New Britain Herald Newspaper, June 7, 1916, Page 8

8. E W BRITAIN HERALD FERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY, Proprietors. d:daily (Sunday excepted) at 4:15 p. m., Herald Building, 67 Church St ed at the Post Office at New Britala Second Class Mail Matter. eréd by carries to any part of the city pr 15 Cents a Week, 65 Cents a Month. riptions for paper to be gent by imail, ayable in advance, 60 Cents a AMonth, .00 & Year. pnly profitable advertising medium In he city. Circulation books and press pom always open to advertisers. Hlorald will be found on sale at Hota- ng's New Stand, 42nd St. and Broad- ay, New York City; Board Walk, at- ntic City, and Hartford Depot. TELEPHONE CALLS. THE CONVENTION jlay will mark the opening of the ntion in Chicago for the choos- £ a candidate to bear the colors G. O. P. against President Wil- n the election this fall. _And jhere is a wave of doubt sweep- pe: country with the Windy City storm center. “Who will it is \on the tongue of the United as well as in the minds of the At the present time the barring any too tes. lest possibility, I action on the part of the pro- fes, seems to be Justice Hughes, as not yet said he will accept pmination. There seems to be bt but that he will, the American public has await- the Supreme Court Judge an ion as to his attitude and has waited vainly, numer- legates have been working for ination. It would hardly seem however. in the ey were doing this unless they bmpletely satisfied that he was o .make the run. But if his tion were assured he would un- ily' make a statement. Conse- itiis obvious that Mr, Hughes bus to run for President of the States, but wishes to leave a through which retreat the strength of the opposition po great. And the opposition is The “old guard” is not satis- Hughes. He might prove too ssive.” The Progressive con- which seems to be able to ac- a great deal by sitting tight, tisfied with Hughes, probably he is not Teddy. Take it all it will be hard to find a can- vho will bring all the sheep fold. And the remaining candidates are working, all. one in the string who will p winner of the race? ssibilities of the nomination by the progressives despite bn of the regulars seem to g. Have they seen the writ- he wall and issued an ulti- A divided party will not win will prove the hardest nut for the G. O. P. that has yet With Teddy, and Wilson in the ring there t one answer; witness 1912. Stick still exists. d, white and blue does not efficiency, rather it strength- nd the Big Stick is being bver two .conventions at one same time. “Harmony” will ey of that rest assured. fharmony naught will be ac- d the republicans. And will be mixed in the punch olitics by the Rough Rider to Hughes or Its cover- ote, han. i that between now and the ominations there should be of the clans and the at- the progressives should ho is there for them to sup- ghes is not acceptable and tful if the progressive stand im will change. The bull y may have a trump card eve in addition Mr. but no one seems to be able but the face that h the card. vention is on. “They're off t.” Take your pick of the h know as much as nine out the delegates, even though | nothing. to resembles “THE BABIES” i jhe promise, only a £ warmer weather the city, L health boards, is preparing ake up the duties of car- | by | are afflicted “Swat ose who cident to pmove the rubbish, etc. are ords in the lexicon of the rited citizen. The public nd will continue to be lec- summer. NEW. BRITAIN the children, according to the condi- tions of the family from which they came. The diet of the infant was | proscribed according to the need of the individual case. If the child was ailing a trained nurse supplied the | mother with the neccessities for the i cure. Healthy children were insured | their health as far as human means could do so. Many were the mothers who took advantage of the opportu- nity to gain knowledge as to their youngsters welfare and the proper food for them to eat. The good work will be carried on this year under the supervision of a committee. There is still a need for money to ensure September. forthcoming. its operation until Let us hope it will be MR. HIBBARD Another of New Britain's ploneets passed on during the night when R. H. Hibbard laid down the tools of his trade and answered the Supreme call. For a generation an inhabitant of the city, for many ears a carpenter, and for the last twenty-four a master builder and contractor, he has brought much to New Britain. When street was little more than a cow path he lived here, and when the city had Main grown to a marvelous extend he died. In passing he leaves many buildings of the city as monuments to his skill. Factories and public buildings will re- mind the future of his handiwork. Mr. Hibbard’s activities in the build- ing line were not confined New Britain but his work is spread all about the state. Some of the largest contracts ever awarded were his, par- ticularly in Hartford. The deceased was as successful with his friends to he was in work and there are many in the city who will carry the memory of hi sonality until they past all things mortal. jovial per- themselves are OUR GUESTS About one thousand Americans of Swedish extraction will be the guests of the city tomorrow and the succeed- ing two when the bi-ennial musical festival and convention of the Eastern division of the American Union of Swedish Singers will be held. The city has blossomed out with decorations all an indication of the welcome with which the singers will be received. The delegates will be welcomed to the families of local Swedish poeple who throw open their homes ing the convention. The hotels of New Britain will prove incapable of housing all of the delegates expected as the attendance is expected to prove larger than that of any gathering in this city. days on sides as are to dur- previous The Swedish people here have been working for over a year to make the affair a big success and at the last moment it seems as if every detail to ensure that it will be has been at- tended to. It now remains for the shopkeeper, and the citizen to extend himself in every possible way to render any assistance that might be required by any of the delegates in order that the impression of New Britain and its people carried to many parts of the Atlantic coast by the guests will be of the highest. THE MOUNTED PLATOON There will platoon in the Swedish Singers’ pe We are assured of this less a person than B. G. chairman of the Safety Board. man Babcock does not desire the po- be no equestrian police ade. no by Babcoc Chair- lice to make monkeys of themselves by climbing into the saddles he says. Neither does he wish a squad of crippled officers vainly trying to cover their beats afoot after a strenuous The probably has the right idea but why Britain of sight ? whoever unaccustomed ride. chairman the deprive New The ‘police, planned the mounted squad, are keep- ing it a deep secret as to from whence or originally the mounts would be forthcoming. It is safe to =z lection of equines would y that a gorgeous col- be amassed The irresistable. from the by-ways of our village. combination would be “Someone is always taking the joy out of life.” | King For National Chairman? (Hartford Times). The New York Evening Sun of - urday contained a dispatch om Bridgeport which stated: The Connecticut delegation is pre- pared to boom John T. King, repub- lican leader of this part of the state, the value of cleanliness ard against ill health. joe charities that should not | Bd is the Milk Station for | ch is to open June 26 and continue in Operation as ere are sufficient funas for ance. Station I Wwas originaily this city by philanthropic ap endeavor to help out who were not able to se- r, treatment or supplies fs and to educate them in methods of raising the IMilk which had been pro- ed was sold, or given to for for chairman of the national repub- ! lican committee provided he has a chance to win. It is believed that Mr. King’s friend, Mr. Roraback, will leave no stone unturned to secure the na- tional chairmanship for Mr. King. Connecticut has not had the national chairmanship of one of the two lead- ing political parties since the Ilate nator William H. Barnum (father of State Senator Charles W. Barnum, who is now attended the republican national convention as Mr. Rorab. 5 alternate) filled the chairmansh the democratic national committee For many years the position of na- tional secretary was held in this state when the late Samuel Fessenden of | Stamford was the secretary of the re- | publican national committee. X Time for a King, NCIES. AND S Immigration is on the increase again, and with the dollar sign sev- eral times more prominent than the hyphen.—Boston Journal. empire builders were born huts, it would séem, than in palaces.=Philadelphia Ledger Why not make the last Monday in May or the fir: onday in June Dec- oration Day? Every holiday should be the day after Sunday.—Buffalo Engquirer. Better than the hundred million or five hundred million, whichever it preves to be, is the memory of Jim Hill left among the people of the Northwest.—Buffalo Commercial. Aviators flying over the Sinai De- sert drop bombs on the Turks. The perils that did not confront the Chil- dren of Israel under Moses have nev- er been dequately considered.— Brooklyn Eagle. 2 Peace cannot be assured by our na- tional courage or our sense of justice; but it may be fostered by an adequate system of military and naval prepar: tion which will make a landing on our shores or invasion through Canada too costly for any nation to dare at- tempt it—Binghamton Press. The specticle of the incohesive ele- ments of the Reichstag united in a re- volt against the imperial censorship is a striking symptom of a political dis- e for which even German auto- cracy, with all its resources, will be unable to provide a specific There is a cure. Its name is democrac; And even though the popular German will, on finding its free expression, should turn out to be quite mad, as Herr von Graefe and other conservative e tremists represent it to be, expres would be safer than repr New York Times. All the distorted news reports from Chicago in advance of the republican convention, all the fake betting offers in Wall Street and elsewhere, all the pronouncements of self-appointed prophets as to what candidates for the nomination have been killed off and what candidates have had their stock put above par only serve to empha- size the fact that the promise is still for a real convention and that no- body knows as yet who will be the nominee.—New York Press. What can the convention at Chi- cago do but accept its platform the “principles” of the ex-president who split the party in 1912 and elect- ed a democratic president, and take himself as the only candidate who could be trusted to carry them out? Can there be anybody else who would be “primarily” an adequate embodi- ment of those principles as a man of deeds? The only possible alternative must be another split in the party, un- less, indeed, Roosevelt was bermitted to say who the other man is, for no- body else would be competent to name him. If this is not an attempt to the party, under a threat to beat it again if it does not submit to dictation, it would be difficult to find a. definition of it. It may result, like the coup of 1912, in electing Wilson a York Journal of Com- “boss” The suggestion that Genereal Wood might' be a compromise candidate 5 t0 mind his work in the Phil- ki “uba. In Cuba General ved extraordinary abili- in managing diverse elements in Such a manner a5 to get the affection and confidence of the people. He proved to be a great administrator nd diplomat- The splendid railroad laws of Cuba were largely his desi ng. Lord Crome nous fir work in Indial and Egypt, nas e 2 modern times In any other country he wouq no placed in charge of our Mexican sit- tion Among his qualifications iy g ties ngular ability in winning the cop fidence of our Latin neighbors, g uch confidence because he ig just, able and considerate.—New Yorl Mail (; Mr. Hill Credit. (Bridgeport e Farmer). Mr. Hill shows more adaptability to changing conditions than Senator Mc- Lean, though the latter is the young- er man. *nator McLean has never come nearer to the present portion of the twentieth century than he did in his declaration that “fereign goods are more to be feared than foreign guns.” Mr. Hill until very recently also had the notion that the tariff was the is but now he knows better. Twelve inch guns are the issue. Mr. Till wants bplenty of them. He is going to use them for letter car- riers. He proposes to deliver rc ! pean mail at the m s hem. 1fortunately Mr. Hill's schem for parcels post and genecral mail se been worked out in de- Vhether he will shoot in a a time at a time or a whole t mined d experience service and i new vice has not tail. lette gful is Mr. Hill h ing the postal ))n expedient. Being much at dete in aid- in need of funds for election expenses in his last campaign, Mr. Hill wrote an appeal pathetic enough to extract cash from a Bes semer steel rail. Not desiring to trust so thuch hope to the mails, he de- {livered his appeal in person into the hands of James A. Farrell, President of the Steel Trust who was stony hearted. Mr. Hill will soon he running again, 1this time he can mail his appeal to | Mr. Farrell at the muzzle of a twelve inch gt If that doesn't bring re- sults the case is hopeless [ There is one issue which is ¢ | up-to-date in Mr. Hill’'s dist and , that is the ten thousand dollars in ampaign funds that was collected and expended for his election last fall. A little later Mr. Hill may be willing to talk about that issue, DAILY HERALD. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 7, 1916¢ N “ARWAYER RELIABLE" Suggestions . LINENS TABLE DAMASK $1.19 yard, value $1.50. New designs, EXTRA QUALITY (70-inch wide) 79¢ yard, value $1.00, PATTERN TABLE CLOTHS (All Linen) June Special $2.50 each. Extra Sne finished patte Table Cloths. Size 72x72, $2.98 each. Size 72x90, $3.50 each. SPECIAL 3-YARD CLOTHS at $4.00. SCALLOPED TABLE CLOTHS Size 68x68, $3.98 each. Size 71x72, $4.98 and $5. each. CLOTHS Size 60x62, $3.75 each. Size 60x80, $4.59 each. LINEN SETS Sets' of 15 doz Napki and Hemstitched Table Clo Set complete, size .$5.50 each. Size 60x80, $6.50 each. FULL LINE OF ALL LINEN NAPKINS $2.50, $2.98, $3.50 $4.50 dozen. Linen Huck and Dama Towels, at 50c¢ each. LUNCH CLOTHS 98¢, $1.25, $1.75, $1.98 50 each. $3 L MoMILLAI 199-201-203 MAIN STREET. Preparedness Marching Slow, (Troy Times). stated he hopes to secure ditional men within the comir certainly not a number. to warrant fears of dan tarism.” It is ved can be nulated 900 or more post off postmaster soldier secured in this way. The appropriates $20,000,000 for a ernment nitrate-manufacturing There is also provision for training camps 5,000 rous ‘‘m heli rect vy using the *es of the count . I milit after the order of that this the The tained is arded best featu increase in adual, will n maj re Plattsburgh, many the and as one of measure. ven tho ate the selec and the S that cret about ary of War 500 new ippointed during the n them comir 1 most of life and being d examination. islation is conc g from c ited after care o far as national 1 rned preparedness m be marching on; but certainly it ‘not proceeding at double-quick, for volunteer citize McMILLAN'S W BRITAIN’S BUSY BIG STORE, for the June Bride All Linen, 68 inches wide, ALL LINEN DAMASKS splendid ! values, $1.25, $1.50, $1.75 yd. DAMASK Special Size 63x63. I At $3.50 each, good value 98 HEMSTITCHED TABLE ns th 60x62, and sk to Bureau Scarfs and Shams, 49¢, T5¢, 98¢ to $1.98 each. President Wilson has signed the Army reor ition bill, 2and the new law is in full force and effect. But it will be some time before any sub- stantial increase in the military strength of the nation is discernible. The Secretary of War has formed plans for enlisting soldiers, and it is ili- ry, being allowed $5 for every | ov- ant. ary ns, at by of the e on of additional offi- esti- Lieuten- ext ivil ful eg- nay is | Surprising Millinery Bargains at the Big Store’s | New York Resident Buyer’s Sale B 5 These hats are exact copi able shops. mer flowers, new Crepe or Satin, others wings, have the ished. WHITE Floppy soft shapes, droop- ing mushrooms, flat low price of 98c. O8C MILAN SHAPES Closely sewn and made of a white. Special at 98c. LEGHORN AND PANAMA TRIMMED HATS s of models now on display in New York’s most fashion- Included in these panamas and leghorns are trimmings of beautiful sum- grosgrain and velvet ribbons. Quite a few have new extended chiffon brim becoming light hat in this special assortment. Priced at LEGHORN SHAPES You Elegantly sailors. Beautifully made and fin- with Splfxfh or : crowns. ese Good selection at this S York Resident B is 65c. G WE HEMP black o good quality milan hemp. high crown Shapes are the large and me- e T dium sailors, side rolls, I e : mushrooms, saucer shapes, for spo etc. New, clean and pure S HATS C FREE values. are sure to find a woven blocked in newest shapes of rolling or straight brims, cial price during the New C BANDED SAILORS Complete assortment of prised at these wonderful $81.9S8S WISE, SMITH & €0., HARTFORD | SL.1 facings of Values to $5.00 NEW STYLISH PANAMAS and telescope hats are The spe- uyer’s Sale r white in the new styles with ims or with narrow Are just the thing rt or semi-dress You will be sur- Special at $1.98. | WHAT OTHERS SAY | Views on all sldes of timely [ questions as discussed in ex- changes that come to the ! Hernld Office. Hypocrisy In Convention Assembled. (New York World). Although Roosevelt out of at Chic that seems com- we are o, is the only pletely it bound admit he aspirant for the Republican nomina- to tion who represents an issue. The other candidates only émboce the Re- publican yearning to return to place and power. If there were any polit- ical honesty in the Republican op- position to Wilson. Roosevelt would be the Republican candidate. He alone has translated this pre- tended opposition to the President into the definite terms of a platform. He favors a foreign policy that could lead only to war, in place of Wil- son’s policy which has kept us at peace. He favors conscription, against Wilson’s policy of voluntary military service. He favors the total abandonment of the old ideals of the Republic, to which Wilson clings so tenaciou and the making of Amer- nonymous With force. the country after which remodel the Republic with an elected Kaiser, but a Germany in everything else ex- cept the crown and the court. All of Roosevelt’s speeches are an enun- ciation in one form or another of Ger- man political doctrine. Most of them might have heen written by Bern- hardi. All of them would have won the approval of Treitschke. Search them, and not a word will be found to suggest that the author had ever heard of the Magna Charta or the Bill of Rights or the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution. They are built up on the hypothesis that the citizen exists for the state, and that it is the duty as well as the right of the state to control all the activities of the citizen. The citizen | belongs to the state in a military way, he belongg to it in a social way, and the state ®nould recognize him, con- iy velt wou —a Germany trol him and shape him after its own image. This is the Prussian con- { ception of human jety and it is | Theodore Roosevelt's conception. If the Republican aftacks on the | President’s foreign policy, on his pre- | paredn policy, on his domestic poli- | cies, mean anything, they mean what | Roosevelt advocating. There can i be no possible issue over the ques- | tion of whether peace should be main- | tained by this kind of note or that | kind of note. There can be no pos- sible issue over the question of wheth- er the regular army should consist of 216.000 soldiers or 250,000 sol- diers There can be no possible issue the question of whether Con- should add five battle-cruisers and two dreadnoughts to the navy in one vear or six battle-cruisers and two dreadnoughts. There can he no issue over the question non-partisan Tariff should be appointed President or dent. All that the Republicans have said in ecriticism of Woodrow Wilson leads them straight to Theodore Roosevelt | but when they get there they have | lost the courage of their crookedness. own medicine is too strong and | cannot swallow it. and now they | are looking for the candidate who | will most nearly resemble Wilson but | who can be called by some other lname. of whether a Commission by a Democratic by a Republican Presi- Sr | State of Connecticut have not alway | nomination: Job E. Hedges, former Republican candidate for Governor of New York, once wrote a book to prove that the worst evil of American politics was not corruption but hypocrisy. The Republican National Convention is an organized tribute to Mr. Hedge's treatise. The State G. O. P. (Hartford Post.) Republican political news in <on- necticut will be mighty scare during the next week or ten days. With the bigger chiefs at Chicago helping the party nominate its presidential can- didate little can happen here that these leaders cannot undo within 48 hours after their return. Meantime those who were shouting that Frank Healy's quest for the nom- ination for governor was already as- sured of success are beginning to see that Mr. Healy's fight has but just started. Mr. Healy has made great progress principally because he has had no real opposition. True there have been candidates against him but they have been merely individuals like himself ambitious and with only such strength that they themselves built up. Of all these candidates Mr. Healy was the strongest and he found no difficulty in placing himself in a commanding position. Now, however, Mr. Healy has to reckon with the people who make He has to reckon with some of the strongest forces in the party who have been opposed to him at all tiffies, but who have not ex- hausted their strength in a prelim- inary campaign. They have allowed Mr. Healy to do all the work, know- ing well that if they can organize a combination to beat him they can do it as easily in the last six weeks of the campaign as at any time. In or- der to beat Mr. Healy these men will require the support of State Chair- man Roraback, or at any rate they must secure his néutrality in their fight. With Roraback actively against him Mr. Healy cannot hope to win. With Mr. Roraback’s hands off—act- ually as well as professedly—DMr. Healy will have the time of his life defeating certain of the big par leaders with the chances against his doing it. In spite of the great progress made by the Healy boom, many observers of politics have been unable utterly to see how he could succeed in the end. This view is summed up by no one better than Colonel Osborn’s and Courfer sums it up to- when it says: “The well-informed Hartford cor- respondent of the New Haven Sunday Journal - a Union writes to that newspaper that J. Henry Roraback, the experienced chairn of the Connecticut Repub- lican State committee, is not in favor of Frank E. Healy, for Governor. ‘It is known,’ wri this correspondent, ‘that Chairman Roraback, while per- sonally friendly to Mr. Healy, does not believe that he would be the strongest candidate to nominate and for that reason he is opposed to his candidacy.” The nomination of Mr. Healy for Governor on the republi- can ticket would be both preposterous and disastrous. He was removed from office by a republican governor, Rollin S. Woodruff. upon charges of political corruption after a Republi- can Attorney General, Marcus H. Hol- comb, now governor of the state, had investigated them. The voters of the exercised the finest judgment in se- lecting their state officers. but they have never shown disposition to condone acts such as Mr. Healy was found guilty of. It will not be Healy his year,” | Thus far without didate the opposition. has been a candidate. Finding a can- difficult. Some men w. is might be named—such men as Howell I Cheney of Manchester, Charles Brooker of Ansonia and others, unwilling. It is reported that the op- position is flirting with Colonel Fran- cls T. Maxwell of Rockville, a com- manding and important figure in the state, but there is nothing to indi- cate definitely that he will be respon- sive to such firtation. Many men have believed that the republican party will, in the end, turn again to Governor Holcomb. The only thing against that belief is the fact that Connecticut Republicans never renominate governors. On the other hand Governor Holcomb knows that as well as anyone, yet he dec ed months ago that he would serve again if the people wanted him and retire if they didn't. The response to that was to point out the precedent against renomination, but in spite of that reception Governor Holcomb has, within a week reiterated that he is still ready if Connecticut wants him again. Governor Holcomb isn't the type of man who would deliberately set him- self up to be knocked over. He doesn’t need the publicity or prestige a cam- paign for renomination would give him. If he never receives more honors he can rest content. Yet he j declares he is ready when, if he want- ed—to put it badly and slangfully— “to save his face,” he could as well! decline to say anything about it. It is just barely possible that Gov- ernor Holcomb, who was Attorney General when Frank Healy was turn- ed out of office, is quietly indignant at the prospect of Mr. Healy becom- ing his successor. It is just barely possible that he believes the republi- can party is in an extremity and that he conceives it his duty to take t stand he does. And one thing must not be for- gotten. These are few pairs of men in Connecticut who are closer in each other’s confidence than Governor Hol- comb and State Chairman Roraback The State Chairman has regard and respect enough for the governor so that he would not permit the gover- nor, without warning, to put up his lightning rod if to do so was alto- gether a mistake. If the state chair- man had made up his mind to some | one else he would consider it his duty as a friend to notify the governor and had the governor received such noti- fication he would not put himself in the position of being turned down. Hence it is well to keep Governor Holcomb in mind considering the republican situation. His party may turn to Colonel Maxwell or some other dark horse, but it is just as well to be prepared for the possibility that the republican party may decide to upset some precedents. Democrat.” Still (Springfield Republican), When somebody asked Mr. Bryan in Chicago wherc he is reporting the republican convention, whether he would take the prohibition nomination for president, the reply was that he could do more to serve that cause by remaining in the democratic party. Certainly democratic love for prohibi< tion stands in need of promotion. The former secretary of state, by the way, predicted the nomination of Hughes in his first letter. He makes the tour of the various headquarters like any other reporter. Everyhody is dis- posed to interview Mr. Bryan, hut the results are meager. He has been there too often of old to be caught now He is till a democrat—very still,” as the late David B. Hill once sald, .