New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 23, 1916, Page 6

NEW, BRITAIN DAILY HERALD. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1918. W BRITAIN HERAL HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY. Provrietors. ted dsily (Sunday excepted) at 4:18 p. m., at Herald Building, 7 Church St ered at the Post Office at New Britain s Becond Class Mail Matter. lvered by carriec to any part of the ofty for 15 Centa a Week, 66 Cents a Month. Pscriptions for paper to pe sent by mail, payable in advance, 60 Cents a sfonth. $7.00 u Year. only profitabla advertising mcdm In the city. Circulation books and press Foom always open to aavertisers. } Herald will be found on sale at Hota- | ng’s New Stang, 42nd 5t. and Broad- way, New York City; Roard Walk, at- lantic City, and iness Orce torfal Rooms BACK TO THE BOOKS. Foday and tomorrow mark the clos- days of the Summer vacation for p boys and girls. Bright and early Monday morning must the young- Jrs take down the books from the fty shelves,—no, the shelves are not fty at home,—and wend their weary to the little old school-houses. Rin, wrong: the school houses of city ars not little, nor are they They are great, big, fire-proof ldings, fitted with all modern con- lences and conducive to good study. after a protracted rest, made pos- le by an epidemic of polyomelitis younger generation will ensconce If once more in front of the black- rd and the smiling countenance of ly vote in this country is something ap- paling. At present it is directed into one channel or the other by the force of persuation, usually from employers. Sometimes men are led to believe, and made to understand, that unless they vote a certain way they will not possess their jobs on the day after election. All these things are wrong and should be done away with. They will be largely discounted if college men take up the work of politics, not for any personal gain or position, but for the betterment of the nation. NO LOVE LIKE OLD. It is perhaps not going too far to say that Willlam Howard Taft is the real beloved of our Ex-Presidents. Since there are but fwo of them and the other one is Theodore Roosevelt the assertion may seem cruel on the surface. Analyzed, however, it is seen that the natures of the men are different and where the one invites love the other thrives on something more snappy. These two men of ab- solutely extreme natures, once friends, have been parted for some time past. Their differences and the causes that brought them THE to disagreement wherever men gather. are For political reasons now they are to be brought together. On the third day of next month in a sumptuously furnished club in New York the great pacifier, Elihu Root, will introduce the two characters to each other, they will shake hands, known ostensibley let by- her. The thing to do is to buckle yn and make up for lost time. such,a vacation there is no ex- for any of the boys and girls g in their tasks. And they not, if we know them. They lize the value of education and fleetness of time. There are only ny years that can|be put in at books and then it is the everlast- struggle for existence, the fight supremacy in a world of fighters, irace to a goal that isinever reached il the joys and sweetness of youth been scattered along the pathway , orushed, never to be revived. @ are the best days in life, the when future men and women jher in the class-rooms. Knowing , they will not complain if shorter ations at Christmas and Eastertide n order because of the long Sum- * term. The full year must be nded out, under the laws of the OLLEGE MEN IN POLITICS. { the days to come politics will on a ditferent.complexion. Col- b men are going in for this sort hing just as they formerly became golf and country s after leaving their alma mater. L big men who play the game today usiastic over lcome the advent of the men from great educational institutions into political arena. There is no state he country, perhaps, where this is rue as it is in Connecticut. At the ing elections in November there be a greater number of college b1 voting than ever before in the ory of the state. This is so for leral reasons. There is an unusually e number of young men who are lified by reason of age to cast their t vote. There has also been in the t four years an added attraction college men in politics. ohn Hays Hammond, one of the ous engineers of the nation, and psident of the National Republican zue has always been the champion icollege men and their ideals. For past eight years he has been nding away at that one idea,—the lege man in politics. He' claims it hot only the duty of the college men enter politics, but a terrible outrage his is not done. Nor does he ad- te one party or the other. The n thing it to get the young grad- interested. With college men ed up on the side of Republicanism i Democracy the two great parties 1 be better fitted to battle against h other. Mr. Hammond looks at b thing in this light: “Every motive patriotism and self-interest urges lege men to active participation in flitics. It is suicidal for them to de- ler the conduct of public affairs jrely into the hands of the unedu- How do they expect the ed vote. ring man to vote intelligently if s college graduates pay no attention the matter and make no effort to [plain, as they see it, the right and ong of legislation and party action. he is on, and do not care which side ery graduate should get out prk.” 1l political parties make mistakes. his government is not perfect by any pans. When it is we may expect the llennium. But government will ap- oach nearer to the ideals set for it men who devote four honest years at dy take an active interest in the kblic questions of the a: hten their less fortunate the problems of the hour. len vote party tickets without know- |g why they do so. Many are aligned y and en- brothers Many ‘put to tell them from any American gones be by-gones, once again and be friends That is the picture part of it, arranged for the delight of the multitude. If we have our guess though, William Howard Taft will have none of Theodore Roosevelt. He finished with him four years ago. The cut has been too deep to be healed by a mere hand-shake in the presence of political mediators, even when so estimable a gentlerhen as Elihu Root undertakes the introductions. There It is interesting at this day to look back and think of what might have happened had not the President pre- vented the nation-wide strike sched- uled for Labor Day. Suppose the President had let the men go ahead and tie-up every form of transporta- tion, who would be hollering loudest? The same people who are condemning Wilson for preventing the strike. PLENTY OF ROOM HERE. Asking the pertinent question, “Who is a Democrat?” the Bridgeport Farm- { er makes answer: “Any man who believes that the democratic administration ought to be returned to power because of its @c- complishments for the people, and to obtain the benefit of its further ser- vices for the people. “Any man who will vote for Wood- row Wilson in the sound belief that thereby is preserved the peace of the nation. “Any man who in good conscience believes a democratic vote is the best and most patriotic vote.” As if that is not enough the good old Farmer gives another right hand swing and launches forth the broad- ness of democracy thuswise: “Democrats do not stand, like the angels of ancient theological argu- ment, upon the point of a needle, but upon a broad plateau.” We like that; and this, “A party creed is not a knife edge; it is a ten acre lot, in which each man has his favorite spots.” COMMUNICATED Should Encourage Rather Than Re- press Efforts of Young Folk to Attain Ideals. 76 Franklin Square, New Britain, Conn. Sept. 21, 19186. To the Editor of the Herald: Will you permit me, through your paper, to express my surprise at the position taken by the School Board in its radvertisement last Wednesday night? It seems to me a mistake to charge any fee for attendance at the Voca- is no love like the old love, thag when gone can never be brought back. THREE MEXICANS, One thing which the conferences at New London have succeeded in doing is the chasing of a constant American bogey. The caliber of the three com- mwissioners representing Mexico at the jaint conference is an eye-opener to many of our own people. There are those who think of all Mexican men in these terms: They wear broad, wide sombreros; loose fitting shirts: trousers flayed at the battom; shoes at whose heels dangle spurs; and they everlastingly smoke cigarettes and flash their sparkling black eves, while at the same time seeking an opportunity to stab some- one in the back. Instead of the aforementioned type, those whao stroll through the lobby or hallways of the Hotel Griswold at New London and are suddenly con- fronted with any of the three Mexican commissioners would be hard daggers from or South American gentleman. With the exception that they carry the in- evitable ollve drab complexion of the southern people wand talk with a de- lightful accent, either of the three might be mistaken for an American. And this is easily under- one stood when it is considered that one of the number is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and spent a number of vears absorb- ing the American manner at the font of culture here,—Boston. This man is no bandit. He is a scholar and a gentleman, as are his campatriots. Nor are the three Mexican men in New London the triumvirate representing gentility and finish in their country. Almdst every Ameri- can college, no matter how small, can | lone show a student from Mexico, paying | his way handsomely, and typical of all the nobler traits of the old | Castilian gentlemen. These men at New London have served to Temind Americans that sometimes the utter- ences against Mexico have been hasty and ill-advised. These men know just as much about what shoulq be done as most of our street corner advisors or road house orators, and, better than all, they have a profound love for their country. these things the real American people patiently await the outcome of the joint conference trusting that the end a satisfactary agreement will reached. Because of will in be Sam Blythe, horse of the old politica] war is telling this story about a western man who, after hearing Charles Evans Hughes speak, was asked what he thaught about the candidate. “The speech was all right,” a4 the Westerner, “but Tiughes looks to me like a_man who, if he were not a candidate, would vote for Wilson.” I ven whiskers are not deceiving. literature, i This indeed is a pertinent question: Do the voters of the country under- stand what it means to have the con- trol of Congress pass again into the hands of such men as Penrose of ith one or the other political party thout having the least idea what ose parties represent. The ignorant tional school. It is fair to assume that the young people who will at- tend the evening sessions are at work during the day. Their efforts at self improvement and increased efficiency, should be encouraged rather than re- -pressed, and to make and charge for instruction, however slight, is to render a commendable ambition so much the more difficult of attainment. Why reverse our old and well-tried policy of having education as easily available as possible? Why discriminate against those who by the fact of employment, are de- barred from the advantagés of the day sesslons of our new Vocational High school? Doubtless the School Board has a reason for its—shall we say revolu- tionary—procedure. May we hope to learn, through the Herald, what that reason is.? CHARLES N. HUBBARD. FACTS AND FANCIES. Recipe for getting ill: Select the least of your aches, microscopically examine it with worry as your lens, that are handy, fail in the attempt, then see a doctor and allow him to persuade you that you are over- worked.—Paterson Press Guardian. A. L. Benson, sociallst candidate for president, has been complaining that the newspapers have failed to pay suf- ficient attention to what folks of that political party are doing. The fact that the socialist candidates are to be notified of their nominations at a ral- ly in Madison Square garden in New York on Sunday will help to bring publicity.—Springfield Republican. The Epitaph-Cutters’ union has de- cided that it will have a lot of work to stencil, or rubber-stamp, or what- ever they do to stone, a few sentences, to have ready on demand. One epi- taph, for joy-riding chauffeurs, is sell- ing especially well lately: “The own- er of the car said he had not gl,\:(‘J\ this man permission to use the car.”™— New York Tribune. It is regarded as probable that the chair in philosophy at Harvard Uni- | versity, made vacant by the death o’ Prof. Royce, will be offered to tl Hon, Bertrand Russell, the English pacifist professor who was AISN S from Cambridge University because ¢ his objections to conscription. Ap parently the sound view prevails at the American university that a col lege professor may exercise a ceris’ freedom of opinion without Interfer- ence with his class-room work.—New York World. Sisters in Sorrow. (The Westminster Gazette). “We never roamed one garden world together, shared the glory of fields lost and won, Nor comrades tramped the stubble or the heather, Nor saw the dawn arise on great tasks done— Yet we are friends, for each has lost a son, Nor “We never walked with arms round one another, Nor played in secret come dear end- less game Unknown to each, each wife, and mother, Prayed far apart, shared praise nor blame— We knew not we were friends until this came. loved, was neither “This sword that severed from tomorrow, We almost thought the cruel mes- sage lied, This pang that left us only God and sorrow— You and I here, they on the other past days Pennsylvania, Warren of Wyoming, Gallinger of New Hampshire, Smoot of Utah, Curtis of Kansas, etc? side— ! We knew not we were friends, until they died.” seek to dissolve it in any and ail drugs 4 | better business on the part of the city t Town Topics lf The presidential campaign is com- ing on. How is enthusiasm to be stimulated Past campaigns have been mild ones compared to those of a decade and more ago. Go back twenty years and recall the halycon days of the tarch- light parade, gilt uniforms and spiked ! belmets. In the fall of 1896, which | was two decades ago, was the “Sound | Money Campaign.” McKinley and Hobart were the republican candi- | cages that fal] and William Jennings | Bryan first came into the limelight as the democratic nominee for president. It was the famous ‘16 to 17 issue, “gilver against gold,” and it was Bryan’s idea to have silver the mone- tary standard at the ratio of 16 to 1, rather than the existing gold standard. As the campaign feature there were many ‘“sound money’ parades. The east was especially strong for the re- publicans and different emblems were used to signify what various parties staod for. For instance the famous “gold bug’’ pins and badges were featureq here. Factories had political parades and P. & F. Corbin had a “gold bug” parade. The *“Sound Money Battery,” composed of a num- ber of live young men, was a feature. They marched around the streets nights, shooting the cannon, and with disastrous results in some instances. One night it was fired on Church street and a number of windows in the old Congregational church were skattered. The practice of shooting this cannon had to be stapped eventu- ally because of the countless panes of glass broken by the concussions. There were several big campalign parades that fall, especially in re- publican ranks. Notable was the one following the election of McKinley in which employes of all the large fac- tories turned out and marched. Again in 1900 it was McKinley versus Bryan, when Theodore Roosevelt broke into the big palitical game as vice president. Thé same scenes were enacted. Big torch light processions teatured the campaign and gala scenes were enacted. At that time the famous slogan: “Bryan is a dump cart, Stevenson the horse, Roosevelt the driver and McKinley the boss” was daily chanted by the younger element. The “Sloper Guards’” were prominent here that fall. But those days seems to belong to a dead past. Present day compaigns consist of hurricane tours of the country by the candidates, numerous speeches by the political spellbinders and little else. What is going to be done? | . Mayor Quigley showed by his atti- tude at the meeting of the poard of finance and taxation this week that he does not entirely approve of the methods employed by the school board and took them to task on several issues. One was that their expenses ave far too heavy and must be cur- tailed unless the v tax rate is to be alarmingly hoosted. Another was | regarding the building of an addition 1o the Osgood Hill school withaut au- thority from the board of finance. The mayor made it evident that he is thoroughly aroused aver the increased | expenditure and urged economy, pointing to the fact that the bonded indebtedness of the schools is about $200,000 now, with this year's ex- penses running upwards af $376,000. Superintendent Holmes of the school hoard leaped to the defense of his commission and said that New Britain cannot fall behind other cities educa- tlonally and improvements cost money. He denied the mayor's statement that New Britain schools are more ex- pensive than Hartford’s, Dr. J. B. Martin also defended the hoard by saying the increased cost of construc- tion was due to past negligence. He said overcrowded conditions have heretofore been permitted and now | when it is impossible to continue them raore additions than waould otherwise be necessary are demanded. When his honor asked by what right the school board went ahead and built an addition to the Osgood Hill school Judge Gaffney reminded him that taey had the money and the statutes give them the right to provide school room, although the charter does not rive the right to repair buildings | without recourse to the fimance board. As a closing ultimatum his honor re- minded the board that hereafter he would expect them to consult the finance boardand himself before ex- pending more money for additions. Regarding all of which there is mach to be said on both sides. Ad- mittedly, the educational side of the city cannot be permitted to falter one bit, but if in varioys ways, such as the construction of perfect buildings that will not have to be immediately repaired because of faulty work at an immense cost, economy can be prac- tised it should be, Likewise, it is ad- mitted that another school is a neces- sity in the northern district. The artlett is already overcrowded and | the Burritt school ought .o he con- | demned.” From location and con- struction it is not a fit place to send children for schooling. It is now a | ramshackle building, antiquated and should be relegated into the discard. In this connection it is apparent that the mayor is still advocating the keeping of this school building by the c'ty for use as a police building. He | has informed the finance board that | by keeping this property for such a | purpose the city will be able to save money. Just what grounds his honor has for such a statement is unknown. This corner is one of the most valu- able in the city and is easily worth | $50,000 in cold cash for a business block. To remodel the old building inta a police and court house would entail as much more expense. would seem that with such amount, or maybe less, a site jus suitable could be procured, lea this site for the increased business, for it would be an ideal place for a Tusiness block, with stores facing an 170 streets. It would seem to be the to dispose of this property and elsewhere for a palice court site, PP seek Public corporations and public offi- clals are always open and subject to | past, it might be recounted that he | that would effect the business of hotels criticism and in this respect the | Connecticut company should be ‘ brought to task for failing to do a | thing and the board of public works | for falling to make them. Quite some | time ago an order was passed to have | Stanley strect, from Allen street to Hartford avenue, paved and the con- | | | tract was let a couple of months ago. | | This stretch of road is in a deplorable traffic Yet | begin condition and is daily used by between this city and Hartfor¢ the contractor is unable to work because the Connecticut com- pany has not yet done its share in repairing the tracks. At present there is no promise that the com- pany will do it this fall, which means that the highway will continue in its | present conditon. This too, after the company has held this city up a good share of the summer making repairs on Arch street and Jubilee street in | order that the city can pave these | sections, Arch street has only just been finished and Jubilee street is still | far from completed. The ruts and hollows' In Stanley street have been | repaired from time to time, but as fast as local repairs are made traffic either rips it out or makes new holes and it is sald that almost enough money has been spent in repalrs as the completed job would cost. The Connecticut company should be made to hustle this work through and it is the board of pubhc works that should compel them to do so. P The Hebrew ladies of New Britain are now heading a movement that will fill a long felt need in this city, a house of refuge. And the fact that those behind the move do not intend to make it racial or denominational adds to its value and shows the pub- lic spiritedness of the workers. A house of refuge where aged people, stranded in the city for a night, homeless travelers without sufficient | funds to go to a hotel and other needy cases could receive attention has long been a genuine need. It is planned to have a house that will contain four or five sleeping rooms, a dining room and a sitting room. Then, any unfortunate stranger, who can show a right for consideration, will find refuge. It is a most com- mendable object and should receive the hearty support of the public. * .o Discussion of possible charter revi- sions and gmendments calls to mind the home rule bill, which Senator Klett was instrumental in having passed at the last session of the leg- islature. Preylously all charter changes, after being ratified by the council, had .to be taken before the legislature and passed before becom- ing effective. Now it is different. As soon as the council approves, the vot- ers of the city are called upon to accept or reject themn by vote. Thus, the people who will be most affected are the ones who have the say. . * Senator Landers tells a funny story about Homer S. Cummings and Judge Simeon B. Baldwin at the democratic convention. The judge, who had nominated Mr. Cummings for senator, was one of the committee to appraise him of his nomination. Mr. Cum- mings had graciously expressed his appreciation and to the judge re- marked the many pleasant hours he had spent with him studying eonsti- tutional law under his direction when he was a student and the famous juror a professor at Yale. “Ah, ves, ves, yes! Yes, I remember—and you were not very good at constitutional law,” said the great man, with a twinkle in his eye. * ox With two automobile thefts from the center of the city within a week local automobile owners are becom- ing somewhat timid about leaving their machines unguarded. An auto- mobile thief is one of the hardest to guard against for the average person, policeman included, has no means of knowing who has a right in a car and who has not. A bold thief can climb bravely into a standing car in front of a policeman and get away, unless the particular car is known or the owner happens to appear. »oaon Senator Whiting of New London was in town early this week and af- ter passing through the center of the city had some very complimentary things to say about the traffic squad. He considered them most efficient and courteous. . The fact that the name of ex- Mayor Joseph M. Halloran has not been mentioned politically this fall, even as a delegate, indicates that this man, who was formerly such a tower of strength in the democratic party in New Britain and who was accord- ed every political honor that the ity could give him, from council mem- ber through the mayor's chair and | to the state senate, is forever out of local politics. The passing of a man as prominent as Mr. Halloran has been | is unusual, for he is just in the prime of life when his political path might | vet be a lengthy one. To show just how prominent he has been in the was one of the special committee designated to appraise Woodrow Wil- son of his nomination four years ago. But political honors came to Mr. Hal- loran young and in quantity and his name is no longer mentioned in local democratic circles as a candidate or officer. . Some surprise has been expressed that the traffic rules did not come up for discussion at the meeting of the council Wednesday evening for there was a move on foot to have several of the rules that did not seem fair or feasible changed. One was the five minute restriction on Church street and restaurants. Because it is ex pected that some of these rules may be changed, all the warning signs have not been installed and none have heen placed on Church street or on the south side of West Main street. P Admittedly, the intersection of Church and JElm streets is dangerous for traffic, yet the placing of a “turn to the right” traffic post there hardly | individualized their newspapers Place Once Held by Helen of | Troy Now an American’s. . Washington, D. C., Against a background of crumbling but magnificent marble temples, of massive aqueducts, of extensive am- bhitheaters, it is easy to project the ties of sentiment which bind the life of the Greek of today to that of the classic worthies from whom lie claims direct descent, according to a com- munication addressed to the National Geographic society, by George Hig- gins Moses, formerly United States ambassador to Greece, a part of which is issued as a bulletin by the soclety. Mr. Moses in his graphic picture of the Athens of today and of the mod- ern citizens of the city which reached the pinnacle of its greatness in the days of Peericles, says: “It was with only a slight shock that I learned that the man who brought me my morning coffee at the legation bore the tremendous name of Themistocles. Sept. 28.— with those who once streets. “Thinking of Homer, of Praxiteles, and of Phidias, one looks for Helen, for Hermes, and for Athene; but the only Helen I ever saw in Athens was an American girl, married Lo a mem- ber of the cabinet, and whose golden hair, blue eyes and classic features made her at once the reigning hostess in the city. And it is only in the isl- ands or deep in the country where the Albanian flood which swept across the Attic plain hos never reached, that one finds facial lineaments and the bodily grace which the ancient sculp- walked his And yeet it 1s aiffi- | cult to visualize the modern Athenian | despite a well-nigh constant temper- ature of nearly 100, the absence of rain removing the humidity which makes American midsummer so intoW erable. ‘“‘Socially, too, the Athenian year di- vides itself with the climate. At thg end of the rainy season the court, the diplomatic body, and the rich fleg away, the latter going, ag they .Jay, ‘to Europe’, and to take their places there flock to Athens and to the seaside hoye tels at Phaleron and to villas and re- sorts at Kephisia-in-the-hills numbery of rich Greeks from Asia Minor and from Egypt; and the whole city re- ' verses the order of its winter life, turning night into day and spending most of the hours betwen sunset and sunrise out of doors. “Athenian houses are built to re- sist heat. The exterior and interiQr.s walls are all of thick stone, and, with tightly closed windows, one stays in doors until the afternoon tea, when the level rays of the setting sun per- mit adventure. Then one strolls ot drives, dines wherever the dinner hour may find him, and invariably out of doors, journeys by tram ¢ Phaler- on for the bathing and the music ot# seeks the cool garden of the Zappelon to see the ‘movies,’ or goes Lo Alyssida for dinner and the vaudeville and nev- er loses caste hy returning home as late as 2 o'clock in the morning. ‘“Everywhere about the town, on the roofs of clubs or hotels, in the gar- dens or on the terraces of restaurant,’ beneath the pepper trees of the parks, and even in the streets tables are tor has taught the modern world as | spread and I venture to say that more being common to all Greeks of elassic | than 100,000 people dine in the open times. And this survival persists chief- ly among the children, because inces- | mer. sant toil and scanty nourishment soon deprive both boys and girls of na- tive grace and stamp them with the ineradicable marks of a life of labor. “The Attic year is sharply dividead climatically into two seasons, the rainy and the dry, the latter begin- ning late in May and extending into | October, and during which thcre is no | rainfall except a single thunder show- | the Bulgarian ferment of milk, er, which comes with great regularity during the second week in Outside of Attica climatic conditions | In the islands | brown fields and are somewhat better. along the Gulf of Corinth, and in the Morea there is constant greenery— grass, vines and many trees. air each night of an Greek cooking Athenjan sum-, is more orief tal than indigenous. Lamb or kid, with chicken—which has always * seemed to me to be the national tird | of all Furope—are the piincipal | meats, though from the shores of | Eleusts come delicious wild duck, and | other game birds are found near by, while pilay, a Turkish dish of rice with chicken or lamb, and zlaourti are ot | standards Hellenic bill i in every August. | fare. “With the renewal of the rains the hill-sides quickly | clothe themselves in green. The Roy- al family returns from its ‘cure’, titf But for | diplomats come back from leave, thes one who spent, as I did, four sum- ; great houses of the city open, the hoy mers on end in Athens it to learn that hills may have a beauty aside from forests, and that colors, contour, and form can lend enchant- | s long | ments to the naked rock. It w before my New England eyes appre- not easy | tels and summer gardens ciated the wonderful tints which the Athenian sunset throws upon Lycabet- tus and Hymettu and that I learned | should be | that Athens now, as ever, hailed as the ‘violet-crowned! city’. “Personally, I found the Athenlan | climate agreeable and I cannot now recall a single day of my stay there when even in the rainy season, the sun did not shine at least part of the time. Cold winds there were, sure, in winter, to be | blowing Jown from the snow-capped hills above the town or blowing up from the sea at Phal- eron; but there were no frosts; the | roses bloomed during every month of the year in the legation gardens; oranges ripened in the open alr, and we picked our breakfast fruit trom the trees outside of the window, while the | without hesitation sen it | is the prevailing foreign tongue, with palm flourishes there as I have s nowhere else, not ven in the Riviera. The summer heat is easily endurable ; close, tha Levantines take themsely home, and the winter season begins “Entertaining in Athens trs 5 somewhat narrow circle. State dinnérs |at the palaces, reciprocal entertain- | ments at the legations, few receptions and still fewer dinners at Greek houses from the backbone of the winter's en- poyment. Greeks rarely invite strang- | ers to their board, although among themselves exists a soclety which tha | foreign of chiefly by rumor. “There is much conversation in Athenian salons, and always of a high order. In no capital of Europe, I be- lieve, can be found a more cultured soclety, and in no drawing room that I have known does conversatinn flow s0 smoothly and at such a high level. Art, politics, and the drama are all well known in Athens, and the Greeks are such accomplished linguists that { any foreigner.may use his own speech French, of course, colony knows FEnglish pressing it hard for first place.” a square corner and the intersection of Church is diagonal. In view of this, with the post where it is, it is a difificult thing for traffic going south on Elm street and east on Church to properly round the sign. It seems that suitable guide marks on the pavement, such as are used in De- troit and other big automobile centers, might solve the question and leave more safe leeway for traffic. e Without doubt, our town of Berlin possesses a stretch of public highway that is in as bad con- dition as any other in Connecticut that is travelled anywhere near as much. Farmington road, between Kensington and Berlin is referred to. Trafic on this road is as heavy as anywhere in this vicinity, yet no pre- tense is made to keep it in good con- dition. Almost every foot of the high- way is scarred with deep ruts and all in all it is as bad a piece of road | construction as the average tourist is apt to find on a heavily travelled | roadway. A GREAT EDITOR DIES, 1forace White Was One of the Ol Guard of Independents, Of the great editors of newspapers who challenged the political abuses of the period which culminated in 1372, Horace White, who died in New York city Saturday, at the age of 82, was the last but one. B. L, Godkin of the New York Nation, William Cul- len Bryant of the New York Evening Post, Murat Halstead of the Cincin- nati Commercial and Samuel Bowles of The Republican are long dead. Henry Watterson of the Louisville Courier-Journal, democrat, and does his work as of old, but the rest of the old guard of editors who in a are no editors, New as and way scarcely possible now more. Other distinguished ‘ike Charles A. Dana of the York Sun, were not conspicuous leaders in reform movements, | after their participation in the repub- lican bolt of 1872 which led to the disastrous nomination of Horace Greeley for president, partisanship l2id hold on Mr. Halstead, and White- law Reid was never a real independ- ont. Mr. White's newspaper work. He reported the Lincoln-Douglas debate in Illinois, and was the friend of Abraham Lin- coln until the death of the great emancipator. As editor of the Chi- life was devoted to seems the right solution. This is not cago Tribune from 1864 to 1874 Mr. neighboring ' White came into national recognition as a writer of power and helped to de- velop independence in journalism. He was of the era that brought news- rapers from subservience into full ! self-respect and increased influence. Speaking at the memorial service for the founder of The Daily Republican/ Leld in Springfield, Jan. 23, 1878, Mr. White said: “Mr. Bowles was the pioneer and leader of independent journalism in the United States. He made the experiment in an inland town, in the midst of a population cverwhelmingly republican in politi He made it under the most adverse circlmstances, against the most in- veterate prejudices, and yet itk most triumphant success. Mr. White never abandoned the freedom of independence in politicy to which he grew in 1872. In that ~ i vear he attended the liberal Tepubli=¢ i(nn national convention in Cineinnati, !and in 1876 he was a leader in the | reform conference in New York ecity | that was attended by men like Presi- gent Woolsey of Yale, Carl Schurz, Gen. Francis A. Walker, President Seelye of Amherstfi Dr. J. G. Holland, David A. Wells and Col. T. W, Hig~ glnson, That was the first of the - gatherings that then and in after years helped to promote Independent political thinking and action in thig country. In 1883 Horace White became iden~ tified with the New York Evening - Post and as editoral writer and edi- tor-in-chief for a score of years wield- | ed an influence that was of the high- est value. He retired from activa newspaper work in 1903, but through his writing and , personal activities still rendered public service. He was an authoritative writes on financiall subjects and a full man regarding still lives | cverything that related to the politics and life of hid time. Younger men, cf independent leanings in the news- 17 per offices and outside looked to Lis opinfons as they used to wait fog the utterance of Carl Schurtz, George Viilliam Curtis and James Russell Lowell. The country owes much to the life and work of this accom- plished and high-minded editor and citizen, P Circumstantial Evidence. (Life). 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