New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 3, 1916, Page 8

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For witness s we need go no further than of estrangements foreign powers. - Realizing all hen no one would decry the ly gained by President Wilson ig able assistant in the cabinet, ary of State Lansing, over the al and royal government of b-Hungary. No one would say as a task done not well. The bt Count Burien in reply to the hncona nofe from this country een branded as more than sat- pry. It has the added attraction ng even generous in its offers aration. ¢ Our government made demands: Disavowal of the act, pment of the submarine com- r, and indemnity for American ost. The former two were met n a wholehearted manner, the was acquiesced in by terms that jore than responsive, to wit:— our recent he imperial and royal gov- nent, in the face of this state ffairs, does not hesitate to the corresponding conclu- |5 respecting the indemnifica- of American citizens affect- py the sinking of the prize, in this regard it makes the wing statement: ‘The investigation into the ng of the Ancona could nat- iy furnish no essential point ow in how far a right to an imnity is to be granted Amer- citizens. The imperial and ji government cannot, indeed, according to the view of the ington cabinet, be held e for damages which result- om,_the undoubtedjy justified [bardment of the fleeing ship. ould just as little have to er, for the damages which > to pass before the torpedo- bt the ship through the faulty ring of lifeboats or the cap- of lowered boats. [The imperial and royal gov- ient must assume that the jhington government is in a ion and disposed to give it Austro-Hungarian govern- ) the required, and certain- ot unimportant, information i= respect. If, however, be- b of possible lack of mater- proofs, the particular cir- es under which American pns suffered damage should lhave become known to the government, the royal gov- pent, in consideration for faumanely deeply regrettable ent and by a desire to pro- once again its friendly feel- oward the federal govern- would be gladly willing to igard this gap in the evi- e and to extend indemnities to those damaged whose e cannot be established.’ ” that there hardly could be of Austria wishing to main- le friendly relations which have between the two governments. who would otherwise be branded say as a wild eyed ready to see the nation i into war. But when that rived in Washington the Per- re had not taken place. he submarine issue is back it started, with the sinking of jsitania almost nine months case is one of the gravest tha States has had to deal with; mean the beginning of the Robert N. McNeely, an officer United States government, on y to"his consular post at Aden t as yet been accounted for list of survivors. It is prac- His tho assured that he is dead. cannot - go unnoticed if of the nation is to main- And yet it is going to take fime to fasten the blame- for jest dtrocity. And when the lis finally fixéd there must be to a spirit of steel rit of '76. difficult to believe that Austro- is implicated in the Persia Not after her compliance in ease.. The Vienna states- op €n heaped with the high- ulation. for having fol- the course they did. Shortly be- note theslargest part of the y here was Up in arms against in ‘V§en_n‘g., But they were | forgiven When their views d in Burien's note. Even be and firon, those United States senators who wanted to take the foreign policy out of President Wilson's hands and en- | trust it to their own care became bet- ter satisfied. But it's all over now, that erstwhile spirit of contentment. Tha people in the New World are becom- ing wary of folk in the Old World. | They double-cross too readily. TO AN EXPATRIATE, | If King George of England thought | for one moment that he was confer- ring an honor upon entire America | by elevating,—if that is the proper word,—William Waldorf Astor to the | peerage he was sadly mistaken; for | this grandson of old John Jacob has no friends among the real American people. He gevered all ties away back | in 1890 when he expatriated himself. | So Baron Astor means nothing to this country or any of its people. He is| rated as_being the first American who ever became a British peer, with the | rossible exception of Lord Fairfax nt‘ Cameron. No one will regret if he | nolds the honor forever. | In these days it is better to be an American citizen than anything else ‘the wide, wide world. An Ameri- can cltizenship And it will mean more as the years 8o by. It means that the man who Jjust struggling for an existence is just as good as the man who never had to work, who lolls at his ease, who dis- tains all labor. It means more. It means that every boy in this country who is able and willing to work has a chance to reach the topmost rung of | the ladder no matter from where he makes his start. There are no casts in America. There is no peerage, in the English sense. We are all peers. | William Waldorf Astor had no use | for this sort of thing,—this democracy | we call America. He divided the | world into classes, upper and lower, casting himself in among the nobility. There being no signs hung on any | particular class in America straight- | way he took himself and some one | means something. hundred million dollars, which his| great grandfather laid the foundation for, to England. That was some six- teen vears ago, and, . after much | bowing and kow-towing, Baron Astor | hos arrived. He may now strut around ‘the Court of St. James like a | young peacock feeling his first pin- | feathers. If he only knew it, William | Jacob Astor was Baron when he left | America,—barren of reason. | | JUSTICE LAMAR. Although having served but five years on the bench of the Supreme Court of the United States, Associate Justice Lamar who died in Washing- ion yesterday won high distinction as a member of our highest tribunal of Jjustice, and took part in passing on many famous cases. A democrat ap- pointed by President Taft, Lamar lived up to the true traditions | of his nation’s tribulation. | ing, even it it is in condemning Justice = Austria, Japan and Serbia. one place or another the interests of every great power except ty-one years, and in all that time T have voted only six times ind then because my wife made me.” Having paid little attention to the science of government in the past Mr. Ford evi- dently made up for a lot of lost time by studying foreign methods of gov- ernment. King Albert of Belgium in his New Year's greeting to President Wilson, says: ‘“Receive my sincere wishes for yvourself and the of country, whose generosity to Belgium Sentiment in welfare your we shall never forget.” there. And every human the United States sends same happy greetings to a man who proved himself a real man in an hour We hope being back the 1916 has lot of better gifts King Albert and his people than were showered on them in 1915. a FACTS AND FANCIES. Now if Carranza can get the money —but then, that's what we're all say- ing at this time of year.—Boston Journal. Uncle Sam’s matured bonds to the value of more than $1,500,000 have never been presented for redemption, but Uncle Sam is not complaining about it.—Buffalo Courier. and Carson agree- the government, it needn’t surprise any- one to see T. R. dropping in at the White House for luncheon some of these dayvs.—Pittsburgh Dispatch. With Redmond There must be some mistake about the statement that all the saloons in Portland, Me., have been suddenly closed by order of the chief of police. Maine, according to prohibition testi- mony, is a state wh the saloon cannot possibly exist.—Philadelphia Ledger. There are, of course, ill-mannered | drivers who are an unmitigated nui- | sance. But a majority of motorists use the utmost care to avoid pedestrians. Pedestrians should do their part by keeping out of the road unless they have particular business there, and when in the road they should keep their eyes and ears open.—Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. The report that there has been fric- tion between various American emba siesin BEurope may well be true, With small forces, they have been over- whelmed with work and anxlety for seventeen months. In London, the American ambassador represents Ger- many, Austria and Turkey; in Paris, the same; in Berlin, Great Britain, Japan and Serbia; in Vienna, Great Britain, France and Japan! in Petro- grad, Germany and Austria; in Con- stantinople, Great Britain, France, Russia, Belgium and Serbia; in To- kio, Germany and Austria; and in Brussels, Germany, Great Britain, Thus in diplomatic of the Supreme Court, took his place Jtaly have been intrusted to Ameri- with grace and dignity beside his fel- low jurists, and won the love amd ad- rifration of all who came in contact | with him. It is probable that Presi- | dent Wilson will appoint democrat to fill the vacancy caused by his death. Already President Wilson has appointed two members to the of New Jersey another Lench, Justices Pitney and McReynolds of Tennessee, the last ramed a former Attorney-General. | Death has been a frequent visitor to the sacred chambers of the Supreme | Court in recent years. The men | naturally must be well up in years be- | ore they are tendered the positions, so | their going is all the more rapid. | Chief Justice White has seen many of | his companions on the bench go over the long trail since receiving his ap- pointment from the late President Cleveland, and yet the Chief Justice | looks as rugged and as hearty as a man of forty-five. There are two of | President Taft's appointees still re- | maining,—Justice Hughes and Justice | Van Devanter. Justice Holmes and | Justice Day were appointed by Presi- dent Roosevelt and Justice McKenna received his appolntment from the | martyred President, McKinley. As vet no name has been suggested as a | possible successor to Justice Lamar. HE IS BACK. After his sensational escape from the Good Ship Oscar, IL, Henry Ford, | peace promoter par excellance, is back | at the old starting point and has al- ready had conference with the inimit- able William Jennings Bryan, he who deserted the ship of state some scven months ago. Following his futile | attempt to get the boys out of the | trenches by Christmas, the Detroit | manufacturer has a few ideas on how | Like a goodl the war was started. many other people he was laboring | under the impression that the capital- ists, the bankers, the muniticn | makers, and a few other philanthropic | souls, were the cause. Now he knows | better. - The men in the trenches are to blame. Why? Because they failed | to select the proper heads their | government. for And right on top of that Mr. Ford complacently remarks that “Personally, I have been a voter thir- cans.—New York World. Our special reports on present busi- ness conditions in different parts of the country are almost uniformly fa- vorable. The demand for war sup- plies has had a stimulating effect and the large crops of the season with rel- atively high prices have added to it materially. The result is an increased demand for Jabor at good wages and greater activity in domestic trade. This affects the transportation and banking business and increases the de- mand for manufactured products. For the time being at least there is a sub- stantial fecling of renewed prosperity which is more than was to be expect- ed In the early part of the year. The winter seems to be coming on with a pervading sentiment of cheerfulness, apart from the shadow cast by the uncertainties of the struggle still go- ing on in Furope.—New York Journal of Commerce. America’s Chance. (St. Louis Republic.) The situation will be unique. No- where in the history of the world was there ever a potential Good Samari- tan with so much of wealth and op- portunity to minister to a whole world that had fallen among thieves. The spirit of America will be tried by a new measure. Shall we, as a nation, be found ready to “think God’s thoughts after him” when the war ends, Shall we | stand ready to write the law of love, the Golden Rule, in letters of actual accomplishment? Will our imagina- tions show us our opportunity? Shall we be clearsighted enough to see the needs of our brothers in FEurope— Saxon and Norman, Teuton and Slav, Magyar and Tatin, Czech and Celt— as they go back to silent shops and desolated fields? Will the needs of womanhood and childhood come home to our hearts? Ts it not possible that the worst war of all history will give an opportunity at its close for such a demonstra- tion of Christian love and Christian charity as the world has never vet seen? May not the controling force of the coming davs be. not cold steel marshaled by militarism and bucked by autocracy. not the power of dread- nought or submarine. but the witness ~f a voice that savs: “Tnasmuch as ve Aid it unta one of tha Jeast mv hreathren Aid it unto me When the Tnited States interfercd twice in Cuba and save the Cubans back their <overnment we established new standard for mankind. A greater opportunity is coming. How shall we meet it? for | of “hese | NEW, BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, MONDAY, JANUARY 3, 1916. WHAT OTHERS SAY Views on all sides of timely questions as discussed in ex- changes that come to the Herald Office. The Film-Comedian Off Duty. (Literary Digest.) The private life of Charlie Chaplhn, as recently exposed in one or two pub-~ lications, brings the reader a sense of disappointment.” To find that the hero of so many knockr-down and lay-out comedies is, in his own home, an ordinarily sane and intelligent cit- izen is disillusionizing. 1Is it, then, possible that a movie-farce hero ever walks down a flight of stairs and re- mains upright all the way. If we were to visit one of them unexpected- ly, may we believe that we should never find him down in the laundry tumbling about in his own wash- tubs? But not all chronicles are so disappointment. There is, for instance, Puck’s imaginary summary of a moving-picture actor’s early-morninz activities, ere stren duty calls him down to face the camera. Films are long and art is fleeting, which doubt- less accounts for his early start: 7:00 o’clock—Wakes and falls out of bed when combination alarm-clock and garden-hose goes off. 7:10 o'clock—Shaves; lathering himself deftly with charlotte russe. 7:15 o’clock—Morning exercise; puts on bhoxing-gloves and knocks down wife; knocks down child: knocks down serving-maid. Runs along hall to door and slides down- stairs on piano. 7:16 o'clock—Returns by way fire-escape, dragging piano. 7:17 to 7:30 o’clock—Devoted to dressing and falling down. Puts on trousers and falls down. Puts on shrit and falls down. Puts on collar and tie before mirror and falls over back- ward on floor. Rubs off shoes with hair-brush. Fixes hair with shoe- brush. Puts on coat and falls down. 7:31 o'clock—Starts for dining- room and meets serving maid with tray of breakfast dishes. Kicks tray; both fall down. 7:32 o'clock—Enters dining-room and kisses wife and child. Kisses serv- ing-maid, who pushes him through china-closet. Chases serving-maid around breakfast table. Is chased, in turn, by wife. Also by child. Trips on rug and falls down. 5 o’clock—Breakfast. Tears off half loaf of bread. Spears seven buck- wheat cakes with fork and douses them with maple-syrup. Washes face with largest buckwheat cake. Ogles serving-maid and eats napkin by mis- take Spills coffee. Upsets table. 7:36 o’clock—Chased around room by wife, by child, by serving-maid. Climbs on plate-rack. Plate-rack falls. Everybody falls. Climbs on chande- lier. Chandelier falls. Everybody falls. 7:37 o’clock—Jumps into dumb- walter and starts to lower himself. Wife and serving-mald try to pull him back. Rope breaks. Everybody falls. 7:39 o'clock—Wife throws coat, hat, cane, and a kiss to him down the dumb-waiter shaft. He proceeds through coal-hole to street, thence to his day’s work at the Swatagraph Studios. of over- Broken Resolutions, (Meriden Journal.) One of the stock jokes of January is the number of men who swear off January 1 on bad habits, and then in a few weeks drop back to their old ways. It is one thing to make a good res- olution, at home with your wife looking at you. Also mother’s picture over the mantel. Quite another, when out with the “boys” at 1 a. m. Yet a man who iIs to command oth- ers in life must have some command over himself. If he cannot stick to a certain course two weeks, he will hardly be able to make others do his Will in any business enterprise. A man who expects to do large things must be impervious to ridi- cule. The people who envy his suc- cess will always find his ideas absurd. Hence it is excellent practice to make and keep a resolution in the face of the jeers of one's friends. After you find you can do it, you have an excuse for quitting if it seems best. But usu- ally the resolution proves permanently useful. New Year’s resolutions are said to be out of fashion. Perhaps that is because one day a vear for new be- ginnings is 8o inadequate. Every day in the year ought to bring some new purpose and larger hope. If We Must Have Them. (New Haven Register.) The fond admirers of Theodore Roosevelt have a grievance against President Wilson; they allege that he has stolen the policies of their idolized hero, and is adopting them for his own. How much truth there may be in the charge one can hardly say. The characteristics of the two men are so diametrically opposite that a wild Roosevelt vagary when smoothed and trimmed and fitted to its place in the systematic method of President Wilson, might be so unrecognizable that its own father would have great difficulty in proving his property. But if we must have Roosevelt rad- icalism, by all means let's have it through the medium of such a man as Mr. Wilson. It would be desirable, judging from the past three vears, that such a man be found in the re- publican party and elected by that party. For with all his virtues, Mr. Wilson is a Poor Tray in the company of designing democrats, who don't demonstrate great capacity in good government. But as the prospect is poor of the republican party rising triumphant above the malign control of the man who will have his way or wreck it, then if we must have Roose- velt policies, let's have them through Wilson. Only it is doubtful if there is any justice in trying to identify them as Roosevelt policies after they have passed through that process. Why should the republican party consider the nominating of a regenade when its ranks are full of able, hon- est and capable men?—St. Louig lT)l’TIt‘S. i It means the progress of the McMILLAN’S New Britain’s Busiest Big Store Always Reliable FOR ONE DAY ONLY 300 '4 ECONOMY--Auto-Roller Bearing--CARPET SWEEPERS AT 98 CENTS EACH--Regular $3 Value On Sale Wednesday Morning at 8:30 Be on fime if you expect to get one bscause they will go like hot cakes CONDITIONS OF SALE Don't be mis- led by the price the Economy auto-roller bear- ingcarpet Sweep- a full size Only one to # Customer. e None wrapped. carpet and sweeper, None delivered. worth $3 of anyone's money. It costs us more than 98¢, but we are willing to stand a loss to have a daily reminder in your home that we are in the sweeper bus- iness. This is ad- vertising, pure and simple. is None charged. None sent C.. 0. D. % None sent on ap=- proval. No mail orders. No'phone orders. Come in per- son. None sold to children. 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C., Jan. 3—War waves have rolled forward and back- ward around the little town of St Mihiel, like angry surf against a rocky shore, and the struggle here has been as stationary as that be- tween a granite headland and the sea. A primer on war geography just issued by the Natio Geographic soclety describes this village, grown famed during the past year as the starting point of innumerable Ger- man assaults, and as a position bear- ing the brunt of many a fierce French answer. The primer reads: St Mihiel, in its youth, was a place of much military importance, a feu- day stronghold of good revenue and fair renown. In those days, it pos- sessed massive fortifications and two castles, about which cling a wealth of traditions of bravery, stories of ro- mance, and tales of unbridled revel- ry. The old fortifications and the castles were destroyed in a quarrel between Louis XIII and Charles IV, duke of Lorraine, in 1635. l ward the German frontier. the world-war's to which foundation the town its name. The abbey way back in Europe, in the year 709. ent abbey buildings, in municipal office house, the 17th century. which date inant fortress a sepulchre has been hewn and aculous powers are ascribed to image, and to it the peasants of their petitions. “St. Mihiel lies on the right southeast of Verdun. it has a population of 6,000 and “Modern St. Mihiel formed an im- |large garrison.” _— Man Or Cog? l war. (Boston Transcript.) No philosopher alive could make a closer of more illuminating analysis of the difference between the Anglo- Saxon and the German theory of so- ciety and the state than this speech of Lloyd George's supplies. Let see what it means. Is the German Chancellor, or any minister of the German empire, appealing to German workmen to do their duty and “win the war” by sticking to their task in the factories? Surely not. The Ger- man workman in the munitions fac- tories is a soldier. He works at his utmost rate of production, as a mat- ter of discipline, of holy obedience. | All these things are regulated for him. He is a cog in a machine, and quite willing to be one. He thinks a good deal, indeed, and dreams more. But his thinking and dreaming never in- terfere with his function as a cog in | that great machine. Britain has gone, and we trust will | always go, on just the opposite theory ; of government. Tt regards soclety as superior to its own government. All | depends upon the will of the individ- | ual. The state must serve that will. | This idea is also the charter of Amer- | ican liberties—for which liberties wae | sometimes care more than we do for | our safety. Tt works well in peace. | world. | Perhaps, with a little more experience and forethought, it may also be made to work in war. But Llovd George's speech shows that It was not working at all at the commencement of thlsiwar materials. | of it could tell. Mr. George: we had at the beginning of the are now our highest.” mans had the big guns at start. Says us | Mr. Lloyd George, in rible doubt: despair. is for liberty In effect | the machine. He as against despotism says, “Men, us because yvou, like me, You will do this as a will, ‘is indeed the situation. tems of government—our own with England’s—are at stake in the man. UNDER MILITARY CONTROL. Rome, Jan. 2, ernmental decree all This has control. action higher disencumber the ports strikes for effort to portant link in the long, closely-‘ woven chain of French defenses to- The chief fame remaining to it at the time of outbreak, however, was that of its age-mellowed abbey, the Benedictine abbey of St. Mihiel, owes was founded the infancy of Central The pres- the from “On the road to Verdun, the dom- of the whole region, are seven huge rocks, in one of which life-sized figure of Christ carved. Mir- the the neighborhood take their troubles and banlk of the Meuse and the Canal de I'Est, in northeastern France, some 23 miles In peace times, A single sentence of the speech tells the story as well as every word i Lloyd The heaviest seige guns that war But the Ger- the very It was thus the two political ystems answered to the test of war! connection with all this, utters the note of ter- “I wonder if it's too late —too late!” But it is not the note of He could not despair, unless he despaired of freedom in the world. Still he believes in the man as against stiln he vou will do this work for understand that it is the crisis of our institutions. matter of free and we shall be saved to go on the road of freedom in security.” Th The two sys along this | In the war of the man against ine, we believe that the man | must triumph, because after all he is 8:30 p. m.—By gov- ports and dock laborers have been placed under mili- v been taken for the purpose of preventing wages during the of large quantities of merchandise and drafted. If Germany did not have conscription, thousands of Germans would refuse to join the colors; if France did not have conscriptiony thousands of Frenchmen would re< fuse to join the colors, and so en through the list of warring nations. It may be said of any people. Not every man is a born fighter or wants to be a hero. In all armies the bulk of the fighting is done by the braver men, and there fearful evidence in this war there are plenty of them, in all the armies, probably as many as there were in any war or at any time, even among the savage peoples and in the periods of history when fighting way the accustomed occupation of every ablebodied male. Whoever it was that started this war made a mistake if he did it in the belief that the English had for- gotten how to fight and were a de- cadent race. They proved to be slow starters, as they have always been, but John Bull appears to blood up at last, and to be realizing that he has a big job in front of him and not all of it In sight yet. How- ever, the English have the reputation of being strong finishers, also. But what the world is particularly need of just now is not more fight- Tt has too many willing to fight already. Englishman, Irishmanf, Frenchman, German, Belgian, Aus- trian, Russian, Serbian, Bulgarian, and Turk, not to speak of Great Brit- ain’s younger peoples from over seas, and her Indian troops—they are all fighters and all fight equally well And here's the pity of it—they all fight believing that the war was fore- ed upon their countries by a con- spiracy of cruel, grasping enemies. Tt is evident that these millions of fighting men ought to be thinking men.—able to search out the minds of their rulers and statesmen, and to interpret to some extent thelr country’s policy so that they woulq know whether their country’s canse was just. At war, the countries need their fighting men, need them des- perately, but in peace, and perhaps in wartime to bring peace, what the nations need are thinking men. " is the thinker who restores, saves nd builds. the fighter must perforce destroy The best hope there is for peace in 1916 is that the survivors among the fighters are beginning 1o become thinkers also. And the only hope there is for peace in the future is that they will think out a way to a future in which the men who have to do the fighting shall’ kmow mors and bave more to say as to what they shall fight for. that a a ing men. Henry Ford is still paying the bills of his peace husters, but it is a good wager that he will shake hands ef- fusively with every Detroit policeman he meets.—New York Herald, is plenty of be getting hisg