New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 15, 1916, Page 6

ew Britain Herald HERALD PUBLISHING COMPA Proprietors. 2%, 1y exepted) at 4:15 p. m., ilding, 67 Chyrch St ed daily (Sund at Herald B Post Office at ond Class Mail Matter ered the New Britain as S livered by carrier to any for 15 cents a week, 6 scriptions for paper payable in advance, §7.00 a year part of the city a month be sent by cents a month, 60 p only profitable advertising medium in the city: Circulation hooks and press room always open to advertisers. Herald will be, found on sale at Hota- ‘ling's News Stand, 42nd St. and Broad- way, New York City; Board Walk, lantic City, and Hartford Depot. TELEPHO ness Office forial Rooms AFTER FIFTY YEARS. ifty years ago in this city there was d the first session of the General ference of the rches of Connecticut. fiftieth enjoyed When delegates messed the annual meeting j this city the honor of ling d the ent as host. the and more assembled First Church there was sadness at the forty-nine ap- a of loss an old rs one of the tinge friend. During most active and en- siastic workers in the General Con- David N beloved deacon, who died a short | e attended | Ence was the late Camp, ago. Deacon Camp first session held in this city half entury ago and from that time on er failed to be present at the meet- | Puring . the span of fifty years [h(‘,( k of the C onnecticut t ingregational Churches | in magni- | the ef- | expanded here entire New Eng- | of the | | has grown proportions. Through s i has benefited of the Reports session seneral Confer- mail, | At- | Congregational | Yesterday | two hun- | | sums of money by the cities them- | selves, in the purchase of new ma- chines to record the voting or in the printing of additional lips Australian ballot is in vogue. Yet, spent in the aforemen- tioned would preclude the in violation of voting hold- the ward voting | booths in out of the way, undignified, | places, the brought to appointed office rooms, a bet- spect would money | fashion | expenditure of money the If, instead of and laws. ing precinct voters were | neatty ter be maintained the privilege of voting. g0 to the polls not so much rei for As it is, men they want to, but because they have ast their votes one way either to settle | or to please a friend. | ticket | familiar with the issues involved. | That is one great reason why the na- tional and state and local tickets should be separate and distinct in- struments. The confusion of splitting tickets would then | promised to a grudge On the national | or another, some of the voters are not be brought to a minimum and voters by visiting three | a booths be allowed more time in the recording of their it the and the names necessarily erent would various ballots of candidates As is now are so long printed in such small type as to prevent a cor rect spliting of tickets. Men enter- ing booths to vote against one candi- date or another have been known to out dissatisfied because they could not find the name they wanted, because there other line, no time to make These are the that must be remedied, sooner or later, and the triple system of vot- ing may be ushered in in 1920 after the practices of 1916 have undergone | thorough investigation at the hands come wete voters in and there was a thorough search. things e held here give a good idea of the | The ure is that today more than two | dred delegates | re fifty but a | paratively id strides made, outstanding | are in attendance vears ago there w The has small number. of goodly hes and the nbership the chur n in proportion ting yesterday rcported the pres- numerical of the rehes in this state as approximate- 0,000. Crossing the threshold of latter half of century of such vor greater things are expected. strength | | lh such able and sincere men co- | rating for the improvement of the and this sec- rches this state the thy. in result cannot be other than | I | TRIPLE VOTING SYSTEM. of the of | presi- ome good must come out »osed Senatorial investigation 1916 ial campaign if it is conducted in nditures during the proper fashion And a reform can hccomplished without anyone suf- | jag incarceration reputations | g damaged. The pitiless light of | licity, calling ‘attention to the | or the In facts in the case, would be suf- | nt to awaken the moral conscience | S | majority of the voters. The peo- of the stage United States have passed when will allow u\el be they dency to bought, no matter ) b would be the purchaser. Il i epublicans and Democrats the lavishly in have been guilty of hding in the money presidential cam- Ens, lavishne: depending on ch party at the time had the great- | financial resources and had Votes have been have not mount of king. Neither has opoly on virtue. party a | en where they been working it of the ght, and any politician is sling methods past are mat- iliar with the ands of hi; They tory will go a long b in preventing the All the now repetitions in ire. American people need is that there oing to be a leral house cleaning and the brooms be brought out in force. not yet lost its appeal to the av- ze There legitimate hods ong man. are of elc President and no laws need be violated y mesort to corrupt practices? That Jre question t will be placed be- b the hte the next four years are complet- minds of those in the elec- and firmly fastened there be- lhe United States Senate will prob- ¥ 4ppoint a committee to thorough- | finvestigate ey doilar The igation the od mere expenditure the fact of us in past cam- . that this in- is contemplated will be ugh to warn the people that the ted States government cannot af- i to allow anything that savors of ruptn n its election The in- tigation itself should instill awe and pect for the law in the hearts of (who have a ballot to cast. It should J of various es and towns to the need of a dif- awaken thé officials nt method of supervis of the ng the col- ion vot three Presidential the be separated. That the presidential vote should be t separately, the state ticket should itself, the should demapd special To uld require the expenditure of vast In rs great factors in :tions should treated by and local ctions e tion. bring about this reform | the court | in 1843 Honesty | i of a Senate committee. | THE SUPREME COURT. There are several answers to the by the Hartford ! query propounded Courant, Is Wilson big enough to re- appoint Hughes to the Supreme Court? he first answer has the Hartford another that accept? been Times in the question, Does this Hughes mall enough The main is too obvious to-geed mention. Since the .question has been given by form of in mean is answer raised it may be well to recall that there is at the the preme present bench time no vacancy of the United States Court which of course cludes any possibility of Mr if is big enough” to re on Su- pre- Hughes President Wilson appoint him. As | made up i four Demo- | going back even is now it consists of five crats. Joseph Republicans and The Republican . Justices McKenna of California, born and appointed in 1898; Oliver Wendall Holmes of Massachusetts, | born in 1841 and appointed in 1902; William R. Day of Ohio, born in 1849 appointed in 1903; Willj Van of Wyoming, born in 1859 | 1910; Mahlon Pit- | borain 1858 anall The Democratic are and Devanter and appointed in of Jersey, appointed in 1912. members of the bench are Chief Jus- | White of Louisiana, born in 1845 and appointed 1910; McRes Tennessee, born in 1862 and appointed 1914; Louis Dembi ssachusetts, born 1915; John Hessin in 1857 and ney New tice - Edward Douglass in James Clark rolds of in Brandeis of M in 1 and ap- pointed in Clark of Ohio, in 1916. It will member of the United States Supreme Court was born before the Civil War, of McReynolds while the born appointed be seen that while every with the who was born in 1862 exception fight was on, therc are but three members rcached the age eligible for retirement. White s McKenna and Holmes, of Justice enjoying who have which them Chief makes These are Justice and With McKenna Justice: the exception these men are such health as to almost warrant | of the"bench for many years to come, they In the event that of it is conceivable | that President Wilson will appoint his Atto if so desire., any them retires present rney-General rather re-appoint a man of and who broke the sacred traditions the bhench, who | entered potitic then denounced | the President from one end of the | | land to the other. | FACTS AND FANCIE | It has just about gotten so in Texas that when cotton falls below cighteen | cents it looks too cheap.—Galveston News. | Republicans’ prayers | were not eflicacious ! known only to the Omni | land News. apparently ~for reasons ent.—Rut- | How mean fruit will taste to the consumer when the government stops the practise of coloring it artificially! | —Meriden Journal. maintains is the best What about News. Hanly that a pre- snake | Frank { dry United State | paredne Hut | bites?—Milwaukee | No doubt the “fordcar” contingent | dia its bit for President Wilson, but | strange to say, Michigan itself stayed | inside the republican traces.—Berk- i shire Bagle. Conscription. was voted down in if the | | because | ing, their occupancy than | NEW # BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, Australia. They prefer there to de- cide for themselves whether they | shall be killed or not.—Buffalo Times. Even toothpicks are going up in price. The only thing that is not more expensive than it used to be is the | 8BTace uitered before meals.—Spring- fleld Union. Ripe raspberries, in good condition, were picked in a field at Meredith on Thursday—and still there are peo- ple who have neglected our advice to come to New Hampshire.—Manches- ter Union. | A correspondent of one of our | morning contemporaries complains that on the city telephones the com- | paratively courteous “Are You | There?” is rapidly being replaced by | the brusquer transatlantic ‘‘Hello?"'— | London Punch. | The Danes are planning to colonize, | East Greenland, which is well enough, but the Danes should remember that unless the Danish Island agreement goes through America has a claim to | a large part of Greenland.—New York World. | Ballad of the Wandering Umberell. ! Along the park the lights are blurred and dim; The winter clouds are sodden, low, and gray; Here in a lonely nook, sad-eved and grim, watch the rain round the day. But lo! my vagrant stay— ns here and that T curtains fancy will not Tt yon in futile ! the suburbs far away— | Where is my night? wandering umberell to- sadly, now, do I recall | [ twenty-three that I did Ah, iell and The dollar pay own that umbherell—the Dprice . seemed small When weeping heavens the fields of May; "Tis not the I'm thinking of, oh nay! not the price— all right! thinking itself then, says, Where is my wandering umberell to- night? To drenched price "Tis that part of The its what I want; Perhaps in some abandoned ash-heap laid By ruthless hand of that benighted Jay Who reft me paid, When comes at last the final fire—dis- play) Perhaps in some smug holder, brass or clay, Unused it stands, my chattel and right: me! why inveigh? Where is my wandering night? of mine own (to be re- my Ah thus conjecture and umberell to- L'E Prince, take this lay umberell! Leave me no plight! Relent, repent, in pity prithee tell ,Where is my wandering umberell tonight? —Albert Bigelow Magazine. nvoi. ~bring back my longer in this sorry Paine in Harper's Qucen Lilinokalani. (New York World). What Kipling meant by taking up the white man's burden, Queen Lili- vokalani came to know when the ‘“‘re- form party” in Honolulu forcibly de- posed her in 18%3. She had firmly stood for native rule in Hawaii un- der a constitution ot her own mak- and the foreign element, or “‘mis- sionary party,” seized the govern- ment. was a very mild revolution, | but it put an end to the institution of rovalty in Hawaii and helped art the United States on the road to im- | perialism. Two vears after Liliuoka- Jani was stripped of the royal power she formally abdicated the throne, and during the war with Spain Ha- waii as an indcpendent republic ceased to exist and was annexed to the United States. The absolute right ana the case will be argued by But so far as Liliuckalani sonally concerned, she lost the throne and the revenues from the crown lands, she was held a prisoner in her palace for ninc merths, was granted of $4,000 island and | compensation by ccngres A sense of democra’y restrained representatives of the American ple from making restitution form for property of which | of the Hawailan roval line | enjoyed the income. | The downfall the Queen of the | mid-Pacific monarchy and the eventu- al annexation of her dominions fo thi country were part of what later came to be called the processes of manifest | destiny. Fortunately the queen and her own people were neither strong | nor violent, so that with some time- | Iy assistance from the foreign ele- | ment manifest destiny was able to | overcome all obstaclds without great | effort. a wrong of historians. was per- a pension legislatures, by denied stern the peo- any head haa B in as she of The Premature Pipe Dream, (Bridgeport Farmer.) Colonel Roosevelt has it right, The proposal to nominate him in 1920 is as he says, “a pipe dream.” Only a ' party bound for oblivion from the | start will nominate the colonel for its | leader. The men who used to be with | the Colonel have gone over to Wilson. yeomen aad the 1p their a candidate again the sturdy of California, Ohio, Kansas United States began to polish trusty ballots. They are the man wha abandoned the progr sive party, yes, they are waiting all the way from the place where Maine bor- ders Canada, to the place where Cali- fornia is st- ve” by Pacific | ocean. it's | S New Britain’s Busy Big Store— “Always Reliable.” Thanksgiving Linens We are in a position to of- fer some splendid values in Table Damask by the yard. Ready Made Pattern Cloths, Napkins, Lunch Clsths, ete. | TABLE DAMASK i All Pure Linen, 70-inch wide $1.25, $1.50 and $1.75 yd PART LINEN DAMASKS 70-inch wide. $1.00 yard MERCERIZED DAMASK 39¢, 50c and 59c¢ yard. SPECIAL 58- H DAMASK at 25¢ and 35¢ yard. HEMSTITCHED TABLE CLOTHS All Pure Linen $3.75, $4.50, $4.98 and $5.98 | each. ROUND TABLE CLOTHS | All Linen, Made Scalloped Edge. $4.50, $4.98 and $5.98 each. TABLE CLOTHS IN SETS With Napkins to Match All Pure Linen 5.75, $6.50 to $8.50 Set At the very rumor the Colonel may be | waiting for i LUNCH CLOTH With Napkins to Match. Scalloped, Special $4.98 per set. LUNCH SETS 98¢, $1.98, $2.98 to $3.50 per set. 'LUNCH CLOTH Mercerized, 25¢ and 50c¢ each. LINEN LUNCH CLOTHS $1.25 to $3.50 Each. LINEN NAPKINS $2.50, $2.98, $3.50, dozen. HUCK TOWELS 12Y%¢, 15¢, 19¢, 25¢ and 39¢ each. ALL LINEN HUCK TOWELS 50¢, 69¢, 75¢ each. MERCERIZED TABLE CLOTHS , Hemstitched All Ready for Use. 98¢ to $1.89 each. D, MohiLLA 199-201-203 MAIN 3.98 per STRIE Making Ame; Citizens, (Chicago Tribune) The Chicago a opening of E in for the than hoolhouses cemmunity centers ant op thing winter the kindly philanthr secms It will a entertainment som who suffer boredom in ments. In any city with various Chicago’s where we ha the material for whole whole Polish cities cities, citizenship ha alien is techni when he takes out his naturalization papers. To become effectively a cit- izen he must be naturalized by unde standing the community in which community centers can be madc serve, Opening the,schools and other lic buildings to the public at largc an aid the making of Ameri itizens. is on omplish more than the of thonsands tuffy ap: 2 population edish ci and whole to be hred only ally a the pub- in an His Favoritc. Age-Herald.) “Have you a favorite waiter in this restaurar “Perhaps. bit. “What do you mean hy that?" “I'm just trying to locate my fa- vorite waiter. He’s the only one here | I haven't tried yet.” (Birmingham Let me look aroung WEDNESDATY, 5 il NUVEMBER 15, ERkad THE VERY SHAPES YOU WANT In This Extremely Underpriced Offer in UNTRIMMED HAT AT THE ANNIVERSARY SALE T ALL STYLES OF SAILORS, TUR- BANS, COLONIALS, TRI- CORNES, POKES, MUSH- ROOMS, SIDE ROLLS ETC. MADE OF FINE SILK VELVET, BLACK, BROWN, GREEN, TAUPE, ETC. $2.00 VALUES $3.00 VALUES $4.00 VALUES BED S5 o ek v, g T i Free niversary Souvenirs , SMITH & Cu. 4, Trimmed 3 Hartford Free pEE—— - - southern election states involved in thatc* were governed by offi~ cials who had come out of the recon- struction period, and many of them needed watching. Not so was it this year. Republicans in every doubtful state are entirely capable looking l after the party interest, and can be | trusted to do so. It was a de- cision by which an intrusion men dispatched from the national head quarters n New York was avoided Only anger and trouble could have come from such a course, and by this | time we might have had a state of things too closely resembling that which shook the nation to its founda- tions in 1876. The World be willing to The close - Regions Void of Vegitation % Cailed ‘Karsi Landscape of w! of D. plateau the C., Nov. 15.—The is more Washington, peasants of the ! ground the ston; with poisonou: region, while above y wustes are infested reptiles.” Carso, or Karst as it familiary - known, scene of the Saved by “Notes.” (New York World.) Out of the confusion of details of | the sinking of the Columbian off the | Spanish coast, one fact stands forth conspicuous. The German subma- rine commander charged with the sinking took some pains and ran some chance of frustration, if not graver sks, to avoid sacrificing lives s: rded by the American fla his act we may infer his instructions The Columbian was stopped in wild sea that made launching t boats difficult, dangerous, perhap: possible; which in case made doubtful whether would reach shore safely with crew. The U boat lay by for two days, apparently ibmerging Lo ride out the gale more S until the could used s were lost. American insistence upon was respected. 1f there disputc about vroperty it may he adjusted But whother carrying contraband or | o o F CIL TS tHalie st not, whether or not it is possible Lo [ = oo ot ity Sike e take her into port for a prize court’s | noy,L Ol o e RS aident, a% judgment, no merchant ship must be | T, "8 oo EL G or all eon- ink until the lives of non-combat- | To.r 0% Wt L0 T to clear the ants on board are secured. That is the [ 20050 A0, WOU 1 OO0 0 hat may law. It has been broken many times, | . many neutrals have died by such dis- | regard. But since the Sussex case there has been manifest the in to spare the lives of Americans Compliance may not be wish. Even if the navy to succor them, setting the Stephano’s passengers adrift in boats far from shore may not have been such safety as satisfies Washington. But no such complication clouds the Columbian case vet. In boats, near shore, after the storm’s subsidence, the crew owed their lives to their flag and to President Wilson's derided but unan- swerable “notes.” newly inaugurated Italian offensive . a against the Austrians, is the subject of the following war geography bul- | letin issued from Washington head- and other critics should admit that the repub- licans have done their part in keep-¢ ing the' country from becoming un- duly disturbed because of the doubt to outcorr this vhich ver the tion quarters of the Nationai Geographic society: ‘So distinctive is appearance is that Austrian limestonc plateau known as Karst (1t form, Carso) that the term cape’ now frequently finc regions 10 lian ot election h proper before for- ing resuit to wait un- i by offcial electopal coly more th zarded in New a Chairm their par case upon the and Wilson It is entirely avily similar ‘pock- rottoes, to « station, d & cmployed v ne-sinks with subterrancan now and then appear the ground, then wrren of the party authorities inarked’ with a and i steeams Adenly appear “The t plateau tdnce to the south of on the Isonzo, Califo its ed EL ch sear w above iin any they the s dis- nen he i who 1t h Mr. Hughc spolkesn rises sonte dis- the city of Gor one of the most Austrian strongholds cap: Italians since they e clevation extends varying in widih Kar 1 | York city | Wi are enti zia, £ 1en - for important tured by tered the to the southea from 60 $0 miles. It forms boundary between the Austrian duchy of Carniola, 1o the northeast and the rian peninsula which juts into the \driatic below Trieste. “The Wippach or Vippach river, which flows along the hern b: of the plateau, is one of the tributar- of the The Italians were forced to their way across the valley of treain, in orc to gain the Karst which to con- tinue the Trieste, “The not been a grey in ancient been poRt Be d to rest their returns, evision of the Californta it be declarca that entitled the at state in the electoral college, there will fol o2 the 1 ¢ to votes of that nor wm Capital. (Waterbury Democrat.) A North Carolina farmer walked in- to a Raleigh shoe store the other day to buy footwear for his youngsters. The clerk was the son of an old neigh- of the farmer. He had left tho to seek a fortune in the city. He the fact that cotton lling for 18 cents L pricé, and cotton brought 90 cents a ord price. “That's who have cotton “but most price was sure, that wasn't as good that most in the hands of nzo. fight this heig nt i we | there ts from ainst all ag was Ka hat of always barren wastc rock. hor land remarked that pound times thc 1ts are said h magnifi- Romans ruthle: have covered wi forests R ahout cent Iy destroved these trees to secure tim- r for t ralleys. In recent Aus vernment has temat the x this more a ind was day as a record y that day ar bushel { fine for the | to sell,” said the | of had to sell 14 cents pound was a good price the zone also s task of malk- about fellows dis forest- frequently larch and pine which pursuan tarmer, when the To be but it farmer added 1nd, the wveler finds —— us oves of voung d With 1876. i Republican.) | The New York World finds e for complaint because “‘the severe le- ' of the cotton is now its numerou . e o, | salistic mind of Mr. Hughes, scrutin- | brokers and they are the fellows who rivers. -The most famous | 12N Dnarrowly every remote get the fancy margin. Which illus the Grotto of Adelsherg, | Pility and technicality, refuses to con- | trates one of the purposes of the fe il northeast of Tricste, | cede the re-election of Mr. Wilson un- | eral farm loan act. Many southern . A - | til the official count in California shall | farmers go into debt their bank have been compvleted.” Those of or their fertilizer supply house tho (21 who remember the disputed election | spring to get money to get through the of 1876 will realize that matters | summer. They are then forced to sell might be a good deal worse than they | their crop as soon as it can be har- o far as the temper of the par- | vested to pay off the debt. Long-timo s and the tranquility of the country {credit on amortizeq loans at a low are concerned. The republican na- | rate interest will it unneces tional committee was happily led to |sary for the farmer refinance his a5 | revise its first thought to send lawyers | proposition every and it will do 'he fana watchers to California and per- | away with the costly sacrifi to re- and haps other states, where the election | lieve pressure from short loans. If the | result seemed in doubt. That the farm lodn act had been in oper- k or Pivka ¢ nes a | have been following the example ation a year earlier it might have i stream in the vicinity of | in the Hayes-Tilden year, when lead- | meant a difference of 4 or 5 cents a ing politicians of both parties has- pound in the pr cotton to most tened to Louisiana to see that the in- southern farmers As it is terests of their side were protected. | the southern farmer is true of every The excuse for doing that other f to whom proper credit. great then, and it does not exist now. | facilities been denied. 4 As Compar (Springficld I a have® been planted in e « this plan, “Among of the cause | as striking w are plat grotto: features Karst et caves and terrancan of these is fitty miles by Before the cd by by possi- to was touris whom habitants of Adelsberg grotto is lighted are safe Room’, the ‘Brilliant’, compartments, in len feet frequent- the 3,800 thrivec electricity and pat through the Ferdinand Grotto’, ‘Belvedere’ and of which and oth 1S Through ) us in in- The by there 3all the the of make other some fis 1 s to 0 feet rs ar 165 Cathedral’, nearly 100 fec e v it long . ilows 1igh, therc would hecomes e subterrane the Grotto, “Many of the pools and streams in : rst contain cu- h constitutes food for the a K sh whi article of the caverns of the kinds o was armer have important