New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 5, 1916, Page 6

BRITAIN HERALD BRALD PUBLISHING Proprietors. COMPANY. dally (Sunday excepted) at 4:15 p. m. | Herald - Building, 67 Church St Post Office at New Britain 58 Mail Matter. at the to any part of tne city 5 C Month. ve by mall | Payablo in advance, 60 Cents & Month, $7.00 a year nly profitable ety Circul room always ¢ : meatum and press | ‘tisors Hota- | oad- ; Board Walk, Hartford depot. TELEPHONE CALLS. erala wi News Stand. f. New York tlaatic City ..928 | 926 ial Rooms . FACTORY pre is in the entire state of Con- | that all New greater manufacturing New one hundred and twenty manu- " ut, or for matter, nd, no than Britain. There ave concerns here turning out | utility, bsolutely necessaries of modern It behooves then, the 'Ss men, the employers and with interest ring conceivable things that the people of thi the the the manufacturers, ves, to watch of the National Society for Industrial will meet in Minneapolis during htter part of this month. The teresting feature to attract at- n here must be necessarily a re- the tion of Education pn “‘vocational education.” which leen compiled after an extensive igation made by a committee of pss men, employers and em- under the direction of the of Education of Minneapolis. he report will be complete argues he fact that the men who made e enthusiastic over the work and not handicapped by the lack of They labored under a bequest | million dollars with which to their “industrial survey.” t the report will be of interest ery manufacturer in New Brit- ay be seen from a casual scrut- the topics handled. The com- b has all the data showing how children in the United States school each year; the nationality se children, their ages, what | hrd prevails in the schools, and fmic conditions in the commun- he kind of work the children take ow they go about getting these succeed fail how or the amount of idleness preva- they in | in | | or aerial ladder could be counted on for use on any other building, the chicf from slighted. message Waterbury The ignored. Ladders but the cost of all the the world would not tir the scales against a single human lite. | should not be lesson | should not be are expensive { ladders in MERE DETAIL, When the general board of the navy undertook to prognosticate a combined attack upon this country by two for- cign powers within the next ten 3 and to warrant that the hostile fleets the mem- ould approach simultaneou Atlantic and Pacific coasts the bers left a great opening for criticism. What two powers would unite? Where are the it not three powers or four, or five, or may six powers that would unit Admit- tedly it was a mistake to say that two both the as ? Or would be 2 powers might unite and attack cur sts at the same time. But mistake is a mere matter of detail and coa regards the number that might It matters not if it be one, the attack is liable to come and therefore some prepara- The is a serious problem heart at th together. two, or three; national it time, tion should be made. cefense and raust be taken to | Whether the plans be laid to offset | the attack of one or more nations mat- ters not for the showdown Uncle Sam will find some ac he djd in the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, and the Spanish War. The only trouble with United States today is that neglect and decay have been allowed to get their work., We stopped building shortly after After we got our boys out of the trenches the nation settled back in a state of lethargy, probably figuring that it had demonstrated to the it was a power of 1he first magnitude because it “licked” poor little Spain. Today we are aw ening from this state, and during the present session of Congress our will thrash the matter Let there be no politi- | in final way out the in whole world k- rep- resentatives pro and con. cal driftwood in the speeches, in the the ends that present This is the time for na- ticnal patriotism to as itself and 1 the men in the national Congress | should set an example. If the) merge the interests of the nation for their own private interests every citi- zen who has a vote should go out at the next election and see to it that the representative is defeated, dGown and out of public life once and motives, in themselves. sert sub- per- sonally who betrays his country put who graduate and graduat indust those not various hmcng what ! | | who do of children ceds es are; be best suited iine of help; i city he can up any particular the better ticular schools for the schools for how can er it is Bide in- to |« for all. The day of the petty politi- must now is as good a time as any to judge cian pa; sooner or later and the calibre of the men we want in the House of Representatives and the Tnited States Senate. 1f they in a period like this they | on cannot ‘measure up’’ do not “belong.” Keep vour cye al education, or import this edge in part time classes, or in de employe taking g schools. The report also the to lective extent which s | methods in on | | ana | the vocational education lifted ause g have of theoretical studies and put | been from e sordid plane of utilitarianism 1 jork of Min- lis will be watched with interest the convention in and educational the hisiness men bs throughout nation, It will | o long before every state in the | laws | of | are [ ha tatute books upon the taking 1 befor Is the case | prohibit ho they And when that | sents itseclf the manu- | ook f | pers 1 r older and | to boy do their work It were far | se children who mu the educa- | st bread be ning in the par- ually at ef earn given l-indu r line which they This schem anufacturers would be better off | if they school authorities in awak- | intend to fol- | 5 being followed 10 | i now; but extent in e lon n co-operated | he in the pupils follow The results at- | the g\ work. worth time ex- LON LADDERS. sufficient of he lack ladders of ht of was the direct cause injure us ory on the fire in the Hotel Con- does a Waterbury paper in? ut comment on a situation that d not be tolerated for a hy up to date municipality. ate to plan to buy ladders been injured or Kkilled. ladders needed moment, It one has time long h fire breaks out—not are is a month | is reassuring to learn from Chief e that New Bri ladder ble of reaching to the top of anry hantile building in the city. This e acrial ladder, seventy feet long. 1in has a jourse it would not answer in case gerious fire in the new building anders, Frary & Clark on Center pt as the top of that structure is ty-nine feet from the ground. The | this Congre | men, | mere { might attack | yesterday the | new | exclu | his | come and watch for the little be the ones who will They squabble over the little things be the I¢ te all night the petty | contained will the | details, they will men ho obstruct remedial tion because they can deb will «nd into the next day over little a, tha the opening of the navy board’s that count ertion is in ro- tions | the little the namely, th years, gramme, two n within Further next ten , thes men will want know the countries intimated by the board. But | what boots it what the co or where they are? We prepared for them anyway. probably to names and addr s of two | ntries are, want to be We have 1ot to keep these shores free. Missouri Valley men mourn the loss of Colonel Robert Thompson Van today Horn, veteran editor, statesman, soldier, whose death ed in Kansas City. of and oceur He age and W was ninety-two years s to | the Journal there what Colonel Wat- the Courier-Journal “Bob" editor. terson is to rose from He ror of his city, of Above all, he was all the loved the rele- Colonel printer’s to Union soldier, n le national PLouisville. devil was in turn ma tate lator, and member congress. an American, first, time. And, although great western country he always gated sectional to the ground when the broader last and he feeling bac interests of union came into play. The Colonel prided himself on the biggest “beat” the Journal of was due that the when finding to great Ye iper vely told gold in Colorado. It anc torie stone was tention Van Horn region of the government. Colonel lived not in vain. last no hag at that He Pan-Ame bility William Jennings forth with will severely ed, Bryan a doctrine one criticise, sug g Scientific Congress, the advi the in before the n of Spanish the Hemis- English and of Western be teaching languages continents It the schools of the 5 is to mean anything phere. should done Pan- Americanism Have you broken New Year's Res all your olutions? | or sitting be | such in | the | brought to the at- | two | NEVW, BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 5, 1916. FACTS AND FANCIF | { The results of the European war will compel us to become an armed nation, whether we like the idea or not. The sooner we begin to accept this situa- tion the better. Monroe and Adams had the courage to proclaim the Mon- roe Doctrine when the United States a a power, without the military Shall we shrink from using them with the i} courage and in the same of farseeing statesmanship were manifested by Adams and Mon- roe?—New York Tribune. resources Now. developing and as Valuation of the railroads which is now under way, is dealt with in the annual report of the Interstate Com- merce Commission. There is not much satisfaction in the accounting of mrogress which tho commission malkes, for it is still many years from its conclusion and that it is to be pro- gressively expensive. Moreover, there is still no hint that the valuation it- self when completed will have any value in relation to the government regulation of railroad rates, which was the primary object of the whole ex- travagant undertaking.—New York sun. Secretary Lax peech at the Pan-American Scientific Congress was a scholarly and statesmanlike exposi- tion the Pan-American doctrine | who 8 our relations are e to wield an influence’ on | the destinies of the Western Hemis- | phere. The Secretary of State's ad- dress Is a most notable exposition of the policy of tho government in re- ard to the community of interest between ourselves and the Latin- American nations, which is one of the most notable developments of inter- national policy in the whole range of American history.—Buffalo Times. be! on so vast Despite demagoglic and ignorant op- position to plans for developing the water transportation and harbor fa- cilities of this country, the cheering news comes from <Washington that the Rivers and Harbors Committee of | the House is planning to report a bill calling for an appropriation of § 000,000 with which to carry out work that has passed the searching scru- tiny of the Army engineers. No one with the slightest knowledge of the expansion of commerce and the, srowth of ports and outlying terri- torv which has fellowed river and harbor developments in Rurope, par- ticularly in Holland and Germany, will fail to understand tne tremendous im- portance to the South and the whole nation of building up water trans- portation and terminal facilities here. The work should never be allowed to lag.—Baltimore Manufacturers’ Rec- ord. finer than the address of Root before the Amer- of Tnternational Law has e out of Washington since the war Without losing himself in or rhetorical flourishes, < and admiring his skill turning out a cadanced argument nowhere, he got right down sat issues: Iirst, that “in- al laws violated with im- se to exist: second, that if violation of the laws that deal with justice and humanity go unpun- shed all international relationships are put in the melting pot and the rule of right is at an end. The na- tions, confronted as they are with this situation, be held, must the lessons of the war to bring about radical changes as will prevent such a frightfu! disaster as that which now overwhelmed civilization happening _Philadel- T.edger. Nothing ex-Secretary ican Society cor began fine phrases in leading to the ternatior punity” the use has from phia Passing the Blame. We never blame the tailor when we have to use a pin; We never blame the shoe man when our shoes grow old and thin; We never blame the hatter when our lids we bhave to lout, we always blame the laundry when our shirts wear out. —Cincinnati Enquirer never blame the typlst when she writes our letters wrong; - blame t manicurist when she holds our hands too long; never hlame the waitress if she serves a dirty plate, we always blame the home folks if the dinner’s late. Wilkes-Barre Times-Leader never blame the milkman when the milk is looking blue; never blame the cook when there is something In the stew | We never blame the butcher when the | meat is high in cost. But we alw blame the household | when a collar bhutton’s lost. i —Roy K. Moulton | We ! never blame the motorman when | trolley cars won't stop; When thieves go unmolested, we never me the cop; ‘er blame the s for a song hlame the pe spelled wror —Waterbury acent when our ser if our nam American never hlane the doctor if operation fails; > never blame the the train runs off the rails; néver hlame the butcher if bread’s too hard to chew we always blame the landlord the rent comes due. the brakeman when the | when (Birmingham Age-Herald.) “My ia the elderly million- aire at of a lecture on econ- “when T was your age I carried water for a gang of section hands.” “I'm proud of you, dad,” answered the gilded youth, “If it hadn’t been for your pluck and preseverance I might have had to do something of l he sort myself.” hoy,” the end omy, London Town Made Up of Many Londons hington, D. C., Jan. & Lon- | don, first among the war capitals, and among the battle theatres on ‘ound-—by reason if its hav- the storm center for operations of the mighty Zeppelins,— i etched with all the intimate de tails of long friendship by Florence Craig Albrecht in a communication to the National Geographic Society. Speaking of the many-sidedness, the great size and the ancient dignity of London, Mrs. Albrecht says: ‘There are so many Londons in one London, where begin with them? The London of Roman and Saxon, of Norman and Plantagenet, the London of Chaucer and Shakespeare, of Lamb and Dickens and Thackeray, the Lon- don of clubs and hotels, the London of factories and sweatshops, the Lon- don that administers the affairs of the empire, and the London that dances and plays criket. There is the summer London of the tourist, there is social London revelling in May, there is the November London of smoke and fog, busy and inhospit- abe, there is today a darkened Lon- don, somewhat apprehensive, but grimly determined, London differ- ent from any we have known. “Putting aside all unproven tradi- ing of the Roman legions. Rome seven centuries old, was in her pagan prime, but Paris, then Lutetia, was an island hamlet in the Seine, Vien- na was a small Roman camp, Berlin did not come into existence for many a century thereafter, Madrid first ap- pears 1000 years later, Brussels was founded in the 6th century, Amster- dam about the 13th o our era. These count not at all in London’s age. “The city of London, the commer- cial heart of the metropolis on the te of the British hamlet and Rom- an town, measures about a mille square, In the daytime its inhabi- tants number more than 300,000 at night not a twelfth of that number sleep there—land is too valuable for S During one day a million f people pass through its yond it and across the riv- er spreads another London, of 5,- 000,000 pcople, over 130 square miles, and beyond that ‘Greater Lon- don,” the district covered by the Met- ropolitan and city police, with 700 square miles and more than 7,000,- 000 inhabitant foremos English ing become WHAT OTHERS SAY iews on all sildes of timely questions as discussed in ex- changes that come to the Herald Office, Boy-Ed and the Press. (Ansonia Sentinel.) Like his illustrious compatriot, Captain Von Papen, the distinguished naval attache of the German embassy, Captain Boy-Ed, is no longer with us for good and sufficient reasons. parting is a matter of much satisfac- tion to the United States, if it is not to the naval attache. In his valedic- tory to the American people Captain Bod-Ed is not as matic as the repr: military arm of his Prussianism bobs up irrepr he indulges in a diatribe against the “irresponsible pre as he calls it, that indicates how willingly he would wring its collective neck, if he had it in Germany. TIn fact he tells us in s0o many words that free speech is something that displeases him deeply and that the time is coming in ca, when we will have to newspapers in the effectual w use in the empire that Prus nates. That is st entatives of the government. His bly and a natural way for speech to strike .a representative of the kaiser. He has had no first hand acquaintance with liberty of thought anad of the pre nd its manifestation, when he is the targeet so to speak, ap- pears to him like the extreme of li- cense. Different schools, different manners. The American people like a free and untrammeled press. They like to have the newspaper tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth about the operations of such men as Boy-Ed for instance. They may disagree with the journal- istic conclusions but they do not shout for a gag every time the papers step on their tender toes. They simple grin and bear it with the reflection that some sacrifice must be made in the cause of free thought. Far distant should be the day that Captain Boy-Ed so blithely predicts, when the hand of autocracy can {hrottle the press and through it the expression of the free thought of a tree people. Such a strangulation might come, if Germany had the say in this republic but that time is not yet. Much must happen before comes to p: have to flow beforc Prussian militar- m places the gag between the lips of American citizens or breaks the pen in the hand of honest newspapers. The Single Gun. (New London Day. development of the fact that the torpedoed British steamer Persian carried a formidable gun, mounted for action, may bring up with very unpleasant force the ruling, made by this government early in the war, that a ship mounting a single gun astern, for purpose of defense during flight, should not be regarded as an armed vessel. We must confess to having always felt nervous about that ruling 1t looked at the time like a mistake and there is some evidence that the | administration came to regard it as a mistake in the fact that merchant ships leaving American ports were requested to waive their right to j mount defensive guns. There is lit- The “Her streets straightened and laid | | been frankly This | cious and diplo- | it | and rivers of blood will | end to end, would reach from New York to San Francisco. Of her 650,- 000 buildings, 500 are hotels and inns. One hundred thousand Americans pass through them in peaceful sum- mers and 15,000 resided there before the war. The East End, beyond the ‘city nd the Tower, is a manufacur- district, tenanted largely by tailors. There are other indus- but the race predominates. The West End is the home of fashion and of power, Between these ends lies real London, with all its wealth of long and tremendous history, of liter- and legal repute, of commercial prestige, of architectural fame. “The district acro the water con- cerns the American visitor only in a few definite interests, all of London for him lies in a mile-wide band along the Thames, from the Tower to West- minster, but so rich is it that when he would summarize his impressions, he finds neither beginning nor end. “The whole of Christian history speaks to one in the hum of the mon- ster city, the writer says, and in its thousands of possessions hallowed by memories.. From the Tower, in turn palace, prison, arsenal, to the world- famous Abbey, made sacred to civili- zation by the illustrious dead gathered within its walls, Mrs. Albrecht finds the echoes of the past nowhere more rich or more impressive than in the Imperial city of earth’s greatest em- pire. Of this echo from the past, to be heard in London, Mrs. Albrecht say: It is the tramp of Roman legions investing a squalid British hamlet, it is the battle-cry of Saxon and of Dane, it is the shout of the Norman conqueror, the echoes of the hamlets of his builder it is the gay songs of the courtiers riding to this or that palace on the Thames, it is the chant of many psalms, the sob of marty it is the thud of oars in mufled row- locks, as a barge slips down the river from the judgment hall of Westmin- ster to the Traitor’'s Gate at the Tow er. It the laughter of masques and revels in inns of court halls and gardens, it is the moan when a king dies by Whitehall, it the frenzy born of plague and fire, it is the bable and 5, the drone of nuns, f a new prince and all these and mor hear peoples Jews is a new crown, —it is the throbing of a it is the voice of many through two thousand years.” tle doubt that it would have been bet- ter if the ruling had never been made or if, having been made, it had later rescinded as erroneous in principle. If the Persian case were to cipher down to a contest over the status of the vessel with respect to her beins an armed or a peaceful merchant ship it would be pretty difficult to vince some fair minded people, and perhaps many of them, that a four or five-inch gun, whether mounted forward, amidship or astern, is essen- tially and inevitably a defensive de- vice. A a mere fact abaft of midships by no means a guarantee that it will not make, of the ship that car ries it, a pretty ugly customer for a thin shelled vessel like a submarine torpedo boat to tackle. With certain mountings it might gun is a gun and the that it is stationed | ble for a gun, even though positioned astern, to bear upon object abeam or even forward of abeam of the ship. Tt depends on the length of its traverse. So that the presump- tion that a gun mounted aft sarily intended solely for defense perhaps a bit strained. At all events the pr as heavy as that carried by the Per- an is pretty difficult to reconcile with that state of helplessness which is the base of all the consideration shown, or supposea to be shown, to non-combatants in time of war The probabilities are, of course, that whatever vessel sunk the Persian was in no danger whatever from her one gun and that its commander had no fear whatever of that piece. But it is questionable, after all, whether the moral effect of a mounted gun of fighting calibre, ahoard any ship, is not that of destroving her non-com- batant quality. Tt scems to us that it must and does. that the owners of non-combatant ships make a very serlous mistake in sacrificing the non- combatant status for such futile pro- tection as the one gun affords and that the United States government made a fundamental, if pardonable, error in not, at the outset, putting it- self squarely on record as refusing to recognize as a peaceful ship any that carried even a single mounted gun. well is neces- is ence of a gun Looking Ahead. (New Haven Journal-Courier.) As was to have been expected, ficials of the nations at war expres cofficial the future j of the conflict as another year dawned. opinions on course In reading these utterance case of similar statem mer on the completion twelve-month of war, it is difficult to escape the impression that the message to the fighting lines full of hope, chiefly because they simple have to be so. During the first stages of the war, one often wondered in a confused sort of way what impression the prayers of the belligerents must have made upon the divine Father of them all. Each petitioned apparent- ly with an abiding faith based upon the assumption that the particular cause for which that prayer went up W right and that any cause opposed 1o it was wrong, Now we find Presi- dent Ponicare presaging victory for 1916 and basing his faith on the es- sential right of the Allied caus French hearts are set upon “victory, the annihilation of German militarism, ard the entire reconstitution of France.” But, “with a to dis- charge the duty of the and to s in the last sum- of the first ents B W fatherl con- | be entirely possi- | - McMILLAN’S New Britain’s Busiest Big Store — Always Reliable. OUR ANNUAL MID-WINTER 7.98 Raincoats 5.98 Raincoats, 3.98 and 3.49 Raincoats, UMBRELLAS Marked Down. Don't be without an Um- brella when you can buy them at such prices. Men’s, Women’s and Children’s. Sale prices 47¢, 69¢, 90c. NEMO CORSETS Broken assortment of sizes at a reduction. Values to $1.00. Sale p LACE AND NET GUIMPES Sale price 45¢. 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