New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 2, 1915, Page 6

RALD PUBLISHING Proprietors. COMPANY, dally (Sunday excepted) at 4:1% p. m. Herald Bullding, 67 Church st 'd at the Pest Ofce at New Britain as Second Class Mall Matter. pred by carriors to any part of the city 15 Cents a Week, 65 Cents a Month. iptlons for paper to be sent by mall Payable in advance, 60 Cents & Month, $7.00 a year. Puly profitable advertising medium in city. Circulation books and press room always open to advertisers. Tald will be found on sale at Hota- News Stand, 42nd St. and Broad- ¥, New York City; Board Walk, aatic City and Hartford depot. TELEPHONE CALLS. B8 Dfce . al Rooms VHAT'S GOING ON TODAY. is is a day of great import to the pn at large. Eight of the great- tates in the union are holding ions. They are Massachusetts, New . New Jersey, Mississippi, Mary- Kentucky, Ohio and Pennsyl- . Of all forty-eight states in the Massachusetts alone elects its rnor, State Officers and Legisla- annually as was customary in the days. New York will elect a Assembly, County Officials and pr and City Officials in some forty cipalities. New Jersey will elect nators and the lower house of legislature. Mississippi will ratify e polls the candidates for Gov- r and state officers who won nations at the August state pri- Maryland has a gubernatarial a es. t. Kentucky will also elect nor. Ohio will elect Mayors and v city officials. Pennsylvania is erned with an amendment to the Constitution which will permit jen toumeteiialthough the biggest e of ballots will take place in ,deylghiq where a mayoralty fight ad, ln’n‘, religious prejudice is quied, { #He’ voters in New York Massachugetts will also pass on Womdn}s |sugfrage guestion, while willitlécide whether she will be wentieth state in the union to sh alcohol. fe in our neighboring state of achusetts. however, that the in- it of all' New England is centered, bt that of the other states, for there that national issues are playing itra-important part. While voters e seven other states holding elec- today will confine themselves, he most part, to purely lacal is- the result of the election in the State will be eagerly awaited by entire nation because it will act as rt of semaphore, a signal to tell h way the national trend of ght is moving. And this because Democratic candidate for guber- onal honors, Governor Walsh, has backed morally by the Wilson jnistration. From all predictions hnced by the political reporters Governor, will triumph over the ublican candidate, Samuel W- Mc- This campaign has been one of hottest waged in the old Bay State. spapers and orators have filled the ple full of politicss Both Walsh McCall are strong. The latter has unsuccessful in previous at- pts to be governor and senator al- gh years ago he served in the hse. Senator Lodge being deeply rested in the campaign, as he h1d redeem the state for his party, been .wise enough to make the ff the main issue, thus putting the t on a national plane. The Under- ba law is not to the taste of Bay e business interests. They are oring for a return to pure and efiled protection. - In this manner ‘e the Republicans pressed the ent holder of the Massachusetts ernorship, practically starting the 6 presidentia] campaign his didacy. In other words, they have fhed aside state lines and made the ssachusetts election a national is- . In so doing they have placed ernor Walsh in an embarrassing pition. On the strength of allying with the Wilson administration have practically prevented him jm standing on his own record, be- se by posing as a favorite son of Administration he must necessarily jore to some degree his career as ernor. Making the tariff question pnamwfixwe. the Republicans ‘Massachusetts are striving hard for p Presidenit’s defeat. They have ad- Inced the 8log “A vote for McCall a vote ag Wilson.” | Therein cpublicatis Seemingly have made eir one bfg““' ke for, we learn Pm despatchefs;baeause of this atti- (¢ many Massichusetts Republicans ke their votes from McCall and them to Walsh. These loyal Mericans are not going to fail the fident of the yhale United States on WARN THE YOUNGSTERS. There are two classes of people in the United States that must be taken care of if the future brings develop- ment in keeping with past accomplish- ments, and these are the jay-walker, the person who crosses city streets at any point, any time, anyhow, and the trespassers who delight in walking railroad tracks. With the great num- bers of automobiles in use even in the smaller cities the jay-walker has be- come one of our greatest nuisance: With the wonderful growth 1- roading the track-walker, the person who takes particular delight in trudg- ing the raflroad ties, has become a constant source of worry to the men who pilot ponderous enginés. TIn one yvear in the United States, there were more than five thousand of these M- dtviduals killed. Just how many per- sons were killed while crossing city streets because traffic regulations were disregarded by them has not been as- certained. No one has yet compiled figures giving out this information, but it is reasonable to suppose that one- half as many jay-walkers were caught by the automobiles as were track- walkers by locomotives. This is wan- ten destruction of life. In most cases those killed on railroad tracks were under twenty-one years of age. Here then is a charn their young ones of the word now might save a life. of ré for parents to warn danger. A HERMAN RIDDER. Herman Ridder had the courage of | his convictions. Because he fought so strenuously for the right as he he worked himself into an early grave. A life of ultra-activity was crowned with a year of trouble and worry such as few men could endure. As directing genius, as edi- tor of the “New York Staats Zeitung,” Herman Ridder threw the whole weight of his influence on the Ger- man side of the war question and because of this received the hitter de- nunciations of those alligned with the Allies. The Ridder should prove a source of inspiration to all those who have come into the world without the blaring of trum- pets, minus silver spoons, to all those who must work their way through or be outcasts of society. Herman Ridder was born in New York sixty- four years ago of parents who had come to this country from Germany. At eleven years of age he started out on a career that ended yesterday at the highest principle of the paper profession, Although at times during the past year his loyalty to the land of his birth was questioned, he always proved himself a true American. Five months ago told where he stood when he unburdened himself of the following epitath: “I speak for -and, T be- lleve, for the great majority of Ger- man-Americans—when I say that we are with the President of the United States to the finish in all matters af- fecting national or préstige. I subscribe unqualifiedly to the statement of Carl Schurz: ‘My country, right or wrong. If right, to be kept right; if wrong, to be set right’' ™ Herman Ridder fought the fight. His going is a loss to nation, loss to the city of birth, a loss to newspaperdom. saw it career of Herman news- he myself honor national good the a his Now that it is known President Wil- son and Mrs. Norman Bolling Galt will be married sometime ‘‘near the close of December,” and that the wed- ding will take place in the home of Mrs. Galt to be attended only by members of the two families inter- ested, there should be a great many sighs of relief from various parts of the nation. Every woman and girl is somewhat interested in the ap- proaching wedding and as every boy is told he has a chance become President, so nearly every girl is con- soled by the thought that she might someday attend a White House wed- ding, or a reception, or some social event in the Executive Mansion. Now ‘that the wedding is not going to take place in the White House there will be no chance of heart-aches for those who for various reasons would to not have been able to go or who might: not be invited. The President and his bride-elect have again shown their democratic diplomacy. FACTS AND FANCIES, Uncle Sam is a Carranzista, now, if you please.—Boston Record. The latest peace forecast from Rritain is a call for 3,000,000 more men.—Pittsburg Dispatch. Our candidate for one of those Car- negie medals is Hon. Henry P. Flet- crer, who is willing to be ambassador to Mexico.—Columbus State, ‘hour sych as this, when the tOl must stand united. Men who 868 such “loyalty are bigger than Y 9fe party, be it Republican, Dem- Fatie or Progressive. i ) If the Allies don't watch out, the Constantinople restaurants will be serving pig knuckles and sauerkraut before Christmas.—Houston Post. It is more and more apparent to England that she can’t win a war with i Kitchener's confldence.—Atlanta Con- | stitution. Mr. Root's announcement having | made New York’s new constitution a | republican document, the killing prob- ably will be something worth going a long way to see.—Boston Journal. General Villa, by giving up at the phychological moment, might get a pension before death and a monument atter death, and be celebrated ever after as a soldier, patriot and even a gentleman.—Springfield Union, The popular amusement of figuring the possible profits to have been made by buying Bethlehem Steel at its low- est price months ago is the cheapest and most harmless form of specula- tion that Wall Street affords.—New York World. It has become the deep conviction of those who have attentively and with candor and intelligence studied | the career of Mr. Root during these | sixteen years (of public service) that | no man in public life has served the people with a more disinterested de- | votion to their welfare and none With so great ability. It became the com- monplace of our politics that Mr. Root was the ablest man in public Life. In breadth of view, in under- standing of political principles and of the consequences of public policies, in censtructive ability as a legislator and in the wisdom of his counsel as an ad- viser he stands among the first in the history of the republic—New York Times. Peace between the armies of Europe may come at any time (the sooner the better!,) but its coming will mark the beginning of the fircest war for trade ever indulged in by the nati of the world. There is to be no peac in that struggle for a great many years to come. The United States is to be in it—perhaps the centre of the world for the manufacturers and merchants of other nations. Our government at Washington, therefore, will face the task not only of defend- ing our manufacturers from this in- tense foreign competition bound to come at home, but also to clear the way for us, as much as zovernmonr”} can do so, in the markets of the world.—New York Mail. Tho Decline of the Jitne (Ansonia Sentinel.) The day is not yet when weather conditions will put an effectual quietus on the pleasures of jitney travel, but it is near at hand. the new method of locomotion is in- compatible with zero weather, snow and slush. When these come in the prudent patron of the jitney tra fers his allegiance to the trolley car and continues to keep it there until spring gives th jitney another chance for life, There are those contend that the heyda patronage has passed any it reached its zenith in 24 number of months ago. bable that there is considerable justi- fication for this conclusion. Running a jitney car on a five-cent fare ba is a doubious financial proposition that does not sufficlently consider the wear and tear on the machine nor the costly mishaps that are part and parcel of auto travel. It does not take more than one collision or the break- down of some part of the auto's in- tricate mechanism to play hob with the modest profits of an otherwise ful season if anything will he the real cause of the jitney decline and fall. If it could be made to pay real profit in season and out of season on a mod- erate investment, it could not be driven from its field even hy the rigors of an Arctic winter. But that it can pay any such return has not vet been established. In fact the prob- abilities are all the other way. Tt is a distinctly summer proposition in its present stage of development and when this is added to its other handi- caps one can easily find the reason why the jitneur of today is not the lad of sterday or the day before. The ancients have learned the sad lesson of experience and have put their machines to other iises, Enthusiasm for vehemently of jitney nd that who A Tough Job. (New Register. As we have now, saving a tails, recognized the republic of Mex- ico for the first time since we changed administrations, it will presently be in order to follow up our recognition with a full-fledged ambassador at Mexico City. There is a report abroad that the man for the position been selected and that he is v P. Fletcher, who is now at the capital of Chile, having been raised to ambassador there last vear. If he is the man. the news is good. | For Henry P. etcher not, be it known of the ‘‘deserving democrat” school of diplomacy. As a matter of fact, he is a republican, but that doesn’t matter. He was a Rough Rider, but he has lived that down by a good record. He has been in the diplomatic service for thirteen vears, and has proved himself of the sort that survives administrations, even when they change the party name. If he Is sent to Mexico City, he will take there a better equipment than do most men who are appointed from Washington. And he will go to a tough job. The fact that we have recognized a fac- tion as the Mexican government is no assurance of solution of the Mexican problem. Our period of “watchful waiting' has bred no love in Mexico for the United States. The real Mex- ico City has no enthusiasm for the regime of Carranza. There is no certainty of his permanence. The ambassador of the United States is put in an anomalous position. He will need all his diplomacy, and even the hest efforts that even a superman Haven few de- is can make may be wasted. Let's by all means wish him well, for he de- serves it. Every Shape, Every Style, § Every Trimming that is fashionabic and in demand. Gver 7000 of the most wonderfu. creations on disp'ay.. Select Your New Fai: Hat Now Our Great Annuhl TRIMMED HAT SALE $1.98 Values to $4.00 Wonderful Values—B .g Savings You surely cannot afford to miss this sale—Come and see for yourself. Souvenirs Free WIsE, SMITH & CO. Hartford, Conn. 32.98 Values to $5.00 $3.98 Values to $6.50 Souvenirs Free WHAT OTHERS SAY Views on all sides of timely questions as discussed in ex- changes that coms to the Herald. Office. Eyes Flash Electricity. (Philadelphia Ledger.) Fishes that discharge electric cur- rents from their eye: other denizens ¢f the deep who entrap their prey by | erveloping it in an electric field, and eels whose power of generating elec- tricity is so great that the strong man is numbed from contact with one of them—all these were des- | uerione sorvice, cribed by Dr. Uiric Dahlgren before the members of the Franklin Institute. Dahlgren ,who is a professor of hiology at Princeton University, talked cn “Production of Electricity hy Anima And he pointed out that it was only by fish that electricity was produced by living organisms for any apparent use, with the single excep- tion of a molluck found in Asia Minor. The fishes mentioned by the speaker as capable of shocking other members | of the finny tribe by electric flashes from their eves were along the coast of New Jersey, he said. Some of the electric eels found in South American waters, Dr.. Dahlgren explained, were capable of generating a current of more than 600 volts, although they could, as a rule, deliver not more than 250 volts, hecause of the resistance of their own bodies. Certain torpedo fishes were describ- ed by Dr. Dahigren as capable of gen- erating electricty in suffcient quanti- ties to numb their enemies and also to facilitate the capture of their prey “Routine Affair.” the Boston Journal.) It happens as often as and carclessness triumph over law enforcement. It may be one poor old woman bowled over on a street cros- sing, or it may be a thousand people murdered on an excursion hoat. 21l murder for convenlence's whether it takes one life or town, And now Peabody. ‘ A trap of a school building, no fire escapes, no adequate drill-protection, j hursts into flames anad roasts the life ut of a scorc of children. The mushy old platitudes about “investigation”- “‘placing the respon- /'~ making“life more secure in ound worse than foolish. They make slaughter a routine affair. | (From selfishness half Try These on Your Cash Register. (Collier’'s Weekly.) We don't make a bouquets to those who write news- | paper epigrams, but the New York “Times” had a couple the other day that ought to be memorized and used by every man who employs others to practice of tying arm of a work for him, The man who has h prindstone doesn’t alwa wits. An iron will pig-iron one. Taking together, these are ful tonic for labor troubles. nose to the sharpen his needn’t necessarily be help- A Ne French Cabinet. (Providence Journal.) It is difficalt to understand all the intricacies of the French Cabinet sit- vation, but it appears that M. Viviani, the retired Premier, was di tisfied with the secret sessions of the Cham- ber of Deputies ard with the failure of one-hundred ard fifty members of the chamber to ioin in giving him ;5 vete of confidence. Tt is also sug- #ested that the strain of the war has bheen heavy upon him and he is glad to give over the direction of affairs to another and a stronger hand. M. Briand, who accepted Presi- dent Poincare’s request to form a new Cabinet, has been Premier twice be- fore. His most notable single per- formance was in 1910, when, confront- | ed with a nation-wide railway strike, he decreed that the disaffected train- men should take a three-weeks' course with the colors, and then set them a{ work to operate the trains. Both M. Viviani and M. Briand are ; Soclalists, though neither has lately ! return to the old faith that it is the affiliated with the formal party. The Soclalist influence in the Chamber of Deputies is .strong, but the new Cabinet has a lesser Socialist tinge than the old. It is charged that the Socialists in the old Cabinet did not exercise enough foresight with regard to the Balkan situation, and that this accounts for the resignation of For- eign Minister Delcasse. His retire- ment must be thought to have had a direct influence in precipating the vrithdrawal of the Cabinet as a whole. The new cabinet is compased of leaders of all political factions, with the idea of making it truly representa- tive of present-day French opinion and demands. Politics is reduced in it to a minimum. The time and the crisis required disinterested and and the new body is a group of experienced men whose names will carry weight with the na- tion. It is a strong Coalition Cabinet. | In the circustances, the country would less not be satisfied with anything than that 1t will the slighest there that noticed that intimation is not France he | is not in favor of prosecuting the war to the utmost. The fact is that the Cabinet change, so far as can be pudged at this time, reflects nothing mnore than dissatistaction in certain (uarters with some of the means here- tofore employed. The nation is pleds- cd, together with its allies, to fight the good fight to the end. . Letters to the Editor, (From the Albany Knickerbocker Press.) Most wish to publish the letters the receive. There is never room for them all, of course. But those which fail to get in print are usually rejected for one or more of these reasons: They are anonymous. They are illegible. They are too long. They are on subjects of no interest tc the public. They are libellous. They would cause needless pain to worthy persons. They are written in ill temper. They are absurd. newspapers Athletics at Yale (Waterbury Republican.) Yale's football team has made a re- markably blue record up to date and there seems little likelihood that this season will fail to get a notable dis- tinction in the written annals of uni- versity athletics. The unfortunate thing about it is that the credit will be given to a coach instead of to a number of persons and things. It is particularly regrettable that the re- moval of men who violated amateur sportsmanship regulations can be pointed at by critics as a reason for the poor condition of the Yale eleven two weeks before the game with Princeton. There is likely to be some change in the management of the athletics of the university because of the dismal record of the eleven but mere change will be of no advantage until there is a heritage of Yale to court victory suc- cessfully and the right of its undergraduates and graduates (o cxpect at least a creditable rec- ord from all its representatives. It is the picked team of football | men, chosen from a squad trained un- der many mon believed to have expert | knowledge of what they teach, that is the conspicuous failure of the hour If the university's judgement of the men fit to train its athletes is so poor that they fail to mecet even ordinary tests, what may not be said of the university’s judgment of men fit to train its prospective teachers, philos , business men, scientists, jur s athletes were wont to advertis: the efficiency of one part of the insti- tution at least, not so many vears ago. Larger failed to lower the colors ms, When an eleven, or crew, or nine, or track team failed to make good, the university at once went to the bottom of matters for the cause and a mild upheaval usually re- sulted Wwith bencfit to all hands. Tn recent vears there may have been the same intentions underneath the icies of the powers that be, pol- but the powers have not been as successful as Yale reputation descrved; perhaps the powers ought to be cast out; perhaps only an appointee or two. Connecticut wants to know why its leading university cannot do better and it is vitally interested because it belleves that its sons today are as capable as its sons of the past to mas- ter the essentials of any competitive game, be it on the gridiron, the track, the links, Wall street, or even the bat- tlefield, if they are given equal in- struction and equal opportunity. It will look to Yale to redeem itself in athletics in the near future, and while it may be resigned to further dismal defeats the balance of this football season, it has a right to expect evi- dence of a change in sports later in the college year, and without loss of effi- ciency in the lecture: or recitation room. The Wife as a Partner. (Woman's World.) To be sure it is hard to smile when the woodbox is empty or mud is tracked into the house big, dirty boots, or the dollar to pay for a few yards of print goods is not forthcom- ing; but it is a part of the business of marriage to smile and to keep smil- ing, and the wife who knows this and practices it will be a happier, a more congenial and, indeed, a far .more de- sirable partner in the matrimonial firm, and a better comrade, than if she forgets this important feature of wifely duty and devotion. Then, too, it is far more to her credit to smile when things go wrong than when they go right. The male part- ner will naturally understand this and respect it, and if he is any sort of a man he will be cheerful in his turn. For nothing begets good cheer like good cheer itself. And ir the husband is able to smile upon the customers in his store or with the men about the farm, surely he is able to smile upon his wife to whom he owes not only smiles but the best of consideration and more than all— love. There is no prettier picture in all the world than that of married com- rades, unless it be married lovers 1 think there would be many more such pictures if every day and all the while both man and wife would keep in mind their partnership agreement, never violate it by committing any act that will warrant just accusations of unfairness or of any breach of faith or to show any manifestation of un- selfishness, either in the division of partnership profits or of losses. Ah, it is the losses that test the brittle chain of marriage partnership more than aught else! And poverty tries it most of all. But the contract is for worse as well as for better and the partners who stick together through on all adversities and work hard side by side to overcome them will take a greater delight in surmounting what- ever obstacles the fates may pile up in their pathway. Sun Gunflints, (Wall Street Journal.) Down in a Wall street office the war stocks were being discussed. and also the truth or falsity of the large orders sald to have been received by varlous industrial corporations. From this the conversation turned on improved war appliances, and then some one said: “Yes, but I know a man who is still making and selling the old-fashioned gunflint.” There was some comment on this, and then the first speaker said that his triend had a large factory in England for the making of gunflints and ex- ported thousands of them every year “They are used in varfous tropical countries where the natives still use the old flintlock musket sald the speaker. “Then there are severn| countries where the British Govern- ment sees to it that no modern arms reach the hands of the natives. The Government permits the sale of the old fiintlock for the killing of game, but would at once confiscate more modern styles of firearm. 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