New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 17, 1915, Page 6

NEW BRITAIN DAIl'Y HERALD FRIDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1015. BRITAIN HERALD D PUBLISHING TOUMPANY, Proprietors. (Sunday exc rald Building, pted) at 4:16 p. m. 67 Church St jt the Post Office at New Britaln Second Class Mall Matter. by carriors to any part of the city ‘ents 2 Week, 65 Cents a Month. bns for paper to be sent by mall ble In advance, 60 Cents a Month, $7.00 a year. profitable advertising medium in Circulation books and press always open to advertisers. d will be found on sale st Hota- 'ws Stand, 42nd St. and Broad- ew York City; Board Walk, ptic City and Hartford depot. TELEPHONE CALLS. Dffice . Rooms MEDICAL ETHICS. bt the binding laws of the profession is that there shall | bublicity attached to any of essicnal acts of the physician. ethics forbids n secking publicity. It is ed a crime for a doctor to ame in the newspapers under | conditions. He may be named | bng those present” at a dance, a practicing et, or a civic gathering of d; but when he publicly ex- his views on a subject per- to health or morals he is b as a culprit, as a rude secker | me, notoriety, or whatever it | e called. As a rule, if he is | quently the violator of this | bde of cthics he is dishonor- ! opped from the medical society ticular community forth. Following this well | mode of proceedure, nI tee of Chicago Medical has recommended the ex- from that organization of Dr. | aiselden who became famous | kht because he refused to per- | In operation on a dcfective bahy ight have lived had the surgeon the Kknife. offense of Dr. Haiselden is not | e refused to perform this op- . The committee does not delve at phase of it. Doctors have bng done as their consciences | d in this matter and no one ben the wiser. The committee that, because the committee is sed of reputable practitioners. prs of the committee know full at John Bollinger was a hope- lefective and even an operation not have had the desired effect lare not eriticising their fellow ian because he did not bby. No! Far worse than thac! denounce the doctor because he | oolish enough to let the news- s get the story. They are after hecause the sob sisters on a few g0 dailies played up the affair, se the great news agencles d thousands and thousands of k over the wires, because the eporters made first page stories bt the material handed over by aiselden. For that reason he be pronounced a betrayer to his ssion, a criminal, an outcast. ellow workers will have no more they will oust him from their And yet we wonder if at times ot a blessing rather than a curse umanity, this giving forth of | s by a physician. What harm | eome of’ letting the public know | why and wherefore of Es pertaining ic morals, questions | where | pa hed the save m, certain to questions of that are entirely nor exclusively the pro- ly of the profession ? are times a physician ld be allowed to give his views lhe public press without being os- sed by others in his profession. medical fre when * A REAL PIPE DREAM. arrying coals to Newcastle is just foolish an occupation as carrying er to the river. But sending pives foldiers in the trenches has a shade either of these superfluous deeds. pm what we know of soldiers, the n who crates a box of pipes anil ds them to the trenches will be down as somewhat of a humor- Anybody should know that no jdier would think of staying in the nches without a pipe. And the pe he has is infinitely better than ly ten cent article that might be t him from the Soldiers’ Pipe nd which certain women in New prk are trying to raise. If the dear Hies who have thought out all bre to settle on tobacco and see at each soldier in the trenches has ough of the weed to keep going the pe he already owns, then thers ould be some logic displayed. With- ht having made a2ny canvass to sece ho has and who has not got a pipe the trenches, it is a safe bet to say at every man of them has his pipe. urely there is no German warrior [ghting without his meerschaum; nox ny” English soldier without his briar; or any Irish fighter without his o!1 udeen. They have the pipes all ight and if they want anything in [hat line, it is tobacco. Further, :ny merican tobacco concern would- be pniy too glad, upon request, to send pver a shipload of their goods for the dvertising in it. So why worry about he jimmy pipes, Send the boys in RITE | decidea that the American PLACING THE BLAME, No matter how you figure, no mat- ter where you look for a solution of the diplomatic situation that now confronts the United States and Aus- tro-Hungary the rotund figure of William Jennings * Bryan intrudes itself. Because he downed all other principles to the one great object of his later life, peace at any price, he succeeded in complicating things to a nicety. If the United States decided on one course of action in dealing with a foreign power the genial prince of peace straightway put up a new inter- | pretation on the issue and handed his ( version to the diplomatic representa- tive of the country concerned. This was brought out after his celebrated consultation with Dr. Constantin Dum- ba, who was at one time the Austrian ambassador to the United States, At that time the Com- moner felt the pulse of the nation and people much averse to war and so determined to have peace that Presi- dent Wilson’s note on the Lusitania ¢ should not be taken too serious- And he told all that Dumba, who were so Iy. in turn'conveved this information to his home office from whence it went to from the Kaiser. And that interview Bryan is one of the prime rea- sons why Germany did not take the It was more than ilson note at its face value. considered form letter anything else. Now the Austro-Hun- garian Admiralty followed the course of the German Foreign Office and is prepared to refuse or ignore the demands of the American govern- ment. From the face of things it looks as if the government officials at Vienna will stand behind the Admir- alty and in the end a diplomatic break All because those people do not understand the real feelings of Americans. It is not their fault so much as it is the erstwhile of State who the first place conveyed the wrong impression. There is where the blame must be placed. a has must be suffered. Secretary in WIT. American universities will do well to emulate the example of the Uni- versity of California in awarding prizes for wit and humor. There is already enough sorrow in this sad and staid old world, and any attempt to inject a few laughs between the lines should be welcomed with a brass band and other signs of joy and festivity. i The wittiest student in any American college or university should be hailed as the real hero of the hour. He ¢hould be placed on a pedestal higher even than those occupied by the star football player, the crack baseball pitcher, the sprinter, or any of the athletes. To make men laugh is a gift far greater than any other be- stowed upon the human heart. And to make them laugh in a thoroughly refined manner, without giving offense, without wounding any feel- ings, is a gift greatest of all. This year the wittiest student at California is Edward Marshall Mas- lin who produced an essay “On the Futility of Twitching Up One’s Trousers to Prevent Bagging at the Knees.” That, all along, has been a very serious subject with most men, but it seems young Maslin has dis- covered the laugh in it. And more power to him for making comedy where tragedy reigned supreme. We soyously welcome to our midst any stranger who carries in his portfolio a laugh. Even if it must come at the | expense of trousers bagging at the | knees. Log of the Oscar Dec. 1915. sir Douglas Haig has Deen pointed at the head of the British | troops in France. #Wonder if he's | the man who put Haig in the Haig & ;Huig highball (advt.) notes. 15, ap- Notes, notes, Some of them | sharps but most of them flats. Two | to one the appropriation for ink will be overdrawn. The President has one consolation. was upheld debate in New ;His preparedness policy ! at the Y, M. C. A, Britain, Conn. Prince of Wales says he will go into the auto business if England becomes | a republic. Might hire to show | him how to get advertising free. me Blizzards in New England, Heat waves on the Oscar. If the British become too fresh I'll Luy the bally little island and give it to poor Andy Carnegie, who is down to his last $100,000,000. Iron crosses for the Germans, Vic- teria crosses for the English—and | double crosses for Henry Ford. Six hundred per cent. dividend coming from the F¥ord company. Publicity pays. r ,The man who first played the ! character “Uncle Tom” is dead. is now time to hang the crape on “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.” Let the dead trenches something they haven't past bury its dead. At FACTS AND FANCIES. to St. Louis, but right there.—Syra- Iit's a long Wilson’s boom cuse Herald. way 18 St. Louis has secured the big con- vention. We congratulate Chicago and Dallas.—Rochester Union. The Norwegian parliament has de- cided not to award a Nobel peace prize this year. Perhaps it will change its mind when the noble peace ship ar- rives.—Philadelphia Ledger. From president who is also dictator to emperor may be no great change in practical government, but in political ideas the titles are wide worlds apart. So it may seem that China, permitting Yuan Shi Kai to seize the throne, has gone back to her sleep of ages.—New York World. The brevity of the Ancona note to Austria reinforced the emphasis of its language. This was no occasion for longwindedn: Our government wins the respect of its own citizens and their approval, by the tone of en- tire courtesy but unmistakable firm- ness in which the demand has becn presented.—New York Times. A somewhat humorous feature of Mr. Gregory's report is found in con- nection with his very proper sugges- tion that the penal code be amended so as to make it a crime against the Unitea States to kill a federal officer engaged in serving or executing proc- ess It appears that the code makes it a crime to assauilt, beat or wound an officer under the circumstances men- tioned, but there is no federal law making it a crime to kill him.——Finan- cial America. Premier Asquith told Philip Snow- den, socialist member of parliament, that if serious peace proposals were put forward by ‘“the enemy govern- ments, either directly or through a neutral power,” they would first be discussed by the allied governments and until that time came there was nothing more to be said. The socialist member is the husband of the Mrs. Snowden of the peace tourists. Mrs. Snowden first suggested the tour to Uncle Henry. Sufficiency—Pittsburgh Dispatch. Her Way. (Indianapolis News) She was so absorbed that the con- ductor stood before her for several minutes before she grudgingly held out a nickel. One damp hand grasp- ed a vivid-backed magazine and the other delved stickily into a paper sack that yielded up muddy chocolates from muddier depths. Never was reader more intent,. Chocolate after chocolate crunched audibly and page after page of pen- ny-thriller was scanned with riveted attention, and turned with a flutter, The car deposited fares at intervals and rumbled on, but the girl in the white tam with the red set ring on the middle finger of one brown hand saw nothing| She was high on the wings of romance. The car passed through the district of buildings where the workers were dropped by twos and threes. Still the leaves of the magazine were turn- ed mechanically. “Twentieth!” called the conduc- tor from around a ticket in his mouth. The last chocolate traveled mouth- ward and disappeared; the sack dropped unnoticed to the floor of the car—though its emptiness had been first subconsciously registered. The once-curied bangs on the brown forehead clung faster to moist skin and shoulders drooped lower over the story in hand. “Twenty-fifth!” called the uniform- ed one. The be-tammed passenger shifted her feet tensely and sighed. Roman- ce hit the ground with an ugly thump as a nasal “Twenty-eighth!” struck consciousness. “Twenty-eighth!” echoed the fallen rider blankly. “Say, when did we pass Sixteenth?” “Twenty-eighth-less-sixteen blocks back,” grinned the conductor. “Want to get off?” The girl, still steeped in blankness, touched the paper sack with her toe as though to make sure of its reason for being floored. “Thirtieth!” called the conductor. “Guess I might as well go on now and come back with you. What's a day’'s work to me ,anyway!” Mr. Conductor grinned his appro- val of her philosophic calm and wink- ed blandly at another passenger. “Some story, eh?” he said, nodding knowingly at the top of the once- white tam. “That’s her way of getting drunk,” suggested the other passenger as he swung off the car at Thirty-fourth. The One-Scholay School. (Waterbury Democrat.) Ralph Jackson, who attends a country school near Martins Ferry, O., ought to be well instructed. He is the only pupil in the school. Every morning he trudges to the school house, and is assembled and hrought to order by Edward E. Long, the teacher, and goes through all the usual course of study and recitations, and has his recesses and noon hour, and then goes home after having enjoyved—or suffered—the teacher’s undivided attention for the “day. n a way, it’'s an ideal plan of educa- tion. It suggests the system recom- mended by Jean Jacques Rousseau, the great French educational reform- er. His idea was that each child should have a tutor who devoted himself wholly to that child until its maturity. Americans, however, are not likely to take to the idea very readily. It wouldn’t appeal to the average teacher to give all his time to one pupil. And certainly it wouldn’t appeal to the average tax- payer to provide a separate teacher for every child, and perhaps a sep- arate school house too. Besides, it's probably a pretty miserable ex- istence for young Ralph Jackson. He hasn’t anybody to play with or whis- per to or throw paper wads at. TIt's no fun plaving tricks on himself. And how can he play tricks on the teacher, when the teacher hasn’t any- body to watch but him, If he's a normal American boy, he'd rather e s = McMILLAN’S| EW BRITAIN’S BUSIEST i | BIG STORE “ALWAYS RELIABLE” COME TO THIS STORE SATURDAY Your Christmas Club Check as good as money at this store. We will give cash for it cven if you don’t buy any- tthing. i AND CHOOSE YOUR XMAS GIFTS FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY Come as carly in the day as possible bring your list with you. the greatest variety of Gift things to choose from right here at the Busy Big Store. WARM COATS | For Womenand Children. Make thoughtful as well as accept- able giftss We have them at prices to suit your pocketbood. SWEATERS and BATH ROBES For Men, Women and Children. DAINTY BLOUSES Crepe de Chine, Fancy Plaid and Striped Silk. Lace and Lingerie kinds in a big variety. 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McMILLAN 199-301-203 MAIN STRREET have less teaching and more school. Every school boy knows that one scholar by himself isn’t a school. Message to Americans. (New York World.) Twice within a few weeks has Ru- dolph Blankenburg, born in Germany, reborn in the American spirit, deliv- ered a stirring message to his coun- trymen. In Philadelphia, the presi- dent of the United States was among those moved perhaps to tears by his earnest plea for national unity. In New York, Saturday, he told the Pennsylvanias, who are of all the chil- dren of the states most proud of their pedigrees, that ‘neither British nor German-Americans, nor Irish, Scotch, French, TItalian or Russian-Ameri- cans,” should as such have weight in our affairs. The veteran mayor whom Philadel- phia, to her cost, is losing would have us prepare against a possible foe abroad, but, more against “the do- mestic foe who may, unrecognized for years, appeal to our prejudice, our love of riches, our political ambitions | and our vanity to upbuild himself on | the ruins of a popular government,” | the partisan politician “to whom party is paramount to conscience.” Speeding the day when ‘“‘selfishness will be supplanted by disinterested | service, cowardice by manly courage, | indifference by earnest longing to lend a helping hand,” Mayor Blankenburg bids us “abolish all distinctions that may lead to ill-feeling, and let us call | ourselves, before the whole world, i American first, last, and all the time.” | Finer word has not been spoken | than this message to Americans of a true American citizen. Male War Babies. (Waterbury Democrat.) Some months ago a report from a big London district indicated that, contrary to the accepted tradition, more girl babies were being born than boys. Feminists and pacifists seized on the figures as suggesting that even nature had turned against war, and refused to produce more men for cannon-fodder. Now more complete reports from England seem to support the old belief that nature in some mysterious way does adjust the sex of the new generation to re- pair the ravages of war. Statistics for thirty-six towns in England and Wales show a surplus of boy babics that is unprecedented. In the first three months of this year, for every 1,000 girl babies there were 1,032 boys. For the second three months, there were 43 more boys than girls, and for the next three months fift five more. That means an extra five and one-half boys for every hundred girls. It means the addition of about one male to every twenty born nor- mally. 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Dec. 17.—"“Back of Kavala, where the Allies are re- ported to be landing troops for their operations in the Balkans, lies the his- munitions and supplies. ian border forty miles to the north is protected by the wild Rhodope moun- | tains, from which outrunning ranges and hills guard the eastern marches. | PLACES RESTRICTIONS ON EXPORT OF OIL The Bulgar- toric battlefield, Philippi, upon which Nontouniinnd Gote ; S ernment / Brutus and Cassius lost all hope of E‘l‘: ;:g:'fl}o::etw];e:; s;llo:m and ment Acts 10 inheriting the power gr lh]e great smgen mnfi. o ms :zft&hcorr KP:‘»}:?: Prevent Cod Liver Ol ¥From dictator whom they had slain,” be- gins a statement given out today by | 2nd_ only miserable arsiielinambelic Reaching Germany. National Geographic society which | o™ e Wahole borderfand terri- : : e D Y N ent | torviia ledn. mavage and rugged. St. Johns, N. F., Dec. 17.—Because strategic interest in the near east. “Kavala port crowns a promontory, it has arned that large (|unn'lt.|r:s “Kavala is a Greek port much nearer | reaching into the bay. It is an insig- | ©f cod liver oil exported from thi to the Bulgariun borders than that of | pifjcant little village, with a popula- . colony had reached Germany, where Saloniki, and one of the most con-! tion of scarcely more than 5,000. The the glycerine in it could be utilized venient stations available to the Al- lies for the basing of a campaign the south and east. against southern Bulgaria, with the island of Thasos lies before its bay to is a hilly vantage point for the guard- in the manufacture of explosives, the This island, also, | ., Newfoundland government announced' objective of the U‘riental railway | jng of the entrance of the harbor | today restrictions on export of the! through Turkey-in-Europe, against attack by hostile ships. Al- |oil. “Situated on the Bay of Kavala, |together, the present favorable war-| Hereafter oil may be sent to the twenty-two miles from the Bulgarian | time geographical advantages of this | United States only if consigned 1 boundary to the east, an Allied garri- | obscure little town may conspire to |the British consul generals at New son at this port would be within casy give back a greater fame than it pos- | York or Boston or to a few firsas) striking distance of the enemy coun- sessed in Greek and Roman times.| which have been endorsed Ly the cond try, while, with mountains guarding Mehemet Ali was born here in 1769, | sulates. the town all round and down almost | 1 which event is the greatest in the vil- to the water's edge, it could be turned | 1age’s history of 1000 years until the into an almost impregnable depot for | present coming of the French The normal annual export of ¢4 liver oil from the colony is ubou and | 87,5600 gallons, valued at $300,000..