New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 24, 1916, Page 6

N d NEW, BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNE§DAY, MAY 24, 1916. — e - s e m— BR{TA“R HERALD 1 <hould be written on the statute books | to have, both in the selection of Presi- ol 9 | i of all schools a law making it a crim- | dential.and Senatorial timber, failed Mc Mgi ,I .AN S T el any pupll to answer [in their promises. When all is said ! "CIAL v EW H MILL nal ‘offenseffor amy pur LR NEW BRITAIN'E BUSIBW? | & A ]:4 $ALE OI' N W ITE INERY a teacher’s questions with the stock | and done the national conventions will BIG STORE \ “ADWAYS RELIABLM" [ERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY, Provrietors. p datly (Sunday excepted) at 4:15 p. m., | phrase “I Don’t Know”. Aside from | have the final say in selecting the can- Herald Building. 67 Church St its terrible offense against rhetoric it | didates, and for proof of this we re- d at the Post Office at New Britain Second Class Mail Matter. red by carries to any part of the city pr 15 Cents a Week, 65 Cents a Month. iptions for paper to be sent by ma! yable in advar 50 Cents a Montha, f.00 a Year. pnly profitama advertising medium in pe ‘city. Circulation books and press pom always open ‘o advertisers. erald will be found on sale at Hota- g’s New Stand, 42nd St. and Broad- ay, New York ¢ Board Walk, at- ntic City, and Hartford Depot. TELEPHONI! CaLLS. pss Office . oot ial Ronms N EXPENSIVE BUSINESS. at it costs to run a war may be pred in some sense by a vote of asked in the House of Com- vesterday by Premier Asquith, requested and received the sum ,600,000,000, which, he said, middle of the And August i H last until th veek in A hree months moved from the nt his is tt eventh vote of the Premier has received since eginning of the war, and the [d , during the current financial The total granted this year has $3,000,000,000, making a grand of $11,910,000,000, These s are so stupendous they r the imagination to the plane where a poor mar |gather somewhat the meaning all, they show that the current jses of running a war, according | psent day standards, are about 0,000 a day for any one concerned. The Premier will ck in the House of Commons in August asking for more to run the war. The moral is, s should 1look before they into war. And yet, Greece he verge of bankruptcy owing great expense of being neutral. is sometimes as inconvenient Jr, what with the various con- s that show themselves during urse of neighbors’ quarrels. PRDS TOO OFTEN USED. e schools, in the laboratories learch, we are made acquainted, e vast amount of things there be learned in the world, the dge that lies hidden, awaiting gic touch of study. The boys 1s who ply their time between y hall and the class room, with onal glimpse into the work- orld at large, are the men and of the future who must carry ch of enlightenment for those who have been denied, or who ¢hances of education. For st part, however, the young that hold forth in the care- lalm of school do not for the t appreciate the a®lvantages Reduced | | This latter phase,of her career .is has no place in the language of the nation. For not knowing things they should know, men have lost out in the race of life. Aspirants to high honors in all walks have been summarily crushed to the depths of despondency because they knew not what they should know. Therefore, we submit the aforementioned account of the three greatly abused words in the English language,—we will put it that way,—for what it is worth, trusting that the superintendents of all schools will order shot at sunrise all those pupils who stand up in their places and blatantly announce they do not know lessons they should know. The trouble has been, some pupils know too many things they should not know. BOSTON’S PARADE, Boston, following the spirit of New York, will en next Saturday turn out | scme seventy sthousand men and women in a.. preparedness parade. Attention has been called to the fact that this day marks the ninety- { seventh anniversary of the birth of the great American writer, Julia Ward Howe, prison reformer, op- ponent to slavery, promoter of woman suffrage-and peace advocate. taken as an ill omen by some of the Poston newspaper§ w feel that come better anniversary should have been selected by the committee on arrangements Yet, those who have 1ead Mrs. Howe’s works will readily attest she was not a peace-at-any- price advocate. Nor was she a woman who would sing, “I Didn't Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier.”” She was not a pacifist in the sense the term is used today. She saw where the Revolutionary war was fought for freedom’s cause, and she knew why the Civil war came about. When a war ‘is righteous it calls for no ap- probium, Then, Julia Ward Howe wrote the “Battle Hymn of the Re- public,” a stirring march song that might well be sung in any prepared- ness parade. when the idea of pre- paredness i fense. not for war but for de- WHAT THE PRIMARIES FAIL TO DO. This time- four years ago Presi- dential preferénce primaries were well up near the top of all important issues in the campaign. Much ora- torical fire was leveled against the old- time method of selecting the nominees for the Presidency under the plea that the people practically had nothing to do with the selections. Because of this, preferential primaries were urged and the claim set up for them that ‘e being showered upon them. is that when the youths and gaily approach the commence- Hay exercises and receive di- certificates that they have fol- prescribed courses of study, the | ught prevalent at that moment dom. ‘““We are free from the routine of school work,” they h one grand chorus, silent, but nce often lends enchantment iew. Five years out of school o great difference. Then it is ose whose spirits were crushed \welght of books realize the bt all :gf.t teachérs and in- s {attemipted to do. From a Ir of pedagogy who deplores the pt there 3520 much of the “I now,” sometimes coupled with [Don’t Care,” spirit in our pres- /life we have received the sub- esfay, one very much to the n§and again arises the ques- totwhat three words are used test! extent in our English ®. Without having at hand pilable istatistics, it is safe to 4ninety-nine out of every one @persoms would say “I don’t Howieasy it is said, and how moment that simple little sen- Femsito- settle all difficulties set pat tbut let us stop, and ask bs thisaquestion: ‘What would 1d be itoday if in answer to bstions everyone should say Many people, ves, vuse this sentence be- care;for nothing but their asurepand so with a shrug of oulders, and an ‘I-don’t-care’ 'ss on.§thinking of nothing but way out of ey dif- Is the iprogress of the world Exedit Ror EN It o T he comy 1y few (Who when intormation t from them do not even cop. e ‘I don't know' phrase, o e question fresh in ming fmselves the answer, ana able mot only to gain i mselves, but push the worlq head By Amparting knowledge 's? So'when possible let us be all questions. Never show the knew’ side of our lives, but ‘Learn to do by doing’.” of philosophy these, There plest eck S0 they would bring the Presidency near- er the people. It was argued, and with much force, that this method would institute a more direct system of se- lecting the nominees. The same good words were spoken for the senatorial primar: cure-all of political ills, confirmea as the panacea, the catholicon. Yet the nation has just come through an epi- demic of Presidential primaries and the situation is not at all cleared up; on the contrary it is more befogged than ever. The states that have held Presi- dential primaries succeeded in bring- ing forth names for the Presidency in superabundance. . The men who launched their candidacies in regular form have in some cases been sup- planted by names- of men holding aloof from the preliminary race. All sorts of conditions have been brought to béar on the case and the geo- graphical situation of-any one state is enough to insure some radical change in the tentative program. Old- time politicians like Senator Cummins have been superceded by Henry Fords, peace-at-any-price men, anybody with a slogan and a grievance against any regular platform. Some states have centered on one man, totally ignoring all others, as in the c; which ¢ its favorite son, Charles W. Fairbanks. of Indiana, its entire primary vote for These are the conditions prevailing after a liberal use of the primaries. Out of the maze that has settied over the country the names of Justice Hughes, Elihu Root, Theodore Roose- velt, have been over and above all simmered down to Hughes and Roose- velt as fhe most discussed candidates in the Republican party. Yet these same names have been beaten to a frazzle in these states that have launched forth candidates of their own. So there is no judging the en- tire outcome by a study of the primaries. And it is doubtful if the for the presidency today than they were four years ago when the primaries were advocated as the | Prover solution of a time worn prob- lem. On the contrary, the primaries seem to have neatly tied up traffic, to have made it more difficult and e> pensive to choose men for office, and They were annointed the | t people are any nearer to selecting the | spectfully urge all doubters to await the action of the Republican National Convention in Chicago during the first week of June, and the Democratic Convention at St. Louis one week later. The proof of the pudding is in the convention. President Wilson is now “in Dutch” with Peru. Soon the United States of America will be a Garden of Para- a for ‘“‘Americans only”. FACTS AND FANCIES. Between the Germania and the Anglomaniac sits the man whose soul is so wrapped up in the baseball scores that he doesn’t know whether the Kaiser is in England or “in Dutch.”—Buffalo Commercial. The increase of Hughes sentiment in the Republican party suggests the possibility of a stampede at the outset in the convention. In view of the fact that Justice Hughes has kept en- tirely aloof from politics and has | made no-statement of policies the de- velopment of strength is remarkable. —Wilkesbarre Record. If the Austrian steamship Dubrov- nik, with non-combatants, including women and children, on board, was sunk by a French or Italian submarine the note of protest sent from Vienna should receive the careful attention of the State Department. It is well- nigh incredible that any of the Al- lies should now sanction a policy which they have so severely con- demned though it may be that some rash commander has compromised them. There should be in any case a strict investigation of the accusation. —Philadelphia Ledger. The Sun, we are sure, will not be accused of ambition to secure a place in any Roosevelt claque for any po- litical purpose. We may therefors freely confess our admiration not only of the substance of his remark- able speech at Detroit, but also of its patriotic spirit and manifest dis- interestedness. On these issues of Americanism and preparedne we should be content to have Colonel Roosevelt write the platform of any political organization or of all the political organizations about to enter the campaign for the control of the federal government.—New York Sun. Apparently we are coming to a change in the history of the zreat war. A similar change came after Gettysburg in the Civil War. The South renounced the idea of con- quering peace on the enemy's terri- tory. It clung for two vears more to the idea that it could win free- dom by defending the territory its armies held. This was the last phase of the Confederacy. The new German policy, if it is a policy, can- not be taken as other than a con- fession of weakness. The problem which remains to be faced is: Will Allied strength of will endur ir it does, it is not hard to foresee new German suggestions of peace, this time hased on the prospects, not the pre situation Tribune, A Pronounc azetter. (Harvey W. Wiley, in the Buffalo Courier.) At Portland, Ore, (a tourist I, Unlettered in the nomenclature), T asked a tar T chanced to spy The river's name. Quite true to nature 4 His answer showed a citizen Of regions famed for spaghetti, “I canna tell for sure, but then We calla Willamette.” Again T sought the DProper name Accasting one who seemed au fait, With broad-brimmed hat and giant frame T thought he could not say me nay o' ton But whar I live, in Arizony, Things is jist nateral, and vou bet We'd call that river Willamette.” Quite in despair I tried once more, And this time struck a real Port- lander. In mute contempt he looked me o’er (I certainiy had roused his dander). “Bach kid,” said he, “upon the street Can trippingly that name repeat, And you don’t know? Why stranger, damn it, That splendid strecam is called Wil- lamette.” Obituary Notice, (Philadelphia Star.) It was the last half of the fourth inning, and the home team had three ‘men on ha and nobody out. The next man up was the best batter on the team, if not in the entire league. He advanced to the plate swinging three bats and wearing a confident smile on his face. "The stands were in an uproar of enthu m. Sud- denly the umpire stepped forward znd held up his hand. “Game called . 2l en account of darkness”” he an- s, with the present day situation | ot £ ! ! nounced. He leaves a widow and three children. A Real Fish Story. The fish story is no longer received in the best society, ‘according to The Buffalo Commercial. But that news per remarks that one hears of the fish story now and again out in the cold, cold world. So hearken to this one from The Boston Globe: *John V. Avery of Port Jervis, N. Y., was smokir 1 fishing when, secing a pickerel darting toward his hook he became excited and dropped h cigar through the hole in the ice. The pickerel leaped for the bait, captured it and the cigar. Avery drew forth the fish, which retained the smoking cigar in its mouik ” The story failed to mention the undotihted act that the nicotine-loving pickerel dwas knocking the ashes off with his and Velvet Spring models. Mercerized priced $1.25 each. 2-clasp broidered backs. gauntlet and Kayser creations at $1.00 p Kayser Long Silk Gloves, WOMEN “The name scems French and king Ao least In a Bus (From the Hastin day with Conrad GOAT SUITS COATS "'AND SUITS Marked Down $17.98 FOR SUITS Values up to $27.50. WOMEN’S COATS Reduced to $15.00. CORDUROY SPORT CO Reduced to $3.98. White, Old Rose, Copenhagen, SILK TAFFETA DRESSIIS $16.98 Each Value $20.00 to $26.00. FORTY-EIGHT DRESS! Marked down for quick ecl Now. priced $3.98 to $12. up to $20.00. Dresses, MIDDY TUB SILK BLOUSES o $1.98 Kach Plain and striped. DAINTY For the Holida; At $2.98, $3.98, $4.98 oot Georgette Crepe: Silk and Lace Net effects. KAYSER SILK £LOV 50¢, 75c, 25¢ Black, white, gray, BOOT SILK HOS. 5¢, 50¢ Pair In all the wanted shades. SILK LISEI 25¢ outwear so- hose and look silk finish after washin: navy, sand, palm beach. MEN’S SOFT SH! Band Style, Special 69c Xach line of Trunks, Cases (built for travel). NEW PARASOLS NOW COLORED $2.98 to $5.48 each. right fin. But how cigar 1 having been dropped throug in the ice? iniscent of an that a Buffalo trip on a Canadian Wimming sunfish up with a cigar band on his the band the fish was picked up fr the boat. had just mi cused the dying restrained only iy open on the Anderson chickens and s this writing. recent bovine fa 26la Walter Elizabeth I 1k Haligan ing at 9 o'clock at Father Healey, st was sever: Mr. and Mr: living in the east Olexa went to he takes operator for the Burlington. Silk Taffota Serge Combinations, Silk Popl Combinations, BLOUSES Priced 97¢ Each Poplin in plain 75¢, $1.00 | 'S SILK LISLIT slate, | defense of their city against SILK The whole perience | after the fish of E from ripping Nebr has Schuma his mother Pfeiffer Eischen last corn for N r spent Sun- Helen's church Specially Suitabie for Decoration Day Wear White Trimmad Panamas White Trimmed Leghorns White Trimmed Hemp Hats $€).75 7] A choice selection of over 300 beautiful models in large floppy and medium sailors, artistically trimmed in-the latest styles with white flowers, white wings, \\//~ white ribbons, white ostrich and white novelties. WHITE FLOWERS—Daisies ‘" roses, panmsies, cherries, pond lilies, etc. All styles. Values I L WHITE FEATHER BREASTS—Large size- Well made. Regular $1.49 value Special for Saturday, i 98¢ OWL HEADS-—Good size. All white, makes a very handsome trimming. Special 35 for Saturday, at .... (¢ WHITE WINGS — Several styles. White and clean. 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C., May 24.—Dublin is the subject of today’s war geogra- phy bulletin, issued by the National Geographic society from its headquar- | ters in Washington, which sa; “The revolt in Dublin recalls many stormy episodes in the history of the Irish sea 334 miles northeast of Lon- Irish sea, 334 miles northeat of Lon- don and less than seventy miles from Holyrood, the nearest English port. | Even its legendary history, going back to the third century of the Christian era, is filled with stories of conflict, one of the earliest being a narrative of the defeat of the people of the sur- rounding province by the inhabitants of the town in o 14 “‘One of the most tragic events of Dublin’s early history is an echo of | this hatred of the people of the coun- try districts for those of the city. The ; covering five acres, is now occupied ! by the Bank of Ireland but was for, occurrence 1s commemorated in Irish chronicles as the Black Mond of 1209. It was during the Baster holi- days of that year, strangely paralleling the time of the present revolt, that the Irish of the surrounding mountains rushed down into the valley of the Liffey river, on whose banks Dublin is situated, and, while the inhabitants were celebrating the religious holid 500 of their number were killed. Th place of the massacre is still known as ‘Bloody Field: and for many yvears, in order to keep alive the sense of outrage against the hill people, the cit- izens on each anniversary of Black ; Monday would march to the sceae of the massacre, bear banuers in- seribed with the legend ‘A tervor to the Native Irish.’ “Even in the early days the vigor with which the peor of Dublin \ged their internecine strifes did not n the impetuosity with which | they entered upon any conflict with a foreign invader. They tore down their churches to secure ones for their walls when preparing for the Edward Bruce in 1315, and when the Irish gov- ernor, who had vielded to the enemy, | fell into the hands of the defenders, { he was brought to Dublin and starved to death. “One of the most spectacular out- breaks of the sixteenth centu was that led by Silken Thomas (Sir Thom- as Fitzgerald) a daring youth noble- man, who, upon hearing that his fath- er had been behcaded in the tower of London, raised a large army and marched to the gates of Dublin, where he was admitted by the intimidated citizens. Shortly afterward, however, when he endeavored to leave the cit = | he found the gates locked. He made | his escape, carrying with him some of the children of the city, and with | these hostages he managed to securc | the release of all his followers Sub- | sequently this rebellion wa quelled d the leaders were e> ted at Ty- [ burn in 1536 “It was more than a hund ith of Sir Thom: conspiracy to seize Dublin e revealed by Owen Connolly on the day before the attempt was to have been made. This was during the rebellion | of 1641, and it was Connolly’s mation which saved Dublin for armed forces. “Another Fitzgerald loomed up as a fact in Irish unrest about the time of the French Revolution. He was Lord Edward Fitzgerald, a leader of | | the United Irishmen, who had re- ceived his military training in Amer- jca, serving under Lord Rawdon in the Revolutionary war. Lord Edward | was one of the most picturesque Irish leaders of the 18th century and his beautiful wife, the amous Pamela, as an equally revolution of 1798, during which Lord Edward was captured and thrown in- | to prison where he died of wounds rex ceived in the struggle with the officers | who arrested him while in bed. «A greatly-loved Irish patriot and orator, Robert Emmet, headed the revolution of 1803. Emmet, whil trying to make his escape aiter an abortive attempt to seize Dublin Castle, was apprehended as he was saying farewell to Judge Curran’ | daughter, to whom he was devoled His speech delivered on thescaffold | the following day is one of .the hest- known examples of impassioned Irish oratory. William Smith O'Brien, from the South of Ireland, was the leader of the rebellion of 1848, in which Dublin took little part. The Fenian society’s activities of 18 both in Ireland and in America, kept the cap- ital city in a turmoil for many weeks. “Dublin Castle, which figures so conspicuously in the city’s uprisings s an unimposing structure built ori inally during the first quarter of the 13th century. It covers nearly three times as much ground as the United States capitol building in Washington. Another building of impressive size, merly used as the house of parliament. The most famous institution of the city is Dublin University, or Trinity college, founded under charter from Queen Elizabeth in 1591. “Commercially Dublin is famous for its poplins, i whiskeys and its por- ter. At one time its woolen, cotton fand linen manufacturies were exten- sive. Huguenots fled to this city and estabiished cxtensive silk works after | the revocation of the Edict of Nantes.” DENMARK. Methods Worthy of Study n Country (Louisville Courier-Journal). In Denmark the bread home- baked and the heer home-brewed, The women spin wooden yarn which the | village weaver makes into cloth, or which they knit into stockings. The women make their own dresses. Often they make clothes for their hushards tand sons. The men make wooden shoes for the family and house furni- ture and farming implements. And the efficient Danes set Europe an ex- ample of intensive farminz and { dairy-keeping. One result is that Danish butter is eaten in couvntries east of the Suez canal and south of the cquator. Vast quantities of Danish butter are shipped into the British isles and to continental coun- tries, but the output is so great, the quality so hizh and the reputation of Danish butter so widespread. that it | finds customers in lands as remote from the Danish farms as Patagonia or Tahifi. Jutland formerly was described by geographers as a sterile waste. Tt i now a scene of highly profitable farr ing The pasture® are so small that every blade of grass must be turned into milk. The farmers are so provi- dent that they tother their cows in rows and allow them to crop the gras within reach, removing them to the | next uncropped grass the next day and thus steadily mowing each mead- ¢ | cropped again. ng. Cromwell, James II, and Wi~ | liam III in turn visited Dublin with | »pealing figure in the | ow. When the side of the plot of ground has heen reached the pon the side at which the g was begun has grown enough to he The humidity in the atmosphere keeps Danish pastures green when those of many ccuntri are parched, and the process of mar- keting grass as hutter is not often in- terfered with by drouth. If the territory now under farm fences in America were as productive as the farms of Denmark countless millions would be added to the wealth of the United States. If dairy farm- ing were, uron the average American farm where herd of milch cows is kept, the s ntific industry that it is upon the tiny Danish farms, this country would be exporting butter and other “finished” products of the | farm to all parts of the glohe and exporting less grain, which reflects soil depletion, while dairy farming causes soil enrichment and results in he farm being handed down from father to son richer for each gener: tion’s management off it as a pro- ductive enterprise. choose from. Reg- What Ts A Church? (New York Tribune.) The differences between the Rev. Mr. Johnston and the vestry of Trin- ity church, over in Newark, which led" to his resignation, seem to have as their basis a widely varying concep- j tion of what a church is. The gyman quotes one vestryman -as ing that a church should be run like a grocery store—to please t patrons—and as the proportion of sinners’” to “saints” in Trinity con- gregation was nine to one the ser- mons should be such as would not di turb or irritate the majority. A nst this idea the rectur set his own—that a church was more than a corporation or an in ition with members and a governing board, to be conducted according to certain policy. He believed in preaching without censorship, in djscussing pres- | ent-day problems in their relation to religion and religion’s relation to them, as well as more abstrac: the- ology. The net result he described thus: “Some one has said that run- ning a boys’ school is like sitting on | a live volcano. The comparison is not inapt. Running a parish in Ney with a conscience alive to one's cial environment and the social mands of the religion of Jesus Ch Is quite as interesting and quite a full of volcanic foci as any boys | school.” The situation appea I'not unlike the one which the dropping of Dr. Scott Neari the University of Pennsyi university authorities vigorously denied that his services had been discon- tinued because of radical theories d pleasing to some of the contributor But not long thereafter the governing body adopted a new set of regulations ve to the tenure of office of mem- bers of the staff which wer preted as afeguardir in future fr such an experien men and college professors irded, and rightly as lead ers of public opini pub in a high and truc o minister or professor It is fortunate, indced of freedom of cxpre ] Ui by those who should in forming the pul so seldom mportant A DIAGNOSIS What One Colonel Conciudes About Another Colonel (The Louisville Courier-Journal.) The Advo of Newark, O., pub- lishes the following > initia Regularity But, sky There comes involuntarily hen the reat hapr flection that : ngul Dless with the “marital termed, of many women carly to the altar expectir new estate much vielded them in the way ation for giving up the tre independence But there probability of such happine seending upon Theodore like the blessing of a soft rainfall upon a parche Nothing short of residence White House will make h happs He is not the vearning spinster who has missed marriage hy a mile byt the widow who looks back upon marriage as a reality as iridescent as a dream reflecting the effect of the sweet slumber of hopeful youth upon maiden meditation As long as the White House and Theodore Roosevelt co-exist t colonel will gaze 1o ly at the out- side of the American “roval palace” and hope for the inside. As lo he is outside he will try regul to set inside. Breath will he wasted by anyone who urges him not to tempt fate while wooing fortune, The Turk at midnight in his guard- ed trench is dreaming of the power of Russia.—Brooklyn Eagle. »