New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 15, 1916, Page 3

% Boston Store ‘An Advance Showing of New Spring Styles in CREPE DE CHENE ~ WAISTS White and Flesh Color Sizes 38 to 44 at $2.25 each TEN DIFFERENT DESIGNS Each One a Beautiful Creation and of EXCEPTIONAL VALUE =70 PULLAR & NIVEN LEGAL PROGEDURE SHOULD BE SIMPLER Justice Hughes Declares in Speech Relating to Commerce | | | | Monday and Tuesday the members of the Woman's hospital board met at the home of Mrs. William C. | Hungerford on Russell street to plan | for their annual benefit whist. The hospital whist has always been both socially and financially successful and it is expected that this year's party will be even more so than in previous vears. The board is very anxious to open the Children’'s ward on Gris wold street and the members hope that the proceeds of the whist par: will enable them to do this. The affair will take place on Sat- urday afternoon, February 12, in Booth's hall. . % Mrs. Davenport Galbraith of Erie, Pennsylvania, has issued cards for the marriage of her neice, Miss Na- talie Downing to Merwin S. Hart, | son of President George P. Hart of | the Stanley Works and Mrs. Hart. T- ! will be a quiet home weddimg taking | place at nine o'clock on the evening | of January 22. Donald R. ‘[brother of the bridegroom, will best man. Mr. Hart N be is connected with the Erie office of the General Electric ow o The Women's Literary club of Maple Hill held a most enjoyable meeting Wednesday afternoon at the home of Mrs. W. Sternberg. A mii- sical program, under the direction of Mrs. Proudman, was carried out, Miss Clough contralto, Miss William West Hartford, violinist, Mrs. Hare, Mrs. Doam, ~Mrs. Proudman = and Miss Arline Root the Maple Hill quar- tet, taking part. Miss Swanson gave several interesting and clever read- ings. The club will with Mrs. of | meet Mansfield. January 19, e Much interest is being manifested | in the benefit recital which the Wood- | ruff club of the South church will give on the evening of January twenty- first. Theron Wolcott Hart will be the pianist on this occasion and Miss | Lillian Eubanks of New York, the soprano. A splendid program is be- ; ing prepared and it is expected that the work of these artists will be greatly enjoyed and appreciated. it el New York, Jan. 15.—Justice Char- les E. Hughes, of the United States Bupreme Court,.in:an 'f\(\drl'ess last,‘ night before the New York State Bar Association on ‘“Some. Aspect of the | *Development of American Law,” made a plea for uniformity. of state laws relating to commerce and for the sim- plification of legal procedure. ‘ Justice Hughes also deprecated “the | tendency to assign to the courts ad- | ministrative duties which do not be- | ,long to them™ and “the tendency | which denies to judges the authority | which would seem to be needed for | the efficient discharge of official duty.”” | The country, he said had entered | upon a new era in the development | of its law, notably in the regulanon! of interstate commerce, and secondly In “the establishment in Nation and | State of administrative agencies with | both legislative and quasi-judicial ,powers of vast importance. The speaker referred to the various Fed- | eral acts affecting interstate commerce | enacted in comparatively recent years which have “to a considerable extent recast our law.” i Ixtension New “With this noteworthy change in _view,” he continued, “there have been constant manifestations of a deeping- ing conviction of the impotency of legislatures with respect to some of the most important departments of law making. Complaints must be heard, expert investigations conduct- ed, complex situations deliberately and impartially analyzed, and legisla- tive rules intelligently adapted to a myriad of instances falling within “zeneral class It was not difficult to frame legislation establishing a gen- eral standard, but to translate an ac- >pted principle into regulations wise- pted to particular cases required an experienced body sitting continu- ously and removed so far.as. possible from the blandishments and intrigues of politi This administrative type not essentially new in itself, ‘but the extensien of its use in Sfate and Nation constitut new departure. “The ideal which has been pre- sented in justication of these new agencies, and that which alone holds promise of benefit rather than of hurt to the community, is the ideal of spe- cial knowledge, flexibility, disintere edness and sound judgment applying broad legislative principles that _essential to the protection of the com- munity, and of every useful activity affected, to the intricate sitmations created by expanding enterprise. But mere bureaucracy—narrow, partisan, or inexpert— grossly injurious; it not only fails of the immediate pur- pose of the law and is opposed to tra- a Departure, ! ditions which. happily, are still hon- | ored, but its failure creates a feeling . of discouragement bordering on pessi- mism which forms the most serious obstacle te real improvements in the | adjustment of governmental methods to new exigencies.” “Our Dual System.” Justice Hughes took svstem” of commerce State and Federal—which had enor- mously increased, he =aid, the diffi- sulty and importance of the work of up “our dual regulation— are | Arrangements for the annual ban- quet. ‘of the Christian Endeavor un- ion are being made by the social com- mfttée’ of which ‘Miss Anna Ward is chairman. , It. will be held on Januarv twenty-eighth in the First church parlors. The ogcasion promises to be an en- joyable one as a musical program is being arranged and there will be a number of toasts. Rev. W. F. Cook of the Methodist acting as toast- | master. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Williams enter- tained the Home Whist club of Ken- ngton Wednesday evening at their home. Mrs. George Griffith and Miss Majorie Moore won the ladies’ prizes while George Griffith and Joseph Wil- son won the gentlemen’s. * Harold Lee Judd has been visiting | Philip Corbin. * Maurice Stanley has been * o* attend- | ing the automobile show in New York. Hart, | { the .annual Masonic iand in the number of guests. Yesterday afternoon the Emma Hart Willard chapter, D. A. R., held its January meeting at the home of Mrs. Francis Deming on Worthing- 1 ton Ridge. A very entertaining pro- gram was carried out. Mrs. W. R. Beckerley having charge of the music for the occasion. Miss Jennie Loom- is of Windsor a member of the Loomis Institute of that to#n read an interesting papep on Home, /Past, Present and soloist of the Berlin Congregational church added greatly to the pleasure of the meeting by rendering several vocal selections. o ow Tuesday evening the Womans Club held an open meeting in the chapel of the First Baptist church. Dr. Al- bert Bushnell Hart of the historic department of Harvard university was the speaker of the evening, his sub- | ject being the “Balkans.” As Dr. Hart is an unusually able and brilliant speaker and as he had made a deep study of his theme, his lecture was a most interesting one and greatly appreciated by his audience. P Arrangements are being made for ball which will probably take place on January 25 at the state armory on Arch street. It is expected that this year's ball will quite eclipse that of previous years, in entertainment, decorations fort is being made to obtain Sphinx Temple band for the sion. the occa- T Under the auspices of the Parents’ and Teachers’ splendid concert was given at United association a the the Tempo Quartet of Hartford. As it was well attended the proceeds were large and will be used for the purchase of a moving picture machine for the school. * The members of the Hillerest Uni- versalist church are anticipating with pleasure the entertainment that will take place at their church on January 19. On this occasion Miss Alena Crowell, an elecutionist from Hart- ford, will entertain. All people who would like to hear her recitatioms are cordially invited to attend. .. ox The organ recital that Beehe of the South church gave Wed- nesday afternoon was an especially pleasing and enjoynble one. Pro- fessor Beebe’s hearers greatly appre- ated the splendid program. oo The engagement of Porter, daughter of Mr. and aa'c Porter of Kensington, to Baker of Pittsburg, a Haverford lege graduate has been announced. JEFEN An interesting Stereopticon lecture was given Monday evenimg at the Newington ~ Congregational church when views of the vicinity as it was twenty-four years ago were shown. P Mr. and Mrs. Elford Eddy and Miss Margaret Eddy left Tuesday for lifornia. . Miss Emily Mrs oo Miss Frances Jay week in New York. is spending the “The Ellsworth | Future.” | Miss Marjorie Woodford who is the ' was | An ef- ! Grammar school Tuesday evening by ' organist ! Paul ; col- | ! The members of the Common- {\veanh club are looking forward with | pleasure to their next meeting which { wil Dbe held on Wednesday evening, January 26th. An interesting pro- gram for this occasion has been ar- ranged and is as follow ‘New Britain in €olonial Days” i Mrs. Frederick #1. Churchill. “New Britain in Revelutionars Days” .... Mrs. William F. Brooks. “New Britain in Civil War Days” “ev......Mrs. Andrew J. Sloper. Yow Britain in Literature” Mrs. George C. v of New Britain”.. .. Carl P. Neumann. of New Britaigp”. . Carl E. Pratt. | | . The Kenilworth club has arranged a ! number of social events to take place this winter. The first of these is the Wesleyan Glee and Mandolin club en- ! tertainment in Hanna’s armory next | Thursday evening. Then on Feb. 4 the members will enjoy a theater Pay- ity and on April 28, the annual ball will take place. | P | The members of The Woman's Home Missionary society of the Trin- ity Methodist Episcopal church held an open meeting Monday evening. Reverend Warren F. Cook, pastor of the church and Mrs. Carl Winters of | Waterbury were the speakers. g ¥ ox At the Burns Club banquet which wil take place on January 21 in the Jr. O. U. A. M. hall, Arch street, . Reverend H. W. Majer of the First | Church will speak, “The Immortal Bard,” being his subject. The Bal- moral quartet will furnish the music of the Woman’s For- eign Missionary Society of the South Congregational church held a well- attended meeting in the church chapel. Mrs. C. F. Adams gave a most entertaining talk on “The Jubi- lee Increase Campaign.” After the address refreshments were served. .« ve The fact that M Grace Baum has made a successful debut with the Aborn Opera company is of great interest locally since Miss Baum’s home is in New Britain and she has , many, friends here. | o ox The members of the Woman’s Aid society of the Berlin Congregational church met Wednesday afternoon at the home of Mrs. H. H. Damon. o Mrs. William H tained the Current day afternoon at coln street * Warner enter- rents club Mon- her home on Lin- White entertained ot { cards Monday afternoon at her home on Curt street in honor of Miss Margaret Eddy. W Miss Edith * A unique and enjoyable party took place Wednesday evening at the Y. W. C. A. when the members had a leap year dance. oo Dr. and Mrs. C. M. Cooley have returned from their wedding trip. * ® Mr: F. J. Porter left Wednesday for San Antonio, Texas. . the courts as interpreters of laws. He cited the Interstate Commerce Act and statutes which “with similar pur- | pose and thoroughness deal with | transportation that it intrastate, con- ducted by the same carriers.” “Our recent reports,” he said | “abundantly show that questions of | the utmost nicety are constantly be- ing presented in the application of new statutes, and evidence the ex treme difficulty of the work of carry- ing out the will of Congress over the activities within its control while at the same time avoiding encroachment uvon the State field. It is the proh- lem of many governments in one na- tion, dealing with portons of an ac- | tivity which- has economic unity.” | Demands Co-operation. “This,” he said, “demands far more careful efforts in co-operation than we | have hitherto put forth.” i * The speaker then dwelt upon the “judicial function” in determining the | scope and validity of State and Fed- | eral laws, and said that important as this function was, “it should not be overburdened, nor should work be ex- pected of 1t which should otherwise It was necessary, he said, to pre- serve the essential elements of hoth State and Federal governments, | “without allowing state action to throw out chinery for unity of control in nation- al concerns.” Due to Accident. “Very often,” he said, “the differ- ences that exist between state and federal laws governing different phase® of the same general activity are due | more to accident or lack of for thought than to difference in deliber- | ate purpose. We have had in our state too little regard for the remoter and indirect consequences of leg | tion. There has been. perhaps, too much thought of questions of ab- stract power rather than of its saga- . cious use by those who after all must | have a common prosperity or none | at all. Some progress. very gratify- | ing, has been made toward unifying our commercial law by the enactment of uniform acts in many states, relat- | ins to negotiable instruments, war of gear the requisite ma- | house receipts, bills of lading and sales. But it should be possible to do far more than has been done in the promotion of agreement rather than diversity, inasmuch as our people are to a very great extent inspired by the same ideals. When congress has legislated on a subject within its pro- { vince variations in statutes as to cor- responding activities 1in the local field may well be examined to see whether such variations are worth while or whether it would be possible to secure harmony without sacrifice of any real local interest. The vari- ous administrative commissions easi~ ly provide opportunities for deliber- ation and conference which should be of inestimable importance in avoid- ing unfortunat differences, particular- ly when the legislative policies under- lyin administrative action appear to be identical. In most cases differences vield to a complete understanding of facts and equipment for competent investigations should diminish the dangers of conflict. It would seem to be clear that bodies of intelligent | men dealing as experts, for example, with the interstate and intrastate | phases of traffic situations, should ba | in practical accord, or that at least | such differences as may appear to t should be put to the test of mut atement, analysis and consultation under plans more definitely designed | to prevent unnecessary divergencie: | 1 should think that many of our dif- ficulties might be solved by perfecting the machinery of administration with the direct purpose of promoting har- mony of action in dealing with those activities which are conducted in the | world of affairs as parts of the same enterprises.” But nothing could be more lament- able, he. continued, in the enactment of uniform laws, “formulated with the purpose of unifying the commercial law of the countny, than to treat the { uniform act as an outgrowth of the sparate law of the state and through ! conflicting interpretations to create a new diversity in placc of desired uni- ty. It calls for a statemanlike ap- | preciation of past, present and future through which alone the judge can | discharge his responsibilities as the in- terpreter of legislation in the expand- ing life of democracy.” Wrong Way to Reach Result, As to legislation affecting the courts, he declared that the tendency to thrust administrative duties upon them ‘‘undoubtedly arises from dis- trust of powerful administrative agen- cies; it shows a desire to escape their authority and to have the judment of judicial tribunals, with whose standards the public is familiar, in the final decision of difficult administra- tive problems. Tt seems to me to be the wrong way to reach the right re- sult. To put upon the courts the bur- den of considering the details of ad- ministrative problems would be to overwhelm them. It cannot be too strongly insisted that if we are to have these important administrative igstrumentalitie; properly pesform heir duty, they should stand on their own footing, and that the publi should realize that their safeguard 1s not in injecting the courts into the work of administration, to the con- fusion of both, but in maintaiing an enlihtened policy and in insisting up- on proper standards of official conduct. The courts cannot be substituted for administrative agencie: The tendency in legislation to deny judges authority such as r icting the freedom of a judge in instructing a jury “betrays a regrettable distrust,” the justice declared. No Respect for Law. “There can be no respect for the law without competent administration and there can be no competent admin- istration without adequate power” he declared. ““We shall never rise to our opportunities in this country and se- cure a proper discharge of the public business until we get over our dislike Of experts; and the difficulties in the way of needed improvements: in the administration of justice will not be overcome by tying the hands of those competent to deal with them.” Speaking of reform of legal pro- cedure, the justice characterized “the network of legislattve rules and prac- tice” in New York reproach the state. “The remedy, to 1 is believe, to- re- place these rules with a few statutory provisions forming the pasis of Dpro- cedure, -leaving all the details to be supplied by rules of court. The im- portant equity practice of the fed- eral courts of the country is governed without difficulty by a few rules pro- mulgated by the supreme court. There is no other way, it seems to me. to give the requisite simplicity and elasticity to procedure. There may be a prejudice among lawyers to com- mitting this power to the bench, be- cause of the fear that rules of prac tice will be removed from the range of the just influence of the bar. This, 1 think, is a misapprehension. It would be far easier to convince a court of the necessity of a change in its rules than to convince the legisla- ture, while on the other hand unnec- essary tinkering would be made more difficult.” Justice in Minor Courts. “Justice in the minor courts,” he concluded, “the only courts that mil- lions of our people know—admin- istered without favoritism by men conspicuous for wisdom and probity is the best assurance of respect for our institutions. The administration of commercial law by recognized experts in a direct fashion appropriate to the subject is needed quite as much as uniform state acts to commend the { law to practical men of affairs. The stripping of criminal procedure of needless requirements, without im- pairing the security of innocence, and in general the fearless destruction of provisions which only embarrass the just disposition of controversies should not be long delayed.” CONSPIRING TO SHIP RUBBER TO GERMANY Five Persons Indicted by Federal Grand Jury—Woman Was to Have Been Go-between. New York, Jan. 15.—Four men and a woman were indicted yesterday by a federal grand jury on a charge of conspiring to violate the customs laws of the United States by shipping con- traband rubber to Germany. Those indicted were Edward Weber, a cousin of Albert Weber, an official of the Deutsches Bank in Berlin; Paul Schmidt, Weber’s partner in the.Rub- ber & Guayule Agency of this city; Max Jerger, a German maker of au- tomobile accessories; Mrs. Annie Dekkers, a native of Holland and Richard Wohlberg, a naturalized citi- zen, who operates a rubber and ce- ment factory here. The Guayule Agency also was made a defendant. According to Assistant United States Attorney Harold Content, Mrs. Dek- ker was to have been the go-between. Her sex and the fact that she had been in the habit of making frequent trans- Atlantic trips were relied upon to pro- tect her from suspicion. The rubber was to be carried by her as personal baggage and in that way would not have to appear on the ship’s manifest, Four and a half tons of rubber were obtained by the alleged conspirators according to Mr. Content before the first attempt at shipment was made- On November 27, Mrs. Dekkers took passage on the Holland-Ameri liner Ryndam, bound for Rotterdam. She had four trunks and eignt pack- ing cases filled with rubber, but which was marked personal baggage. Acting on information given the customs au- thorities by British agents Mrs. Dek- kers' baggage was held up and she was not permitted to sail. The matter was referred to United States District Attorney Marshall. The defendants will be arraigned for pleading in the federal district court next Monday, Albert Solomon, an importer; Sig- mund Karman of Budapest, and Al- bert B. Newman of Brooklyn, pleaded guilty in the federal district court last November to an indictment charging them with engaging in a conspiracy to import $100.000 worth of rubber into Germany by means of false mani- fests describing the shipping at at- ton waste and resin. Each was fined $500 by Judge Hunt. SCOUT CRUISER SUNK. Austrian Craft Torpedoed in Adriatic by Frenc Submarine. Rome, via London, Jan. 15, a. m.—It is officially announced that the French submarine Foucault, at- tached to the Italian fleet, torpedoed and sank Thursday in the Adriatic Sea an Austrian scout cruiser of the No- | vara type. 9.3 Scout cruisers of the Novara type, of which there are four—the Novara, Helgoland, Saida and Admiral Spaun —have a displacement of 3,384 tons and carry in their armament two 18- inch torpedo tubes and nine 3.9-inch guns. The Foucault was built in 1912 at Cherbourg and is 167 feet long. GATUN DAM GOLF COURSE. Club Now Being Organized by Officials of Panama Canal. Panama, Jan. 14—The broad top of Gatun Dam is to £olf course and a club is now crganized by officials of the Panama Canal and othe Major General George W. Goethals, U. S. A., gover- nor of the Panama Canal, has ap- | rroved the formation of the club and hus miven permission for the use of Gatum Dam. The club will be organized the auspices of the Young Men's CFristian Association which already has a suitable club building at Gatun. flat serve for a being under SHORT BALLOT BILL. Boston, Jan. 15—A bill which would put into eff fov. McCall's inaugural recommendations for a short ballot was filed Wwith the legis- lature today It provides for an amendment to the constitution giving | the governor power to appoint the secretary of state, state treasurer, auditor, and attorney general for terms of five years each. 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