New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 27, 1916, Page 8

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1016. 'New Britiil_l Herald. HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY. roprietors. aily (Sunday excepted) at 4:16 p. m., Tssued erald Bullding, 67 Church St. | o at | Bntered at the Post Office at New Britain {78 Becond Class Mail Matter. | Deltyered by carrier to any part of the city Tor 16 cents a week, b6 & month. } gubscriptions for paper to be sent by mail, i avable in advance. 60 cents & month, k 7.00 a year. The only profitable advertising medium in the city: Ciroulation books and rress room always open to advertisers. | The Herald will be found on sale at Hota- ling's News Stand, 42nd St. and Broad- way, New York City; Board Walk, At- lantle City, and Hartford Depot. TELEPHONE CALLS. Bxumu- Office 5 Editorfal Room: CLEAR THE TRACKS. Three incidents which happened last week suffice to show that the Main street railroad crossing is again becoming a menace to traffic. On ‘Wednesday, Thursday and Friday nights automobiles, trolley cars and pedestrians were held up on either side of the tracks while ponderous freight cars were shifted back and for periods of ten and fifteen minutes. On one of these occasions an incessant down-pour of rain added to the discomfort of home-goers. Attention has often been called to the inconvenience caused to citizens lof this city because of this practice v the railroad men. In the past, as fsoon as officials of the railroad com- pany were made aware of such viola- ions of the city ordinances remedial forth hoped that there will be no repetition of this offense. The day of cheap politics is happily over. If men can- not go inta battle without resorting to the fighting methods of fifty years ago they had better remain from the lure of politics. In this Tespect it must be pointed out that the campggn in this city was conducted on a remarkably high plane. The chairman of the Repub- lican town committee, E. N. Humph rey, after one or two experiences with national speakers who came here and made personal attacks on the Presi- dent, warned all future orators that they must confine their remarks and arguments to the issues of the cam- paign and not to the personality of the man in the White House. Had the men at the head of affairs in ather towns and citles and states throughout the Union had the foresight of Mr. Humphrey the leaders of the party in Washington might not now have such a difficult time diagnosing the case. THE JOY OF IT ALL. An aviator flying over the Yale Bowl on Saturday, which fortunately did not happen, would have had a re- markable view of a stupendous scene,—78,000 people banked from the bottom to the top on the inside of that mammoth cup. He would have heard the cheering and the shouting and the singing of that mass of humanity. He would have seen the indulations and wave like motions of that great crowd as it swayed up or down with the happenings on the nethods were set in order, the freight yards and or, o here. ions to the freight yard, mcoupled temporarily to allow people blocked. The time has again come for a dis- ontinuance of a practice that is an- oying to a vast majority of people in freight block Main Street traffic @ave no right of way over the path There 1s also the dan- ler of blocking the fire department hen uptown apparatus are called for If the Haven railroad does not soon pmedy conditions the Common Coun- be called into action to the nbarrassment of the railroad men. o cross over the tracks they New Britain. Great long jrains that f citizens. ervice south of the tracks. few 1 may ——e T D THE POST MORTEM., Post mortems are now in lepublican -leaders back in Roosevelt, poor us Theodore aman’s Golden Special, part of incomplete Eement on the fillcox, and an atform. Roosevelt for is excoriated and the hifting was very properly transferred confined in the event that trains ere too long to confine their opera- they were order. ‘Wash- gton for the short session of Con- ess are conducting a diagnosis of e recent campaign, and, according gome of the Washington despatches, y the blame of their party’'s defeat the national elections to four prime the man- Chairman national his tions in 1912 when he disrupted the lepublican party, taught the Western- '$ to think in terms of Progressivism, d for his attitude during the 1916 bottom of the bowl. ‘When there were remarkable plays the crowd uarose as one. When the suspense was over the crowd sat down. And when 78,000 people act in unison at any given moment ithe sight is one for the gods, Never before in the histary of the country has such a gathering attend-| ed a football game ag that which wit- nessed the annual gridiron contest be- tween Yale and Harvard in New Ha- ven on Saturday. At the Army and Navy game the first year it was played at the Polo Grounds there were pres- ent some fifty thousand people. At the Yale-Harvard game last year at Cambridge there were present all of sixty thousand. Bul Saturday’s game set the new high mark. The official figures place the number in attend- ance at that aforementioned and are based on the number of seats sold. Allowing for two thousand who were at work as ushers and attendants the number is swelled to eighty thousand, made possible because of the gigantic proportions of the Yale Bowl. Had seating accommodations been provid- ed for 100,000 people it is probable that number would have been present. Football as it is now played is a spectacular sport. It is somewhat different from the old game played in the late eighties or the early nine- ties. Those were the games that had to be viewed from close range, other- wise the effect was gone. With piunging fullbacks and flying wedges the spectator had to be close enough to hear the compact of leather head- guards and the clash of brawn. The grinding and tugging demanded close mpaign when he gave the impres- bon that the Republican candidate bod for war as against the peace pro- The now cele- ated ‘‘golden special,” which figured the campaign as a political junket r a number of wealthy women has labeled as the cause for losing am of the President. pen ose votes even than the Colonel was pable of turning away. In this re- ect Mr. Hughes is partly to blame, v the Republican leaders, for he re- sed to refrain from sanctioning the ur of the women. Chairman Will- Bx is not spared by the old time fiders of the party who hold him b as a bad example of political man- ement, claiming that as a too close rsonal friend of the candidate he jowed himself to’ be dictated to her than to dictate. The platform the party is described as incom- pte, one of the critics claiming that was an unwise platform because it tained no plank demanding that e rights of the <olored man be up- d, by a strict enforcement of the teenth amendment. [Those are the opinions of the lead- g lights of the Republican party who e now gathered in the national capi- and who have plenty of time to nk and talk things over. Whether Yy are wrong in some of assertions is a matter of conjec- The failure of the Hughes cam- ign may be attributed to Colonel posevelt, or to any of the other €e reasons given. Certainly all pse things had some part in the un- ing of Charles Evans Hughes. But must not be forgotten that the can- flate himself is greatly ‘responsible his own defeat. So much was-ex- ted of him as a former member of e Supreme Court bench that.he im- diately fell from his previous high destal when he began his attacks the President. The mudslinging in P past campaign had as much to do h the defeat of Hughes as did any all of the faur reasons advanced by & party leaders in Washington. In right or e. inspection to see what was happen- ing. Now it is different. Open plays are in order, there is none of the sav- egery of other fla,\'s_and the sport can be viewed from a goodly distance and the effect is the same. In the vears to come the Yale Bowl may be made larger. It can be utilized for the one great game of the as the automobile has become great a part of the gridiron sport as the game itself. There is even joy in a line of automobiles four and as long as the eye can sce,—all going to the game. season, as abreast There will be extreme sorrow among feminists at the death of Inez Milholland Boissevain who had been called “The most beautiful suffragist.” She was one of the first to spring into prominence when the extremists of the ‘Woman Suffrage party came into their awn. As a worker there were who could hold to the pace set this remarkable young woman. Her last endeavors for the ‘‘cause” were spent on tour with the Hughes Special Train, which canvassed for votes the far western states. this work that Mrs, tracted a disease against which even Mrs. few by in It was during Bolssevain con- her remarkable physique was power- less. Death claiming her in the full- ness of youth leaves but fancy to say what she might have accomplished had she reached an older age. California’s popular vote has been officially counted and the returns given out show a Democratic plurality of 3,806 which is not far away from the first returns that caused sa doubt. much Keller the famous blind woman has given the Rev. Billy Sun- day a very gentle laying-out. After a visit to the Boston Tabernacle Miss Keller said: “The mosiest man I ever hearl. He is monkey-wrench Helen a campaigns to come it is’ to be thrown into the machinery of the go- cial revolution that is surely coming. He is doing a 1ot of good but not in the way he thinks he is. He is preaching an old faith, but he has not heard from God in a long time.” For Those Who Fail, (By Joaquin Miller). “All honor to him who shall win the prize,” world has cried for a thou- sand years; But to him who tries and who fails and dies, I give great honor and glory and tears. The “ O great is the hero who wins a name, But greater many and many a time, Some pale-faced fellow who dies in shame, And lets God finish the sublime. thought And great is the man with sword un- drawn, from wine; | But the man who fails and yet fights on, Lo, he is the twin-born brother of | mine! THE COTTON MARKET. As It Appears to Observers in New Orleans. (Letter to New York Evening Post.) Unless there is a wild outburst of bullish speculation, the 20-cent level for cotton is likely to attract consid- | erable selling, not only of futures, | but of spots as well. It is well known to the trade here that some big lines of spot cotton have been held for some time for the purpose of realiz- ing 20 cents per pound for the staple. The present demand, if it continues, will probably force the basis up in this market to a point where all this cotton can be readily absorbed. How far beyond that point the market will go depends upon the attitude of spot holders, some of whom will un- doubtedly hold out for 25 cents per pound as long as the market contin- ues to show an advancing tendency- The majority of holders, however, are likely to accept 20 cents per pound for cotton, at least until after Christ. mas, when the statistical position of the staple at that time may warrant a further advance. Some stir was caused in spot cir- cles here today by a report that the | British government had issued an or- der requisitioning all the available freight room on Hnglish vessels for shipments of grain and metal. A dis- patch from Galveston partly . con- firmed this report, stating that one- half of the freight room on English vessels in that port was being re- served by order of the British gov- ernment for shipments of grain and metal. The effect of this order, the dispatch stated, was to advance the ocean freight rate on cotton. Freight rates are already at a high level, and a further advance is not calculated to stimulate the export movement to Liverpool- Supreme confidence prevails among bullish operators in this market, though, and it is doubtful even if the British government stopped cotton shipments absolutely whether it would weaken the market very materially. The view is taken that any restr tion that the British government might place on cotton exports would be only temporary, and that the Eng- lish mills would have to get more cotton from this side or close down, with possbly disastrous consequences to British foreign trade. At any rate, English buyers, it is thought, would continue to pick up available lots of cotton and store the cotton on this slde until such time as freight room was availz’ - ‘o move the cotton. The L::d of Opportunity. (Waterbury Republican.) Some twenty years ago, Max Goot- schneider came to America with his wife and baby ‘daughter. They were poor, lonely, often hungry. Max vowed that one day he:would be rich and when he was he would give a great feast at which all'lonely immigrants would be welcome., Never, through all the vicissitudes of rising from poverty and struggle to influence and ease, was the dream forgotten. The other day the engage- ment of the daughter to a prosper- | ous diamond merchant was an- nounced- No ordinary betrothal re- ception celebrated the joyful news. In- stead, an enormous hall was hired, and the feast was given, The story sounds like a description from an eastern fairy tale—except that the dishes were a bit more suit- able to the time and clime. Soup, ro: chickens, ducks, geese, beef, fish, salads and condiments and rel. | ishes of a dozen different kinds of | pies and cakes and fruits and joyful | things to drink were served for hours to all who came. There were no tick- | ets. Everyone who was hungry or lonely was welcome. Children caught “swiping” goodies were startled to he urged to go right in and take all they could eat. It was a great occasion for all New York’s east side. nd in the happy midst of the festivities, stood the host, his wife, daughter and her young man. And what the host is re- ported to have said is this: “You bet there is a good time do- ing: Never you mind what it costs. I have been out to go the limit and I've went it!” | How many, like Max Gootschneider, remember in success the days of early ! striving. How many celebrate 20 years of America’s opportunity by giving joy? Good luck to Max Gootschneider! He has “went the limit” in other ways than the expense of his long-to-be- remembered feast. “Turkey Special” on the Way. (Winchester(Va.) Dispatch to Wash- ington Post.) A new express train, known as the “turkey special,” was placed in serv- ice on the Chesapeake and Ohio rail- way today by the Adams express | company for the purpose of handling | live and dressed turkeys for the east- | ern markets. The train is made up of And good is the man who refrains | j McMILLAN’S New Britain’s Busy Blg Store— “Always Reliable.” Store Open Wednesday Night. Closed All Day Thanksgiving. THREE DAY THAKKSGIVING SALE » TUESDAY AND WED- NESDAY These being the last three business days of November, they will be busy ones. Shoppers will be greatly bene- fited by taking advantage of these ex -troordinary values offered for the next three days. THANKSGIVING LINENS 25c¢, 20¢, 35¢, 50c, 59c and $1.00 yard. PURE LINEN DAMASKS $1.25, $1.50, $1.75 yard. 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Grasp this special offer and have a beauti- sister, in a small ful enlarged portrait of baby, brother, father, mother or friend to hang on the wall Christmas Day. . McMILLAN 199-201-203 MAIN STREKET. Had to Be a Round Trip, (Everybody’'s Magazine). The late Gilman Marston, of New Hampshire, was arguing a complicat- ed case and had looked up authori- ties back to Julius Caesar. At the end of an hour and a half, in the most intricate part of his plea, he was pained to sec what looked lik inattention. It was as he had feared. The judge was unable to appreciate the nice points of his argument. “Your Honor,” he d, “I beg your pardon, but do you follow me?"” “T ha¥e so far answered the judge, shifting wearily about in his chair, “but I'll say frankly that if I though I could find my way back, I'd quit right here.” The Tariff As An Issue. (Milwaukee Journal.) The biggest jest was in trying to assure people that they were most concerned about the tariff when the people weren't. Wisconsin chooses its nominees. For senator it chose a man who voted for the Underwood law and a man who indorsed the dem- ocratic administration. We don't say republicans nominated La Follette be- cause he voted for the Underwood law. Probably they didn’t- But if they had really thought the tariff dangerous; if they had really thought cars for Philadelphia and New York. It runs on a fast schedule, and will be continued until a day or two before it the big issue, they would have found someone who stood openly for changing it, | elements of IMPORTANT NOTICE The Big Store’s ANNIVERSARY SALE Will Positively End Saturday Night December 9 All. Free Souvenir Coupons Must be Redeemed on or Before Saturday December 9 --WISE, SMITH & CO0. Hartford-- Buy Your Thanksgiving Needs at the ANNIVERSARY SALE Save Money and Get Free Souvenirs Besides | TovLAND 'Phone orders Charter 3050, and Mail Orders promptly filled. OYR DAILY | WIS Daily Delivery in New Britain, F SMITH & HARTFORD E, rwood, Newington, o ENTIRE SIXTH FLOOR DEVOTED TO TOYS, DOLLS AND PLAYTHINGS Our Restaurant is an ideal place for a light lunch, a cup of tea or substantial re- past. CO. AUTOMOBILE DELIVERY INSURES PROMPT DELIVERY OF YOUR PURCHASES Hiir. Manle Hill and Clayton. THE CRITIC EXPLAINS. Our Modern Age Is Supposed to Have | Abandoned Its Heritage and | | Standards. (New York Tribune) There are few Americans critics whose judgments upon past literature are better worth listening to than Mr. ‘William C. Brownell’s; and few, to judge by his address before the Na- tional Institute of Arts and Letters, | who understand less of the reasons | for the present day course of Amer- ican writings. ‘‘Standards” was his subject, and his wit at the expense of sundry American authors seems to have greatly enlivened the sitting of the institute. There is no softer morsel for the satirist than the experimental art of a young nation groping for its path |anout 98 degrees Fahrenheit, and in to the light. It has all the humorous a boy's voice changing | from soprano to ba and bredking in- to falsetto—or of any flapper letting | down her skirts for the first party. A | philosopher or an historian might | find immortal’ inidications, not in the | achievement, but in the growth. But | never a critic! His is the business of | weighing fine gold with a fine bal- | ance. Woe to the immature lummox | who submits crude ore! | Our modern age has abandoned its | heritage and its standards, according to Mr. Brownell. Item one, the vers | librists. Item two, our literature ofi cleverness, our O. Henry, our Edna | Ferber. low? The elective system in our col- leges, for one thing. And a general surfeit of cleverness, of 'a national dis- taste for learning, for conventionality for any intellectual standard of se- verity, for another. No one will care to :dispute Mr. Brownell’s rating of O. Henry or Miss | His expert judgment’ stands | Ferber. a far better chance than most of en- | during—though the percentage of ac- ‘ curacy of even the greatest of = con-| temporary critics is always sadly low, | of course. The regret will be that so | intelligent an American should so ut- terly miss the point. as well. It Is the biggest thing of the | time, so big that only a lterary eritic could dream of ignoring it. It is not | sening but increasing in scope. It has back of it all the faith that a great European artist once expressed: | I never could understand the rea- | son why one-tenth part of our people | should be cultured and the other | nine-tenths must serve as the mater- | ial support of the minority and them- | selves remain in ignorance. I do not | want to think or to live with any oth- | er belief than that our ninety mil- lions of people (and those who shall he born after us) will all be some day cultured, humanized and happy. While such a revolution is in pro- it is idle to talk of critical yard- s Tternal standards of art | there are, ves; but to treat of them | as controlling or affecting the demo- | cratic growth of the present is like | \iting Buclid to an earthquake. Life is the first essential of art, and it to be found not in our thors who write in Paris and Lon- don, but exactly in the men and wo- men in the thick of the American me- lee whom Mr. Brownell condescend- ingly pats on the shoulder. Mr. Brownell is an excellent botanist, wise and deft in classifying dead flowers. The business of gardening, of hand- ling seeds and live plants, is quite an- other matter. Paper Shortage. (Springfield Republican). Nowhere in the world are newspa- pers having a happy time just now, hecause of the shortage of paper upon which their isseus must be printed. The London Times recently advanced its price to 1% pence, or three cents our money, and representatives of Rritish newspaper owners meeting in T.ondon have recommended that in | stokehold terribly, And why have we fallen so | feverish. skin, giving off a great deal of heat. | between a hawk and a jack rabbit last Our great mod- | ern experlment with democragy is not | panion this interesting account of 1t: only political, but social and artistic | | over the hawk, and | tumbling in the now The daily pa- in a halfpenny or one cent. pers of Spain are to be helped different way. A royal decree au- thorizes a special appropriation of 1,000,000 pesetas by means of which the government will guarantee to the associated paper mills of that coun- try the difference between the price of paper for daily periodicals as sold in July, 1914, and the price now pre- vailing. This looks ke an enormous lift, but as reckoned in our money the grant is but $180,000. Additional money may be advanced with the con- sent of the council of ministers, and it also appears that this is a loan an not a gratuity to be repaid when the situation eases up. Temperature of the Blood. (Columbia (S. C.) Record). The temperature of human blood is healthy persons varies very little. If vour blood heat is very much below the mnormal something serious is wrong with your health. A very hot or an extra cold day affects the tem- perature of the blood very little, That part of the skin where the sensation of heat and colq is located reflects the temperature of the sur- roundings, according to the habits of different individuals. So that Arctic explorers would feel the heat of a while a stoker would be unable to bear exposure to wind and snow. ‘When you are afraid you become The blood rushes to the The “glow of warmth’ felt by those who drink not wisely but to well, who believe they are hot, is a dangerous sign, for it shows that the blood heat must be below the normal. FUR, FEATHERS AND FIGHT. Story of a Battle Between and a Jack Rabbit, a Hawk A young professor in a South Da- kota college witnessed a running fight winter and gives the Youth’s Com- The jack had ventured out from the natural pratection of a cornfield upon a snow covered prairle. He wag dls- covered by a large hawk, which im- mediately sailed to the attack, As soon as the rabbit saw his enemy ap- proaching he turned and made for the shelter of the cornfield, The haw circled over him and then made a swoop from the side across the rab- bit's path. For an instant it seemed that the prize was his, but the rabbit, with his ears lying back, continued to speed for the shtiter ahead until the hawk was nearly upon him. Then he suddenly stopped in his tracks, and as the hawk swept by just in front of him he leaped high in the alr, straight striking out with his powerful hind legs, sent his enemy The rabbit did it all with only a momentary pause that hardly checked the momentum of his rush for the cornfield. Four times the hawk rose in circles and returned to the attack, to be met by the same novel method of defense. Fach time the rabbit stopped at the critical moment and, leaping over his pursuer, struck him with his strong legs. With a final burst of speed he gained the cornfield, where the mat of stalks protected him from any further alr raids. The Man Hunters, (Waterbury Republican). The hunting season in the Adiron- dacks has closed with a total of five hunters killed by mistake for deer. The Michigan open season lasts only five d During these five days four lllulne)\ were shot by mistake <or deer. deer-hunting so important to the gaged in some industrial pursult there may, occasionally, be some faint shadow of an excuse. For the po- liceman or fireman killed or hurt on duty, there is the comfort of hero- ism. For this idie murder by incom- petents out for pleasure, there is excuse possible. Experienced out- door men are not guilty of thisg sort of thing. The very least that should be done is to make every man who goes out for big game Pass an, exam- ination ia elementary woodcraft be- fore he gets;his license. TRAIL OF “GOLDEN SPECIAL” Held to Have Been One of the Darde Factors in the Republican Defeat. (Washington Letter to New York Times). Not only in California, but in other parts of the western country, did the “golden speclal” have the reverse ef: fect of that intended, if the returi- ing politiclans have gauged the situa- tion correctly. Stories were circulat- ed that placed the campaigning wom- en in a ridiculous light. It was said that in one city they complained that their car had not been filled with candy and flowers as in other placesil Then there was the story of “rings in or rings out.”” This had it that be- | fore leaving their special train to ad- “,ross a meeting the eastern womeff would ascertain from herents what sort of people were likely to be at the mecting. If they found that they were to address working girls they would turn their rings in and conceal from view the dlamonds and other procious stones, while if it was to be a meeting of “club women” the rule would bew “rings out,” with the jewels displayed Another story was that when the women campaigners were told of oh- jactions to them on the ground that they were merely women of great wealth seeking diversion, one of them replied: “Why, there are several among us who hayen’t over $50,000 a year.” - Of course, most of the stories were baseless, but they were reflected in the votes of the states where women have the suffrage. “There are three things that beat JTughes In the states where women vote,” said one congressman who toured the far west. “These were: ‘Mo kept us out of war,’ the fear thai Col. Roosevelt would be secretary of var in Mr. Hughes cabinet and would iivolve the country in confliet, and the “women’s speoial’ ” their local ad- An Open Scason, The vigor with winter has closed in thus early upon a consider-™ which able scction of our land acts ag an inspiration for our weather prophets We had an eccentric autumn in soma respects; things did not happen just as usual, and this encourages predic- tion of like eccentricities to come. What our winter to be, taking into account the vagaries of its pre- ceding months? Perhaps the most ratifying forecast is that of a pro- fessional fisherman of Dobbs Ferry, on the Hudson, who announces al- ready the capture of shad in the nets which he set for the fall catch of striped bass. Shad as everyone knows, start upon their annual trip ta the spawning grounds in the spring Have theyv missed their calculation, or are we to have an ‘“open sea- son"? Hereabouts we do not accept the shad as infallible in the correction of the almanac. And there vet remains a wide range of guesswork regarding what sort of a winter we are about to step into, is Texas reports with much good cheer a goober crop worth more than $24,- country that this annual slaughter chould be permitted to make a hunt- er's holiday ? newspapers raise their price by a For killing or maiming a man en- 000,000. It is only in politics that the peanut is cheap and unprofitable. Otherwise it is among the great nas. tional assets—New York Woxld,