New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 19, 1916, Page 6

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TELEP] hens OMce i8] Room HONE CaLLe. ’'HE COMING OF WINTER. p great alarm should be occasioned another case of New Britain. the coming of the cool days the he discovery of tile paralysis in hces of greatly et. an epidemic | The vigilance of the health | hold seri- arc rtment has done much to Britain immune from any outbreak Having | ed the torrid nights of Pummer, the threshold of the Win- place. of this disease, days and standing be held this pffers a secure tever else may against oming of old Boreas, much Health and Happiness dance of e: jhe pathway the invigorating h wina. CONNECTICUT AND WAY STATIONS for the te scounting the moment all of the which fictions on outcome ocratic sta convention s in New be lown as certain that a man will be nated for a worthy Haven today it may governor. who will 2 opponent of the Re- candidate, The Democrats | their that in order to win in the can fe the strength of rivals | fcnow ng state elections a man of more and ability be placed at the head of the . Who this man is will be known all degrees of certainty in a short Speculation is futile, Baldwin ordinary strength er Governar in h the oth perats against a r day warned local | lax in is to rong, and those who make them- worthy of will be ed the victors. pck and lern to over-ride everything then beaten. becoming political duties. The race winning If Democrats allow their Republ Pemocrats deserve to be hey are not going to do s'sn With a man at the head e process! s campaign and fight o the last | They will have the earnest of Republicans essives in their fight, a good ion they are going out | prt many and and this id materially. ile it has generally been the cus- | organs to belittle party bf Republican fforts the is particular Democratic the such of Demo- tactics. state, have realize that everyone has a right e and accordingly they let s live. If the Republicans poll ory the Democrats are not given beping and gnashing of teeth. | take their defeats like men, nor pursued no The Republican party is it olden alibis. in this state, but as in the ! )ld Guard has lost a great deal The party has not vet | is not as days, | it w power. recpvered from its split, while bposing forces have been grow- ptronger day. There are | going to in the November elections who | voted that way before. Wood- | 7ilson at the head of the ticket is attractive to many who | every | vote the Democratic | na- | hissatisfled with the reactionary nt of the Republican party. He greatest Pragressive who ever | the White House and will :\D—i lto the Progressive vote in this bther states. Therefore, it mely to say that the Demofr';m‘ paten in Connecticut even before | ktart. They may the | urprise November for Con- | ut and way is produce in stations. EDISON AND FORD. top of the assertion, ofttimes re- that f the the § the manufacturing inter- country are and should Woodrow | re-election of | inst and the Democratic parts Ford has the 2t Detroit manu- | or, announced that il vote for the man in the public ! White Not long before Ford's asser- AT fPhomas Edison, the greatest kor of all time and as enterpris manufacturer as there is in the support the To nizzical mind the question natu- | said he would fient at the coming elections. larises, “What is the matter with men, Ford and lentirely lost their balance, h forgotten the doctrine Edison, ve s prosperity ?” pre must be something wrong where. FEither there is fallacy B old idea of high protection or | of the friend of labor. and just that these three have | of pro- | In, or is Wilson going to insure | men the manufacturer in the country has become temporarily Zither the old standpat protection for protec- has b riddled has lost all given the Something is the matter. These men must have lost all interest in as average demented. argument tion’s sake alone Thomas A, ideas and should treatment. of cen or Edison his be Osler the welfare of their industries, American industries of the first water. There must be a solution of their ac- tion somewhere if anyone would take the time to find it. Up to this time they have always been interested in developing their particular industrial fields. Both are big employers of la- bor, both two hire as many men as the country together Both wages to those who work for And yet here they are out in of the man whom we are told wreck the nation financlally, vl and”every other way if he is put back more, any individuals in taken separately or pay zo00d them. oy will in- in office for four years of Connecticut statement that The Governor is if White, country authority for the Wilson House to the the people of this might as well move to Mexico. even is returned are numerous individuals, here who feel that if Wil- son is put in office again they might well their in States and travel to pas- in New Britain, as sell out belongings the United tures new, shaking the dust of Amer- ica from their feet, never to return until Woodrow Wilson has served his four years and is again out of harm'’s That thought. The men who harbor feelings are not in way. is a common such sense as famous or Ford nor have any as either Edison they accomplished the wonderful things that these two geniuses of the indus- trial field have to their credit. The truth of the matter seems to be that Henry Forad are typical of the American genius, They not need to have the gov- ernment at their elbows at every turn They do not have to call upon the national | government to re-adjust the tariff so | they can keep the wheels of their es- ablishments going. Ford and Edi- son have du:h”_ things in spite of any handicaps, whether from the tariff or other conditions. and Thomas A. Edison do wheel. | everlastingly As they have pros- pvered by their inventive genius business ability so the men who work for them have prospered. Ford and Thomas _Edison are friends of labor. Wilson the therefore meet and Henry Woodrow It a men whose | visions are capable of surmounting the narrow barriers of greed and avarice | should have many things in common, It is but that Ford should vote for know that if he still capable of turning natural Edison Wi is elected and son and they will be out as as they sale for them,—probably more; that they can still do business at old stands, much goods for the market do today, and have as great the same A great change has come in our political system which is receiving the attention of students from California and back again. olden days the gubernatorial vote in any particular state was the vote that crunted for evervthing; even a of party strength. In this the vote for United in the various states importance that for There might be greater being governor of a state; there is vastly more work to be done for the party in the natiosal halls of Congress as a senator. There the political gets the benefit. Whether the change in interest is for Letter or for scen. Maine In the to criterion vear of grace States senators overshadows in the governor. honor in party worse remains to be Judging solely by the expressions of confidence issued by leaders two major political parties, the of Mr. Hughes vs. Mr. W will be similar to that problem in physics anent the irresitable force and the immovable hod of the case son very FACTS AND FANCIES There is an abundance of blueber- ries, and, as usual, the women are do- ing the picking—Turner’s Falls, (Mass.) Reporter. A real estate agent named suing Charles Morse for his services in persuading Taft to free Morse. We thought it was a doctor.—Brooklyn Baum is | Fagte. For two cents, a woman can pur- chase enough electricity to run a sev ing machine, equipped with an eclec- tric motor, for several hours. But then, again, the same amount would pay for two perfectly beautiful sticks of gum.—Meriden Journal. Poliomyelitis is a long, hard but the theories aboui it come fro | the primer, as rat. fly, milk. ant flea Our fathers never suspected that such menace could lurk in those words | one syllable.—Springficld Republican word A south Missouri man, ninety-eight vears old, has smoked ever since he was fourteen and says he expects to |1ive to 150. Any physician will Ford who employs as many There | tell | him that if he does not cut out smok- 1 practical government by the people. [ it sounds, ing he can't hope to last more than ten years longer.—Brookfield (Mo.) Gazette. One New York hotel has abolished tips for fhe care of hats and wraps. The precedent is a good one for others to follow. What they would gain in the good will of guests would more than compensate for the loss of what is after all a minor source of revenue. New York World. Of course, when pinned right down to the point, we have to admit that there are some advantages in living in New York. We notice that some of the shops are advertising lovely Hud- coats for $556.98., reduced from $750. We can’'t get them n Houston.—Houston Post. Wo don’t mean to say tiat we wish such a thing would happen bnt it does strike us as a rather odd fact that, with our high national consumption of bichloride of mercury tablets, it nev- er happens that any are taken by mis- take by prominent wife's relatives | while on one of their visits.—Ohio | State Journal. The Homestead. | (Bliss Carman in the Century.) Iere we came when love was young. Now that love is old, Shall we leave the floor unswept And the hearth acold? | Hiere the hill wind in the dusk, Wandering to and fro, Moves the moon flowers, Ot the long ago. like a ghost Flere from every doorway looks | A remembered face, Every sill and panel wears A familiar grace. Let the windows smile again To the morning light, And the door stand open wide When the moon is bright. Let the breeze of twilight blow Through the silent hall, And the dreaming rafters hear How the thrushes call, 0, be merciful and fond To the house that gave All its best to shelter lovi Built when love was brav Here we came when love was young. ow that love is old, Never let its day be lone or its heart acold! Railroads Share Prosperity. (New Haven Union), The railroads of the United States, as the result of the general prosper- ity under Woodrow Wilson, have largely increased earnings with which to pay whatever increase of wages is caused by the eight-hour day. In the fiscal vear ending with June, the net earnings of American rail- ways (as published by Bradstreet's and based on official returns of the Interstate Commerce Commission) reached: the unparallelled total of $1.094,348,552. This, of course, was after payment of all operating ex- penses, including wages. It amount- ed to 24.5 per cent. increase over the greatest previous yea- in American railway history, 1913 The first six months of the calendar year 1916 show a net earnings gain of 44.1 per cent bver the first half of the vear before. This is for all roads of over $100,000 earnings. For the ecighty-six principal roads reported by “The Annalist’ the net carnings gain for the first half of 1916 is 458 per cent. For the complete fiscal vear ending June 30, 1916, for all roads. the amount of net earnings increase ex- ceeds $226,000,000 increase over the preceding twelve months, For the first half of 1916 the net earnings Increase of 86 principal roads reported by “The Annalist” is $117.000,000. The latest estimate by railway presidents and managers to President Wilson is, that to grant the request way brotherhood for an eight hour day in place of the present ten hour basis would cost $60,000,000. This is less than 6 per cent. of the total $1,- [ 094,000,000 of net earnings for the fiscal year and only a little over one- fourth of the’ net increase over the vear before. | “New York Central proper is now earning at the rate of between 16 and 17 per cent. on its $249.590,000 stock.’ “Tf undivided surplus earnings in sub- sldiary companics were figured in earnings. Central's would new be at the rate of 20 to 21 per cent. on its stock.” In the past two vears the railway are about the only American indus- of wages. Connecticut’s Rural Schools, (Bridgeport Post) Recently the United = > Bureau of Bducation made the rural public daily report at of to in on the average attendance schools and the rural education. It Fratify see that Connecticut stands sccond its report, Oregon alone leadiny:. It is disclosed that the aer schooi attendance in the Un:te is but 67.6 per cent. But Connec cut shows an average of 884 per cent., or nearly twenty-one per cent. above the figure for the whole 2oun- try. The low average is due to the ! backward condition in the Southern ! and Western states. 11 New Fng- land-is high, Massachusetts following Connecticut with a percentage of $6. Oregon's figure is 90.6 or 2.2 points above Connecticut. These figures arc for the year 1914. The lowest average is furnished by Maryland and Delaware, thirty-seven points below Connecticuf. Other states further south disclose nearly the same deficiency. This merely one more tribute from an authoritative source to the high rank which Connecticut occunies in all that goes to make for sound, stat is rural I Statcs is of the 400,000 members of the rail- | tries that have made no material raise | DAILY HERALD, | even i | | | splendid chance for abandon of hindsight, and say right now he would do in this Panama waiting one thing or the other and then criti- cising that. this fairly vou recognize Valdez, el TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1916. WHAT OTHERS SAY Views on all sides of timely questions as discussed in ex- changes that come to tho Herald Office. Journalistic Change. (Bridgeport Standard). The last number of the Connecticut Western News contains the announce- ment that John Rodemeyer, the editor for the last six years, has severed his connection with the paper. Mr. Rode- meyer in the final word that | “having come to the parting of the ways” he retires, and he adds: “In retiring the editor takes occasion to express his heartfelt gratitude for the indulgence and friendly co-operation that have made his lahors pleasant. He has made mistakes and acknowl- edges shortcomings, a' plenty, but the consoling reflection remains, that he has striven in his humble way, to make of the News a journal that should stand for civic progre: up- rightness and all that is best, clean, wholesome and decent in the com- munity and to give it a standing among the recognized up-to-date country newspapers of the state.” The editors of the Connecticut newspapers who have been fortunate enough to receive the News while un- der the editorial management of Mr. Rodemeyer will bear willing testi- mony to his success in making the News interesting and readable, and his departure will take from it much of the attractiveness which has been characteristic of its columns. We trust that Mr. Rodemever will find another field for his journalistic genius which will give it full scope and win for it a proper appreciation. says Carry the News to Fall, (Salem News). Senator Fall of New Mexico loudly proclaimed that we should send troops into Mexico and keep them there “until a human life was as safe and sacred in Mexico as in the United States.”” Will some one Kindly notify him that just now it appears to be safer in Mexico than in Florida or Ohio? Seven persons lynched after horrible and brutal tortures in Florida last weelk, and a jailer nearly lynched this week for refusing to give up his prisoner to be lynched. Let the good work go on. Talk about “sacredness of human life abroad” and forget the insecurity of it at home. Whi Chicago has more murders of Amer- icans ‘every year than the bandits of Mexico commit in a year and Chicago only convicts about one in a hundred. Carry the news to Fall. It may give him a fall Icre’s His Chance. (Boston Post.) Reports from Panama declare that a dangerous state of political affairs exists in the little republic. A revo- Iution is being fomented by the op- ponents of the recently elected Presi- dent Valdez who claim that the man was chosen by gross frauds. They even assert that if the government of the Tinited States recognizes him, rebellion will forthwith start. This may or may not be a problem for the President of the United States. But it does offer a Mr. Hughes to his favorite vantage ground what case, not has done serious until the president What would you do, Mr. Hughes, in important matter? Would or not? Why Wwait until the president acts? Charles Becker, Legend and Lesson. (New York Werld.) In retirement so well guarded that his death a week ago has but become generally known, a man criminal career won inter- fame passed his declining n and already a legend. The Bankers' association is not likely advertise the fact, if it i a fact and not romantic assertion, that it pensioned Chagles Becker on con- dition that he should forbear using his skill as a counterfeiter, That he was employed by a detective agency after his reform is a proved tribute to his former professional standing. Another is the tale that, after sentence to the Kings County tentiary, a delegation waited on Warden begging him not to Becker at rough work that jmpair his “delicacy of touch' pardize his future livelihood. Becker was an art His work 21 proached perfection so dangerousiy close that it was sought for big, bold jobs. IFrance, England, Turkey, as well as Baltimore and New York, bad reason for anxiety as his prowess. Yet what Becker had to show in the end for skill so uncanny and suc- cess so unusual was the means -of the most modest livelihood under the cloud of evil reputation. What he | Jeft to posterity was a saying that | 1ong before Him had passed into a proverb: “Crime never pay now whose national days, a le: to Peni- the set might and to aculously Comes to Life, Weekly). So bad was the LaFollette seamen’s law, you remember that the Pacific Mail Steamship Company sold out to the Japs and retired from business It was a blow to the seamen’s act, because the Pacific Mail was one of a few American companies on the Pa- cific. Well, appears that the Pacific Mail only sold some hoats to the Japs at a good pric Now it is announced that the Pacific Mail Company has purchased 3% mil- lions worth of new ships and is 1n the business on the Pacific up to its neck—and subject to the LaFollette seamen’s act. The great trouble with that law is that it treats sailors as if they wera humans. As the New York Tim saye, everybody knows that isn't busi- M {Capper's it ness on the sea, no matter how well | steamer fights its way to the McMILLAN'S New Britain’s Busy Big Store McMILLAN'S “Always Reliable” FALL OPENING DAYS Wednesday=«Thursday- Sept. 20 and 21 Fashion Display Showing the New Season’s Coats, Suits, Dresses, . Skirts and Waists We Cordially Invite You to Be Present at This Store During FASHION DISPLAY DAYS A HALF HOUR Here With the New SUITS, COATS, DRESSES, SKIRTS and BLOUSES Will Tell You More About the Correct Fall Styles Than Hours of Reading. SUITS Priced $12.98, $16.98 to $30.00 COATS Priced $5.98, $9.98 to $25.00 DRESSES Display the New LACES, TRIMMINGS Priced $4.98, $7.98 to $12.98 Season’s DRESS GOODS, SILKS, VELVETS and BUTTONS. AIN STREET From Budapest to (he Black Sea Through the Iron Gates lect senatorial gathering resulted in Conkling’s complete knockout, his ap- pearance forbidding his coming to the senate chamber for When next met Chandier marked: “Zach, that fellow, you said, was pretty handy with the glove: what did you say his name is “Well,” answered Chandler, “I be- several days, he he Washington, D. Sept. 16.—The Iron Gates, the last great defile of the Danube in its course to the Black sea and the first point at which the Aus- trians launched an offensive against their new enemies, the Roumanians, i described in the following war geo- graphy bulletin which the National Geographic society issued today: “Contrary to the general belief of | readers to whom the term ‘Iron Gates of the Danube’ is familiar, this fa- mous defile of the chief waterway of Hungary, Roumania, Bulgaria and | Serbia does not derive its name from precipitous walls of rock through which the waters dash in a narrow channel, cs at the Kazan Defile, but from the dangerous boulders that fair- ly litter the riverbed®for a distance of nearly two miles, beginning at the once strongly fortified island of Ada Kaleh which was captured by Hun- gary in 1878 and is still inhabited 1y a picturesque colony of 500 Turks. Opposite this island, on the lcft bank of the Danube and at the mouth of th inconsequential Eachna river, whic here forms the Hungarian-Roumanian boundary, is the attractive little Rou- manian customs village of Verciorova on the Buda-pest-Bucharest railway, 257 miles west of the latter cily. “It was not until 1890 that work was begun in a definite and compre- hensive manner to rid the Iron Gates of some of its gravest dangers to nav- igation. In that r a Hungarian engineering company undertook the task of removing nearly a million and a quarter cubic yards of stone from the watercourse. Eight years after {he enterprise was inaugurated the canal which had been hewn from the solid rock on the Serbian side of the river was ready to be thrown open to the steamers which ply the Danube from Budapest to the Black sea. The canal was designed to provide a yea round channel ten feet deep, whereas the original course of the river was not navigable for more than nine months out of every twelve. “The opening of the waterway was the occasion for a great celebration in which three monarchs participate Emperor Francis Joseph of Aust Hungary, King Alexander of Serbia, and King Carol (Charles I) of Rou- mania. The festivities of the day were somewhat marred by the discovery that the current through the canal was so swift that while steamers could rush through it in the downward jour- ney they could not make a trip up- ward, so that the old river course had to be used for westward-bound traffic. «hen the water is high the rocks of the Iron Gates are completely sub- merged but they are only a few feet heneath the surface and the boilins, churning waves present a terrifving sight to the timid passenger as his calmer ve a | sloping hills, other print. and particularly boxing, Conkling had many back on the he was chairman. with Zach Chandler left gan weeks later Chandler spoke to Conk- ling about an acquaintance of his who was intimating to meet him Conkling ingly quaintance wa .as counter mittee room in the presence of a se- lieve I introduced him as Mr. Walker, reaches in the vicinity of Orsova (pro- . lylot Oreoraa(n but his real name is Jem Mace nounced Orshova), the first town in Hungarian territory, five miles above | the rapids and a ten-hours' journey | | | | The Soldier (New Haven It was an impressive argument Rep, Hewes of Farmington in the state house of representatives warning Vote. by boat below Belgrade, the veacc- times capital of Serbia. “Instead of the gloomy gorge which most travelers expect to find, the banks on each side of the Iron Gates . present a beautiful picture of gemily |the body that it had no power to bountifully wooded. In |confer on the soldiers at the Mex- the early summer hese woods are a . ican border the right to vote for state fairyland of flowers and the winds are | officc In other words. it is his con- fairly weighted with the fragrance of | tention that the cc ition requires wild blossoms in countless variety, | that state officers be clected elect- while a short distance from the river |ors'’ meeings called according to the huntsman finds deer, wild boar, |provisions of the law. Governor bear and other game in abundance. Call of Massachuset : Enhancing the charm of the scene are warning, to the the songs of myriad birds which malke their home in the forests: “As the river progresses eastward into Roumania the wooded hills @ appear and are succeeded by barren sand ridges.” Journal-Courier) made to at the Me- - at wve a simil legisluture of t state. The philosophy of this argument easier to understand as applying life in Connecticut and Massachu today than as applying to the 1 in those states when the constitutions were framed. A simpler ganization imparted to such a re: tion little significance. The comple social organization of this day anc is to 9 Ochiltree and Conkling. (Letter in the New York Sun.) Entering a famous club, I believe in Jew Orleans, about the time he was | gencration seems to impart to United States Marshal in Texas, Tom & larger significance. For exampl Ochiltree found a reception in pro- |conceivable that in case of gress, and, inquiring what it was all | election, in which the claim about, he was told that it was in honor |that a few illegally cast of Jom Mace. “There’s a man,” said | nullified the wish of the ele his informant, “of whom it can be the vote cast by the soldiers said he was never hit in the fade.” ' be brought in for court investigat “Is that so?” asked Ochiltree; “‘intro- 'and thrown out. It is to ima duce me to him, will you?” And as anyone that he was introduced and Mace, With a |under normal conditions, smile, advanced with outstretched |be imperative if matters of great hand, Ochiltree quickly hauled off and | lic concern hung on the result struck the pugilist a staggering blow | election, or what appeared to the between the eves. A few days after- | complainant to be matters of great ward, when Tom recovered consclous- | public concern, to invoke that under- his friend, sitting at the side of | standing of the constitutional limi For | tions set upon the rights of the voters answer Tom said: “Well, I hit him | There is no question of the sp didn’t 12" “Oh, yes' replied the o¢ the voters at' home with rd to friend, as he surveyed Tom’s battered ! 4yoir wishes in behalf of the citizes head, “oh, yes, you hit him! | voters at the Mexican border. T This story brings us around to an- | want them to exercise the same priv- incident in which Conkling |jjcce and’ not be deprived of the which I have never seen In |,jghtg hecause they happen to be giv- Fond of all forms of athletiea |y o 0 Cp 8 r g e the federnl government, If the vote of the sol- diers is to be cast, Governor Hol- comb should see to it that the com- missioners appointed to take the vote in the field should be men who the respect and confi of the | whole public. The responsibility | calls for men who could not ment suspected of polit tere social or- e ma was votes torate, ht n mig ard particular but it raising point m pul of the ness. his bed, asked him how he felt. v reg figured a bout with the- gloves in the room of the senate commiftee revision of the laws, of which One of these bouts the Michi- worsted Some enjoy nce Senator hadly for a mo. be cal in- “rather handy with the gloves,’ that Conkling might like “Indeed, I would,” sald and a meeting was accord- at which the ac- ntroduced to Chandler “Mr. Walker.”” The en- followed in the com- If those Greek troops who have turned themselves over to Germsany suppose that they will be permittad to remain non-combatants, they may have a rude awakening in Germany's extremity.—New Haven Register. arranged well, say. which 1 A