New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 13, 1916, Page 8

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1916. NEW BRITAIN HERALD HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY, Proprietors. Issued dally (Sunday excepted) at 4:15 p. m., &t Herald Building. 67 Church St Bntered st the Post Omce at New Britalm as Becond Class Mail Matter. Deliversd dy carriee to any part of the ciy for 15 Conts a Week, 65 ents s Month. abscriptions for paper te De sent by mail, payable In advance, 60 Conts s Afontn, $7.00 & Year, e only profitabla advertiring mcdwm Ir the oity. Circulation books and press room alwave open to mavertisers. Be Herald will be found on sale at Hota- ling’s New Stand, 42nd 3t. and Broad- ¥, New York City; Poard Walk at- 1aatio City, and Hartford Depot. TELEPHONRE CaLLEZ. pusiness ofice ..... Aitortal Rooms VOX POPULI, VOX DEL Is the flag respected? This seems to be a question of no ttle moment. Speaking at a ban- this city last Gov- Holcomb conveyed the impres- that Old Glory honor by foreign nations it was On the other a uet in evening, Fnor on is not accorded e ce wont to command. S. Cummings, told not because country, and, Homer also ker blieved it was respected; at the banquet, why he had lain waste an enemy bt because this nation had jumped to combat, but because it represents htience, restraint on national pas- bns, peace and good will toward all len and sanity in a time when the ental balance of the world seems be Kew. Mo an impartial referee, Mr, Cum- ngs had the better of the argument, it so much because of the eloquence that super-ecloquent Stamfordian, the facts right. and Mr. t because he had hard . ones, count; bduced them. cts, mmings pr Duropean disrespect for the Unite htes flag political bugaboo. w many millions of people In rope would thank their Creator if too, were enjoying the benevo- is a = ce, dignity and unswerving justice that same flag instead of flying at Pir neighbors’ throats at the dic- les of unscrupulous princelings? 'w their hearts must ache when by see through the battle smoke of Jr, Old Glory floating to the breezes il at peace -with the world. Re- ct? There is no banner in all the 1d that men so crave to call thet What boots it if some foreign er sneers? What if a few poli s do twist faots? The flag of this ion is respected by the people the 1d over. They acclaim it as the jatest flag world. Their es rise in applause and when the ple speak, Heaven speaks; for the e of the people is the voice of God in the EFENDERS OF THE NATION. hey went away boys They came jk men. the ary guidance of Uncle Sam and v Britain’s soldier boys stand to- seasoned troopers, tanned by the ing sun of Arizona, hardened by open life on the plains, whipped shape by the rigid discipline ler West Pointers. Those three pths spent away freom home in the ness of soldiering are worth more any two years spent in the ordi- Three months under occupations of man. It was just b work as this that made the youth Rome Turning away from clean of the to insipid uselessness of hours spent musement, Rome fell. The de- and fall of the Roman empire be traced in that way. So long her sons were strong and hearty, ng as they gave thelr time and tion to the up-building of the bn, so long was Rome great. The ent her youth turned attention e fickle amusements of the day whiled away hours in midnight pation the empire began to fall. United States stands today glorious than the Roman em- ever knew. This because the who founded this nation cement- s foundation with the blood of ots. The who came after fought their way through ad- ery description, until great. living warrior m pe men ies of e disruptions within and without ountry stands today at the very cle of its growth. It is for the men of the nation, the boys are willing to lay their lives on 1o say shall of the altar er patriotism, United States ple and fall, as did Rome, or go p the heights unknown. There trong hearts and brave hands and willing to fight its battles. are calm heads and cooi to guide its a willing to p it that there is never Jrque: rea- ny, a war for gold or glory, anxious ‘event any dishonorable [when the moment ation must fight. arrives that nd for its supreme , there Is no nation in the world an send forth truer or braver so he yesterday e we have the spirit layed by thosc returned their 5 after service on the Mexican loyalty di to the morrow the city of New Britain will formally honor her sons who wear the khaki. The city is in holiday attire. Flags and bunting are draped on the principle edifices, on public stores and private homes. Old Glory never waved with more pride, never straightened to the breezes with greater zest since the boys in came back in ’98. these boys of 1916. They have seen no actual warfare, but they stood there to answer the call if it came They are true defenders of the coun- try just as much if they had weathered fusilades of shot and shell. Their very presence on the Mexican border prevented further by the bandits of that rebeliion-ridden country and saved, no one knows how lives or how blue We are proud of as raids many American much American property. When the time comes, if it ever should, that they must needs go forth to real battie, they can fall back upon an experience that is worth more than all the drills ever practiced in state armories or maneuvers conducted during sum- mer encampments. They have been the gainers because of their sojourn, and New Britain in turn is the pos sessor of two well-rounded companies of state militia. ABOUT THIS DEBATE. Following the usual custom of nar- row-minded partisans some newspa- pers in this state are now decrying the challenge of Homer S. Cummings to Senator McLean and classing it as somewhat akin to phantasmagoria. They claim the Stamford man Iis dreaming when he sends a call to the Simsbury statesman to meet him on the stump; that it is all, to use their elegant expression, “bluff”. According to this version, Homer S. Cummings, like the old stereopticon operators of a decadent age is flash- on the screea his ap- ing tempting scenery for the purpose of magnifying own importance. It is made to pear that Cummings is trying to uss the Senator as a drawing card in the hope of making capital out of Mc- Lean’s popularity. Such nonsense. If anything, Homer Cummings is just as well liked as Senator McLean so far as personal popularity goes. But that is not what counts in a debate such as the one in question. If McLean was the most popular man in the world and Cum- mings the most unpopular the debate, if it took place, should be decided solely on the merits of the arguments presented. No fairminded board of Judges would decide a debate against | a man because he happened to - be ugly. Nor would they favor him be- cause of his good looks. - If such w the practice the Lincoln-Douglass d: bates could have had only one end- ing. Douglass would have won with- out uttering a word. Nor do we sub- scribe to the idea that such a debats as Mr. series of meetings cities of the state, where near a Chautauqua or a four ring circus. The ‘one-night stand” suggested by Senator McLean, even though he would meet the challenger on his home grounds, has not the merits of the original idea. Cummings invites, namely, a in four principal approaches any The people of this state would profit by a debate between Senator McLean and Homer Cummings. The two great parties could trust their fortunes to no better minds. And inde- pendent voting to a degree is rapidly since becoming & thing of the living pres- ent there are many who would listen with open mi\nds to arguments of both sides. Unless we want to keep the electorate forever in a state of abso- | lute ignorance there should be such a meeting of these two men. If weo want to hypnotize and tame men into the rut of any one party, then prevent the debate and go on with the one- side@ rallies that are enjoying a vogue just now in all parts of Connecticut. From some points of view there are two sides to every question, “My side and the wrong side.” President Wilson dianapolis vesterday whole people when speaking in In- spoke for the he “Any issue of sectional- said: man who raises the ism in this country is unworthy of the confidence of the nation He shov hmself provincial; that he does not know the sections of his country and to be ignorant.” is the one thing that will eradicate sectionalism once and for all. When people come learn the v Travel to st expanse of country between the two greaj oceans and and Canada they will know sm cannot be revived if is to live. As it only cry sent up on this score comes from the people who have spent their entire lives in one community or from Mexico that this nation sectional roliticians seeking to capitalize a very dangerous busin In the first c the sin might be forgiven. In the second instance, there is no excuse; and every man who even dares raise question should be promnptly Sectionalism such a voted out is fraught with dynamite. of public life. Now that baseball is politics will have a fighting chance out of the way, a unti] football strikes its stride. We saw And we shall dream the love-dream Thus dawned the dayvs, when hand-in- The days FACTS AND FANCIES, Having spent an anxious Monday hovering about the jce chest with a ralm leaf fan, it is now our privilege to do some figuring before the coal bin—New Haven Journal-Courier, Chicago firms have voluntarily added millions to the pay of their em- ploye Cannot Judge Hughes blame the president for this It doesn't i00k orthodox to us.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. President Wilson presents the views | of the whole people of the United | States when he says that Germany | will have to keep strictly within the law as regards her attack upon vessels just outside our boundaaries.—An- sonia Sentinel, From a brief abservation of the Lhilosophical and physiological list it appears that the gentleman set down | in the Yale catalogue as “Charles | Phelps Taft, 2nd, New Haven, Conn,” s something of an “all-around man.” New Haven Register. It is manifest to the wayfaring man that our big cities are acquiring increased respect for the fighting power of the farmer. He has taken te employing methods that have be- come well understood in the big cen- ters of population.—Springfield Re- publican. Warden Osborne of Sing Sing has resigned. He claims to have fulfilled hi ission. The fact remains that prisons yet are under political juris. diction and it is only natural to pre- sume political methods wil] soan be restored when the real reformer is off the job.—Middletown Press. Taking into full account all the Pontius Pilates, cowards, mally- coddles and pussyfooters that ever lived, who was guilty of a bigger fluke than T. Roosevelt himself when billed in big type by arrangement with him- pelf to deliver a seditious speech ta the United States army encamped at T'i Paso, he cravenly submitted, for reasons of mere expedlency to a change of base to Gallup, N. M., many hundreds of miles away?—New York Waorld. The Old Dream, ‘We call it dream, the life that is, A something that was “Long Ago’— ‘We watched the days agleam with light, And saw the sunset’s fickle glow. We wandered in the old-time ways, That led us through the rosy lands; the clouds in pageants laom, limn their gold on amber strands. And o’er, And see again Fate’s magic scroll, Resplendent with Life’s hopes and fear, Its treasures to our gaze unroll— hand, Together fared; We only knew that life was sweet, And nought for other solace cared. through the world we The years have flown, yet oft I long In tender comradeship to live that knew no perished dream, And had so much of life to give. But now, the old, sweet visions fade, Dimmed in the stress of vanished Faade like an echo from the days That knew but dreams and never tears. —Ossian D. Gorman in Atlanta Constitution. Hughes and the “Bloody Shirt.” (Waterbury Democrat.) Among the infinite variety of short- comings of the Wilson administration, according to Candidate Hughes, is that many of the men in positions of power are from the south, aand that the south has been unduly favored at the expense of the north in congres- sional appropriations and in executive ministration. This is what used to be known as “waving the bloody shirt” and was the favorite sport of republican candidates during the generation following the war. Hughes is the first presidential can- didate in recent vears who has hag so low an opinion of the intelligence of the voters as ta appeeal for their sup- port on the base and unpatriotic ground of sectionalism. The fact that the charge that the Wilson adminis- tratian has favored the south is un- true makes the Hughes offense doubly unpardonable. The fiffiteen sauthern states embrace 29.5 per cent. of the land area of continental United States, 19.4 per cent. of the estimated prop- erty value, and 30.9 per cent. of the population. They received in 1916, 20.7 per cent. of the government ex- penditures, excluding the District of Columbia and foreign countries. The estimates for 1917 give them 19 per cent. President Wilson has demon- strated many times that he thinks in terms of problems and not of sections. Harry Garfleld, president of Willlams college, son of former President Gar- field, recently made the following striking statement, which has in it the ring of true patriotism: “I have de- cided to suppart Mr. Wilson, His character as a man, his sympathetic understanding of the problems of the day, his record in office, his unusual ability, pre-eminently displayed in meeting and dealing with the three great emergencies of his administra- tion, and the importance of maintain- ing an uninterrupted policy at this jurcture in world affairs, lead me ta believe that the best interests of our country will be served in keeping the present administration and its party in office for the preset. ‘Permit me | to add that the sectional issue, raised | b: ome of our republican leaders, | is repugnant to the American spirit and the welfare of our institutions. Under the circumstances offends | the sensc of fair dealing with political opponents, it tends to arouse old fires Interesting Experiments In National Government Washington, D. C., Oct. 13.—One of the most interesting experiments i government to be found anywhere in the world today is being conducted by the United States. It is being tried out on the island of Haiti, upon which are located the Black Republic of Haiti and the Mulatto Republic of Santo Domingo. The nature of the experiment and the causes which led up to this unique government ven- ture are set forth in a bulletin issucd by the National Geographic society. fter a century to maintain itself 5 a separate, independent, sovereign nation, Santo Domingo in 1905 found itself about to fall a victim to its own excesses,” says the bulletin. “Revolu- tion had followed revolution almost with clocklike regularity. There were assassinations, there were betrayals, there were conspiracies, there were wars within and wars without—war with Haiti over boundary questions and civil war over the control of the government. Debts were piled up with- out thought of the day of payment or even provisions for meeting the in- terest charges. “So long and so steady was the orgy of revolution, speculation, debt- making and interest-dodging that the nation’s credit grew worse than that of its individual citizens. Finally, the day of reckoning came. Foreign war- ships approached the ports whose har- bors had given refuge to the great dis- coverer Columbus and whose capital city still contains what undoubtedly are his ashes, and demandeqd that the claims of their subjects be satisfied— claims for money advanced, claims for interest accumulated, claims for prop- erty wantonly destroyed—and they demandeq it at the poimt of big naval guns. “In a predicament from which they were powerless to extricate themselves the Dominicans were ready enough to negotiate a treaty turning over the control of the country’s customs to the Untied States if, in return therefor, the United States would protect them from angry Buropean creditors and rejuve- nate their treasury. “And so it was that in 1905 the United States undertook to serve as treasurer of Santo Domingo and to vouch for her debts. The tariff was quickly revised, the American author- itles urging that duties be laid on lux- urles rather than wupon necessities, upon the things of the rich rather than upon those of the poor. The tariff a whole was cut down, the gener: reduction being fifty per cent. on e port taxes and fourteen per cent. on import duties “Ad yet in spite of this great reduc- tion, in spite of payments of $1,200,- 000 a year on the debt, there was still left a greater net income for the uso of the government than it had ever had before. “For a long time it was thought that, deprived of the opportunity of securing customs-house revenues through the seizure of ports, revolu- tions could not support themselves. But after six or seven years of peace trouble broke out again, and during 1914 and 1915 it became so serious that the United States was forced to intervene in behalf of peace and to demand, with marines on shore and naval guns trained and pointed on the ports, that the country return to a state of quiet. And so today the Dom- inicans, realizing that the Monroe doctrine is determined to afford them protection from their own excesses, their own bitter passions and blind purposes, have accepted when they could not attain that end themselve It is a reluctant acquiescence they yield, but a wholesome one, none the less. “It has not been without effort or without expense, nor yet without the actual sacrifice of hlood and life that our country has stepped in to play the role of Good Samaritan to the peo- ples of Santo Domingo, Haiti and Nic- aragua, who had lost the blessings of peace anq were unable to regain them. In Haiti alone we lost one officer and six marines and had a number wounded. But out of this al- truistic effort are growing results of which a nation that covets no terri- tory, that seeks only its own security and the welfare of its unfortunate neighbors, may well be proud. “In Porto Rico we have reduced the death rate from 45 per thousand to 19 per thousand, and a beginning along the same line is being made in these new fields of American endeavor. In Porto Rico wages have increased from 16 cents to 75 cents, and stable condi- tions show encouraging results in the same direction in our new ward lands. In Porto Rico the school attendance jumped from 20 per cent. to more than and these new wards are trying to follow in Porto Rico’s path. “Wherever America gone, Whether to Panama, whether to Santo Domingo, Porto Rico, Nicaragua, the Philippines, or Haiti, the welfare of the people has been her first concern; and while all colonial history shows that the tares of evil are never absent from the wheat of good, our nation’s record of help given where most needed 15 one that well may challenge our admiration and quicken our ratriotism. “The succ m Santo Domingan customs administration led to another experiment along the same line a few vears later. Nicaragua became revo- tion-torn resulting in the overthrow of Zelaya and the conversion of the country from an unspeakable despot- ism into one of ruinous anarchy. Rival factions issued flat money as freely as tap water flows from a spigot. The treasury was bankrupt, interest was in default, foreign creditors were threat- ening to collect their debts with gun- hoats and cruisers, and there was not enough money to be had by the party in power even to pay salaries, much less soldiers’ wages. The offer of the United States to perform for the Ni ians a service similar to that given the Dominicans was accepted, and here again the plan worked beauti- rag of passion, and, if successful, will disunite a people now united and in- | cidentally destroy the party that fos- ters so calamitous an issue!" fully as long as the hydra-headed revo- lution remained under cover. Trouble came, however, and only the presence The ‘outs’ are bitterly opposed to the role being played by the United States; but Nicaragua is be- ing rejuvenated in spite of every han- dicap that the state of mind of its citizens entail “If conditions were bad in Santo Domingo when the United States un- dertook to help the country back to peace and prosperity, they were worse in Nicaragua when we umed the role of guardian. But even in Nica- ragua they were mild indeed com- pared with those obtaining in Haiti when our country finally stepped in there. “Our agreement with Haiti goes fur- ther than those with Santo Domingo and Nicaragua. It provides for an American-officered constabulary which shall have control of the country and the regulation of all matters pertain- ing to arms and ammunition. Further- more, it provides for the appointment of a sanitary engineer whose recom- mendations, as approved by the United States, are to be carried out in the cleaning up of the cities of the re- public. . “This new departure probably will insure peace, quiet, honest administra- tion; ang if it does, Haiti certainly will g0 forward as few small countries ever have. Its mountains are filled with mineral wealth; its valleys are so fer- tile that the slightest attention can make them produce like an Eden; its forests contain vast stores of preclous hardwoods and dyewoods. It is in- deed, a region where nature has lav- ished its richest gifts, where a simple population, under a firm yet sgentle, benificent guidance, may realize the blessings of tranquil abundance.” iceep the peace. Should Pattern After Connecticut. (Meriden Record). Again the governor of New York has been subjected to the unjust and unnecessary worriment attendant up- on the law of the state which makes him the last tribunal in the matter of life and death. ) Several times Governor Whitman has been forced to act the role of savior or slayer by giving the word which either sent a man to his death or gave him a lease of life. Last Friday night he was again im- portuned by men of high standing to pardon a man. The latter had been fwice reprieved by the governor but the courts and individual judge had found him guilty of murder and New York’s chief executive refused to In- terfere. i The governor's positlon was made still more comfortable by Warden Os- borne who at a dinner called on his companions to appeal to the governor to “save an innocent man.” They telephoned, but their pleas were un- avaliling. It ought not be possible to put the governor of any state in such a position of apparent disregard for the rights of individuals.” One man ought not to have the power to give life or death. Connecticut has solved the question by its board of pardons which hears all applications of per- sons sentenced to death. As nobody can be hanged between sentence and a meecting of the board it stands to reason that the claims of the accused must be threshed out so thoroughly as to leave little doubt. “Appeal to the governor” in cases where capital punishment is con- cerned, savors too much of the dime novel and melodrama and too little of real justice, What You Can Do About It. (Boston Herald). Let us descend from the national aspects of the fire problem to the re- sponsibility of the average man. Mark the helplessness of the ordin- ary home, especially if the fire breaks out by Note the foolishness in relying on distant apparatus to put out fires that should never be allowed to start or that should be stopped by the night. sprinklers or extinguishers at very moment of their starting. Why not take time today, this evening if need be, for such an in- spection of your home—cellar, stair- way closets, attic—as you would give a neighbor's house on ‘which you would have to pay from your own pocket any fire loss by carelessness. Set that water bucket in the un- finished attic as you have been mean- ing to do these five years. Get that box of sand into the garage. Buy that fire extinguisher you promised vour wife long ago for the central hall. Order those extra cans in place of the wooden barrels for papers and litter. Clean out all rubbish and near-rubbish. Make sure today that your household knows what to do in case of fire when you are not at home. And if your house has occupants on the third or fourth floor, figure our their present chance when smoke and flames are sweeping up the last stair- way. The Question or Courage, (From Life.) As.for Mr. Hughes' courage, no doubt he has courage, but after all it was he who gave as a reasan for com- ing out for a constitutional amend- ment about woman suffrage his fear of bitterness of the women's fight for suffrage. Is it then so much less timid ta advocate a constitutional amendment to avold the bitterness of a fight with women, than to urge an xperimental law to avert the bitter- ness of a general railroad strike? Life in the Big Olty. (Brooklyn Will exchange one bottle Grade milk and half loat of bread world's series ticket and a bag Eagle). A for of of American marines has served to lneanutsf—Ardent Fan. McMillan’s New Britain’s Busy, NEW FALL COATS for Wom $12.98 up to $18.98. Children’s at 49c each. each. dren. ment. 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Large Collars of Chiffon, Hemstitched and Embroid- dered Georgette Crape, Fichus, Collar and Cuff Sets, etc. Many new styles of Neckwear. Saturday 25c¢ and 49¢ WOMEN’S WASHABLE CAPE GLOVES $1.25 and $1.50 pair. White and Colors. KNIT UNDERWEAR Fall and Winter Weights for Men, Women and Chil- Children’s Union Suits, 35¢, 50c to $1.25 earh. Children’s Vest and Pants, 25¢ to $1.00 each. Women’s Union Suits, $1.00 to $2.75. Separate Vests and Pants, 25¢ to $1.25 each. MEN’S $1.00 RIBBED FLEECED SUITS Heavy Weight. Extra Special 85¢ suit. FALL WEIGHT BALBRIGGAN Shirts and Drawers for Men, $1.00 value, 75c gar- BOYS’ BLOUSES 25¢ and 50c each. Stripes, Blue Chambrays, Khaki and White Madras. SILK HOSIERY SPECIALS Men’s Silk Sox, 25c¢ pair, black and colors, worth 39c. Women’s Boot Silk Hose, 29¢ pair, worth 35c¢, in black and white. These prices for Saturday only. NEW LEATHER GOODS Bags and Purses, 49¢, 98¢ to $4.98 each. D. McMILLIAN 199-201-203 Main Street “Choose Your Weapons.” (Springfield Republican.) An unusual happening in Connecti- cut is to be a public joint debate be- tween Senator George P. McLean and the democratic aspirant for his office, Homer S. Cummings. The challenge for this meeting came from Mr. Cum- mings, and Senator McLean suggests that it will be convenient far him to come to Stamford, the home town of bis rival, on October 25. This repub- lican senator from Connecticut is a very attractive speaker, and it will in due course be demonstrated whether Mr. Cummings has been inviting trouble. Perhaps this happening over the border may inspire John F. Fitz- gerald of Boston ta challenge Senator Lodge to meet him upon the arena of Jjoint debate but our guess is that there will be no duplication in this state of the Stamford affair, Why Wall Street Bets on Him. Mr. Hughes invites Wall Street to move into the White House with hin, and Wall Street responds by 7 to on his panionship is close and exceedingly gracious, and yet the delightful asso- ciation does not excuse misstatements on the part of the candidate, betting election The com- Dollar Diplomacy, for which Hr. Hughes eulogized vently at Baltimore, contemplates much more than the extension of American enterprise abroad under of- ficial encouragement It is a pe nership between Big Business and Government, Big Business making the money and Government using tho Diplomatic Corps and the army and navy for purposes of promotion and collection. It was because President Wilson re- fused to continue this ar that the Chinese loan failed as Mr. Hughes asserts, be was any unfriendliness to legitimate American undertakings in foreizn lands. The credit of China was not good enough for Wall Street underwritten at Washington; all, This is example, fer- gement nd not, there unless that is the sort of thing that Hughes is now openly promising to restore not only in China but in Mexico, and it is for this reason that his campaign chest has been stuffed with the greatest contributions ever known. There is an important dif- ference, however, between the present candidate and some of his predeces sors in republican party leadership. They accepted Dollar Diplomacy principle, but in secret He boa; of it and glories in it, and seems to ask if there is anything else that Wall Street wanta. Mr. in