New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 4, 1915, Page 6

" BRITAIN HERALD | ALD PUBLISHING GUMPANTY, Proprietors. 1y (Sunda. orald Building, at the Post Offce at New Britaln Second Class Mall Matter. excepted) at 4:15 p. m. 87 Church St il by carriors to any part of the eity Cents & Weok, 65 Cents a Month. fons for paper to be sent by mall able {n advance, 60 Cents & Month, $7.00 a year. profitable advertising medium in ty. Clrculation books and press om always open to advertisers. 14 will be found on sale at Hota- ews Stand, 42nd St. and Broad- New York City; Board Walk antic City and Hartford depot. TELEPHONE CALLS. Ofhice OUT-JOBBING JOB. e can be no fair minded person United States who would ob- the action of American ment in asking for the recall tain Boy-Ed, the naval attache German embassy, and his | and compatriot Captain | These two diplomats pped the bounds of common ty. They have violated jles extended them Dby this na- hey have made themselves un- bles in more ways than one. are some other officials in the c corps who are following footsteps, of Boy-Ed and Von and if they fail to accept this g they too should be ushered the country. The case of Dr. ., the = disgraced Austria-Hungary seems not to over-effected any of these peo- jho enjoy privileges of Which can citizens know little. n a gathering of native sons do Ihing that is in utter violation of we of the United States, when become so depraved and wanton enter into conspiracy to defraud mited States, and, when they ught at these things, they fed, and if convicted they ent to the Federal Penitentiary rt Leavenworth to do a term of at hard labor. Because of the of diplomacy that is flung over oulders of men representing “countries the United States prosecutes them under the law they are caught at these tricks. ost severe punishment that can ted out to such criminals is the g for their recall. And this | been done in the case of Captain 5d and Captain Von Papen who been implicated in serious ac- | es involving infringement of bd States’ jJaws. is latest case against Captain Ea is but the culmination of a s of indiscretions against the laws e United States of America. The holds true with Captain Von | bn. He was implicated the | hatched by the erstwhile Austrian | passador, Dr. Dumba. At that | there was talk of his rgedll; but i ident Wilson w nt and let | | German official go after the Ger- the Von have the ambassador in ordered the an extended vaca- | where the military | retire- Ambassador had Captain on in the West, went into temporary But he lost no time in getiing on the job once the Dumba case d from the public mind. or the same offense that Captain -1 and Captain Von Papen have four | | { | che t. n usked to leave the country, of the Hamburg-Amer line mhers n mship have to serve in may Federal penitent the ates has al- s the extent what ment of the United ed these two characters in a mean s shows to ROV~ y cnuct their parts, They have been en all the rope ih the world, they monkey-wrenches right machinery of at last they Inged themselves. Among those ple still left who hold their old he love for the Stars and Stripes of nerica there will be great rejoicing at two such officials are to be with no longer. Among those w pathies are more on the outside an the inside of, American bles and practices there will wnright sorrow that their friends d acecomplices Were caukht so red- nded by a . stupld ' people. But A0nE everybody, no matter how their pathies<rum, fisrr be 1. tHe-meffon. of this govern- i Job/Mould have lost his tience mnder ‘su h circumstances. ew and into the this gov- ment, and have hose prin- be can no With all gur beautiful women, and odestly we must admit that the dies in the United States have no uals anywhere earth ness and witching . manners, prprising that for com- it taken on is steps were not native fur have for g ago to create mar- et. vinced Our women always liking da others furs, Daniel to «hot proh- a special the and ver since ys when oone penetrated he pristine woodland and merican animals, The habit | precious gems and gold as ornaments { and garniture for wealth and fashion. | ters,—in other words, the immediate | will send Indians. Thus America has been ever the land of the fur lover. are informed that the men Now we who arve making an endeavor to further Ameri- pian for the formation of a $1,000,- | 000 organization to create a fur mar- | ket. While this count its facilities for gathering fur, | heing untold numbers of soft coated | all | upon foreign agen- is wealthy in there | animals in her forests, she has along depended for disposing of the fur she has | produced. Even the dressing of some | of the American furs has been left to cutside firms.' Some of the most val- vable furs in the world are gotten | here, seal-skins, mink, badger, bea beaver, ver fox, red fox, cross fox, | and gray fox, skunk, and musk rat. At the present time furs vie with cie s Because of their abundance, however, | and the cheapness of certain varieties, they have been placed within the reach of those It is well then that American traders have aroused themselves and deter- mined to put the home marts With the out on working basis tur markets put of the American articles should difficulty in gaining a foothold. 1ave no —_— THE WEDDING DAY. While some folk have been ting patiently by awaiting for the day | when the European War will end, while others have been looking for- ward to the coming of Santa Claus, while others are watching and wait- | ing for the milliniu:n to put in its ap- pearance, the vast majority of souls on this part of the American hemis- phere have had their ears cocked for the announcement of just one day, the wedding day of President Wilson and Mrs. Norman Bolling Galt. And, at last, after the long weary vigil, the day has been announced. This morn- sit- ing’'s nmews brings the joyous tidings that the President #nd his fiancee will trip their way to the hymenal altar on Saturday, December, the eight- | eenth, two weeks fiom tcday But, because Pre..dent Wilson be- lieves in Democratic simplicity, and because Mrs. Galt £1s0 is of the safe and sane tempe.a»-ont, there will be no elaborate wedding and this fa will take some of the joy out of the There ars numerous ladies and gentlemen in this country had hop s of attending a W hite House wedding. Their chances have vanished as will-o’-the-wisps. The wedding will take place at the moder- ately humble residenc. of Mrs. Galt in a old fashioned section of the nation’s capital. The only guests will be the mother, the brother and sisters of the bride, the hrothers and s'sters of the pr announcement. who have quaint sident and his daugh- members of the households concerned. No simpler wedding could take place in the most humble family in the land. And yet while all ostentation pushed aside by the President and finncee while the glamor and glare of the White House will be sct for the nonce in the back- has been carefully his ground, the representatives of foreign governments in Waghington will prob- ably add a touch of official recogni- t on of the affair by sending presents. The Congress of the United States present. T members of the Arimy and Navy contingent will in A1l likelihood gift upon the members bestow bride of the judiciary, a suitable v ill the It eusily be ovarthrown. as is custom and If dur- ing the course of the war bullets and shrapnel stop raging long enough to aullow their majesties the potentates take ‘‘eir eyes off the of congratulation upon the President and his bride from those sources. 1In all, it Will be a gala day in Washington what though the wedding s stazed in a red cannot kings and to arena even notes may pour in | brick residence and not in the White But best of all, when and his brids go forth on thelr honeymoon they will know that With them the best wishes of all the people of the United States House, the ! President they carry from the humblest fo the highest like this, lines nare shoved aslde and al' the world, al] the United States, Re crats, Progressives, to the pleasant Por, in a case aublicans. all, settle of Joving It cannot be helped. Deme down task the lovers, Newspapers in belligerent countries | are asking the question: “What Are We Fightinf For?” Give us some- ‘thing easy! Editor of the To rettle a tell me who try, may country Herald wager will you kindly it was said “My coun- she always be right; but my right or wrong." ANXTOUS The quotation to which s on refer is attributed to Stephen Decatur and is ag follows: bly sprung up in the wake of the fur raders who plied their wares among - women of the citieg after having = b Our Country: In her intercourse with foreign nations may she alwa gotten valuable goods ‘from theI i can trade have mapped out a tentative | s | with moderate means. | & be in the right, but our country right or wrong!—Id. NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1915, LOG OF THE OSCAR 2 December dropped Asked the was and he s rhoard waitch poofing press to of the bu ook m. what time it bells by the 1 spicion he is Invited the on the future dustry. All too Sent back a note peace.” Just well satisfied come along. He'd probably g0 fifty-fifty on the publicity st this expedition is from Detroi Lincoln. Rum Tried to me. an in automol playing g “Let Bryan of females wil automobiles bunch talk want with them VARIOUS VICINAL VIEWS. 1915, S“",,y“smu- Editors Comment on Release New Britain Banke a ptain “Threc | Have o | Bditoral comment in Connecticut newspapers on the case of William ¥ Walker, the eml ler who was re leased from state prison yesterday, leans towards criticism of the bhoard of parole for permitting the of the former banker. Some cditors do not their views and express that State’s Attorney Hugh M should have heen upheld in oy position to Walke parole. Fii- torials from leading state papers fol-| low terview sile in- poker: 15 have release of the airing opinion Alc his words in the didn’t mince 1o uff and t, not th us. but they insist on giving me the lat- est in gowns. Thought they intellectual crowd when I invitations, Guess the female Lighbrow species is just as bu gowns as the female of the lowbhrow Evidertly some of are to be the pa board s up bunc cither. If it 1t minutes to turn < that zood for species. think they court judging by finery brou t Coilege awfu ng stuck it up, ofc: in Noth is ung man the answer? where FACTS AND FANCIES, A German Per ernment for the food always noticed that G looked remarkably well-fed ester Union. ¥ cTitic Governor Ferguson of turned from his General Carranza with the id the Mexican is a patriot and a man personal acquaintance.—Buffal | quirer. Speaking to a Mr. Bryan says his “unsuccessful political ¢ and in the same breath we lea he is expected in Norway 800 haps Norway deserves the falo Commercial. Cleveland a That critic larity of the “movie’ quick lunch dArama” that most people pr to a course dinner when, as a of fact, if they had the price mightn't—Pittsurg Dispatch. who to its bei may i The ciation vear Av making their old considered the possibility that have been due to riding in mo stead of patch, pre: es - What may be the next the Austro-Germans iz mere ture. They must break out direction before long, but is i toward Aefa Minor and the Su al, with Kgypt and India in th grond? Or against ltaly, the western front? The weeks would seem o other turning point in the wa the initiative is still with Gerr New York Press P nex When we law have a censes, after proving their abi manage a car, and some way i to effectively eurh reckless dr trucks and heavy vehi signs prohibiting a speed in ex eight or ten miles an howr m taken down done, we shudder to think of t sequences of raising the legal rate of speed, Brooklyn Eagle. In the last the captain of the torpedoed liner Ancona forwarded by dor Page to the state depart: Is admitted that an effort wa to escape from the Austrian rine after warning had heen 1t is clear by this time, even {= atill much obscurity about that the Ancona is in # claas self. Tt is to he hoped tt 1 sentinl facts can hlishe out mich more Spr Republican he es dels Connecticut Laundries. A comparative summary issu the census bureau at glves the number of steam in the State of Connecticut last year as 127, of which in cities having an estir lation of 10,000 or more New Haven, 18; Hartford, port, 8, Waterbury, New Rritain, 4; London, By Stamford, rington, 2; 1a 84 1ed ns f i 7. Dahb Meriden, 4; ol, #: Norw Middletown, Willimantic, 2; Ansc and Naugntuck, 1 These statistics are confir power laundries and do not figures for hand laundries wh power. As a rule most of {hes dries are operated hy steam In some steam and electric nsed jointly and in power ix employed ter and steam ing purpe The 1 ploy 126 are p 146 salar wage invest increns there w the Inst an pos others excinsivel being used for os only. vindries i the of firm cmplovees, i persons, prietors or d earners 1in 1) of 67 me ane $1. whicl cent. services sum of $1,0 3 oper cent There b pe for nes ] pail the incrense of 61 last report: for materials 401, an incrense of 66.0 pe and the amount received for done is crease of 48.9 per cent. ove were nt presente Americ: takes ses the Texas consultation Opinion freguently improves on he wants no pity pity—Buf- ascribes the popi- - a guick lunch walking ?—Pitishurg in a Riga represent compel- ling automobile owners to take out li- lea the hosolete Until these (hings are maximum anywhere. available statement Ambas; Washingtou, for given as $2,108,011, an of Walker, Journal.) The Case (Meriden William F. Walker, ain man, who has been Wethersfield before he his sentence, has never told what he ith most the money that he from the bank and the Bap- The authorities a8 the bondsmen and the bank very to get a de- what became of et they now e of cver doing it an out of lhei 1g over Brit- from them association ing i ke much of out some- | ’] Topog ( via | “Servia served half richest soils of Kurope see give raphical Items VW_ith War Interest | Washington, D ., Dec. 4 recognition -“Servia Just winning undeveloped the as an at H the Servians had attract their agricultural the bonanz: Outhreak of Wi and Vropaganda pushed and which the fur years Biitish capital to the point of bearing frult,” T\.A“”m“‘h:n'n.vm Just issued by the the eoonoeographic soclety, in which > cconomie condition of the Ser- of war days 1s reviewed. pe gm;.‘dr been justly known as ool Earden of the Balkans,’ and In s valleys are found some of the not excepting of Russin and Friuli. Unlike Russia's Daciefos ,(,.,I"'”‘ which has been s ility, so t some of the northern provine ar outrank- ing th Of the favored south, tho Servian lands have harely begun to their wealil to the farmer. sturdy middle kingdom of Lo French country on pre the ‘hlack the verdant black earth’ helt earth of “The | several indictments ! the Balkans ia composed of s nation over Walker and if ttorney saw fit he could have him arraiened again on many counts. Perhars the reason why this ne and one excuse for granting the parole is Yealth for he is quite feeble I don't Never They He has the of farmers as not peared the condition of Walker's were only of th soldler-farmers, every Servian is u soldier, Y ufacturing industry among them products used in for -and man- has haraly np- 2 The ricated Hervia; und these Simplest and most “Verywhere in the necessary kinds | een severely puniehed even if he has land outside of the capital city; were not finished half that was imposed. the sentence Chiticise Board of Parole (“The Commentation The London Dav If the board of par dom, conceives tha the en tice will not be d ted Te- | Jease of William F. With | Britain bank embe ea that | prison, certair state: those who believe themselv op feel that n difference sum morsality, ene way O | couse Walker gets h haps T am more minded, anvhow, ject of criminology have any very f subject—except solidly opposed to capit as & general propa don ! the Walker Jle with entire equa | fmnity, have learned vith decisien to re- tuse him his In other word 1 don’t eare way or the cther. Neverthe rather whe S 8 | New Roct n its wis- re- New by o En i the ET of the the other, liberty world's udience for ~areer,” T that n. Per- th am good and punishment as 1 would equanimity of berty hoot ng “the i magine = a one ‘matter for some they % does make t ~omm thumping big ynable nder so- gets i conspic- in ihe mnewspaper suhject Al the exertion people sy aired de the ions and | infiuence, Jail into a life of at least comfort long hefore his term is com- pleted— while some poor devil who ver did one-tenth as much damage, and who probably never was in a posi- tion to actually learn right from wrong, anvhow, has to stay In quod till the cows come home, T's all right—it's all right! T'm not kicking over the Walker liberation But T can't, to save me, get the re tive injustice out of my noodle. Rel- 'etive Injustice, T say, mind; and rela- | tive injustice I mean. 1 do not pre- | tend to pass on the question of whether Walker has heen sufficientls punished: 1 know that seven years in prigon would be punishment enough | for me if I had wrecked 40 banks in- stend of one, or if T had shot up a | whole roomful of people: seven years wust be terribly long time to stay | in prison. But can’t see Walker withonut seeing the rest of those erring | gouls up there in Wethersfield and | wondering whether scven years was any longer to him that to them; whether there was any less wicked- neee and injufy in what he did than in what some of them did who have | | Leen there more than seven years and | who will doubtless stay for more than seven vears longer. | nent, it Of coutes Walker fool. With & made | a1 his position ana his respectability and his share in the estcem of hig fel- low townspeople, he was a mere pea- nut headed fool with all a fool's lack of moral fabric and moral stamina. hy it- | And he always has been a fool. That the es- | wasn't his fault, of ¢ nobody is d with- | to blame for bei a But. the ringfield | are degrees 6f folly and Walker wasn't €0 much of g fool but what he knew quite as well vou ot the | things he dia that New Britain ank’'s money were criminal things | Which is precicely the position of nine out of ten of the Whethersfleld crowd The criminal is always more or less of a fool gencrally quite as mich of a fool as Walker. Ho, relatively meke out much of that couldn't he made other eriminal. But th necessarily, that the of Connecticut is going fo he worse off hecause Wi 1t might not, nece the world C‘onne any the worse off if all the 20 year men in Whethersfield got out the end of seven ¥ I don't know, for Neither do vou Charlie Gondorf, the croo cered the looting of Walker, between them got the New Britain man. e them of heing that; presumably crook get hanker, even less of a fool of Walker it may TorE in- Di <orts of peti- all sorts of ¥ of of lan of | conjec- | new t to be ez can- e hack- on few an- v, and many.- oy lity to s found ivers of cess of | ay he he con- Ttal was a subma- given. if there he case, ourse fonl as or vith ted | undriea the wern popu- follow Brid ury, New ich, Tor- mia, 1, it s for any { isn't saying, 11 or the state any the Hherated mean that would t ont ker is rily or ent ned to include ich no e laun- pow ver electri v. wa wah at ars siare Listen who engi ana his g 40,000 out of Nohody would fonls, on the face of i talkes pretty clever £210,000 rrom it the banlker is mo, One i linble to think wenlk minded vietim d Gondor highly intelligent and very wick- ed wan. Vet what did Gondorf and his pals do with (hat $240,0002 They did precisely what Walker did with Walker played the nearly quarter of million against Gondorf's Gon- acrf and hi: played it ngainst other gamblers’ nes probably sure Gondorf They every that bundle ' ng e em to whom away s T Gl 154,961 ] an 1901 durin 51 over $403 cent. work in- ) it samie T crow as dumped into the as dollar of So 1 learn of | ferti ne when a m e ne when a man | cjy influen- | 9| perverted pers and finally walks out of | physical | almost wholly 1nade wp of Imports by way of the Hungarian frontier gnd by way of the Girc port, Saloniki The wealth of the land canie from f14 ZAng fields, and from ources but a tithe was taken which might have nee duced with the investment e needed capital, Among other characterizations of much-nicknamed country, ths poor man’s paradise’ tells ory than any other. Before ak of the war, which 1y = swept away crops, live stock of soil, Hervia, through- its length and breadth, was more truly a land sufficieney than any 4 in Europe. There was ro urban or industrial were scarce and pove but unknown. Servi ricuitural labor- er has been said to be as well off as the small farmer in England. More lity of soil, and more plcturesque beauty of danscape is found in the middle kinedom than in any other Balkan state. ‘Figs formed the chief element of been of this of ‘t fuller 1 " ers of of an Beg less all | | faro and roulette game inside of three weeks, I presume this will be news to a | gcod many people. It was told to me i by a detective officer who got it siraight from Gondorf, and Gondor | be it known, 1e of those strangely »f honor who, out- at Atlantic ns 1»‘(10 of their regular trade of fleecing | suckers, do not lie. Gondorf is in Sing Sing just at pres- | ent. I suppose he will stay there for | the preseribed period of his sentence. | | | 000. save me 1 can’t see such an awful lot of difference between Gon- dcrf's game and Walker's game. Gondorf needed capital to get their bank rolls away from the Atlantic City gamblers. So he took the capi tal away from Walker. €d capital to get their away from some mythical owners or makers, the capital from bank. One was as miuch cther, T am sure. One of a criminal as the other, Hut to bank pool rools room hook away the savings 18 much suspect was I cne, 1 have the impression, was as de- | other, | The Commentator, | cent and respectable as the Walker’'s Release, (Bridgeport Post.) In ordering the release of William E. Walker, the notorious New Britain gaving Bank embezzier, the Board of Parole of the Connecticut State Prison nas displayed, in our judgment, un- due leniency. | Walker stole something like $565,- He has never told what he did with the proceeds of his thieving and for all the Board may know, he will row be able to live in luxury on his iligotten gains. It is not surprising that there is indignation in New Brit- ain and Hartford county, Neither is| it surprising that States Attorne frugh M. Alcorn of Hartford county entered a strong protest against the proposed parole when it was first re- auested a year ago. State's Attorney Alcorn is one of Connecticut’s very best officials. In| cvery position where he has served he has acted well his part to the pub- | lic good. As State’s Attorney. he is casily the most vigilant in represent- the people of any prosecuting in the State. His example well be followed by others. he protests against the release notorious offender the public interests are threatened letter sent twelve months was pointed out by Mr. Al- corn that Walker carried on thiefs for a period of nearly twenty vears. He took money from individuals who confided in him, from the Savings bank and from the Baptist Conven- tion of which he was a trusted official It was pointed out further that he concealed his thefts by committing other crimes, including forgery and the making of false returns. It was further disclosed how Walker fled and how he contrived to have it re- ported that he was killed when he had gone to Mexico, When discovered he fought extradition for six months. He finally brought hack and pleaded cuilty. He was senienced from one to {wenty vears in the state prison. He has now served seven and a half years. Mr. Alcorn thinks. under the circum- stances. Walker not entitled to din our judgment he in his seemingly ing «fficer might When of a knows its In his tack it is erieney, warranted attitude. Mr. Aleorn showed course after discovery presensibl S0 far Attorney’s information 1 exhibited little, if is severe that Walker's Wis most re- as the tates Roes Walker any, contrl- Walker need- | S0 he took | | will follow. | will of a fool as the | Servian wealth. They were corn-fed Digs, like those of our western plains, and were fattened in autumn ana summer on the beech-mast and acorns of the extensive Servian for- Despite keen American comn- petition and the unfavorable tariffs of neighbors, Serbian pork products found an ever increasing export. The pigs are mostly of a native breed, pure white or black, though some foreign breeds have been introdu ed during recent years. In relation to its population. Servia possessed nmore pigs and sheep at the time of the war's outbreak than any other ests| country in Iurope, having more than | 1,000,000 pigs and about 3,500,000 sheep. Goats, also, are raised in great members, and the favored Servian cheeses are made of the milk of goats and ewes. ‘““Methods of farming and raising have never risen above primitive In this land of plenty, which ‘tickled’ with the peasant’s hoe al- ways ‘laughs back with a harvest.’ Indian corn, the basis of the diet of the Servian farmer and of the Ser- vian live stock, is the pripcipal crop of the land. The normal annual ield exceeds more than 5,000,000 bushels. Important quantities of wheat, flax, hemp and tobacco have been regularly grown. In 1910, sugar-beet was introduced into crops of Servia, and this new in- dustry grew with astonishing rapid- iy, until it fous industry of Austria. Europe thrive kingdom, and All the fruits of in the middle Balkan from one of them, the vlum, is produced a national drink, .I;‘\n;‘d :ll'\‘\: .:vnfl:. Sericulture and cekeeping were enco people’s welfare “Lack of capital has h little kingdom from lak‘n:e:!hro'n: inent part in the world of commerce: and, untll recent years, this lack of capital was due to the facts that the outside world knew little of Ser- via, and that little had been placed before it in a way unfavorable te this people’s interests. The riches of Servia were unguessed, and grave rumors concerning the security of life and property in the state were widely printed in the world's pre Austrians were among the first to take advantage of the country's rich- ness, and Germans, Bulgarians and Englishmen followed them.” —_—_——m | tion. | and by his silence | protected them.” ing to tell, letters show deal. In concluding his letter of protest States Attorney Alcorn said: ‘Walker has served only six and one-half vears of a miximum sentence of twenty years, No one can fairly claim that this sentence is excessive, and if not, then the State of Connecticut says Mr. he could tell a great has a right to expect that the Board | of Parole will not interrupt it for several years to come.” What States Attorney Alcorn said tren applies today. He has fourteen other indictments against Walker for lawbreaking. He may yet take some action upon them. For the present Te is not Teady to say what course he Certain it is that he have the support of a strong public opinion if he decides, as the state's representative to rebuke undue leniency. The Parole of Walker. (Hartford Post.) are two ways of looking at the of William F. Walker, the New Britain absconder, who will be freed from prison by the board of parole after serving a prison sentence 5f less than eight yvears for stealings There case amounting more than a half million | «f dollars, One view of the case contemplates only Walker, who has become an ohject for men's pity rather than for their contempt. Hir health is broken and he is in great mental distress #gince the recent death of his wife. Further he is about to reach the three score and ten years which are the alotted span of man's life. Time is the great healer and lessens resentment against it softems other sentiments. A whole state which was astounded and it | indignant a little less than a decade ogo at the enormous crime committed by hid respected and trusted citizen, row looks upon him commiseratingly a poor, broken old man Viewed from the sympathetic angle alone, Walker has unquestionably as Leen punished enough and soclety | has done all that is necessary to pro- tect himself against any further fenses on hig part. Walker will never steal again, he has learned his bitter lesson and beyond any cavil or ques- tion he goes free a man who will be exemplary in his behavior. Society has claimed its pound of flesh and he has paid it If the punishment of Walker alone was the only object sought he need never have been sent to prison for a day, for Walker was adequately pun- ished the day he walked out of his New Britain bank a disgraced and dishonored man Sending him to prison added nothing to his ignominy; little to his mental torture. But what of the potential Walkers? What of the men in positions of trust, fempted beyond their strength in times of stress, who recall that Walk- stealing more than half a million escaped With a penalty no than that which might bhe out to an ordinary burglar? A horse thief, for instance, who got away with a spavined and broken down animal that would not bring $5 in th days of war prices could sentenced to term as long which Walker has served from this angle what is there about walker's punishment to deter others from similar crime? If society in- tended its punishment 6f Walker to er, dollars, that as stock- | the | the the | threatened a future ser- | competition for the beet-sugar | He has not assisted the State | in the effort to get at his confederates “has effectively He claims to have | Alcorn, but | offenders | of- | Viewed | McMILLAN’S BIG STORE “ALWAYS RELIABLE"” STORE IN READINESS for the Caristmas shopper, better as-, sortments now, so do your shopping early. 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Justice unquestionably should be tempered with mercy, but we must question many times if the extension | of mercy may not constitute a grave injustice against society Walker’s Freedom. (Manchester Herald.) That the feeling cgainst a criminal is soon forgotten efter he disappears within pris walls is shown by the case of William F Walker, the New Britain embez- | zler. Nothwithstanding he deliger- ately made way with nearly half a million dollars of the funds of the New Britain Savings Bank and $: 000 of the invested funds of Connecticut Baptist Convention, no | opposition was made by his victims | to his release on parole after he had | served less than eight years of a pos- | sible twenty-year sentence. It is | now recalled by the publication of a | letter by the prosecuting attorney, | that Walker resisted arrest and ex- | tradition by every possible method and that he made no effort at resti- | tution. Tt tood the authorities six months and required the expendi- ture of $30,000 to capture and con= vict him. —_——— . NO SUCCESSOR TO JOFFRE. of sentment In Command of the Armies on the French Front, Paris, Dec. 4, 4:50 a. m.—Premier Priand is authority for the statement | that the government has no intention | of appointing a successor to Gen. | Joffre in command of the armiegpon the French front, according to the Journal. In reply to inquiry from the army committee of the chamber, as to what would be the effect of the creation of the new post of com mander in chief of all the French armies except those in Africa, to which General Joffre has been ap- pointed, M. Briand is quoted ag have ing said: “The sole object of the m(te‘de‘ powers of the generalissimo is to in« sure singleness of direction in mili- tary operations, which has become more necessary than ever now at the same time to establish close co-ordl- | raton between the command of our srmies and technical councils of the allies, which will be held at ggnd headquarter; MRS W 1 AK. Mrs. Marcus White will speak a thel vesper service at the Y. W. C. A to- morrow afternoon at 4:30 o'clock. O ST