New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 6, 1915, Page 6

BRITAIN HERALD S b pUBLISHING COMPANY, Proprietors. baily (Sunday excepted) at 4:15 p. M. lri'd Bullding, 67 Church — at_the Post Office at New Britain Second Class Mall Matter. Pd by carriers to any part of the city b Cents & Weel, 65 Cents a Month. ptions: for paper to be sent by mall 60 Cents & r. ly profitable advertising medium in ty. Circulation books and press always open to advertisers. d will be found on sale at Hota- jews Stand, 42nd St. and Broad- New York City; Board Walk, aatic City and Hartford depot. TELEPHONE CALLS. ‘GING IT ALL TO AN END. short paragraphs go to make b comprehensive and conclusive vhich the German Ambassador, Vg’l Bérnstorff, handed to of State Lansing yesterday, hick, by a complete, disavowal | Arabic incident, brings to an e controversy between the States and Germany over the ring ghiestion. Out of the hov- cloud§, this note brings tne unshine. ‘There is no mincing ds, mo- petty phrasing, no dia- Ino jargon. Tt tells all, in ‘con- ks and brevity. It shows that ny would never court war with hited States, that she would go her way to avoid a breach. It nce a signal triumph for Pres- 'Wilson, and a worthy accom- ent for the German Ambassa- ho by dint of perseverence, in lce of every- obstacle, materially in bringing about the happy sion. His Government, after the true state of affairs, after ed the United States was ready to war, if necessary, to uphold ed rights, gave unlimited pow- he Ambassador, placed in him der dependence than any other pntative has ever enjoyed. And, nsequence is, the whole situa- clearing up to the satisfaction ryone concerned. ‘We are told Ambassador’s note that the issued by the Kaiser to the nders of the German subma- lhave been made so stringent jhe recurrence of an incident to the Arabic case is.consid- ut of question. That ‘ Ber- ew, of course; but t# doubt bd faith of that assertion would ing more nor less than brand- prything the German:Ambassa- s done as absolute mendacium. urther show its good-faith in nsactions, the German govern- entions the name of the com- r of the submarine which de- the Arabiec. Commander der was codvinced the Arabic d to ram the submarine. His iso made affidavits to this ef- 'Yet, in spite of this, the Ger- jovernment sees fit to disavow , to even take the view-point British officers of the Arabic,— he Arabic was not hostile. To pd, the German government hat the attack of the subma- as undertaken against the in- ons issued to the commander. retting and making disavowal act of Commander Schneider, ny is.prepared to pay an in- y for the American lives lost. ressing his deep regret for the nce, Ambassador Von Bern- bays he is ready at any time.to te for the indemnity. Thus is il away, in one of the briefest in critical diplomatic history, tion which was fraught and rged with every conceivable lity,-—even war itself. In mak- bilee over the complete victory has been won by President , by his patience and firmness fhout these negotiations, Am- shoula Yot overlook the fact n somejtheasure at least, this te requl of Germany's for- osition ' was brought about by tiring Jabors of Count-Johann Bernstorff. = Credit should be where credit is due. [P BRITAIN'S TURN NEXT. ng cleared up'the German sit- the State Department at ngton is now turning its at- to the interference Great h has exerci in American with the ‘neutral countries of p. Somptime /g0 a note was h to Grest Brifgin on this sub- it it was not déspatched, pend- close of theBlerman negotia- erican Coun- deal § it has with hat the note hot be despatched until after r's arrival, as he may bring pation which will perceptibly onditions. It is; thought, how- ‘that the Washifigton govern- places little or np faith in the memoranda sent’ over by the in refutation.ef charges set | God’s great open country. forth by ,the American government anent the commercial warfare goods sent from this country to neu- trali ports. Skinner may throw much light on the situation. From those on the inside it is known the note already ‘drawn up by our State De- partment deals merely with the legal aspect of the practices indulged in by Great Britain. After Skinner airs his views on the question a few curt paragraphs may be inserted setting forth the American position more vigorously and giving particular at- tention to the defense which has already been set up by Great Britain and which has been found entirely unsatisfactory by this country. It is well that this note is to be sent. Uncle Sam has been patient long enough. = Great Britain, as well as Germany, should be given to under- stand that. no nation on the face.of the globe can violate the rights of the United States and its citizens and remain friendly with us. on WHAT WAS DONE BY A COWBOY. This is the day of the Get-Rich- Quick Wallingfords, the day that Am- ericans are lying back and dreaming of vast hordes of gold rolling into their exchequers without the least ef- fort on their part, without the stint- ing and saving of a life time. .It.is the day when everybody is playing the stock market, when they have entered the lists either to be made or to be broken. Understanding all this, it is with the deepest reserve that we hold up to the attention of the Amer- ican boy a Western figure which should appeal, a 'man who started in life with nothing, but who left behind him millions untold. And that is Wert Love, who started life in Texas without a horse he could even call his own and who died this week on a ranch he owned outright, a ranch as big as some of the minor kingdoms of ‘Europe, a ranch stocked witi the fin- est herds of cattle in the United States, which necessarily means the finest in the world. Where is the American boy who, at some time in his life, has not held up as his ideal the cow-boy, that fast dis- appearing figure of the western plains? Wert Love was a cow-boy, a real, live, honest-to-goodness cow- puncher, hard as nails, true as gold, strong as flint. But he possessed one trait all cowboys do not know,— thrift. That was one of his peculiar characteristics. = But while he wa$ frugal he never saw anyone want for anything. He ‘had ‘the open heart so prevalent among people who live in He was hospitable, When other cowboys were drawing their wages in gold, back in the eighties, and riding down to El Paso or San Antonio to. throw away their savings over the gaming table or in other forms of riotousness, Wert stacked his “poke” away until he had enough to purchase a few head of cattle. He started with seven cows. Just before he died he could not have counted all the cattle in his main herd if he had ridden for three months, taking along a bookkeeper to aid him in the task. Angd all his savings were made since 1885, when he first settled in Western Texas. His first job netted him just twenty-five dollars a month and his board. Four years later he had 150 head of cattle. He worked hard all the time, but aft- er this start things went easier for Love. He knew cattle and always picked. the best range for them. He lost few of them by disease or drought. He watched the markets, sold at good prices, and invested in cattle again. When he turned in his final account Lo the Great Rancher, he had two hundred men on his pay- roll, and the biggest estate in Texas. His / nine year old son will get the bulk of this fortune and probably will be the richest boy in the great south- west. That story is a bit different from some that have come out of Wall street within the past week or so, but it is a more substantial one, and a story that the average American boy who has dreams of great wealth may well assimilate. ' It is nothing more nor less than the increased dividends on thrift. It could happen to any American boy who wanted to settle down and do something really worth while in life; to any grown man who would put his shoulder to the wheel and cast aside the frivolities of the day. AN the wishing, and dreaming, and spgculating in the world will never get one one-hundredth of what Wert Love left behind. In some few cases, of course, there have been for- tunes made on gambling; but, as a rule, it is the man who gets down and does his toiling, day in, day out, by the sweat of nis brow, who lives to bequeath something worth while to those who come after him. At this particular time it is well to ponder over the story of Wert Love. TEXAS The Mexicans have paid a Chicago widow ' $20,000 for killing her hus- band. Hope it wasn't Mexican money. —Rochester Herald, FACTS AND FANCIES. Bulgaria seems to be marking time. Good exercise for cold feet—Brooklyn Eagle. After a year of the colossal war fit is mighty hard for anvone to produce a sensation.—Buffalo Courler. Switzerland is making shoes, pro- Jectiles, gun-pieces, anything that Germany, France or Britain may want for war purposes, provided each country furnishes the materials from which the articles are manufactured. Switzerland is strictly impartial in the rendering of this serivce, and all con- cerned are satisfied.—Pittsburg Dis- patch. The British victory on the Tigris, followed by a Turkish flight toward Bagdad, is one more reminder that the present is a world conflict. It should also serve to call attention again to the fact that the real strug- gle is for the near east; that while great armies are again contending on fields so frequently fought over in modern history the prizes of the war remain far removed from the Euro- pean battle lines.—New York Trib- une. The present war began over the Balkans. The jealousies and the am- bitions of these states and the desires of the great powers to influence them have ever been a cause of conflict. In the settlement of the present war it is to be hoped that there will be such an arrangement as to end for all time, or for so long a perfod as to be practically for all time so far as we of the present are concerned, the Balkaa situation, potential ever of disagreements and wars.—Philadel- phia Star, According to the estimate of the British chancellor of the exchequer, total British debt on March 31, 1916, will be eleven billion dollars, against ginning of the war in August, 1914, Borrowing seven and one-half bil- lions for war in seventeen months does noes not wreck British credit. It is rather an astonishing achieve- ment and a proof of resourcefulness beyond anything hitherto imagined. But it does raise the rate of interest in the world.—New York Times. A supreme necessity of government is preparedness against foreign at- tack. There is no honester expendi- ture of money raised by taxation. There is no more economical expendi- ture of the public money, as was shown by one great democrat, Samuel J. Tilden, in his memorable plea for adequate appropriations for harbor and coast defenses, when he contrast- ed the cost of such insurance with the cost of neglect. There is no more warrant for a bond issue for this purpose, the tariff source of revenue being available, than there is for a bond issue to pay the current expens- es of the West Point and Annapolis establishments.—New York Sun. Flying Freight Cars. (Torrington Register.) Great advance in aviation is a rec- oghized fact, but Henry Woodhouse, an officer of the Aero Club of Amer- ica, will cause some surprise by his statement that “air craft can now carry a ton ninety-five miles an hour,” provided he means a ton in addition :to the weight of the mach- ine. The Zeppelin can do this, but the Zeppelin is a developed balloon. More surprising still is Mr., Wood- house's- prediction of aerial freight lines to South: America at an early date, the wiping out of international frontiers by swift air carriers and the achievement of “that world-na- tion to which every lover of peace looks forward with anxious longing.” No doubt the conquest of the air will ultimately be in considerable measure certain, but the power achieved is likely to be long restrict- ed within narrow bounds, and it may be doubted whether air traffic will ever be as safe as that on land or even that on water, .and it hardly seems probable that railway trains and steamboats will ever be displaced by air craft. It is true that seem- ing miracles are possible and no doubt the future is full' of wonders, but it is better for constructive aviators to give attention to possibilities al- ready into the fanciful. It is certain at least, that neither aviation nor any other agency will ever wipe out inter- national lines. For many reasons it is better for the human race to be di- vided into distinct groups, and such division will no doubt be continued indefinitely. REEe e A Common Disease. (Providence Journal.) The New York Medical Journal of- fers some timely remarks on the char- acter and the danger of that verbal phenomenon known as ‘“gush.” “It is not only an absurd and dangerous habit, but a morbid one. Hysterical gush and windinuess serve no good ends except to butt thick heads against hard facts. They help to deceive the people for a time, to deceive them as to their brains and nerves, to prevent them from regarding increasing idiocy and hysteria clear enough in the light of symptoms of national dis- ease.” It is a common disease, and al- though it is not peculiarly a national failing it flourishes here perhaps more rampantly than in almost any other country. There seems to be sometaing in the atmosphere that is conducive to emotionalism, and under the nervous strain imposed by the rapid pace of life we fall easily into the manners of hysteria. The funda- mental quality of the celebrated Am- erican ‘‘sense of humor” is exagger- ation, and this is so closely allied to the root of the trouble ‘that it possibly explains why we are not saved from this fault by our humorous sense. But the fact remains that gush is an im- portant part of our regular diet. It is easy enough to diagnose the ailment, but the suggestion of an effectual rem- edy is mofe difficult. Perhaps it is to be found only in simpler living and straighter thinking. three and one-half billions at the be-. WHAT OTHERS SAY Views on all sides of timely questions as discussed in ex- changes that come to the Herald Office. | New Britain’s Busiest Big Store Free Speech. (New London Day.) Somebody, somehow or other, must secure a competent decision from some competent authority, some of these days, as to what constitutes constitutional free speech in the United States. Down in Paterson the police are placing a construction of their own on the constitutional guar- antee and it is a considerably more drastic one than that made by the New York police at the time of the I. W. W. disturbances there. It is questionable whether the Paterson police haven't gone a little too far in raiding the meeting places of the malcontents and banishing from the city speakers whose advocacies seemed to them calculated to incite trouble. And yet it must be admitted that the temptations under which the Pat- erson authorities live are exceptional; also they have had more experience, probably, proportionately to the size of the city, than the authorities of any other town—they know their agi- tators and how to deal with them ef- fectually. The danger lies, not in the muzzling of outspoken advocates of violerice, but in the gradual confusion of such advocacies as those of the violent reds and those of honest, even if ex- treme, reformers. There are some pretty fine distinctions to the drawn —and drawn they msut be, lest we trade the dangers of unbridled license of speech for the perils of a parti- san or class censorship. It is a pretty big problem and one Wwhich will have to be grappled with in earnest some of these fine days. Meantime there is the consolation of knowing that in nine-tenths of the cases where mouths are forcibly shut they are much better shut than open. Automobiles and Fog. (Waterbury Republican.) Running a jitney or a trolley car at high speed through a fog is just as serious as running a train without regard to signals and recklessness is bound to be cut short by disaster. The accident yesterday when a jitney crashed intd a trolley car on the Green Milldale line is only one of many accidents hereabouts recently in which automobilists have come to grief through too little heed to dan- gers on the road when there is a fog. It ought to be worth while to the automobile organizations and tae in- dependent automobilists of the state to start a general campaign against speeding in a fog. It is hard to con- ceive of reasonable arguments against putting a severe penalty on all auto- mobilists who disregard the safety of the public and themselves in foggy weather and strict enforcement of the law against unreasonable speed should be the rule is every communi- ty. The fog season is here and with the automobile equipped as an all- year-round vehicle ther can be no em- phasis on the responsibility .of driv- ers to travel slowly and safely and to signal frequently whenever the wheater is not clear. Rats And Cold Weather. (Indianapolis News.) With the approach of cold weather and a lessening of the supply of food in-the open there will soon be found evidence that our dwellings have been invaded by rats. We shall soon hear a clatter of pans in the pantry, squeals from the cellar (whether of fight or play we may not know) and a scurrying of feet when we visit the attic, Rats! The rat most com- mon in the United States is the brown rat, usually but erroneously, called the Norway rat. Its color is gray- ish brown above and ashy white be- low, with feet dusty white. This rat, carried on ships, has been dis- tributed all over the world. Orig- inally a native of Persia and of India, it is said to have entered Eu- rope through Russia about 1725, and was brought to America about the opening of the revolutionary war in vessels conveying British and Hes- slan troops. That this rat abounds in such enormous numbers is due to the fact that the female has from three to five litters a vear of ten or twelve at a litter. The first foreign rat to appear in America made its’ way here from Europe about 1544. It was the black central Asia. White rats of this species, albinos, are not uncommon. It was the common house rat until driven off by the brown rat. The tail of the rat naturalists declare to be a wonderful appendage. It has more muscles than the human hand, performs all the functions of a hand. is a balancer, and serves as a spring to aid in jumping. ‘Wholesale Discipline. (M. V. O'Shea, in the November Mother’s Magazine.) A father leaving for his office at noon, asks his twelve-year-old boy to mow the lawn. When he returns | at night, he is not pleased with his son’s handiwork. He thinks he ought to give the boy some good counsel, and he starts in as soon as he gets in the house. He complains about the boy's carelessness, and says: ‘“‘That's a miserable piece of work. Had I thought you would not do it any bet- ter than that, I would have done it mycelf, The trouble with you boys is that you are in too much of a hurry to do anything around the place. You want to get off all the time,” and so on ad libitum. There are five children in the house- hold, three younger and one older than the boy he is reproving. They hear the father's scolding. When a mem- | ber of a group is disciplined in this way, the effect is dispersed over the | group, and so to some extent lost on the individual. But worse than that, the house is filled with the atmos- phere of discipline. Children not McMILLAN’S FALL OPENING DAYS “Always Reliable” wosicy QCT. 7th, 8th and 9th Musicy Thursday, Friday and Saturday FASHION DISPLAY “FASH{ON” workmanship shall always be worthy of the prices. WE INVITE THE PUBLIC to Attend This Beautiful Display of New Fall Wearing Apparel Exclusive Models in COATS, SUITS is the t heme of the opening, but back of that is the resolute pur- pose to maintain a true standard of value so that quality and - DRESSES AFTERNOON AND EVENING GOWNS DAINTY WAISTS AND BLOUSES SILK HOSIERY, KID GLOVES . NECKWEAR, RIBBONS, LEATHER GOODS THE FIRST DAYS / of our showing will excel in interest because of the many special values we shall offer through the store. Worthy of your attention will be our display, Dress Goods, Coatings, Laces and Trimmings for every purpose. vets, etc. (We again invite you to attend our opening display.) D. McMILLAN Silks, Vel- 199-201-203 MAIN STREET gullty of any misdeed suffer. with the one who deserves rebuke. This method of discipline fails for two reasons. It is not concentrated on the offender, and causes the inno- cent to suffer with the guilty. The rebuke should have been pri- vate. It should have been an affair between the boy and the father. Then the lesson could have been impressed. A vast amount of energy is lost in dis- cipline in the home and school, be- cause it is administered wholesale. A teacher who stands in the front of the room and disciplines a child in the rear of the room gan rarely achieve good results. Thirty or forty innocent children suffer for the care- lessness of one. If they do not suf- fer, they grow callous to discipline. In any home or school in which the long-range, wholesale plan of disci- pline is followed, the atmosphere be- comes surcharged with it, and the joy is taken out of life. We all know homes and schools in which every one expects to listen to complaints and scolding much of the time. This is unfortunate from whatever point of view. It is bad physically for any one to have to share in the discipline of other per- sons. This depresses every vital or- gan. If I could take-you into a psychological laboratory, I could show vou that when one is listening to Sscolding and complaints, all the vital processes are affected unhealthfully This is one reason why children liv ing under parents and teachers who administer discipline on a wholesale plan are usually not as vigorous as children who do not have to share the discipline administered to all other members of the group. The Editor’'s Vacation. (From the Arkansas Gazette.) We are going away from here on our annual vacation with the family bank roll firmly concealed between the thumb and forefinger of our good richt hand, and our heart harboring $6,000,000 worth of hatred for the auvthor of the Hepburn bill, which abolished passes for newspaper men. We are going to buy transportation for at least 200 miles, and if by rea- son of rigid economy and proper con- servation the bank roll holds out we may be gone two days. Herr Hearst and the Loan. (New York World.) It looks bad for the Anglo-French loan. Herr Viereck, Herr Weismann and Herr Koelble are already on rec- | ord against it, and Herr Hearst tele- graphs from New Orleans to his prin- cipal morning newspaper, the Deu- | tches Journal, that “Ich bin im Be- griffe Nach New York zu gehen um gegen die Kriegsanletihe fur die kriegsfuhrenden Nationen Europas zu opponieren ud zwar zu oppenieren so stark ich es nur zu tun vermag.” In other words, Gott strafe the loan. Herr Hearst is on his way here it to oppose and indeed it to oppose so strongly as it to do he can. And back of Herr Hearst stands the | mand for Spanish the ! Hon. Jeremiah O’Leary, who first thought it out in his own mind that if every American would hide his money and bring on a panic and bankrupt the country and close all the banks and factories and put the railroads and all the industries out of business, it would be impossible to sell anything to England and Ireland would be free. Like Herr Hearst, Mr. O'Leary presumably “glaubt nicht daran, dass solsh’ eine Anleihe im interesse des Laudes liegt,”” but O'Leary cannot write about it in the language of kultur, so it is difficult for him to grab the center of the stage when Herr Hearst starts from New Orleans the loan zu oppenieren. Learning Spanish. (Waterbury Democrat.) If American business men are ne- glecting their Latin-American op- portunities, the boys and girls of the country are not. From every sec- tion come reports of keen interest in the language, history, geography and economics of Spanish countries. The interest is especially high along the Atlantic and Pacific seaboards, where shipping in connection with Central and South America makes Latin-American relations seem more actual and practical. In language study in the high schools and colleges there is a great falling off in the German classes and a surprising de- instruction. The Spanish classes in the New York high schools are overflowing and the same is true in all the Pacific seaports. In Seattle there are seven high school teachers giving all their time to teaching Spanish. In the Univer- sity of Washington 400 students have registered for the Spanish courses and 200 more had to be turned away. It seems a pity to neglect the German language, because of its incompar- ably greater and richer literature; but the zeal for Spanish on the part of the country’s intelligent young men and women is an admirable tendency deserving every encouragement. It is an omen not merely of more ex- tensive and profitable business rela- tions with our Spanish neighbors, but of a new fusion of Pan-American cul- ture and ideals and extension of a new larger Americanism throughout the whole western hemisphere. Our Splendid Belgium Relief Work. (Rochester, N, Y., Post-Express.) Not less impressive than the figures showing the extent of American con- tributions for the relief of Belgium is the fact that the work of providing the necessities of life must go on un- less millions of people are to face actual starvation. The value of the food commission since its organiza- tion ten months ago is more than $80,000,000, but the situation of the Belgium people is stil] desperate. On September first it was estimated that 2,700,000 of the seven millions of population were unable to meet thejr own needs. The total number of those rearly or quite destitute was larger by a million than on April first. Ac- cording to the men who are adminis- tering the relief fund, unemployment i3 increasing. Not too much reliance rhould be placed on the Belgian har- vest, which has been reserved for civilians, for it provides for only 1,250,000 of the population. In these circumstanecs there is but one thing to do. The American people must continue to help Belgium. - War Beyond Comprehension. (Pueblo, Col.,, Chieftain.) Beside the colossal losses of war, how trivial appear the catastrophes of other days. Twenty persons killed anywhere in the United Statey’ is a first-page display news story. A thousand dead marks a great disaster that will linger in men's memories year after year, In one year of war the total loss in killed, wounded and missing Is es- timated at more than 8,000,000 hus man beings, or an average daily ) of more than 20,000 men for an e tire year. Beside such a wastage of human lives even the tremendous financial and property iosses of the war shrink into insignificance The human mind cannot compre= hend such slaughter and its conse~ quences of woe. We can only wone der and shrink in amazement at the supreme folly that sends men to the battleficld in mistaken loyalty to g cause—whatever that cause may be— that would be far better served in the ways of peace. Persorally we I cxpect to have an; trouble with our appendix. We think the dentiet pulled it out whe he fetched that tooth.—Galv News. BISHOP NILAN BRINGS SUIT. Hartford, Oct 6.—Bishop John J. Nilan of the Roman Catholic diocese of Hartford has brought suit in the superior court to recover $7,500 onwe note from Harry A. McEiroy of Bridgeport. The note is clleged to have been given Sept. 15, 1900, te the late Rev. John Synnott. In hi# will the latter gave $10,000 to the bishop of the diocese for St, Francls Orphan Asylum in New Haven. He held McElroy's note for $7,500 and_ this was turned over by the éxecutory It has not been paid. a LAUDER FOR YALE COACH. New Haven, Oct. 6.—Officlal ane appointment to the university athletie that Willlam Lauder, a graduate of Brown and a former Philadelphia and New York Nationa! League player i= the choice of the baseball coms, mittee for coach for the Yale nin The committee has recommended appointment to th university athletits association. It is expected that arrangements will be completed with= in ashort time.