New Britain Herald Newspaper, June 9, 1915, Page 6

ing Office l‘( New Britaln Mall - Matzer, <o ‘any part of the oity Week. 65 Cents a Month. paper to be sent by mall | advance. $7.00 advertising medium in vculation hooks and press 60 Cents & a year. open to advertisers, ) by round on enle at Fots- A Broad: AN’S RESIGNATION. an, secretaiy of state, lec- | pacificist par excellence | mb. shell _ seroplanc vents, but the action was ! . He has, at several tlmeuf‘ to. take issuc wita the * notes t6 the Teutonic § ho was®fearful that war ‘the outcome and war is to | from his into the camp | et yesterday when he an- . miatter to the president | Fenough of the job of sec- @t is, he announced that ¥e had enough when the any was despatched. It jowh that Secretary Bry- dissatisfied | with | wine. is _ to. Bryan. 5 advocafe is through. He d to its cote the dove of the ruffled feathers leav- agle to scream triumphant land. The eagle, if the net remains a dutles, will talk: with the of the dove if possible, its emain sheathed, but will fd and ‘sharpened in prepa- | P what it is hoped will not | ment of war than that which The confidence she could offer any more ! proposition for the safe- Bryen's action in dismis- from the list of presiden- is a step that only he His resignation ex- | plain. and car dissatisfaction with they ) the president, as he feels | pthing possible has not been | 8 war. There is undoubt- ling in this country that ac- be taken to get the fullest xplanation from Germany | eent happenings to United ts and American people. not approve of the way of it and probably has made wishes in a cabinet meet- have not is . ‘not national honor and der way. antry rests with Wilson more n and for this reason” his n will not create a great of turore beyond the of surprise. not agree. in Burope seem to regard, gificist's resignation as a warn- 'rmuny and a hint that war In this the America peo- It is only natural eoples of France and Eng- the Upited States to lend | ipport she can to their cause £ it is only “moral are paople in this country that inuate that war will be Fowever, Mr. Bryag's pa- | uence must have been small | cabinet. if there was cause for fosignation and it is probably true fhe outcome will be little differ- n if he had remained in his first support.” own the The | | ries the be- be- the the “of dignity . bolities. chines. The tr&me will become so ' congested that there will soon be a - condition of affairs that will cause a great deal of trouble. It might be proven in court, if a test case comes up, that the Main street circle constitutes a switch and that machines-have a right to:pass a standing trolley car. However the proposition will probably be met by local officers, for the time being at least, by allowing the machines to pass providing there is not a large number of passengers getting on or off the standing cars. They must ob- serve the law as far as the prelimi- nary stop is concerned, but it would .be unfair to make every machine wait behind the trolleys for as long a time as the electric cars stand at the green. If the ‘‘one way system’ on Main street as explained by the “Herald” is adopted and the trolleys required to discharge their passengers in the center of the triangle no matter in which direction they are going it will ‘be a step toward the solution of the difficulty. The side of the trolley that is toward vehicle traffic would then be “plind.” and the automobilists would be helped to keep conditions at the center much better. THE BOARD OF PUBLIC SAFETY. Once more the board « of public gafety has held itself. up to public ridicule. On this occasion it has ad- journed without transacting’ business that should have been disposed of. A clerk should have been elected yes- terday but for some mysterious rea- son this was not done. The board of public safety appar- ently forgets that it was appointed to transact public business. By allow- ing petty, personal or political feel- ing to creep in it is violating the trust reposed in any public body: by the tax payers. By neglectng to tran- sact business that should be disposed of it is not fulfilling its obligations to the public. If the board of public safety is afraid to take action on matters of importance or if it is un- able to arrive at an agreement the commissioners should resign and per- mit the appointment of men who are not afraid or who can reach some agreement. It Is ridiculous that there should be so much fuss made over a clerkship. The commissioners exag- gerate its importance and by looking T — FACTS AND FANCIES ] The trouble with England seems to be that there are too many at ho:ne criticising who ought to be at the front fighting.—New Haven Union. Dr. Richard Cabot says women are “‘physically and temperamentally unfitted for research work or general Practige of medicine.” Strikes us some male physiclans are tempera- mentally unfitted for making graduating addresses. — Waterbury Democrat: 1f you meet a man before June 30 who is firmly convinced that . the country is headed straight for the demmition bowwows,, it is a fair guess that he has been asessed an income ax of $4.98.—Meriden Record. At the rate notes are passing back the United States Circuit court for ing well up in the art of letter writ- ting.—Troy Times. Now that bottled water costs more than beer, we may reasonably ex- pPect to read fo the water magnate's Wwill which distributes $20,000,000 or { more among his relatives.—Brooklyn Bagle. Mexico has never been able to un- derstand “watchful waiting,” it may comprehend the rising inflection of the present declaration.—New Yory Mail, Irvin Cobb has gone back to Eu- rope, but not in response to Kitchen- er's call for 300,000 more men. Cobb and K. of K. are .out—Rochester Post-Express Getting off' a note from this coun- try to Germany, or from Germany back is very much like getting off the bride’s first letter to her mother-in- law.—Waterbury Republicdn. Considering the poor face Turkcy put up against the Balkan gove:n ments only two years ago, that co-n- try certainly has made surprising ad- vance in learning how to fight in the short interval since.—Utica Observer. President Wilson made a statement of what his policy in Mexico would be, instead of addressing a note .to the Mexican government, probably be- cause of a shortage of carbon paper at the capital.—Rochester Union. The Pan-American conference at Washington .might gracefully have bassed a resolution or two in honor of the memory of James Gillespic Blaine, the pioneer of the Pan-Amer- ican idea.—Amsterdam Recorder. By royal decree Captain Mills of the through poltical spectacles, magnify the job so that it is no longer a job, but a dignified position. For the past three years the board of public safety has been . sinking 16wer and lower in the estimation of the public. It has lost caste with the policemen and the firemen.: Itsdack is reflected n the sneer w©f every fireman and policeman. Tt is time¢ now for a change. Cast aside Brace up. Get down to bus- iness, or resign. Some day yesterday after all. Another regular one so far today. We don’t dare commit ourselves how- ever. This paper may go to press in the rain yet. President’s note, minus Bryan’s signature will be sent today. Won. der if chirographical experts in Ger- many will see any difference in “Wil- liam Jennings Bryan” and “Robert Lansing.” Ex-President W. H. Taft thinks that newspaper criticism was partially American lingr Philadelphia has re- ceived a gold medal and each mem- ber of his crew a silver medal for rescuing the crew of a Dutch steam- ship. A Dbetter decoration than an Iron Cross for drowning a crew.— New York Tribune. Sinking an unarmed merchant ship and sending more than 1,200 1n- nocent men, women and children to a horrible death may be one way of fighting for a ‘“free sea,” but no na- tlon calling itself civilized ever re- sorted to such means before.—Spring- field Union. It would be interesting to bring back to life one of our feudal ances- tors ‘of the time when men wore skins and killed their prey with stone hat- chets. Unless we miss our guess, such a one would imnfediately take to the lecture .platform with some such sub- Ject as “The Humanitarianism of the Anclents.”—Buffalo News. Vermont never presented a more beautiful appearance at this time of year than now. If you do not be- lieve Vermont is entitled to be called ‘the Green mountain state, try to count the varied tints of emerald you can discern in any grove of evergreen just now, which impart to our hills' an aspect of surpassing beauty.—Bur- lington Free Press. - responsible for the resignation as it | had been getting under Bryan's skin. | He isn’t the only one that thinks so. | The newspapers had something to work on though. The Attorney General is reported as saying that the government's suit to dissolve the Steel corporation, thrown out day befort yesterday by the un- animous decision of the judges of the United States Cirsuit court for the Third circuit, will “undoubtedly” and forth it must be admitted that | ! tc replace the old ones. “THE MAN FROM THE MILLS" PASS OUR DOORS. E THANK YOU We take this means of thanking the immense crowds that thronged our busy store from front to back, and bottom to top, for their big outburst of rea! enthusiasm today, the opening day of OUR GREAT NATIONAL TEN DAYS’ SALE and assure you we have bigger surprises daily in store for you. We suggest you attend this big sale each and every day of these 10 b g gala days an ' heard of .bargains. d reap your share ec Signed New Britain, Conn. “Ask Anybody” NEW BRITAIN'S EUSIEST BIG STORE “Ask . P EEEEE COME EARLY--COME OFTEN “THE MAN FROM THE MILLS” THE McMILLAN STORE 199-201-203 Main St. il of the before un- 22 New Britain, Conn. Anybody” ! ]‘ WHAT OTHIRS 3AY Views cu all sides of timely questions 2s discussed in ex- changes that come to Herald office. Setting Out Trees. (Bridgeport Telegram.) A walk along a hot shadeless street in summer time is always provocative ot thought, but no thought of a pleasant character. The trend of one's thinking under such circumstances deals with lack of municipal foresight. When new streets are laid out and old I streets widened, and trees are cut down in the course of such improve- ments, how simple a matter it would be 'for the city to set out new trees And yet it is never done—in Bridgeport at least. The city used to have a tree warden, but that offiice has fallen into desue- tude. The Telegram is not for the creation of useless sinecures, but it believes that the office of tree warden in proper hands, would pay big divi- dends to taxpayers. Such an official could make it his duty to look out for the setting out of new trees where needed—not that he could attend to the work personally—but it would be his job to protect what trees we have, and to lay before the board of alder- men and the board of apportionment the fact concerning new trees, to the cnd that a consistent program might be napped out and appropriations made for it. Shade trees, properly uttended, add a gread dea tractiveness of a city. They effect a material reduction in the tempera- {ure in the summer, which is good for the city’s health. They keep streets damp and allay dust. They greatly improve the value of property and augment and looks of a city one hun- dredfold. What a shortsighted policy, et out and to the at- te neglect them! The Norfolk Music Festivals, (Bridgeport Standard.) The Norfolk music festivals have VIIL of 1907, of the Hague conference The apparent fact is that a bellig- . érent who loses control, or knowl- edge as likely to suffer as the enemy. just as likely t suffer as the enemy. The danger to neutral shipping is vastly increased when mines break away. Whether an automatic contact mine can always be depended upon to act according to the prescribed arrange- ment seems conjectural. The Hague requirement is that it must be so constructed as to becomé harmless within an hour after getting loose. There is a natural suspicion that the two American ships blown up in Ger- man waters were hit by vagrant mines. Since they were carrving cot- ton to Germany, the admiralty might be supposed to have desired only their safety. As was pointed out in the dlscus- sion of Article VIIL. the technical dif- ficulties of making a mine of character are Vvery great. Accord- ing to experts, they have been over- come. But an encounter with a drift- ing mine might have uncomfortable consequences, just the same. Its time- piece might be out of order. That Secret Treaty, (New Haven :Journal-jolrier.) The difficulty some of our foreign friends have in interpreting our at- titude towards matters of interna- tional concern and even -our political ideals accounts to a large degree for the patience we have tried to exercise | knocks ,who is so thin-skinned that in undertaking to interpret their view | he will upon the same subjects. That mys- terious secret treaty which it is al- leged was negotiated by a predecessor of President Wilson, manifestly Theo- dore -Roosevelt, with Great Britain, has turned up again to do such ser- vice as is required of it. It is now being used to explain the alleged par- tisanship of this country for the bel- ligerent Allies, and it appears to have been taken seriously by some of the German newspapers. It requires but few words to dis- pose of this nonsense. There is no way known to even the cunningest of our political exploiters to negotiate a secret treaty with ‘any natin on the this | i | i | dividual | cian?” nancial position, when it is_necessary. It has been no slight task to seecure comprehensive and harmonious leg- islation in the commonwealtns, Pres- ident Eliott is well pleased with the fina] result and he has a right to be pleased for it gives him now an op- portunity to go ahead with his plans for the improvement of the system along rational lines which mean more and more efliciency in the public ser- vice. It is to be hoped ‘that his dream of a rehabilitated and divi- dend paying rallroad will be realized sooner even than he himself expects. The turning point is some way behind even now and there is a straight road ahead with the signal set at clear. Are Politicans Yellow? (Bristol Press.) The libel suits now and again brought against newspaper editors | hy men actively engaged in the great | American game of politics give the | public a distinet shock and provoke the query: “Is yellow the natural and ineradicable color of a politi- That and blue do seem to be prevailing and predominating tints | that obscure the white far too often. 1t must be admitted that the saffron gtreak is so common as hardly to ex- cite comment, yet it is the brand of inefficiency and should, as soon as die- covered, eternally disqualify the per son developing It from further aeti rarticipation in the game. The in- who cannot piay fair, who cannot take as well as giye hard | not endure criticism without whining, should have a big fat period | put to his public career by the voters | at the first opportunity. There are ! white men enough without bothering | with the yellow sort, and it is up to the voters to see that white prevails over the colors which almost always | indicate glaring defects. Babies Rich and Poor, (New York World,) An interesting problem involving | the cost of living is now before the Surrogate's Court where on behaff of the infant son of the late Jonn Jacob Astor it is urged that $20,000 a year is as a class separate from the main tody of citizenship, that would teac! them to regard themselves as some how different from and not includ in.the mass of citizens. Assimiias which is the end desired, cannott bej achieved in-that way. Mr. Howe’ method would insure the perpetuatio of the hyphen. There i reason, too, for the gravel doubt whether Immigration Comm! sioner Frederick €. Howe is the righ| pereon to interpret the meaning our institutions to those who hav come here to enjoy their benefits. A o meeting held in Seward Park 0o Sunday evening Mr. Howe delivered an address on war. He sald that h would “‘never favor any Wwar exce oune. strietly for defense.”” That ralse a very debatable question, sinde ©cH casions may and do arise when a waj not strictly for defense can mike thi world better. But Commissione Howe proceeded: He would have all the people, «th women included, vote whether 1 cotntry should fight or not. if the de} ciefon were for war, he sald that thos who voted in favor of it should bd | drafted for the first line of defén and that newspaper owners who w their influence fof war should be uired to serve in the first ranks. Fur ther, he said he would make impos! elble any kind of private profit fing war by having the Government tak control of all amunition works ‘&n of all supplies, He said he would als, favor a war tax which would fall heay, ily on the rich, In Commissioner Howe's audiene there may have been many ill-in! formed persons who would assent * this sort of stuff. They would not able to see just what it means’ means that Mr. Howe would hav war, made in the name of the na; tion, of all the people, carried on b part of the people, just as It seem to be in his theory that taxes should he so laid as to be chiefly paid by th few. We know of no newspape that are using thelr influence fo| war: neither ' does Commissiane) Howe, Yet this pestiferous preach ment, coming from a man holding high office under the Federal G ernment, may easily influence minds of thousands of persons i be carried to the Supreme court on | Won for the little town in the Litch- appeal, possibly the adverb used by | fleld hils a fame that has penetrated tion as Secretary of State just twenty- | Mr. Gregory was. ‘“doubtfully.” No |into far quarters of the globe. This three years ago this week. President | case of this magnitude ever prosecut- | year another brilliant success has Harrison is sald to have accused him | €1 under the Sherman act was in a | been added to the many triumphs of able to sea wherein My, Howe's tal differs from right reasun and cof mon sense. * If citizenship means anything s patriotism means anything, mean that all the citizens shall Jaties (G BISHECERIN 40 hig: posl; face of the earth, We need not discuss what was in the mind of the consti- tutional convention in giving us the marvelousr document which protects us againsf ourselves, but we may be notjenough for his support. In a family that came into pabiic | nctice on the same day that this peti- | jon was filed there were seven child- ven who had been without solid food | BOUT THE TRAFFIC LAW? tomobile traffic as the recent legislature have | laws more doubtful condition for' appeul. | the Litchfieid County Choral Union, d o nice little proposition for | gal police to decideé in the ap-| ktion o section 12 to conditions center of New Britain. The| : in (uestion reads as follows: iUpon approaching any street 2y car that has stopped to ‘e, or dischurge passengers, ‘er&un operating a motor ve- shall, before passing such on the side on which passen- are ordinarily received and ed, bring such motar ve- to a full stop not less than from the rear of such car, lay then progeed at & rea- ble rate of speed, provided p-any street rallway car is g at the end of any trolley " on a switch, or for any pur- “other than to receive and let ‘passengérs, a motor vehicle - pass the same without stop- , at a rate of speed not to nger the life or limh of any on.”" order to stop in the rear of & trolley is perfectly clear. er, what is an automobilist to n he approaches trolleys stand- the green on Main street? The Ao of violating a promise when he (Blaine) started a boom for the presidential nomination. The secre- tary had promised 'to sustain the president. “Dernburg quits to talk Jume 11,” says a New York paper in its head line, Taking a lot for granted. Seventeen Yale crew men are sick with ptomaine poisoning. Yale has things coming her way too. President Wilson has held office a little over half the usual term. He has had more to do than any two presidents of recent years. There was one of course that made a lot of work for himself but the present president hasn’t had to go out looking for trou- ‘| ble so far, Once in a while a half hearted de- | scription’ of a presidential golf tour- ney comes over the wires. f are pot on a switch or at the a line. They .are standing and let offf pass¢ngers. How- nd there for several min- the law Main street The bunkers on the international | course loom up so large that we can’t | see the fair way and ' the putting —New York ‘Sun. You can’t insure good machinery by changing the form of the machin- ery of government, and if you make ty government personal instead partisan you expose it to some new dangers' that ‘'may in the long run prove as bad as the old. An en- lightened public sentiment and a wil- lingness to serve on the part of thore best qualified are the only things that will ensure good government.—Pou- ghkeepsie Eagle-News. : Senator Peasley, who sued a Wa- terbury editor because he was accused of using public office to further his own ends, by getting appointed, li- lustrates over again how public of- ficlals elected by the people could save themselves much trouble if they would do away with the appointive office. Were it a case of all officials being elected, especially of the ju- dicial type, the senator mentioned would not have been in the running. —Middletown Penny Press. Where Were the Police. (Hartford Post.) The latest raid on the State street opium den again brings to the at- tention of the public the fact that the federa] officials made the arrcsts. The Hartford police took no part in tie rald, ment offielals eould ebtain evideice than an eplum den was being operat- of | j has not bgen which long since proved its ability to support the world's greatest soloists and to attract to its annual series of concerts leading. musicians and crit- ics from all parts of the country and from abroad. In view of what Dr. Arthur Mees has done for the Bridgeport Oratorio society in a few short years, it is not difficult to understand the remark- able development of the Norfolk fes- tivals under his guidance, until they have become a World-famous institu- " tion. The state may well be proud of its privilege in bringing to a first hearing in these concerts works by native and foreign composers that are destned to become famous. A not- able example was Professor Edgar Stillman-Kelley’s “New England” symphony, first performed in Nor- folk in 1913, to be herdlded thne fol- lowing year as one of the greatest successes of the season in Germany. It'was fitting that this inspired work ¥hould make its debut in a small New England town. And New England wanting in provding compositions for these concerts wor- thy to rank beside those of the best known living composers. Floating Mines, (Providence Journal.) Count von. Bernstorff reports to the state department that he is informed ft seems strange that govern- | by the admiraity that German mines laid in ‘the sea ‘‘are of such a nature that they become innocuous when Just now the brassie 18 in| oq iy prartferq right under the eyes | they break - from - their -anchorage.” demand, for distance. The approach putt iy $o come.later, T of the loeal police and that the lat- ter knew nothing of it This assurance, of course, simply con- forms to the stipulations of Article quite sureythat in forbidding such a thing as a secret treaty it had in mind the likelihood of some political lead- er trying to negotiate one. Treaties ' may be negotiated by the executive branch of the govrnment, and all dif. ferences of opinion between negotiat- ing nations disposed of, but they a of no effect until they have been rati- fied by the senate. No such treaty as is now described, and swallowed by the credulous, was ever negotiated by any one, No such treaty will ever be negotlatdd until the constitution has been amended by the people of the Unifed States. An ignorant American citizen, who contributes his nonsense to a Berlin newspaper, which seriously prints it, says: “American citizens will know how to .reply to this breach of the constitution by means of the ballot | box.” Of course they will. We venture | the prophecy that when this secret treaty is found, and the author of it | is located, both will be hanged to a sour apple tree. It won't be necessa to resort to the ballot box. Judge Lynch will by common consent pre- side at the festivities, Clear Road For N. Y, N. A, & H. RR. | (Ansonia Sentinel.) There can be no public disap- proval of the legislation that has been passed by statesmen of four states for the heter conserving of the prope ty of the New Haven road and the granting of an opportunity to that corporation to issue stecks’and bonds in conservative and well guarded lines for the improvement of its fi- i | { Emedical advisers, business agents, these hungary little | for their purposes. sUpporting an infant tor three days. The father had crazily | committed crime. With no social pos- ition to maintain, no great houses, here and there, no costly equipages, rc servants, no high-priced iegal and no tutors and no | 1 ones would find even the income from §20,000 thousand more than enough Everything depends upon the. scale | disorder affected by a common feeling of 1g ty to the Government of the nafl There is no urer way to breed than by the preaching suciallstic doctrines of ehls néty and the setting up of class didh tions, which seems to be the pui of much of the agitation in we have observed with regret Commissioner Howe is inclinedt take part. It is of bad example wh of life. The Astor baby will be a rich man one of these days. He begins | where hig father left off. The big cxpenditures whose benefits he shares | cannot be said to measure the cost of | in New York. They do suggest the price that is pald Taxes alone upon the tor the maintenance of the family into which it was his fortune to be born. munsion in which he lives are $33,000 a year. Except as other means are found | 10 meet the outlays necessary for Ihol {he rights and privileges of citizénship, that would treat mewly made citizens upkeep of such an establishment, the heir in this case might easily be as | short of food at times ar his fellow- nfants whose father is in jail. Not the Right Way, (New York Times.) Newly naturalized citizens can best acquire a knowledge of their nbli..-l tiong and rights, not as Immigration | Commisioner Frederick C. Howe pro-| peses being lectured to as a claes | apart, but. by. essoclation with those | who are already citizens, who hl\n‘ long been citizens, and understand It is a mischievous and evil theory reneral effect i Carranzistas officeholders under the Fodergl go crnment make use of their opportun ty and their authority to instil su iden: as these in the minds of tho who have come here to become, eif izens of this Republic War Of the Juntas, (New York Herad.) Once more war is on hetween 1lval Mexican agencies az Washingtos Roth the Carrangistae and the Vil vre talking of vietory, the Carrdnald | tas this time talking loudest. They § of Vera Cruz belng frantic with over a battle which General Obr «ays “spells the end of the,Villa volution.” The Villistas haven't te say, but what there is of it is to at Obregon an of the tribe of omias. Until something more tan comes Americans will remain 4 Miszourt.” Beveral years) expe with these Washington Jjuntas i taught them the wisdom of not ing news concerning happenings of the Rio Grande until-all the are in.