New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 19, 1916, Page 8

Without going into the merits of such claims, it is worth while noting that | there is a strong movement under | way which means the eventual aboli- of lynchings for in the strong beds of Southern influence, where | stringing a man up to a tree is some- playful pastime, laws for some of such While they may not be their number BRITAIN HERALD RALD PUBLISHING COMPANY, Proprietors, st tion daily (Supday excepted) at 4:15 p. m., Herald Building, 67 Church St times considered there prevention at the Post Office at New Britain Second Class Mail Matter. v i extent are being red by carrdes to any part of the city to 15 Cents a Weck, 65 Cents a Month. iptions for paper to be sent by mall, . 60 Cents a Month, occurrences. totally obliterated, can be reduced by proper legislation. An association has been formed among the college graduates of the southern colleges for the purpose of eliminat- 1d even in Georgia, the practice, the results nly profitkble advertising medium In ofty. ~Offculation books and press bm always open to advertisers. ing lynching, | hotbed of th | of this amalgamation influence is being felt. erald will be found on sale at Hota- g's New _Gtand, 42nd St. and Broa ¥, New York Ci Board Walk, 2 tic City, and Hartford Depot. The enactment these lines s being stringently urged in that state and P i v North Carolina, which FOR BETTER HEALTH. George a close second, has already en the new common | fallen into line. All these things tend tonight it will have pre to show a.changed feeling in the ¢ consideration some ordinarices | South, where once lynching was not da the health department | only condoned but smiled upon, where to with New | apologists for the evil were thick in city, | number and ready to fight for what regarded their prerogative, the taking of the laws okt of the ac- | courts and placed in the hands of the mob. It means that the South is be- ing rejuvenated, that it is shaking off | its old spirit of revenge, that ittis pav- path along the road of enlightenment. The be embittered realize the TELEPHONTI s Office . al Rooms CaLLS. of laws along almost runs council nted | by have to do making sanitary forthcoming will old and n a clean a ally er months. city, the they as As there during be | time lost in renewing the council malk- it is hoped and trusted good citizens of New Britain he members of this body listen | fively to the plea of the he.uthi ances in w ones ing progress North will longer against those peopke who of the old and are endeavoring new order of things. days ahead for the starting out on the a new and ment and then having digested no eaning and import of the 1)x'u—} ordinances write them upon the | falsity to set up community | There are bright of | South and it is and those whose duty | right road. New Britain | had the PATRIOT! AND 1916, that | i Massachuset today e °f | jointly celebrate the holiday set aside pdge intended to bring about | .. . memorate the heroic deeds of conditions. Under the direct s b e islon of a man who has spent | ., .;, nopie stands at Lexington and pry hour in studying and learn- | oonoorq against the might of Great frst hand of conditions and | pyeay; ywhile these two common- p improve them, the co-workers | o, 1ihs alone hold as a legal holiday all important branch of the the nineteenth of April, every state in pvernment have gathered some '® | the Union is no less interested in the le data. It is upon this Knowl- | ;;.o;vance of this day which meant hat the ordinances to be pre- | o ) il e much nation’s history. tonight have been drafted | p.¢ 500 Day is.held in high estecom im at the regulation of food Z from Maine to Florida, from coast to dairies and restaurants, and It is worthy of note that on fuch places where cleanliness is = essential attribute. - proposed rules and regula- hre approved of by ,the com- buncil, if they are then rigidly d by the inspectors, if they are p to by the men who are sup- 0 obey them, it may be reasnn- pposed that the public heaith : books. the health be sthe makers b uphold e past a Health of prime any consideration the law. two years has DAY, Department e and of Maine vely engaged pursuit those | coast. this anniversary of a great orisis the country’s career the President of the United States addresses Congress in person upon the subject of the note he has dispatched to Germany, a note that may mean the parting of the ways between these two great powers. It is fAtting thefi that Patriots’ Day | be observed iff the heart of every true during the coming SPring | smerican oitizen for there is no tell- pmmer will show marked Im- |, what may be the consequence of flent oyer conditidns of the past { oo K een today. Thers R L inee that |yave heen many celebrations of of the impediments cast In the | poy v po T b ot g0od health can be traced 10| .o 0o nas It meant s6 much as it does per handling of foodstufls at thi ent. hout the various sections of the Tt l‘B for To this end then, whether born on this land or m- of screening which would de- | o}, ¢per here by adoption think that proprietors of places sell- | (1. 11 %0 the mganing of the word d So arrange thelr wares that | ... ;¢ 1his is ‘the time when tha the fly, 14| cruclal test is about be applied, come in contact withifhe |\ 1 o' souls begin to sear, when firther allay. troublefiaf |t CocngErn s L e he the superintendent of the i, .. = 1 i {ne time when actions and of health proposes to exert a | ,.¢ words may be the things called iscipline over the main breed-{ . = oS T F L atriots like of the fly and 8o In some | 4o garmers of old will not be found the danger from its | &, 0 Never has there been such ception. This is all g00d WOTK, | o ;6 45 the latter day history of this effort, and should have the | ..., never has true American blood consideration of the common |y, needed more than on this morn- as of every loyal citizen in the JAatl G (o up tho way e city insists but never every American citizen, he would institute to pstiferious insect, stiferious insect i way To prt ces be destroy ing that recalld another consumer or producer. | ether liness is next to godliness. past when patriots stood live. 144 our dim that the nation might same things should agaln, if the men of the country are called on_to preserve itg honor, there will be no sulking or shirkingSvhen tradition is recalled, when the“deeds of men who went before are brou food Day, coime ) REDUCE LYNCHINGS. erners who have sojourned for gth of time in the North have om time to time called upon thes vmmuur brand of | tion that” counténances lynch- d whether consciously or sub- usly éhey have necessarily lves up as apologists for those rs of the race who resort tar and feathers as a means jibution. In the future, if the sociological congress which meeting in New Orleans has fluence, the men from the South lain sht to mind. There s much for thought this Patriots' s nineteenth of Aprl, 1916, that may written on the pages 6f history s glowing as those that of April, 1775 on set be in let- ters ¢ record the nineteenth to | A HAPPY CHOIC In the election of ex-Mayor Landers to the Chamber of Commerce the | hold high tion Gieorze of the who presidency hve things easier when drawn sive positions by thelr broth- the North The en a rigid stand against lynch- all Ing but men hope in the the destiny of that congress congre o organiz and development | New Britain have ripe evinced sound jud its virulent forms, and in There the unanimous pnt of the vast majority of peo- | o reside the For sometime | ment and reasoning. are men better suited for of New Mokitg few work of this kind which the Chamber of Commerce m1 reap the benefit of {he | selection. That Mr. Landers has de- cided to give ungrudgingly of his time important thin and the city Britain, for below Mason and | ine. ting back to the I ther the to masl pxo work, will ank episode terrible happeni \si good Southern peopie | ome to the hopes to accomplish generosity ind ene; What t | the Cha indict- ! added realization of hgs mean, of the blaced against them 'well other parts a is proof of his to At best a thank- mber awful by but citizens | 4. of the city of his birth the | Chamber of Commerce affords ample | opportunity o the in | less position, presidency of the argued that if Awell- that would | i suggested and feeling as heen for the service, unselfish wuch heat and that rth and | labor city may bhe gainer, its ;pegple were nd for those things that make der the same eonditions improved ¢ 5 at Commerce can render nvironment, New in the South, lynching where ogue here just as it Is in South pa other here such acts are flagrant. the sta its Chamber of invaluable ser- or Georgla or any vice, where from now on this orga; of educational | Britain | ation can stand as the guardian spirit | of its destiny, the sign Post to bigger and better things. New Britain stands on the threshold of a new era, it bids good-bye small town period of existence and greets the big city phase. With thi Mr. Landers those men who are to have much to do in NEW BRITAIN'S BUSIR®? BIG BSTORE “ARBWAYS RIELIABDN™ EASTER to the its in view and work with him, the tmmediate future, work that not be finish in that once start- ed go on down the years and stand ever as the monumental tribute of those inaugurate the plan. The development of the city is the all important thing. Whether it is | to grow wild and unruly like tho night-mare boom towns or reach its place in the ranks of representative can- a day, will who STOR¥E OPEN UNTIL N FRIDAY. CLOSED IN THE AFTERNOON. Extra sales people to serve. American cities by some orderly s¥S- | prompt and conrteous sttontion tem of growth and development must declded now, at this stage. Be- cause Mr. Landers holds a loyal spot in his heart for this his he may be expected to do all in his | power to direct its energies along the proper paths. be native city Just in time for Easter, “asing, minute garments he at mode Women’s $30.00. Junior Coats, Sport Coats, New White Coats, color fabri in time for Easter. Children’s Coats_ priced $2.98 $6.98. ¥ Women’s ever Women in Germany are indeed hav- ing troubles of their own. Spring stvles will not get much show in the larger cities where, according to dis Coats, priced $12.98 patches, the police are ordered to ar- pri all women cohSpicuously ed and to remove rouge and powder from their faces.* Sherman said it. rest dress too Coats of Sults, priced $15.00 FACTS AND, FANCIES. r Suits, Women’s Serge Dresses, $10.98 to $25.00. $5.98 Many a manjwho nods in church has no trouble in keeping wide awake on the bieachers.Rochester Times. combinations, If Wilson should manage to finish up the Mexican business without a gener- al intervention, Mr. Hearst might be obliged to move to Germany in order to maintain his natfonal honop.— Springfield Republican. EASTER BLOUSES Lace. Blouses, Georgettes, Tub Silks in colors, New Linen Blouses, ered and Lace-trimmed Voiles, gerics, etc., in a large variety. 97¢ fo $4.98 cach. Surrogate Cohalan has ruled that there’s no value to the ‘‘goodwill” of the New York Baseball club, because of the uncertain ability of the Giants to win the pennant. That's a fine omen fo¥ the beginning of the season! Colonel Roosevelt seems to have got all of the old liners so startled that al- most any kind of a statement is taken as a fact these days, when it comes down, to supporting the proper kind of a candidate.—Middletown Pr Novelty Handkerchiefs 1214c 50¢ eacl New Veilings 25¢ to 50¢ yard. New Guimpes, Fichus, Collars for coat wear of organdics, lace, and New s S 0 ake ew York newspapers try to make e it appear that Connecticut republican delegates to the national convention are for Hughes. They are not for any one republican and, according to one ¥eport, their preferences are searly as fiumerous as their numbers. TFormer Congessman Higgins of Norwich is known to be for Senator Weeks of Massachusetts.—Bridgeport Post. Maline Ruffs 98c to $1.98. Marabo Scarfs 49¢ to $1.00. Ostrich Boas $1.29 to $5.48. Summer Furs 98 and $4.98. EASTER GLOVES Since carefully reading the evidence as to how Schiller the pirate took the Matoppo away from the captain and his crew, we have had strong suspi- cions that some of the sea tales we have read have unduly emphasized the | bravery of the captains.—Utica Obser- ver. Women and ' Silk Glove For Men, “Kayser $1.00 pair. 50¢, DO, Cape including $1.15 to S Washabfe new shades, and $1.50 pai Washable CL 1o $1.00 pa Women’'s and Gloves in ali white, The state department announces that in behalf of Armenians it has ob- | tained “a promise' 'from Turkey. But | what reason is there to belleve that Turkey’s promises are any better than those of her Teutonic allies?— New York Herald. MEN'S GLOVES London Capes $1.15, $1.50 pair. Gray Mochas $1.75 pair. McCALLUM SILK HOSE $1.00, $1.50, $2.00 pai bre Boot Silk Hose 25¢ in big color range. N to The Security league is in doubt just how to ¢ ty those Michigan repub- licans who, when they couldn't get Roosevelt, took Ford.—Pittshurg Dis- patch. pa a “MEN'S “Onyx” make, STLK SOX*"” 2. 'OR I2AST ses 49¢ to Traveling BllL~ Suit € Leather 50. Fibre 98, Trunks of all kinds BASTER CARDS In a Big Variety. New Silk Bags 98¢ to $4.98. Leather Bags, Mesh Bags, Jewelry, Shell Goods. is hopeful the Panama canal. ablished a rec- elther.—Buffalo neral Goethals worst is over on the The general has not e ord as an easy hoper, Enquirer. £3.98 amd Matting Bags 40c¢ $4.25 to $2 The Measure of a Man. It's no place to measure the soul of a man here in the markets of Malice and Greed, Where men live the slogan if you can” hear not the cries weaker—or heed; It's no place to measure the soul of i man Where Iitrife lives Kkindlier deed. Out “Survive 0. McMILIAN MA STREET. And of the to stifie each 199-201 time to measure the heart of a man When drums beat to answers the call, forth to battle It's no for Ching Democrat.) No Poker arms and he (Waterbury An against poker has promulg: in China. The American game is banned ground that “it is likely to morais o the Chinese.” seem (o many Ame v bitter hiov from en Chinee” all the most and gambler. and garded in Americ particularly high standard anyvhow. To find that China native fan tan, while York judge recently gentleman’s too much. Zov in edict And to slay it g0 he can And gloat o'er the sorrows of oth- ers, who fall! time to measure the heart a man v With duty all. ed on upset This citizens the men Tt's no of coming who i natural who has never and valor o'ershadowing of time to measure to faith of a ben man When darkness ahounds terrors prevail— mortals are happy we can, Doubt is a frail; to Tt's no of mao and the mits her what a fended chance’” though, the Chinese serious ahout it. And of moral reform, it h notable achievements to its There is the opium traffic, ample. Our own state and governments are now trying him well, strict and regulate the use out in markets of Greed and |, i 0 & in i ey of Woe, fa view abolition But there in the home, in the twi- g el lighted spell W& to that With children as if to rub lamp's | plaining that, all of we are undoing ties tell— by delnging Where, if he's & man, all his man- | gigarottes, What can hood will show. country that takes it —John D, Wells in the Buffalo News iously as that? to helieve if We N me No nment the some as “a humans it and RBut giant are : 1U's no time a man When doubt s strongest will measure the faith of high quail s and the for ns and to brother measure Be just to your Not proc to i ficat reform b except China me purposes many it eliminate ‘meath the glow, and wife, it in. she mellow his virtues she her (‘hina as opi and qualh- heneficent with Where McMILLAN’S ! PREPAREDNESS OON GOOD you. MORE NEW COATS SUITS AND DRESSES s0 new, smart, up-to-the- e to choose from to "ed $5.98 to $20.00. priced $3.98 to $15.00. lig in many new styles, just tht to to to Silk Dresses, serge and silk priced $12.98 16 $25.00. Crepe de Chines, white and Embroid- Lin- Priced EASTER ACCESSORIES to Smart Made Veils 49¢ to $1.50 cach. Collar and Cuff Scts, dress Georg- ette crepe, priced 25¢ to $1.98 cach. Children. 75¢, Kid Gloves in all lengths and colors. the $1.15 mole Doe Gloves 50c, rldren’s, S0c to to 00. Belts, heen great the the will ‘heath living, inveterate re- exemplifying al still per barrin of doubt, matter really credit. ox- ional reo- of opium with for heat And heen co American vou do wiith reforms so ser- a APRIL 19, 1918. Wise, & g o v Company HARTFORD 1 Indians Prevazl To Great Extent In Mexgco Washington, D. C.,, April 19.— There are more Indians living today within th eterritory originally com- prising Mexico than ever existed at | any one time in all the rest of the ; Western Hemisphere combined, ac cording to a bulletin issued today by | the National Geograph society of Washington. “Of the Mexico fully 15,000,000 inhabitants of thirty-eight per cent. | pure India and forty-three per cent. of mixed blood, only nineteen per cent. being whites,” continues the bulletin. | “These | of whom wonderful million Indians, descendants of that race, the Aztecs, are di- vided into many linguistic famillies and tribes, the numbers varying ac- cording to the standards of differen- tiation adopted by each enthnologist. | Some authorities group them _into fourteen families, with fiftv-one languages and sixty-nine dialects, while others make sixteen family divisions, sub-divided into one hun- dred, thirty-two tribes. “The degrees of civilization to he found among -the many tribes are astonishing, ranging from the abject Scri Indiang of Sonora, as pitlably un- developed as the Indians of Terra del Iuego, to the highly developed and splendid specimens of manhood found »mong the Nahuat] and Maya tribes. “The finest examples of aboriginal | efvilization on the North American { continent were to be found in the neighborhood of the present City of A co, with the possible exception of that prehistoric race of temple buiflders whose ruing dot the Yucatan peninsula. It was on the site of the capital that the Toltees left their im- prrint from 650 A, D, to the twellth century when the Chichimecs, a cruder tribe, replaced them, not by conquest but because the Toltecs died out, some antiquarians attributing their gradual disappearance to the ravages of pulque, the Insidious drink that has ever been the curse of that country. six many are “Then came the highly civilized Acolhuas, and a few years later, be- fore the opening of the thirteenth century, the Aztec began to pour in, leaving in their wake, as they came up the plateau, the remarkable structures now known as the ruins of Casas Grandes, They built Tula, | fitty miles north of Mexico City, and eventually founded Tenochtitlan, on ite selected for them by the gods, rding to legend, the sign being an eagle perched on a clump of cacti, with a serpent in its talons. Tt this sign which remains today natio emblem, appearing both the coins and on the flag of Mexico “One of the most interesting Jegends about the tribes from which the Indians of today are descended is that recorded of the Colhuas, who are supposed to have enslaved the Aztecs during the latter's migrator march up the plateau. The con- querors soon released their enemies e they were horrified at the Aztees’ custom of offering human crifices to their gods. “1C was largely to the the Tlaxealans, a that Cortez owed his triumph the Aztecs. The latter were as hrave and chivalrous soldiers as | were the Spanish adventurers who cnjoyed the decisive advantage of gunpowder and horses, both of which ac is the on 1use co-operation of neighboring tribe, over, = = were unknown tofithe natives.* The generosity of th ecs as fighting men is exemplified in a single inci- dent. ' Learning that“the enemy was without: -food, the Mexicans dis- patched an ample . supply’ of prb- Vistons, because-they scorned to Mght a starving foe! “The majority ‘of ‘the pure-blooded Indians of Mexico are a quiet, some- what melancholy people, Even gn holidays, ‘of which there are 131 on the Mexican calendar,” they move silently among the '@towds, the men ¢ither barefooted”or wearing woven eandals, thelr shoulders covered with | thelr striped sarapes, and the woffier with their dingy biue : rebosas wrapped about themys In attire the voung girls, like the childrén &f Hol- land, are miniature replicas of thelr mothers. " “The pure-blooded . Indian of the remote regions untagchea by civili- zation Is more frequently than other- wise a stalwart individ®al of upright character, moral, honest, and loyal. One of the, finest examples of his | race was Benito Juarez, A member of the Zapotgcs tribe of Oaxaca. He | was by turns'a shepherd, a student,of divinity, governor of Oaxaca, minis- ter of justite, and finally president or' the republjc. g - “Porfirlo Diaz the outstanding | figure in, Mexican history during the last quarter of th enfrieteenth century was alsg borh in Oaxaca and accord- ing to his official biography was one- fourth Indian, however, some genea- logists hold that he was more nearly three-fourths Tndian A Proposal. (New York Sun.) The sum of $450,090 would sufficient for the people of the United States to pay for the activities of tho late Federal sion trial relations, congress asked to appropriate $92,688.25 ta, print 100,000 copies of that body's final report with 10,000 copies of the zomplete testimony (seven volumes of 1,008 pages cach) and 10,000 copies of exhibits hitherto unprinted (three volumes of 1,008 pages each) in ad- dition Such a proposal wayste of government protest even from Smith éf Georgia in stinctive hatred for except the man with the cotton howo and the one suspender. The attempt of Senator Myers of Montana to get it through the upper house has been unsuccessful thus far. A suggestion that the cost of printing in thi be limited to $10,000 has been mu but this is just $10,000 too much Why should the United States gov- | ernment spend another cent in fur- | ther sounding the brass of Mr. Frank | P. Walsh? Brazen seem | commi Indus- but on now is more wanton funds wrung Senator Hoke spite of his in- every capitalist for the perienced. (Irom the Boston Transcript.) | Caller—I would like to secure a | place in your moving picture com- | pany.” | Manager— You an actor | Ner—Yes Man Had exper ing withoul audiences? , Caller—Acting without audiences is what brought me here, er any nce | sweeter | echoes reach the college halls and the | buint fall ey Chance For the Couem m- (Philadelphia Ledger.) ‘While, as everyone knows, thi é‘:cnnow graduate.with su dom, training has a defin! the . whole quéstion of n 88" ‘thay o right place, givi ral endowmen of the, times, 50,000,000 c ntefnational] to invade n 1 ds 1s into ifs se J he trulned ol men whose spec nmes in ‘en; ¢ or languages, or. insgenéral or. plied sciences, .especthily —sani 0 will prove of immediate p eal value. As things go,thesgpilege men haye been doing very well'in a coun® try where 'discipline is shied Aty though evefy once dn a while the ef= 3 forts of the &s®b-called “practical s men,” like Mr. Charles R. Crans ‘of & Chicago, to discredit college. efluufiun is carried to such lengths of“abusi and is so extreme that many are v clined to belleve mot that ‘we do mof have enough thoroughly equipped mes with university training, but that wi have too many, and we shonld be blesseq with less, § But, if there ratlm;, h;,de& g was any lesson to Wé learned from Germany at peace, it was § that_she madé the university the cors i nerstone of her tremendbus develop="#¥ & ment of her foreign and domestis & trade apd mafufacturers and if we@ are to be thoroughly preparedgfor thef | peaceful conquest of the world tradefy that”is not ours now, we shall haves to follow her example. 'The Amer- ican International Corporation in fol. ¥ 4 lowing German niethods s COnSgwe™ quently doing the right thing at a erit- jeal juncture -of our history. And it anyone thinks that’the other great corporations believe in raw as against trained. brains they might as well know that the new romance of ! achlevement on the part of the Betk lehem Steel Company is the way which “Lehigh University boys there, from the president of the cor- g poration down, are running it. So ag the loud chorus of ‘“preparedne goes up on all sides, it will sound no than when stimulating up. it its youth now there see the magic word “opportunity” written anew in the flame of furnace and the smoke of in-, dustries for all who run and profit by Th college man indeed chance” today, and the the institution that seizes At the top. to read has a “new student and will be at The Bull. (Maurice Switzer, in Judge.) This is a bull. The bull ruminant; specifically, bull is a historieal animal been worshipped in Egypt the cattle country, fought and Spain and canned in The Fgyptians called him Apis and temples to him, but bull wors ship was not a profitable business, as the Bgyptians who followed inhe | are either dust or mummigs and have bheen so for centuries. ©On the other hand, canning the bull kg made a flock of millionares, the live ones everywhere have adopted the Western idea and pretty generally can the bull. Don’t be & bull thrower. male he cow. The He has thrown in in Mexico Chicago. bull s0 dead is & powerful factor for co in Mexico, peace betwoeen tates and Mexico sad peray s between the United States Villa peace the United ha peace ‘and Germany,~New York World.