New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 20, 1916, Page 5

NEW, BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, SATURDAY, MAY 20, 1916. DELEGATION SPLIT ON FLOOD CONTROL And Brandegee Gives Long Talk on the Army Bill (Spectal to the Herald.) ‘Washington, May 20.—The Con- .necticut delegation split the flood bill, Representative Hill supported the in a speech delivered in the house. Rep- resentatives Oakey and Tilson had previously spoken against the bill Speaker Clark declared on the floor of the house that he im- provement of the Connecticut river & to prevent floods. Mr. Hill's speech was as follaws: “Mr. Chairman and gentlemen, a tew years ago I sat in the gallery of the Chamber of the House of Com- mons {n England, and I heard a speaker make this remark: ‘If by walking across that aisle I could save the English government a million pounds, I would not take one step.’ As I listened to him I said to myself, ‘1 hope the time will never come when my vote on an appropriation in congress will be governed by section- al considerations.’ “In 1865 I came up the Mississippi river. In 1909, I think it was, I went down the Mississippi river, and, with the exception of the magnificent growth in Memphis, I saw little change in he fifty years that had transpired. I saw a section of the country with wealth and prosperity on the east and with rapid growth on the west. I said to myself, ‘T am not on engineer, I am not a person who is capable of deciding how this thing should be done, but I believe that with American spirit and American enterprise it is possible to remove this great waste space between the prosperity and wealth on each side and make it equal to the others, with e uniform and steady growth for a ecommon country right straight through. “Now, I may be wrong. It may be possible that levees will not do it; it may be possible that it needs im- pounding of the waters in the north- west, but I am for trying an experi- ment which will remove this waste space in th eheart of my country, which will improve this great water- way, and give the possibility of pros- perity to these people. “I traveled down the Amur river, in Biberit, where the depth of the water varies at different seasons from nothing to 57 feet. I have seen the river for 2,000 miles policed every day, with the water on every bar measured, with signals on the bank always in sight, and when I saw that, gentlemen, and compared it with what I saw on the Mississippi river, 1 was proud of Russia and less proud of my own country because of the conditions I have seen here. “Now, it may be a mistake; rot know; but we are a great, rich, wealthy country. My own idea in regard to the matter is, knowing as you do about my views on taxation, that T would not put this project into current expenditures in this country. I would provide an income tax for just this purpose, That is what T think an income tax should be re- served for, a great national enter- rrise like this, and I stand here to- day to advocate this proposition for the common welfare of the whole country.” Savings Deposits in Nationa] Banks. Representative Hill has reintro- duced his bill to permit investment of the funds of savings departments of national banks, in modified form, and It now provides for amending section 24 of the federal reserve act so that it will read as follows: National banks conducting savings cepartments, with savings accounts segregated and with five per centum reserve maintained against them is required for time deposits under the Federal Reserve law, in addition to making loans and investments here- tofore authorized by law, may invest the whole or any part of the depasits in such departments according to the laws regulating the investments of savings banks in the states in which such banks are located: Provided, that the state law shall have been approved far that purpose by the Federal Reserve board. Representative Oakey has been ap- pointed member of the finance com- mrittee of the republican national con- sressional committee. Brandegee on Army Bill. Senator Brandegee of Connecticut made a speech full of “pep” against the conference report on the army rearganization bill, which Tejected his amendment providing for a regu- lar army of 250,000 in peace time. “To say,” he remarked, “living in a fool's paradise as we are, that we will stake everything upon the chance that mnobody will attack us and that we will nat be, called upon to enforce our policies or help de- fend anybody else, with out Panama Canal and our Philippine Islands and our outlying possessions in the Atlantic and Pacific; to talk about trusting in Providerce or to preach moral homilies to the tigers and over Qontrol measure favored I do panthers that are raging around the | world licking their chops and seeking whom they may devour; to talk about garlands of roses and the millenium and the brotherhood of mankind simply makes me sick, Mr. President, The Fnglish language fails to ex- pre my feelings in that respect. “When a nation falls so low or be- comes so effeminate or cowardly or contemptible that it will not fight to defend its own ifiresides and its own peopie, or when it becomes so brain- less and steeped in maudlin, gummy sentiment, or so stingy that it will rnot prepare and pay the necessary insurance against the calamities that ] we see have befallen in Europe, I say it ought to go down. I hope the Lord, who is kind to drunkards and fools, will continue to preserve the United States even if the congress will rot furnish anything for Him to do it with.” Senator Lee of Maryland that the national guard would be made efficient under the bill, and pointed out that the provisions of the American and Swiss constitutions with reference to militia are similar. As the Swiss stem of national de- tense is defective, he argued, the American system would be. Bran- replied with the Swiss constitution, but that authority for various provisions con- tained in the army bill for traning the national guard in this country is not found in the American con- stitution. Criticises Rejection in Conferences. Senator Brandegee called attention to the fact that the conference re- vort reduced the army by 75,000 men trom the size which his amendment 50,000 men provided for. He ed the rejection by the con- ferecs of section 56 of the Chamber- lain volunteer federal force pro- vision. The Connecticut senator spoke in part as follows: “Mr. President, I beg to assure the Senator, Mr. Chamberlain, that T estimate him as a true friend of main- taining the national authority of this government and of having the neces- sary force, the necessary military arm, to protect the life of this gov- ernment and its people under any and all circumstances; and I have no doubt that if the Senator cbuld have had his way he would have had a real bill, in which the country could have some confidence and which would have resulted, come what may, in at least affording the nucleus of a regu- lar army organization and a possi- bility of training a reserve for it which would be reliable and which would not disappoint us in case of emergency. ator did the best he could to get the other body to accede to what I would consider a reasonable view of this sit- uation; but I think it is a seriou question after all whether it would not have heen better for the senate conferees, who no doubt believed in the bill which the senate passed, to have absolutely broken with the hous conferees over this difference and to have declined to enter on a system and to commit this country to a system, which T hope will not be permanent, of attempting to rely upon the militia of the several states as the first line of defense after the regular army of this country. compose the militia of the several states are patriotic and well-meaning. They show that by going into militia. They do the best they can. They want to do something to be of servi try. Unfortunately it is not their fault that they can not be made a reliable regular army reserve. fault. It is simply tution of the United States prevents its being done, willing and able s they may be. “I do know It is not their that the constitution militia of the several states can be called into the service of the United cific purposes—to enforce the laws of the United States, to suppress rebel- lion, and to prevent invasion. The trouble about relying upon the militia of the several states as an adequate supplement to the first line of de- fense—to wit, the regular army—I invasion has to be repelled we can not call the militia into the service of the United States. In other words, how- ever well prepared each separate body of militia may be in i own state for those purposes, they can not be immediately called into the field—ta- day, for instance—and put into train- ing camps by the president of the United States, in the service of the United States, for the purpose of hardening them down of testing their markmanship, and of making them proper men to put into the field ser vasion or to meet veterans. Reason about it as you may and cavil about it as vou may, there is that chasm between the militia of the several states and the regular army, that hiatus between the militia and United States, who in Chief of the mili states only when they are called into the service of the United he is utterly without authority them at other times. There | hiatus that can not be bridged; and | this whole bill, so far as it attempts | by the use of language and adroit ex- pressions and phrases to accomplish to process designated as “federnlizing the militia,” is a failure so far as any immediate results could ob- tained from the militia as a first line of defense. Every lawyer knows it. Every army officer knows it. The adjutant generals who have been so insistent here to prevent a regular volunteer army of the United States know it and admit it. There is no use he disguise it. Gegee said that he was not familiar | “Mr. President, the individuals who | e to their state and their coun- | part of the first line of defense as a | that the cousti- | of the United States provides that the | States for three, and only three, spe- | that until we get to the point whero | ice with the regular army to repel in- i THE DEMAND is Exceeding the Supply at the GCommunity Development be =aid brigade about | ate— ad- | United taken | with | “Whatever may the distinguished jutant generals who have a benevolent interest in the ; the | procurement of this legislation, or ‘a( least who have taken a position of | open hostility toward section 56, and I have finally valiantly succeeded in tramping it under their feet and sub- | stituting their own organization in lieu of it—whatever may be said |about them as a lobby, which term the senator from Maryland (Mr. Lee) | who is the champion of this embattled | brigade, resents—I say, I will not | call them a lobby. I see that the | distinguished senator from Illinois (Mr. Lewis.) who claims to divide with the senator from Maryland the honor of marshaling here this host who have vanquished section 56, is very much interested in this question. | Whatever may be said about the | wisdom of the action of this - ' tinguished brigade, they have ducted a propaganda here. “If you do not like the word ‘pro- i paganda’ I will modify that to ‘an | kept track | organization.” They have maintained to our a very effective organization, and they have won their point. I think they ir countr than their | will ever be able to redeem. Be that as it may, that feature is accom- | plished. But I say this conference | report, which strikes out section 56, i providing for the volunteer army, | substitutes a mere authorization that |men may have their uniforms fur- ‘nisherl to them if they want to go into a training camp, and cuts down the 250,000 maximum number £ | the regular army as fixed by the se of Stat the cofntry that he men as a very for a countr con | Mr. press my ment shed to oon imposing burden ers of “Why, | the an Mr. position in con- military services | a take the from whatever may be settled, this country foreign powers. had | I have no doubt the Sen- | How the Texas Tube distinguished chairman Committee on Foreign Relations ‘of the senate, has openly stated to the regarded small of 100,000,000 popu- great erence report which has done all { those things is most regrettable. And, President, I cannot help but ex- surprise and regret and my | have chairman ons committee, the senator from ouri (Mr. Stone,) stand here this and say cven this small army of 165,000 men utterly upon lation and of our that he of expensc this country. President, which Tas been for the past year, and I shonld think anybody who has been | America in the past year and h of current events pertain- foreign relations, beyond peradventure that it was { the duty of this country to keep at have done more harm to their |all times, in peace as well as in war, sufficient skilled field and quarter military pass it might appear. delude himself with the idea that the minute the present Mexican situation present European war may be cease having its dangers from will entanglements and In my opinion are going to be much dent disagreeing J of of ~he|much more frequent in the future than they ever have been in the past. “I wish it were within my power to convince those who differ with me in this respect that what this country | needs, if it is to be prepared to de- fend itself at all—and I am not ar- guing with anybody who thinks it is {wrong to defend the country—is to inave your force ready at all time for it is the sudden emergency, the being taken unaware, that is the great danger. This country is so large territorially and in population and is so wealthy that I am almo't tempted to pardon some people who believe that on those accounts it could regards | never be attacked. But, Mr. Presi- | dent, the larger it is and the richer it is and the wealthier it is the more danger of attack: and the fact that after vears of training and rush and tremendous payments of money and sacrifice of life we might have been able to expel with a thousandth part of the expense than entailed, would i be no consolation to us now. I think those who talk about “militarism” in this country are sim- ply repeating a parrot cry. no such thing, and I do not believ there ever can be such a thing, in this country. But since when has it been considered militarism that a sovereign people should maintain a able-sized standing army and the nec munitions of war ways on hand? “Everybody knows. every boy knows, that the alluring picture of a thousand or a million embattled farmers springing to their arms o the bugle call and repelling the fo 250,000 regular army wealth—the heard the dis of the foreign unjustifiable the taxpay- anybody n that senator would force to meet danger, of the com- Let no senator to respect- have al- the over, its the minute they and greater test Veafin happened ! the | T nettled Bill Parr considerably ! So many Motorists had carelessly stated that “all Tire Tubes are just Rubber.” He determined to show some folks the difference, in a way they would never forget. « There were four Cars at the door, and their Owners or Drivers at his elbow. To these he said,— “Boys,—how strong do you think this Goodrich Brown Tube actually is? “Do you believe it is strong enough to tow Mr. Oden’s five passenger Car, with four people in it, for 20 blocks? “You don’t, eh! “Well now here’s a bit of a Bet I want to make with any, or all, of you. ) “I 'will bet you a Dinner that this little old regu- lar Goodrich Tube (34x4) will not only tow Mr. Oden’s Car, but will tow all three of your Cars,—fully passengered,—through the streets, for the full 21 blocks (more than a mile and a half)—starting and stopping as many times as the crowd males it necessary. “I will,—if you Gentlemen are agreeable,—line up all four of your Cars, right here and now, take three regular Goodrich Tubes hap-hazard out of their boxes, —tie one tube between each two Cars, (which means hauling three Cars on the first Tube) and tote You- all that way to “The Corners.” » “Are you willing to bet a Dinner that any one of the three Tubes will ‘go broke’ on the way, or show a flaw which would leak Air, or prevent its being used for its original Tire purpose afterwards? ‘You are, eh? “Well,—the Bet’s on! “Come along, and yox be the Judges.” * . * HE Dinner was a very Cheerful Affair. As Oden said afterwards (when put- ting up his share of the Bet) “ynvu could have bet me a Million on! that, Parr, and I'd have taken you up,—even if I had to borrow the Million. “T don’t see how the blamed Tubes ever did hold the authority of the president of the | the Commander | a of the several States, and | over | is that | ©out,—especially going up Saco St. under such a strain. “With eight people in the last three Cars,—and a total load of over 8,800 pounds I sure thought to hear something snap before Second Block. . “Whaddye put into that brown Goodrich Rubber anyhow, to make it kang together like that?” Fritz said_that what puzzled him most was the brown Rubber Tubes “not being all stretched out of shape after such a tug, even if they did hang together at the finish. “Look you,” said he, “when we released the load,—after the Haul,—they instantly snapped back into just three-quarters of an inch longer than they were at the start! “And that 3{ of an inch, they fook up again in Iess than two hours rest.” * » * 66 ELL, boys,”—Bill Parr remarked,—as he smoothed out a wrinkle in his well- filled vest, “that’ll stop the Argument about all Tire Tubes being ‘just Rubber,” won't it?"” “If the Brown Stuff that toted all you Heavy- weights,—and your |Cars,—for 21 blocks, without a Sign of Heavy Duty afterwards, isn’t something MORE than ‘Just Rubber,” like other Tubes,—then you'd bet- ter buy the ‘Just Rubber’ kind hereafter. “I'm going to ask all of you to sign your names to this ‘Texas Tire Tube Test,’—just to show that you have taken part in a regular Exploit which is mighty well worth recording.” So indeed they did,—and here is the cffidavit: AFFIDAVIT. This certifies that we, the undersigned, took part in and witnessed, the Texas tube test referred to in the advertisement entitled “How the Texz3 Tube Test Happened !”’—that the test was made on date of Nov. 11, at Waco, Texas, the distance cov- ered being twenty-one blocks and that the result was as described. Signed— W. M. ODEN, J. M. NASH, B. A. FRITZ, W. A. PARR. Subscribed and sworn to before me by W. M. Oden, J. M. Nash, B. A. Fritz and W. A. Parr, this the 3rd day of May, A. D. 1916, at Waco, Texas, Signed— J. G. WREN, Notary Public, McLennon County, Texas. Now what think You of these GOODRICH Tire Tubes that could bear up under such a gruelling test? Reflect that they cost you no more than the “ordinary”’ Tubes you so carelessly accept! GOODRICH =27 INNER-TUBES in attemptling to deny it, or even to TIRE Get Your Location Selected Now at Special Discount Sale, and Start Your Garden Right Away. 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