwich last public time in this state. denly in evening, was a prominent character at one He was the nom- ince ‘of the democracy for gove in | 1006 and represented the state senate. He much ability but he seems to with greater lustre nicipal officer than as acter, he having served several terms as mayor of Norwich and some nota- ble that city during his administrations. His con- stituents thought a great deal hime and he always proved worthy their confidence, nor his district in was a man of huave as mu- shown a a state char- improvements came to about of o | are confident that if WHAT OTHZRS SAY" tmely | | Yiews on all sides of questions e discnssed in ex- changes that come to Herald s Predicts Defeat (Washington for Reed. Post.) chanze hope “Unle ditions, democrats can 3 r, which will mean States senator will he ceed Scnator Reed nch of congr : ham, of St “The democrs of the state i there re is is a iittle carr in that Missouri that a chosen in the " said H H. Brig- at the Shoreham realize that control slipping away from them, but they are powerless to help themselves. It looks now as if Sen- ator Reed will have no oprosition f the democratic nomination. Lad tallk that. Representative Lloyd would make the race against hit Lloyd's friends, who were Y urging him to enter the con- a few monihs ago, now are ad- vising against it, ecausr they believe inated he would not he elected. “Senator Stone lost the city of St. Louis by some 15,000 and since then there has been a decided swing to- ward the republicans, which will mean that St. Louis next pile up a bhiz majority for the republican can- didates. This, of course, was indicat- ed in the recent municipal election, The Germans, who have heretofore divided their vote hetween republicans and democrats, are now openiy avow- ing the cause of the republicans, and | this means that the democra will | lose a tremendous number of votes. | “The republicans alreads grooming candidates for the senator- ship. Althouzh former Representa- tive Bartholdt declared when he re- tired from the house that he wanted to,zet out of public life, his friends raw are urging him to get into the fight fer the senatorship, b se they minated he will be elected. He would not be averse, T believe, to zoing to the senate, and if he decides to make the try for it, I believe he can win. Anyhow, vou may be sure that Missouri will send a republican to the senate to ceed Jim’ Reed.” | con- the next United to suc- upper w There Read, vear v are Kentucky's Iliteracy. (Philadelphia Press.) Two hundred eight thousand persons in the state of Kentucky are unable to read and write. Eighty-seven thousard five hundred of these are males cf ‘ twenty-one years of age and over. These appalling statistics of illiter acy in the Blue Grass state have be gathered after careful investigation by women interested in teching rudi- mentary education to the benighted | folk of the state where colonels and mint juleps abound. i Kentucky has so many illiterates that it has become one of the burning questions of the day in that state. To remedy matters as they now.stand the womcen of the state have banded together to carry the torch of edu- cation into mountain hamlets, where the ignorance of the na is a blight | on the commonwealth The women are known as the Wo- | men’s Forward Kentucicy Movement Their plan is to have every adult in Kentucky able to read and write by 1920. The women have collected funds. They will “engage They will ask the state to assi means a herculean task to be acco plished in five years. But its scope means a general uplift. It means the end of those feuds that have marked | a bloody trail across the Blue Grass | country for years. It means a school house in every hamlet. It means the mountaineer will have brought to him influences from the outside world that will soften his nature and mold his future along sarer not to say safer lines. { | Two Ways With Bosses. (New York Charles E. Hughes party organization He defied the hesses, The republican machine and the republican bosses were opposed to hie renomination. He made his ap- peal direct to the veople and beat 1hem. Theodore Roovsevelt in arm with the bc famously with the orgar was on exceedinzly gocd terms with Platt, Hess, Barnes, Quay, Quigg and otliers of that calling. DMr. Roosovelt Times.) broke with the walked arm and he got on zation. He The testimony in the Barnes-Roose- velts libel case seems to show that the cclonel was not always strongly op- posed to the nolitical bo. that on the contrary he thousht pretty well some of them, Tom Platt, who had something on them all The the but of particulariy as a boss, and sought his advice. is not doing as advertising line this as he did last week and it if will not leave the witness stand with~ oui having proven that he was neither blind deat in the saddle. ceicnel well in week looks now as ne nor when he was FACTS AND FANCIES. There are some cheerful offsets, if -ou will ony look for them. When you | read about divorce court proceedings Ju can almost always turn to anothes page and find the story of a silver or golden wedding celebration.—Provi- dence Journal. -ear, the recklessness of gather certain varieties of wild flowers is deplored, and the pub- | lie is warned that the trailing ar-| i butus, the mountain laurei. and oth Every a by the commitiee's attor- here was a great deal of soiled a] linen washed at that time it was all, over the attor- lthe committee was made a jee at a large salary for a Fiod. varities may become extinct, as the | dedo and the passenger 1 I become in bird life, unless more ca taken to preser Alrea | it is noted 0 now tep where arbutus may he found | arc keeping this knowledge to them- gelves. Why should there not be a ces until 1912—was a straight party man. He believed in the organization and worked wita it. Conrerences with bosses, whether in the form af a breakfast with Mr. Platt of a Sun- day morning or in the executive cham- Ter, were with him a part of political business. ness, always that might be done. Gse him, he used hLave his word for for righteousness. It all depends on the fore, not on the machine. roachines are pretty much the 1rom year to year. The are not wholly bad, not altozether good. When they zet a small man elected to an office of power and patronage they use him. They make him consent to or perform acts for selfish ends, the ends of party or of per often- times against the pubiic interest. Scmetimes, unfortunately, they make him an accomplice in corruption i“ut a man who has the physical back- Tone and the moral courage to tell the machine to go to thunder, as Mr. Hughes did, or man who is big encugh and to take the mackine into . Roose- did, and make it c mes and substantial not be hurt in reputation in fortune by organizations substantial justice The machine did not the machine—we it. And always man, there- velt can- not or a feeble thing of by a strong + the all, are machine, a fronted ¥ office, . after and the ¢ 18 <o an ihat is the virtue of the direct primary closed season for flowers, as there is is \always, something to bzafos Jamel—Waterbury l American. | any Tt was always for righteous- | - McMiLLAN’S| Don’t forget the New Hours for | Store Closing—>Monday at 9 P. M., Saturday at 9:30 P. M., Other Days | at 6 P. M. FLOOR VERINGS special Sale Al This Week Rugs, Linsleums and Oilcloths At Our 3rd Fleor Drapery and Floor Covering Department. This Special Sale ail this weck, Mon- until Saturday night only. LINOLEIMS AND OILCLOTHS PRINTED LINOLEUMS 1de, this week INLAID LINOLEUMS cial values this week, 75¢, sq. yard QUALITY OILCLOTHS values this week 85¢ GOOD Special yard. 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Then they find it necessary to put in nomination men standing high in the favor the people, popular candidat Both Mr. Mr, Hughes were nominated siderations of that kind. were bigger than the or Mr. Roosevelt is a pr showed himself to be a wis tician in maintaininz friendly rela- tions with the organization men. In | that way he was able to labor power- tully for righteousncss and occasional- Iy to do a little missionary work en he attempted the reformation | of Mr. Barnes, trying to bring out the =00d that was in him. for con- | botn of them | nization, ‘tical man. | poli- | A Chicago washerwoman who had saved $247 and caried her money in her wa from which she lost it, | weuld b e taken chances if she had | tut it a bank. but the chances vould have been ver il. 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