New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 8, 1916, Page 10

srmany Concedes to U.'S. Indemnity ety for Passengers and Crews Promised — Matter of Persia Will Be Fully Investigated to Determine Nationality of U.-Boat. Fashington, Jan 8.—Two commu- ions from Germany reached the ed States yesterday, one contain- a proposal to pay an indemnity the Americans lost in the Lusitan- fisaster, which may bring nego- ons on that subject to a conclu- , and the other conveying as- nces that German submarine com- pders operating in the Mediterran- would not torpedo non-combatant s of any character without warn- hem and according safety to their ngers. le communications were delivered Becretary Lansing by Count Von hstorff, the German ambassador. secretary immediately sent them President Wilson e attittude Germany apparently assumed was considered to be ally in harmony with the Amer- viewpoint, sion regarding the entire sub- ne question seemed to have les- pd considerably. is said that Germany and Aus- Hungary will use their influence bring everything to an amicable lement. Germany’s Consessions. pllowing a conference in Washing- ith Ambassador Von Bernstorff, ollowing statement was issued by etary of State Lansing: ‘he German ambassador yesterday at the department of state under ctions from his government the bwing communication: ‘1—German submarines in the terranean had, from the begin- orders to conduct cruiser war- against enemy merchant vessels in accordance with general prin- s of international law and in par- measures of reprisal, as ap- d. in the war zone around the sh Isles, were to be excluded. ,'2—German submarines are efore permitteed to destroy enemy hant vessels in the Mediterran- i. e., passenger a well as freight )8, as far as they do not try to pe or offer resistance—only after pengers and crews have been ac-; led safety. ‘8—All cases of destruction of Iny merchant ships: in the Medi- gnean in which Geerman subma- B are concerned are made the sub- | of official investigation and be- s submitted to regular prize proceedings, Insofar as Ameri- interests are concerned, the Ger- government will communicate | result to the American govern- | Thus, also, in the Persia case jhe circumstances should call for ‘4—If commanders of German arines should not have obeyed for Lusitania punished; furthermore, the German government will make reparation for damage caused by death of or injur- ies to American citizens.” " Indemnity for Lusitania. In another communication present- ed to the state department yesterday, Germany offered to pay indemnity for sinking the Lusitania, refusipg, how- ever, to admit any wrongdoing in the act. No Wrongdoing Admitted. Under the terms of the proposal submitted for the ‘approval of the United States, Germany, while offer- ing to pay an indemnity, makes the reservation that no admission of wrongdoing thereby is involved. It is contended that the Lusitania was sunk as an act of reprisal for the British blockade of Germany. While Secretary Lansing is under- stood not to have indicted to Count Von Bernstorff whether the proposal was satisfactory, a number of offi- cials in a position to be familiar with the American attitude indicated that it would be accepted. Promises Made. The assurances regarding the con- duct of submarine warfare in the Mediterranean, obviously prompted by the sinking of the British steam- ship Persia with a loss of two Amer- ican lives, are much broader in their scope than the promises made after the Lusitania disaster covering the operations of submarines in the North Sea and adjacent waters. The latter guaranteed only that “liners” should be immune from attack without warning. The assurances regarding j o more returned the Mediterranean operations include privately owned ships of every char- acter, freight as well as passenger vessels. It was revealed yesterday that in the reply to the last note regarding the William P. Frye, the Berlin for- eign office agreed with the American view that small boats cannot under | all conditions be considered a place of safety for persons leaving a ship about to be attacked. The Persia Matter. The German government, apparent- ly not certain whether a German | submarine sank the Persia, promises the United States in this communica- | tion that should it develop that such was the case the matter will be in- | vestigated and submitted to prize | court proceedings, and that if the commander disobeved his orders he will be punished and reparation made | ; for the death or injuries to American | citizens. Situation Better. Consideration of the German a surances and _of the apparent att i orders given to them, they will be tude of the ‘Austria-Hungary is re- | foundry. seems to be about over. Su- perintendent day and about returned to their work. been informed that on Monday more will coming back of the celebrations in connection with the Russian Christmas. December 20 when the foundry hands quit work because one of their num- ber was discharged wishes. | For Speech Criticising German-Amer- | tive Gardner was vigorously assailed vesterday publican Cooper, a speech criticising | were as violent as would have been made shouted Mr. Cooper, who is the rank- | mittee. NEW, BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, SATURDAY, JANUARY &, 1916. flected in dispatches from Ambassador | Penfield@’ at Vienna,.led officials 1o belRe “the” siking ' “of ~the = Persia might not restit: »in« difficulties ' ‘so grayeyal at first.-were:feared. - Iriformation ‘regarding the circum- stances of the Persia’still were lack- ing .tonight. However, the depart- ment was continuing its efforts to gain a knowledge of the details. Ad- ditional instructions were cabled to vdrious consular and diplomatic offi- cials. U. S. Stands Firm. Tt was made clear at the state de- partment during the day that -the position of the United States in re gard to Americans having a right to travel on merchant ships regardles of whether they were armed for de fense had not been changed. HELD CHRISTMAS PARTY. Corbin Foremen’s Club Has injoyable Celebration. P. & F. Although Christmas passed into his- tory two weeks ago that fact did not deter the members of the P. & F. Cor- bin Foremen’'s club from having an enjoyable Christmas cclebration and social in Bardeck’s hall last evening. Including members and guests over 250 were present. A handsomely dec- orated Christmas tree occupied the center of the stage. The special entertainment feature was a three round bout between “Tommy” Shea, bantamweight cham- pion of New England, and “Kid"” Murphy of New York and three rounds with “Johnny” Welton of Meriden. “Jack” Hennessey of Meri- den was referce and W. W. Hanna timed the bouts: A supper followed and an orchestra rendered selections. STRIKE ABOUT OVER Foundry Hands at North & Judd Fac- tory Seem to Have Enough. The strike at the North & Judd Herbert A. Johnson opened that part of the plant yester- a score of employes Today many and the officials have return, having refrained from to work today because The strike has been in force since against their REP. GARDNER ATTACKED. icans and German Nation. Washington, Jan. 8.—Representa- in the house by two re-i colleagues, Stafford and | of Wisconsin, when he made German-Amer- cans and the German nation. “The remarks we have just heard British parliament,” in the ng member of the foreign affairs com- On Mr. Gardner’s f demand ‘ for the regular order of business Mr. Cooper sat down. He ‘had scarcely taken his seat, however, when Mr. Stafford gained the floor. In an impassioned address he declared Mr. Jardner to be “More British than American,” criticised him for the na- ture of his remarks, “when every member should weigh his words carefuly,” and strongly defended German-Americans. The Abuse of Language. (Boston Herald) Whether our speech is to serve us as a mitten or as a glove depends on the pains we are willing to take with distinctions like those in ‘*should” and “would,” “who” and “that” “the boy's” ‘and “of the boy.” For our thought, both in seeing things and in mulling them over, is far subtler and more finely shaded that the cor- responding string of words that we address to our friends: in such ex- pression as we can reach, we depend on the trim distinctions of our gram- mar as directtly as the typist on the distinctions of her keyboard or the wood carvers on the differences of his gouges. To lose from good usage even one well-based grammatical distinc- tion is to lessen by just that amount our means of matching our thoughts with our words, Unhappily our careless use of the mother tongue is confusing forms and dropping distinctions that even collo- quial wordig can ill spare, Our enor- mous vocabulary grows er than the dictionary makers can issue appendix and new edition: but, our grammar, like an aging tree, is decaving at the tips. Take for instance “would” and “should.” Here in New Englana the distinction lingers. In the middle West and beyond ‘“would” has hopelessly merged with its own service that of “should.” The smoother phrases “I would like” and “I would be grateful” already appear in formal writing, and only the verbalist is vexed. The dis- tinction of “who” from ‘‘that” for all the good examples in the talk of strect and shop and in the common version of the Bible, is as good as gone from our modern books. . In ‘“a running fight,” “by running a race,” “I saw John running,” “I saw John's run- ning,” how many of us can tell apart, as adjective, infiinite, participle and verbal noun, those four ‘‘runnings’? Is it a wonder that we are letting slip the good distinction between “He didn't like Tom interrupting” and “He didn’t like Tom’'s interrupting”? A graver loss has come of our laziness with subjunctive forms. Our school children think us quaint when we say, “If he were’ or “Wherever it be.’ Shades of Demosthenes and Cicero! What could even the orators have done had Rome and Athens dulled blunt indicatives? Language is the world’s oldest won- der, No one really knows how it bé- gan or how it attained its structural perfection. The Greek grammar was finer than the Roman; the Sanskrit finer than the Greek. Language is the one taking argument for a prehistoric Golden Age. Its laws have been: studied and named and marveled at our own Whitney as if human speeech had some mysterious life of i own. The least the rest of us can do is to s it to the next generation with the possible damage from our own n Toting (Ansonia Sentinel.) Murders and suicides show a strik ing tendency to multiply in those parts of the country where the habit weapon carrying is h. Vice versa they riking tendency to the law makes it a penal offense to carry deadly wea- pons on the person. The habit of pistol and knife carrying is general in some of the southern states and these are the very states where hu- man life is held the cheapest and sacrificed with the most wantonnes With a weapon handy every quarrel may have a fatal outcome. The in- difference of the citizen places a premium on murder, manslaughter and other crimes of violence. But the contrary is always the case where state or municipality prohibits the promiscuous carriage of deadly arms. New York, since the passage of the Sullivan law, not a perfect law by any means but a step in the right direction, nhas seen a decrease in homicides by means of the revolver of 37 per cent. It has seen the sui- cides by that weapon fall off 24 per cent. So states the report on the operation of the law just issued. is no excuse for “pistol toting” un- der any system of thought and - that it persists in so many states i indictment of the carelessn civilization. Connecticut cities have laws upon the subject of weapon bearing and here too it has mater- ially decreased the amount of life taking. It would decrease it still more had we a general law on the subject and punishment more severe of permiscouous allowed to flour show an equally decrease, when United some It States can profit. is a subject that the ponder over with by men like Grimm and Mueller and'| than that now in force and applied. ! < ESTABLISHED 1886 < Globe Clothing House 30th Annual Sale d CLOTHING SUITS AND | .. 85c "'$115 | '$135 $1.00 for $1.50 for $2.00 for 'NEW ENGLAND FERTILIZERS GOOD VALUES IN 1916 Agricultural products are going to command big prices, and the finest and most attractive products will head the list. Crops fertilized with New England Fertilizers will be the best because they will fed just:what they need—natural plant food made out of BONE, BLOOD, ‘And these fertilizers will have increased plant-food value at Our free booklet tells the story. Will you write for it? See and high-grade chemicals. no increase in cost! our dealer nearest you. be MEAT NEW ENGLAND FERTILIZER COMPANY; Boston, Mass. ade from /Bone; Blood and Meat ..$1.85 $2.50 for .. for.$2.50 $3 & $3.50 Bargain Lots of $1.00 Shirts for .. .. Bargain Lots of $1.50 Shirts for .... 75c Bargain Lots of $1.50, $2 and $2.50 Shirts for .....................51.00 AND SHOES Lo vonl Mighty Important to You to Know That HART, SCHAFFNER & MARX OVERCCATS Are Included in This Sale =t ot HALF YEARLY SHIRT SALE Commences This Week All this season’s styles and fabrics from taken right regular stock. 50c COLUMBIA CREW COST $4,400 A LL branches of sport at Columbia and baseball were conducted at a financial loss last year, according to the annual Columbia TUniversity university except basketball eport of the thletic association. The net loss on all sports was $396. Basketball was the —most profitable, showing a credit balance of nearly $1,000, while baseball earned about $350 net. The crew was the heaviest loser, with a deficit of $4,400. OBEY BAKER GREATEST ICE 3 HOCKEY PLAYER IN THE COUNTRY JOBEY BAKER, the sensational York s conéidéred the greatest this season. His playlng etands out above that of all others. How H By T. G. STERRETT. HE motives governing the sav- ing of, or taking of, a human life are essentially the same, and identical passions sway the bosom .when either act is con- templated, remarks Thermos, the little known Greek philosopher. But be it as it may, Thermos was a minor league philosopher, and Athens, O. had no trouble in getting waivers on him. Thermos wanted to say that the per- son confronted with the doing of either center of the St. Nicholas team of New amateur ice hockey player in the country He recently astonished the enthusiasts of Montreal by his great playing, of these things hasn't time to think of Carnegie medals or the hangman’s noose. At the moment he is obsessed with the idea that the thing must be done, and he does it regardless. Frank Moran, sorrel topped Pltts- burgher, conqueror of Jim Coffey and challenger for the heavyweight crown, saved my life one time, and when he did {t there lurked no back brained idea that he would be the recipient of the treasury department's sflver medal for saving life. No, indeed, the inci- dent was never brought to official no- tice, and not many persons know this story. Along back in 1906 Moran was a quartermaster in the navy, stationed aboard the presidential yacht Mayflow- er, while the writer of this yarn was a United States marine aboard the same little craft. We were lying at San Pedro de Macoris, at the lower end of Samana bay, in Santo Domingo, and the Mayflower was junior ship of the “mosquito fleet” stationed there ready to put down any uprising that might occur in that section of the country. Dominica had had the same president for two months, and the populace was getting uneasy on that account. Another man with a dozen followers and $8, Mexican, in his jeans was lurk- ing in the hills ready to swoop down and seize the government. He was the only man in Santo Domingo, so the Mayflower sallors said, who had never been president of that country, and now it was his turn. You know the mothers and Sunday school teachers down there take the young male hopeful on their laps and hand him this line of bunk, “Some day you may grow up to be perfectly re- spectable, never having been president, and can get a good job driving a team of horses.” Technically speaking, this is teaching the young idea how to dodge bullets. Anyway, we recelved the president of Santo Domingo aboard the Mayflower one day with. the full honors due his great rank. The Dominican flag was run to our fore, the forward battery boomed in salute, there were ruffles and flourishes on the drum and trum- pet, and the side boys and marine guard rendered the usual quarterdeck honors to the great man. An hour later a black man in a bum- boat hauled alongside our Jacob lad- eavyweight Frank Moran Saved Gunnery Sergeant T. G. Sterrett’s Life The cramps were getting worse all the time, but I hoped help would reach me before I lost my nerve and couldn’t hold myself up any longer. Then a cramp attacked me amid- dray, laundray; is yo’ all got any ‘washin’ to be done?” It was the president of Santo Do- mingo. The very same man we had made such a fuss over a short time before. At least Frank Moran, quar- termaster, so whispered to me as I stood leaning against the fife rail on the forecastle. “Come on, come on, where d’ye think yer at? Home on a furlough?” I asked. “I've sailed the seas as long as you have, and I shouldn't be expected to believe such stuff.” “Don’t you like what I'm telling you?” asked Moran. “No, I do not,” I answered. “I'll make you like it,” he sald with- out displaying the least sign of emo- tion. “You’ll be a whole lot older than you are now when that comes off. I ask pardon for the liberty I take in so ad- dressing you, but I am convinced that you are something of a stuffed shirt, a stewed prune. Aboard here you are pretty much to the Joe Beef, but ashore I think you'd be deaf and dumb.” “We've got a big forecastle and plen- ty of gloves,” Moran suggested. “I want to get you ashore” I an- swered. “As you please,” said Moran, right there the matter rested. Now, understand me, I didn’t enter- tain any foolish notions of besting Moran in the fight. I expected to take a beating, but for the honor of the old marine corps T would have accepted it willingly rather than let my shipmates of the corps know that I had been bluffed or had quit under fire. And so, when I went ashore with the swimming party next day, I was re- lieved to know that Moran was not of our number. I didn’t want to swim very bad, but I disliked to remain aboard lest Moran get an idea that I was afraid to go ashore. As we shoved off from the ship in the first cutter I glanced up at the bridge and saw Mo- ran on watch there. He waved his hand at me and smiled. I smiled back at him. Why not? No malice har- bored in either of our hearts. The waters of Samana bay shark infested, but there was a good bathing beach at Macoris, and soon after our arrival we plunged in to en- joy the sport. I got away out from the others and was enjoying a peace- ful swim in plain view of the ship. After awhile I noticed the Mayflower's second cutter shove off. I pald little heed to this and kept on swimming farther and farther from the shore, Finally a full half mile from the beach one of my legs became cramped, and I stopped swimming and turned over on by back. Marines are taught by their officers not to get panicky in a time of stress or danger, and my training and discipline served me in good stead just then, I floated on quietly, now and and were der at the boom and shouted, ‘“Laun- then giving voice to a shout for assist- ance. ships, and I sank down, down, down. Reaching surface on the up trip I shouted at the top of my voice and was overjoyed to hear answering cries. I struggled as best I could to keep my- self afloat and was just about to sink for the second time when a pair of strong arms grabbed me from behind, . 1 turned in the embrace and gazed into the blue eyes of Frank Moran. Thus and so had the philosophy of Thermos proved glass jawed. Moran was a good swimmer and strong, and soon we were safe on the beach. I came around quickly and in a short time felt as strong as ever. I approached mine arch enemy and held out my hand. I was not ashamed to do so. Moran had shown me the way to forgive and forget. “I thank you for saving my life,” 1 said. Moran eyed my six feet of length and 190 pounds of weight and smiled. “l knew you'd be grateful,” he said. “I kmew you wouldn’'t want to die without finding out which of us is the better man. Square your yards and heave to for a trimming.” “Righto, mate. No marine has ever yet retreated in the face of battle, and no swab like you is ever going to make me forget that our corps motto is: ‘Semper Fldelis’ Who's your next of kin to be notified in case of death?” And so, there on the white sands of the beach at San Pedro de Macoris, Frank Moran and I did battle. ‘Which was the better man you ask? ‘Well, it is not for me to pull any of the Jack Munro or Fred Fulton stuff, and freely, frankly, I confess that Frank Moran was, is and always will be. Perhaps if you ask him he'll tell you that I was the better man, with a clean cut win over him. At any rate, after that memorable battle on the beach a close friendship sprang up between us which has lasted to this very day. PETER SCOTT A $25,000 HORSE. ETER SCOTT, the speedy son of Peter the Great, has demonstrated that he is a $25,000 horse. He has justi- fied the clalms of his admirers that he would earn that distinction before the season closed, and he accomplished the feat in spite of a tremendous handicap. When Peter Scott falled to win the rich M. and M. stakes only hls imme- diate stable connections regarded him as a possible winner of $35,000 or more, but now all realize that the expecta- tlons of Peter Scott’s admirers were based on substantial calculation, for his record to date shows that the gross amount of his winnings i{s $35,000. This money was earned in fourteen races, in thirteen of which he finished first. PITCHER SMITH A REAL COMEBACK LD “Iron Man” Frank Smith, one of the year's comebacks with the Feds, was born in Pittsburgh thirty-six years ago. Smith isn't quite as old and ven- erable as Eddie Plank and Mordecal Browh, who ranked among the leading twirlers of the independent majors this year, but at that he sounds like ancient history to the newer crop of fans. The “iron man” won nine and lost six games for the Tip Tops during the sea- son of 1915, which isn't a bad rec- ord considering the general weakness of ‘the Brooklyn Feds. In fact, the vet- eran won a higher percentage of his games than any other slab man on the Ward payroll, and there have been a dozen or more, first and last. The Brookfeds should have been popular with the Smith family with Frank in the box, Harry behind the bat occasionally and Fred at short. JIM RICE OF COLUMBIA CLASSES WITH BEST OF ROWING A LTHOUGH he has not produced as COACHES many winners as Courtney ot Cornef, Jim Rice, the czar of rowing circles in Columbia university, classes with the best ever produced. Before Rice's day Columbia had few winning crews, bes since he took charge the blue and white has been in front many times