New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 11, 1916, Page 6

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Circulation books and press m always open to advertisers. rald willybe found on sale at Hota- ’s New Stand. 42nd St. and Broad- New York City; Board Walk, at- e Clty. and Hartford Depot TELEPHONT CALLS. s Office 1 Rooms D SHOTS; POOR ARTISTS. what punishment has been out to the German submarine nder who torpedoed the chan- amer Sussex is not stated in the | ote from Von Jagow, who now the American was talking about. that the les that govern- new what it ¥ Germany ally should z up many Am: was sunk ille be a ource of clea anding among people in thi ed all under 4 believ along good who have in international la her imissions she has been wrong of her submarine war- of atta p phase iich of certain d the er vessels. y did document mode took this defined rules and of innocent that aitack It incorperate the to son’s The of pave done much more is too bad not in W ace fous prev President ultima- good g this to secure d of between the ntri friendship than In the future the naval the bad grace of one. ies in Berlin should not place ketching submarine shots, th confidence the of in their . They ists. com- are good but < ETTER' POLICEMEN. kgestingsthat the safety board, fce commission, and ord- bmmittee meet in joint ses: proposed civil service ion | uss the admission to the police and adding to or cutting the case | ments. jom these rules, the common council the wise thing.. There are | quirements’ of ciwil service sy work detrimental to the po- le- itself, others that should be | A Again, thére no use frigia “tests for, applicants to sitions if 'the s: board or r body isigiven the power to emand, is fety m even should they fail at the cases, is a s known most , he or iceman, in Originall mber of that e city for the regulation of embrac- T. w nization set hetween citizens, and of health, term has come to se care safety and ace of the designation of a man blue badge, uniform with brass and is to ar- upon slightest haul and march to the who might | of his sus- helmet a duty it the a man whose any person shado sng impression his but it sion that has been made 1 ind dutie bers of the assumed, with their badge the authority that goes of ate, hip on fel- re presence of a hould strike in the should com- of the the sight of some They Either lack the this, be suf- both these ailments. Tt with such men, to put of the highest at- mentally, supreme court the their awe all wrong-doers, observance law. trary re cffect ha opposite prntempt for the law sical disability, or their calibre is primarily or they might om away orce men physically proposed civil service exam- arawn up, and if these s and regulations do all this, t But they to must not and are be welcomed. sound to begin with, ny loop-holes. pritain has some men on its Tce who would to any ecity be a source in the country. e some great and grand char- ho wear the blue here, men e not thrust aside their hy- ith the assumption of author- d this is as it should be, a medium for gooa A n o as he chooses. There e men on the force this b should not be there; men probably the phys ary to swing a club and are, in o ical at- beat but whose mental ac- gyrate off the beaten teries of whose hearts e - ecorr ber: should be given a vaca- e hardened, petrified. this |1 | mind preservation of the | police force tion, a change of work. They should, !fcr their goad, be given other | work; but not on the police force. At ! | this might be impossible | of the dead wood | but those who are own late day it Ito get rid of some [ on the force now; drafting and modifying service examinations to the common council at the next meeting should bear in mind come of the exifMng frailties of the | see to it that t are not that in the fum*' he men ure up to well defijed physical the tentative civil be pre- | ! sented to force and repeated, me: and mental standards? MOTHER'S” DAY. When the Almighty, wisdom, in His ‘infinite gave woman this planet, boon on mankind that to He conferred a can no\fir be appreciated. More beau- tiful than the flowers of E den, sweeter tNin the music of its most wonderful feathered songsters and as pure as the ! very sunshine that flooded that most | of its was the jewel gardens with golden brightest deiightful sht, she Heaven's After beginning in earthly crown. a lapse of centuries man is | ; | to realize to a small de- gree what a treasure woman really is. And soul aside the in has Sunday May Day, a space which homage to so, some thoughtful second Mother's observe four us I of and daug to hours sons might twenty hters pay that greatest a mother. The movement is being taken up gen- it be. The possession, and well should ! world has had its conquerors to whom 1‘ o pay homage yearly; it has had its | whom all respect; in all walks of life But there are those | of science we leaders whom we admire. above all the utmost reverence, lives | men for whom we should have women who of live—our the offered their on the alter ! wwomanhood that we might If we could always mothers this world would not | | mother: remem- j ber our mixed sunshine and | | shadows that 1t is. If we all kept in | that noble woman who bore we wonld, better men. Nothing good woman; be the place of us be inspiration or ever will good no donbt, is such an as is, | | nothing | be, a greater blessing than mother. Today a i is the | write to thought of her son or daughter. Next | is Mother's Day. * Do not let it pass without sending a line to the best friend had; fortunate areindeed if you have a mother to write:to. Tell her you love her, | that you:thank her foi the, fices she ever amade’ for you, although | day on which that mother is wrapped up you whose the | should every in succes Sunday you ever you cri- you can never thank her enough; and | that her face is a constant reminder always to do right. Nathing will | [in EW, BRITAIN DAILY .HERALD, THURSBAY, MAY 11, 1916. hkem.w intercsted in anything the na- | tional #Azovernment undertakes to stamp out that pestiferous annoyance. the tobacco More c¢rops have been other worm. this pest than by excepting the boll Therafore, ruined by any creature, not work on cotton. Aght as well weevil's it necticut, the northern and that Con- as those other states that have gone should have from the belt as Florida. is but Jjust belt raising tobacco, much benefit in for Just agricultural or the Carolinas, as new appropriation Virginia ar Teacher—"“Johnny, what is . a ange?’” A mountain Johnny- lar ed cooking stove.’ The TIdeal, (The following poem, from “The Trish Review’ of February, 1914, is a translation from the Gaelic of P.'QH. Pearse, who was executed Monday in the Tower of London.) Naled I saw thee, O bheauty of bheauty, And T blinded my eyes For fear I should flinch I heard thy musie, O sweetness of sweetngsz. And I shut my ears For fear I should fail. . 1 kissed thy lips, ¥ O sweetness of. sweetnes And T hardened.#iy hear For féar of my ruin, I blinded my eyes, And my ears I shut: 1 hardened my heart And my love I quenched. I turned my back, On the dream I had shaped, And to this road hefore me My face I turned. I set my face To the road here hefore me, To the work that I see, To the death I shall meet. —New York Tribune. FACTS AND FANCIES. Russians going to help to fight, or the English Svracuse Post-Standard. Are those the French to hold on?- After the war is over, Americans should continue to see America first and let the souvenirs of the FEuropean battlefields strictly alone.—Atlantic Journal. Apparently the only way Uncle Sam stands a chance of getting Villa is by serving Carranza with a writ of habeas corpus.—Montreal Star. Maximilian Harden’s continued strong defense of Wilson in his Ber- lin paper is significant, perhaps, if it is regarded as an appendix to the Ger- man note.—Springfield Republican law authorities as to the tenor When international so violently disagree please her more. It will gladden her heart and it will repay her for all she has ever ddne for you. And in rev- for thak of women, | wear a white carnation, typical of her | pure heart and her white soul. | And unless you | hapless persoms that |‘their woman | | | | erence | 1 are one of those forget to pay | daily homage to the Christ who | that remember her in your prayers. But of all, Mother's Day. CONNECTICUT TOBACCO. gave you mother, I ! I hest let us make every | hda | | | in the not far dis- | There was a time, \ when the mere mention of | tant future, cotton hrought to the mind lively vis- | Aarkies | and a| | jons of a field of snowy white. | singing, strumming banjoes, al mellow | The Mere up | time darkies picking cool, clear moon shedding its southern of weed over territory. held true of the the | tight same tobacco. | mention of conjured ! sight ola- tobacco down in the old tobacco belt, below the Mason and Dixon line, or i [ | or some other place | | of far away Cuba where to- in the bacco associate cotton or tobacco with such | Connecticut, or these | front as | Con- 1 that under land of the tropies, vas a staple No one ever dared | | holds northern strong as Ohio, Penn; ania. Wisconsin In- Yet, have forged | diana recent years states to the and the fact here, artificial | great tobacco producers. necticut in the takes pride leaf and bre developed | i extremely (‘fll'\/h[ifln? anks with the best tobacco in the United States. It be doubted in some quarters try, but not here. ers firmly believe that the on this soil has sed by other hrands it might of the coun- Our tobacco grow- weed grown intrinsic qualities not posses What an been to Southern tobacco growers then awakening must have when our representatives in Congress took the floor and demanded that this state be recognized under the agricul- { tural appropriation bill, an item of which provides for an investigation of | the tobacco worm as “effecting South- crops.” The Virginia states- vitally interested in this of the bill money ern flela { man who-was \ item explained would be no varticular | that if passed to chase the tobacco matter in what section of the country member the | usea worm 1t was founa. wWhereupon a | from Missouri introduced an amend- ment which would strike out the limit- The de- Since ing clause amendment w feated. Connecticut is so {interested in tobacco mowing, it is now L | sets ! record-making | orphan asylum.—New Haven Journal- | Courier. g ‘rulc. laymen are at to their own Register of the German reply, least entitled to hold opinions.—New Haven Now they are looking up the records and finding that Americans were killed in Mexico during the regime of R., nothing was done about it. Hercism bids fair to have as many troubles as humanity before very long.—Pittsburg Dispatch. and Paris excited = because re suggesting that is getting some of its tailors men should go back to wearing cor- the way they did about 1830. If this fashion comes in, a type of corset that would sell well would be the Verdun.—Boston Globe. There should be no doubt whatever of the success of the New Haven Or- phan ylum campaigning. The money needed should be raised in a period. No charity a higher degree than an appeals in “A Newspaper Story. (Waterbury Democrat.) In a large middle western city whose mayor has recently removed the lid, with what many citizens think are unfortunate results, a number of club women, who are also voters, de- termined to find out for themselves whether the rumors they had been hearing were true, So they organ- il number of rties to visit res- taurants and dance halls, to see whether the liquor laws were being observed, and to take note of the gen- eral conditions. It was not at all a performance of the idle curious, ea- ger for sensation, nor were those seeking the knowledge a band of nar- row-minded zealots. They were not trying to ‘“get something on” the political party in power. They were simply women of many walks and oc- cupations, who wanted to know whether or not the city housekeer- ing in certain respects at the places they visited were all right. Others reported those they saw all wronz. And there were places in between. Unofficial knowledge of the investi- gation coming to the mayor—who, one would think, would have been glad to get the report of disinterested citizens—he denounced the whole affair as a quest for notoriety. “All they wanted was a newspaper story,” he said. Just what is “a newspaper story”? It is, where freedom of the press is secure, a re- pert to the public of what is goinz on around them It is the appeal of facts to the court of public opin- ion. And public opinion while mistaken sometimes, is in the long run pretty wise. To o afraid of a newspaper story means that one has something to conceal. To jeer at it shows contempt for the public. The newspaper story is, in these days, the most powerful tool of democracy. No one can afford 1o despise it, for through it the people % THE NEW WASHINGTON. A Comparison of the Nation's Capital | Today and Fifty Years Ago. (Springfield Republican.) critical are to In these days the eyes the an unwented gree turned toward Washington. time is there appropriate to to the surroundings country de- is direct attention amid which the peesident and the members facing their respon- there could be no to thoughts 1 scenes of possible war than tihe beauty of Washington in the spring. Year after year as the carefully mapped pfans for the city's develop- ment,’ harmonizing with ‘the original designs of Maj, L'Enfant, are fol- lowed, Washington progresses toward becoming what.any American may be pardoned for thinking the most-beau- tiful capital city in the world. Yet the first review which greets the vis- itor from the North, on ecierging from the Splendid Unk station, hardly supports that cla Although the capitol, and the white marble office building of the Senate and the House of. Rep- resentatives, stand at combparative:y short distance, there lie hefore them open squares which Washington resi- dents have been waiting for years to see developed ,with green park sur- faces, but which still are more sug- gestive of the sand lots upon which Young America tlad!(mnqlh léarns the national.game. The firstgview is not inapprovriate in so far. as it suggests that Wash- ington has been passing throush transition. The city has chanaed greatly In the last 15 years. Many new government buildings have been added and many commercial of impressive character: there has been much development of domesti architecture. Fifteen years ago ‘Washington, as a whole, with pubiic buildings that were already venerable and with its many rows of unpre- tentious dwellings, seemed in striking harmony with the little brick housc near Ford's theater in which Lincoln died, and which has heen maintained as a Lincoln museum. In those days numerous veterans of the northern and southern armies were conspicuous in Congress and the city itself in its architecture and its atmosphere was in many ways remi- niscent of the civil war period. Tt seemed a stage so set that scenes of the war time might have been en- acted again. Even the »nl1 Long Bridge over which the frightened rabble poured after Bull Run still spanned the Potomac. An era in ‘he political life of the nation and in the physical development of th: city was drawing to a close. Today Washington offers contrast to the Washington these few years ago. The er front, once consisting of dump heaps and unsightly swamps has gradually been transformed intn a spacious and beautiful park which is becoming a true public Iyveround and an object lesson to municipalities throughout the country and none more than to Springfield —of the manner in which a river front may be improved. There in the park, close to the river bank, the Lin~oln memorial of white marble is being erected. In its unfinished s it is impressive even now, as it raises ifs massive bulk above an artiiicial that will cause its temple-like lines to stand vivid to thas d view. Fventually the lonz-aw memorial bridge across the to the green slopes of the cemetery at Arlington, will have its approaches near the Lincoln memorial and will serve as the most ‘itting em- blem of the reunion of North and South. The bridge has heen ur realized dream for many both necessity and the rare ity the plan assure it Whether the Tincoln memor its final beauty and impres: ness will rank as one of the great mem rials of the world, is a question the answer to which must wait unon its completion. Today the unfinished structure sugsgests great dignity, and those who in the studio of Daniel C. French have seen nedesl of the statue which is to be chief feature report that also to very notable work of art . Yet seale on which this memorial, costing $2.000,000, has been conceived, prompts the thought how strange it and the rest of the transformed city would seem to Lincoln himself if, in the quiet coolness of a spring nizht in these portentous time, tan, shawl-clad figure could be imangined wandering up and down, a spirit an- xfously brooding over the turn whi~h our national destinies may take. of Congress are For contr: sibilities. greater L a vivid of only Potomac 1te out- tant ited Potomas national an he E its the a The Pupnys Opinion. (Burges Johnson, in Magazine.) She's taught me that T mustn't At little noises after dark, But just refrain from any fuss Untll I'm sure they're dangerot This would he caster, T felt, Tf noises could he seen or Harper's barlk smelt She’s very wise, T have no Avnr] nlans ahead what she's about, Yet after cating, ‘every day She throws her nicest hones If she were really less obtuse She'd bury them for future doubt, way, use. But that which most Those higher powers boast. Is not so much a fault like that. Nor vet her fondness for the cat, Rut on our pleasant country strolls Her Aull indifference to holes makes me doubt the that humans O, if T once had time to $pend To reach a hoic's extremest end, I'd grab it fast, without a douht, And promptly vull it inside out; Then drag it home with all my power To chew on it in a leisure hour. Of all the mistresses there are, Mine is the loveliest by far— Fain would T wag myself apart If T could thus reveal my heart. But on some things, I must ¢onclude, Mine is the saner attitude: the congressional library | blocks | | | ordinary hill | | pated ! the sixteenth centur: — e, ‘€00D ARRAY OF NEW BOOKS NAMED IN INSTITUTE'S LIST THIS WE Autobiagraphy, Charles Francis Adams, with introduction by Henry Cabot Lodge. “Likely to provide quotations for vears to come. 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PR with s Watts. books is The Rudder. a novel heroes, by Mary S. “Reading one of her great deal like going to visit a city of the middie west and becoming more or less involved in the fortunes of several groups of its citizens, It is the work of one who sees and de- scribes with telling detail and an interesting vividness what she sees. Y. Times a Sign of freedom, by Arthur Goodrici. SRR . Sweet-scented by Fedor Solo- gub. “Fairy tales. adults which the translator Graham are characteris the type of literature to be found i the Russian daily press. They ¢ distinctive and many are charming. —A. L. A. Booklist. P name, and stories for Stephen fables says tic . Gillespies, by W. J. Hopkin “The story has ‘The’ Clammer's’ appealing charm with @ h&wv and deeper feeling for life. note. Those Where I \ | | | 1 Coffee Was Once ‘ Supreme, Mocha and Java Washington, D. M. 11.—The National Geographic society of Wash- in a bulletin issued today on men- relates The ington, one of the important places tioned in the news of the day, 1 popular fallacy. of 4 the origin bulletin says: “When the news reached America that the eastern area of the world war had embraced Arabla, concern was clt at the breakfast table in thousands of American homes. Tt believed that Mocha, like many othér towns in the ‘desert of the sea’ peninsula, would . be affected. ‘“Would this tail America’s supply of ‘‘unrivaled ] mocha and java,” with its wonderful bouquet and its delightful aroma?’ The question on many lips, prompted epicurean palates. “This appetite alarm when coffee drinkers realize that ‘mocha and java,’ is merely a name and that the scent of the berry which clings to the cup will be as pleasing when called by its right name —Brazilian, Porto Rican, Mexican, Hawaiian, Central or South American | coffee. As a matter of statistics, all the coffec imported into the United States last year from the far east, in- cluding the famed ‘centers' of the in- dustry, Mocha and Java, amounted to less than one-third of one per cent. of the total billion pounds that went in- to the American percolator. “Coffee drinkers will not begrudge Mocha her fame, however, for that is all that ains to her of a once flou ishing trade, a trade which populai ized the beverage throughout the world. “Tradition tells us that the uses of coffee were discovered in ~Abyssinia about the time that Columbus was cogitating upon his scheme to reach the Indies and the tea countries b, sailing west across the Atlantic. Cor relative with this tradition are man legends about the manner of its dis-| covery, one of the most picturesque being that of a flock of sheep, after browsing on the indigenous coffee shrub became unusually frisky, as a result of the stimulant and that .this excitement was followed by sleepless nights! “Phe Mohammedans began to coffee as an antisoporific dnmm their vigi ractice | orthodox ssul- savored of a was turn of will be dissi- use long religious frowned upon by mans who argued that form of intoxication. However, the habit spread. It reached Egypt in and Europe in; the first coffee houses in Constantinople and Venice. Some fifty years after Sir Walter Raleigh startled the maid | who tried to extinguish him when she it the seventeenth, being established ‘and in his Amer coffee It on London Charles was him tobacco s e abolish puffing away the first blished. it as saw can house W sought to it disloyal subjects, but coffee drinking grew and coffce houses multiplied. The Arabian province of Yemen, of which Mocha was the chief seaport, supplied practically all the berries used. the end of the seventeenth century the coffee plant was introduced into Java short time ‘mocha and java’ hecame a trade name of great popu- larity. “It was in 1718 that Jamaica ceived her first consignment of coffee ! plants from Amsterdam, and from that re- dustry in the western hemisphere un- til today Brazil produces three-fourths of the world’s supply. “Mocha with its big white buildings, presents an imposing appearance when viewed from the decks of steam- ars passing through the Red hut a closer examination reveals that this grandeur is a mirage and that the biz buildings are chiefly ruine. The town is like the hull of the coffee fruit. from which the berry has been taken. Ships of deep draft can no longer anchor in the bay and shallow native vessels are ample to handle the small percentage of the commerce of Yemen reaches there, most of the caravans now going to Hodeida and Aden Hard To Swallow. (Chicago New: whose An Idaho guide, sery were retained desirious some wealthy Last- of hunting in by erners Northwest, took them to be the green- | Watson W. est of tenderfeet, since he undertook to chaff them with a recital somethins as follows “It was my first grizzly, so | mighty proud to kill him in a 14ancd-to- hand struggle. We started about sunrise. When he finall up the ghost the sun was down."” At this point to note the effect a word was said so the guide added, the second time."” “I gather, then,” gentleman, a dapper little Rostonian, “that it required a period of two days to enable you to dispose of that grizzly 2" “Two days guide, with died mighty “Choked tonian S esiisin il “Pardon me,"” bite, ** but what him to swallow? was the of by guide his the very paused Easterners, slowly, “for said one young hi ‘That the wrizzly and a a grin hard.” to death " n * asked the the guide. continued did you said the try to get wor eracts- | Contributions Bein | | . tion ; | | ‘ | for | find some way veral | | of of | t YZPublisheys | church 1| ger. SUD| e a novel , posed to be the place of meeting for | the sec At | when events cur- l time dates the rapid growth of the in- | | | which | the | | only | Hu- | Iy | reading | trical who EXCELLENT ST FORY. M08, unn g’-Received by George S.-Thlcott, TreaSurer work of greatly stimu- lated by Ma’ Carter's address at the, annual meeting of the lo rganizag Sundayr evenin A generous responsg made by several for $2,000 for work among who are directly, agency. the relief A, was Interest in the Y. M. Q. war last ready to the® the na- this by has citizens man gat men of 21l reached in perhaps, than been appeal front to tionalities way more any other The results of the men of ternal feeling thus expressed, comfart of communication, facilithes with friends at the cheer and as onc pressed it, “the the fra- for the throuagh home, for heartening up" of these centers is most,genuine and en- thusiastic One English lieutenant, being impressed by the good work done at the international “huts” of the Y. M. C. A. in France, gave month's salary to the -enter- prise. Roy in England afe " trying to give two shillings iplece ia some places to the work and on the continent there is the same apprecia- tion and far as possible the same desire to help by self-sacrificing gifts, this brotherly work which will pro- mote good feeling rather than hate among all belligerent people. Are there not in this city boys whom so much done who will for contributing to this work ? - secretary greatly a Scouts to 50 international Mr. Barnes C. A, and G. S. Talcott, treasurer ¢f the special fund for war relief, will receive any contributions. There will be no general canvas, but persons in- terested in this good work are earn- estly requested to make their gifts aa promptly as possible. Contributions for this purpose are kept juite dis- tinct from funds for the general work the American Young Mens Christian Association. A good begin- ning has been made toward the $2,000 which it is hoped New Britain will raise for work near the firing line. “AUDIENCE IS THE THING,” SAYS SMITH Noted Playwright Speaks of the Y, M At Annual Meeting of South Church Brother- hood—Gilpatrick Again President. s, “If you want to | son, via the stage route, | have an®audience,” Hsserted Winchell |'Smith, the noted playwright, at the annual meeting of the Men’s Brother- ; hood of the Souwth Congregational ast evening, The _meetina opened with a supger, after which Mr. Smith spoke onfthe theater. He hoke in part as follows: robably ne of the most import- ant posts in theatrical life is the posi- tion of play reader. Uponp#liif rests | the answer as to whether a play will * be produced or not. He gets manu- -Lx'xpl# from ambitious amateurs, | reads them ana reports to the man. For two years I worked at this | job, reading three plays a day. In all l that time just two were recommended for production and hoth failed “There are two kinds of plays, | those of which the manuscript reads and those that create no interest in the manuscript. George Bernard Shaw writes of the first type | and Gillette, Pinero and Thomas of md all experts agree that an author should write for a publia | audience or the play will not get across. An audience is necessary for the successful presentation of a play. Oftentimes a play which reads and rehearses well will fall down badly presented. There no telling judgment. passe exampl the production Justice’, which g running in New York at John Williams, press agent Charles Frohman, against the advice of crit= ics and partners spent his last penny in putting this play on the boards. The play was grue depicting the life an old and Its and 1 forth srable crit- it made instantane hit produced a pretty lits love plot to the heavy s and this, in the opinion of thea- men, saved the You tell whether will be until an had teach a moral les« you must But until A of Galsworth an ‘audience concrete s present for ome h hearsal in Engiish prison brought fay from the but no ics hen iment an yus here i tle take aw par show ple ence ha never can a essful audi 3 Mr. dotes Smith then told numer regarding his personal when traveling with a His talk )us anec- experi- road proved interesting and thanks was extended to him. the election of ofticers of the Brotherhood was held. F. R. Gilpartc re-elected presi- dent; W. W. Williams, vice president; House, secretary and Har- Hatch Committee were chosen So- W. Pelton ;entertain- H. Diyson; Brotherhoo finan Wells work, ences show. vote of Afterward a mnual as was old L. treasurer chairmen cial service, I ment, George s, H. Woods membership, W. Bruemmer as follows What Did F (Chicago “The managc of clared the merchant t terie of friends 1 Why, would believe draws his salary 31 for rest his listeners silent Do \ New n? littl AT g pecul it he he kee out wd sends Indianapolis you when weekly p spending mone wife in S ith the to His one refle of xception, and murmurs sat to vent loud and admiration “Now, it the speaker, less.” ‘Oh, I reioined only wondering the dollari” mder may sound but thin,” sdded it's true, neverthe- don’t the. doubt quiet what it all, qulck- g | does vas he with