New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 25, 1916, Page 6

BRITAIN HERALD [RALD PUBLISHING COMPANY, Proprietors. Baily (Sunday excepted) at 4:15 p. m., Herald Building, Church St at the Post Office at New Britaln [Becond Class Mail Matter. ka by carrics to any part of the eity 15 Cents a Week, 65 Cents a Month. ptions for paper to be sent by mall, able in advance, 60 Cents a Month, po a Year. ly profitable advertising medium in city. Circulation books and press always open to advertisers. rald will be found on sale at Hota- 's New Stand, 42nd St. and Broad- ew York City; Board Walk, at- ie City. and Hartford Depot. TELEPHONI} CALLS. s Omce ! Rooms R COUNTRY: IN ICOURSE WITH FOREIGN IONS MAY SHE ALWAYS IN THE RIGHT; BUT OUR INTRY RIGHT OR WRONG. —STEPHEN DECATUR. HER IN- ND orrow A HELPING the various HAND. committees hed to solicit donations to the led Boys’ Club fund will start During the past the pro- jas first suggested, the Herald t its hearty support to this enterprise. It is to be hoped jhat the men and women, itizens ir campaign. nonth, or ever since the who have to sacrifice their time and of this city, ef- the end of accomplishing this chievement, will be met by all sit with the courtesy v characteristic of at, above all, they shall not be their way empty handed. Re- r! Any financial aid rendered entually means for the better- f boyhood in New Britain. If brought about the city, in the n, will be all the better for jittle effort is expended at this Lend a helping hand. and America, FOR THE RETURNS, interesting political fodder is prepared for the country. To- Massachusetts the Presidential ies are being held and as b 2 hot fight on there for Roose- e outcome will be watched by ire nation. Despatches from | ji Bay State carry rumors to the hat the candidates for seats in icago convention are divided in asses, the preparedness men, peace-at-any-pri pn, with the Roosevelt campaign e so-called prs attributing the ear-marks fism to their opponents. It is d that no peace overtures have ered by the managers of the elt delegates friends of Taft. that none will red, and that they hope to win down. W= shall see what we jee; but it is safe to bet that n Howard Taft to Presidear has as muny friends in Massachusetts ns pre Roosevcit. OT AMERICA’S FAULT. milllan Harden is ablest editor in all Germany. the guiding spirit of a great per published in Berlin, Die t. In an amazing article writ- him and published in this per the able editor says, h, mankind, to the message of ,” after which he proceeds to e message that he would place the Kaiser if he were President If Maximillian jail by this time, something ave gone wrong with the Ber- ice force. And yet Mr. Hard- rendered a great service to ny as well as to the United for 'his article is nothing more ir. Some of the subjoined sen- give an insight into the logic the recog- Harding s any accuses us of helping her s with war material. We have t to do it. It is not our fault fermany cannot be a client. n industry, in all modern wars, standing her neutrality, de- to one party, and often to both, jps and ammunition. The use fe undoubted rights of our man- rers has brought bitter re- from the Germans. Many se have thought they must re- themselves supposed Proofs these criminal fons live in our archives. pnly ask would Germany have d, during the Manchurian war, se agents to Work in Prussian and by agitations and endan- munition factories, frighten ny into enmity against Russia? for a done the fatherland. p fostering of our demand of rights not equal t of Germany? I demand that publicly dissociate herself comment misuse peace. that Germany e protect the life and of American citizens at sea.” hny every ts who set civil of the foolish our hospitality demand shall t reser ety re are those who cannot get it Iy in their minds that we would hunitions to Germany as readily is | as we would England. But, the simple fact is, Germany is not a client in the same sense that Great Britain She is not in the position to get And, “It is not our CGiermany cannot be to is. these goods fault t hat client” Maximillian frankly the American a Harding has unprejudicely presented It and case. is a brave for it must of his He has s what knows deep down in his heart. mean suspension id nothing American journal. nor less than every Com- mercialism is America's greatest sin, and by that fact alone she is vindicated of being unneutral. American muni- tion makers would sell their wares to anyone who has the price and who can get the goods. Germany has the but the means. It is not price not America’s fault. MORE WORKERS WANTED. While men from various parts of the nation are going from city to city, tak- ing work in factofies and shops of every description, moving along at ad- vanced wages, quitting one place to get the West for more another, East and looking diligently around to scarcity of material money of in poor farmers the are farm labor; but no avail There is a for the farmer in the way of labor, and no one seems to want work of this sort. Even ad- vance wages, sometimes as high as twenty-five and fifty per cent, do not entice laborers to the farm. They want the city. From the New York comes the cry agricultural districts laborers are gotten together there in the very near future there will be a dearth of fruits and vegetables. This in turn will add to the high cost of living, agricultural sections must needs suffer from this lack of Directly it is all attrib- uted to a decrease in the immigration. There are not enough workers in the United States at present moment to take care of shop and factory and farm. From that very condition it is seen that there is room here for the And yet there | the present Congress ' which will put up the barriers to all as other farm labor. the industrial immigrant. is a bill before those seekers after fortune who would come to this country, a bill that will | keep them out unless they are able to pass certain literacy tests. The Burnett immigration bill should die a hasty death of write is no manner in which to insure ' the safety of the for that what the bill aims to do Rather will it here. The mere excluding immigrants who cannot read nor nation, S work havoe with the conditions We have need of the immigrant who would earn his living here hy the sweat of his brow. That he can- not read or write is of no moment. He Better that he should be deaf and dumb than possess can be educated later. some of the qualifications that would admit certain people into the country. The history of the past vear tells who are the dangerous people in the coun- and all the safety of the Union were started and finished men who how to read and write. try. activities against the by Kknew For centuries there have heen who dreamed of just such expedi- tion as that which Sir Roger Casement attempted to take into Ireland, a force that would eventually result the promulgation of a great insurrection. The news of today then that brings the thrilling story of the capture of a German auxiliary cruiser, disguised as men in a neutral vessel, accompanied by a submarine convey, must bring a tinge of pride to the cheeks of all those who have waited long and arduous for just this thing. Although "a failure, the expedition it command ad- its must of was a miration because daring and bravado, audacity, its su- preme confidence. The British navy, which has been seemingly underrated, which has been of the British was this time equal to the And Sir Roger Casement, London as the its blazing accused hiding Museun, emergency. who “Irish branded Traitor,” be indeed fortunate if he es; his life, That sand pounds was placed upon his head s will apes with a prize of five thou- shows how anxious the British were to get their hands upon him. The plea Sir Arthur Conan Doyle should go a long way in mitigating his offense, in tending to save death what though have him from it the penalty, may been earned. From all accounts, this seems to be the last act of a desperate man, a believe to His long service man whom many e mentally unsound. in the tropics probably unbalanced his mind Surely he must have known | that the PBritish government knew of \,”“ his activities in Berlin, of how he attempted to organize the Irish sol- diers in German prison camps. No less had his previous activities in America hecome known to the author- ities of Great Britain who are ever on the alert to detect any organized fort to stir rebellion The one thing above be among the land is that the Casement expedition up a s all others for g who that cause Atification should people live in this thing for a German journalist to do, | more | of | that unless | Question. | i | | Bevond in | | in made some time ago in his behalf by | Ireland. | NEW, BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY, APKIL 25, 1916. seems to have been planned and started in Germany, not in America. We have enough trouble on our hands already with all the partisan feeling that has been let loose since the be- ginning of the abroad without connected with There are plenty war having our citizens such an enterprise. of men and women in this country hate England with all | tense hatred the devil is supposed to shower on certain forms of church liturgy; we have others who hate Ger- many with equal intenseness; still | others who hate Russia, Japan et al. But not yet reached the stage where they are ready to hatch conspiracies on this soil against na- tions diplomatically friendly to the United States. Aside from being a high crime and a violation of our neutrality, such a thing would be the height of foolishness, a crazy adven- ture. who the in- they have There of man. is end to the ingenuity We learn from the Lewiston n ingenius Bath (Me.) fisherman, shing to dve his nets, took a two-quart jar of preserved blueberries and developed a good dye, ‘setting’ the color with a preparation The nets are now a good no Journal that Wi from alum. indigo-blue.” Who said of the mysteries of dy are ignorant -making? So long as the blueberry crop holds out there should be no worry. Americans An Interesting War Pictave. (Columbia State.) Sketch of a U boat warning a vice | tim | | el I (Arthur Wallace Peach, in Spring- field Republican.) freed from life and last for thee, Must T go secking stars, the whispering verges of the | sea 3 floods the earth o'er twilight's | dusky bars At ebh of day? Must I, a spirit 1ange The vast abyss of space to some far scene Beyond the hounds of bourne of change, isles undreamed by earth’s demesne? Shall T search on till suns and moons are dim darknes light love of thee ing rim Of cosmic world take flicht, sudden at death’s vision clear truth, shall T you—near? When vearning thee beyond the That time, the 'Mid hearts in And fills the void, my only My > Below the whir on world must or, touch, witn With awake and find | Want to Live? | Do You | Democrat.) [ | (Waterbury W. Wiley, former head food bureau of the de- agriculture, originator of the famous ‘“poison-squad’ idea, | ncw writing monthly for Good | Housekeeping, can always be trusted | to something forveful and worth | thinking about. In the last issue of | the magazine he asks: “Do we really | want to lve? As I mingle with my fellow: men, T begin to doubt it. Our | cenversation is of war, commerce, so- | | dety, music, clothes, athletics, | ar breparedn taxation, sionally of books, and once in a while of life. That which | to us we apparently think I, Where one man is studyving how to | | prolong life, thousands are secking means to put a speedy end to it. The acvisory committee fo the secrotar ot the navy has suggested huilding | a laboratory costing five millton dol- | lars and equipping and manning i which would probably take about as | much more. TIts purpose is to study the best methods of killing our fellow men from other countries and pre- venting our own sailors and citizens from being killed. T am not inclined tc protest against this action, but merely to a W of guarding against dis and preventing the half million preventable deaths cvery year? Who will provide the | five million dollars for that? Ten | | dollars used for prevention will save a life. The American Public Health | beiation, the medical associations, | nd the dental associations are study- ng this problem, but are exciting little interest. People pay less atten- | tion to bad teeth in children than they do to spring styles for them. | The mother puts more thought into decorations of her dining room than | she does on the balancing of rations { for her children.” Tn his youth, ob- | serves Dr. Wiley, ideas on the su ject of diet was chaotic, many of the | traditions of the effects of particular | gicts erroncous. Nowadays there is | much reliable scientific information available. Tf people w: to live, the | thing to do is to acquire information, | make sensible use of it, and deliber- | ately eat to live instead of living to | eat—which means eating to cripple or | kil themselves. Dr. Harvey of the pure partment of con- | lon is deares st about. ase of Making Good Citizens, (New Haven Union.) I"ive hundred and sixty X cities in states now arc given special at- {ention to the problem of educating liens in the principles of American | government in order to Thetter fit | them for citizenship, according to a | statement from Secretary of Labor | Wilson | During the | Bureau of | 0,000 applications number included both declara- of intention and petitions for paturalization. Of that number, it is caid not less than 130,000 had wives, thus making about one-half million 14 1915, the received zenship. year lization for cf fiscal Natur | further | a following | me | Americans. | will ACTS Wilson luck again! The first Penob- scot salmon was sent to the White House—Boston Herald. to come before country next America—New The one great issue the electorate of this fall was not made in York Sun. You must give Villa credit for one thing—he didn’t deny that he shot up Columbus—Boston Evening Trans- cript. The republicans know what the tune's going to be at Chicago, but they can't agree upon the man to toot the horn—Bignhamton Press. And the republicans used to think it a good joke to talk about the (Dem- ocratic) Perpetual Candidate!—2 York Evening Post. The director of sports at Yale gets ten thousand dollars a year and form- er President Taft, the law professor, gets five thousand dollars—Houston Post. Whatever may be one's idea of a “tried republican.” it will be agreed that President Wilson fills the bills as a “tried” Democrat—sorely tried.— Springfield Republican. Under gulse of a joke a hill to pension all farmers over thirty years of age has advanced to third reading at Albany. Some day they'll pass that bill—New York Evening Sun. When Senator Works calls on Jus tice Hughes to renounce the pres dency and save the ermine from the smirch of politics, he speaks plainly enough as a Roosevelt man—Water- bury American. The republicans are worrying as to who is going to sound their keynote. Oh, don’t matter much who sound it. The important thing is to find a keynote to sound—Nashville Ten- nessean. Russia’s new income tax starts with those who have three hundred and fifty dollars a v while the pluto- ecrat who has a five thousand dollar income must hand almost twenty per cent. over to the czar—Worcester Post. Tabor and Preparcdncss (Providence Journal.) “Will you permit the ruling classes of this nation, through the medium of the public press, platform and pul- pit to instill in your mind the false ideal of nationalism which enabled the ruling classes of the nations now at war to successfully carry on thei insidious militaristic preparations: “Workers of America, be not stam- peded with the false cry of national ‘defense;’ we are in no danger except from those capitalists who would still grind down the people.” “This movement for ‘preparedness’ is but another device ‘to perpetuate slavery for the workers.” “Not a dol- lar, nor a man, for war purpose: The foregoing are excerpts from screaming leaflet published and tributed by the Socialist Party Kings County, New York. A good deal of disgusting circulation just now. The people must face it and reckon with it—and put an end to it. The screamers are not numerous in pro- portion to the great hody of patriotic American workingmen but they have and their ranting falls on too many receptive ears. Happily, the evidence is ahundant that these dancing dervishes of So- sm do not represent organizcd labor. Samuel Gompers, throughout his long term of service at the head of the American Federation of Tabor, has had to combat this same element in his organization. It has manifested itself on many issues. And his ve- cent utterances show that he is pre- pared to meet it at the present Jjunec ture on the issue of preparedness. Mr. Gompers' position is uncom- promising in support of adequat sures for the national defence. ife reminds the “intelligent and enlight- ened workingmen,” whom the Socia- list circular professes to address, that the interests of “labor are indissolu) 1y hound up with the fortunes of all Can there bhe any doubt leadership the labor will follow? ais of stuff is in Ameri- can out which unions of the country New York's Pledge. (New Haven It is the fineness of prompted New York to pass before resolutions pledging the support that state to the president of United States and the governor the state of New York “in any action nece: ry to maintain” the $nation's honor that we feel inclined a bit to squist the other eye in commenting upon them. New York hs done what every other state in the I'nion do if the circumstances warrant it, but we cannot bhelieve that New York would have done this had its legislators consulted the sage »f Oy- ster Bay. So suspicious in fact ar we of the indifference of New ork state to the political ambitions of the colonel that we can almost see in these resolutions, cuddled carefully hetween the lines, a notification (o the itero of San Juan Hill that to aspire to the presidency he must look else- where than New York state for en- couragement. Nothing could be more heretical in his sight than a pledge from the state of his nativity, volun- tarily given, to support the man in hi policies, who has so convincin traded off the honor of his country for a mess of political pottage. Things are in reality bad for the rein- carnation of all that is just and right when the process of reincarnation thus violently snubbed hy brother the common household. We o rise to remark that thbe water pouring over the dam at a terrific and with it are tr fears of shor ed memory. New Journal-Courier.) underestimation® of the the general with no feeling which assembly zoing is in ain rate veling hopes and | aiiens coming within the jurisdiction | of the bureau, York has a memory which defies the force of the water flow, A MIGHTY AFTER EASTER SALE OF NEW STYLISH SUMMER MILLINERY WISE, SMITH & CO., for $5 BANDED SPORT SAILORS $2 50 These come all finished ready for wear. Fine grosgrain band of ribbon. In sailor, mushroom and chin-chin styles. In Lisere bodies. Black and colors. e —— Daisy wreaths, 59c. Specia¥ al Summer foliage. ity linen. Special at full length, $1.00 and $1.50 large size wings. ‘Well made of most desirable styles. Finest quality braid and several of the Black only. Lisere sailors. most wanted styles. La France Special at New cane-chair shapes. flange. 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C., April 25.—The march of General Pershing's punitive Durango, interest expeditionary force to Mexico, has focused on this state which has an area equal to Virginia and a population exceed- that of New Hampshire, which is than one-fourth as large, The National GGeographic Society of Wash- ington has issued an interesting and informative bulletin on this rich political division of the southern re- public, which says ‘Durango is sury sed in the num- her of its mining properties, aggre- ating more than 4,000, by only two states in Mexico—Chihuahua and sonora Its natural resources include ilver, gold, lead, tin, copper, sulphur and rubies. The state’'s wealth is not confined to minerals, however, for there are extensive forests of valu- alle timber and the agricultural re- sources are capable of almost un- limited development, while 1,000,000 ad of stock find rich pasturage on fertile tableland “The Nazas river into Lake Habas, waterway of the as the Nile of spring, as the snow melts, the river inundates its valley, leaving a rich deposit of silt brought down from the mountains. After the waters have receded the land bursts into bloom like a miniature Egypt, cotton, Larley, and wheat growing in great public its empties principal is known In the which is the state, 1t Durango. luxuriance, while the whole landscape | assumed the aspect of a . flower garden. “One of the be found on sting trees slopes inter the mountain of Durango is a species of pine the needles of which the Indians and Mexicans hoil and use as a remedy for stomach troubl Its taste i like that of anise seed. The wood of this tree is much used by the Indians in the manufacture of their primitive most to a violins. “One of the products indigenous to Durango, but one of which the state dQoes not hoast, is a venmous species of scorpion whse sting is almost in- variably fatal in the warm regions of the estate but which more painful {han dangerous in the higher and altitudes. In the vicinity of Durango City 60,000 of these reptiles are killed annually, some of the natives making a business of destro, ing them, collecting from the munici- pality a bounty of one centavo per scorpion. “At an elevation of 6,000 feet, the of Durango, capital of the state, matchless climate which has of sun- Spanish having cooler city enj carned its sobriguet, ‘town shine.” It is one of the olde <ettlements in the republic, founded by Captain Ibarra two hefore the followers of Don Menendez de Aviles initiated colonization of the United States at St. Augustine. The site of the present city was reached by the adventurer and silver seeker Mercado, who in 2 discovered the famous Iron Mountain, of the su- weazbs. When Iba been vears Pedro the permanent colonists the country was occupied by nomadic savage tribes. “One of the odd customs of the Durango district is the funeral cere- mony for children, ‘An angel is being buried’ is the explanation which a native will give of a gay pro- cession headed by a woman bearing 2loft on a hoard a bundle bound in white. The parents of the child are cbligated to give it joyfully to heaven, to the accompaniment of music and dancing. If there is weeping the baby cannot enter paradise unti] it has gathered all the tears. “One of the places of historic in- terest which American troops may see is the town of Santiago de Pa- pasquiaro, said to derive its name from ‘paz quiero,’ meaning ‘I want peace.” The phrase alludes to the de- teat of the Indjans following a massacre of the missionaries and a burning of the churches by the Te pehuanes and Tarahumares in 161 After the outrage the Indians gathered a force estimated at ,000 and marched on Durango City. The governor of the province, with 600 valiant whites, determined to resist and save the territory for Spain. In the battle which followed the Spanish ckroniclers declare that the governor completely overcame the insurgents, who lost 15,000 men. After this overwhelming defeat the Indians wanted peace. Durango derives its name from the cld Spanish town of that name, in the Basque provinces. l Lo! The Poor Jitney. (New Haven Journal Courier.) If we read the signs a-right, the jitney, like the once equally prevalent Injun, has about had its day. least, this is the impression we gain ney has been more or less indigenous. | They've tried them out there with vel yeance for a full year and now they are beginning to discard the ubi- quitious flivver. Thus in Seattle, where at one time there were no les than 800 cars on the jitney line, but ) are now doing a precarious bus- iness. The traffic of Los Angeles has heen at times so hampered by the jit- ney that the visitor has gained the impression of a continuous line of small motor fry making the crossing of a street a perilous business for the pedestrian. Jitney supervision of a strict sort, under the direction of the public utilities board. has reduced the number in Los Angeles to 350, while San Diego has put into effect laws that are practically prohibitive. In San Francisco, however, the story has been different. There the jitney naturally did a flourishing busine while the exposition visitors were in town. They had things their own way. Whether the vision persists in spite of the fair’s closing or whether some other cause not rightly under- stood at this distance operates, the number of machines thus in use has increased instead of decreased since that time. But for the most part, the arrived with hnlellnu) seems to be disappearing. At | from the Pacific coast, where the jit- | Fine hemp and milan bodies, prettily trimmed with novelty rib- bons and choice flowenr: Numer- ous styles to se- lect from. was frankly situation. ivery vest in a flivver els. The despair. The be a long chanc happened tition. Or tires, may have given of overloading. less of the jitne: are used to is actually are putting the it out of existen protect the rest lic. Apparently need to to the the few But the & in a short time become little m and we shall be our more Dbetter chances o limb, exact a laws Uncle (New m Happiest of hatched in the 1 season is that Culloch of Ohio English on the He would let th write to a ficial busines: Why a long has is bevond our Farmer Milliken for his entirely in Cousin Bede wants a job torian at the High school and boys in Why hick be their representat passed lending t a cannon and rate the public Only [ 1eaves The be r and, if zens of Washing: delivery or two should ca We mount sed to at necessary the .people waste baskets. Let communica confined! Here i referendum whi stitutional as the pork rily on, why uents be few extra kicks In some cases wish to confer pi representatives reached that where symp defray tr least it pr to them national half a their might when capital a dozen It is not a very the time when New Haven in common with other cities from coast to coast' worried ybody about the city gathering in the trolley pedestrian’s e It may it or because becoming extinct paces on the Pacific coast, east are not quite so acute of safety irviving jitneys in our midst. gns seem unmistaka accustomed Y members of they want to for nothing about benevolent withhel¢ because he was his class? the Selectmen required 70 per cent shington which flood of free and full could amendment, barrels shouldn't privileged age they are visiting collars parel by franked Parcel Post. Although moderate in price these hats are Large flat sailors, the low crown high side flare most artistically trimmed $1.98| long cry back to over the jitney who could in- wildly tearing nic were in life got to Then something have been compe- ./ springs and engines cut under the st At any rate we see . either because we the genus They through its regulating ce in an endeavor to of the traveling pub- . our troubles in the We still little more sttention in the had it officials jitney case of ble that ! have memory way to th a the jitney ore than a dodging vehicles w our f preserving life ar to Pay Postage Pres: br ork 11 the alls of congress this of Representative Mc- to the reverse franking privilege. folk back home" con all place e government 1 this esteemed ken. Why be compelled disinterested 's youngest 50 boon should to p intere son who valedic- Roads brightest Razoo C of the 0ss one of Po- getting a bill municipall alls to deco- for have to pay ive to o their annon square? of the mail now is comes least that no doubt ton would a day which franked in should amount, the citi- forego & that this expression of the congress reach ition be free and une- form of post requires no co and as rolling the give s a ch long mer- constite them = are to these voters ersonally with Even if we have not of enlightenment thetic congress will veling expenses, at ovide for sending on the shirts, other ape might their clean and three