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

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In every two years it becomes r of citizens of this municipal- nfer bt being such lled, by upon some one man the their mayor, There other offices to occasions, but the people here is the this time contest on for the vari- highest office n the ty At particular little es that come under the work- the administration; but e Lwo candidates for the main The two men who are seeking city e are well known to the people ity, one probably not as well as he might be. The other ved the city for the past two the same portfolio which he The other has served ¥. Tomorrow either the other must rise or ording to the merits of the sain. r capa or the duty can and of every who i man who entitled to a 50 to the polls tomorrow and his silent voice in a the elec- major and his lieutenants. privilege not to be taken too it is a solemn obligation that pn the shoulders of each quali- pr. And each and every vote uld be sent in clean, should smattering of smut, no tinge dnes: Each and every vote aring on the situation. There- man with the vote is the man cts. His vote should never should not be held so lightly bought even by the price of and home or the simple ex- | of ride to the polls in an owned by ization If the managers of the political factions are interest- a pile or gh in getting out the voters to nt that they send automobiles | Pr.conveyances for the ptrul, it thus secures se who is not obligatory fer who a ride to ording to the dictates of the the obligation ho vehicle. this matter. ry vote should be cast accord- No anyone owns There no in he dictates of conscience. ipposed to know how to vote. That is the business individual The sum 1 tell the story. ight, while we are on the eve voter great event, it may he well the city nds to =o to the polling places to P and every man in W, sit down for an hour d think over the various quali- of the two men who present bes for his consideration. the waxed In election days, in times jhe campaign warm, re various arguments pro and orth. In the days of the pre- s there were exposures made or the other and much valu- rmation given to the voting This all it well considered, then data is in hana, e and s cast. The greater the vote greater credit reflected upon bitants of this city, for it at we are not a gathering of i, easy-going. sheep-like peo- stay at home and let certain of the community be driven plls like animais to the slaugh- s the duty, of ssessing the zet his prerogative the way conscience dictates then, ever; vote to ont tomorrow. way politicians direct HE OPEN SWITCH, New alone decreed that E puld net awake this morning | of wrecks one the most in the history The accident which ocen y morning at Jericho's Bric train going at the rate of thir an hour all killing As it Viles had al ran nto the ear-marks of of passengers anc was, only sixteen per injured and but one of thes The escape was miracu will be a thorough investiga his wreck, as there have been . | be a stmple reality horrible | this an open should have but one investigation, that killed. And main idea, this to find out why that switch was left open before a passenger train carrying women came is, and thirty-five hundreds of men dashing along at hour, miles an Open switches are worse than many | other causes of ¢ i railroads realize this precaution against But for some reason whether through the fault of trackwalkers, because of insuffi- cient inspection, switches are left open and trains plunge through them to destruction. This time the open switch was on a curve, and it was im- possible for the engineer to see it in time to keep the train from plunging through; yet he did see it in time to apply the air and bring the train under better control. Otherwise every person on the train might have been killed. This one fact is certain. that was open at Jericho's did not open of its own accord. ailroad accidents. The anl have set up every such occur- rences. or an- other, or 1 brakes The switch Bridse It was opened by the hand of man, and who- ever opened the switch committed a flagrant violation, either of law or of duty. If a train-wrecker, the man who opened that switch deserves terrible punishment; if an employe of the railroad, and therefore gullty of neglect of duty, the man who opened the switch should be dealt with in se- verest tomes . In the one case it is the state that must punish the of- fender, if found; in the other it is the duty of the railroad. And the road should exert every effort to find out just how the switch was left open, and who left a it open. SAVING DAYLIGHT. On the first day of May Germany puts into effect its daylight saving order, which shoves the hands of the clock full one hour ahead. sult, municipalities throughout will with interest working out of the plan be seen; but it is that the saving daylight famous How how the the remains to assertion would many nations will follow many world watch a safe plan be a good one for many communities where men and women must labor into the late evening. By pushing the hands ahead one hour the day starts one hour carlfer, earlier, thus flood of of the their of the clock and finishes one hour it into the full As it is now, workers in the land arrive at places of employment one hour after the carly morning light and leave one sunset glow earth. By the new plan they would go and come from their tasks in the light of day, fading those England may /light plan, cause her enemy has seen fit up House projecting daylight. many hour after the has basked mother though it be at times. Because the the saving }of war not adopt merely be- to take idea which an was rejected in the of Commons not Daylight specially S0 many should be used this so ingland by its antipa “kultur” should years the full war-time thy throw that than ago to is in and to German not advantage this plan, in away such an as offered by any more other nations world fail because the should to adopt favorahle so-called thing. deeds measures their enemies have the Hate may but done same to of of extremes. spur on men valor, it also delayvs the hand progress when Naturally it | the simple expedient of changing the would be far carried to occurs to everyone that | hours of labor better 1 seting the clock ahead one hour | in order to realize the full advantage Yet it those studied the detalls of the | problem that because { of daylight is said by who have therc are so many various and iIntermingling regard sy tems of hours in to the vari- ous industries it would be much easler of the done only set the hands clock ahead. the The clock the to | This need be when days begin to grow longer. set hack when the | can then he shorter days appear on calendanr. All plan 1Wo or three days of the charge. After confusion embodicd take place the in such would on the first that evervone would be accustomed 1o [ the idea, and the davlight plan would a | plays again the powers of prepared- | ne: in Day- [ lignt 1= the | conduct of a Germany adopting this a course. valuable essential in great war. POINTED PARAGRAPHS, Politics makes bedfellows stran- gers. The many the- White the lane to House but has road turns out i stralght. 1] A sage “Be good and Boss be determined said you will lonesome.”” Barnes of New _ | lenesome without be seems to to be the saving grace of being good. [ 1vs a - long from Washington way | to Mexico and there are many politi- \tions of all wrecks that ave | €&l ambushes along the roadside the past. This time th apparent 1 in at once killed, the possibilities wer that the Investigation shoulc way relented. Tt with all the vigor of one pur: o While no | tacks on the highy should e| Those two hovs seen sprinkling are Root and e | Hughes. They expect the Roosevelt 1| machine along in a few minutes Pennsylvania avenue is bounded on the north by patriotism, and on (he er & hundred people were[south, east and west by flattery, de- NEW, BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, MONDAY by a Benedict eait, sometimes by politics and thing made famous Arnold. The carth and where rens to be located Many of the favorite son candidates being three most frigid spots on are the north and south poles elanol Col. House hap- have much chanee of nom- as republican ticket as of having inated on the a vice president has a voice in the government. Judging from what is heard and printed thcere will be only one ! played in Chicago and that will | Roosevelt, with the progressive band lcading and the republican band climbing aboard. Chicago will be justly entitled the name of “Windy City” on 14 two national political ventions tune be to June with con- in session. Solace. Song’s Jackson, in Republican.) TPull measure of melodious tears, Drawn from the Muse's sacred wells, heart has tre. years, (Edward O. Springfield My ired through Life’s woes the poets song endears; No solace with a charm excels Full measure of melodious tears. Villon's and Heine's and Shakes- peare's Exquisite lyric miracles My heart has treasured through yvears. the And his, who once surpassed his peers, When, grieved for Lycldas, he tells Full measure of melodious tears. All sacred utterance that cheers The pathos that in being dwells, My heart has treasured through the years. In solitude my epirit hears, Life waves in murmurous sea-shells, Tull measure of melodlous tears My heart has treasured through yvears. the FAOTS AND FANCTES. The Ttallans brought out of a squadron of five aeroplanes which raided Ancona. If the Ttalians can hit aeroplanes so successfully, it is strange that British can ly hit a Zeppelin—Buffalo Expres President Menocal of Cuba is to inform his congress that money s plentiful and prosperity prevails. Sugar prices paid by Burope and hy the TUnited States largely explain Cubas luck pay the ahle piper—RBrooklyn Eagle. It is possible that the American people want a War Lord In the White Flouse and want him to do for them what the Kaiser has done for the Germans. Tt is possible that they want the Republic militarized and want its industrics Prussianized. Tt i possible that they are tired of old free swinging gait and long the goosestep and the drill sers Tt is possible that they want war ror war's sake and are eager for the trenches at any cost. The way to de termine all that is to submit it referendum of the American people in an election in which the policies, fhe character and record of the two can didates not he ohscured: an eler tion in which every cltizen must know isely what he is voting for. Mr. 15 the one Republican can- te who would make such a cam paign possible. He is the one answer the republicans can honestly ms President Wilson—New York for World ™n Chancellor Von Bethmann-Toll weg's address to the Relchstag there are two matters that concern the United States: His assurance thaf Germany contemplates no aggressive act In the New World now or in the future, and the notice the Chancellor glves that Germany will not “the arms of defense’ to he from her hands. “We use savs, “and we must use to the Chancellors assurance “after the end of this w Germany will refrain from adventures in the Western Hemisphere, it only he sald that the United has los faith in the professions of the Tu- ropean chancelleries and the pled made In treaties solemnly negotiated And the Tnited States intends to pre- pare the army and navy for the de- fense of its territory and for the enforcement of the natonal policies, including that doctrine which clares that the Amerfean continent re henceforth not to he considernd as subjects for future colonization hv any Buropean New York W them, them.’ need de- power.''— Sun Booze in the Army. (Rridgeport Telegram.) the he will in An amendment to the senate will announced. and sence of liquor reservations, posts or the nation will proh to the spectacle weeks' debate in army hill introduced, i prohibit any form he army Now treated camps hly of a congress on this fssue, while the army bill itself s forgotten. The fanatics. both Tooze and against will grapple deadly struggle Why is this? We don't n veading of the Congressional ord will disclose the fact that con willing to talk iis ne minor, under dis ant mai- hel for it in know. Bni 21 is head off technical point cussion, while ters arve hurried through ter, or allowed to This latest amendment to the s bill is enough to make any on We have an army with We army without hooze. But without men—and that's we will have, while congr fumes, fritters and fusses over the cut of a second leutenant's coat and the proper color of a rookie's shoes. always conce S0« hill impor in any ally skel die iy siek can hooze. can have an have an army what we ean't just the | down three | so rare- ! omebody always has to | [ 25¢ to $3.98. McMILLAN’S NEW BRITAIN'S RU 7 BIG STORE “ANWAYS RLLIARLE™ A Wave of Worthy Pride Is Sweeping Ovec New Britain “DRESS| i)” WEEK , APRIL 10th to 16th The Dress Up movement is | based on the fact that we feel | well when we look well. THE PERSON | tive interest in their dres interest in thetr work. Nothing succeeds like suc- | cess. And the first step toward success | is to look the part. | DRESS UP! Take an interest in your ap- pearance and the world will take a greater interest in you. “DRESS UP” IN SMART 4 McMILLAN WEARING APPAREL down to the last detail. 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You can save At their, you can save time, wrtments and values of convince you that vou nced furthe A wtisfactory pur- is the result. You nave select ed the very newest, in a reliable qual- | Him ity at the lowest price that such |[uabo quantities can be bought for. ply rut Irox carfs, priced cast whi in t Special cach. In stoc e ity s ceiv wmi | e of f A Drapery and Tar mone as our : will no lim wal we but the tion fer chase 0. McMILLAN 199-201-203 MAIN the erat yea the hiur nut er STREET. A Ncew Pol , (Ansonia ieal P Sentinel.) \ light papers new political party ha to According to it may have in Delaware bhut 1 recorded in New afternoon, nounced in papers. It come New York news- had its ofticial York where it the metropolitan was <« under hirth was | Thursday first n and the gt city was evening at hicth of “The reng 000 christened and appea the name he | ten | Men's name New England to demand Pre sounds Business idential | The up League.' particuiar mission in eat and sixt glob of wou pro mor affa as T ta ood. way. It that thi | glorious country of ours president who is a r administered with efficiency and That lurks a o i 1 e pal the uit SEhyt A man, economy other zood also, bui picion that the new of a political extei rected husiness | same re iy husiness. sounds there horn is some kind in motion Gen. T. Col Pont xalted po in where 11 zentleman Is the not taken 1l indicatior [ in wax strons promised that he the $300,000 Senator Aldrich annually in 1l husines hoom. set o | is | ana for T sun of t visi wot tor candidacy of for (hat Delaware, the Du Down illustrious man tion rrom, seriously present <At s likel puny weakling and die Should, e grow new horn is i from i prove a its infancy howev strong and man, taxpavers s would save this country 000 that the latc claimed was wasted running the public to he a bi cars re and of The baseball fan who does not tind his interest in the game limbering up at this seagon is only a counterfeit.— Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. low the ‘Washington, Pose more than ever to definite and world nre down food more than 10.. future Por- in D. condition (el in April the be too many trian sol day. common ing a ch will people he world for the ok ranges to feed, the question of a ble general market cd re nons consideration 1k of the nod shortages have hefore, narrow Mr. Wil wreful there groin ficlds and ize of the worl ssume that the consumes ten cent daily. the entire nationa United States, the r human- has shortage in supplies 100 o vear vol Since the out- world-war, probabilities heen discussed but in respect | geographical | 1§ m Joseph Sho- | study of the]| food supply, considering the | produced, its distribution, and ‘ntialities for increased producs discounts present-day fears of ul- | ate universal famine. Of the bug- o theory that a general under-sup- | of foodstuffs is the menace of the | he has the following to say in udy prepared for the National 1phic society at Washington: | ny men are inclined to sound a | simistic note as to the adequacy of | world's food supply for future gen- | ions, and, like Malthus a hundred r o, are inclined to predict that v has al last come when the ace must cease 1o expand its ! or else face inevitable hung- | haskel than of for twenty per day per capita itations. ter, in a K PO’ difficult to have prophecies of twentieth-century thus. Ior instanc States we have 9 arable land, only 4 are under cultivati than half of our av. the United States its corn, one-fourt cighth of its cattl hogs, and one-twel s ven with the | tivation, if we wheat per acre nan uber s And when consider how many iths there are in this world to feed how much food it takes to satisfy littie’ there to wonder his pos The “hes a e two-thirds of as much corn to t we could double t1 that product. “Today tne Unit tal cereal crop of els. Were der cultivation and cording to our pres less than half rooin mism. wrth's population today wd total of about 1,700,- ,000 souls If they were all set at a wquet it would require tables reaching around the them For every ounce ate, the dinner provide 53.000 tons of and if the dinner a democratic dol in the aggregate, nuch as it costs to run the United tes government a year and a half. Ixpressed in terms of annual con- aption, the world’s market ket that defies portrayal in weight One is foreed to cast around of measurement to give roper idea of its proportions. As- \ing that the average inhabitant he earth uses two pounds of pro- ons a day, the total for the year 11d amount to a billion and a quar- tons. It uire a string of carrying tons to the car, times around the m, cen 2 they 1ld have visions, e than dr, it would e is to take population the size “When one has the writer or the Civil war, di than eight bushels ty bushels of corn has seen this land forty-five bushels hundred bushels cc take any other th view of the possib griculture. “Not only are t bilities yet untouc country, but also i er countries of the instance, Russia nature has done it with such as few has a wheat yield to the acre. “When the cortainly will, much per acre nd, and to me new units would re thity eight reaching e th, to hanl this material hest however, is that the e inhabitant of the earth prob- more than two pounds of day The steer Inglish od 2 1'% pounc prisoner in the two pounds; et av- ze day that visions a ships ane da rers on each average the jail Ru script four pounds; 'Still another way to get an idea of On this basis it would require history, to pay the ix months. For every cent Increases, move than 000 is added to the market-basket expense. “But when one conside bilities of future food production, it is much pessimism of the world's wheat, produced many, we could supply the world with flour, as western Europe, we care of has done, . that food-producing other when the utold millions acres of undeveloped land are opened Aus- | lic untouched. The wonderful discov- pounds a | eries of Ross and Reed and tieir coad- | jutors, of the methods of preventin malaria and yvellow fever, followed b, the mastery of the secrets of the bu- bonic plague and beriberi, and the ap plication of these lessons in Cuba Panama, and elsewhere in the tropi- cal world, have made it possible for I wealth of the ichest nation of all | civilized man to open uy of | plenty of which he never before world's food bill dreamed “Untold millions of acres of dens jungles are, o far as man is concerned nothing more than lands of infinite richness wasting their swéetness upon the desert air of unutilized opportuni tlos Not long and the dier 21 1d's food problem is average individual 8" worth of food sardens that the cost of liv- $6,000,000,- world's annual | + ( the possi- the ruing The Uni apart resery ago T visited of Quitigua, in Guatemaln ed Iruit company had cral hundred acres [ for the protection of the Tho ingle forest of the reservation. bo dering the banana clearings, towered like a green wall a hundred feet high the undergrowth was denso no man could penetrate it save « his way through with a ma- faith In 1 of {he of Mal- sot sev- ation successors e, in the United 35,000,000 acres of 00,000,000 of which on. Yet, with less ailable land utilized produces one-sixth seven-ninths of h of its oats, one- e, one-third of its fth of its sheep, 1ins na 50 that by chete. cutt saw the contrast between the future of the trop- The banana plantations, stretching for miles and miles up and down the Motaga River valley, were producing millions of bunches of ban- anas, where but a few beforo had existed the same jungle as that at Quirigua.” “There 1 the past and ical world under cul- as much and Ger- and now England | I we produced | he acre as they do, | e world’s supply of vears sort of | | ed States has a to- | 5,000,000,000 bush- | Doy Joy-Riders on Railronds. all of our arable land un- | oHaln e oniy el (Meriden Journal.) ent standard which | high as that of | could add enough an additional of that of Kurope. lived on land, which, at the end | d not produce of wheat and twen- to the ac and produce as high as of wheat and a wrn, it is difficult to an’ an optimistic ilities of American A railrond man was saving the other day that it is becoming a favorite trick with boys to steal long railroad a4 world, trips by passenger trains. Parties s | hoys will set out to see the ind travel on the tops of cars, or sc- more g crete themselves on the trucks he that one day a few boys on a truck that a train pled to release them thing is of loose family and restless something d life. stations When errands for story is told got had This modern ciplines 50 caught o he kind instances of une of one the To a rovir there is about ound running very He type »n fascinat railro hangs & should be mother Some day he tries his expertness at “hopping freights.” A few years after that, he is the one-legged youth who is seeking to make an “honest living selling lead pencils Boys should kept away from the Seany place where there many of life and limb, Also it tramps and ints young fellows to adopt a here infinite ned in our own n most of the oth- earth as well land for which much, endowing possibilities countries possess, of only ten bushels possi- his o be rail e OThEE it as o are 1S ng b as come perils where my Russia produces Germany plit and wandering career.