New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 22, 1915, Page 6

"BRITAIN HERALD gatty (sunday excepted) at 4:15 p. m. orald Building, 67 Church St gt the Posy Office ‘at New Britain Second’ Cleas Mail Matter. d by carricrs to any part of the city Cents a Weck, 65 Cents a Month. ptions for paper to be sent by mall payable in advance, 60 Cents a Month, $7.00 a year. ly profitable advertising medium in eity. Clrculation books and press o9m always open to advertisers. rald will be found on sale at Hota- News “Stand, 42nd St. and Broad- b New York City; Board Walk, mtie City and Hartford depot. TELEPHONFE CALLS. QENEROSITY OF AMERICA. r all the autopsies have been ed on the Yale corpse, after b praise and laurel wreaths have heaped on the Harvard brow and Haughton system it might he for all Americans to pause a nt . and contemplate the gen- v of those-who were in the Har- Stadium last Saturday as mere tors. Somewhere up on the ng peak of concrete that sur- led the greensward whereon the was waged, there was placed ng white streamer bearing in ck letters words to this effect, been the Second and Third Per- he Ushers Will Take up a Col- In for the Benefit of European Sufferers.” And, accordingly, men of Harvard and Yale, ng highly polished metal sauce- passed among the spectators athered in a goodly portion of an wherewithal, representa- L¢ the generosity of the average can gathering. There were ollar bills given by those who well afford, five dollar bills by of generous temperament, one bills, fifty cent pieces, quarters dimes; but nothing less. In all were some ten thousand dollars bred . from a crowd of fifty and. And there has been no made about the collection of lsum because it was a mere in- t of the game. It had no part than the human interest side, lart other than showing ‘that the can people as a whole are the generous and loving people on ‘ace of the globe, are ever ready nd a helping hand to suffering hnity, be those people friends bes. every big football game in this ry during the season just closed L was taken up a collection for sufferers of Europe. The money sent abroad: o work\where it i do the most-good, not with any gs tied to it. And, in view of act that some. few people in this try of foreign birth spend a good- brtion of their time prating anent as far north as the ice-bound coasts of Greenland, as far south as the tail end of the Americas. He knows them all by their walk,—the 'drum- mers, the theatrical people, the mis. sionaries, the vacationists, the lec- turers, even the knights of the road,— he knows them all. =~ And they know he has none. a new appellation. Prince Royal, Gray Horse.” after the famous horses of history, after Marengo, the white which Napoleon rode at Waterloo, after the boys of the street, after the heroes of fiction. His most frequent label, however, is the Horse of Church Street. And that will ever be his honor. Would that all men could emulate the example of our friend the horse of Church street. He has no bad hx\iblt& He does not smoke, or drink, he does not stay out late of nights. When nightfall darkens the town he is taken in and when the morning sun comes up over the horizon the first to greet him is the horse of Church street, He is healthy horse, a wise horse, although mayhap he is not possessed of worldly goods. He never gets angry, he never does anything he should not do. He never asks favors of anyone, he does not bor- row money. Every man gives him To some he is “The He has been named to others simply a He does not even eat oats, this horse of Church street, so the high cost of living or loving does not enter into his existence. He is the silent, steady sign of an institution fast going the way of the blacksmith shop,—he is the emblem of the har- ness-maker, A MATTER OF DIFE AND DEATH. One of the greatest evils the rail- | roads of the United States have to combat is that of trespassing. It is a problem. Since the days when the railroad was a novelty, when men Journeyed miles over country roads to watch a train pass a given point this condition of affairs has existed,— people will trespass on railroad prop- erty. As the roads have expanded, as fast trains have been added to the schedules, the number of deaths and injuries because of the foolhardy habit of walking or lurking near rail- road tracks has been greatly augment- ed every year. To get some idea of the havoc wrought by this evil the Association of Railway Claim Agents two years ago appointed a committee of fifteen to investigate the trespassing habit. These men made a report for all the states in the union in aggregate and separate reports for individual states. Their report shows an appalling loss of life due to the peril of trespassing. During last year in the entire nation, 4,746 lives were lost in this manner; 826 trespassers each lost one limb; 172 lost two limbs each, and 5,041 suffered lidiocy and other faults of Ameri- , it is good to see native charit- work go on, good to know that spirit of Americanism is bigger h any criticism that might be led against it. The American it is big because it favors no man, Jass, no race, but extends a hos- ble hand wherever needed. The animity and mpnificence of rica. know no bounds. — e HORSE: OF CHURCH STREET. ery day we see him standing e hitched to the post,—the horse hurch street. There is no nobler d. He is the personification of ience, the poetry of inanimation. 1 sorts of weather he firmly holds ground. On rainy days his in- nt.owner carefully places an um- lla ower his head to keep off the Inting streaks of misty drops. hen it snows a comfortable woolen nket is flung over his shoulders i neck to protect him from the zen crystals. On the hot torrid lvs he is carefully draped with a ken netting to ward off the multi- hinous insects that prow about seek- E whom they may devour, and when e rays of old Sol come out in all ir brilliancy and seek to lay low n and beast under the stroke, the of Church street gently has pced on his burning forehead a sun- jnnet,—a real modish sun-bonnet of aw with two holes on either side that the ears of this noble steed n be thrust carelessly through them. his probably so he can hear the ings that ‘are going on about him. You who. have trudged your busy lay along - Church street have seen is gallant animal standing with his pstrils pointed to the South; as noble steed as Pegasos of old; you have assed in your hurry without spend- much time or consideration over i§ being there; but he has seen you o, has the horse of Church street, Ind wished you god-speed in burneying. Before him pass the fisitors to the ¢ity, and those who 6 away. All who with/ bag and bag- e malke their way to the railroad ation have gone before the horse bt Church street. Hie has seen more ravelers to Néw Britain than any esident’ within our gates. And they pave all seen him. « He has friends your other injuries. For the state of Connecticut the report shows that during the year him, not by his baptismal name for | stallion | FACTS AND FANCIES. Certain strangers within our gates | must be shown that the torch of Lib- { erty cannot be applied to American | factories.—Brooklyn Eagle, Since Carranza is recognized, Villa | does not seem to care greatly wheth- er he is taken for a bandit, a looter or a distinguished patriot.—Buffalo Commercial. | Pancho Villa should put ice on his | head and not attempt to march on Washington and overturn the United States government.—Ithaca Journal The Russians are calling Constanti- nople “Czargrad,” but if the gray troops of the Little Father ever get into the City of the Golden Horn the spelling will doubtless be amended to read ‘‘Czargrab.”—Rochester Post Express. Bryan objects to a quotation from Ezekiel about a watchman blowing his trumpet, which is passing strange for a political watchman who spends a large portion of his waking hours in a blowing his own horn.—Bing- hamton Press. The Attorney General of Kansas has decided that tne jitney car i neither a public service corporation, a public utility or a common carrier. But then Kansas always has an un- usual point of view.—Syracuse Post- Standard. Tt is-to be hoped that the federal in- come tax will be mercilessly used by Congress in imposing taxes on the richer people of the country to pro- vide the $250,000,000 in excess of present appropriations which the Wil- son (military) program must cost. —Springfield Republican. Pathological Fatigue. (New York World.) Teaching is not commonly reckoned an extra-hazardous occupation, but such it appears to be, in the New York public schools at least. Accord- ing to statistics compiled by the FErooklyn Teachers’ association, 20 per cent. of all absences or teachers are Adue to illness, largely to “occupational diseases” of the throat and lungs. Eut the great menace of the teaching profession is pathological fatigue. The “average teacher,” it seems, lives in “‘a constant state of pathological fatigue, nervously unstrung, but by sheer dint of heroic effort is sacri- ficing her remaining vitality in the cause of public service.” That being the case, can a humane municipality wreck what is left of the teacher’s health by asking her to devote part of her vacation to teach- ing in summer schools? It is to pre- vent this very frightfulness that the Brooklyn Teachers’. association has had the disturbing figures compiled. But it Is to be hoped the teachers will not claim any monopoly of patho- logical fatigue. That is a very preva- lent and by no means exclusive malady. It afflicts all women who bave to make their living. Men even are not exempt. People would work with almost as much zest as they play if only patho- logical fatigue could be eradicated from labor. It is probably the most universal of occupational diseases. That New York women school teachers, with their higher pay and more comfortable conditions of work, should be specially susceptible to it is only one of the distinctive symp- toms of the malady. National Preparation. 1914 there were thirty accidents which fell to the lot of trespassers. ot this number sixteen were killed, three suffered the loss of one limb each and eleven suffered other injuries. one case only was a woman concerned, and, strange to say, but one of the thirty was known as a tramp or hobo. In list shows that almost every trespa in this state during that period was a person between the age of thirty and fifty years, showing ‘that they must have had the use of reason,—and yet they were trespassers and knew the inevitable outcome. Only four of this number were intoxicated. From the foregoing figures can be seen the dreadful results of trespass- ing. Because these figures have to do with a condition in our own state we are able to see the lesson brought home. Last week in our own city we were brought face to face with the evils that befall those who venture in this perilous fashion. Trespassing on a railroad track is far more dan- gerous than aviation, 'far more hazardous than any occupation, pas- time, or sport in America. It is time people gave this evil a little at- tention, time parents warned their young ones, employers their employes, teachers their pupils, even time the men in the pulpit sounded a warning to their congregations,—for this is a matter of life and death, and as such should be recognized. er Having 81 years and charged up against one’s not such a bad feat for a woman. At least that must. be what Mrs. Hetty Green thought yesterday when { she celebrated her birthday. $100,000,000 account is It is unpleasant to note in a news telegram from Norfolk the statement that one of the mere enlisted men of the interned German cruiser ~Eitel Friedrich has apparently violated his parole and disappeared. Heretofore it has only been the officers and gen- tlemen of the Imperial German navy on the interned vessel who have de- liberately broken their solemnly plighted words of honor and run away. A tendency to ape the aristoc- racy on the part of the lower classes is always reprehensible—New York Sun. The vast majority of the Connecticut | (New Haven Register. We are rapidly moving to a point where, consciously or unconsciously, the expression national preparation is taking the place of national de- fense. We seem to he moving away from the consideration of the sub- ject from an insular point of view, and to be moving towards its con- sideration from the external point of view. We are becoming less and less concerned with the police aspect of the case and more and more con- cerned with the international phases of it. In an enlightening editorial in the springfield Republican upon the gen- cral subject, we are given a specific reason why President Wilson has | within a year changed from a fis to a semi-militarist. It “The conclusion seems forced upon one that with vast changes of some sort ahead of us, with the actusl success of Germany in Europe by no means so improbable as it deemed a year ago, with Britain's economic future and political strength far less assured even in victory tham it was after Waterloo, the United States is bound to make more ample preparation for eventualities that might prove exceedingly disturbing ir. their effects upon the wostern con- tinents and our vast national inte | ests. Here is the underlying reasou for the president's change of mili | tary policy since a year ago. Op- portunist? Yes. But opportunist because the march of events bids statesmanship take its measure, while there is time, of what may come after.” This comes so much nearer being a specific statement of what we have to fear when the European war is over that we are encouraged to he- lieve that when the great debate starts in the congress plain speech will become even more popular. As our readers know, we have not been a bit satisfied with the shriekings of the jingoes, who have pitted every nation against us in their imagina- tions, but when a newspaper of the character and ability of the Spring- ficld Republican sees in our gr prosperity the source of envy to othe pations, and that there will be of pecessity an attempt on the part of some nation or other to take it from us, we get very near to an under- standing of things. Tt is not a bit encouraging from any point of view. 1t is decidedly distasteful, but it may be human. There is reason for sat- isfaction, however, that there will not be lacking from the debate in the congress voices which will refuse to be sacred even at this prospect. It is now clearer than ever that the de- tate must be thorough. We want “ more light. ‘greater and sometimes le: WHAT OTHERS SAY Views on all sides of timely questions as discussed in ex- changes that come to the Herald Office. High Cost of Courtship. (Meriden Democrat.) A magazine writer maintains that one of the chief reasons why young men don’t marry so numerousl they used to is because courting costs too much. Of all the extravanganc. of the present generation, thel certainly © none more conspicuous than the. cxpensive entertainment Which voung men feel obliged to give their girl friends. It doesn’t matter much whether the young man's in- tentions are serious or not; he spends his money just the same. Formerly there wasn’t much expected of a man, even an engaged man, except occasional flowers or candy or books. But now such things are the least of the impecunious swain’s troubles. Theaters and luncheons and auto- mobiles eat a hole into the most com- fortable income. And the plumber or the ice man *f: no less It isn’t ome disgruntled males insist, that gi are more sel- fish and exacting tk they used to be. When an occasional girl of €conomic instincts insists that a man shall not “blow in" his money on her, she is likely to mect with a re- buff. The voung man himself ex- Dects to spend ‘ais money on her; to a certain class of young man, the class that sets the pace, that's what money st for. The standard has changed, and young males are caught in a system of social obligation that leads a man earning $20 a week to spend $10 entertaining a girl for an evening, without feeling that he's doing anything absurd—in fact, do- ing it with a feeling of secret pride that isn’t wholly deflated by his eat- ing ten-cent lunches till pay day. Whether such cxpenses really scare men out of matrimony is a question. Certainly they postpone matrimony somewhat, because it takes so much longer to save enough to start house- keeping. But on the other hand, a voung man is likely to conclude that it won’t cost any more to support a wife than to keep on good terms with a girl. As a matter of fact, the lavish expenditure is usually curtail- ed after the honeymoon. It has to be, to keep the family housed, clothed and provisioned. And the re- trenchment often brings dulness and discontent because the transition from extravangance to thrift is so abrupt. Always With Us- (Waterbury American.) This tramp question is too interest- ing to let alone. The _proposed tramp lodging house is desifned to do just what every one of us wants to have done, separate the worthy from the unworthy. It takes every one who comes along and gives individual at- tention to his case. Every one wants work, actually or professedly. He neceds to be cleaned up sometimes be- fore he is presentable. It provides for him a bath,and a shave, and an opportunity to wasn his clothes, dis- infect his outer clothing, and get rid of the filth and vermin which he un- avoidably picks up in the kind of life he is living through choice or necessity. In these days there is no difficulty in getting him work, if he wants it and is able to work. The unwiling, the lazy, those who live this life from choice, and ameliorate it only by the proceeds of begging and imposition, are little by little discov- ered and discouraged from visiting Waterbury, not cruelly but expertly, kindly but firmly At present these men are all herded in together, the good and the bad, then turned away. They cost the city nothing, it is said. But many of them pick up on the streets by panhandling, at which they are ex- pert, sometimes many dollars apiece. confess it. This costs some- body much money. The community Some are better beggars than and some days the yield i But they g0 out of the city's care unwashed, unimproved, without any discrimina- tion as to their deserts and without any opportunity to find work except such opportunity as they may make for themselves. They are not ad- vised or helped, encouraged or pro. vided with an opportunity. That just what the scientific dealing with the tramp question supplies. It is not a solution of the tramp question, which is a universal problem, but it alleviates it locally. The aggrégate of local alleviation through this method means much for the comfort of'man and the improvement of con- ditions, There is anofher, a selfish side 1o this question, not unworthy of consid- eration. The tramp who calls at our door, obviously hungry, and asks for a meal, or the man who meets us on the street, wet and thinly clothed, asking for money enough for a meal or a lodging, demands our personal service, for there is no place to which to refer him. The Associated Charities organization has now no equipment for supplying his needs and getting out of him somethin return, if ble. But an organization, such as is desired, would supply just the resource every friendly-minded man needs, a place to which to send these poor creatures with a certainty that they will be well cared for, and set on their feet again if they are capable of standing. To such an institution most men are willing to contribute something for the relief it offers to their hearts and consciences. Psychology of Kultur, York Sun.) A world grown wise in experience acquiesces in the Teutonic confession that only in Germany has the human mind risen above the plane of bar- baric benightedness. In the hope that we may be spared the expositions of patriotic hyphenates we make haste to acknowledge in advance all then ! can say in praise of Prussian su- | periority; the assent they may deduce i | world trembles from silence amid the clamor of their outgivings they are welcome to. In art, in science, in morals, in every- thing Kultur has won a first place that admits no second. In psychology, likewise, supreme. The study of the human mind and its reactions to various stimuli has nowhere been carried on with such precision as in Germany. | There the infants in arms excel in this department of knowledge the white thatched wise men of all other na- ticns, Even our Johnsons, and Near- ings are not so full of ripe erudition ; as the least of these, shocking though | such an admission may appear. The | its Kultur is as it recognizes awful inferiority. But as it trembles the world dares to question. One wanton thought in- trudes. Why does Kultur contribute to nothing except the making of dyes | and cannon, the composition of | poisonous gases, the fabrication of suffering and death? Not, be it un- derstood, that we should wish Kultur | might prove so weak, so spineless, as | 1o recognize humane thought or cul- | tivate mere mercy; but when Kultur’s | offspring and defenders might profit | say, by the modification of their con- duct through their deep knowledge of | psychology, why does Kultur inhibit | them from that not to be despised | accretion? That it does exercise this strong prohibitive power history too | young to lie gives ample testimony, | testimony that may, without exaggera- tion of resort to poetic license, be de- scribed as written in red. The German mind, disciplined by Kultur, is very magnificent, no doubt. | Sometimes it seems to have lost con- trol over the German hand. 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