New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 18, 1916, Page 6

BRITAIN HERALD RALD PUBLISHING COMPANY, Proprietors, laily (Sunday excepted) at 4:15 p. m., [Berald Building, 67 Church St at the Post Office Becond Class Mail at New Britaln Matter. d by carrier to any part of the city 15 Cents a Woek, 65 Cents a Month. tions for paper to be sent by mall, ble in advance, 60 Cents a Monta, D a Year. ¥ profitable advertising medfum In city. Circulation books and press L always open to advertisers. ald will be found on sale at Hota- s New Stand, 42nd St. and Broad- New York City; Board Wi B T alk, at- e City, and Hartford Depot. “ TELEPHONI Office .. Rooms CaLLS. STARTING RIGHT. T Quigley could start out on nd administration in no better than by following his declara- intentions expressed e occasion of his h The at and h of Summed up, his hat paity lines should be total- rated, c t s right. Not that anyone would e Mayor to today | acceptance of of office Mayor pungent sincere speech his ideas how the city Bbe soverned aside, swept away or any other man office by any party to turn fea | political | all Mayor d bite the hand that prove disloyal But, of to his o8, ple now in the interest New that £ Britain he is firmly en upon the highest pedestal in | bout, | ee to it that no man is favored | he is he is shunned he Prohibitionist, because he m of elective offices here: a Republican, or downed a Democrat or is a o ba is a Socialist, ed because he is a choosing the men who are to pir helping hands in the up- of New Britain the Mayor in- select those who by peculiar nd appropriateness offer the pterial. He should not [l for doing this even by those ) g of his f them Progres- be own party who debt feel of gratitude. is said and done this is the New Britain, the property ot particular person or par a but Py the entire social unit, the vho happily dwell here. 1In nse it should be governed by le and for the people. And Quigley intends to do this, professes, he should have | mnd co-operation of every loy vithin these mly precincts, WAY re is to be OR THE any OTHER. protest against ease of the in taxes proposed by rd finance and for —at which Hall. Otherwise, supposed that the city taxation is be ty Turner’s night such pro- registered, the an- meeting will be well be s of this are resigned fate willing to sit a and are enjoy the novelty of an are nccessary evils. in Life comes a some But fresentation tax in- 50 long as taxation g0 hand in hana no danger of staging a tea if the people of New Britain | proposed taxes to be right t. that they will enjoy the ta of blessings under the , there should be no united It is to be presumed that telligent man in the city rocketbook way of uched has given this subject ought, has weighed just what it all ded about how fien. Then, one way as a citizen of this. city his convictions by yea the case of the butcher who e price of meats, the con- little or no method of g the added expense. The plies to the prices that may on all other commodities But in the case of taxes the | 4 this is in well in means and he can bear having made a or the other, it is to i or has privilege, pprove at the annual After that, it is his bear the burden, if and make to approve | city busi- it is complaint, a no in all fairness png drawn the meeting there should 1 sessions of | it at proposed out herecafter the The to ers in city pnctioned. time to do register dis- meeting plaining and is before that pon the tax, eonsidered, and After that, through, Britain, has while the ques- eing when is taken pro- the like those e tax goes s of New to register protests against narriages before they take puld be admenished ‘“to hold e forever”, | the | votion, | nierely an amusement for I WILCOX OF WINSTED ET AL. wont Strangers in this country are to stand in open-eyed awe at the man- Americans attend to their political duties. There are, haps, few countries on the face of the so rife politicians the States of America, where men ner in which per- globe with as United with loyal political cling devotion to such fet- ish as ideas and doetrines, Even in of wor- where party is everything. religion certain tribes for matters of their blind outcla the ecarth noted ship of petty some of our citizens who line up with gods are sed by another and cling to its An is one party or tenets regardless of consequences. v\umxll(‘ of this in our own State = inter- case of E. when calls attention to the Wilcox, of Winsted. rogated Hartford who by a newspaper toward the that re the astounding garding his attitude Roosevelt boom, made reply: s “It didn’t M in Africa, but if the Republicans nom- is a pity the tigers set Roosevelt while he was for have of this President I would inate him to vote answer the has come at a bound to the doo: of Mr. Wilcox, low “As a to for him Because Sun thinks that notorfety ste comments as fol- Mr. seriously, of the fa Africa; above re- and naturalist Vilcox is not be taken being ignorant that there a loyal apparently are no tigers in but as party he Any candidate man is proach. man who would vote rather dead devotion to political that him to the hearts of all the old at “The truth it is Wilcox of Win- be the fi for a he'd see President shows of than the should endear A a creed regularity standpatters. grocer cross-road But he says, Mr. may indeed.’ while this record ed, man in vicinity who has put himself such blind de- clinging We have with on as holding is not the only vine in the political arena. as the orators say, men us tonight, who would give anything on earth, inconvenience their Roosevelt out wish with the most ferocious had made small the weilder the Big might even farther and wish he were wrecked on the New Haven. Yet, if the Republican party nominates Roosevelt in Chicago these same go forth and jump on the band wagon, shout hal- lelujah and cast their votes for Roose- velt. After this we can see no great cause for criticism of President Wil- son’s remark, “There is such a thing as being too proud to fight.” It is vindicated by such people as Mr. Wil- cox of Winsted, and others of his ilk who by sticking to party al other things prove they “too proud to fight” against the of their against tates of their own consciences. if and that would not own comfort, to see Mr. They, perhaps, that Africa of the way. Mr, Wilcox animals of neat out of Stick. They of go men will above are courage convictions, the dic- Some- indeed the begin to wonder of times we this is the home of the free. A SOCIETY This of human that all the will fand liberty LOGOMAN of tattling nature OF NTACS, business is a imhedded till It the Adam so well from it preaching now doomsday not break up. probably started away back in Garden of Eden when Eve told a few things about the avenging angel that would not sound well in front of that the whispering august personaze, so therefore ver, scandal-monger- ing is conducted by the under-ground the practice That The gossips get in their work When lines, if canard fashion, it old women whispering secretive, of it method, snake-like smothered sounds. is why is so per- nicious. like thieves ducted along in the night con- innocent can be started in such is and men who are utterly uscless for anything else and, as such, does if not good. But there that s0 cager to perform what they deem a is harm, ever the any danger the who are their the making a service to humanity And utter impossibility may get facts wrong. S0, realizing of even dent in this time worn custom of con- fabulation we sincerely recommend to all those all- absorbing habit mend their the facts'. valu- who indulge in this that they ways to this extent, et And, once ha able mania, not tort them. At as good working ving secured these assets in do the suffering of logo- elaborate upon or dis- best they should serve material By warp- ing or even polishing the initial story as it comes from some other nurrator of The highest the second purveyor gossip belit- of point ties his her art. fine -tete tale or art tete reaches its has been secretly poured To further things that did not happen places the the category of gossiper would want to be branded as a when the in some one's ear. babbler in terrible liars and no falsifier, a peddler of mendaciums There [ tional should he in the Wash- all on peddli neighbors, passed by na- congress ington a bill that the folk Who thrive session at Providing | siers, | sensation about their ba organized and banded together under one head, with a president ana re- cording secretary, and a board of di- et forth by the New York Sun, which | little | tate | EW, BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY APRIL 18, 1916. rectors and such other officers and nnmittees that necessary. A constitution be deemed might and laws should he adopted and the whaole under the The i incorporated federal government. its organization of the society, wing of course, as befits be secret. There S0 th sion in life, should when members of the organization reach old age, cither of speech, they could be pensioned off and put on the retired Having such great service to the cause of humanlty in general and the nation in particular they would at least deserve this treat- The could do disseminating members the doctrine of getting facts should also e provisions 1culties, sight, or lose their or hearing, or list rendered ment. society great work by among its straight. True go: the hands of an amateur who does not the of and for effect upon unsportsman-like practice of telling something not merely to score a In ‘the future, then, all members of the Magnifi- and Magnanimous Society for the Procuration and Dissemination of Gossip firmly adhere to the first prin- “Gossip Undefiled! it alone! done we shall all the some p suffers when in know value his or her main acts resor the that is s0 point. let Toval cent ciple of the order, Get 1ight, this hear i or leave And when is e pleased to from Fossips in the country and day join their to extend much them sembled in grand convention the congratulation prittle-p about a of a rattled public. Seventy-six out of eighty cases of typhoid fever which occurred seven in a recent outbreak have been traced the United public health ice to Had the to a trained by States sor first health officer the outbreak could have When Will we learn that disease prevention is sure and cheap? infected rnilk cases been reported been stamped out promptly. [{ f)mr\'ll‘%'! D. llml May Stimulate Inter- in the Planting and Marking of Tree: Editor Herald: It was encouraging to read of the public meeting of the tree commission held to stimulate the planting of trees in the city on or before Arbor day. The tree commission has done a good work in offering 1o plant good trees at neminal cost, and all in scientific nner guaranteed to live. The school committee and the Commonwealth club are to be congratulated on their announced plans to plant trees on the school grounds and on the park. This suggests the former days when the civic organizations took a hand in planting some of the first trees set out or Walnut Hill park. Tt is said that most of the trees set out on the main drive along the northern and western sides were placed by fraternal and civic organizations and high school graduat- ing classes. Only two of these trees, however, seem to he marked, namely the G. A. R. Elm tree and N. B. H. S class of '88 Maple tree. Would it not he plan for the members of those anizations who planted those trees to get together and place a permanent marker near them? This would, I think, be a distinct addition to the historic value of the park and be continual incentive to other organi- zations and school classes to keep on planting trees until the city parks and streets and private grounds are ered to the full measure of a beautiful estion st a good a cov- city TTE. 17 April 1916, ofr. (Bentztown Bard, in Baltimore Sun.) Are you paying her off when her work is done, Paying her off with mean ? Are you paynig her off with a litiie sun And a tender word, as you would a aueen? you pay her love, With a sweet s bright As the stars that burn in the sk When e si by your side even-light? Kiss, 1 Are off with a word of and a Dlessing above in the Are you paying her off for her of trust, patient thought? you making the daily bright and you ought? Are you making her you still, vou making her all she needs? vou helping her day goes ill she frets and proceeds? years Her toil and her wistful Arc her dust sweet path through A as you think glad that she has Are feel you are Are smile when the And worries as life You can never her the owe, can never green earth All she deserves of life's You can never pay she's worth. Are you paying her all my men, words and actions gleam? you helping way again, you helping your love's pay half you You give her in this sun and glow, her one-half that you can, In that help her Are her smile on her Are her dream dream ? that no Sorely Tricd. Post.) (Rridgeport President Wilson and his ad- tried. One can while recogniz- have been ag- resolute has been Surely ministration easily admit this even ing that the troubles gravated through lac handling. This uncertainty sorely is Kk of determina- even at the announced due, it is true, to a fixed tion to keep out of war risk of retreating from bositions. There has been honesty of purpose in these various actions. This must be admitted, even though they fail in the long run. ) At present the difliculties are two- fold. The Mexican situation is most threatening and with it comes the re- newal of the submarine dispute with Germany. Brought to a head again more than a month ago by the Sussex tragedy, the dispute with Germany now reaches a stage which will call for some decisive action, or else a re- treat once more. All these things make for the most difficult situations and the adminijstr: is grievously hampered. Patriotic Americans will recognize this and even while they may believe that pre- vious errors have aggregated existing conditions they will stand by the president and his assoclates in their hour of need. At no time since the war started has the situation bheen plicated by the Mexican ments. The president will the support patriotic citizens in these days of difficulty. Germay's reply in the Sussex case is anvthing but satisfactory, An acute situation may be postponed by allow- ing further discussion. This may not help in the ultimate settlement, but it will at least relieve the strain on Washington, now rendered doubly se- vere by the Carranza attitude. It is at least certain that in the sub- marine matter, as with Mexico, the country will stand behind the presi- dent in any vigorous settled policy that he may decide to take which will convince those who are making trou- ble that we cannot be trifled with. develop- need all can give The (New Control of Cancer. York Sun.) A recent number of the Medical Times refers to the gratifying resul of undertaken Po mouth, England, for the education of the public in the control of cancer. Among these the chief element ap- pears to have been one that the Sun has constantly noticed; the imper: tive necessity or suspecting evers growth or tumor as malignant and obtaining immediate opinion from a trustworthy physician with regard to its nature. We have repeatedly pointed out that while no harm could result from this early attention to what appears to be an innocent growth, because of its freedom from pain, its removai may, in the event of its being pro nounced malignant, save the life of the individual. 1t is gratifying to report that the city of Portsmouth has demonstrated the practical value of this precau- tionary measure. The annual report of Dr. Fraser, the Medical Officer of Health, for the year 1914 states that there were only 197 deaths from cancer in Portsmouth in that year, as compared with 230 in 1913; despite the fact that the population has been greatly increased. When the educa- tional measures were put in force in 1913 the cancer death rate of the city had for a long time been increasig The statistics for 1914 are therefore the first indicating a decrease of deaths from cancer in the history of that city The methods adopted by the health department included the monthly publication in the local newspapers of articles regarding cancer and the printing and distribution of a circu- lar upon this subject. Periodical lec- tures were given to midwives, nurses workers. They also offer- eratuitious microscopic examina- and reports on suspected « growths, in order to assist in immediate diagnosis, in of patients who are unable for lzboratory service. Tt that the for delas seeking advice was not, as i supposed. fear of operation, bui ignorance of the nature of their discase by reason of its painlessn The fact that the beginning of can- cer is usually not signalized by pain should be impressed upon the public with reiterated emphasls, hecause In the present state of our knowledszc the most successful management of this terrifying malady is early sursi cal removal measures in and social ed tions cerous physi the to di in usually an ns case pay covered was roason Overnight Hopewell, (New York Press.) While the struggle for Verdun goes it may not he amiss go as far back of the firing lines ag across the \lantic and take a look at the town which is one year old and s pro- Aucing thousands of tons of ex- plosives for the Allies, If the German fleet had out from behind the fortifications at Kiel heen victorious, doubtless Hope- well would have sprung into exist- | ence just the same, and instead of providing munitions for the Allies night have been sending them fo hoth the Central Powers and theit enemies. The contrél of the seas. however, makes of Hopewell a powder town for the Allies. A year ago Hopewell, Va., cornfield settlement with a of 200, Now it is a city population of 35,000, which than any other city in Virginia with the exception of Norfolk and Rich- mond. Land in the third la city of Virginia, worth a vear ago $16 an acre, now selling for $16,000 a double building lot When Bret Harte wrote of Western mining towns that grew up like mushrooms over night it was thought such a condition of aff: could nicver happen again in Americi. And vel not only is there a Hopewell, hut fts story is duplicated at Bddystone Remington, and, in a measure, South Rethlehem. Hopewell went on to come | ana was popul: with is greater tion is through the swift evolution of mushroom mining towns without law, without order, wide cpen—until finally the hest people of the community, getting together, put | terough a rough form of law and Now Hopewel] so proud of righteousness that the pow- takes a day off to celebrate | with open-air festival, parades | other functions, to which it is ashamed to invite the governor most of the officials of Virginia. Hopewell is a live demonstration of American initiative, ability and efficiency, order its civic der town is and not and tion at Washington | more strained, with conditions com- | $198 $4.00 Values to l $2_98 Values to Flowers, Ornaments. e ] $3.98 Choose Your New Easter Hat from the Choicest Selection in Hartford at Most Remarkable Savmgs_ IWIIIII)IW"':f:;;;,.,l,.m...l.. i ' Mexico Iirias‘ féme Railroad System Washington, D. C., April 18.—The railways of Northern Mexico, the of which was fraught with grave mom- ent to the punitive expeditionary force under General Pershing a few day us: is the subject of issued by of transporting supplies, an informative bulletin just the National Geographic —society Washington. “The railway a mileage which five per cent. the all the other countries and South America, with the tion of Canada, the United States, Ar- gentina and Brazil,” says the bulletin ““This vast system has been built up in forty-five years, for tiny track from Mexico City burb of Guadalupe as car: it not until 1873 that Lerdo inaugurated the first line, that which runs from Vera Cruz to the national capital. President Ler- do, was the building of railways across desert plateaus of northern Mexico, he believed, it said, that these arid plains afforded a certain against political and commercial influence United States. President Porfirio Diaz had a far broader vision, however, and during his long regime railroad build- ing was one of his chief concerns, that when he retired from the pres deney these steel arteries of commerce had crossd the United States border at places—Laredo, 131 Paso, Nogales, Eagle Pass, Presidio, and Brownsville, and 11,000,000 people were carried an- nually together with 11,000,000 tons of freight. “One of the most interesting fea- of the railway under Diaz was his insistence that the Amer- ican managers of the merged Mexican national railways should employ. whenever possible, Mexican conduct- ors, brakemen, telegraph operator flagmen and section foremen. In this way we hoped to build up a substan- tial middle class from among the peons, one of the crying needs of the country. “The Mexico Mcexico has twenty- mileage North system of exceeds combined of by to the su- 1854, President important was opposed o the for is curity the of s0 tures system connecting United States opened by railroad with the that to Kl 1 President Diaz thirty-two years ago month. This line heen ex- ted in recent years to Tampico on east and to the and now of 4,000 miles. “The shortest line from City to the United States (500 is that of the National railway, crosses the border at Laredo, “When the four important systems known as the Mexican Central the National, the International and the Interoceanic were fused into the National railways of Mexico, the gov- ernment retained a majority of the stock of 615,000,000 pesos. the railways in Northern equipped with American passenger and freight cars, and Pullman accommodations are to he had on of the lines The first passenger rates ave slightly higher than on American lines but there a lower rate by which ihe asured rst Resta first City horder was s0, et has i the ve Guadalajara on weost embraces a sysiem Mexico miles) which railway capital “All Mexico locomotives, of are class profit. Distances Kilometres— foyr cents second at the d'hotc usually breakfast, peon are in conts f clas class and 1 nis stations serve tablc and the trains important make twenty- five minute stops for lchcon and dinner. ago, because of the serious question of ! excep- | while there was a | the | | tain | throng 16 lun- | Values to $6.50 Sailors, Turbans, Pokes, Mushrooms, Beautifully Made of Milan Hemp, Lisere and Novelty Straws, Very Artistically Trimmed. Ribbons, Wings, “The peons ae like children in their cagerness to ride on the trains and in the mining sections where small lines are used in handling ores it is a diffi cult matter to keep the natives off the car ‘Although Mexico produces a large quantity of coal it is of a cheap grade and the railways as a rule either im- port their fuel or else burn oil, which is produced in great abundance, cspe- cially in the Tampico region. “The lines in the north are operat- ed on Mexican time, which is twenty- four minutes faster than American time at K1 Paso and thirty-six minutes faster at Laredo. “The most interesting railway Mexico is that 192 mile stretch of track which connects the Atlantic and Pacific seaboards across the Isthmus of Tenantepec. It was here that Eads dreamed of a ship railroad which lift v by huge derricks the harbor at Salina Cruz and them on trains which would them across the continent where they would be rondstead. could ssels from swing transport to Coatzacoalcos lowered into the “The proposed Pan-American rail- way, heing built American capital, is expected some day to establish a di- rect rail communication between New York City and Buenos Aires.” by The Saratoga Springs. (New York Evening Sun.) Nearly half a century ago the town of Saratoga was best known through- out the eastern states as a center of the “fashionable” life of that period— interesting if somewhat amusing now- adays to the observer and sociologizet in a country grown too fast for best development, highly sophisticated in spots, though sadly ignorant in cer homely basic essentials, When “fashion” outgrew Saratoga politics claimed its site as convenient and well suited to practical uses. Then came the expansion of its less praiseworthy aracteri and it became a center of exciting “sport” both of the indoor and out-of- doors varieties. The genuine and splendid sport of horse-hreeding anc horse-racing was ruined hy the ex- cesses of the par upon its flour- ishing body, and the town Saratoga was left to feed memory. Some memories retained an impres- sion of the mineral springs that had been favored by an earlier generation “while the Vanderbilts were still Vanderbuildinz” (in famous phrase of an Amcrican exile in I'rance,) and forthwith those spring were exploited commercially till their potency was next to be exhausted No better illustration than this inci- dent could be found of American reck- lessness and waste of natural re- sources. It depends on what you mean by ‘junintelligent,” whether this in relation to the drain- | high endowment of with excellent climate and environment Individ- made money at the expense actually of the whole population Two or three years state of New York hegan system of rehabilitation mineral springs. ha o enough, distin- services one of stics thus of again, on the word be used ing of nature's this natural spa, its uals ago the to develope a those fortunate werest of a gnin the = s physician, to 1ist able to effective of the reservation At present the work com- | sion. mis Saratoga | they ot TORE OPEN GOOD FRIDAY AS USUAL—WISE, SMITH & CO. OUR BIG ANNUAL SALE OF TRIMMED HATS FOR EASTER WEAR WISE, SMITH & CO., HARTFORD |$498 Values fo $8.00 been “‘saved" carrying attainable writes mineral springs but funds are required for on the work to its readily end Dr. Simon Baruch the subject as follows “Today Saratoga Springs would be equal to any similar one in Europe if the legislature would appropriate suf- ficient funds to complete its skilfully devised development. This is the timc for the of state 40 urge their representative the legislature to take advantage of tide of pros- perity that within their reach. It would indeed be an unwise and fatal policy to permit an invest- ment of $1,000,000 to be so badly aged that for want of funds plete the equipment S Springs the present grand due to the unfortunate war allowed to pass.” Other mineral have on this in the is flowing people man- to com- ratoga opportunity should be springs of similar xist in the e nt a na- the ture to those o far West, hut possibilities Saratoga ¢ throw conve would be both from the standpoint mics and of the medical be gained by patients Saratoga Spa should the zeneral to at so point inexcusablc of econo- nefit to Bast. The ablished of the as Saratoga in the he welfare to country, serve Our (Bridgeport \erial Miracles, Telegram.) Our aviators wonder proud auate. been ing’'s force the rarified Mexico have rea done to be in have them out of we every With ade date machines they have inestimahle Persh for ia air of Mexico's ntain have.performed rd flights, with low-powered, inefficient machines. wo of them, for instance flew from San Antoni Chihuahua Columbus, N. M., a distance of more than 350 miles, in less than four hours, with only a single stop. Others have made flightd almost equally ftable What they have done is of what could have ed, had we an adequate to our army Europe maintains two chines for every aviator so that, allowing every man will class machine at his inst America’s ratio is more aviators to every machine European nations number acroplanes by the great United States 100,000,000 1 the dozen Our av of of value to scouting purpose mo rec breaking to cred just a taste accomplish- aerial heen branch to three ma- in her serv- cidents have : di like ice, for a always two their The with wssed machines. havae, Ameri- of and dunder- thousand of A hasn't p neric: »pulation nark in flying with what miracle little miracle of stupidit Think of the ha the but ieve performed ca has performed a fts own—a backwardness. that th miraclc headedness left nation that invented deplorable condition this as rerial regard eauipment American Auto Not Yet of Legal Gl dificult to the American automobile is of legal age Frederick T Adams in the April Ameri zine. It not until Th Day, 1895 first given that the Lile possibility was my suzgest and to conduct the first automobile cver held in the 1 State was in Chicago and made the route of then record rate of & cight hour Age. that yet 'ham Maga- Tiving was is comprehend nk that the proof automo- It later race It car the than 9th to the was a public practical privilege to ited the winning miles at little On more October twenty vears aftep i the Astor Cup ; i 350 miles at an average rate more than 102 miles an miles an the winning hour,