New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 5, 1915, Page 8

"BRITAIN BERALD bRALD PUBLISHING ' GOMPANY, , , Proprietors, - datly (Sunday exceptedd at 4:15 p. m. Herald Buflding, 67 Church St d at the Post Office at New Britain as Second Class Mall Matter. red by carriors to any part of the city 15 Conts a Week, 65 Conta & Month. iptions for paper to be sent by mall payable iIn advance, 60 Cents a Month, $7:00 a year. nlx{ profitable advertising medium In olty. Circulation books and press ToOm always open to advertisers. Wil be found on sale:at FHota- ews Stand, 42nd St. and Broad- » New York City; Board Walk, tlantic City and Hartford depot. al Rooms - AT FUNSTON WOULD DO. hting Fred! Funston, the same ral Funston' who' had charge of merican troops at Vera Cruz at ime of the American invasion, who is now commander of the ps on the Mexican border, has B permission from Washington to e the territory south of the Rio de in case '‘any more Americans killed or. wounded by Carranza’s illa’s troops. In .the fighting has taken place between Car- and Villa’s troops at Agua many fusillades of bullets have rained upon American’ soll: with ponsequence that four American ns, having no part in the fighting, killed. This condition has nat- v aroused the ire of the American ers stationed on the border. They to be up and doing. Funston @ cheerfully lead them on, He permission to fire upon the Mexi- roops if they deliberately allow leaden bullets to fly upon Ameri- oil. But, he explains, firing upon p vandals will be of little use un- he is allowed to follow up the with a good stiff skirmish. Fun- is fighting mad. Probably know- he state of mind the American mander is in, General Villa is now ng his way south, This news s from Mexico this morning. If knows what is good for him he Ibetter go as far south as possible. it might happen than President bn may tire of this endless blood- Hing in the land of pillage and young Fred Funston to go over ine. Then will American justice ptisfied. . K TO THE DAYS 'OF CAPT. KIDD. seems to have ‘What Germany not - torn’ from - established pre- t, England is fast tearing . to ds. ‘When a British cruiser the American ship Hocking r Atlantic coastanother dispute opened, another battle of legal iments 'prepared, and the pre- ed rules of civilized warfare ingly sent back to barbaric times. Hocking was bound from New to Norfolk for the purpose of ng coal ostensibly to be freighted Irgentina. On the face of it the of the British commander in hg this ship,—a neutral vessel e the flag of a neutral nation and ged in neutral. commerce,—can pe defended. What military ends accomplished by such means ot easily discernable to the lay i, —if to the prectical strategist. retary of State Lansing has in- ted Ambassador Page at Lon- to ascertain from the Foreign the reasons that prompted the nder of the British cruiser to re the Hocking and convoy her falifax, where she has been placed ‘harge of the prize court mar- . As yet no charges have been erred against the commander of [Hocking . delicate question has been raised he capture of the Hocking which, ettled in favor of Great Britain mean the further crippling of already battered Merchant Ma- The Hocking, with ten other jnan and Danish ed admittance to American regis- through purchase by the Amer- Transportation company. It is ently the purpose of Great Britain jhallenge the transfer of the Hock- on the grounds that her pur- ers are for the greater part Ger- , or that the capital which con- the operating company is Ger- ernational law by the boards. At the time of granting Amer- | registry to ‘the Hocking many als of the State Department held she might be subject to seizure lhe event she was not solely con- led by Americans. As a matter act our govelznment officials are agreed on the status of the Hock- .Some at the 'Department of fmerce held at the time the Hock- | V88 admitted ‘that s0-1ong as she OWned and operated by Amer- S It mattered not if some. of her fkhol®ers, or - stockholders in the IPADY operating her, were Ger- hs. he Commissioner of Navigation, ever, waged a strong protest at time of the Hocking’s transfer she was not granted registry until the Department of Commerce offi- clally warned her owners that in no ! circumstances could the American flag be employed ‘as a shield to pro- tect & ship owned by a belligerent | from . enemy cruisers. Whether these | mandates were violated remains to be | seen. To all intents and purposes the Hocking is an American ship ana was engaged in neutral trade. On the strength of that no British cruiser had the right to seize her off the American coast, especially when | she . was journeying between two American ports. Great Britain is setting a very bad precedent by her latest Order in Council, approved on October 20, and Just made public, the primary inten- tion of which is to clear the high seas of all ships suspected of belong- ing to her enemies regardless of the flags ‘they. fly. .Back to the days of Captain Kidd and other pirates. REPEAL IT. Comes news from Washington that American vessels which have made a bonafide effort to'comply with the new seamen’s law will be allowed to clear, even though they have been unable to obtain a crew strictly within the re- quirements. One section of the law stipulates that seventy-flvé per cent. of the crews on any American vessel en- gaged in foreign trade must be able to understand the orders given by the commander. This means that, for the most part, Asiatic crews are barred; thus giving the Japanese ships com- peting with our merchant marine somewhat of an advantage. On top of the concessions which’ the officials of the Department of Com- merce make known they will wink at in regard to linguistic abilities of crews, an executive order was issued today suspending the opreations of the safety-at-sea provisions of the sea- steamships, | men’s law so far as they will effect foreign ships admitted to registry un- der the Foreign Registry Act passed by Congress.last year. ing they need, and we think we ‘can do so without calling them at any time too long away from their civilian pursuits. “It is with this idea, with this con- ception, in mind that the plans have been made which it will be my priv- ilege to lay before the Congress at its next session. That plan calls for only such an increase in the regular army of the United States as experi- ence has proved to be required for the performance of the necessary du- tles of the army in the Philippines, in Hawalii, in Porto Rico, upon the bor- ders of the United States, at the coast fortifications and at the military posts of the interior. . For the rest it calls for the training within the next three years of a force of 400,000 citi- zen soldiers to be raised in annual contingents of 133,000 who would be asked to enlist for three years with the ‘colors and taree years on furlough, but who during their three years of enlistment with the colors would not be organized as a standing force but would be expected merely to undergo intensive training for a very brief period of each year. Their training would take place in immediate as: ciation with the organized units of the regular army. It would have no touch of the amateur about it, neither would it exact of the volunteers more than they could give in any one vear from their civilian pursuits. “And none of this would be done in such a way as in the slightest degree to supersede or subordinate our pres- ent serviceable and efficient National Guard. On the contrary, the Nation- al Guard itself would be used as part of the instrumentality by which train- enlisted under the new conditions, and I should hope and expect that the leg- islation by which all this would be ac- complished would put the National Guard itself upon a better and more .permanent_footing than it has ever been before, giving it not only the recognition which it deserves but a more ,definite support from the na- tional Government and a more defin- fte connection with the military or- ganization of the nation. Every man and boy physically able would willingly want to be part of the fighting force that should be ready at any time to answer the call of the nation. In fact, they are here now, waiting, ready to go at a ment’s notice. But, for the greater mo- The La Follette law, it should be called such, went into effect yesterday, applying only to those American ships not admitted to registry under the Foreign Registry Act. Ships which have come under the American flag by virtue of that act will not be af- fected by the new law until September 4, 1916. These various concessions which are being made by the Federal Govern- ment in regard to the new seamen’s law will be welcomed by ship owners who hail them as an acknowledgment by the government that parts of the La Follette law are detrimental to our | merchant marine. If this is so, why not ask Congress to repeal the law? Better this than official sanction to its violation. Chairman McCoombs of the Demo- cratic National Committee has stamped the La Follette seamen’s law as unbusiness like. .He says that “the Democratic party made a mistake in allowing La Follette to thrust his theories upon them.” He goes even further and says the law should part, they lack the training, these men and boys. If Congress sees fit to follow the plan laid down by Wood- row Wilson the men and boys of the nation will not be long in responding to the call of the colors. With a chance to associate with the regular army of the United States, an oppor- tunity to make themselves better men, morally, physically, and mentally, the men and boys who can devote = weeks out of the vear few from their ci- vilian pursuits will be eager and anx- ious to enlist three years with the colors, three years under Old Glory. This indeed will be the citizen sol- diery, a soldiery such as George Wash- ington marshalled, embued with love of country, with devetion to the cause of liberty and freedom, with tae spirit of never-say-die. But the sol- diery of 1915 W}ll be a better trained soldiery than that of 1776. Woodrow Wilson has offered a worthy sugges- tion. It is hoped that America, especially young America, rallies his call. It is the call of the flag. and to be repealed. He brands it a mistake pure and simple, saying it was never a - Democratic measure, although passed by a Democratic Congress and signed by a Democratic President. And Mr. McCoombs is right. The quicker it is repealed the better. The entire nation, interior as well as coast- wise, has grown weary of the La Fol- lette measure and its harmful influ- ence on our foreign trade possibilities, even though it is but one day in operation. # THE CALL OF THE FLAG. When a man like President Wilson whose propensities for peace are well known utters sentiments that mean for the safeguarding of the nation the people must necessarily give heed to his warnings, must know that he speaks not from any political motive but from an inborn love of country, a passionate and at the same time calm patriotism. From his seat in the White House President Wilson has had an opportunity during the past fourteen months to view the en- tire situation. He has seen the mael- strom of strife going on about us, the swift running current, the eddypools, the rapids. He has been in a posi- tion to judge the military needs of the nation. He has seen the impend- ing disaster ever hanging lower, ever ready to fall on America. And now he warns. He calls for action.' With- out going into detail he lays this sim- ple plan before the loyal Americans who would follow his advice, tie plan | he winl present to Congress in Decem- ber:— “In accordance with our American traditions we want and shall work for only an army adequate to the constant and legitimate uses of times of inter- national peace. But we do want to feel that there is a great body of citi- zens who have received at least the | most . rudimentary and neces-ary | forms of military training; that they | . Will be ready to form themselves into | | a fighting force at the call of the na- tion; and that the nation has the ! munitions ana supplies with which to | equip them without delay saould it be necessary to call them into action. We lwish to supply them with the train. [ Scanning the News We're going to try our hand again At printing news in rhyme, At mixing everyday events And rythmic muse sublime, There's lots of stuff to pick from Around this frenzied world, ‘While kings and crars, By god of Mars, Are mercilessly whirled. The Grecian cabinet has joined A certain William Bryan In deep and dark oblivion where i The poor lost souls are sighin’. ‘And Greece again s standing on The thresholding of strife, The Kaiser’s lien On Constantine Is the latter monarch’s wife. The President has uttered views On U. 8. preparation. “We should not pick a fight,” said he, “But be sure of reparation.” The suffragettes are undismayed, Despite their recent lot. And Carranza is Still at his biz, He keeps his climate hot. They say the High School boys will trim The Hartford team tomorrow, That a sadly beaten football bunch ‘Will journey home in sorrow. ‘While on the football subject we The big teams will attend. Poor old Yale Is due to fail And before the Crimson bend. 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ERY OF YOUR PURCHASES, Daily Delivery in New Britain, Elm wood, Newingtoun, Cedar Hill, Maple Hill and Clayton. the high school “frats” in that town. One of the Scout leaders says: “I do not know of a single case where a scout has joined a ‘frat’ without de- | terioriating. In more cases the drop is most serious.” of ragweed, we wonder what their attitude is toward adopting the gold- enrod as the national flower.—Mel - iden Journal. tion of Kaiser Wilhelm Roosevelt now wishes to ominating the Kaiser. (New York World.) Having himself been a had imita« 1., Mr. transforyy | While the National Hay Fever as- his honeymoon would agree to any sociation is campaigning to get ,rhil Twelve years ago the General Board of the Navy, of which Admiral Dewey is chief, mapped a naval building pro- | gram, which at the rate of two dread- noughts a year and provision for re- placing deteriorated vessels would have given the United States a fleet of forty-eight first class battleships in 1919. In its last report the board showed that through the failure we were ten vessels behind- Now, under the spur of preparedness we are striving to recover that lost ground.— Pittsburg Dispatch, 1t is doubtful if Mr, Redfield will | ever outgrow in theory or relinquish in practice his view, purely objec- tive, of the American business man as a dangerous character to be sup- pressed by oppression. But if Mr. Wilson’s knowledge of men could only grow as fast as his comprehension of what is politic in presidents seems to be developing, he might end single term (under the one-term plank in the Baltimore platform) in the proud, possession of a better cal- inet than he had when he began.— New York Sun. ; Boy Scouts and Frats, (New Haven Union.) The Montclair Boy Scouts have come out openly in condemnation of | vorite high school his | ! ture, such | they | This a problem for these fraternities Fortunately, these drops the puffed up and snobbish little high school Frat boys take, usually bring them down to earth in a way that compels them “to take a tumble” to them- selves. There is, indeed, nothing quite so stuck up as a high school boy who feels his oats after making his fa- “frat” unless it be a high school girl under similar circumstances. There is no doubt that the high school “frat” is an un- democratic effort to ape collegiate conditions in a public school. But despite all this we do not believe the “Frat” idea, even in public school, is wholly without merit. It has in it the grrms of a fellowship and closer association among girls and boys than can hardly be brought to pass in any other way. The real trouble lies in the childish attitude of those who get in these “Frats” toward those who don't, What is it that makes so many boys and girls, so free and open by na- rank snobs, the moment get into a high school frat? to face and to solve speedily, if they expect to exist miych longer in our public schools, the United States into a bad imita- | tion of Prussia, : In his letter to Henry A. Wige | Wood, Mr. Roosevelt insist thai-— We must ultimately organize’l ourselves, socially and for the work of peace and for self-de- & fense in war, with the extraor- ' dinary efficiency that Germany ", has shown, thanks to the move- = ment begun in Germany over & century ago in the days of Scharnhorst and Stein and with this end- in view to gecure prac- tical preparedness against war by introducing some adaption of the excellent Swiss system of uni- versal and obligatory military service. If Prussian social and military efs ficiency is to be the model for the United States, the best way to pro. ceed is to invite Germany to take charge of the republic. What is the sense of being Prussianized by ama- teurs when we could be Prussianized by professionals? ~ Fither the real’ thing or nothing. No somthing-just- as-good substitute for Prussianis can be accepted On the basis of Mr. Roosevelts latest declaration of faith, the Roose- velt candidate for president in 1910 should be Kaiser Wilhelm and the plattorm shouid be Kultur, 1 .