New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 1, 1916, Page 6

NEW, BRITAIN HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY, Proprietors. od daily (Sunday excepted) at 4:15 p. m., &t Herald Bullding, 67 Church St ered at the Post Office at New Sritain @8 Second Class Mail Matter. lvered by carries to any part of the city for 15 Cents a Week, 65 Cents a Month. ¢riptions for paper to be sent by mall, .Dayable.in advance, €0 Cents a Month, $7.90 a Year. only profitable advertising medfum in the city. Circulation books and press Toom always open to advertisers. Herald will be found on sale at Hota- ling’s New Stanc, 42nd St. and Broad- way, New York Uity; Board Walk, at- lantic City, and Hartford Depot TELEPHO! iness Ofmce . orial Room CALLS. OUR COUNTRY: IN HER IN- " RCOURSE WITH FOREIGN | ATIONS MAY SHE AL“’AYS’ IN THE RIGHT; BUT OUR ODUNTRY RIGHT OR WRONG. ~—STEPHEN DECATUR. MAY DAY. at the noon behind white »r one brief moment, the went clouds k- today sun a ain of and a few were precipitated in region. It looked as was to go down in his- for New England. the clouds fell, the sun put an end to it all, saved from Probably it was lone with a to show by of contrast the difference between chilly, stormy her of a il and the tiful, flowery, dreamy that May. d with the wonderful days that o come, after the sorry days that ast for all, it t be well if the children of New ig, the little boys and girls who la-Ae schools here, become inter- in a movement that is rapidly ding over the entire nation, and has to do with setting up home ns. p class-rooms the boys and girls er cities plan to go home and for an hour or so in the garden to plant some s of immediate May 1 as a sorry day snow no! As quickly as ered and the snow out and May Day was) an fninious debut. reason, snowy, rainy departing Af soothir are an ar- attendant upon aside once and Once outside the four walls eir own making, b necessaries of life, and to watch be these things grow. Too much t be said in praise of such an It is good that the bo; bt the city have decided to take s work. For the past decade the people of the city have been ¥ too negligent of the soil, and ome set on a plot of ground of ize should not allow so much to go to waste. And the chil- vho propose to take up such who are getting ready to set out ardens, will be in the long run and better children than those onfine all their hours of study class-room. It is in the garden, [ open that the little ones can things not Included be- of school books. ks a chance to study Mother to see the laws of nature i out, to watch the growth and jpment of the things that sus- e. If for this alone, the chil- bt New Britain should be en- ed on this May Day to go and thelr gardens. many the covers ‘OUTELY TO BE WISHED. Sunday, May 7, will be the niversary of the sinking of er Lusitania, and as yet there en no settlement on that case In this country and Germany. hes from Washington state officially it is suggested that e seventh may be set as the jmit for an answer from Ger- n the latest submarine episode, Ing of the Sussex, and that mswer is not forthcoming by te diplomatic relations will be torily broken off. In the same there comes from Berlin news leffect that the American Am- r, Gerard, has been on a visit jront where at Great Headquar- was entertained by the Kaiser entire situation talked over. hothing definite of this visit learned, it is hinted that the told Mr. Gerard he wanted war nor a diplomatic break perica, “but earnestly and sin- esired that the friendly rela- isting between the two coun- ce the days of Frederick the ould not be broken.” There for optimism in such news be so that the Kajger does t a break with this country, pre shall break. 1t ig to him. Washington seems a receptive mood, what it it be no play some impatience at by, and all the Kaiser order his to conform to the recognized Ber- has to submarine com- ational law. Emperor of t war, and the President of gd States does not want war, interr Germany does be reasonably assumed thatl not of people Germany do the people do the of with States, the want the Unitad of the United States the people of Germany Then, there should be no war. There should be some other way to settle the differ- ences that between the two governments, and there will be a way if the his advisor have their minds open to logic, which, | the ca The the | people war nor with want war have come Kaiser and from all is e. United States German people humiliated, that they be crippled in their strugsgle against their enemies, that they total- ! their method rine warfare. This government mere- ly demands that the submarine com- manders conduct the activities of their craft in such a manner as to recog- nize the rights of neutrals on the high seas, so that the lives of innocent men, reports, not asking that be ly abandon of subma- women and children shall not be ruth- lessly attacked and lost. Merely that, and nothing more. It should be a very easy matter, and the German govern- ment has shown that these methods can be enforced. The entire campaign of the submarines in the Mediter- ranean has been conducted according to law and order, and there has been no complaint against Germany. Aus- ary over-stepped the bounds | once. But drawn | around the British Isles the submarine been conducted in tria-Hun in the “war zone” campaign has not accordance with international law, and the German government knows it. The | German people, too, arc beginning to realize that the demands made by the American government on the Imperial And, o government are right and just. if public opinion is allowed to ch the émpire, «there because the The same Public throughout fear talize of war it. country. shall be no German people in want holds true this opinion is against war. All these things being true, it then the duty of each and every Amer- ican citizen to preserve all display of temper and allow the men in com- mand at Washingtan to determino what shall be the course of this gov- ernment in the event Germany refuses to accede to all the made. Display of temper and hotheadedness at this time spread like wild- fire until, remembering the anniver- sary of one of the greatest sea tra the entire nation might stand up and demand action for which later it would be sorry. All the great German publicists who fll'(‘,} now gathered in Berlin advocat- ing an amicable settlement of differ- | is demands may edies of all time, ences between the two countries, and May 7 may vet see the end of all dif- ficulties between Germany and the United States, a consummation de- voutly to be wished. OPENING Up to noon today, which mas opening of the shad about, there were more hundred of these fish the Connecticut river. a plentiful season and of the succulent shad, queen's taste, should have no fear of the days ahead. It will be remem- | bered that the the National Association of and Game Commissioners held a tion in San Francisco and at that | time the officials attended from | Connecticut and filed a request that in the when shad come to the large shipments of roe be these states. The number England shad had by the damming of streams and the | lack of laws for protecting this class cf food fishes. Old time fishermen of this section, while they are extremely thankful for that will | augment the number of shad in the | river and other New help but turned OF SHAD SEASON. <s the here- fifteen | out of | season than taken This presages those lovers baked ta the earlier in year Fish conven- who Massachusetts Spring, spawning beds, | made to of New been diminished { anything Connecticut England streams, cannot think how the tables when the East must look to the West replenishment of the shad supply. Tt was thirty-five ago this season that the original stock of | have for a vear: shad from That Connecticut should now turn to California for aid in this direction merely illustrates the California was brought Connecticut. changes that come about through the whirligig of It be good idea to start out some new methods of shad conserva- tion, otherwise we might be calling | on the West again next year, | time. might a this season on OF GIVING. by the THE JOY New Britain, manner in which its citizens have set about gath- ering some eighty-five thousand dol- lars for the construction of a suitable | club for boys, has shown that it is a | city thoroughly alive to the progres- sive spirit of America. In less than half the time allotted to collect the desired amount, one-half of the money has Those who are enthusiastically wrap- ped up in this work now fear that a el that more than been gathered. | Xation interest might be city, realizing of the down might set in, lost, that the people of the how readily the first lap race was run might now slow to a jog might draw up and amble in under the wire in haphazard fashion. This should not be so; it will +dred show: that Mort court;; an egg labeled Verdun.—Binghamton | | e ai } his cighty | this not be so. he last days of the cam- paign should be run in just as strenu- The amount | ous fashion as the first. contributed within the next few days | should be almost as the money gathered at the outset. Instead | of the wother one should | be reached. in | ain if one hun- were as great set, It keeping with New Br mark would be thousand dollars contrib- uted rather than the original figures. This can be done if all who take part still their first sive in to little discour- the For every in this city there is it stingy, mean man there is a great and in the work retain pride, do not agements road. miserly on heart al generous soul to offset for every noble one to make up for the loss. Those who can give will give. And the quarters are just as welcome as the dollars, for they all go to the same exchequer and add to the grand total. In the end it will be seen that the pre- ponderance of the population knows the joy of giving. | COMMUNICATTD. Urges Voters of This City to Roosevelt’s Chicago Speech. Editor ‘of the Herald: Let me urge that every voter of the of New Britain read, in his own if he does not understand English, | the address of Theodore Roosevelt at the meeting of the Bar Association of Chicago, last Saturday. I have not been, up to this time, in favor of the nomination of Theo- dore Roosevelt for President, but I wish every voter in the nation mights Read language have an opportunity to.read this ad- | dress.gf his in full. | “A REPUBLICAN.” | | FACTS AND FANCIE Oyster Bay has mobilized cuse Post-Standard. Promotion ought the clerk in the Daniels who miral Fiske's ocrat to come easily tn office of Secretary thoroughly lost Ad- letter.—Rochester Dem- | and Chroniele. | s0 Tf Congress won't hurry for safety of the country, the House ut least might speed up a little just to please the impatient Speaker Clark. | —Boston Journal. the While Villa may not be dead, ! is the first time in years he ha s0 without getting into v.—Utica Observer. this been long some There may he some consolation in ct that the German money used | for the telegraphic hombard- ment of Congress was not employed in purchasing strikes or hiring dyvnamit- | and homb-throwers.—New York | Worl | You can be a tourist or a summer vacationist in Canada without the nso | of passports, announces the Dominion government, but it fe to guess that ! you'll have to he careful what you do ! and say.—RBuffalo Commercial The Fatherland’'s TFaster the German bunny with are labeled Vaux, Douaumont, Homme, Bethincourt and Hau- but there is nowhere in sight toon Press. Surely there is no thought of loyality in the Loulsville Cov Journal's suggestion that Car “stable” government is Augean—tho kind that calls for cleaning out—New York Herald. If “Reynolds’ W authority to char his *ekly” speaks with | Llovd-George is prepar: e the government g; vagely if officlal scalp is lifted, Blunders involving shells, the real cause for the Dardanell fiasco, the Balkan muddle and other ave mysteries he wilj un- fold, his friends s of those topics into the midst of cussion would not help the F ish cause at home. racuse Journal Chauncey M. Depew, cond vice to the aged 5 ability and the desire to keep gnsings is what makes life worth while af the same time making it longer. We | have never known a man with noth- ing to do who didn't find his lot the most difficult. And we have never known a man with a lot to do had time to figure how havd his really was.—St. Lou R rounding offers this out ad The year, Keep zoin who lot me Is Comin Sleicher, in (A Leslie We have seldom seen forecast and more timely warning | than are embraced in these few lines in our wide awake contemporary, the New York Herald. Tt “The | time is speedily coming tho | labor must a new nd more welous course or involve country in disturbance which be equivalent to civil war. And | the time is coming when the govern- ment nust face this issue stead of going along nagging vate investment and patting back lahor agltators who make de- mands without leaving any way ¢ settlement except to comply. A forc has been unleashed which will b difficulty to control. The trend is unmistakably in the direction of submission by all invested capital to the workingman or an industrial up- heaval many times more extensive and disastrous than the great railroad and other strikes in 1877.” | If every mewspaper in the United | States would realize the great import of these words and devote its col- umns to protests against the reign of unreason and the gospel of unrest which are proving so destructive to the welfare of the people, there would | hope for the future, The coward- of our legizlators in dealing with we problcias the ray only matched by the singular failurc of the press to recognize its power for good. Perhaps one is the corollary of the other. ) a clearer when on leadé decide may also i at pr on the the of McMILLAN’S j NEW BRITAIN'S BUSIEwT BIG STORR ALWAYS RELIABLE™ “May Day’s” Offering of Seasonable WASH FABRICS | We anticipate the Biggest season | on wash fabrics in the history of this Store. Our purchases were made fully | nine to twelve months ago for Spring, | 1916, Delivery. Our selection offers many novelties, which would be im- | possibie for us to procure from manu- | facturers today owing to the scarcity | of dy ton fabrics of every description, We | have the selection and to start the | ball a-volling many special values are | offered right now during MAY DAYS. 2,000 YARDS CHIFFON VOILES 27 to 40 inches wide. Special at 15¢ yard. Figure corn spots and floral effects. May Day stripes, MARQUISETTES AND VOILE 10 inches wide, 25c¢ yard. Sixty styles to choose from in dainty colored | plaids, stripes and floral effects. ! | “DOLLY MADISON" | 29¢ Yard VOILE! 40 inches wide. Special attention is called to this line as in past sea- sons it was difficult to find the medium ground color effects. We have them now in a splendid variety. SKEED AND RICE 39¢ Yard VOILES inches wide. ripes and 40 Satin floral stripes, cluster designs. 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Our Restaurant is an ideal place for a light lunch, a cup of tea or substantial re- past. OF YOUR PURQHASES. Cedar Hill. Maple Hill and Clayton. Rewards of Authorship. “The Irish of China” Hold Forth In Kwang-Tung (New York Tribune) The snug fortune of a quarter of a million dollars earned by the late Richard Harding Davis with his per in twenty-five years, in addition to a more than comfortable livelihood dur- ing that period, brings the question of the rewards of authorship once more maritime province tury and soon th were acting as Washington, D. C., May 1—“The great province of Kwang-tung, third in size of the 18 political divisions of in times of the China proper, modern has been the center of litical activities which have disturbed the Celestial empire, and it is not surprising that its pecople should be among the first to declare their inde- pendence from the national govern- ment,” says a bulletin of the Nation- al Geographic society of Washington, issued today. “Tt was in this province,” continues { the bulletin, “that the Young China movement had its birth in 1895. Tho socloties of Canton. the cap- ally fin the revolu- tion which followed, resulting 17 vears later in the overthrow of the Manchu dynasty and the establish ment of a republic with Dr. Sun sen the first president. Dr. himself came from Canton and the first graduate of the College Medicine at Kong-kong. “The Cantonese have heen an spiration to phrase-makers for vears. Because of their gift for political or- ganization they have been called ‘the @ of China. while their penchant political unrest has caused them to be duhhed ‘the rebellion-makers 1. ordinary to the Chinese people.” His- torians see a striking analozy between Canton’s relation to the Chinese na- tion in 19 nd that of Paris to provineial France in 1789 | “Many factors have contributed to | 3 untr in the province of I\'\\'JI\'J'} one of the important be- | the struggle sheer existence | state which with an area equal to South Dakota has to support a population fifty times as great “Canton itself is a city of seethi humanity with streets so narrow t only coolles can be employved ‘heasts of burden.” A large percent- re of the people live in small boats form a floating floor on the waters of the Pearl river. So precious is space that the shops are reduced to mere hoxes; so close is the margin of profit and so small the purchases that heans and peanuts are 1d by individual count. i “Geographically. the two provinces Kwang=si and Kwang-tung are cut | Northern and Central China hy mountain ranges which are moder- | ately rich in minerals—iron, gold and a cheap grade of coal. The soll fertile and some of the chief pro- | duets are sugar, cocoanuts, and betel- : Silk, firecrackers, mattin nd palm-leaf fans arc the and Siam. reach Canton tuguese. landed in Mexlico, of Portugal ent eight ships around Hope to indues to sanction wde nation of navigato was successful and allowed ton. “More the many po- the than a English ht secret ital, practi nced cent between tives. Tt was not emperor finally sar lations with Great Canton as the only “Of Canton's estimated at from 000, only ahout 40 most of whom re: mien settlement, reclaimed by the tenstve mud : “Although ac sian observers as s litical antipathies, a cheerful, people in their dail cept philsophically ships and receive tude the which from much of the “Perhaps it was food which caused include in their cies' not so classed FFor example, rupture in Sun was of as time st surplu most for in a ! ple. city and much priz n afford more tha hawks and birds’ garded as appetizin, which thick In essence, the government in the sels as disclosed la stated in two senten ing her armament fense is entitled therein set forth to ed ing her wainst enemy ships atus, and lays he nuts that vdmi It el i ment indicate the w ment the points Germany and“the Ui York Sun, possible the ginger is chief exports “The Cantonecse were first Chinese peonle to in gen- eral contact with the outside world The Arabs reached the shores of the among fhe con or captains of junks sailing to Manila, Java, Borneo The first by sea were the Two years an amb to enter the arrived hostile reception on account the the Portugucse until population, the industrious and intelligent | with visitations menus many | of dog which is fattened in this grent | nes the character of armed merchant ves- | under to an unarmed ship armament tack on the same tern to the front Davis' case is of partic ular. {nterest because it is one of the first proofs of the efficiency where- | with a liberal profession has learned to safeguard its pecuniary rights It is no longer considered infra d for an author to be & good business man. He has come to understand tha monetary value of his work, and he has secured the legal means to protect his share of it. International copy right was only the beginning; then followed that complicated system of first and second serial rights, syndi- cate rights and many other indirect sources of further returns, which td- day goes to the swelling of the au- | thor's income. And of late there h been added to these the moving pic ture as a source of considerable ultl- mate revenue. It was the late Sir Walter Besant who took the first step. What he began has been developed In- to an efficient system by that useful organization, the American Author's league. = As we look around us, the prosperity | of the modern author through the or- | ganization of the business side of his work lcaps to the eye. Kipling was the first to draw the full bencfit of tha | modern safeguards thrown around lit- | erary property and of the by-products so0 to speak, which long had been neg lected. There is Arnold Bennett, whe if rumor do not err, for several years been carning with his In- defatigable pen the comfortable sum of fifty thousand dollars annually. of pestilence, | \l hen there s Hall Caine, master ad- lime removes | Vertiser and thorough business man Senblation: | Here at home the evidence of the re- the scarcity of | WATds of successful authorship unde e Cantononarts m:»n:mf;liwnv)]:inmxr is sufficiently famil- idellca~ | :;‘1‘;‘"4;': who take an interest in such DYy Wostorn: peo- Withal, the race is not always to the swift nor the battle to the strong od by {hose awho | Both are to him who achieves populs M & rice dlot. Cats, | Ity—Tesgardless of merit. - Fortune may < are also re. | PAss by a Joseph Conrad and heap its SEARNE favors on a Marie Corelli or a Mri Barclay. A “Charley’s Aunt” is likel to prove more profitable than Gals- worthy's “Justice.” And vet popular taste does not always neglect genius. Shakespeare it rewarded royally long ago. If it enriched Martin Tupper in Victorian it was no less gener= ous to Tennyson and Dickens, The latter’s fortune of half a million dol- lars long was considered a Tecord the rewards of authorship. Nor let us forget those giants, Scott and Mark Twain, who lifted a crush- ing burden of debt from their honor | able shoulders with their pens alone And France was fully as generous to Victor Hugo as it has been to that ap- allingly bourgeois best-seller, Ohnet the. coffers of both the | whole world contributed with- truly popular indifference to whether what it likes is gold or only dross, - in the tenth cen- ese hardy sailors Chinese Europeans to Por- before Cortez Emmanuel, King ador with the Cape of Good Emperor of China relations with the rs. The mission the visitors were | harbor of Can- indred years later and met with a of a re- relations and the na- 1685 that the nctioned trade !‘(‘-‘ Britain, naming of entry. variously to 1,600 foreigners, in the Sha- artificial island ritish from an ex- friendly port 900,000 are ide terized by Cauca- ullen In their po- | Cantonese are has es. They Dbl many hard- stoical forti- v i sa-) their | | [ to is a the of rules guiding determination week may A vessel for self-de- the doctrine treatment accord- A vessel us- in aggression | ses her peaceful If open to at- as a warship. points made be us- | st nces: solely days, the nistration’s state- | Georges 1y toward a settle Te at e hatween nited States.—New