New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 13, 1916, Page 6

e e gt BRITAIN HERALD| PUBLISHING COMPANY, Proprietors. lly (Sunday excepted) at 4:15 p. m., prald Building, 87 Church St. t the Post Office at New Britain ond Class Mail Matter. by carrler to any part of the city Cents a Week, 65 Cents a Month. ons for paper to be sent by mall, le in advance, 60 Cents a Month, & Year. profitable advertising medium in ity. Circulation books and press always open to advertisers. d_will be found on sale at Hota- New Stand, 42nd St. and Broad- [New York City; Board Walk, at- City, and Hartford Depot. TELEPHONT! CALLS. Prce ... Rooms ALL IS QUIET. e politicians throughout the ftates are reported to be very prised over the apparent lack st in the forthcoming presi- lections. These old gentle- keep their weather eyes ever the horizon do not recall a ipresidential election such as in there is so little interest in of these keen judges of na- | fiitics that even with the great than a_month off | spirit of lethargy displayed, ne over “emotions. no bets being waged, as to itted against Wilson, no ng of opinion as to who will | ctor in the Republican con- t* Chicago. Khould be no surprise at this The nation is going bne of its most trying periods the election of a President the greatest events that ever ce in the nation, there are things that will upset all ns within a day, or a week, th, that the people have dded to hold their tempers et unduly excited. The Re- delegates from the various | the Union will be soon on | to Chicago to place the nom- their party on the shoulders candidate, As there | pns less control be i 1 |t Lt deserving some can beat Wilson. than fourteen s for this great honor, there ng how the affair will come all the nominating speeches heard, until the delegates | . heir coats and get down to here will be no great inter- pir work. As to the Pro- onvention which assembles e city at the same time as the only s whether recognized | ¢ s | t blican convention, herein evinced is Moose people will cast their | jith the Grand Old Party. cratic ¢onvention will be a pality, the nomination of Wilson. kes le conventions. people of T all the interest Up to this the U care of any The people are satisfied that hored night and day in their est, has just completed the Hiplomatic stroke of a cen- aking the proudest nation on of the earth bow There is no bragging over | slightest miscue ecause the lo overturn the whole situa- | t up to now the fact re- t President Wilson has kept and that in it- i 1 out of war im retained in the White |, After his opponent has been ing the conventions to great extent, Y he E blica c v - . s e ““}:’ ONVEN- | and calling down the wrath of the > may be another story. B @ 3 e ¥ good pepole upon its head. - Truly, n there may not be. There 5 oo |l T there must be something wrong with | any use in making specula- A 0 e the “movies” or there would be no | fetting warmed up over the N Not until we know swho 1q | TOYement against their performances. And yet, as the makers of fi claim, | i e it is not just that one man, or a hoard T2 = of men, should decide once and for TO TEACH FORFIGN !all what men and women of the LANGUAGE:! nation, of the state, of the city, of Very long ago Archbishop | the town, shall witness on the screen. h, of Chicago, come into the ANy great divergence from the path as a near-victim of the Of righteousness will be taken care of ban Crones, the man who | under the police statute ison in the soup at a uni- | UP to date, the moving picture the- b banquet in the Windy | aters of New Britain have shown films Archbishop and a coterie f narrowly gentleman of the cloth bids pcome famous in another kibly the outgrowth of his at that celebrated ban- has issued @ mandate that on September 1 of this | 100,000 and more pupils in | Liic parochial schools of ghall be taught only bring about 4 rapid Ameri- |1 of the great In the Windy City. ous cities of the natlon, ain among the number, it Lred a practical thing to | . pupils in certain Et'hunlsl amentals of knowledge in ! language of their parents. places the h that no matter Wwhat is taught in the mornin he BEnglish language hold | English. i deluged ever; | vincing, both pro and con. behind the moving picture busin | claim that a rigid censorship imposed ship, | Whatever | devolves back upon a few men to tell | what the millions must and must not ain. of the pictures s mental to the moral and phy fare of the N | grown-ups of this city. to his | oourt records on the stand tion. out arguments and pugh reason for many people | py - foreign | there is the tendency to pl emotional drama, to gently hint that | | what will be shown will smack of the g onrushing tide. forth in the afternoon session. the pupils are given an insight, working knowledge of the language by which they must hope to earn their livellhoad. Some places how- ever place full importance on the foreign language and trust that the children will learn English by mix- ing with American school children after hours. This may be all right in those cities where there is an inter- mingling of the races, but in places such as Chica New and even M 0, and York, Springfield, where the colony system is in vogue, there | is little ar no chance for the chil- ¢ren to properly become acquainted Wwith the English language. By his decision the Archbishop does not mean to place a ban on the teaching of the various foreign languages in this country. On the contrary, he merely wants tec give English the right of way over them 21l. And therein he is right. So long as men and women yearn for culture they will not confine themselves the learning of any one language. Private teachers can always be had who will impart touches of French, of German, of Italian, Spanish and to ks that should be interesting | the romantic languages, But for _'Tt is pointed out by one | the common workaday world no vice that gives an interview | Matter in what nation a man may find himself, he wants the tongue of the people. And in this cauntry the tongue of the pecple happens to be Therefore it is but reason- able that each and every boy and girl who attending school is here should be taught the language of the coun- try. If the tongue of their parents must be learned, the place for such instruction is in the home. [ THE “MOVIE” PROBLEM HERE. Many states in the union are now considering a universal proposal to | censor the moving picture. In New York yesterday a delegation of mov- ng picture men besieged the legis. ators at Albany to defeat a bill which | would place a rigid censorship over heir products. The new: papers are y day with literature for and against the idea of censorship for he “movies” and it is all very con- he death of free speech in thi Should the national government ee fit to appoint a coun- board of censor- in comes politics. Should the ‘movies” be censored, the newspapers | Will be the next medium of expression o fall under the ban, these men argue. methods are taken, it all ee produced on the films, is another salient point of argument. Under | censorship one man can dictate the | thought of the millions. While this movement against the motion pictures is being brought to a crisis, the hoard of education of New Britaln comes forward with a resolu- tion calling on the common council to | nited | qraft ordinances which will regulate disposed toward Woodrow (ho pictures exhibited in New Brit- is set up that some wn here are detri- The claim al wel- vouth and the younger From police and from stories told there er- almost every da s a great deal of truth in thi. Just what the common council em that will take many long drawn debates to decide. as it pictur is now run, s going at full speed ahead, disregard- that are detrimental to the morals of escaped death. | young people. There is no gainsaying this fact. It would seem then that the managers of the local moving picture houses would take warning, would do | something to prevent the demolishing of their own business. Many people are not going to the “movies” be- cause they are not sure just what kind | of an entertainment will be presented, in | are not sure they will be given good, In this way the Archbishop | clean, wholesome entertainment. Even n some of the advance notices of films, y upon the salacious. This is done ostensibly for the purpose of drawing people to the playhouses. While it may lure a cer- tain class, it has the effect of keeping the better classes away. This is curriculum | Where the managers of these theaters should exercise fore: There must be an s | unlimited number of films that are Thus S The men | { upon the moving picture films means | should do about the matter is a prob- ! NEW, BRITAIN DAILY MERALD, DAlUrpAaTI, MAY 13, 1910. that do sick free from obnoxious subject not carry the y dreamy dramas that are neither silly-willy, en- lightening nor instructive, that strike hard at the base of all moral founda- tion. It is doubtful the “movies” is !'a censorship thr | up by a small~coterie of people, or While individual tastes run | along lines somewhat they One man would be censorship good thing, that is too rigid and set if a over a by | one man. parallel, differ in the end. liberal, minded. prive the mature patrons of “movie” picture houses of films that would in i | he ] | no way harm them, while the former, | | another would narrow- The latter course would de- the too generous plan, would be an added source of detriment the youthful patrons. It would seem, then, | that | between the moving picture managers, the board of education and the board { of public safety,—in this way: Prohibit | the of regular films, | the more-to-be-censored-than-scorned | films, in the early hours of the after- | noon and night, and in their place al- | low films to run which will not carry to there should be a co-operation exhibition ideas of immorality. The the young element of society could be allowed to witness these without harm. At night, the regular films are shown, films that are not detrimental to grown-ups, re- allow young people the hotses. If this then something done to divide the good films from the bad. slightly any latent | children and when fuse to in plan is not else must be picture feasible different from those of other cities, even to the showing of moving pictures. No outside criterions can be followed. The path be blazed by our own citizens and those must who exercise the proper authority. (Special Dispatch.) | Bottom-of-the-Sea, 12.—At a meeting of the directors of Davy Jones, Inc., today a dividend of 7,500 This is the first meet- The stock, up to that abegging, but since the started the value of the May | was declared. | ing since 1914. | time, went European war been { shares has steadily rising and there has been wild scramble for | a | them. The announce that directors the surplus, after the dividend is dis- tributed, will bil- | lions of dollars rep amount to several sented by muni- ! tions of war and bullion. FACTS AND FANCIES. The punishment of the U boat com- mander who sank the Sussex should go at least to the extent of permi- nently depriving him of his sketch book.—New York Sun. It is reported by a Western Pacific authority that the natives of the Iijt Islands have given up cannibalism and taken to the movies, which onl: proves that devotion to the movi can induce human beings to give up almost anything.—Providence Jour- nal. People in Berlin who complain that the tone of the American notes is that | of a Nation self-constituted as the supreme judge of the world should | remember that all the other firsi-class | powers are drunk and disorderly ar somehody must pass judgment.— New York World, President | tience: he to continue Wils, again shows zives proof of our desije relations of friendship with Germany. It was better so if there were any doubt about the wun- animity of the country’s feelinz. There can be none, there will he non now, for the most persistent pleader for longsuffering and the proffer other cheek knows that all exhorta tions to meekness have heen honored by us even hevond seriptural require- ment.—New York Times. pa- ovement in ent rench They have started a r Paris to preserve the pri battle line, and have it exhibited the war for the benefit of forei meaning mostly American—t All of which is well enough, but we have a suspicion. Our susnicion is that the said battle line wou E: | tract rather more tourist if before being opened for exhibition purposes, it could be pushed a little bit farther to the north.—Bingham- ton Press. The west coast of South America js practically a continuation of longitude | of the east coast of the United States | Hence, with the completion of the Panama Canal, the distances by land to the pcrts on the west coast of South America have become ful double those by sea. For example, { from New York to Guayaquil, the | port of Ecuador, the distance by a | transcontinental railway wouid be 6,500 miles, twhile the distance | through the canal by water iz only ‘fz_xM miles. So with Callao, the port of Tima, the capital »f Peru, | the railway distance from New York would he 7.600 miles, ile the steamer distance is only 9 miles. | The sea is not only cheaper, | buit it is actually quicker than any !(‘rvn(-vinlhi(- railroad route could he. | | i route Tt is quite true, as Secretary McAdoo declares. that the total Buenos Ayres and Newx York, mil already traversed Iy miles rail But trf were already finished vears ago, and the in- terv 2,900 are never like- 1y to be finished until some othar than a commercial reason can he =iven for investing $500,000,000 in their econ- struction.—New York Journal of Commerce. - tween 10,300 7.400 is of o mile New Britain's problems are | the | - | tion | day distance he- | =l Town Topics A very interesting and accurate his- tory of New Britain as it was sixty- five years ago can be obtained by a careful study of the old map found by George LeWitt when the old Stanley house at the corner of Main and Elm streets was razed a week or so ago. At that time this column contained a comprehensive historical sketch of the old house which was read with inter- est. No less interesting is the old map, printed in 1851 and showing the town and borcugh limits and containing the names of all streets then in existance. In this connection it is interesting to note that every house in the city was marked on the map, together with the name of the owner. Around the bor- der of the map are printed pictures of several of the prominent homes and buildings of that day. Among these is the H. North mansion, now occupied by | the offices of the American Hardware | corporation. Old Mr. North was the | most prominent man in New Britain old Frederick jin his day and incidentally it was i through him that the J. B. Sargent Hardware company, which was once located on Elm street, nioved to New Haven where it has developed into one of the higgest hardware manu- facturing plants in the world. Mr. North owned the corner where the pharmacy now stands and wanted to buy it for a Because the erection would hurt the view Yy site a factory from his home | Mr. North refused to sell and shortly | thereafter the concern moved. } The Isaac Lee house on Main | street is another old homestead de- | picted. That house formerly stood where St. Mary's rectory now stands .and later was moved across the street | onto Winter street where it stands, just ba of McEnroe's bloc The Humphrey house, now the Park hotel, is likewise pictured and al- | though a new front has been put onto the old structure, much of the origi- nal material is still in the present buildir On the north side of Park street, where the P. & F. Corbin boiler house now stands, were several houses, one of which was the T. W. Stanley place. Later Professor Tuck, who preceded v Peck as principal of the hool, lived there. When this High s property was sold, the late Robert J. Vance and Charles Lydell purchased the houses and moved them. The old Stanley house is still standing on Ber- lin avenue near the corner of Lilac street and is a wreck. One of the other houres is the Lydall homestead on Maple street. The old New Britain Knitting com- pany factory of which John B. Tal- cott, father of George A, Talcott, was the head and which later became the Corbin Motor Vehicle corporation { plant on Elm street is pictured. So is the old Russell & Erwin Finishing op which stood where the new con- crete shop now is, as well as several other ola factories which have bheen razed in rccent years. | One particularly interesting picture I the original Normal school, later | the High school. This building stood | Where the present Grammar school {is and was originally built in 1850 as a town & It was a dispute over this building caused the final break between rlin and New Britain. At e hat B | that time New Britain was a part of | Berlin and was growing rapidly. Vexed | because section got the new town i hall, Berlin petitioned to be set aside and the petition was granted. Al- though it was built as the town hall, | it was never used as such and when the fi state ormal school was au- ! thorized it was brought to New Brit- | ain. B use there was no other place for it, it was instituted in this | building which was used as a school | up to about twenty years ago. | The home of Frederick T. Stanley, | the first mayor of New Britain, on | washington street is depicted much i as it looks today. Today this oid Stanley house is Miss Nagle’s sanitar- | ium | During the civil war the old North | Congregational church was a hot bed of Unionism and stood at the corner | of Main ana East Main streets, where | the Burriit school mow is, according ! to the map. Here meetings were held during war and it was here that e of the first volunteers enlisted in the e e e e —————— —————————————— e oy | \ e e re——————— P—— E—————— dwelling. Further down Stanley street | the patrons better trolley service. |small boys, most of whom live in the was an old frame structure where | Manager Frank L. Beardsley, while northern section of the city and at- Philip Corbin and his brother started |admitting that a number of plans tend school in that section, are feel- | what is today the P. & F. Corbin di- jarée under consideration for the bet- ! ing the call of the open and are re- still ! | ing a great and good thing. vision of the American Hardware corporation. This old factory is still standing, but has been moved in to the rear of 619 Stanley street and is used a dwelling In those old days when this map was published Grove Hill was the ex- treme wessern borough limit, North street the northern limit, South street, the southern limit and Stanley street the borough boundary on the east. There were also fqw of the present day streets. Between Pearl street and South street there was nothing but wood land and rolling meadows. There was likewise nothing but mead- ow land between South Main and Stanley streets, not even any railroad tracks although the latter were then under consideration. In other sections of the city there were few streets and the house occupied by the Hon. David N. Camp on Camp street seems to stand away off by itself, far removed from any other dwelling. . Recent action of the health board in rising above mercenary and parti- san plans and hesitating before ex- pending the citizens’ money for a new slaughter house when they realize that it may be possible to obtain the same results with less expense is causing much comment favorable to the board, which is showing itself to be thought- ful of the best interests of the public. The health board’s idea, and a com- mendable one, is to do away with the possibility of the sale of diseased meat here. The first solution offered was the construction of a municipal slaughter house and they were author- ized to spend $5,500 for its cost and maintainence. Since then the po: bility of having an official inspection system that will accomplish the same results at a far less expense has been brought to the attention of the mem- bers. If the slaughter house is built it is not the initial expense of $5,500 that is so objectionable. It will mean the creation of at least two new city offices The inspector would have to receive a substantial salary and he would certainly refuse to act as clean up man at the house. Hence another man would have to be hired for that purpose and the annual costs of main- tainence might reache $2,00 or $2 500, especially since a refrigerating plant would be a continuous expense. This is not much at first, but once es- tablished the slaughter house would remain and in ten years this would be $25,000, a consilerable amount of money. Then too, there seems to be some opposition to having the slaugh- ter house on the town farm property. Legal opinion is that the city would be able to enforce any ordinance that would prohibit the sale of meat not stamped by a government or munici- pal inspector. Thus, by engaging an inspector, and prosecuting all sales of meat not stamped, the city would be accomplishing its purpose in prevent- ing the sale of bad meat Another plan would be to license a couple of slaughter houses and have the inspec- tor stamp all meat butchered there. If a stock man in a nearby town desired to butcher beef for market here the lo- cal inspector would be hired by him to inspect his stock on his own grounds, then once stamped as all right it could be marketed without uestion. By adopting one of these systems or both, the health board would be do- Citizens would be positively protected from the sale of diseased meat and the expense would be far less than otherwise. oo Announcement that it may be two or even three years before the New Britain Boys' club has the new club house for .which so many people worked so hard in the recent frenzied campaign is causing a wail of protests from the younger generation, and con- siderable adverse comment by their elders. Althought $85,000 was raised, this entire amount is not in cash, in fact most of it is said to be in pledges that cover a vear and a half's time. This, together with the fact that a ibstantial income would be realized from the McMahon property, which will likely site, is such an opinion. those who wor tributed generously in very be purchased as a believed to be the reason for But withal, many of d hard and who con- the campaign | fecl that they should see a tangible ! the cause of the north. It was also | | from this church that Bounty Agent | Cadwell rted with Charles Gilbert murdered. Gilbert murder and died [ on the night he w: | was convicted of hi at Wethersfield prison only about a year ago, having served a life sen- | tence. | The borough map shows the loca- of men long since passed away i who had much to do with building up the city. gone now, Most of these old homes arc hut some still exist as G. M. Landers homestead on E Main street for instance. Such excep- | tions are few however. As far back as 1 the map rec- | oras the fact that the district north { of the railroad tracks was to be the | Irish settlement for the names of property owners on the map were Haffey, Kelly, Cassidy, etc. Some of | the old time Irish residents of the | city, many of whom have died durin | the past few vears, recalled th: in New Britain. When this map was printed sixty- five years ago what is now known as Finnegan's alleyway was a street, called Burritt Place. What now Lake street was then Willow street and what is now Pine street was | Pleasant street in those days. Orchard street, instead of Dbeing a solid block of factory buildings, was a residential section and there was no such thing as Hartford avenue. A little stream ran through the meadows where this {Ge=- oughfare was later huilt and today that same stream runs beneath the | roadbed on Hartforda avenue as a walled in sewer. What is now known as Central park and Main street ws termed Union Square sixty-five years jagzo and Church street had not heen | thought of. On Stanley street at the head of Park et, the old Whiting homestead where Philip Co bin lived. Within the past two years this old homestead has been moved back around onto Park street etxen- sion and remodelled into a three story is resuit of their work in a shorter time. The boys of course think any delay un- fair. But is it practical to delay the puilding of a Boys' club heme for two or three vears now that the wherewithal has been assured? Great things in the way of moral and edu- cational uplift are to be accomplished through the medium of the Boys’ club, according to those most interested in the preoject. If that is so, why delay bringing these benefits into fact? If the Boys' club will do all for the boys that is claimed, it would seem that the city cannot afford to postpone it one minute longer than is absolutely nec- In three year many boys now nearing that point in re about to en- ubjected to all essary. who are their lives where the ter active work and be sorts of influences will have passed on and out of the club influence. These boys are worth saving just as much as { are the little shavers that are spring- | could be ing up. It would seem the wisest and mot philanthropical thing to begin work on the home at once. There is certainly several thousands of dollars is $85,000 fund and ac- cording to S. M. Bard, the campaign organizer, the pledges are such that they are binding at law and in case a iber dies it is binding upon his This being so, there is not the slightest chance that the money will not be paid. It Is said that most of the country’s business is done on pa- per. Then, in case there is not cash enough, why can’t the Boys' club bu iness be done on paper? It could, for the directors state that probably not more than half of the $85,00 will be put intd the building and the balance of what the treasurer has got in cash irried on paper. “Help the boy” has been the motto. People have gnified their willingness generously, now get busy and “do it no among all subse estate. New Britain residents, as well a those living in Newington. will be much interested in the reported plans of the Connecticut company to give ! needs immediate attention. as any one of the regular men who i in the station can be sent out. since coupte of years ago, the s boards have considered des time terment of the service, does not state just what they are. However, it is reported that as soon as the New | Britain-Hartford route is entirely | doubled-tracked the company will maintain a ten-minute schedule. It is also understood that big forty-ton cars of the ‘“pay-as-you-enter” tyne will be put in service. Inasmuch'as two fares are collected between New Britain and Hartford it is hard to see | just how a “p-a-y-e” car would be managed, but it is possible that ths | officials are planning to run it as an express, stopping only in those zones | where either a five or ten cent fars | must be deposited on entrance. At present the stretch between Dwiglhit Court and Market street is the only plece of road not double-tracked and it will not be long before this is don>. Traffic on the Hartford-New Britain | line is steadily increasing and as the suburhan sections increase in popula- tion. so does the traffic on this li . o The state highway department and the hoard of public works at present considering the advisability of having more concrete pavement in this city, and Highway Commissioner Benneft has outlined a feasible plan to City Engineer Hall. Mr. Bennett states that if the city will lay concrete from the end of the concrete road at Allen street to the function of Hartford avenue the state department will lay more concrete north of Ibelle's cor- ner.. If this plan is carried through it will mean in time that there will he a continuous stretch of excellent pavement from Hartford through New Britain. Tt is extremely doubtful if this will he done this vear, but there is an appropriation to fiix up the road between Allen street and Hartford avenue and if concrete Is laid it will meet the approval of a'l, as well as assuring more of this good avement further north. PRI If there is any one subject that keeps supernumerary policemen, callmen and their friendsawake nights it is the proposed civil service rules for appointment. The civil service commission, the safety hoard and the common council have gone carefully over the rules and indications now are that before long the examinations will be given to all candidates. But while the physical ability of a man must be high, so almost must his mental ability as well as other personal char- acters Tt would be possible for a man to pass the tests with 100 per cent. yet there might enter into his composition some element that would make him unfit for appointment. To a certain extent this is eliminated by giving the safety board the chance to pick each single appointee from a group of the five highest men. It would appear however, that in addi- tion to having the physical tests the safety board should be empowered to pick their men with more discretion and assure good choice. This seems more easily possible by the probation- ary system. By this svstem an ap- pointee is named for a definite period, say six months. During that time he does the regular dutles of a fire- man or policeman and his_superiors have a chance to observe his qu ties. If he measures up to the stand- ard he is then appointed permanently If he does not he is retired in favor of some other. Mayor Quigley has expressed himself as in favor of this system and so have several oth- ers interested in the uplift of the police and fire departrients e Slowly but surely the political pot is beginning to simmer and before many more months have passed it will be boiling merrily. It is under- stood that Mayor George A. Quigley is likely to be a candidate for con- gress and now comes a report from out of the west that Judge William J. Malone of Rristol is being groomed candidate to sucreed P. Da Judge Malone formerly in one of the local factories, is well and favorably known here and would get strong support from the voters. With the democrats, it is reported that Major Edward L. Lines of Hart- ford, also very well known here, } planning to enter the state contes looking for election as state comp- troller. . . The deciston of the council to per- mit the safety board to purchase an auxiliary patrol automobile is coming in for considerable discussion. The idea 1s practical. however, and will do away with many of the delays oc- casioned by having to wait until the ambulance returns from one call be- fore it can be sent on another. The safety board is empowered to buy a touring car at a cost not to exceed | $600 and it is understood that a six | cylinder car in good condition is under | consideration. At present the patrol auto has to do ambulance service for the hospital as well and thereby brings in no little revenue to the city. Of- times the patrol is out on a duty call when another call comes in which At pres- ent such a call has to wait until the patrol returns, but with an auxiliary car such delays will be avoided. Tt | will not be necessary for the depart- ment to engage another patrol driv It is ! not difficult to learn to run a machine | and if Officer A. C. Malone, Sergeant | Samuel Officer Gustav Hellberg and one or | two other men learn to drive the ma- chine it will be able to care for any emergency calls that may be received. Bamforth, Chief Rawlings, « . x It is understood that before many | more weeks pass the several regular | traffic splendent adorned with traffic insignias. will blossom forth re- | their coat sleeves | Bver officer with sponding without hesitation. During the past two weeks the boys hava literally run away from the truant of- ficer, the probation officer and the pog lice in general. Arrest, probation and threats of the reform school seem to have no terrors for these boys and they have been making a practice of playing hookey, stealing whatever they could lay their hands on and making themselves generally objec- tionable. ‘When they are arraigned in court they go back to their play- mates as little heroes, and proudly recount their experiences. It has be- come a difficult problem of how to i. deal with them. As one step in this direction Chief W. J. Rawlings has in- structed all his day officers to bring in every boy they see on the streets durnig school hours If this does not suffice to put a stop to the children’s utter disregard for law and order it would be advisable for the authorities to bring their parents into court, ¢ charge them with contributing to the delinquency of children and fine them so they would remember their duty as parents. For after all it is the parents who are at fault. The little runawa in most cases receive no home train- ing at all and so long as they appear at meal time and bed time their parents do not bother to think about them or their welfare. v Veteran membe of Company I, First Regiment, C. N. G., met during'™ the past week to devise plans for the organization of a Veterans’ corps. There seems to be plenty of enthusi- asm and it is to be hoped that the idea is carried through Some of the vet- erans of the Spanish war are skeptical, however, as several years ago mem- bers of the old Company D tried to form a Veterans' corps. All went wel} until it came time to pay dues, thepn -y it fell flat. Better luck to the new organization, however, for the cit¥ or nation can never have too manv patriotic organizations. .- Tomorrow will be observed through- out the nation as Mother’s Day and let New Britain, in common with the rest, join in this testimonial to the best v friend a human being ever had. Every- body loves their mother if she be liv- ing, or if she has passed away, loves her memory, but most people in their daily spurt for existence neglect and forget her. .This should not be so, but since it inevitably is, why cannot every one ohserve this one dayin the vear by wearing the little carnation show to the world tht they do rever- ** ence to their mother. If every one in New Britain should do this tomorrow only He alone will know of the great joy that this simple little act will bring to hearts of those dear souls who have suffered for and watched over us all from the cradle up. It is to 'be hoped that New Britain people will think this over carefully, then act. COMMUNICATT'D. Expression of Gratitude to All Those Who Assisted in Any Way in Recent Mothers’' Congress, Whereas, The 16th annual conven- tion of the Connecticut Congress of Mothers for Child Welfare has come to a succesful close be it resolved That the sincere thanks of this con- gress be extended to the United Par- ents and Teachers Association and the citizens of New Britain for their entertainment and gracious hospi- tality To the first Ecclesiastical for the use of Center church. To the school committee for use of the High school building. To the students of the High school ——the Vocational school and the Gramar school, who in many ways have contributed to the comfort and pleasure of this convention. To the soloists who have lightfully added to the charm program. To the educators of New Britain and other guests whose sincere words have brought conviction into our hearts and help into our lives and homes. To the vice presidents of the Na- tional Congress of Mothers, who have graced this convention by their pres- ence. Be it further resolved: That the gratitude ®of this 16th An- nual Convention of the Connecticut Congress of Mothers for Child Wel- fare be hereby expressed to all who have in any way contributed to the comfort, the pleasure, the joy, the in- spiration and success of this conven- tion. society the so de- of the ¢~ MRS. MRS. MRS, S. WALES DIXON, W. B, WARNER, WM. K. ACKLEY. Mother. Hanging on the walls of memory, Since childhood’s earliest hour, I can picture my dear Mother ‘With her motherhood in flower. Four stalwart sons she’d seen grow up, ¥ Two younger hovered near Her love brimmed o’er for each and all, That blessed Mother dear. One daughter lived to mature ycars, Two others neath the sod; No woman married, lived and died, Whose soul was nearer God. A heart all love and sympathy, God led her by the hand; Her heart was pure, her faith secure, To reach the promised land. And when my life’s brief span is o'er And I cross over Jordan’s tide; The only gift I pray to God Is a welcome to her side. For up beyond the pearly gates, Amidst the Heavenly throng, She's beckoning brother, you and 1, were created a veral safety | the purchase ! traffic posts of chevrons for the traffic police, but | as yet none were ever purchased. Other cities having trafic squad 1ate ruch officers with proper in- s on their coat sleeves and it is New Britain’s police department 1 followed suit. i e x With the advent of spring soceres of l God grant the wait’s not long. ‘When one and all are gathered there, Around God's mercy seat; | She'll plead atonement for us all, | At the Blessed Master’s feet. | With such a Mother, such a love, In the beautiful land over there; If we live as she taught, we'll die am we ought, Ever breathing her name in prayer, —R. E. BEARDSLEY, ¥