New Britain Herald Newspaper, June 14, 1915, Page 6

} Ofice at Néw Britain ¢ Mall Matter. of the city B %o any pary of the o by ek. 65 Cents a “paper. to be sent vance. 60 Cents. & $7.00 a year. advertising medium 1B fon books and press tisers. Be round on and, 42nd.-St. ork City; Board City and Hartford depot. Y OF OLD GLORY. Star- Sw,t_ngled Banner one hundred and thirty- y. ‘It was in 1777 that pted the national en- , Whité and Blue. On b the previous year, $hington, at Cambridge, flag, made under his frection Dby that valiant ’ y Ross, whose memory n the Valhalla of Amer- he ‘American flag was f thirteen stripes, alternate e, with a blue canton ses of St George and Today these lepresenting ‘the original made all the more glor- backed by a canton em- h 48 white stars, repre- strength in states of the same | &z;lad reasons why we '©ld Glory today. Never it meant so much to its e wheels of the National ‘at Washington will stop lef, executive extolls it. nt Wilson looks to the flag predecessors, George Wash- . Abraham Lincoln. For flag is passing through a . bit as intense as in Rev- ‘and Civil war days. 'No t happens, may it float to 5 of the future as seremely on this glorious day. Tt been humbled; it never s sons have rich red blood ins. . Sllency, the governer of our te, in "his proclamation \ taday Flag Day, strikes when he says: ! what it is, but because it . that this country, has |’ _hopes to be, the flag 3 us homuée and rever- Holcomb is right. The & piece of bunting; but it i it the tradition of a na- s standing fqr those higher f iife. for justice, for Tight, ity And ‘at the present ' flag means more to its peo- ever before. Only a piece 1g; but that tri-celored ob- e guide and inspiration of ul phalanx of Americans, | ot all classes and creeds, < it, as Geo‘rge Wash- ‘First in Peace.” ‘house top, every win- lapel, the clty of New (,016 Glory beam upon -its ON COUNCIL MEETING. end of events in City hall the Jast few days seem to a meeting of. .the common - Wednesday will 7ot go down in 8 the duietest ever held by 8t ‘body. . Diversity of opin- ie benefits tc be tonferred le of our fair city will | expected, acrimonious | what the action will' be foretell, However, what- the aforesald people of our be giver tne best pos- ‘laws; and the worst pos- to the. angie af which are viewed. Lengthy awill probadly appear the following week rein we are wrong and ight. Statements of all or otherwise will be tlation . by. the profes- in charge of our ort’ to' sain lost pres- hen that which is al-’ +0p proposed acts, that are ‘eause g little. 'excitement d are' the propositions ouncilman Curtis, “‘our friend” of the ad- The councilman ig in tne creation of isory board: on sewer and jatters. The mayor and coun- } already passed upon. and the nmames suggested by it. We don't know who It is easy to Imagine how it was found. that the advisory boargd. was a n.enace rather than a gain ‘to the séwer and 'water. boards. It is the New Britain-old ‘story:. ‘Manufagtur- ers are on the board. Men accustomedl to working with large sums, payinz! the greater part of the taxes of the city, familiar with the cost of pro- duction and employers of labor are dictating to us what we must do. Hor- rers! What do they know? Nothing. What could they know? Nothing. No, | we poor individuals already under their thumbs which are relentlessly crushing out our life blood must rise up and denounce them. They are pot fit to even suggest anything to us. We work for them. Thdt is enough. | Such talk as that has probably been communicated to some of our solons who sit on the throne of power with a weather eye cocked toward the sun of public sentiment. Tne spot on the | sun has made its impression and re- traction is under way. The council was “caught asleep” and the board must be recalled. We venture to suggest that a bet- ter selection of advisers ror any of cur city boards could.not have been made, whether the mayor, common council or Councilman curtis did the picking. The men on the board will not spend our money. They cannot do that. Their duties consist in sit-| ting in an advisory capacitv. What men are there in town bpetter quali- fiéd for determining the cost of build- ing up an adequate system ‘than | Messrs, Sloper, Platt, Glower, Hatch and Landers? They have been asso- ciated with big business and are; therefore conversant with values. They haven’'t any , desire -to kill off the city with wasteful expehditures and furthermore coild not do so. in the advisory position, if they wished. | Good people of New Britain, whoever | you are, cease to whisper. nto . the | cars of the diletant official, whoever | Te is, sweet nothings which will con- | vince him that he should not do as he, has done and should do as he has not. If he has not the nerve to stick to his convictions let him alene, don’t worry him. for a while your antipathy to the manufacturers and because they are manufacturers allow them to have at | least the privilege of advising some cf the pets of the public who, Very often, are in need ot advice. Councilman Curtis’ second proposi- tion, that of calling for a: more de- tziled :accounting . from - the - city boards, which hak not yet Been al- lowed to pass, and is yet safe from af recall, will probably be acted upon Wednesday. Far be 1t ‘from 'us to offer any advice.’” We are not an ad- ~igory board. However, the council- man wishes to make it the duty of the board of public works, for in- stance, to submit in its report’ an account which shows the cost . for | “each unit of work that nas been done. Instead of showing in the report ‘that | it cost so much to macadamize such a street he wishes the report to state that it cost so much per square foot té macadamize the street. He be-| lieves that this system would furnish a better means for.figuring on tuture] work, We think he is right, this time | anyhow, but possibly the advantage to be gained would not offset . the beauty \of the plume which would | ereby be added to the councilman’ political bonnet. This will be sifted.| cut by the council, . ROCSEVELT RIGHT. - Colonel Theodore Roosevelt’s advo- | cacy of the Wilson policy, as regards | the matters at issue with Germany. is characteristic of the former presi- dent: ‘Whatever else may be said of the venerable traditions hgnded down by! the men who formed this nation, and who braved death for the honor of their handiwork. The colonel does mnot agree with | Mr. Bryan's proposal to have President Wilson suspend action fur a year swhile “a neutral commission investi- | gates the admitted murder of Amer- | jean men, women and children on the high seas.” Nor does he ses why! President Wilson' should forbid Amer- | | fean citizens to travel on neutral | siiips. Biery disciple of George *Washing. ton, every true American, of ‘what- ever party must, like Colonel Roose- | velt, stand in back of the president| at this time. : Politics should, for the nonge, be relegated to the remote regions. | This is no,_tune to oscillate the gondola. Looks like a few:of our eity hall | demigods are striving to. make the /‘Herald” the ‘‘goat.” « G 1 Cheer up ‘‘deer peepul” we give you the news. Draw your own conclusions. | ‘suggested the namgs. Heo ' finding that the names one, “(press censor | y weren't, and an Yuterddi{ ought t6 ~have been| ‘called | “machisie day.” Jitnevs and imoustnes of foreign calibre jostled It is bad for the city. Forget | o | in milita; i | colonel, he 18’4 loyal follawer of the| ry forces. | an end has come to { action may \ » rection .nquecidént- were in the minority. Chicago -walks or-takes a jitney to- jday. Pretty timely occurrence for the drivers of the little busses. Yesterday | the churches. Many ljttle ones took inpart in the special services in their honor. Someone almost shot a policeman last night. Looking for an exhibit for the Smithsonian Institute? Traffic Officer T/heodore Johnson is sald to be the most graceful mem- ber of the squad. He was on duty Saturday evening at the corner of West Main street. The public had plenty of opportunity to appreciate his work. FACTS AND FANCIES, The map of Europe would have been much better as it was than to { go to all this trouble to change it.— Bridgeport Telegram. “Bryan in Tears as He Takes Fare- well of His Associates,”* states head- line. He' “tears himself away,’ you might say.—Hartford Post. From the revelations which are daily being made at Annapolis it is evident that the conditions existing there were uncovered none too soon. ~Norwich Buletin. . There is a play on the boards now, entitled, ‘“The Yeliow- Ticket.” Would it not be most ‘appropriate for some one to come forward wita a new _broduction now, éntitled, “The Yellow Streak”—Waterbury Democrat, For how long are we to be afflict- ‘ed with daily statements from Mr. Bryan? If we do not miss our guess, ‘these will soon lose their news qual- ity and make the American public tired—Hartford Courant. When the anti-suffragists realize that the role in which they have been cast does not call for aggressiye act- ing, they will thén, perhaps, cease to furnish gratuitous advertising for the suffrage cawse.—New Haven Regis- ter. ‘With Charlton declared sane enough to stand trial the only thing that is really_saving him now is the ‘war. Perhaps he would be willing to fight for the country that has so forcibly adopted him.—Meriden Jour: nal. The publishers of a book entitled, “One Hundred Ways to Make Money” have gone into bankruptcy in. New York. They should naye ‘kept the inférmation to themsel\"és and also applied it to their own business.— Hartford Post. “I am not a financier,” says Mr. Bryan, “Qut I have some very decided ideas concerning finance.”” Also ' Mr. Bryan is not a diplomatist, put he has some very decided views'on diplomat-, ic questions which, fortunately for the country, the president generally disregards.—Newburgh Journal. What: if some German submarine commander should mistake the Nor- wegian liner conveying Dr. Dern- burg homeward for an enemy mer- chantman, as in the case of the Gulf- light?—New York Tribune. One 'of Thomas '‘Mott Osborne's most trusted men who had been pres- cited a set of carpenter tools by the warden made good, use of them und sawed his way out of prison. Srowing that the warden’s generosity wag appreciated.—Briageport Post. The Germany embassy has received iron crosses from the kaiser to pre- sent to the crew and officers of the Kron Prinz Wilhelm, interned at New- port news. Are iron crosses contra- band of war?—New London ' Tele- graph. Premier Asquith announces that the total number of men for . the army j-and navy sanctioned by Parliament ig $,200,000. War makes a big jncrease Great Britain on a peace footing has 262,000 men in ihe army and 145,000 in the navy.— i Troy Times. The whole country will rejoice that ‘“grape juice” diplomacy, and all that it implies. The whole world has been given no- tice, in the acceptance of Mr. Bry- an’s resignatioft, that more vigorous henceforth be expected in the assertion of American rights; that the policy of applying milk and water as an antidote for iron and blood is -over.—Buffalo Commercial. The American Red Cross is prose- cuting its campaign of pacific :pene- tration in Mexico with a success taat may ultimately determine the atti- tude of the masses of the Mexican people toward any measure which the United States ~ government may adopt to end the ‘dnarchy there. The 10,000 hungry Mexicans fed at Mont- erey, for instance; should not be so | suspicious “hercafter of America’s in- tentions—Springfield Republican. A new street lway franchise in Kansas City provides that children under eight years of age, “when ac- companied by an adult,” shall ride free, " The other day, according to a report from that town, a.young wo- .man mobilized somé forty children of exempt - dges:and tobk them on an outing;. all for ‘ome jituéy ‘fare. = The municipal authorities,” who have a stake ‘in the réceipts; ‘as well p the street railway magnates, must be dis tractéd at the prospect, ‘with the pic- was Children’s day in| Editor Herald— Please correct statements made | in article headed ‘“council outwitted; | Councilman Curtis scores while mem- rs are taking a nap,”” in Friday's paper. Ordinarly I would not notice riisstatements in your columns but in this instance I do so for the reason | some councilmen not conversant with the facts may take your story as true and as I want my colleagues to feel confidence in my fairness and trust- worthiness is the excuse for troubling you now, Statement that advisory board pro- ' ject was brought up in meeting of committee on rules and legislation is | untrue, It was put before them at | ! their meeting Wednesday evening May | 12.. I also talked it vver with the' mayor the same evening. This can be | | verified by members of the com-; mittee present and reporters of the | Hartford Courant and Times of May 13th, New Britain news. Hartford Courant and other papers also spoke | cof it in their columns later. The re- sclution was taken up with the may- | or personally | i | | | Wednesday afternoon ! May 19, and would have been before | it he had not been out of town for | the five preceeding days. Changes were made in the resolution and two | rames written in by the mavor him- | self as can be seen by anyone request- | 1.8 to see it at the city clerk’s office. Cne of them was mine without my consent. The resolution was not; signed or presented to the common | council by me but by Alderman Parker { who advocated its adoption, this how- | ever was at my request Alderman | Parker secured Alderman Chamber- lain’s signature to it also. Of course | the signatures on the resotution speak for themselves. ~Advisory boards for | the water and sewer departments and | filling vacancies thereon have always (that is for the past twenty years) Lkeen passed upon by the common ccuncil as the eity clerk will testify, | and the minutes of the common coun- | cil meeting show. The complete re- solution was brought to the rules and regulations committee at their meet- | ing previous to the meeting of the aiso. I did not present, speak or vote on the resolution at the council' meeting, Your article is a tissue of misstate- ments although another evidently made them knowingly with the pur- pose of trying to impair what influence I may have in the city management and to throw dust into the eyes of the public, - If. he would sign his name I would give him credit of at least ewning up to his offsprings but under the circumstances I must say his pre- sence and statements can not stand the light of truth or veracity, Thanking you for the space ‘and hcping your: source of information may change from a sneak and pre- varicator to an honest man who will have the courage to show his face I am, your much advertised friend, COUNCILMAN CURTIS. WHAT OTHIRS 3AY Views on all sidles of timcly questions as discussed in ex- changes that come to Herald office. I Why? (Hartford Post.) “Why should an American citizen be permitted ‘to involve nis govern- ment in war by traveling upon a bel- ligerent ship, when he knows that.the ship will ‘pass through a danger zone?” Extract from Bryan's letter. The “belligerent ship” which the dis- tinguished author launcned yesterday is passing through a ‘‘danger zone,” but fortunately for the country its corgo is preposterous fancies and its captain and crew improvished ideal- ists. But the question is pertinent, nevertheless, since why should the man who asks it deny his fellow countrymen a right he seems anxious to assume? ? A Linguistic Reaction. (New York Press.) Peremysl had a glorious but fleet- ing existence of only a few weeks while it was in Russian hands and was spelled in Russian fashion. As soon as they got it the Russians, as if to show that they were real re- formers- and world benefactors, changed the old name from Przemysl to- Peremysl, reducing considerably the orthographic and orthepic hor- rors. But, retaken by the Austrians, there must be reaction to the ancient and unpronounceable pi_line of un-/| tamiliar consonant combinations. It seems tragic, just from the view- point of the linguistic humanities. After 2 momentary enlightenment of civilized spelling wWe are back to the discussion whether this pronunciatien | is to remind us of a particularly in-| timate . fabrication in lingerie or whether in faet the letters composing the name have anything at all to do with the pronunciation. ‘When a theoretically pronounceable form was given to the hame by ukase | from Saint Pet—no, Petroggad—the world was ahle to realize that war has | its compensations. But now mili- | tary reactions is followed by lexicogra phie capitulation, and there is renewal of wonder whether this war is goin; to do the dictionaries any good:at all. Improving Living Conditions. (Springfield Republican.) In half a dozen years the city- planning commissions in thig country have grown from the original one at Hartford to 99. Flavel Shurtleff, sec- retary of the seventh national confer- cnce on -city planning, meeting in De- troit, said that experience had come to place emphasis on the practical and economic phases of civic planning) rather than the esthetic. . Thismeans that the work has advanced to an amp- ler consideration of details, such as proper housing, and the wider use of | schools and Gther existing municipal ~ Emphatic Cut Price Sale Summer Suits, Coats & Dresses Wise, Smith & Co., Hartford WOMEN’S SUMMER CUATS, That were $14.98 to $22.50 now $3.50 Twenty coats in a wide selection of cloths and colors. WOMEN'S SPORT COATS, $4.98 very Regular $7.98 coats now Made of worsted tweed in trim model. Just the thing for cool summer evenings on your vacation. WOMEN’S SUMMER COATS Regular $10.98 coats now .... $7.50 Smart coats made of strictly all wool fabrics in belted and loose back ef- fects, WOMEN’S SUMMER COATS Regular $12.98 coats now .... $8.50 Just the right kind of coats for gen- eral use, simple in line but exceed- ingly smart, made of all wool gaber- dine, serge and other stylish mater- cemmon council Wednesday May 19 | WOMEN’S SUMMER COATS., Regular $9.98 coats now An excellent collection of serge and . checked coats in the styles. WOMEN’S TAILORED SUM- MER SUITS. That were $17.98 to $27.50 high colors only, now....8$2.7 Made of all wool crepe, ra- tine, serge, gaberdine and silk . poplin. WOMEN’S TAILORED SUM- | MER SUITS, Fine quality suits that were $19.98 to $25.00 in - varied as- sortment of clothes. Now at ves..85.75 WOMEN’S TAILORED SUM- MER SUITS, Originally priced . $12 to $17.98 These stylish suits are Now at most wanted Regular $22.60 coats now ... Hand-teflored in the best materials equally suitable dressy oceasion. iale. WOMEN'S SMART COATS. $10.50 and for practical e e e e e WOMEN’S TAILORED SUM- MER SUITS. That were $16.98 o $18.98, A large selection of up-to-the minute stylésin the most want. ed materials. Now WOMEN’S TAILORED MER SUITS. That were $17.98 to $19.98. A collection of modish suits, in the newest colors. You must see them to fully appre- ciate their real value. Now SUM- WOMEN’S TAILORED SUM- MER SUITS. That were $19.98 to $24.98, These suits were considered wondeful values at their orig- inal prices; made of gaberdine, serge and wool poplin. Now WOMEN’'S TAILORED SUM- MER SUITS. That were $24.98 .o $29.00. Suits hand tailored in the new colors and fabrics, an ex- cellent assortment, now.$16.00 WOMEN’S TAILORED SUM- MER SUITS, i That were $29.00 to $37.50 A collection of the season’ best models, many coples of im- New $1.98 Wash Dresses at New $2.50 Wash Dresses at New $2.98 Wash Dresses at New Wash Dresses at ... New $4.98 Wash Dresses at New$5.98 Wash Dresses at ‘Phone orders Charter 3050, and Mail Orders promptly filled. WASH DRESSES AT EXCEPTIONAL PRICES. | WISE, DAILY DELIVERY in New Britain, Elmwood, Newington, Cedar .$1.39 .$1.49 .$1.98 .$2.98 l .$3.98 1 .84.98 SMITH & HARTFORD voiles, batistes Hill and Clavtoa. WASH DRESSES FOR STOUT WOMEN IN SIZES TO 49 OF VOILES AND BATISTES AT $3.98. Wasgh Dresses for Stout Women in sizes to 53 of a slender appearance, at . Wash Dresases for ramie linens, fancy voiles, ratines and embroidered dofted lawns with the newest featu to large figures, at . 5. "i .. .8798 ported garments, now...$18.00 and linens in models made to gi Stout Women. in sizes up to 58 of ' Our l(e-unrln:n. i an eal place for "Lfi lunch, CO. Hill, Maple war, it is good to see hox steadily th~ work of improving living conditions goes forward in this country. to be found on the battle lines, but in the day-by-day service that mea and women are giving to improve the “1ife of their communities. It is well now and then to turn from the painful distractions of the time to the limit- less field of service, and the workers who are doing their best in looking af- ter homely things. National Preparedness. (Philadelphia Ledger.) the United States to get together and save this country from the disasters sure to follow any further reliance on wild dreams and empty phrases. There is one instrument through which this can be and must be done. It is the republican party. That party saved the Union. It faces now mission in the world is backed by adcquate might and power. It is confronted with the task of sweepiny aside do-nothingism and substituting therefor a real program of defense. Good intentions do not save lambs from wolves. i Let us have done with the false theories which have led England mmi the Morass. We have the most val-/ uable assets, material and spiritual, in’} the world to protect. To leave them.| unprotected is neither statesmanship nor humanitarianism, nor °anything' except the rankest foalishness and ‘stu. | pidity. For days the country has been on the verge of war. Had the country been fully prepared for conflict i would not have heen more ~ willing than it was to cast the die. Pre. paredness does not induce war, but it does give assurance that we shall not be helpless if war does come. There is no danger to democratic principles in rational insurance against aggression. There is a fe; ful menaee in continued blindness to the_world of facts about us, Let the republican party come out boldly for a really adequate navy. it need not fear to alienate timid souls, and it will. do no harm to drive all the theorists and dreamers into one group where they can be counted. There are enough red-blooded Amer- icans about, who intend that there shall be meaning back of what the nation says, to dedicate the country absolutely to a sensible, wise policy of preparation. They will do it if some party will give them the chance. The tariff is important, and so are many other -things, but more portant than all of them is the as- surance of the safety of the nation itself, and of its citizens wherever they may he. Let practical men write a platform for the republican party that has iron in it, and truth and fact, and there ‘advantages. While the world is be . made to|each other on the highways In every | nic season’ on.—Providence Journal.|given over to war and the rumors of need be no- doubt of what party will again dominate the government. The | real triumphs in world affairs are not' im-{ Lusitania Not Armed. (Meriden Record.) .to Germany is published, comes word of the arrest of the men whose affi- davits led to the claim that the Lusi- tania was armed. | 'The case alleged to have been made out by the Germans has collapsed ut- terly and reveals the flimsy sort of | { evidence upon which Minister von ! Jagow was willlng to base his argu- | ment in his efforts to justify thé ag. tion of his country. Y, If espionage of this ‘sort is a cri- | terien by which to judge the kind of {1t is easy to see how the German pub- s lic is misled. | + Becomes Leading Industry. { (Waterbury Democrat.) i Thirty years ago a graduating class | of 160 was large enough for Yale and | Harvard. Now the graduating class the new duty of seeing that America’s| of the University of Maine numbers | | 158, Many American universities, public and private, which were mere j upstairs a few years ago and are still little known, are turning out still | 1arger classes. The output of our | institutions of higher learning is in- | creasing with a rapidity unparalleled | the history of any nation, ancient of modern. The climax of university of New York, which num- bered” this year over 2,000, ure 600" colleges, universities and teehnelogical schools in the United i States—and average of more than a | dozen to a state. No section of the ountry, no state, and we might almost j say no section of any state, is without educational facilities better than those of the best universities of the world a | hundred years ago. There is iIn- | vested -in - these institutions about 1 $400,000,000 and more than 31,000 | professors and instructors minister to | the educational needs of 125,000 stu- nts a year: | justified in saying that college educa- tion is becoming the leading industry of the United States. Why Not in Connecticut? (Hartford Post.) Rhade Island and New York have recently passed laws prohibiting put- ting advertisements on trees and fences along public highways which will, it i believed, put a stop. to. the poster nuisance. This method of ad- vertising does little good to the ‘ad- vertiser and certainly disfigures the landscape. The tacking of posters and signs to trees often causes the death of the tree. In New York after the first of next November it will be unlawful for any. one to affix a sign or poster to any It is rather significant that on the very morning that the American note d this growth, in a single institution is the graduating class of Columbia We might almost he, possible for anyone to disfigure prop. erty with impunity but under the new ]law it will be rather expensive adver- tising. H Connecticut should have such a law. It is true that it §s a long time be- fore the lawmakers of the state i | meet again but they should consider { this matter at their next session and jpass a law similar to those of Rhode | Island and New York. | Poster advertising does not hru:‘ | results. The newspapers of any, | state are the best mediums for those [who desire to place their offerings b (fore' the public. Every home has its | newspaper today and thousands more It is time for the practical men of ‘material used for home consumption| A% be reached through them than' | by poster or tin sign advertising. Taft and “Short Ballot.” (Boston Post.) " We are sorry to find ex-President. Taft, whose views about gqvernment- al affairs are usually sound, expres- sing himself in favor of the so-galled! | “short ballot,” which is really a n: | for @n atempt to deprive the Votors 1' of a state of the right to elect thels state officials below the go nor. Nor do we think Mr. Taft's con | parison of'a set of state officlals wis the cabinet of the president of thy 1 Uniteq States at all convincing. A cabinet is and always has W | considered a president's official fam. | 1ly, ‘nis closcly personal assistang Therel men whom he could ask to go at an, | time and give no reasons for so do-, ing. Spite of their executive duties i they represent him In a very la | degree. | State officlals do not and ought | to bear any such relation to a goy. ernor. They are the people's execn. | tives in their departments gust | truly as the governor i Espectall i is this so of the Attorney-general, under the “ghort ballot” plan be called upon to prosecute the man who appdinted him. # “Pinhead” Politicians, (New York Herald) The situation is not without “Pinheads.” These worthies are the most part democratic politicias whose fortunes have been linked wi those of Mr. Bryan and who are ne indulging in predictions that th withdrawal of that gentleman fr) the administration household mea a serious split in the demoeraj party. If they had any idea of the tempe of the American people they wouj understand that Preident Wilson about all there is to the democra) party. And were they not consty tionally unable to see beyond the e of their respective noses thy o understand that having gotrid of tree, fence or building without the written consent of the owner. The law carries with it a penalty of from $5 to $25. In the past it has been | Bryan the president i infini stronger before the people today at any other period of his cal