New Britain Herald Newspaper, June 17, 1916, Page 6

there raore disloyal men the than there are Americans. But there is good to belleve that these alien conspirators are in the minority, that four years more, unle: are W BRITAIN HERALD HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY, Proprietors. in country reason 4 daily (Sunday exce: pted) at 4:15 p. m., it Herald Building, 67 67 Church St. e S the men wha seek vengeance ‘ed_at the Post Office at New Sritaim Bed Second Class Mail Matter. = cainst an American president —— { cause of his dealings with erea by carries to any part of the city | % | or 15 Cents a Week, 65 Cents a Month. | Powers are insufficient in numbers to | riptions for paper to be sent by mal {c o har: . | ayable In advance, 80 Cents a Month, | {C the harm they - 7.00 a Year. rate, and those who sympathiz only profitama advertising mcdium in e city. Circulation books and press bom always open to advertisers. dream. any | they with them have reecived the warn- | America is for the Azn(‘rwlns.% —_— | sovernment is not to be directed | erald will be found on sale at Hota- | s New Stand, 42nd St. and Broad- | {rom Berlin, or London, or ay, New 'York City; Board Walk, at- | . ntic City, and Hartford Depot. grad, The from or any over-seas capital, democratic platfor aside TELEPHONI CALLS. £ St ess OMce fal Rooms this one eat plank, is not fundamentally different in many re- spects from the 1 the Republicans. Even to the tariff Britain’ members of the Boy | program, whereon the two great pan- ts of America will rejoice in the | ties have always differed, there Is that the President of the United | comparatively no chance for argu- s has signed the bill incorpora- | ment - this The their o With th that tariff rates are neces- | e of the pen-an organization to meet world’s to zes form 4 t by OUR BOY SCOU ANtobleg iRy W vear, Democrats anization S | recognize OF { carily subject to change that started ifl a small way now | changing. conditions in the esan institution of national im- | yroquetion Hivn sl all the y . that entitles. At thi 190,000 boy of just trade. nce, with dig ascertain what these chancg prate pride may be the democratic congress is tarift | and ng there are ered ‘providing for rartisan commission ta a *.non in the Boy Scouts of make important ica. Counting the scout masters | thorough study of every heir ants there are more | ppet that may throw li 2 0 v is 4 5 200,000 with this | cur past ar upon our jment that has attracted Youns | pqj The ica, larger than | removal all pntire: standing army ‘and navy. | i economic 84 ht either upon associated future fiscal | program calls for a clements of from the and a a membership of uncertainty aof men period unrest and business the'backbone of preparedness. | «phere [Boy Scouts, while not receiving | yusiness rict military drill known in in- | continued ions set up for this work, do get | 4nq confident hdamental. training that Will | pemocrats them in good stead should the | roprm keep them pver come when the country | they could have framed a document itheir services, 10 more But they h: even a greater drawing card,—the man of the hour. Woodrow Wilson, the great American, must appeal to Americans rlatform. America, pledge to to secure for them of prosperity. a quiet, assured, Were the their plat- in depending on alane to power attractive. ve AMERICAN PLATFORM. prsing the administration aof lrow Wilson, and sound demo- poliey at home and abroad, the al platform adopted by the| ratic, party assembled at St. carries a plank on-Americanism even more than a party NO LEATHER SCARCITY, After all we are not to go bare- footed thig:Summer, if there is to he any such season. ill commend itself to the entire i as one 'of ‘the finest bits of rever advocated by any po- organization. There will be no fm of it from the republicans, any American party, for the at this | Pair of shoes made in America, seems somewhat | to have been wrong. The secretary of the executive committee of the National Boot and Shoe Manufacturers’ ciation, who extra dollar asso- some time ago said added an would be to reason that to scoff lar plank a in The price is not | he was wrong. cach | g NEW. BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, SATURDAY, JUNE 17, 1916,“ Gition that has never existed. Those | for seeing men who took refuge in the import statements rather than follow market rumor have rendered a very great service to the American | | consumer, who already is L’,rc:dl.\'i | overburdened with false prices. foreign | PRODIGAL'S RETURN, maore than a THE It somewhat vear since William Jennings automatically removed himself from President \\'Elsfih‘s cabinet. During of that time he has now | Bryan the greater part wandered up and down the length of’| the land, shot at by members of his own branded as disloyal Democrat, made fun of those of cther political faiths, and generally held up to ridicule. He got what he deserved, in the estimation of men, He deserted the ship of state at a time when all sailors should have stuck to the decks. Now, in St. Louis, Mr. Bryan has heen again received into the fold. ¥rom his seat in the press stands he was i to address the assembled multitudes from all over the countr he did sa in the spirit of a peni- Whatever his sins of the were forgiven him then Whatever his motives Wilson party, a by most vited a and tent rast they and there. resigning from the son. in cabinet, The fact that stands out aver and above «ll others is that the prodigal has re- turned. This simple act of the Com- moner presages good fortune for the future. He has signified his intention of going the stump the whom he helped to nominate in Bal- in 1912, By again the they arc now overlooked. one on for man doing so Bryan prominent figure timore becomes he before. and his peaple will be with him heart was He has a following, and soul in his new Time is the great healer of all ills. course. | A man who has occupied the place in American politics that William Jen- has held cannot stand the disgrace and calumny that were Feaped upon him by a public that felt He was a discredited an until he came out openly and admitted the errors of his way. And ‘just as he was condemned for his false step, he will be praised for coming back. The fatted calf will be killed, the neighbors shall eat nd nings Bryan polit and be me For the first time in sixty years the [y platform would be to enlist | going up. There is no ncea suct bthe banner of- disloyal Ameri- | & thing. The republicans boted over this a]l vhen they met in Chicaga. ming campaign is to center on of the da preparedness, th P. starts on its race under a ap. Before the two ‘conven- | lic has been suffesing b et at their appointed camping | that they should not be compelled to ! the extra dollar on each addi- pair of What hs borne by Where these men who ma themselves | up the association claimed a shartage of leather, others have come out of througha important | | and | | | proved therc shorta product. the land is no this retailers conferences Some it is have held with and o at ues the wholesale and, after studying | conditions, have decided that the pub- long enough, nism s each was presented with a | Pay g from foreign interests not to | tional shoes made this sum- e any candidate who was not disposed to a certain | 5 | ropic souls as too much American | thropic souls. The proposal to add a dollar to the based upon the war had cut off the The president of the 1 ted that rdships wrought by the these | mer. o1y war will be philan wWho those who felt the man in the | House had proved himself un- | Price of The Re- | Pretext that the by | SUDDlY of hides w shoes was b to: foreign interests. this challenge who was favarable eailledihyphenates. The Demo. | before the war the United States pro- broved bold and daring enough | half the fwer the -attempt throttle | needed to supply the shoe tra hurling forth this pronunci- | this count that the other hz from the Scandinavian countries, from pever, actuated by the p“rpowi Germany, Russia, Aust: France and mote the interest of a foreign | Italy. “Hide and: L in disresard to our own!organ of the shoe trade, is welfare or to injure this e G ent in its foreign relations or ts industries at by arousing preju- religious or other discord and strife | {; > as to obstruct of \:‘:"S;‘a“mk; | in the hide > 7€ | there does not seem any reasonable ges of citizenship - repose I} .. ung for experiencing shortage in f J=lova Atoghisn oottty raw or finished materials, Outside s 2 “1‘,““1““‘“ :‘:d | of stacks of leather and shoes in first e ;h::w‘?:}f”:;‘?q;a“‘:y LS| hands there are accumulations to B o o and conppire to.|fome extent of shoes and other B the purpose. of erabarrass. | 1eather merchandis arried by Jr)‘h- B Sisiing i movernment or | Por | 2n0 fetallete - (indountedly broperly influencimg or coercing | {P€e May be scarcity of novel styles lie Tepresentatives in dealing |0 Shoes, but the great trading in B otiating . with any feveign | Slaple goods does not.seem to be 8o dharee that such Nm"hnm[licrrrl in any way by dearth of supplies. i arn?ng 2 ‘hmlt(‘(\ S ‘[“Vetcr:\n and experienced shoe and B B D e gated o e | jeather manufacturers and whole- teriment of our own country foxendjso hlshisoRto '”f“)‘ Sons ondemn any political party mption and to stimulate substitu- in view of the activity of such EoS ok gnof s S sathiony : ; < has been so prosperous for s r 2r'S ity surrenders its Integrity concerned that there marked its policy ndency to conserve this prosperity séntiments come’ from the | znd not rush toward rocks and pen oq' Woodrow Wilson. | shoals.” voi¢es his stand. What | °ts and figures sometimes throw principles there | different light the platform | Where the imports from the countries | s soon overcome. already mentioned have undoubtedly | in our poli- show kns met Rtirtbine to | association in question h duced only one of ther e in to . k £ came a ather,” the chief now puts a on the result that the | somewhat whole affair, with the of the United high Sttes may be It people ved the extra has s to say: careful study of conditions and leather industrie a racis prices. creates our peaple holesome proce: hiess to trust “From n t gr being tion. rators i difies is e tion to these a on conditions, have been in Alien | fallen off because of the ¥ impor- of hides in from ‘Mexicc The months 508,000,000 no place they their | tation and skins have been coming Argentina, Brazil and Columbia. in nine 1 must be stamped broad foot of democracy. mports of has ainst skins end- M s against 8957000,000 in 1914, and 191 Nor there a decrease in hides. The slaughtered for ex- administered | hides and such the ca must st blow es. As way there invidious with were gets This not be an is s although it the omount of rats ta do what their Republi- | port and left undone. This then fily feature of the Demo- and iLg \paizn pounds a be 383,000,000 in was ue an large rem 1ed for cattle consurmption » the of From all the for native ranks of should in bides | Unitea States is the leading ship- the nations of the According to the report of the of Navigation 1,200,000 e now being built in shipyards as against 250,- ilder among world. Commissioner ve -1s tonnage American 000 in 191 The Russians are taking Austrian prisoners at the rate of 15,000 a day. If this little plan of capture is to keep up much longer the Austrian army will spend the summer in detention camps. Lo, the poor newspapermen in Ger- many; three thousand newspapers out of business since the war began.— Florida Times-Union. young man, if you mar 2 knows how to economize, there will be more money for you to spend.—Galveston News. Also, of Ford jokes—the an- nual tax on a Ford car in New Eng- land is now 0 a year, and going up joke.—F have avorite son go without was - Henr heen expected who came running on Tord.—Boston the out of a flat Globe. Von Gluck has again offered his services to the kaiser. They may be accepted, but he will hardly be sent out azain to capture Paris—Charles- ton News and Courie A Boston man spends more than is extravagant. Maybe. extravagant as that lantic Constitution. says any one who week on food but not so atement.—At- Woods Hutchinson why we shouldn't we would rather reason why we should.—Phil- Inauire o), know What good adelphia wants Some of the London theaters are now beginning the evening perform- ances at 5 o'clock. This enables the audiences to get home before the Zep- pelins begin to fly.—T.os ~Angeles Times. The Kaiser is reported purchased and stored pounds of our copper. about the only way he allies from getting it.—Indianapolis Star. as havimg 50,000,000 seems Mr. Hearst's German-American is pleading for a campaign without p sonalities. A man with M political past naturally o personalities in a campaign. ork World. Horrors Of Love. (Boston Globe). Be careful not to fall in love. cording to an Ttalian medical jour researches have been made on blood of people in love, and marked has been found. If the bids | foreg that Amer platform, the pldnk that i e Lo b put the party, and the man at ple were almost.on the \ e of the party, in power for | verge of being penalized for a con- not speedily cured, love may lead to urasthenia and even | memorjal tablet of Charles | insanity. So | in marriage. lelimes it even res: {le WHAT OTHERS SAY Views on all sides of timely questions as discussed in ex- changes that come to the Herald Oflice. A Lesson in American Citizenship. (New World). In delivering a eulogy of Gen Rob- E. Lee university on Jan. York ert at Washington and Lee 19, 1907, the cen- of the birth of the great southern commander, Charles Franc Adams described the situation as “to a degree dramatic.” “So far as.I am aware, never until now has one born and nurtured in | Massachusetts—a typical bred-in-the- bone Yankee, if you please—addresed at’its invitation a Virginian audience on topics relating to the War of Se- ‘cession and its foremost Confederate military character.” Not 1é8s dramatic was the situation yesterday at Lexington, Va. when during the graduating exercises a Francis Adams was presented to the university by citizens of Richmond in apprecia- tion of his friendship for the South. Speaking for them, H. W. Anderson said: They would join his name and fame with that of Washington and Lee in the keeping of this university, believing that in this union may be typified the greater union of American life and ideals; that through this union may be. inspired a more exalted concep- tion of American citizenship, Charles Francis Adams had been an officer in the Federal army facing Lee in Virginia. He stood for all that the south had rejected at the price of war. He was the grandson of the man whom the south had tried to keep from speaking against slavery in the halls of congress and had threatened with hanging if he came into its ter- ritory. He bore a name execrated wherever the institution slavery was upheld. In honoring his name, the southern- ers who erected the memorial at the university of which Robert E. Lee be- came president after the war have given expression to the best ideals of this republic. They have raised the standard of a united nation that the youth of the north and south shall ever uphold it. of It Is Forbidden, (Meriden Journal.) If those conservatives who oppose any broadening of the Sunday laws in Connecticut would study the laws that are now on our statute books and real- ize how closely we are hound down by the rules that have heen in force for many years they would welcome a change at once. For instance it is just as illegal for a good church mem- ber of Meriden to go to the post office for his mail on Sunday as it for him to sell liquor in Lis parlor. Tt is just as much an offense against the laws of Connecticut to buy a bottle of milk from the milkman as it is to open up his business on the Sabbath. Tt is as heinous a crime to drive to church in an automobile or behlnd a horse as it is to get a shine or a shave. The Waterbury Republican, which has made an exhaustive study of “ver- boten” laws prints a list of, the things which are forbidden on Sunday calls attention to the many things that one cannot do and still not become a lawbreaker. If some of these agitators againsi healthful outdoor amusement Sabbath would only realize th are all law breakers they might think more sanely about these things. Here is the Republican’s list of the things that the people of Connecticut are forbidden by law to do on the Sabbath: The purchase not only of meat and groceries, but also of milk, bakery products, ice cream, candy, cigars and tobacco, matches, toilet articles, writ- ing papers, magazines, books and sta- stionery, newspapers, camera films, soda water, soda fountain drinks, gas- oline, tires, oils. Running automobiles pleasure or travel. Repairing automobiles. Cleaning automobiles or wagons. Playing golf or caddying. Playing tennis or baseball if the games are to be counted in awarding a prize to teams in a league, or to in- dividuals at the end of a series. Working in one's garden. Playing baseball or tenni Where except in specified public par in the prescribed hours. . Concerts anywhere except in spegi- fled public parks and between the pre- scribed hour Going to the post office to get busi- ness mail, Getting a shine. Getting have. Riding, ariving or froma livery stable. Taking a photograph for which charge is made. Holding a picnic for which tickets are sold or admission fee charged. Buying, selling or exposing for any property, including newspay ‘wr_mn': for or ~ print Sunday morning newspapers after midnight Saturday. Writingy for or printing Monday morning newspavers before midnight Sund, Sprinkling the lawn. Maling ice cream or other unneces- sary foods in one’s own home. Giving music lessons Conducting band rehearsals. Working for a lodge or club as sec- retary or in any other capacity as an employe. % Hiring a b going in ing place. Selling flowers, Bookkeeping, counts, on the they either for hiring a horse a At or a bathing suit or wimming at a public bath- or auditing of ac- Giving or attending motion picture shows or concerts, | ’ Town Topics { As has been predicted, civil ser- | vice for the appointment of Tegular policemen seems to have proved a It has not put an end to favoritism or “pull.” The only goad it has done has been to insist that the | candidates dt least be able to pass a | stated physical and mental test, but | under the old system the commis- sioners having appointing power cer- tainly had sufficient intelligence to select a man the equal of any wha| could pass the present civil service examinations. But the old influence and’ “pull” are salient as ever in waking the appointments. At least one man secured his recent appoint- ment: principally through official in- fluence. One of the safety board in- | formed the others that a certain | semi-official person suggested a par- ticular man as a desirable policeman and said he would like to see him namesl. To make sure that the right man was named this member of the board had the clerk call the semi- official person on the telephone and irquire again. The clerk was then instructed to check off the name on the list in order that it might not be mentioned aloud and the members of the press learn who it was wha was getting named through influence. The man’s identity is known however. The obedient clerk checked off the name and the man was summarily appointed. All talk that the civil ser- vice will do away with influence is bosh, and at the very first meeting this was jproved. The manner in which the other ap- pointments were made is alsa being severely criticised. Fifteen men were | cligible for eleven appointments Commissioner Howard M. Steele de- clared that he did not know who the | candidates were and in voting he| would have to vate merely for a name and a set of figures. He sug- gested that the candidates he brought before the board so the could size them up and vote for| whomever they wanted. His sug- gestion was not entertained and al- though he protested, he had to pro- ceed to ballot for a name only. The method adopted is likewise open ta | censure. The chairman of the board, | taking the list, read off any name he | chose and the members of the board were Instructed to cast a ballot for bim if they wished him appainted, or to vote ‘“no” if they objected. As Commissioner Steele sald, it was only a name to him and naturally every one suggested by the chairman was unanimously acepted. Then, after ten men had been named and there rcmained five more from among whom one had to be named, the chairman suggested that, in order to | be fair, the commissioners take the quintet and select the man they) wished. Even then there was more pussyfoot work. A whispered con- ference was held and at the con- clusion one man was unanimausly ramed. Where the board is being censured is in that they did not pro- ceed to ballot on any man any in- dividual chose to name, rather than let the chairman make the Tecom- mendations. If it was more fair to select the eleventh man from one of five candidates, why was it not just fair to name each one of the others from the entire class of fifteen, letting each commissianer cxpress his preference by ballot 1ather than having the chairman name the man and ask the hoard to accept or reject him? There is no doubt that Chairman Babcock was tair and honest in the way he con- ducted the meeting, but it certainly would have loaked better and made hetter feelings all around if he had not taken it upon himself to suggest the names. There is at present a feeling of uncertainty among the candidates and a feeling of dissatis- foction on the part of those not chosen who feel that if the chairman had only suggested their names they too might have been among the lucky ones. It would seem suggestion ta look the over was a sensible one. members of the board thought it would be a reflection on the ecivil service cammission to ask to examine the men they had passed, but that would not have been so. If any one of the commissioners was to hire a man to work far him he would not take a list of applications and say, “I'll take this name.” Certainly he would not, even if his employment agency had recommended all of them. He would say, “Let me look at them all and T will select one.” That is the sensible way to do it and it is to be hoped that when any future appointments are made the commissioners will nat be asked to vote for a name and figure, but to vote for a man they have seen and judged for themselves, even though he has previously passed the civil service board. \Although theatrical performances of a risque nature have been pro- hibited here by the authoritie was not until the present week that a mo- tion picture was stopped because of its alleged immoral character. On Tuesday a picture was shown and happened to be witnesseds by Thair-, man ward H.. Prior of the publ amusements committee. Ho consi ered it too blunt in its sugge: and the following day so advised Mayor Quigley. While he was tell- ing the mayor two other men ap- proached, one of whom had seen the picture, and the other said his wife had seen it. All three agreed it should be stopped. Mayor Quigley then requested the manager to stop the picture and he did so. As soon as it became noised about, how- ever, that a picture had been stooped, the curiosity of countless people be- came aroused and the following night there were many at the picture house hoping that the film mignt be shown and they too, be permitted to see it. All of which tends to show that while the public will throw up its hands in horror at the objectionable, it will nevertheless g0 out of its vay to see it and be ¢orrespondingly shocked. farce. | | [ members | that Mr. Steele’s candidates The other ““I Wish You Women,” Is Salutation Here Washington, D, C., June 16.—If the reported occupation of Ruanda, Ger- man Fast Africa, by Belgian troops from the Congo, and their establish- ment of a provisional governrhent in this territory prove to be authentic, one of the richest colonial prizes of this world has been won by the nation which has suffered most in Burope. Concerning this region, its | péople and its colanization possibili- ties the following bulletin has been issued by the National Geographig jts Washington head- ¥ society from quarters: “If Belgium {s able to retain her hold on the Ruanda regian of the German FEast African protectorate she will possess the most densely | populated as well as one of the most fertile and salubrious territories of Central Africa. Ruanda lies to the east of Lake Kiwu, through which runs the boun- dary line between® the Upper Congo region and the German possessions. To the narth lies British East Africa. The Kagera river, also known as the Alexandra Nile, flowing in ifregular 3 shape, east, north and east, and emptying into Lake Victoria Nyanza, is the eastern boundary. il “While there are two considerable tracks of forest in Ruanda, the cen- tral portion of the territory is hare of trees, but on the mountain slopes there is to be found wonderfully rich grass, on which gr: magnificent herds of cattle that tute the chief wealth of tho The ag- ricultural possibilit he reglon are almost unlimited “One of the most riking advan- tages of this territory is its high al- titude, an average of nearly a mile abtove sea level, so that although it lles under an equatorial sun, the tem- perature is usually about the same | as that of a warm summer day in | centra]l Europe. Malarial mosquitoes | are not kno here, nor does the dread tsetse-fly hover over tne land, bringing sleeping-sickness to human beings and quicker death to cattle “Two remarkable contrasts are to | be found among the natives of this region. The highly developed, intel- ligent Watussi are magnificent phy- sical specimens, lithe, well-propor- tioned, and athletic. It is nat un-| common to meet men from five feet | cleven inches to seven feet two inches | tall. On the other hand, on the is- | ere particularly land of Kwidschwei, in the Lake Kiwu, and in the bamboo forests ofigy Rugoie the traveler finds the pygmy Batwa tribe, whose spear-carrying warriors are under five feet in height, shy, timid and devoted almost en- tirely to the chase. The aborigines Lelong to meither of these = tribes hawever, but are the Wahutu, a medium-sized, agricultural - peeple. The black sultan of the region, ‘ohe of the world’s most pawerful poten tates ruling in territory held by white colonists, is a Watussi. FHis woxrd, subject to the censorship of the Euro- pean resident or governcr, is law to a million and a half people, “There I8 abundant water in Ruanda, the small mountain streams never running dry. When the grasy Lecomes parched on the hillsides tha natives ‘burn it off end Immediately their springs up fresh, tender pas- turage for the cattle “The perfunctory satutation among friends is one of the interesting cus- toms of the country. Upon meeting they either place their arms lightly about the waist or else grasp each other's elbows, holding them for a while, then one declares ‘I wish yqu cattle,” while the other replies, ‘I wish you women. “This region was first ‘explored in 1894 by Count von Gotzen, formerly governor of German st Africas who came from the coast as far as Lake Kiwu, about which Arab traders bad frequently brought vague reports. This beautiful, island-dotted body of water, 5,000 feet above sea, level, wag the last considerable lake to a covered in Central Afr Its outlet is the Rusizi river, which flows souti into the famous Lake Tanganylkd. “One of the most noted parties of exploration which has visited Ruanda was that headed by Adolphus Fred- erick, Duke of Mecklenburg, who marched through the territory with an impressive retinue of carriefs in 1907-8. In has report he said of thié region: ‘Ruanda is eminently adapt- ed for colonizagion by white# mem The country possesses a fabulous amount of wealth in its herds, to the breeding of which its pastoral people devoted. Also agri- culture may be carried on in a re- munerative way, for the quality of the cattle itself is as excellent as that of the milk they yleld. As to the quality of the soil, it simply lea¥eg nothing to be desired, so that it is . evident that there is a splendid open- ing here for the ablishment of business on a vast scale. be children regarding certain pictures | shown at different times, the com- plainants having having the erroneous idea that as chairman of the public amusements committee Mr. Prior has supervision of the commercial amuse- ments. Mr. Prior does not intend to set himself up as censor by his act | of the present week, but he thinks, as do many other people, that the the usual hard luck story. “Too strong to work, but not too strong to beg” seems to be the slogan of this class. Clear them out! . * A. J. Sloper, ‘ Judge Klett's the republican national con- vention, is being jollied considerably beca of his resemblance to Senator Reed Smoot of Utah. On the first day * Hon. guest at time has come when certain classcs of picture, void of any moral lesson ! or particular point, should be exzlud- | ed. But while the picture may he ex- | cluded here, such action only helps | to make advertising capital for the | producer and in the next city zhei photoplay will be heralded as the ono | stopped by the New Britain authori- | ties. With this spicy information whet the appetite, there is no doubt | that the picture will draw larger crowds, anticipating a rude shock to their sensitive modesty that it would otherwise. P The action of the hoard of public works at its meeting Tuesday ev: ning, when a petition for a sidewali from Beaver to ' .Allen street on Farmington avenue was turned down | because the petitioners were not res dents of the thoroughfare, has caused some dissatisfaction among property owners in that section. ~ Prominent people directly responsible for the de- velopment of this locality have pended large sums of money naking improvements and now that these are completed, they feel that property owners at the entrance to the street should justly come forward and- do a part of the work. With the vote of the board to allow the petitioners permission to withdraw, the matter does not end and some interesting ar- guments may be put forth by the r dents of that section to force others to place their sidewalks in passable condition. The signers of the petition are heavy taxpavers In the northern section of the city and fee] it is about time steps were taken to eliminate the poor. conditions that exist, and end the traversing through ankle deep mud, to reach thelr own homés and prop- erty, .o Many of those interested in the po- lice department are wondering what will become of Dennis O’Keefe, who was voted out of a job by the safety board. True, the board recommended that the chief detail him to do regular duty so that he will still have enough work, but what will that regular work be? During the summer months he can be detailed for vacation duty In place of a regular. Then what? Tt would appear that the loquacious “Denny” will have to hang around waiting until some officer wants to take a day or night off and then do his work, or else do special work at dances, weddings, ball games, etc. In any event it is hard to see where he will have any steady work or res- ular hours, but will' have to take what is tossed him and be thankful that he has not been fired entirely. * . x With the appointment of eleven new policemen it is hoped that this department will eliminate a growing nuisance—the street panhandler. With ; the coming of good weather, Mr. P. H. is in evidence almost daily, particu- larly north of the Main street cross- ing. With business conditions as they Chairma Prior has -eéeived nu- exist at present, there is no need of | of the convention he was hailed by a Howdy, mistaken on several who greeted him as there, Smoot.” He for the western senator other occasions, westerne: was Judge George W. Klett has the dis- tinction of being the original Hughes man in Connecticut. He was the first o publicly declare himself in favor of the supreme court justice and at Chicago was one of his most ardent" | supporters, having been one of Frank Hitchcock’s aides in putting the Hughes boom. through .. In New Britain the once formidable Bull Moose seems to be an extinct ani« mal. D. McMillan and E. H. Prior, as well as other once strong progres= sives, have been herded back into the fold and have expressed themselves as favorable to the G O. P. candidate} Justice Hughes. e second ward red 1 anxio Residents of the wondering what has happe their several representativ council and are especially garding the laying of the north side of Whit tween Stanley and John st Two vears ago this matter was brought be- fore the council and a sidewalk dered. The Whiting Land company was not satisfled with the damages awarded and the case has been pend- ing in the courts since. Not long ago Councilman Spencer put a motion hess fore the council to compel some sote tlement that will permit the laying of the walk, but as yet nothing has heen done. Particularly in the early spring this street is in terrible shape Churchgoers, school children tory workers and pedestrians in general use this walk daily and during the spring thaws it is a vertible sea of mud. A sidewalk is a necessity thers and unless the representatives in the council do their duty and insist on a remedy some individual action may be taken which will reflect seriously on the manner in which the ward is being represented. Why a $40,000 Man Got Fired. In are to the ¥ s re- sidewalk on street Re- or- the July Woman's Home Com- panion is the following story of how and why a $40,000 man got fired: “A big commercial house in the middle west raised the salary of one of its officers to $40,000 a year. “The officer was greatly pleased. Now my ambition satisfied,” he said. “Within two years the concern haa found a way to dispense with this of- ficer's services.' It was done cleverly and smoothly; the man never svse pected the real reason why he was re- leased. “The head of the concern had over- heard his remark. ‘We want no men in this business whose ambition is s.t- isfied,’ he said. ‘When a man is sat- isfled when he ceases to plan = and fight for the future, we begin to losed is merous complaints from mothers of | healthy men lining the curbs to hand | money on him.”