New Britain Herald Newspaper, June 23, 1916, Page 8

IN DAILY HERALD. FRIDAY, JUNE 23, 1916. W BRITAIN HERALD HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY, Proprietors, ued daily (Sunday excepted) at 4:15 p. m., | at Herald Building, 67 Church St tered at the Post Office at New Britaim 48 Second Class Mail Matter. tvered by carries to any part of the city for 15 Conts a Woek, 65 Cents a Month. pscriptions for paper to be sent by mall, payable in advance, 60 Cents a Month, $7.90 a Year. only profitabla advertising mcdium In the oity. Circulatton books and press room always open to advertisers. p Herald will be found on sale at Hota- ling’s New Stand, 42nd St. and Broad- way, New York City; Board Walk, at- lantie City, and: Hartford Depot. TELEPHON iness Office torial Rooms T CaLLS. SR 126 5 26 AT'S THE MATTER WITH THE COMMON COUNCID? jp 1898 when New Britain sent its ta of fighting men to the front the pmon Council of dis- yed voted that year in the project to the The men who some inter unanimously give k a goodly send-off. posed that council made elaborate Amer- public tions, ordered out the the bedecking of and they themselves accom- e boys in blue to the station, troops had been r In 1916, some eight- Ir the viewed he mayor. vears after the Spanish War, New in is sending another detachment oung men to that mythical fight- ine sometimes called “the front” the Common Council of the city tak: action one way or meeting of mblage last Wednesd but from all the recognition the er boys got there they might just ell have been not on the earth. jith the Common Council of 1916 n no a s a in Europe or it displays less interest in such s than did the Common Councll | 987 fwould seem that out of all those fied gentlemen who sit sc soberly | mberly behind their mahogany 1 in the City Hall there would be st one who possessed patriotism Eh to recall the significant thing moment; that there should be | pst one among them who could ber the duty of a city to those o forth from its confines in the of soldiers and defenders of ption. Yet the moment for such b came and passed, like a ship : night, and no one saw it ap- h and no one saw it go. FEven fman Jester that august de- of all that is sood and true, oble man who holds the Interest city at heart, Laat great, big, | crificing spirit who sometimes he Common CounciF in the ab- of. the Mayor,—even he neglect- unburden- his soul on the fer- juestion at hand. And he has tions that lead dangerously to- How then does r expect to g: that high honor he neglects the fundamental les of Americanism? He is cognized leader of his party on gor, he is the captain. of the | in charge. He is the republi- ardian of all that is good and Ih the Common Council. missed this | | | the mayoralty. puld not have pity. any member of the Democrat or Repub- should lon Cou 1, have let slip Into the d!=ca:‘d‘ this members of the reserve of the United States. All other fn this immediate vicinity ha cognizance of the occasion and orious opportunity to show to the e . | it would not be less ~ | bler. What is the mat- | | carry guns bigger than | a speed equal | greater than the fi | efficient Surely | | op- | what a monster in naval construction | the new battleship would be, Uncle | Ben lets a patriotic audience in on a | few well assembled points and shows Uncle Sam the nephews and nieces of that England, Germany, France and all the nations in the world would be | outstripped Wnce for all if the United States ever oft shipyard. and battleship slid | the ways of an American | To begin with, this battleship would | be one of 60,000 tons. It would | equipped with fifteen 18-inch [ It would be capable of developing a | speed of thirty-five knots an hour, and its total cost when completed | would be approximately $30,000,000. |YThe price might be more. Assuredly Those are the facts as to the material end of this | proposed monster of modern war- fare. Concerning what | should be able to, accomplish, | Senator says: “She could whip a whole fleet of ordinary battleships. When the Or- egon was bulit we thought her 12- fach guns invincible, her size—about 10,000 or 12,000 tons—glgantic, and her eighteen knot speed marvelous. Every new type since has gone up a notch in power, speed and displace- ment. notches at once, and have the powerful ship in the world?” | Very good sentiment, that, and the | Senator utters it in the highest faith. | When it comes to g | supremacy on the high seas, old Ben Tillman would have mno half-way He was never a “piker”; will never be a be guns. it would, or the most ving Uncle Sam | measures. he “tin-horn” gam- And his dream of a large ship is the idea he puts forth in the fore- Yet there have | other biggest ship in the world, intended of course Uncle Sam, and this ship would make Tillman’s monstrosity look like a fishing smack “heaving to” in Snug Harbor. It might be possible to build going sentiments. visions of the for battleship of such displacement as | that mentioned by Tillman. It might | be probable that such a ship could those now mounted in the forts set up for our coast defense. It might be true that such a ship, once built, would develop and superior in every way to the fast flying torpedo boat destroyers; but—And lies the rub. Men who have devoted all their herein lives to the supervision and contruc- tion of battleships have thusiasm over the tions in building the biggest the world. lost all en- of ip claimed the doctrine that after a futile effort; that as fast nation builds a gigantic craft another nation comes along and builds another one And so it goes, race na- in They have pre all it as one ad infinitum. Following the advice of naval authorities, men who have made a study of this problem, what we want to build when the new naval program goes into effect is not the biggest bat- tleship in the world, but the most battleship in the world, not regarding its size. It should not be so big it would have to be kept in the middle of the Atlantic at all times. It should steam between the capes guarding Hampton Roads. be small enough to SAME OLD PARTY. Four years ago, in his own words, the which Joseph W. Alsop of man of the progressi tee and representative from this state issue presented itself Avon, the to chair- ve state commit- on the progressive national commit- tee, was ““whether or not I should stand idly by and allow a few men to change my party from one of progress rn out by official declaratica to eir boys off. If the Common 1 of New hegligent on this occasion the )n populace of New Britain will On that day when the mpanies of s0 lax. militia from this arch away each and every man b and child who has the osppor- should turn out and bid good- our soldiers. From all public gs the American flag should be ing into the breeze, from every ks building bunting should be Give the boys glory now. 11 have enough hardships later. SOME BATTLESHIP. chairman of the who, in the hey- his national career earned the of “Pitchfork radicalism, but who has jaced in the conservative class, tendencies of breaking out #th all the ardor of his youth. now of Uncle the battleship that oughed the raging seas. And he venerable Senator from the alls for or Tillman, Committee, Ben” because now in favor biggest a big ship he means pip in every sense of the word. pans of a bygone to insignificance with the Tillman egon, which de of the navy rowboat when co: N wer \desig, <he Ship that u astic Senator would call the States. ivibg just a faint outline of & day would com- that The termed when ship of would ship: buil Wwas once Would resem- compared v Britain has proven | Sam | to one of reaction.”” The party re- | ferred to, of course, was the republi- | can party. Mr. Alsop took the step. | He went out into the political | at the heels of his friend and relative, Theodore Roosevelt, and battled against the reactionary spirit in con- trol of the republican After four yvears of figsht Mr. Alsop has given up the battle. He has nounced to the members of his in this state that he is through the progressive party which is arena party. an- pa | with ched- death gives uled to die its prearranged on | Monday next when the Colonel out a statement. Mr. Alsop is going to vote for Hughes; but he has not vet determined whether he will join the old lne republican The progressive party political or- ganization has failed. Mr. Alsop ad- mits that premise. But a qualifying statement that demands at- tention. “As the greatest force improvement in American political life, at least of modern times, we have * * We have made for par as a | | | i | he ada for succeeded. * better politics.” Just as political made better after the political paign of 1860 when Lincoln won out over the, field ‘of ‘Douglas, Brecken- ridge and Bell; 86 the political condi- tions of 1912 were made better when | Woodrow “Wilson enabled o 15(‘0!‘8 a victory Taft and the other | the field The two electior ! The true. put in office The old partics in power had gone the way of corruption and dissoluti |and new men were to arise to take conditions were cam- was over Roosevelt and minor actors in allels con 1a were same Both Lincoln the same political i and Wil by rule. Why not take up a half dozen | far as Mr. T ! the place of the old. So i that end | Alsop’s statement refers’ to of clearing up the political sitnation, political 1912 held power corrupt in he is right. The party to { as the political 1 y was shoved agide because went the wall just that before ‘1861 That party in the old the d party. it was the republican party of its policies. days was mocratic In later ye when Mr. Alsop in- that the performed a good | that sinned. But sinuates, if he does, pro- | party has clearing up the repub: spiri progressive gressive service in 1 party of its reactionary must again qualify. The party has done some good work along this line; but the godd work accom- plished all took place in its own The republican party has re- mained unchanged. It is the same old party today it was four years ago. If the progressives follow their lead- ers back into the fold they will mect the same old faces. They .will be bossed again and again by the same o0ld masters of the situation, by Mur- ray Crane, Reed Smoo#f Bois Pen- rose, Joe Cannon et al. No, there is | It is the same old ranks. no improvement. party. FACTS AND FANCIES. Would that the Lavedo story of the kidnapping and deportation to Havana of Carranza by Osborn were true. The soldier seems to be a practical man and amenable to reason.—New York Sun. the steam that| The man with- | a “dead” Self-confidence i helps us “get there out self-confidence is like engine; the man with too much, is like an overpowered engine, apt to blow up.—Waterbury Democrat. The 100 inch diameter reflector for the Mount Wilson observatory in Cali- fornia, which will be finished early | next year, will be the largest mirror ever cast. It will be 13 inches thick and will contain, in one solid piece, four and a half tons of glass.—En- gineering Record. Connecticut can be relied upon to send forth to the Mexican border a compact force of soldiers, who are well drilled, well disciplined and well cquipped and she can be relied upon to do it also in record time. The state militia is not for show only but is ready for hard wark when the call comes.—Ansonia Sentinel. Notwithstanding the extensive use of automoblles and auto trucks in military service the famous American army mule is still in demand. Among the things needed for opera- tions along the Me: an border will be horses and mules, and already orders have been given to advertise for 20,000 mules, 26,000 cavalry horses and 15,000 artillery horses. The equine animal is by no means a back number.—Troy Times. ir- be Tt appears that a curious and relevant outcome of the war may the final establishment of baseball in Britain. American players have tried to plant the game over there with Indifferent results. The Cana- dian troops have now played It right into the hearts of our British cousins, their comrades. Some future Waterloo may be won not on the cricket fleld but on the baseball dlamond of old Eton.—New York Warld. The Homeland. (From Danna Burnet’s “Poems.”) My land was the west land; my home was on the hill, I never think of my land but makes my heart to thrill; never smell the west wind blows the golden skies, But old desire is in my feet dreams are in my eyes. My home crowned the highland; had a stately grace, I never think of my land but I see my mother’s face; I never smell the west winds blows the silver ships But old delight is in my heart mirth is on my lips. it 1 that and it that and My land was a high land; was near the skies, I never think of my land but a light is in my eyes. I never smell the west wind blows the summer rain— But T am at my mother’s knee, little lad again. my home that a The “Summ (Prescott, Ont. Journal.) The year 1816, that is 100 year: ago, was known as the ‘“‘summerl summer. Snow commenced falling in the middle of June and by the middle of August it was one foot in depth. From the first fall of snow the earth remained under the covering of the wintry blanket. bsolutely nothing in the way of harvest was garnered. Everything in the way of crop rotted in the ground. What did the people live on? What—meat and fish. There were no vegetables and there was no | flour. It was venison and fish today, relieved by fish and venison tomor- row taken from aughtered cattle Hay had to be shipped from Ireland to save the starving cattle at Quebe. and it sold there at $45 per ton; flour sold at $17 per barrel at Quebec and potatoes were one penny a pound. Thig years was called “the year eigh- teen hundred and froze to death.” The cause of the cold was believed to be the sunspots, which were so large that for' the first time in their history they could be seen without the aid of a telescope. It was also | known as “poverty year.” In New Hampshire hay sold at $180 a ton. | The next spring the market price of | corn was bushel; wheat, $2.50; | rye s, 90 cents; beans, $3.50: butte: 5 cents per pound. (It is us- | ually sold in those days at 8 or 10 | cents.) Further particulars of the “summerless” summer are among the files of the Greenville Historical so- l clety. rless Summer. | King Constantine to choose, McMILLANS NEW BRITAIN’S BUSY BIG STOR®, “ATWAYER RELIABLX" YOUR VACATION CLUB CHECKS CASHED HERE WHETHER YOU BUY OR NOT, WHITE WASH SKIRTS 98¢, $1.25, $1.98 to $3.50 each. Linens, gaberdines, cotton Toys. WHITE GABERDINE SKIRTS Special $1.98 each, Extra sizes, $2.25 each. Require no alterations, made with elastic gathered back, large pearl but- ton down the front, two side pocket: (all lengths.) PORCH DRESST $3.98, § Flowered, NEW SPORT STRIPE DRESSES $3.98 to $7.98, BATHING SUITS Women'’s $1.49 to $7.98 each. SILK SWEATERS $6.50 to $9.98 each. 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Dircot money cost of the war to the North was about $3,250,000,000, and to the South quite certainly well above $1.- 000,000,000, thought exact computa- tion here is diffic All together, the direct cost was cqual to about a quar ter of the total wealth at the begin- ning of the confiict. Fighest e timates of the direct cost of the Eu- ropean war fall decidedly short of that proportion of the total wealth of the bhelligerent: The number of men under arms in the Civil war ap- parently reached ahout § per cent. of the total population, while the highest estimate we have seen of the number of men under arms i Europe amounts to scmething like 4 per cent. of the population of the warri nations. The longer the war runs, the less Ifkely seems a smashing mil- itary victory—an Austerlitz or a Waterloo. And If it is to be ended by a process of complete exhaustion it seems to have a long way to go. As Adam Smith once remarked there is great deal of ruin in a nation way of n Once ags the Allies call upon but it seems to be Conny’s misfortune ta always choose the wrong thing— Bridgeport Post, materials and other made of larger block checks. plain colored poplin and serges. Women's Tailor-Made Suits Formerly Priced up to $25.00 SATURDAY SPECIAL $i3.00 WOMEN’S TOP COATS FOR SUMMER WEAR, FORMER- LY PRICED UP TO $9.98, SATURDAY SPECIAL $5.00 Some belted and others plain, vou will find one of these coats an absolute necessity for sum- mer wear. The materials are English covert clothes, checks and serges. ’Phone orders Charter 3050, and Mail Orders promptly filled. OUR DAILY AUTOMOBILE DELIVERY INSURES PROMPT DE Daily Delivery in New Britain, Gowns, combinations, chemises and camisoles. nainsook, lingerie cloth and crepe, trimmed with lace and ribbon, all color imaginable, slight mill im- that are hardly noticeable, otherwise would cost you 390, Here Saturday at 25c¢ yard. 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You will find in this assortment black and white checks, grey mixture materials and coats of navy blue and black poplin. WISE, SMITH & CO. HARTFORD Elmwood, Newington, Where Anarchy and Outrage Set High Mark of History —Dub- retaken Washington, D. C., June 2 no, which the Russians have in their recent offensive Austrians on a front extending from the Pripet river on the North to the Roumanian border on the South, is the subject of today’s war seography bulletin of the National Geographic society, issued from its Washington headquarters, which says: “Together with 1tsk, Dubno con- stituted Russia’s second line of’ de- fense in Poland when the great world W began. Then 5,000 inhabitants, but since that time the whole region has been im- poverished and the population doubt- less vinished by the fluctuating for- tunes of the armies that have jpassed back and forth through it. The city is situated on the marsh banks of the Tkwa river, which flows in a northwesterly dircction, making a juncture with the Styr twonty miles South of Lutsk at Torgovitsky, one of the towns recently re-occupied by the Russians. ‘A lastin tige as a trade to Dubno’s p center was delivered in 1797, when the great ‘Contracts fe the most important sugar -mart in Russia, was transferred to Kiev. In recent times these fairs have not played a role of such prime import- ance in the commercial life of FPolish and Russian cities as in the days he- fore the railroads brought towns and suburban sections into constant touch with each other. In the last years of the eighteenth century, however, the transfer of this annual event to the city known as the ‘Jerusalem of Russia’ gave it a tremendous impetus, at the same time having a correspond- ing detrimental effect on Dubno. “Two of Dubno’s neighboring towns are of great interest to the stndent of history. Thirty-two miles to the cast Ostrog, where the first translation ible into old Slav was made and P ted in 1851. “wenty- five miles to the South, at blow is of the Kremenetz, are the ruing of a snce fa- | mous chateau of the hesmtiful queehs against the ) it was a town of | tive Italy into the court life of tho Polish king, Sigismund I, who during the last years of her husband’'s relgn earned the detestation of tho Poles by her greed and her corrup- tion. poisoned her son’s wife five days after the latter’s coronation as queen. reserved for her a similar end. vears later she of her Italian lovers. “While the suffering present i vil A few which the war has entailed upon the ci- ns in the Dubno district undoubt- has been severe it is not to be pared with the holocaust of hor- ror which broke over this region i the middle of the seventeenth century when the Cossack chieftain, Chmielnicka, incited to rebellion by a Polish neighbor who had stolen his { hayricks and flogged his infant son to death, brought about the uprising known as the ‘Serfs’ Fury.’ Th reign of anarchy and outrage has sel- dom if ever been equalled histor Most of the manor of the country were burned and their owners burned or flaved alive, or cise sawn asunder. Priests were hung be- fore their own altars with a follower of a rival religion on one side and a despised animal on the other. “Ostrog was one of the cities v hi fell before the Cossack hetman wrath, and time and again ‘the pride of Polish chivalry was routed by the followers of the ruthless rebel. In 1649 he made a triumphant antry into Kiev, clad in cloth of gold and riding on a white charger. At Berostecsko, in 1651, he went into battle wielding a sword which had lain on ihe Holy Sepulchre and which had been he- stowed upon him by the archbishop of Corinth, but here he met h his t defeat. Two years later at nta he was 1in defeated, where- on he declared his allegiance to the Czar, placing the Ukraine under Rus- sian protection, thus anticipating the dismemberment of Poland which came more thad & century later Bona Sforza, who introduced much of | the grace and the elegance of ner na- | but | She was even accused of having | Fate | was poisoned by one Bogdan | in world | houses | There are also included many other stylish suits in These suits will especially please WOMEN’S TOP COATS FOR SUMMER WEAR, FORMER- LY PRICED UP TO $16.98, SATURDAY SPECIAL. $0.50. The high quality of these stylish coats is especially remarkable. Many are coples of imported models and altogether there are included many coats which are suitable for dressy occasions as well as street wear. Our Restaurant 1s an ideal place for a light lunch, a cup of tea or substantial re- past. JAVERY OF YOUR PURCH/ Cedar Hill. Map) > Hill and Clayton. The National Hymn. (Des Moines Capital). In a letter on the Chicago Repuhbss r lican convention, Senator Young Tells i how the great audience undertook to | sing two verses of “America.” It | “succeeded in singing one and hum- ming the other,” the letter statei. Thoughtful citizens for vears have | deplored the absence of patriotic dem-~" | onstrations on the part of the Amer- iican people. It is a curious thing that war or the danger of war is the only thing that can arouse a people to loval thoughts about their country. Lack of natlonal sentiment always in- creases In proportion to the numbete of years of peace and prospority. | There is a way to counteract this. It in the schools and the training of the children in the homes. We have in mind a Des Moines mother who has four young bovs. very evening he- | fore they bed the bhoys go through an ecxercise of devotion to” their flag in which they sing a pa- | triotic song. The Des Moines public schools require a salute to :he flag hefore the day’'s studies are iaken up. This could supplemented by re- quiring that every child learn “Amer- llca.”” No child should be sraduated who could not repeat every verse of the national hymn | go to be Ten Years Ago. (Brooklyn Eagle). The owned an auto v considered a fiend incarnate, man who as The waist line for women w up under the arms. People were just beginning to claim that wireless telegraphy was impos- sible. Women are still two petticoats. Some darn fool was vent a flying machine. The preposterous suggestion was made that a tunnel could be built under the Detroit River All of tho dudes were wearing peg top trousers. People were gettir 1gh out of the su s cooker The little Singer building was s close wearing at lcast trying to In- Haw Haw! g their first good E tion of a fire- le the tallest structure in New York Nat Goodwin has been married only three times, i