New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 2, 1916, Page 6

BRITAIN HERALD ly (Sunday excepted) at 4:18 p. ™ ferald Buflding, 67 Church St at the Post Offce at New Britain econd Class Mail Matter. b by carricc to any part or the otry 5 Centm a Week, 65 Cents a Month. fons for paper to pe sent by meil, ble in advance, 60 Cents a Month. a Year. profitabla advertising mcdum 1 eity. Circulzsion books and prest always open to aavertizers. 21d will be fourd on sale at Hota- New Stand, 42nd ‘5t. and Broad- New York City; Board Walk at- c City, and Hariford Depot. TELEPHO] Orice . bty years of ceaseless endeavor, Years.of striving, of struggling of patient toil and devo- the year: an ideal th frough the city made possible pageant which wendead its treets yesterday oration of the twentieth anni- of the founding of the Sacred The arrangements for have been made in a the tration s hurch. bade may apleted over night; possi- f suck demon arted pack twenty years ago when urate planted the seed that has of magnifi- Rev. frown into a plant Jroportions. Lucyan ski has led his people along the ¥ to success, and they have fol- im faithfully, never faltering, n entire city stops in wonder ¢ at the progress made, b+ eight 7 \interested thousand people were the ay, either as march Some d heart and soul in parade of rs or spec- thousand are the work sixty in has ireached such a wonderful bt penfection. Ior the city of feels the heart throb of women ritain hy with lildren who marched along car- he country at of one they There those men, banner of a free hope soon to the e,—Poland. was F joy in the eye of every march- \ their hearts filled dewvotion to their the fe left the alwart men, triotism and land, manif ed jomes of oppression sunshine of freedom. to those who and now bask Women, in their native costumes, t back the sea, a fair memories of a land nd that should blessings and Little generation s not enjoy the th the known in nd boy s country. new 11 carry.on the work so admir- lounded le finishing B n in New swell with pride at the sight e ‘marchers. ative out in twenty years, touch to a perfect re was not a liberty lov- Britain whose heart born Americans, jve been ed P iy, prone the blessings a Divine Provi- jhas showered upon them, such that owski and his people may Ahose nurs in the cradle are sometimes to lonstration as staged by Boj p awaken the old thrill of pa- and love of home-land. Peo- ke souls have been seared and by of lands who the strife oppression and forge their merica have a keen appre- the opportunities that are m once they strike these hey what fand their succes know is means all the they have jne before the life. Those who took part freat march of peace, Chris- plete because bitterness diers, could picture on the lle of the Atlantic vast hordes ting the land and bringing death and des- men tearing to many hearthstones. And that led with brisk step through the picture in mind they of an American their city, God for breathe and live ome, nking the to pure bpression of we and grow air of a land free from a peaceful y at odds with all pne can st no one; a coun- ere men without handi- vhere the lities are Polish made un- In twe of New rful pr hey s the itain In will have gone have twenty y further on march, m with the 5 the best wishes and heart-felt pvill .of their neighbors, TWO POLICIES, have T & now we it, direct 1 Rooseveit. Creek S ilson tic vindictiveness shouted, khust elect Mr. Hughes as Pres- and we must in good faith tal g direct reverse of the pres from In his 4speech at turday he condemned vdministration in his char- He was referring, the present f policy of peace. To take direct reverse of that blicy of war and all that There is indeed signifi he name of the town in yreign policy pronounced el which Colonel Roosevelt delivered his warning,—Battle Creek. When the American people go to the polls on Tuesday, November 7, they Colonel Roosevelt, who are asked by is the proxy for Mr. Hughes in many things, to take a policy the direct re- verse of the present policy. They are asked to overthrow all the good work that has been done during more than two years of diplomatic dealing with foreign powers and, instead of fore; stalling war, to invite it. The present Mr. is so the policy is not right, in Roosevelt’s estimation and if that only thing to do is to adopt a policy that His advo- will plunge the nation into war words, if they mean anything, cate a policy of war. Standing on the porch at Shadow very day that Roosevelt his doctrine at Battle President Wilson anticipated the fire-eating Rough Ri- The President on that enthu Lawn the Creek, everything der had to say. told hi Republican occasion stic hearers that in November drawn in one form or another into the ccess at the polls means that we shall be FEuropean war. The Colonel’s crit proof pos- ht Which way we of the President’s policy itive that the Pr making the assertion. drawn into “the embroilments sident was ri, shall be of the European war” remains to be if the people repudiate their Ana, if they do that, away go peace and prosperity. Every awaiting the outcome of that election. Never before in the history of the na- tion has our domestic politics been of such interest abroad. The President told the truth when he said that it is impos seen President in November. nation in Europe is anxiously ible to carry on important dip- lomatic negotiations with any Euro- country until the elections are decided. If we are aghast now at the methods of some of the foreign coun- tries in our Inquiries through the diplomatic service we in- deed shall have sometning to ponder over between November 7, 1916, and 4, 1917, if Wilson is defeated. During those four months this admin- istration pean answering March would be absolutely power- less to make any foreign power step to the mark. And if Hughes went in at the end of that time, what then? He would have to ‘take a policy the di- the, which Colonel Roose scribe rect revarse of present poliey”, velt is wont to de- policy of feeble vacilla- tion and empty elocution”. Let Colonel Roosevelt go to it. with as ‘“‘a We former Gover- of New York, believe, however, nor Martin H. that while the present policy may not satisfy those who revel in struction fina it “satisfy those who worship at the altar of God of Peace. It does satisf) the mothers of the land hearth fireside no jingoistic war t- from Glynn des and pleasure in despair, does the at whose and has placed an empty chair. It does isfy the daughters of this land whom bluster and brag have sent no the dissolution of It does satisfy the fathers loving brother to the grave. of this land and the s for flag when r ons of this land who will and die for son primes the rifie, the when justice breaths a blessing on the standards they uphold”. fight our flag, our when honor draws sword, THE GOOD OLD DAYS. Franklin Massachusetts, witnessed one day this week the sur- It Twelve men put county, vival of a custom now long past. was a shingling bee. a new roof on the parsonage in the of Wendall,—later celebrating their accomplishment by an old fashioned country dinner in the Town Hall. a hearkening back to the time when haying bees were common in community life extend town It was and husking and men banded together to helping hands to their parsonage was not the only house then although it got the right there was the same spirit of neighbors. The considered, of way brotherly love working out to the most humble member of the parish. The the the telephone, the telegraph have all made of another day. lot to automobile, railroad, inroads on the custom Modern invention has done a destroy the neighborliness that once existed, although these same means of together It Even communication dr of 1ge case closer remote W the people sections. is a stra of evolution. with our up-to-date ideas there are 1ny who would give the entire world r a short session in’those days when men in rural communities banded to- gether in some sort of helpfulness to a deservi neighbor, were he par- son or parishioner. Once in a while a rural the proscenium arch depicts life in a by-gone day and comedy presented beneath shows hew the old time New England- ers set to and worked for a A community erving neighbor’s welfare. of the harvest a gene turn- out entire to help crop or build a barn or paint a house or do numerous other not an uncommon It a things was ocecur- days was usually of great all went along knitting and rence in those made the picnic. The attended source women folk to their and divers other things while in' the labor. the job the assembly partook of a hearty meal. In the men engaged After entire heavy manual was completed, | row. NEW, BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, MONDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1916. the cool of the evening, when the sun | 9 | had gone to rest, the village fiddler | Mc ELLAN S put in his appearance. Dancing was then in order until sometimes as late as ten doubt about it, were the good old days,—the of the shingling and the haying and the husking bees. o'clock at night. There is no those days Martin Scully, twice mayor of Wa- terbury, is a philosopher of no mean ability. In a political day he coined this “They tell us Of cours: speech Satur- pithy remark: it costs more to live it costs more ta live; it’s worth more.” but FACTS AND FANCIES, But Mr. feeble as ‘World. Hughes’ voic his arguments ever gets so New York In spite of all Mr. Wilson’s mistakes the sum of his achievements is such as to make one wonder why anyone who owns less than three automobiles should vote for Hughes.—Life. ‘When Henry Ford says that all em- | ployers would favor the eight-hour law “if they knew their business” he raps one Mark Hanna theory very hard. Employers who can get tariffs high enough to suit don’t have to know their business.—New York World. Although a multimilli.nal e self, Mr. Ford has no us~ ‘rr street. “To begin with,” b “I'm supporting Wilson hecav-e street is supporting th ver man, or, rather because Wal' street is against Wilson.” There are other rea- sons, but that comes fir't with Henry. —Springfield Republican. him- | Wall says, Wall New Britain’s Busy Big “Always Reliable.” Store— New Weaves, Colors and Designs in Dress Goods for Fall and FABRICS OF DL in quality and design P'INCTION POSITION street and A BRILLIANT ¥ of the foremost fabrics for evening wear. Materials that lend themseives happily to the prevaili You may not care for a mongoose for a household pet, but a mongoose is a bully little animal to kiil snakes. Mr. Wilson is a kind of presidential mongoose. The question about him i not whether he is pretty or has affectionate and endearing ways, but a questlon of snakes; how many; how big. This man is for the mass of the people. He really Is a great demo- crat.—Life. With so excellent a ticket as the | democrats nominated at New Haven last week supplemented by the ac tive oratorical support of ex-Governor | “Tom’” Waller, Connecticut indeed | becomes a doubtful state. Even re- | publicans admit that the democratic ticket is beyond criticism and their only hope of success is based on the belief that there are more republi- cans than democrats in Connecticut, not on any claim to superior worth or ability of candidates. As usual tge ! great, silent, independent vote will tell the story.—Hartford Post. Ballagh Gap. Ballagh Gap, and the shining i On Leinster’s valleys far down be- low; Ballagh Gap, and the hedges lining The roadways blossomed like sifted snow! spring sun 'This there I'd be with Youth’s com- rades plaving, In gladness maying through sweet | lost days, 1 The gold-eved primrose green banks | arraying, And daisies spangled in faerie maze. I'd hear, as the wind came sighing Across Mt. Leinster Cheev-roe, The plovers fluting when day was dy- ing And all the west was a magic glow in and brown "Tis there I'd be when the sun, new- risen, Brought vales Elysian to raptured eves, And the spirit prison, God’s hand skies, saw, from its clayey bedizen the seas and Too soon, alas, from these fair scenes banished friends away. And Youth's fond hoping too quickly vanished In grief and were gr: The of boyhood all passed groping when skies Yet T still have visions that aulver— Dark, gloom can never my soul en- wrap— For T see God’s sunshine pour down forever A golden river —James B. flash and o’er Rallagh Gan! Dollard, in Treland. INFERNAT, MACHINE WORKS. Hankow, China, Sept 30.—Major- General Shen, director of the Han- | vang powder works, and four of his | assistants were blown to pieces re- cently by an explosion of an infernal machine. A mysterious hox was sent | to General Wang at Wuchang. The general was suspicious of its S| modes. 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The director's of- fice was completely One wall was completely blown out, and all the occupants of the room were turned into small pieces. many of demolished Strange Engines of War | 1. ashington terious Briti r of death r slow-moving steel current ‘enfant terrible’ in family of strange engines of tion sired by the God of W: bulletin issued today by the National Geographic society “The modern fighting man has been so schooled to expect unique and pow- erful inventicns designed to destroy human life that the ‘tanks’ have spired more curlosity than terror, but far different has been the story of the vast breed of mo: rs that have en- gendered panic in the hearts of sol- diers in ages past, h ‘tank’, described as caterpillar, is the the I destruc e o sembling a ponderou i | | | | in- | the a nes “Reviewing among civil carliest eng fame has pages of le history of w: nations, one of of destruction whos perpetuated on the ndary epic, was the great se which the crafty Ulysses left the plains of Ilium, and which the Trojans believed to be an offering sacred to the Goddess Athena. 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This engineering enter- prise was hampered by the Tyrians who launched blazing ships against the assailants they sunk piles to hold in place the rock and debris that formed a roadway over which the army was to march. In order to pro- tect his construction corps Alexander devised an engine of ws tow- ers covered with green These were set up as shields against the floating flames of the enemy and the result was one of the memorable vic- tories in Alexander’s conquest of the stern world. “One of the most ines of war’ of ancient times w attle elephant employed by Py Alexander’s cousin, in the first of rhic victories' over the Twenty of these huge were used against the enem at the battle of Her- aclea in 280 B. C. The strange, mov- ing mountains of flesh caused a wave of fear to sweep over the Romans and they fled from the field of carnage, but after one experience with the animals their returned and henceforth the war elephant was more of a curiosity than an effective engine, “One of the simplest and yet one of the most effective inventions of ancient times was the velin with a point of soft iron employved by Julius Ceaser in one of his Gailic wars. The Roman legionarics hurled these weay against the shields of their ene- mies. 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The shanks of the dangling javels so im- peded the movements of thearbarian soldiers that they were fo2d either to throw away their shielgand fight uncovered against the Ronls or else stop long enough (a fatgdelay in their advance, to disencuber them- selves from this unique wPon which may properly be called # dum-dum pilum, the progenitor ofie soft-nose or dum-dum buliet of to¥- “Perhaps the strangestigines of de- struction in the historyf the world were the seven trumps of ram’s horn which the priestyr Israel blew as they encompassed t/ walls of Jer- icho once each day f¢six successiv and seven timesn the seventh day. After the finallast the hosts of Israel gave a gregshout and the walls fell fiat, accordi to the Biblical account in the Book Joshua. Those who endeavor to eviin all miracles on the theory that ty are the result of extraordinary alications of the natural law have s¢ in this remark- able event a demgtration of the vast destructive por of sympathetic vibration—the sar principle which has been known fshake to its ver foundation a ¢ ridge of steel and concrete when a B trots across it “Anothey armsidity of Biblical in- terest was the rr emploved by Gid- eon, leader of on30 Ohundred Israel- ites, who succestlly engaged a vast host 6f Midiaps and Amalekites that “lay along the valley like gra hoppers for mutude; and their cam- el were withomumber, the sand by the seaside r multitude’. 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The most famous of th Fires, however, was that invented the architect Callipicus durnig reign of Co Pogonatus particular engine destruction known as wet fire, account property of bursting into flame wetted .Thrown from siphons, it fell upon the ships of the Saracens caus- ing them to burst into flames, and thus Constantinople to the B: emperors time beir to riou uccession of of trec- ireck by the This w of its when antine on was saved antine for the (668). “Probably effect the was the on the far-reaching its egine of war of gun-powder attlefield. It w of the most potent factors contributing to the rthrow of the great feudal s tem, for it destroyed the superiority of the armored knight the yeoman foot-soldier, and as Carlyle has right- It made all of the same use of gun- inven- cann employed with 1gainst the walls of when this historic city finally fell into the hands of the Mo- hammedans in 145 “The aeroplane, the submarine more ay other introduction in one over ly sad, men the ame the development of the which ct heigh Followir powder in small arms tion and a weapon destructive Constantinople was the Zeppelin, and have develope: gradually in times of peace preps tory for war and are the minds. Not the been ce t of iron-clad products many so lamps withinde pitchers. As the enemy’s campas approached during the night theitchers were smashed, the lamps hy aloft in the left hand, while terr blasts from the 300 trumpets sfid consternation and terror ama the sleepers who in darkness irfined that they had been attackeq bj great army. The result was wholeg slaughter among them- solves whithe followers of Gideon watched. Merrimac and the turreted Monitor which appeared suddenly and almost simultaneously on the horizon of nax al warfare during the American Ci war. “The i1 poisonous gases employed in trench warfare during the present Eu- ropean conflict may he viewed as a deadly development of the ludicrous stink-pot weapons used by the Chinese for ages.”