New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 31, 1915, Page 6

pted) at 4:15 p. . .67 Church St t Office at New Britain lass Mall Matter. to any part of tne city ‘eek, 65 Cents a Month. per to be sent by mail dvance, 60 Cents a $7.00 a year. e aavertising meaium 1a lation books and press open to advertisers. found on sale at Hota- hd, 42nd St. ana_Broad- frk C Board Walk, rtford depot. PHONE cALLS. PNAL POLITICIANS, orefathers mapped out Eovernment, when ‘they plan on which it should lia not complete a per- ent of things, not but they came so close ail on the head in every hat for more than have been unsuccessfui to pick flaws. The th¢ United States is a3 a nd as strong as Gibral- | le any one makes an at- it the strength of this ! manifested. Anytime hve some particular ed their motives act as nd it is usually seen that re the objects of come certain members | gn Relations Committee States Senate and. rec- mselves as u court of ad- President when he foreign countries in mat- macy. On the face of lidea is preposterous. To the government of the is divided into three is fixecut've, the Legislative, | icial. Article Two of the defines the powers of the jtive and tells what he is do. It says sadors and other public jbut it does not say that receiving them he must elbow the valiant mem- j) Foreign Relations Com- ey come under the Legis- 'h of the Government. It v will find their work, and President wants their ad- I call upon them. It must at they can tell the Chiefl just what he must say in h foreign countries. The ested in one man; let it re- Better to have a single than five or six senators us parts of the United 'h having a particular sec- son,—with votes in the d,—for wanting our diplo- tions settled one way or an- pnstitution of the United been ip operation since the y of March in the year Sev- fnderd and Eighty-seven and, those years, has served ad- ell. The men who drafted len who sat in the old Con- 1 Convention of '87 were pa- i statesmen, and they fore- such political maneuverings going on in Washington today, me men are so unscrupulous 1d sell their s=ouls for the Iny particular class. The vote, ountry, stands uppermost in minds that hold forth in the alls of the national Congress. ove made by some of these tatives of the people is with a view to their own re- wheras rea] statesmen would b their togas for the honor and ity of the United States. The the Foreign Relations Com- especially the chairman who 11 the ear-marks of a profes- olitician, should stand back at e and not annoy the President kit is, has his hands full. Un-~ h he is charged with looking e interests of the United States the best of his ability to “‘pre- protect, and defend the Consti- And he Why let the trip of the Uniteéd States.” g that, and more. Relations Committee p? % GOOGD-BYE, 1915. of us who are fortunate, or to | up to the end of the year 1915 ith many salutations and weep- usher it ave had, at least, something to | ¢ . Get- good start in the balmy August unate, as the case may be, with joy and sorrow, or; we have seen things. of 1914 the European jed into 1915 like a shot out of \ and has reverberated down the three hundred and sixty-five | until today the: year is in such its d condition it goes to place in the archives of his. much beaten and chastened yet'a year that will stand other | sible exception of nhouldm over all po ex- | part | such | “he shall re- | war ‘the year that heralded the dawn of the Christian era and the one that announced the birth of the world. 19156 means ‘much more than many of its predecessors. It stands for the greatest upheaval that ever shook the face of the earth. Itis the preci- pice over which civilization toppled into the depths of barbarity. Like a spark in prairie grass the war in Europe has' developed into a fire that promises to be world wide. It has lashed its tonZues of flame ahead of it taking all in its path and seering and burning those stand on the roadway. is a blade of burnable chaff it will and on, until prob- 1916 will see more the year we are just sending away. 1917 may be even a bigger year. No one knows. And so it is with some timidity that we uncover our heads and stand aside as the feeble old year limps out into the Vast unknown, for .we know not what its bring, whether there will ccme more misery, or less slaughter. The only thing we have to bolster the end that the bad deeds of men have been spent once for all, that a new page on the book of life will be turned and the | pen of Time will be tempered with Christian charity in its writings. To old 1915 then as he ambles out ‘the door into the cold and bleak be- vond we wish god speed and trust that when he hands his hour glass and scythe to the little stranger on the threshold he will pour out some of the vitrol who go on, and on, ably the year horrors than successor will is drawing nigh, before reckonings be- gin. To us, on this side of the At- lantic 1915 was better and kinder than to our brothers abroad; he gave us the greatest mercantile and busi- ness year in our history, the year of greatest exports, but with it he land- ed a liberal dose of internal dissen- tion so that whatever joy he dis- | pensed was equally balanced with sor- | row. That is why to see him go, and we say, parting, may he never come nor any of his ilk. we are not so in ! back, Good-bye. 1915, sorry THE PROPER IDEA. Party lines are being obliterated owing to ternational situation. There is a con- to stand by the President as far as possible. Whereas but a few short months ago republi- cans, progressives and others than democrats were ready at a moment’s notice to pounce on the administra- tion, now all is waxing serene. There is more show of national unity. And in unity there will be found strength. As an example how the majority of telk in this country feel in regard to the situation, the following remark made not long ago by a well known citizen of Massachusetts is explana- tory: “I say of our great President of the United States, we stand by stand by America, honor and dignity iteelf.” And that was not a bragadocio re- mark let fall from the lips of a demo- crat. Its author is a lifelong republi- well known throughout the United States as a legal light, a man ‘who has served his country in adjust- ing international disputes.—Samuel J. Eider. Those are noble sentiments voiced by Mr. Elder. Americans will sunction his resolution and, in stand- ing behind Woodrow Wilson, they will be justified. He is the President of the United States, the guardian of American liberty, the patron of all the | people. fairly well the present in- certed movement him, we we stand by the of the nation can, True Theodore S. Woolsey, who for many years was professor of international law at Yale University, need take his hat off to no authority in the world for knowing his subject. The pro- fessor is recognized as one of the few men in the world who know in- ternaiional law as it should be known, And the professor knows whereof he speaks. In an address before the del- egates of the Pan-American Scientific Congress in Washington, Professor Woolsey accused the belligerent na- tions of vioiating virtually every law that stood in their way, putting up the plea of military necessity. They have too. And neutral nations should beware. This way out, Old Man 1915. IPACTS AND CIES, The refusal of Vienna to know what Ger:nany’s submarine policy is sounds lik a judge who declines to take ju- % . notice that his neighbor’s house is v. fire—Binghamton Press, We didn't just exactly need Bernard Shaw'’s advice on preparedne-s, but we'd rather have him advise us on that subject than any other we know of.Boston Journal. When Lord Kitchener says that he is too busy to marry, we do not under- stand that he intended to cast a slur at President Wilson.—Rochesier Dem- ocrat and Chronicle. The Colonel's antipathy for plut As lohg as there | us up is hope,—hope that | | is not deeply grounded. One recallulwm fame and fortune as an actress, NEW, BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, how he made up to “my dear Harri- man.”—Rochester Herald. A thousand English women been appointed censors of the Ameri- can mail. If they need any expert as- sistance Uncle Sam can send over a few country postmistresses.—New York Press. The International Harvester com- pany is planning to let 35,000 employ- ees buy stock and share profits. It never used better binder twine. Union means strength everywhere.—Brook- lyn Eagle. When you read a semi-inspired dis- patch to the effect that some warring power will never, never surrender to the demands of the United States, be sure that it is just about to surrender. —-Buffalo Express, His bitter hostility to Taft, whom he made president, and to Wilson, whom he made president, discourages hope that we shall ever get a president sat- isfactory to T. R. unless we take him. —Syracuse Post-Standard. Our Free Press. (New Haven Register) “We Germans do not understand what you call your free press,” says Captain Boy-Ed in his parting shot to America. The opinion and utterances of the captain are not under the cir- cumstances, worthy of especial atten- tion, but his slur at our free press may not pass without comment, for the sake of our own people. Perhaps not all Americans understand what we call the free press, but it is a real and cherished and valuable institution. There is a sort of free press in Ger- many. In time of peace it is permit- ted to say some things which seem to us surprising. But the rules governing the utterances of the press in Ger- many and in some other countries under a monarchy are radically differ- ent from the rules which obtain here. The discredited captain is sore because our newspapers have printed the truth against him. In his own country . he might have had protection against that truth. In this country there is no such protection. The truth will out, and the free press will generally print it. No privilege or rank, no eminence of office, shields a man. It is a common impression that wealth will muzzle our press. If that is so in some instances, there are five instances to the contrary to every one of the rt. If there is any sort of American citizen on whom our publicity unduly bears, 1t is the sort who was once des bed as ‘‘the malefactor of great wealth. Thought and expression are free in this country, yet the rights of every man are sacred. Our really free press prints only the truth, but if its critics could know how frequently it refrains from printing the truth when the truth would hurt the individual with- out serving the common good, their faultfinding would be hushed. As for instances, which are rare, of malicious published statement, we have such cffective libel laws that they seldom fail of prompt and proper punishment. COOD ARRAY OF NEW BOOKS NAMED IN INSTITUT “Great literature is nothing more nor less than the clear expression of minds that have something great in them, whether 1el|gmn. or beauty or deep experience.”—William Dean Howells. .. America and the German peril, by H. | in the spirit of the modern science of P. Okie. PP Drink and be sober, by Vance Thomp- son. e Evolution of modern orchestration, by L. A. Coerne. R . George Frederick Watts: The annals of an artist’s life, by his wife. “Anecdotes of many of the great men and women of his time whose portraits Watts painted are included. In the third volume are brought to- ! gether Watt’s writings, hitherto un- published in book form; these arve literary treasures of a rare quality, and should be read by all to whom the artist’s great pictures are well known.”"—Publisher's note.. aw . Life of Clara Barton, by P. H. Epler. .o A month’'s German newspapers, by A. L. Gowans. “Editorials, news, ticism from eight representative , newspapers during last December.” —A. L. A. Booklist. ! “The most noteworthy war book of the moment. They are pointed with- out comment and bring us into con- tact with public opinion in Germany.” —Life. letters, and cri- * x o Music and the higher Edward Dickinson. “The professor of history and cri- ticism of music, Oberlin college, pleads for the recognition of music in our higher institutions of learning “‘because of its value as an art of form, its significance as an interpre- tation of life. its refining touch upon the emotional nature, and the means it affords for the culture of impor- tant clements and character.”—A. L. A. Booklist. education, by o ow My childhood. “A painful times dramati ble character interpretations. the whole picture, whether of lonely, imaginative hoy surrounded by the “oppressive horrors” of which he writes, or the matter-of-fact. quarrelsome life of the Russian lover classes ugly and disturbing; de- cidedlv so if a fair his life; doubly so if the result of selection.”—A. T.. A. Booklist. . e by Maxim Gor book, very Pleasures and palaces, by Lazarovich-Hrebelianovich eanor Calhoun.) “The intimate reminiscences of an American girl. a grand-niece of John C. Calhoun. who Wwent to London to Princess (El- have ! | work.” veflection of his | McMILLAN’S NEW BRITAIN'S BUSIKST BIG STORE ' “ALWAYS RELIABLE" Store Open This Evenlng. closed all day Saturday, New Year’s. Big Reductions onCoats Suits and Dresses CHILDREN’S COATS Now Priced 98c to $7.98 each. - MISSES’ COATS Now Priced $3.98, $5.00, $7.98 each. ‘WOMEN’S COATS Now Priced $5.98, $7.98, $0.98 each. CORDUROY AND PLUSH COATS Now Priced $12.98 to $22.00. WOMEN’S SUITS MARKED DOWN You can save $5.00 to $10.00 on every Suit. Better look them over. MEN'’'S FLANNEL SHIRTS $1.00 grade: Now 88c each. $1.00 COAT SHIRTS Reduced to 79¢ each, soft or dered cuff styles, MIDDLESEX SEAMLESS SOX Black, tan and natural, 12 1-2c pair. MEN’S RIBBED UNDERWEAR Shirts and Drawers with soft fleecing 49c garment. 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The chief bit of romantic em- broidery that the author has add- ed to the tale concerns the wai Hu. | puette, sheltered in childhood by | Madame Villon.———Book Review Di- gest. P 1Lot and company, by W. L. Comfort. field Republican. . Peter Paragon; a.tale of youth, by John Palmer. “A tale of.youth it truly is—yougth- ful years,, enthusiasms, ideals, fickle- ness, fineness and general loveable- ness. ‘It'isa happy book, shining with the brave, bright, exalted spirit of youth,”—Bookman. . Ten degrees backward, by E. T. Fow- ler. “A fresh and clever story, in which the author's humour is happily in evidence.”—Athenaeum. . Doc. Wiley and Grape Juice. (New York Tribune.) Dr. Wiley must be included in that too numerous company of of life.” The nation had at last set- tled comfortably to the conviction that it has discovered a substitute for intoxicants, a drink pleasing to the eve, seductive to the palate, stimulat- ing, nutritive, harmless: a drink es- poused and recommended by the na- tional administration and become ) persons | who are ‘“always taking the joy out | ! identified with an important phase of | it it willing to work for a reasonable national history; a drink that was to | revolutionize the domestic scene purge diplomacy of its guile, bring in- | ternational peace. And now Dr. Wi- ley, having withheld his opinion these many months, calmly takes his seat in the witness stand and testifies un- , der oath in courf that this nectar of the gods of democracy is ‘‘harmless if not used in excess.” But one might say the same of any i drink, of arsenic or prussic acid. And thus falls to the ground that fabric of hope which had h*f upon the in- secure base of gra ice One can drink too much grape juice, this emi- nent authority avers. He might as well have said one can imbibe too much Chautauqua wisdom, subsecribe to too many peace treaties, offer one's unprotected bosom once too often as a target for the slings and arrows of an ungegenerate world. Grape juice is indeed “harmless if not used in excess.” But there are some who will contend that excess begins with the first drop. It will be noticed that Dr. Wiley, true to his cognomen, neglects to commit him- self on this point. Chance For The Legitimate. (Bridgeport Farmer.) Perhaps the legitimate show, in spite of its limitations may come back to its own, or be restored, at least to some portion of its former efficiency, | ting to be nothing price, The downfall of the legitimate dra- ma is largely the fault of producers and actors who disdain to play f popular prices. “Two' dollars or nothing” has been too long the maxim of the star. More and more it is get- Actors and their managers have failed to catch the spirit of the times, which is that art to be successful must seek the wildest, not the narrow- est, field. Incomes do not diminish prices go down; they in 3 a film, shown for ten manding a larger income fashioned star, showing at $2. Art is universal. But actors who will have high prices, or none, hawe not grasped the truth. They think art is something to be confined to people who have large incomes. Let them bring their art within range of the popular purse. They will find the only profitable art is democratic art; the are brought witfi- in the reach of all 1 whey Many s com- an old Those who wonder at the attacks of the London Observer, Times and Morning Post on Premier Asquitly xhould recall the things that were sg of Mr, Lincoln after the first and ond battles of Bull Run, Why, soq the critics were demanding that tire and place the government in 1 hands of Andrew John-oy!-mv York Herald. of .'..