New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 8, 1916, Page 8

¥ NEW, BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER '8, 1916. W BRITAIN HERAL hed datty (Bunday excepted) at 4:15 p. m., at Herald Building, 6 hurch St. ered at the Post Office at Mew Britala 48 Becond Class Mail Matter. iverea by carrter to any part of the ofty for 16 Cents a Week, 65 Conts a Month. scriptions for paper to be sent by mail Dayable in advance, 60 Cents a Afonth. $7.00 a Year. only profitable advertising medium In the city. Ciroulation books and press Toom always open to advertisers. Herald will be found on sate at Foea- ling’s New Stand, 42nd St. and Broad- way, New York City; Board Walk., at- lantic City, and Hartford Depot. TELEPHONE CALLE. iness Office torial Room THE RIGHT MAN. publicans in convention assem- ¥ having deolded upon Marcus H. fcomb as their choice for governor, Democrats have lost no time in using their attention upon a wor- champion for the same honors. eir gaze has centered upon the most manding figure in the state—Col ris G. Osborn, of New Haven. ‘olonel Osborn is knewn wherever ans gather as a men among men. possesses all those qualities of apd mind that endear him to bility released from active service under the National Guard and allowed to return to their civillan pursuits. They will return here better men than when they left. duty months They have seen ac- on the for and a half during time have acquired ledge they would not of training in armories or at annual encampments. These proached near the real standards that the soldier. The nation better for their sojourn on the border. If at any time the National Guard is again called to the colors and is made part of the regular army these men Will be in the highest class of efi- clency. litical tive border two that know- and military gather in years men have ap- measure is Despite the attempts of po- leaders to make capital out of the National Guardsmen being de- tained on the border, the whole plan has fallen. The men returning home Wwill bring the true story of their ex- periences and these will serve to strengthen an administration that called the men to do their duty. If they were not Intended for soldiers they should never have enlisted the National Guard. in WAITING 'OR AN ANSWER. Charles Evans Hughes has invaded Maine. Ostemsibly this visit to the pse who come within the magnetism his ‘wonderful personality. Were ranged. along side of Governor Hol- jnb in the race for gubernatorial h ythis state would be assured of of“the cleanest campaigns in its tical history. As yet the venerable or of New Haven has not signified intention of becoming a candidate. wilknot readily do so, for his mod- v is unbounded. But, if the time B come. (and we believe it has) when must:forsake his own sanctum sanc- for the general good of Demoo- in this state, then those who ouse the cause of Thomas Jefferson Ist see to it that Colonel Osborn is o their candidate. st as Governor Holcomb did not the honors bestowed upon him, so onel Osborn has made no move one y or the other to court this favor. ire his name placed at the head of Democratio ticket it would mean two of the highest types of men the state would be brought face face in the political arena. The psent ooccupant of the chief execu- chair is a life long friend and irer of the man whom the Demo- ts should place in the fleld. And Colonel would have the loyal sup- t of just as many Republicans as erngr Holcomb could command fnocrats. Further, Colonel Osborn ld take a large vote from the beressives, from those who have d of the activities of the ON ard in the Republican party and lined up with the progressive Dem- ats. [Fhose who are faithfully support- President Wilson, who hawve fol- bed his glorious career in the White use and wish to see Connecticut kt its’ seven electoral votes in his or, will take kindly to the candi- y of Col. Osborn. They must pre- i upon the Colonel to go foxth and the battle in this state. He can it. He is the man. EHis friends ld forth in every section of the te, in every city, every town, every milet. The moment the formal an- uncement is made of his candidacy ere will be one grand stampede to in back of hitm end work for his potion. His very name breathes en- jusiasm. Here in New Britain support for bl. Osborn is already pledged. Ex- nator George M. Landers in an in- view printed elewhere M the erald today announces himself in vor of such action. As state cen- al committeeman, Senator Landers’ nouncement should go a long way producing the destred effect. Dem- rats all over the state will rally to e call. There is little time to be st, and Colonel Osborn should be ade the candidate of his party even 2 petition must be circulated to pmmand prompt action. He is the an the Democrats want if they want b Win in the November elections. e would help Woodrow Wilson and oodrow Wilson would help him, a mbination hard to beat. MUSTERING 'EM OUT. of Connecticut who spent worrying over held the two more the horder are votes on need fear no Evident- more. coming home ent Wilson had a change of id not want to see a spe- of the with Connecticut Legis- all the jial session hture called added ex- ensc ending a commission to col- bt thousand votes for Charles vans Hughes. So, of the kind- fess of his heart, the Chief Executive the the Federal two out Baker t for formed Secretary me was at hand muster Jational Guard out. of the regiments mustered out ordercd home immediately. harboring sickness will be prill be nly those hllowed to remain on the border. As soon as the Connecticut troops Pine Tree State was staged at the height of the local campaign for the purpose of saving Maine for the Re- publican candidates on Monday. Great as his reception was in Portland last night it is conceded that it nowhere epproached the ovation given to Theodore Roosevelt at the time of the Lewiston speech. This is worrying Republican party managers. They fear the Colonel has set a bad prece- dent for their candidate. The Colonel, it will be remembered, fired a broad- stde at the so-called hyphenates. This speech was highly endorsed by the Candidate who has as yet made no utterances on this particular phase of the campaign. Hughes has lambasted everything that Wilson has done, but he has never yet flayed that alien band which is supposed to have forced his nomination at Chicago. If Hughes comes out on this subject it is feared his candidacy will be lost for- ever. He is therefore clutching to his two fondest hopes, outside of the suf- fragists, Wall Street and the hyphen- ates. Despatches from Portland show that Mr. Hughes may shift his main attack from the picayune things he has dealt upon and go after the emer- gency Bight-Hour Law which Con- gress adopted in order to prevent a nation-wide rallroad strike. He has already touched on the subject, de- claring that the Democrats in this case used the rule of force as against the rule of reason. Mr. Hughes has claimed that if he is elected he will use the rule of reason, but he has not sald just what he would have done had he been confronted with the same situ- ation that faced Wilson in the railroad controversy. Any other tactics than those used by the President and the Congress would have meant a nation- wide strike, so terrible in its conse- quences that the mind of man not comprehend it all. Would Mr. Hughes have suffered this to go through such a strike? question he should answer before he leaves the Pine Tree State. The peo- ple are walting for enlightenment on this and othr questions., can- nation That is a OPEN, HIGH, LOW, AND CLOSE. It was Presldent Wilson who said I am a candidate of a party, but I am above all things else an American citizen. I neither seek the favor nor fear the displeasure of that small alien element amongst us which puts loyalty to any foreign power before loyalty to the United States. It was Candidate Hughes who said: Now, I didn’t say that! “Mr. Hughes spoke against the roar of the tide from the —News dispatch from Hampton Beach, N. H. Not wholly surprising, in view of his well-known facility for finding things to speak against. COMMUNICATED. Public ocean. All High Scl Schools, Indluding the 1001, Will Open Tuesday, September 19. To the HEditor of The Herald: - Will you kindly state whether the { date of the opening of the city schools which was changed for one week will affect the High school? Thanking you, A ‘HIGH SCHOOL PUPIL. D FANCT son—that's all, Hughes—that’s Hartforq Post. The identification in New York of a, woman kidnapped when a child thirty- one years ago should lend zest to the hunt for Charley Ross.—Paterson Call. Nobody can evervbody. tverybody can nohod Mr. iu ‘pleased with his western trip.”— Buffalo Enquirer. The automobile season zenith yesterda and Sunday when tourists it in Berkshire had to sleep in reached its hrrive here they will be in all proba- their cars because there weren’t beds | enough to Hagle. | go around.—Berkshire The allied drive is slow but it is certain. New gains are made every | day and thousands of prisoners are | being taken. It will be a long time | before the German release their hold on French territory, Meriden Record. If there is a flaw in the constitu- tionality of the elght-hour law the | supreme court won’t have to hunt | very long for it. It is estimated that ome 2,000 lawyers, counsel for the state commerce rallroads, i ng for the flaw.—Springfield Republican. Mayor Scully of Waterbury made a speech in which he declared that | Waterbury was making half the war | munitions of the world. Now the Wa- terbury papers rise up to tell him that he has serlously exaggerated. Not even Waterbury wants to assume re- sponsibility for so much hellishness. —Hartford Times. Mr. Hughes spoke disparagingly of the child labor He disapproves of the railroad eight-hour law, which averted a naticn-wide_strike. He is infallibly against everything that con- gress or the administration may do, and being in an entirely nesative frame of mind he has nothing to offer instead except that an experiment be made in the White house.—New York Werld. Boob Ballads. Underworld Gets His Money—Head- line. Vice parts the yoke from his wind The wastrel from his soul— When Reuben went to Babylon They always got his roll. It's been the same since time began; | The careless person’s feet Are sure to lead him into towns That aren’t fit to eat. When Jason from the rowdy west Came back to buy in Greece They put some gum-drops in his booze | And pinched the Golden Fleece. Crooks had a trick in Egypt's prime, | When none sat on the lid, Of selling phony chances on King Khufu's pyramid. One boob may die, but deathless is The royal race of hicks— When Ahab went to Ascalon They sold him gilded bricks. When Solomon was king he tried To run a decent town, But Proverbs shows the System threw His good intentions down. The old Falernian that they poured On Circus days in Rome Shook fillings from the neat-herd’s teeth— And then they shipt him home. In spite of all you say or sing No boob will take the hint, But scatters all his wealth in dives That aren’t fit to print. Gilles still aspires to beat the game, Still thinks his failures odd— When Hezekiah went to Gath They always got his wad. —Don Marquis, in New York Evening Sun. Wilson and Lincoln. (Brooklyn Eagle.) Since the time of Abraham Lincoln no president of the United States has ever had such responsibilities, domes- tic and foreign, thrown upon him as We suppose confronted Wilson has had to face. the problems that have Woodrow Wilson approximate most | closely to the Lincoln burden. That is why there was a peculiar signifi- cance in Wilson’s tribute to Lincoln at the birthplace of the emancipator. Men say that Wilson is a politician. | A statesman has been defined as “a | politician dead.” That Lincoln was a politiolan no man of his time ever | doubted; that he knew and steered by the current of public sentiment was a continuous annovance to Thad Ste- vens, to Charles Sumner and even to Horace Greeley. Perhaps in a re- public no man, however great, exer: cises tremendous influence on event: without being guided more or less by expediency. There are likenesses and contrasts when Lincoln and are compared. Both love epi Both prefer homely smiles. Both de- pend on direct appeal to the ma S in their recorded speéches. In action ‘Wilson is no more of a partisan than | Tincoln, less of a partisan in his view | of appointments to civil service. Tin- coln knew the masses better than Wil- son does. Wilson knows the history | of the world and the philosophy of that history better than Lincoln did. Bach had a pecullar fitness for the crisis Fate had chosen him to meet. To conduct war s more dramatic than to prevent war. That fact will give T.incoln a big advantage on the films of our permanent history when they are developed. there Wi are on ms A Perilous Game. (Washington -Star.) “Don’t you bridge \whist at Crimson Gulch?” “Not any more,” Bronco Bob. “It upsets all the rules. When you lose at poker you can keep your troubles 1o yourself and not talk | about the hand. But when one of us loses at bridge whist he doesn’t know what minute his partner is goin’ to draw a gun an’ rely on a verdict of justifiable homicide.” play replied Reasonable Doubt. (Pittsburgh Dispateh.) litor—So yon told your father that $4,000 a vear. What |1 did he say? The Girl—FHe haid he knew you were getting that much, but he doubt- ed you were earning it. was earning | ican McMILLAN’S New Britain’s Busy Big Store— “Always Reliable.” "t Mothers, Let Us Help You " Prepare Children for School Opening To start the new Fall term right, practice economy by having your Children wear CADET SCHOOL HOSE Made in four weights for Boys and Girls, namely fine, medium and heavy ribbed. CADET HOSE are made with linen heel and toe, they will out- wear all others. Special attention is called to the CADET HOSE in the fine mercerized Lisle, they retain their lustrous finish after washing. CADET HOSE sold in New Britain only at this store. Sizes 5 to 815, _Sizes 9 to 11 . 25¢ pair. 29¢ pair. BOYS’ BLOUSES 25c and 50c each. BOYS’' NEGLIGEE SHIRTS 49¢ to 98¢ each BOYS’ TIES 9c to 25c¢ each. McMILLAN SPECIAL SCHOOL HOSE 15¢ pair. Black, white and tan. Compare these with what you have been buying else- where. HANDKERCHIEFS FOR SCHOOL OPENING 1 never can have too many Hand- kerchiefs, this special sale offers un- usual values. (Better stock up.) CHILDREN’S HANDKERCHIEFS 2 for 5¢, others at 4c, 5¢ and 10c each. EMBROIDERED HANDKERCHIEFS 10c, 3 for 25c; others at 12l4c, 25c, 29¢ and 50c each. MADEIRA HANDKERCHIEFS 12 styles in fine imported designs, 50c values for this sale, 29¢ eac] LINEN INITIALS ME. 15¢ and 25c¢ each. MEN’S AND WO- MEN’'S LINEN HANKERCHIEF 123%c, 15c, 19¢ and 25c each. BIG SHOWING OF DAINTY FALL NECKWEAR 25¢, 49c, 98c. MIDDY BLOUSES at 97c each—all new styles 199-201-208 MAIN STREET. Both Wrong. (Boston Post.) Curiously enough, two men of to- tally digering habits of thought, Pres- ident Ripley of the nta. Fe railroad and President Gompers of the Amer- deration of ILabor, agree in regretting that there was no railroad strike, each believing that victor would quickly have come to the cau he espoused had the terrible test been made. Both ave on the wrong track in de- siring that such a contest with its in- evitable inconvenience: privation. and dangers and its possible horrors should have been fought out. Both are wrong in believing that the strug- gle would have been speedily ended. Both are wrong in wishing public suf- fering as a price of triumph for their respective sides. 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Its in- habitants, 35,000 in number, one-third of whom are Armenians and the oth- ers of Kurdish descent, are largely en- gaged in the manufacture of a coarse red cloth, while their commercial ac- tivities are chiefly confined to the ex- port of an inferior grade of tobacco retirement and the gathering and shipment of | gum tragacanth. “Bitlls for hundreds of years has been a town of great strategic portance hecause it is situated main highwa; between the Van plateau and the plains of Mesopo- tamia. Take Van is only 60 miles to Mush 40 miles to the northwest, and Erzerum a little more than 100 miles in the same direction. Roads lead through a mountain pe in a southerly direction toward Mosul, which is more than 150 miles distant in an alrline. “Owing to its elevation, nearly a mile above sea level, Bitlis suffers greatly from snowstorms and it not infrequently happens that many of its narrow streets are blocked snowdrifts for four or five months of the year, although the temperature seldom falls below zero. “Like many of the town ‘morning land of history,’ Bitlis had a most interesting past. Fact and fable are so intricately inter- woven, however, that the reader of Kurdish literature finds it equally hard to be whole credulous or alto- gether skeptical. One of the most In- teresting traditions of the town con- cerns the site of the ruins of a castle occupying the triangle at the juncture of #wo streams near the center of the city. Here Alexander the Great Is said to have built a fortress during his campaign of world conquest. Vineteen centurles later almost under the shadow of this castle, the great Turkish sultan, Solyman the Magnificent, met one of his few de- feats at the hands of whom he subdued many times, just as he defeated many European armies on the plains and in the mountain fastnesses of Hungary of is in this has a half century, marking the height | of the Ottoman empire. superior | of Bit- | im- | on the | by | the Persians | Hungary i during his brilliant reign of nearly | { “It was in the 14th century that a I'subject of the great Mongol war lord, i Tamerlane, was appointed to rule this part of Kurdistan after the conquest of Diarbekir. The official entrusted ; with this duty was Amir Qara Uth- I man (Black Lord Uthman), who, in- stead of perpetrating such crueltles as did his master in building a pyra- mon ordered a contingent of 400 vir- gins from the Far East. While on their way to Jerusalem they passed through the Bitlis region and here a band of evil spirits mingled with tho prospective brides of the Wisest King. The news reached Solomon and he {m- mediately ordered the young women to come no nearer his court, but to remain with the spirits who had con- taminated them. The Kurds, says this legend, are the offsprings of this mating of the virgins with the evil ones.” Big Enough For AllL (Collier’s Weekly.) 1 fmm of 2,000 human beings piled up | with alternate layers of brick wnd mortar, conquered the land by matri- | | mons Taking a daughter of the | jnoble Kurdish family of Hakkari as | his wife Qara Uthman soon won his | way into the affections of the people, so that when Tamerlane’s power be- | gan to wane this viceroy was able to | { retain a strong hold upon the moun- | | tain tribes. Uthman’s descendants | adopted the title of Princess of Bit- | lis anad they held sway in this region | | for more than four centuries. The | | last of this remarkable line was | | Sharif Bey who held out against the preponderant power of tho Tumss for | several years during the first half of | the 19th century, but | feated and taken a | stantinople in 1849. was finally de- | captive to Con- | “The Kurds, who constituted {thirds of the population of Bit who have held two- | s and | way in this mounta | ous region of sia Minor for many | centuries, have been variously ap- | praised by traveler: One extreme | view is that ‘they are as destitute of annals as the wolves and jackals among whom they have lived in the high mountains from immemorial | times,” while the writer who estimate: the other side of the shield of their | character speaks glowingly of the mountaineers thu ‘Every nation | that ever acquired fame and name in the eastern world’s historyv—Assyrian, Parthian, Greek, Roman, Persian, the Arabs, Mohammedans and Mongols— has invaded this part of western Asia, vet the “holders of the hills and the possessors of the tongue” have winv-’ stood every army and have retaimed the purity of their Aryan blood and’ their Aryan language.’ H “Considering the orlgin of the Kurds, there are two picturesque Per- sian legends. The first relates that at the suggestion of the devil the ser- pents of the mythological monster Zohak were regularly fed upon human brains. Two vouths who had been condemned to have their heads robbed for serpent sustenance escaped death ‘by substituting goats’ brains for their | own. Those yvouths hecame the pro- genitors of the Kurd | “The other legend bit more erotic, as if it had come from the'men- tal loom which wove the tales of the ‘Thousand and One Nights’. It re- ! lates that during his campaign for | | the collection of 700 wives, King Solo- | is a | season of workaday It is not otoo late to enjoy that Unfortunate it is that not all us can reach nd miles of it, of New Jersey, of Maine. of our bigness- beach. of either Californ or the golden or the ruder That is one penalty ut it adds to our tional safety, what with submarines and sharks. The beach is withal the great midsummer club. Its member- ship embraces both the rising gen- eratlon and the elders. Gossip runs™ rife on the hotel pi and at the summer colony’s ‘““casino” but at the water's edge the keen salt breeze and friendly sun combine to shame petty malice. Merely to watch waves endles: marching, breaking—merely to listen perpetual plangent throb— the spirit. Here, if you youngster, you tread the of paradise. You build turrets and and mo and watch their sturdy resistance a gradual crumbiing before the rising tide. You dig “wells” in the wet sand and watch them fill. You race the water line dodging the darting tongues of foam. You scamper into the drag of an ebbing wave to rescue come retrealing streamer of wet kelp, Then you stretch it or split it, or merely flop about in ecstasy. You hurl out chunks of driftwood for your yelping puppy to retrieve. And if you you may happen upon a sidling about, backing and filling in most ingratiating fashion. Be- tween dips, sturdy lads and sweet six- teen loll about the sand in pleasant, innocuous communion. Miss Boarding School and her pal, the near-sopho- more, vie with one another in getting a tan. No middle-aged bachelor col- oring a meerschaum takes more pride in the process than youth does in his sun-browned shoulders. Probably the little episodes and heartburnings of puppy love leave no deeper traces than sunburn does. They serve, more over, to divert the elders basking in their beach chairs. From the gen- tle languor of the moment all these actors in the comedy of summer de- rive and store up energy inst ¢ tomorrows. The the pipe goes out sweep above the ails fleck the steely horizon. The sounding blue ocean, the drenching sunlight, the warm sand, unite to fix one’s mood of perfect peace. tho sand shore na- the curling, to their nses still a borderlands 1d forts with bastions vong novel lies Sea gulls crested wi unread; poise and ves; while