New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 14, 1916, Page 8

8 BRITAIN HERALD BERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY, Proprietors. &daly (Sunday excepted) at 4:15 p. m., &t Herald Buflding, 67 Church St [atered at the Post Omce ar New Britata S8 Becond Class Mail Matter. livered by carrie, to any part of the city for 15 Cents a Woek, 65 Cents a Month. ibsoriptions for paper to be sent by mail, Payable in advance, 80 Cents a Month, $7.00 & Year. only profitabla advertising mcllum In the oity. OCirculation books and press Toom always open to advertisers. Herald will be found on sale at Hota- ling’s New Stand, 42nd St. and Broad- Wway, New York City; Board Walk, at- s lantic City, and Hartford Devot. TELEPHONII CaLLS. siness OMce .. itorial Rooms HUMAN CORPORATIONS, There was a time when all corpora- pns were at was heartles to : people failed | referred in a day when recognize the fact . that humans re at the d of other corporations just THe | the men direct enterprises. thing of human- for partiess corparation is a st, If it ever existed. Today is supremc AS nee this take f our local manu- jctorie sterday untiful exican k- tobacco appeal to Each individual in e city was asked to contribute. The aside from sending a the case o of these great firms office a the request | One sent to the Herald for our hoys on When made gift barder. the was first there was the manufacturers as a and every bn “in question odly allotment of tobacca followed | hundred cigarette | Then, if that | threw thrce is up with three ses for pre not enough it the hoys as in for good safety razors 1 ndred the at wasting pasure. So that the pnt would not opping blades three hundred dozen be time these were added. e cite these facts bt there are still human beings in trol of corporations, a fact that is fining wider recognition as the years on. In this one instance the man | ho suggested the gifts was more than iman. His nature is own far and wide this ocom- nity, wherever men gather. There s been nothing of importance staged this locality but that his goodness heart has manifested itself. Fis | rit is reflected in the actions of the which he 1Is assoclated. not the only thing nor is selling goods L arst, ana every end of the o that gave the generous gifts ough the Herald. Such things as L<e, while small in camparison to | at our manufacturing firms can do have a mind, and a heart, than they at first seem. hen the box containing these ts arrives in Nogales, Arizona, and bencd hefore the eager soldier lads | m New Britain there will be great It would be worth a thousand to be A gift Good this merely to show generous in with siness is for ich he lives, last en they greater great of any man’s money witness the back who lars re and m the folk k all those sible. scene. home. o made fORE DOORS OPENED. IPhere is much food for thought in news that the United States Mili- is at West Point re- year the largest class of ¢y Academy ing this flets that ever entered that institu- There are 308 members in the fourth year ' class. result of the bill ss In April au- v “plebe” is is the direct or Hoh passed Cangre the number Instead of | prizing an increase in tudents at West Point. cadet being sent from each Con- pssional district, as in the past, two fiets may be appointed by the Con- The same number are au- | Aside ssmen. rized for the Territories. m these there are four cadets now tted to each state, to be appointed ghty are to be taken fr and large. Unitea States at large, the appointments have been of these are | psidential ended that twenty be recommended s0 their records pvious graduati at demies. Men the by ana the National Guard are also the for to military | from regular en better opportunities under v order. number of cadets at that the entire caun- sing the Point approval of ncre st is a plan will meet h the In es from the past the graduating s titution 11 ny. military entirely too of the | at times not The con- this wonderful have been to meet the demands 1 There have been around the that baby class | ugh officers to go Iss this toward vear will mark o obliterating fion. 308 the number almost as large as | West There are officers men in fsents entire at Point in | e former vears. the a today ved dition n yointment who have not aptainc ho remember o In former years Cor considered the urin Vest Point one At to be filled. to r most difficult tasks best re was only one plac bm new an things will be different for R | an I must houses of the National Congress may authorize another increase in the number of cadets. If Uncle Sam is to furnish his regu- Jar army with officers trained to the there the our minute—and this must be done is no other way out than to open of West of voung men. In the minor milita of rates Point to more the country there of with stitutions American the viondertul manhood who will hail opportunities opened at West P ycung students physically cquipped to entrance ‘the had their hearts bent on army life lost out the numbers All such youngsters now on They with renewed vigor, specimens glee by this Many men- new year's class int. and pass the Point” tally cxams to who because of limited ad- mitted. will take a new lease life. will go at the books will master the intricacies of mathe- matics and kindred subjects required in the West Point examinations, and know that if they are sufficlently pre- sared they Sam may in noble United 8 eventually fashion, tates Army. serve Uncle officers of the These thoughts the tidings of West Point's are the happy moned by sum- largest class. PROSPERITY, Because: of vresidential getting many impediments the campaign rather There months left which to make all. the arguments pro and con anent the man who should be the next the United present is slow in under practically but four way. are in President of States. If activity on the part of campaigners finish. anyth , this in- the political whirlwind Then shall we see some fire- presages a works. The Republican party, according to figures, will have same job on its bands to unseat its rival in the politi- cal realm. In the past this was not a difficult thing to do because the Re- publicans fell back on the one con- held vincing argument in This was In other days the Democratic party was it always stock. “Prosperity. looked upan as a calamity party and the Republican as the party of pros- perity. Now the tables have turned, or at least have gone far enough 2round to show that the Republicans | 1old no monopoly on prosperity. To- | day the Democratic administration is sailing in the fairest sea of prosperity ever ship of state serenity on all sides. The four winds carry it. Bven Republican news- papers admit this to be true. And the only explanation they make far it is| such a weak one it not hold weter. Four or five months or a year | ago this like everything | else, been blamed on the entire prosperity be reckoned 2gainst the terrible slaughter abroad, Lven if it could the workingmen of the country have neither time nor in- clination to go into the cconomic that rode. There is will prosperity, might the war. have Now af the country cannot manifold conditians brought about the present wave. One Western new: the Chi- cago Tribune, which is not addicted to the habit of praising Democrats, s aper, = that the day has come when the Re- publican “bluff” of fooling the people cn the old called. It adds: ‘“People who have more money than they used to have will be very little intcrested, we su bect, in arguments telling them by all the regular rules they not to have this money. The is that the it.” That final word people of the “prosperity gag” must be that ought have The States today are is the United enjoying the greatest prasperity they have ever known. Street corner and soap box orators may get up and shout to their hearts’ content, y tell the people that this prosperity is only temporary. may try to Put the people will walk away smiling, far no man can point to any connec- tion and say: “There Is the controller of the nation’s prosperity must of Burope push the button, when they end No one but it e¢nd when the Kings the it war, how it difficult thing to knows long it will last it win And s hard. so long as does last be a beat. old di an Itepublican argument Ther that at the Congressional one newspaper last found use The from in this for New the state has Record. pa wrappers for mail London Globe uses record as editions FACTS AND FANCIES. Swiss war honds are bringing fancy prices. See what a good thing a war is to keep out of.—Pittsburgh patch. Portugal can proudly boast of mething new under the sun— a de- natured war, safe, sane and conserva- tive.—Chicago News. The emblem can go a Philadelphia a very appropriate the prohibition party. It time without a drink Ledger. camel is for long a Recause with uniformed no sure sign be soldiers. It comfort thing, though, to reflect that diers are needed we have them.—New York Telegram. boys are drilled rifies i they is a if the present enthusiasm pge - rlithry, -continues . the ~two h An example of war profits.is found in- | are | as | answer | Dis- | | if sol- dra, which in September, 1914, took refuge in New York harbor with a cargo of nitrate from Chile valued at $125,000, but now worth $1,000,000. —Buffalo Comwmercial. | 0dd things are donc Congress has restored the letter | to the Merrimac river A lawsuit is in progress in Troy over the matter of removing the from the L e on monument in a cemetery there. Democrat and Chronicle. with names. | final € | name a Rochester i It is Mr. Champ Clark, Speaker of | the louse of Representatives, who | foeds to it this sage assertion: ‘‘No | nation is foolish enough to attack us, and if one does it will get whipped.” | Mr. Clark is sixty-six years old, | though he doesn’t always look or talk | it. Fis 1916 views on American In- | vinctbility are those he got out of | some flamboyant school history in | the 50's at his native Bowling Green, | Kentucky.—New York Times. If a regular, or even an irregular, | mail service with Scandinavia and Holland, as well as with the Central | Powers, could now be established by | & submersible merchant ship, the controversy over the British mail gon- sorship hetween the Londan Washington governments would to interest any portion of Springfield Republican. field, Pa., has been placed se- curely on the map by the girl who kissed 971 members of the Bighth Pennsylvania Infantry, en route to “the border. Her argument that she gave what she had not only sounds reasonable, hut makes the idea of the and soon our Gease people. Cles disquieting.—New Haven Journal- Courier. The English Channel Tunnel. Herald.) More than forty years have passed since the British Foreign Office ex- pressly approved the idea of con- structing a tunnel under the channel for rallway communication between Tngland and France. But less than ten years later, when the question was submitted to a parliamentary committee, the military authorities took the negative side on strategic grounds, and the consequence was an unfavorable report by the committee. Many bills for the building of a channel tunnel were subsequently in- troduced, only to be rejected at the instance of the government of the day. The last occasion was in 1900, after an inquiry by the committee of imperial defense. But in August, promised a fresh arranged to have reconsidered, first the Admiralty and and finally, when presented, by the committee. Had the time given to investigation been given to construc- tion, Britain would in August, 1914, have been more favorably situated than she was for the safe and speedy transportation of her troo to France. This being generally admitted, it is but natural that a member of the (Boston 191 Mr. Asquith investigation. He the question fully by the War Office; the Broad of Trade, thelr reports were Imperial Defense | House of Commons should present a resolution declaring that “the progress of the war has demonstrated the great advantages which would have accrued to the allies if there had been a rail- way tunnel beneath the channel, and plans should be prepared so that the work can be begun immediately the war is over.” Surely there is amplo reason to believe that the military au- thorities will no longer object to the scheme The hogle of a French in- of England is as dead as Na- Friendship between Britain nce has stood the test of more century. The two nations been comrades in war, and te vasion poleon. and F than a have twic have proved their mutual fidelits the utmost. In the fire of the present war they have been so welded that their part- ing seems impossible. The proposed tunnel would be but an additional tie of friendship and guarantee of good will. How Knowledge Pays on the Farm. (New York World.) The farmer of the old tsts bore chin-whiskers. of popular understanding has horny hands. These possessions, with some acres of ground and a few parcels of seeds, constitute the main cquipments of the agriculturist pictured by the limited urban fancy. The drawing will necessarily be disturbed by the r port of the Wicks committee, showing that of the farmers in New York state those having high school educa- tions make twice as much, while ¢ lege men make thrice as much, from their acres as do unpolished tillers of the soil. This is, old question education Other matters of report by the com- mittee are that one farmer in three money, one comes out even, zht better for somehody One in twenty-eight makes year or more out of his plowing, sowing and reaping. Tn this last particular the farming class un- | doultedly surpasses in pe: v the class of minor and small tradesmen which the cities. The general conclusion | from the Wicks report is farming business is not | standing by itself in the r requiremen for success 1 wards g0 in larger measnure in {in other industries to the men who | study how Dhest to deserve them. Keep- ing {1te land busy and profitahle is far from being an affair or chiefly | of Tuck and the weather. And the pro- | portion of failures at farming, being { based on human capacity, is probablyv | no greater than other “ which enterprise | highly. time humor- The farmer indeed, a new answer to the whether or not college pays. one work | e1se. $2,000 a financial desk exists pros- men in drawn that the upation ter of Tts re- that as to he solely call tive in in and initi connt Fecentricity. Real (Youngstown Telegram.) “What kind of a man tric man?” “An eccentric man, my 1s e man who insists on living his life his is an eccen- boy, McMILLAN’S| trip to the border somehow seem less | Britain’s Busy Big Store— “Always Reliable.” co0L RESSES For Summer Comfort Remarkable values Saturday in Women's and Children’s Wash Dresses. New Two Hundred Women’s Dresses $2.98, $3.98, Each Dainty Voile Dresses, smart Dresses in linons and sport stripes and plain | colors. Saturday, $1.98, $5.98 Children’s Dresses. 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Mary thinking. “What my lamb’s fleece like?” Fade out, re- vealing real snow, 2,000 tons of which | have been specially imported from Nebraska for the purpose of this unique comparison “AND EVERYWHERE THAT MARY WENT"— first time these lines obtained, thanks to American enter- prise, their full interpretation. See the world-vovagings of the Heroine. Watch Mary in the gilded salons of Paris and Monte Carlo, in Thibet and the South Seas, always accompanied v her pet. N That It the film Pive million unique wre-drama can see it for 6d. upward Released shortly. Have motion manager order “MARY HAD A LITTLE LAMB,” snd-doNist-thatdhe-gets: ity Short synopsis: old tead trained Sussex farn is For the have lamb was some is out to beat it dollars were goer, spent but i on | you | your offensive ag the Somme river to extraordinary acts of valor t thought that they Picardy,” says today’s war geography bulletin of the society, issued in Washington. now divided into four departments— the Somme, Oise, Pas-de-Calais, Alsne very names quicken the pulse of Eng- lishmen, Agincourt that Henr his yeomen with their cloth-yard bows chi romantic literature and in French his- tory in diers were among the most France, of the north. tleground for the French and English during the Hundred Years' war, for its shores extend along the torians trace crest the motto them from the of the event. English archers > later, after letting fly their clouds of arrows n birth, local | a’Albret, sall this battle while the estimate of Iing- lish . _ bgome-chroniclers. giving.-only- thirteen men at arms and a hundred foot- soldiers. “Several towns of Picardy—Amiens, Soissons, and Beauvals—owe their names to the ancient tribes which in- habited this section, known as Bei- gica Secunda, when the Romans inain- tained armed camps along the val- ley of the Somme. In the third cen- tury Christianity was introduced, and St. Quentin, from whom the import- ant town twenty miles east of Per- onne gets its name, was martyred at that time. “Picardy was the heart of ingian Irance in the fifth century, for Clovis named Soissons as his capital, while Charlemagne designated Noyon as his principal city, and the lesser Carolingians in turn similarly fon- ored Laon. “By the treaty of Arrasin 1435 the royal towns of the Somme valley were ceded to Burgundy, but forty-two | years later, after the death of Charles the Bold, Louis XI regained them. | During its brief of peace the its sol- | province thrived as a center of the valiant in | weaving industry, Flemish immigcants the Gascons | paving introduced the art.” Washington, 14.—"If historical to brave deeds, the British forces in “heir the along hould be heartened the in D, O associations July inspire ainst Germans are fighting National Geographis “This ancient province of France, and has two battlefields whose tor Prince it was at Crec won hi. y that the spurs, and at V, commanding Black utterly overthrew the flower of French Iry. “Picardy is a treasured name in It had the twelfth a literature century of and its own being known as | bat- | yale and the War Crisis. | (New York Sun.) Clinton R. Black, Yale football team wave of patriotism that sweeping over the country. He calls it hys- { teria, dementia, delirium, an epidemic | of ungrounded fear that threatens, | among other appalling devastations, to put in jeopardy the highest inter- ests of Yale football next fall. Ha | has gone so far in elevating his loy- “The province was a natural North sea and from the River point below north of Ah- principal cities of z captain of the | English Channel, s tiegod At lite above Calais, to Fifteen miles beville, one of the Picardy, is Cre where until late in the nineteenth century there still stood the old windmill from which ward III of England 1346 watched his beloved son, i the Aa, Dieppe. a is in the Mercv- | ness of a football | baseball [ city There were selfish, stubborn, short sighted young Englishmen who for months after their country had gone to war with the Central Powers clung tenaciously to their athletic pastimes, playing football, golf, cricket, polo, with eyes blind to their country’s peril and ears deaf to the call it made to them. Today the links and the golf courses are practically deserted, and the slackers have gone to tha front. The intimation above is not intended as an that the United States at | present confronts any such serious situation as that which came to Great Britain two years ago, but it is put forward to explain why at this j moment the American public is more enthusiastic over the patriotic activ- itfes of the Yale Battery than sym- pathetic with Captain Black’'s appre+ hension regarding the possible weak- team next fall. Gambling and Baseball. (Detroit Journal.) The closing of the Davenport, Tows, minor league baseball park becausa its former extensive patronage was | downtown betting in poolrooms draws attention to the growth of an evil. In Boston a shooting scandal took place in the grandstand over betting on the game, and in New York the owners are cognizant of the growth of the baseball gambling men- ace. In Detroit gambling hand- books are made in the downtown sa- loons the prosperity of the high $500 and In fact it has Quite handhooks in the baseball Such that bets $1,000 usurped local affections. ch a thing could course, only under a favorable polico regime. The same forces that kill playgrounds and schools are at work debasing haseball Horse racing was sustained s sport until the bookmakers destroyed is as as e made. the pony be possible, of as 1e only sis over Phil- occasion the four to prince of Wales, at that ti teen ye of age, triumph ip of Valois. On this Tnglish were outnumbered one, and they wrought terrible havoc among the enemy, the losses of the vanquished being variously estimat- ed at from 10,000 to 30,000. One of those who fell in this fisht was the chivalrous John, king of Bohemia, who although blind led a heroic charge for his French ally. Some his- the Prince Wales’ three ostrich feathers and “Tch dien’ (I serve) to this Black Prince adopting fallen John in memory alty to the blue above his devotion to the red, white and blue as to send | out an appeal to the members of 1 football squad not to join the Yale Battery, an organization that might conceivably be called upon to aid in | defending our count flag. i If Captain Black's attitude toward | the comparative importance of Yale | football and the military necessities of the United States were an exhibi- | tion of eccentricity, a sporadia case | of blindness to a true perspective, it might be passed over in regretful si- lence. But unfortunately his point of view regarding the secondary posi- tion that national demands and duties should hold in the life of the indi- vidual is so widespread at this crit- ical time that it is worthy of earnest consideration and thoughtful com- ment. For already, no matter what the immediate future may bring forth, the conditions prevailing in the world at large, and specifically in this coun iry have demanded by thousands of men and women the sacrifice of the most cherished personal interests and | pursuits for the sake of the nation's | urgent- needs, l of battle, the twenty miles north- Agincourt, where the nearly seventy years “Less than west of Crecy armored hatchets in mud noble against the heavily attacked them with floundered helplessly thousand Frenchmen of including their commander constable of France, fell in obles th losses was astonishingly low, l the sporting element and the track was practically abandoned for the poolroom. We believe it quite impossible that any such sweeping ef- fect could had on baseball. Never- theless baseball gambling is a menace. The actual of baseball as clean a whistle, | aid will race be organization is a doubtless remain so. But play ball with hets in poorest imaginable great American sides it is ictly again any policeman should poolrooms i substitute recreation t t k all, we ought to thankful that Hetty Green left money to her children instead ancing a peace tour of Europe ton Journal Mil= the for the And be- he law, if you Maybe, after be: her of fin- —Bos-