New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 10, 1916, Page 6

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TELEPHONE CALLS. ess Dffice rial Rooms BUNGLED, p one knows the amount of money by the government to prosecute leven former directors of the New n road under the criminal section e federal anti-trust And the hottom has fallen out e case, mainly because it was gled.” With a wealth of material, ably it was act., whole an embarrassment of ks, the lawyers fell of the Not one of the dants was convicted, one of to government mark. not h is likely be convicted pother s hinted. ote in the jury room showed that even trial is ordered, : urors were well disposed in favor illlam Rockefeller and William pins, over whom the dis ment took If these two could not be convicted by a jury main place, chance of send- over the road. that, outside of Morgan a v of the never any other s show Mellen, these two were When Morgan died Mellen, B, it was apparent the government d never get anywhere with who had a wrecking the New Haven. were supposed to be “the boys did the trick.” But they were y customers and hard to | Death probably saved Morgan's —if indeed a man of his money have been sent to prison,—and fn’s immunity got him out of a jhole. wspapers subsidized now up a howl of glee over the out- of this trial. The government be severely rebuked, all sorts of bns will be attributed for the trial g taken place, prominent among | being the old cry of politics, and | aurel wreaths will be, taken out placed on the brows of the poor, ba “malefactors of great wealth.” of high character dragged into for no reason at all. Innocent k< born babes. Honorable: gen- all. It is a pity the whole was not thrown out of court in hrst instance; but then it is pre- d that even men who are high in and his §itern, turned state’s evi- its pcution in against those “slick” will must sometimes suffer inconven- | s if they are linked with things of repute. In this man anti-trust law As yet no one has “rich man” v instance the letter affair, heard of feuted under it, although a lot of have been persecuted. These | of the old New Haven probably that way, vet there lot of ws and orphans in this immediate ity do share the f. No fair-minded person would a being Wi are a who not ame ize the rascality that permeated ld ckeloth and ashes those who had New Haven company. Instead ger in the pie have been glorious- bcorated with their halos and now their places in national martyrs. s cruel world, me hearty, a cruel, world. And yet it is not much than a year ago when a young vas sent to jail for thirty days be- he stole a ride on a New York, Haven & Hartford coach. On d thought, it world. ready to take franks of our is a cruel [WHY NOT WORK IT OUT? ce in a great while a good idea upon the waters and allowed | into ports unknown. It sometimes that these harbor. Hudson rift on well ghts be im, the inventor, an re the Aeronautical Society rica, recently let loose this morsel given in h has all the ear-marks of a new | ever denounced married life,—wheth- | son arried out or put in might have great ht in shaping legislative les of the United States. It is this ndidates for ex one that if c p definite form future not compel all ca gress to pass a civil service ami- pn of some kind before ified to hold the office? jve examination would eliminate waste material and simmer the hidates down to good, hard, rock- om material. Mr. Maxim put it way: “Our Congress ly of lawyers bers. Congressmen are not Te- ed to undergo any civil nination. Often the Congressional kil committee, whose judgment being A com- is made up and political serv is 1, knows no more about what the fy needs than it would know about ing surgical operation or g a poem. * * *” ‘here is much truth in what the a “ring- | | address | of ! NEW, BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, MONDAY, JANUARY 10, | eminent inventor says. ably Congressmen. He has prob- experience in dealing with His idea is to them pass the examination in some tranch of the civil service after they have been elected to Congress. Then they should be appointed the various committees, it had make to Ostensibly the Banking and Currency committee than to relegate him to the Committee on Additional Accommodations for the Library of Congress. would it be to have a man better with a knowledge of engineering placed on the committee of Coast and Insular Survey than have him waste his time Far on the committee taking care of the Five Civilized Tribes of Indians or the committee on Forest Reservations and the Protection of Game. Any hunter | could take care of the work on this last named committee. Mr. Maxim has the right idea. A place for every- thing and everything in its plac Why put a poet on the committee on Standards, Weights and Measures; or a plumber the committee on Transportation Routes to the Sea- board? The same rule holds good for the committee on Military Affairs. Some of the members on this com- mittee have never rmilitary organization at work, unless it was on dress parade, probably at the inauguration of some president. ‘While it is all well and good to con- sider making the Congressmen take a civil service examination after they have been duly elected,—and this, we take it, applies mostly to the members of the House of Representatives, it would be far better to give such an before these men Some of on seen a examination even were voted on at the polls. our Congressmen have not been just the kind of Congressmen we should | ilke to have—that is, they have not been the stars their press agents pre- dicted, or they themselves promised they would be before election. Their greatest asset in trade for the most vart has been too often a ‘“gift of gab” and a wonderful flow of mean- ingless words that spellbind listeners who possess the vote. Where is the community that could not profit having all the candidates for the office of United States Representative stand forth and take an examination, a good mental examination, the highest man to win? Granted that there were fair judges the result from this method would be a real test of ability, the examination to consist of each and every subject in which a Congressman should be well versed. Start the ball arolling. by GIVE THE GIRLS A CHANCE. In this matter of marrying there are strange theories. comes a well known New York woman and asserts that women should pro- Ppose matrimony not only in leap years some Now but in other vears as well. Every four years get a chance to do the proposing. Wheth- er they make good can be told from the marriage statisties of any of those particular periods. women It is safe to say, would be better to have a man well | versed in money and banking serve on | modern prime of life. He has to get along ! ‘way down the long lane that turning before he feels the a companion. And then it | | in years | in s | has 'In no need of is too late. | So now while the girls have fate in | their hands, while they are consider- | ing the future happiness of beaux, let them go forth and accom- | plish great things. Tet them | off the whole crop of bachelors that their marry happens to be lying around idle this | | leap year. Let them tell these shirk- | ers of duty that the time has come when a minister is needed and the | { honeymoon hangs low over the hori- 'z(m. All the boys need is a little 1(‘oaxing‘ a little prod to make them | | realize they are side-stepping some- | which they were ordained by nature,—to be husbands. If there is not enough time to do all this in 1916, we hereby submit that the time | limit be extended to take in every year from until the following leap Give the girls a chance. thing for now year. When Henry Cabot Lodge, address- |ing the President of the United States senate, unburdened his soul of the following few remarks anent the subject of neutrality, in the lan- guage the “he said @ a mouthful”: Mr. of street, | on the | point of the test of neu- trality is whether the action of the | neutral changes the conditions creat- | ed by the war. President, single neutrality, Our markets are open to all the world to buy. We have taken no action to prevent any bel- ligerent or any one else from buying in our markets, and we are at peace with all the world. A condition has been created by this war, and by the war alone, which prevents one more of the belligerents from buy- ing in this market. Now, if we un- dertake to reverse a condition ed by cnter into the war and endeavor to restore a condition existing before the war, and that is an act of unneutrai- ity.” There is little more to be aired on the subject, or creat- the war we at once pro tanto Is Italy a piker? Is she a poor spender? We learn that in the first iwo hundred days of the war the Land of Sunshine spent but $800,000,000, which means a mere $4,000,000 a day. Chicken feed! COMMUNICATED. H— With the Ice Corporation; Long Live the Steam Roller! New Britain, Jan. 8. To the Editor of the Herald: Dear Editor: I read in last night's Herald about the city meeting held Thursday night. Is the ice corpora- tion going to run the city again? It is shameful if New Britain papers are trying to mislead people. We all remember 1913, and how we were | robbed by the icemen. Are we going | to get those conditions back again? | To the dickens with the ice corpora- tion, and long live the *‘Steam Roller.” Yours truly A. G. BRANDT, 329 So. Main St. FACTS AND FANCIES. To however, that they with their quadrennial They are something like When they the hands they to is somewhat a feeling do not l prerogative. | run away the men. | zet power in their | fail to cxericse it. There | of security in | knowing you can do a thing. There | is also a disposition on the part of | most individuals not to do the they should. for the most part, posing act. They are somewhat loath thing | And so it is that men, pass up the pro- to getting down on bended knees be- fore the ladies of their That is why the parade is blocked so often. Years slip by and men marry, just because they lingered too long in the offing. One reasons for this shyness in the because they choice some never of bachelors is are the married state. They hold back on the bit. receive no encouragement. The mar- ried men whom they meet say, 'l\gep It And so they the case, it might he a to extend years | away from This being good thing proposing to other than year whack at it. No gathering of women had passed through the spou- pinsters. They i all for 2. And, if they | could be instrumental in getting the | boys to shake off the illusion of single blessedness they would be doing a good thing for the race. Any girl ask a man to marry her er they sal or were mere s it,—marriag | who would | would have everything in her favor. | To begin with, she would never pro- | pose until it was reasonably assured that he was the right kind, that he could go out and bring home the ba- [ con, that he afraid to do something worth while in life. And, | having settled that, the rest would be easy. He would “make good” for her. It is but | of things that mar ried, The bible itself acknowledges the fact that it is not good for man to be alone. But poor fool man can never realize this while he is in the was not the natural should in orde man get | igal of the main | ranks afraid of the bills that are incidental to | Everywhere they go they | the period of | leap | and let the women take a good | are | When hit by an ship 3rooklyn the second note, the ate came to a fuil Bagle. is not customary for political prod- Journal. these da it to kill fatted calve: sons.—Alban Colonel ing ne | ex-pre: Roosevelt t to the most dents. rapidly becom- popular of our “hicago News. The main trouble with those alleged German peace proposals is that they come too late.—Philadelphia Inquirer. The politicians are reluctantly con- | ceding that Oyster Bay still remains | on the map.—Oshkosh Northwestern. i Greece would be glad no doubt to | exchange a sense of importance for a sense security.—Washingtton | Post, | | a of and handy word is supplanting the longer e “hyphenated.”—Ro- | Out West the tidy | “hyphened" i ana cumberso ‘ chester Post-I: ally peace joined It looks as if the r bers of the Ford were those who never Chicago Herald. | et Kitchener says that he's too busy to think of marriage. You never can tel That's what we thought about Wil- Syr Post-Standard. | “Mr. Word cannot say that he dtd not have plenty of warnings before hi peace exp was torpedoed.— | New Yor lucky mem- | expedition itt.— cuse Even when Carranza has his whole untry pacified he will remember oc- the fate of Madero.—Chi- the stars of the mat, and cverybody is wondering who he is, Maybe it is the Kaiser.—Rochester Herald. So many of the Villa commanders have surrendered to the Carranza forces that there is nothing left of the old Villa machine but the running | gears.—De las Tomes Times. | | A masked wrestler is throwing all | | What ioned become of the old-fash- frontier financier who got | through a hard winter by going east and visiting his wife’s folks.—tch- o { know them | to { New inson Globe. It will seem like the good old times McMILLAN’S NEW BRITAIN’S BUSIEST BIG STORE “ALWAYS RELIABLE" OURANNUAL MID-WINTER CLEARANCE SALE A Money Saving Event BUY NOW. YOUR BED SHEETS, PILILOW CASES, SHEETINGS, COTTONS, TOWELS, TOWELINGS, TABLE LINENS, ETC. The Savings are worth while. BED SPREADS, BLANKETS ND COMFORTABLES At special prices for this Sale. COTTON BLANKET! Now priced 69¢, 95¢ pair. PART WOOL BLANKETS Now priced 19, 2.69 and $3.19 pair. FINE WOOL BLANKETS Now priced $4.19 pair. Reg. $5.00 value. New priced $4.69 pair- value. New priced $5.00 pair. value. 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Whenever Colonel Harvey contem- plates Colonel House, he must think of what might have been, Both go Furope, but under different aus- pices.—Springfield Republican. Manifestly the nomination of Boies Penros the patriotic thing for the republicans to do. It would relieve President Wilson of necessity for tak- ing any thought of the campaign next summer.—Anaconda Standard. Carranza, though dominant today, is not and probably never will be popular with any large element in his country He is not fitted for the task which has come to him. That he may rise to it we can all hope, but if he shall fail, and if Villa shall yet prove himself capable of perpetuating grievous trouble, the Washington gov- ernment will have to bear a large share of responsibility for its irreso- lute handling of the situation.—New York Press. The situation created by the sink- ing of the steamship Persia will not be clarified, nor will the interests of any nation be advanced, by discussions based on incomplete or imperfectly understood facts. Tt is not deroga- tion of the dignity of the United States for our citizens to withhold their judgment until they have re- ceived through trustworthy channels a reliable statement of all the cir- cumstances. With this at hand the government may be depended upon to take whatever steps shall be necessary to further the policies to which it is committed, which have received a notable indorsement from patriotic citizens in all parts of the country.— York Sun. For His Wife's Sake. 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C., Jan. 10—“Du- razzo, where the debarcation of Roman legions is reported to be tak- ing place once more, is now scarcely a shadow of the flourishing Adriatic scaport of before the days of Christ and during Roman empire, whose merchants traded heyond the houn- darfes of the known world,”” hegins 2 study in war geography just p pared by the National Geographic soclety, which tells of the Al port that recently awoke to feverish industry with the landing of Ttalian troops there for service upon the rbian flan} “At one time, razzo, then Dyrrachium, was a fa- vorite starting point for expeditions of conquering Rome; for Viagnatia. a great military road, led from this city to Thessalonica, now Salonilki, and, so into the kingdoms of the north and east. The legions that subdued the aos of the Greclan world and brought Rome into contact with Slave passed through Dyrrach- fi the ium. “Durazzo lies upon across from the Ttalian port of Barl and 50 miles south from the Albani capital, Scutari, or, as the nativ call it, Scodr Tt is built upon the rock peninsula of Pelu, which marks off the broad Bay of Durazzo from the open Adriatic 014 walls still surround the city, and the gigantic ruins of an ancient Byzantine citadel are overgrown with plane trees. Along the coast, around the town. are tha dismal mar that made it an al most impregnable point for defense in early Roman tlmes. The harbor has slow ilted up. The millen- niums of Albanian misfortune are reflected in the present desolation of the port ‘Bpidamnus, as Durazzo was ed in its infancy, was founded joInt colony of Corcyreans and inthians in the 7th century B. C, Tt soon became a wealthy trading cen- ter, and a hotbed of political dispute; for the democrats and aristocrat: fought such a bitter struggle there over the ‘Rights of Man,” that Athens, Corinth, and Sparta were drawn it This struggle is among the contributing the Peloponnesian war. hecame great and populous. ek (O, d Into Roman and cha its name. gave the city 1o a colony of his vet- s after the Battle of Actlum in and through the next four the Adriatic. 1, shes call- by a considered causes Epidamnus In 229 handas anian | Du- | - Cor- | into | of | Augustus | that Hon. James Harvey Davis, of Sulphur Springs, Tex Representa- tive-at-Large, has bonght himself @ clean shave and further electrified his colleagues in the lower house of con- gress by appearing in a starched col- lar for the first time in a long and untrammeled life. Already, accor ing to advices from sources hitherto found reliable, the ‘“Texas cyclone" has had his whiskers trimmed and reconciled himself to temporary sep- aration from the high boots that have been the companions of his lifetime. Thus is individuality over- whelmed by society’s crushing weight. So despotic custom tramples out the st vestiges of personal liberty. True, mankind might have wished a more impeccable champion wage its unequal strugglc against the linen collar. Mr. Davis's avoidance of the article is attributed in the main to the circumstance tk the reme efforescence his chin has s enabled him to dispense with and cravat, shirt escape detection. It not ¢ that his antipathy to shirt col rests on the highest of moral grounds Even so, his lone-handed campa of passive resistance might attract support if he persevered. The collar has little enough to commend it heaven knows. Come to think of it what can be said for the collar? Tt could hardly be called beaut'ful, even in its Thighest state of outline, tex ture and unbending It lends its wearer no the of mob partially male keeps it neither nor cool. If it serves any purpose of art or utility, the fact is not parent. It may benefit the ms turers, dealers and launderers, | to the wearers it brings only expense, uncomfort, anxiety, bother and the | same craven sense of subjection te | society’s will that a convict feels fa | his prison stripes. And what sights ln‘mro pitiful, what sensation more | | centuries Durazzo enjoyed its golden age of prosper ‘With the break- ing up of the Roman empire, it be- came the shuttle-cock of all the Balkans, and has remained the sport of conquest-lusty nations down to the present day.” | | The Roosevelt Move. J (Boston Herald.) | The Philadelphia North Americans, ational journalism, has followed the New York Tribune—— also under an aggressive management —in coming out for the nomination of Theodore Roosevelt on the republican | ticket next June. Other more or less freakish newspapers may be expected to follow suit. As a “talking point,” nothing could better serve an editor’ purposes. But Mr. Roosevelt will not be nomi- nated. The most that this movement can accomplish is to revive the hos- tilities of 1912, which have now pretty completely vanished The logic of the situation is entirely away from the Roosevelt idea. Four years ago he set about to establish a party of which he | would be founder and head, to super- | sede the republican party just as it had superseded the whig. ir. Ro: velt failed. The minority party in con- | gress remained the republican. In all the local and other elections, the democrats opposition remained in the Lo M 0 F N Mr. Roosevell's move was to to make republican success im- possible without him. He threw down the gauntlet in New York state, where he proposed & union of his own people and republicans in the nomination of Hinman. The republicans, refusing these overtures, nominated Mr. Whit- man, toward whom the colonel w: open hostility, with results that eve body understands. nce then it been a case of Mr. Roosecelt's ing over to his old associates rather than their going out after him. What would be the logic in these circumstances of the party’'s picking him out for the presidential nomina- | tion? It would be the greatest ex- | hibition of poverty of human resources that a great party ever confessed. And those who have its interests at heart | will not for a moment seriously sider it. The only thing they might {in reason do in the premises is to | hasten to get together on an affirma- tive candidate of their own to occupy pacemaker in sen in of collar or even o- spotlessness comfort save to th» warm next consciousness rule. Tt neck, but submissio try mission conce, ap- ifac- but has go- loathsome, than those afforded wit- nesses and wearer by a tall poke collar hopelessly crumpled after g few fox trots? It is gravely to be feared the Hon, Cyclone Davis will never qualify as man'’s liberator, but will none othag appear? Must the less deadly branch of the species go on suffering for- ever, in its poor, dumb v withot hope of relief from the two-for col. lar, to say nothing of the close shave, the creased trouser and the stiff hat? con- |