New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 5, 1916, Page 6

8 NEW, BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1916. EW BRITAIN HERALD HBERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY, Proprietors ued daily (Sunday excepted) at 4:18 p. m.. at Herald Buflding, 67 Church St tered at the Post Ofce at MNew Brital W Second Class Mall Matter. livered by earriee to any part of the oty for 15 Cents a Weck, 65 Conts a Month. booriptions for paper to e sent by matl payable in adv 30 Ceuts a Montn. $7.20 a Year. ® only profitabla advertlatng mcdium In the ofty. Circulatton books and press room always open to advertiser ® Herald will be found on sale at Hota- lUng's New Stand, 42nd St. and Broad- way, New York City; Roard Walk, at- lantic City, and Hartford Depot. TELEPHOND sineas OfMce .. ftorinl Rooma cav IN NEW HAV Connecticut's political eyes rned today toward New Haven ere the Republican state convention sembles this evening. There are five ndidates for gubernatorial Blakeslee, is honors. Wilson before plcomb, Healy, ha Webster. 1t e gavel falls that the last two named e practi The run by cither Gov- Healy Blakesleo conceded ally out o the running ce promises to be Holcomb, indsor Locks, or Dennis A New New Britain's deles mor Frank of Haven rtion goes to the mvention pledged to Frank Healy. ose who have been the cl point of ntage claim a victory the Wind- I Locks man on the third ballot following uation sely from: this for The soning ir dresscd up in this style: bvernor Holcomb is being played as e head-liner d ey by t Roraback gang when the final show-down comes will take all those votes pledged f the Governor and dump them into e bag for Blakeslee. If this will flock the Is done ¢ opponents of Frank Healy, at the New P with Blakeslee th Haven man is not of claim Blakeslee for reason popu- the representatives They lined up too close with the erest the it the' hoi-polloi Vhatever happens, it promises to'be fight. The Holcomb ning all pdingly of the t Frank the Immon people. ‘special with money to merry outcome, unless pvernor succeeds in over- predictions, should the be ex- encouraging Demo- It has to hts state Healy party is well known many will enemies his own who do any- ng within the realm of respectabil- to prevent him from sitting in s gubernatorial chair b Blakeslee til the final ballot he He will have clement ag him t in Novem- ainst is ca will the vast | Holcomh . Likewise, h hjority the supporters | hinst him. The same this | the he H pporte wpplics Blaskes the countenance it event of victory. y men and Holcomb will not him vernor Holcomb, conceded | uld be a the strong dra card even hong Democrats who have | rned to think well of the grand old But if the nomina- ntleman from Southington. | blcomb does not garner bn, Democracy has the chance of its le-time provided the to n nominee e proper man is lected run against the Republi- To this end, the men in ranks of Democracy are saying pthing, but sawing wood A BIG AMERICA. Wilson's down in political h It President ptance speech of ac- will iy masterpiece mming up of a rec as a is a logical »rd of three and half years of an administration that s gone through morc history mak- than Ab1 ould terested frankly any two administrations nce tham Lincoln. This specch be read by every man who i in the coming elections. admits mistakes made; but ints out not for a e. There is those they wer puy contained a challenge all opponents of the admin ba foundations ration who their picayune There is so a broad defiance to that coterie citizens who take their loyalty to from To them the a spoon of foreign Imerica ould. the sident says: candidate of but all hn citizen 1 am party, am above things else an Ameri- neither seck the favor r fear the displeasure of that small fen element amongst which puts before And iy Pres- hould fear at small re vnd sloyalists. There still eno Americans to fset any such Some thought that when ( ughes sounded the lirst and pstered pwn the ages and m victorious regident Wilson's merica overtops all previous efforts, e believe with the White louse that the day of Little Ameri- pnism, with last and gone. Americar fpr - Big America.” Those the bords. We are Americans Big merica. We are Americans for an merica that knows no bounds when Jhe spirit of justice and humanity “as the place of that narrower ideal America had sound slogan, America Efficient that he an idea would reverberate to his ending in November. idea for Big man in the its narrow “We horizon, has ar are for | s | opposition | idate | which has bad a tendency to bury it- of the to be the great source good that be, self in the bosom nation. America, if is universal its founders it in the faith of the fathers. for intended to must be This all small anew is the when the day of regeneration, petty attributes of a very past shall be discarded and done away Only the great principles shall builded with those and main- Out America’s tra- survive, only tained on broad, generous lines. the font of the of sacred ditions has come fundamental idea tory land that this country wants no terri- trom any nation unless such is purchased by good American dollars and not by the blood of men. This will go into the future as part of Bot- And wallcs the doctrine of a Big America, a ter America, u Great America these things shall apply in all of life, in the fleld of business, n com- merce, and in soclal activities. Woodrow Wilson has accomplished He has done so many great things for the that their support and meaning cannot be com- the for, generations more than his critics will allow. advancement of the nation prehended when viewed in They attention pres- be brought oly of When the ent will to the other his Big America then shall the chil- yet to come. America shall develop into he hopes it to be, dren of that America go down on their thank the div Providence for placing at head of the nation a man of such keen intellectual pow- knees and a e of the whole fu- 1t stake. With another man than Wilson in the White ers at a moment when ture of the country was House during the trying events of the past two years there is no telling what might With Theo- dore Roosevelt in the place of Wilson slight be in force. have happened. have inkling of what It remained for Wilson to gulde the ship of state past the rocks that threatened its destruction. And to this we a would now many he has brought it safely He ‘has He big we cannot meas- point. master mind. up proven himsclf a is so great and ure him accurately because we are His true worth distance which standing too close. will never be known until that shows how high the mountain towers the foothills. the lends fine perspective over Then also may be Blg Americans for road he to And America. seen paved a America we are Big HOW “They HIX HAS BLUNDERED. he has blundered. But I forward A announcing Wilson Idison’s President They Perhaps he notice that he This 1s expresses Perhaps he has blunders Thom, usually the way Idison himself in his intention to support President for re- Incidentally, the of ies a world of wisdom. election. an- swer to critics the car say he But Wilson noticed blundered. has. attention is paid to the blundering it will be has if strict brand of blunders forward. bad he usually Blundering forward is not a trait, after all. Blundering backward is the blundering that upsets the reg- Mr. Wilson has ndmits it Shadow ular order of things. He speech of acceptance the blundered. In his W Lawn Mexican “Mistakes I perplex- purpose or on que touching President while tion the said: have no doubt made in this inz business, but not in object.” Whatever committed has Mexican of the It has of pro- Wi the blundering h been blundering Mr. with in all Wilson on in ndling situation has sort described by Idison. been stamped the mark ress hecause his dealings with has applied pro- the new methods, Had he held all blundered that country doctrines ot the sressive | the fair play. old not spirid strictly to lines in his decds he would have blunder when It encounters becanse men do not | | path- the go- forward blundering a slgn of All of our great Presi- forward,— Wilson. they go backwards. is the finder who always It who | dffliculties. | is the man forward blunders and forward is achievement blundered dents have from Washington to 1f Progres- What is Charles Fair- Someone pertinently inquires: Charles Evans Hughes is a | sive, what is Boise Penrose? s Reed Smoot? What hanks? What is Willlam Howard Taft? | What Crane? is Murray FACTS AND FANCIF has decided to'let George do Boston Transcript. vy? The admiral says have. The politician says we haven't. Which should know a navy lln sight 2~ TLouisville Courier-Journal. i Have we a n we | No one has accused this Jap ten- champion of looking over our concrete courts with a view to possible gun emplacements.—Syracuse Post- Standard nis According be no frenk this year usual clothes. to reports there are to styles in men's clothes There will, however, be the number of freaks in men's Detroit Free Press. Detroit has now a population of 734,562 persons, according to the wa- ter board figures. Would a water board estimate of the populatiop be baptized | trustworthy Globe. in Milwaukee ?~—Boston Lieut Robert Fay has added the laws United proud iron River order in Kaiser to pin chest of peace and States, Is the of him and ready on noble Herald, still Cross his all Harmony As In Californin the face of looks blubbered and scratched for Mr. Hughes, amiable as he is, must wonder why his wostern progress has been clogged derhea New York Middletown, N. Y., lost of kittens In some unknown and then adopted three nice baby mice. Raising her own meat supply. Yet a scientific writer declares that cats have no intelligenco. —Hartford Post. s0 Times. A cat its litter manner in The Tribune in: that all the great achievements of the Wilson ad- ministration were of republican ori- gin. Then all republicans ought to vote for him, for no republican ad- ministration was ecver able to carry out these republican York World. ts At Lewlston, Me., Col. Roosevelt de- clared that when “the war with Spain was through it was through.” He may recall the war in the Phillppines, which lasted for years, and about which, both as to the mothods prac- ticed and the cost, Secretary of War Root sought to conceal the facts. The colonel’s history Is partisan and frag- mentary.—New York World. The Babytown Express. There are trains that roar and rumble at the call of human stress, the fastest and the gladdest is the Babytown Express, It runs from Dawn to Twilight and you couldn’t count the miles, For the track s made of fancy and the ties are lald In smiles, The good old backwoods pasture gate is train and engine, too. With Bud, on top, as engineer, make the choo-choo-choo! Big Sls, the sweet conductor, the tickets on the way, Collecting hugs and kisses from ones who have to pay And sometimes, In a merry mood, she stops the train and then Goes round among the passengers and takes the fares again. It's funny how the tourists, too, are willlng that she should, Because it takes a lot of fares make the service good. But to takes the to The Babytown Express makes stops to gratity each wish; It waits at Cookie Station and at Noo- dles-in-the-Dish. noon stop’s Mil and again at half-past halts at Bread-and-Jelly, point to Kitchendoor. The day’s last stop is Twilight, where the evening shadows fall— Then they tumble in the sleeper— train crew, passengers and all. —ISf%.change. The “and-Crackers four It nearest Analyzing (Waterbury The Minncapolis Journal concerned about the quality congressmen Following tion of an cditorial reader sends In this Congress, Republican) is rather of our the publica- that subjeot bit of experi- on a ence: “In isit to Washington T had to visit the house and senate several times, and was aston- jshed to find so little interest exhibited by our congressmen. On one visit not more than {velve members of the sen- ate were present and but three showed any interest. In the house about twenty-four were present and three interested. The others talked or read. Tt time the analyzed their congress." The Journal then editorially clares that the general apathy American voters toward the or capabllities of the men for is “apparcntly illogical, plainable.” “The average congressman s not an important personage,” says The Jour- nal, “because his business is not im- portant. Though congress is still in session, there has not been a quorum since the middle of July. At the final house vote on the army appropriation bill, distributing an unprecedentedly Jarge amount of money, only ninety congressmen out of a total of 486 present. Where were the oth- At home, attending to the more important business of campalgning.” The Journal explains this apparent neglect of duty by saying that les than ninety men fill all the import- ant places of power and practically direct legislption, that few members are allowed important work in their first term and nearly half never come back for a socond. The situation, thus reckoned, is un- derstandable. But It is not excusable. a occasion recent v is people de- of history they vote but ex- vere any The Break-Up of Austria. (Providence Journal.) It has been commonly sald that the break-up of Austria-Hungary might be expected shortly after the death of Francis Joseph. But the old man, who lately his elghty-sixth birthday, still vives, while the dissipation of his polyglot country seems imminent The Rumanians are marching west- ward through his province of Tran- sylvania unopposed. Ttaly has | taken Gorizia and is menacing Trieste. | The Russians have overrun Galicia. | These are sad days at Vienna, where | the glamour of the German partner- ship long ago hegan to fade. passed su almost His Simple Request. (Boston Transcript.) Murderer—Ts this the guy to defend me? Judge—Yes; he's M.—If he should another? J.—Yes. M.—Can I see him alone for a few minutes who is your lawyer. die could I have Picture Show Sign in St. Touis. (St. Louls Post-Dispatch.) Only admitted free. children in arms Other sizes bc. | ! jadl- | breaking to his exploits in deflance of | tho | an | ho | by officious dun- | measures.—New | class ftd don’t we? In short, we can realize, without half trylng, that this govern- ment would have been in a pretty pickle, in such an event. for the want of a of a sufficient, trained militia | the opposite direction. As a they are industrious and skillful the time element is eliminated l “The peon miner i{s a competent An American Depicts Native Life in Mex:co to the market, and tho :~l1'o? manding loudly a clear track; a fun- where laughing chil basket, swaying the accompani real army and organized Now have been ing for the recruiting o National Guard organizations ta war Half a dozen new re- cruiting stations have heen opened ir this competent officer fed- eral thelr lovel the otive what that lto- nnec re the They men And workman when unhampered by mod- machinos and has & ‘nose’ for ore that is truly remarkable. As il lers of the soil their methods are primitive but productive; they still use oxen and the wooden plow share, | wnd the flelds fenced with Im- perishable dry-rock walls. In the making of pottery and basketry they excel; in tanning hides, saddler; and the working of metals they are Inim itable. The women, too, can grind on a metate, cook tortillas and ralsc famtlies, launder the creck, laces and with equal crn for weeks there fforts malk- f the existing of r extraordin striking D, of Washington, c., car de- nativo A in Sep! are hasis, pleture tho Mexico, life eral dren from ment music, procession carry baby's sido to to of anything but and behind the silent solemnity | ‘Strangely superstitious are these people ignorant, constant their faith, pathetic in their simplici ty, kindly and respectful, their life opitomized in the verse “‘Let the world slide, g0} of | A fig for care and 1f I can't pay, why I can And death malkes equal the high and low." ‘Tis Baster Sunday morning. I am awakenedq at eurly dawn by the tooting of tin horns, accompanied by the sonorous of bass viols and fiddles are sawn from their strings; shuffling of sandaled feet stones of the city s | street, and of voices of magni- | 1 ng peons. bells clang, | ind mod- | sivens scream, wildly mingle | blended | in the melody for is in the same edifice; stissly building: not this the day cariot imposing market stor=- of all de- [ is to be hung in scriptions; and dwelling places, rude- “A ly bare, variously cc'osd with neu- | aded through the town tral tints of calsomii¢, faeir grated |the jeering and cheering windows and open dcors exhibiting | have risen carly to give ex to all the parsely furnished interior | the righteous indignation where bird, beast and human eat and [ betrayer. After circling the live together. Tho sordid squalor of | procession hults, Judas Is the contrasts ctrikingly with | yanked by the vopes from the oppressive opulenke of the fow. ers and dangles in mid alr, “The cobblestone streets are crook- ) sight, spit upon, cursed, condemned, od and narrow; so narrow, in fact | consigned to everlasting purgatory, to that caballeros must take to the side- | which place, at sunset, he ls sent by | walk to permit of the passing of any | the explosion of dynamite concealed | kind of vehicle. Tho dingy tram-cars | in his carcass. Ribaldry runs riot as aro drawn by relays of mules, three | the day advances, and night falls on abreast, beaten into subjection by the | an exhausted thouzh happy people. stinging lash or coaxed into action by | What matters if the prison is over- the curses of the youthful drivers, | crowded that night, that the sup- whose vernacular is wonderfully ox- | ply of pulque or mescal is depleted pressive and effective indeed, I doubt | almost to the degree of exhaustion? if anything but a mule can really ap- “To the casual visitor from tho prociate tho depth of feeling and Ir- | States the habits customs of resistiblo persuasiveness of the vile | th lowly people are strango, but expressions. fascinating. They do not mced our ‘What strange sights one can see | commiseration or sympathy; they are in these main arteries of the city! T | content in thelr modo of lving, and have set my camern on the balcony | who shall that they are the less of my room at the Woods hotel and | happy or human in their habitat than will snap what passes by. At first, a | many of us? herd of patient plodding burros load- “The Mexican ed down with slabs of the pale green | is born to serve, sandstone, quarried nearby and used | darky, and or for building purposes; a legless crip- | is emphasized all plo shuffles along on a hoard, propel- | mozo silently ling himself with his hands; a carga- | ly o the dor trots along tirelessly with his | into the street and awkward burden, in this case a sew- | the padre passes ing machine; more burros overloaded | Sunday evenings with charcoal; another pack struggles | martial music fllls the under the woight of sacked classes parade in the mines; still the vrate Guanajuato, treasure chest of t n h . a and fers in the merourial is given the in National H released ECUTL sido servie been doin munication to appropriuto | mourners in S o drum Connecticut duty. 1 thetr they | gether ticut regiments on R merest skeleton TIME TO START THINKINC ol = each to make up their full quo to Look After best up re regiments lon't know record but corn frijoles, clothes on mako the the finest kil graphic society by Frank Probert, bl out a puart of which the I'm qui irod 0 mear t organization is W Probert s a rock near of drawn work from s society's Mr peons tho them. rington head et in | ) Guosly | haven't see quarters reveals the in i el Mexican L to as they are who h known Itved only Ameriof i L 3 Amerioan let the world | | among | somewhere near a thousand “Leaving 5 the railvoad “one looks the walled inclosure x for woe! Crars nobody, apparently, = ) Nobody | the business of States with its ; military force born military been sheer in vards,” says the writer, ey e i down on the apparently oramped and crowded city of Guan- ajuato, capital of the richest of the south-central states of Mexico. Hard by, to the right, is the bull-ring, tho scene on Sundays and fiestns of far. cical combats between (wo-logged brutes and four-legged hensts. “In the soft sunshine of days the first vista of the striking indeed. Churches of ficent proportions; ancisnt ern architectures stranw fy the slightest intercst ir providin United desperatel reeded atural have for young man think of duty to his “Duty” 1s a has heard the Pcople’s Mental Activities take In This Country. except I want you, my friend, to give just enthusiasts who service right Not one ever seems to i a moment's consideration to one el ions sereechoes in the me to which it to perfectly which seems difficult of all things realization of the If you and I and the anq don't take an ac-| tive, intelligent interest in the affairs of this country, this state and this town, and assume our full share the respomsibilities for those affairs, who, pray, is going to? The difference between the govern- ment of this country and the govern- | ment of Germany or Russia is that over thera somebody higher up is sup- posed to do all your political think- ing for you; over here you and T and the over the way are supposed to do it. And if we liec down bén the job and let George do it for us, we haven’'t the first trace of an exouse for klcking if George devotes his mental efforts to fixing things up very nicely for George and very badly for you and me and our over-the-way neighbor. That's a simple enough matter, isn't 1t? Well, now suppose we think for just 4 few minutes about this railroad strike that appears to have missed us by a fraction of an inch instead of knooking our heads off our shoulders Suppose it had gone through and had been as successful as the brotherhoods to make It; suppose it had tied the country up in a hard knot; suppose it had finally become neces- sary for the government, in order to keep millions of people from dying of famine, to seize and operate the roads that would be a matter of brute force, wouldn't 1t? It would have re- quired, likely enough, a lot of military power to put the rescue through. And all know that, aside from the lit- army distributed along the Mexi- | obligation, can horder, there would have been |the future? searcely any military power available I hard enough. seems obvious to proposition ought to everybody, about the most to bring to the average person: man over the w as sounds B i by the over the the babel Church whistles merrimen when Judas T oMgy ? be but a thousand L thing a country and that he has summer OVInEE by his state scarcely d is Its have word ever never tell of very to sens pretty full been it strike of vou, this serlo statc might home \ffairs seriousness brought there had It may 1y 1strously ilroad brought home disastrous effect yet, tomorrow vear. And it's all he and the man over the way look upon | our natio and state and municipa | problems from the detached positions of spectators— figure is p of followed crowds, pression against tho city the promptly the hear- a sorry grotesque dummy us di by heen a who to eneral v be to us with more next and 1 cause you many h we had was 1 just as thou were 10thing anded to man Germans or Russians and do but take by a higher authority You see, there isn't any. higher authority in this country than the auvthority exert- ed by you and me and our neighbor- s0 if we let things go as they happen to that's precisely the way they will | g0 and it's the way they do go, most generally. This matter of creating a real tary power in the United States kind of a military power that is te be desperately needed any to prevent national starvation tional Invasion, or national disaster varlous forms—ig your and the business over the way; or it lsn't body's business. That's the price pay for our liberty, for not having a kaiser or a czar to do our thinking for that's the obligation that those boys assumed down Philade in behalf, along ba in when they decided that this should do Its thinking for it- if we folks welch that what have we to expect of We it try to what us or mil- tha llable moment and se 1 or na- in and of the business say planned my business man any- wa peon knows that he as the old southern cla distinetion oceasions. The behind the Jord- peon woman steps bows her head in the pla on when the melody of air, the upper direction, whilo outer ring In i caste 55 us; old phia, on rides in allero; our country self. And as we on tle can ore from one guess we nother bearing grain as an peons LOOK OUT FOR THE HILL Approach to a steep descent American Motor League ' Caation Sign’ It is called SOCONY Motor Gasoline. 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