New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 4, 1917, Page 6

J,NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, THURSDAY, JANUARY 4, 1917. y l’ . Britain Herald. D PUBLISHING COMPANY. Proprietors. tly (Bunday excepted) at 4:15 p. m., rald Building, 67 Church St t the Post Ofce at New Britain cond Class Mail Matter. by carrier to any part of the city cents a week, 65c a month. fons for vaper to be sent by mall, ble in sdvance. 60 cents a mont] a year, profitable srtising medlum ity: . Circulation books and ETe \always open to advertisers. 14 will be found on sale at Hot. News Stand, d 3t Now York City; Board Walk, At- B Cit/, und Hartford Depot. TELEPHONE CALLS. Office . . Rooms GOVERNOR'S MESSAGE, pers of all political faiths will with great satisfaction the which Governor Holcomb ¥ read to the General As- It is a dacument filled with mon sense. It shows careful Those new members of the re if they follow the recom- lons set forth by the Governor kept b every day of the ween now and May 1 when he hey may adjourn, ‘When brk shall have been completed in approval of the entire state hforms to the lines laid down overnor. “‘are many- important phases Governdr's message. There is important question of finance. te’'s revenue now is greater annual expenditure, and the would conserve this surplus S possible so it can be made the state debt. Nor did the r forget the recent campaign here was worriment over the fate. In the future if the Na- uard is called out of the coun- ‘constitution is asked to take this vote, He calls attention necd of new armories but be- 3 precarious future of the I Guard warns against build- im solely for the sake of g the state with new build- is one salient feature in the r's message which will appeal at ‘many yesidents of the state jctilarly those in New Britain ve been working for just this that is, a state reformatory en. Governor Holcomb calls to the growing necessity of place “for.the more humane, jnt, and efficlent care of un- 6 women than now obtains.” of the initial cost of such an on he recommends the ap- t of:a committee to consider ibility of establishing the re- ry in connection with the Con- ‘Industrial School for Girls at pwn. That is a que‘sfloxf that thoroughly gone over before n is taken. Thase who have iven time and thought to the plan have other ideas. er is done will be for the good ktate and the Governor's mes- 1s for better living conditions uturs than those of the past. bading and digesting its sug- there should be great re- because the Governor did not t his original threat of mov- Mexico in the event of the re- of Woadrow Wilson. TIE 1917 SESSION. that the state legislature of fopen far business New Britain jtch with interest the work of htor and two representatives. aback-King contest for con- come and passed—for the with tHe certainty of reoccur- iter. New Britain was vitally ed in this struggle for the real the Senate caucus centered choice of majority leader, a which as anticipated has come tor Klett. It is believed that Hall, a veteran in the legis- whose friends joined forces he King coterie might easily d enough votes to be elected Int pro tem had he agreed to Senatar Klett to the chair- Ip of the judiciary committee carries with it the leadership Senate; but this he could not Senator Klett was Mr. Rora- choice and what Mr. Roraback Mr. King did not, Senator bill make a capable leader. In session he was of marked as- p to Senator Isbell then leader plained many reports of the committee to the Senate. It etted here that the . Senator forth conspicuously as a dis- f Rorabackism, a cult against Imembers of his own party have signs of revolt. iron hand, and not clothed in 't disguise of a velvet glove, ts appearance in the first session Senate when the democratic Senator O'Sullivan, timidly ex- the oypinion that the ten Dem- senaiors might be placed on f the important committees as vy members. Senator Klett indefinite postponement of the fion and a strict party vote did whether an all powerful party gains friends by such action. An occasional | Democrat on an important committee might have ideas worth considering, and could not in any event make ser- ious trouble on the floor of the Sen- ate. However, the Republican theory is to put only Republicans on guard and so long as they win on that basis it is their own business. Our two representatives, Hall and Cobert, will presumably seek appoint- ments on committees having to do with matters in which local manufac- turers are interested. They were picked and elected for that purpose. Mr. Hall in particular has had experi- ence fitting him to well on either of two important committees, —Ilabor and manufacturers, If Mr. Covert responds too readily to the party whip, as many fear he will, we laok for considerable show of indepen- dence on the part of Mr, Hall, who has never yet been driven to do any- thing. In fact, it would not be sur- prising if he cut loose from party lines altogether when they interfere with an openminded and fair viewpoint on public matters. There is heavy work ahead for the legislature of 1917 and the men from this district will be watched closely. | The future political complexion of New Britain depends largely upon the' manner in which they help to unfold the story of the present session. This is a.progressive era. serve WORK NOT COMPLETED. Figures showing what Connecticut has done in the last month for the suffering population of Belgium have heen made public by the Connecticut Committee of the Commission for Re- lief in Belgium which recently began a new campaign to emphasize the fact that its work is far from done. The winter has found even more des- titute women dying of tuberculosis and children starving to death than last yvear, and the committee asks Connecticut, one of the richest states in the union, to continue, if not to redouble, its contributions. The results of the new campaign, now a month old, have encouraged the committee in its belief that many generous persons have refrained from giving to this cause because they were under the false impression that Belgium no longer needed help from properous America. Since Thanks- ziving Day about $5,000 has been re- ceived In the state—including three gifts of $500 each, four of $200 each, | and thirteen of $100 each. But as before, the smaller contributions have swelled the total, and many of these have come from persons who have given before. In numerous cases such persons have increased their contri- butions upon learning of the continu- ance in Belgium of sufferings unpre- cedented in the history of any nation. In a New Year's statement the | committee thanks all who have loyally helped it fulfill an obligation more important, in its opinion, than ever, and makes an appeal for increased glving in every town, through churches, schools or local branches, or through the state treasurer, Charles C. Russ, at the Hartford Trust Company, Hartford. New Britain's contribution to the Belgium Relief totals the insignificant sum of $85.00, one of the smallest donations received from any city in the state. 2 Too Horrible to Contemplate. What would the United States do| with Mexico if the Mexicans were to treat American citizens the way they are treated by the Hartford Trolley Line? DAILY PASSENGER. “Can there be anything brought into this House that will not be repealed sooner or later?” asked a disgusted member of Congress, “Yes,” suggested one of the position, “A skinned orange.” op- AGENTS WANTED. New Haven road’s fresh fish train was wrecked—and on Friday morn- ing.—New Haven Union. In finance, in home relations, in all the great business of living, failure is unnecessary and wasteful. Why not start the New Year by laylng the foundations of success? New Lon- don Telegraph. 5 Wall street Secretary Lansing says, is a mystery to him. And Secretary Lansing was for a brief portion of one day, at least, something of a puzzle to ‘Wall street.—Springfield Union. A Lancaster, Pa., woman at the ma- “ture age of 16 has been divorced and remarried. If she doesn’t break the record of the Woman of Samaria, the world will be sadly disappointed.— Brooklyn Eagle. Confident that they control an im- pressive majority of the members of congress and can keep them in line for the passage of a public building bill the pork artists at Washington laugh to scorn the threat of the pres- ident to veto the measure.—Ansonia Sentinel, It seems to be agreed that the cele- bration of the New Year at the hotels and restaurants twenty-four hours after the passage of the old year was a dfsappointment. The explanation ting on Broadway has become so great that many people were glad to find an excuse for dodging 'it.—New York Sun, President Wilson is absorbed by the consideration of methods to meet the national deficit. He might make a good start by insisting upon the prac- tise of economy.—Norwich Bulletin. A Great Blue Tent of Rest. (Christian Register). dith Wharton, America's foremost woman novelist, has been one of the most prominent women in Paris since the begining of the European war. She has raised a large amount of money for sufferers among the allles, and she has turned her ability as a poet to inspiring pity for the wronged and a general awakening of patriotic fervor among her fellow-countrymen. This new poem has recently been cabled to America: Come unto me, sald the Flag, Ye weary and sore opprest; For I am no shot-riddled rag, But a great blue tent of rest. Ye heavy laden, come On the aching feet of dread, From ravaged town, from murdered home, From your tortured and your dead. Al] they that beat at my crimson bars Shall enter without demur. Though the round earth rock Wwith : the wind of Wars, Not one of my folds shall stir. See, here is warmth and sleep, And a table largely spread. I give garments to them that weep, And for gravestones I give bread. But what, through my inmost fold, Is this cry on the winds of war? Are ypu grown so old, are you grown so cold, O Flag that was once our star? Where did you learn that bread is life, And where that fire is warm— You, that took the van of a world- wide strife, As an eagle takes the storm? Come up, come up to the stormy sky, ‘Where our fierce felds rattle and hum, For Lexington taught us how to fly, And we dance to Concord’s drum. O flags of freedom, said the Flag, Brothers of wind and sky; I, too, was once a tattered rag, And I wake and shake at your cry. I tug and tug at the anchoring place, Where my drowsy folds are caught; I straln to be off on the old flerce chase Of the foe we have always fought. O People I made, said the Flag, And welded from sea to sea, I am still the shot-riddled rag That shrieks to be free, to be free. Oh, cut my silken ties From the roof of the peace, Give back my stars to the skies, My stripes to the storm-striped seas! palace of Or else, if you bid me yield, Then down with my crimson bars, And o'er all my azure field Sew poppies instead of stars. A Milion Ambulance Miles. (A. Platt Andrew In the Outlook). The American Ambulance Field Service in France has, if I may use language similar to that of railway men, made over a million ambulance miles since the war began. In other words, it has transported more than 250,000 wounded men an average of four miles each. Yoo mMEN uave SUCH WONDERFUL . 35 to 9, It is a question | may be that the expense of celebra-l | the ring was found inside, and was too-fortunate mortal. i bodings of the Bgyptian ! When Stanleyv Womans' Relief Corps Turkish Cigarettes May Be Held Up By War Gods | ‘Washington, D. C. Jan. —The Turkish government’s warning to the | Bureau of Navigation of the United | States Department of Commerce that neutral ships passing between the Turkish coast and Island of Samos may becomne targets for gunfire fegom Turkish military forces is important, as steamers call frequently at Vathy, the Island’s chief seaport, for car- goes of cigarettes extensively im- ported to America. Concerning this historlo Greek possession the Na- | tional Geographic society issues the | following war geography bulletin: “The strait which separates Samos | from the promontory of the main- ! land of Asia Minor known in ancient | times as Mycale is barely a mile wide. The island, which has an area about one and a half times as large | as Martha’'s Vineyard, lies about 40 miles southwest of Smyrna and has exceptional natural resources with its forest-clad mountains, -its valuable marble quarries and its extremely fertile valleys - where raisins, oll, fruits, corn and wines are most profit- ably produced. The cigarettes of the island are shipped to every country in the world while the wines are exported to Europe where they are | used for mixing purposes. The pop- | ulation of the island is between 60,- 000 and 60,000. “Samos was the seat of ‘one of the first settlement of the Ionians in the Mediterranean and from it went out many of the colonies which dotted the coast of Asia Minor and the neighboring islands of the Aegean. “During the second half of the sixth century before the Christian era Samos rose to a place of dominance in the Ionian union, thanks to the executive ability and judiclal wis- dom of the famous tyrant Polycrates, who prosecuted many successful wars with the chiefs of adjacent colonies | and who was at one time in alllance with the powerful Egyptian king Amasis. “‘Herodotus is sponsor for the fa- millar story that Amasis, becoming alarmed at the extraordinary course of good fortune which attended all the enterprises of his ally, wrote to | Polycrates urging him to disarm the envy of the god by sacrificing his most treasured possesslon. The ty- rant took his friend’'s advice and threw into the sea a precious ring which he prized above ail his other jewels. A few days later a fisherman brought a fine fish to the palace as a gift to the ruler, and when it was being prepared for Polycrates' table | thus restored to its owner. It is said i that when Aamsis heard of this amas- !ing incident he | i immediately broke treaty with Polycrates, being con- | nced that the jealous gods ' would isit some terrible calamity on this And the fore- were fully verified, for a short time after these idoctrlne of the i souls is supposed to have been {1s to this Samian, {indebted for the idea of happenings the tyrant was decoyed to Magnesia where he was seized by a Persian satrap and cruelly cruci- | fied. “Many of the most magnificent edi- fices of ancient Samos were bulilt during Polycrates’ time. When he died the prestige of ‘the island be- gan to wane. It came successively under the dominion of the Athenian Greeks, the Romans, Byzantines, Arabians, Venetians, Genoese and Turks. In the Greek war of inde- pence it took up arms agailnst its Turkish masters. After peace was declared it became an autonomous principality, paying tribute to Turkey, but being ruled by a ‘prince of Samos’ who was a Greek nominated by the sultan. In April of 1912, while the Tripolitan war was in progress, two Italian warships entered the harbor of Vathy and torpedoed the Turkish ‘stationaire,’ which had been kept there at the disposal of the prince. During the Balkan war the garrison of a few hundred Turks was com- | pelled by Cretan and Samian insur. gents to retire to the mainland, and at the close of the war the Samians declared themselves in union with Greece. “The little town of Tiganl stands near the harhor of the ancient coast of Samos, where the immense moles constructed by Polycrates have been rebuilt to some extent. The walls and the celebrated underground aque- duct are the chief remains of the ancient capital. The former, which clamber over the ridge in rear of the city, look like a fragment of the wall of China. Thirty of its tow- ers will stand. Considering the age in which it was constructed, the aque- duct is a marvel of engineering skill. “The Temple of Hera, of which a solitary column alone remains stand- ing was one of the most magnificent edifices of ancient times. “Hven had Polycrates never ruled in Samos the island would have been famous for here was born the great Samian Sage, Pythagoras, he who never smiled and who always wore a white robe and a golden crown. It is to Pythagoras, it is sald, that we owe the word ‘philosopher.’ Being asked on ‘one occasion of what branch of knowledge he was a master he | replted that he was simply a ‘phil- His of the outgrowth of his early years spent in studying the mysteries of Egypt. It also, that we are ‘the music of the spheres,’ for as a corollary to his theory of the solar system, which, by the way, antedated Copernicus by 2,000 years, he imagined that the heavenly spheres, by their swift mo- tlon through space produced musical notes which were too beautiful to be heard by callous human ears.” osopher'—a lover of wisdom. transmigration A TRIBUTE. Stanley Woman’s Relief Corps Presi- dent Pays Honor to Memory 5 of Mrs. Alice C. Gladden. Were I not to pay some personal tribute to our faithful secretary, Mrs. Alice C. Gladden, I should feel that | I had left something unfinished. No. 12 was instituted, over ago, she was elected secretar office she has most faithfully fulfilled, until released by death. No Veteran | of 61, more faithful to his country, | than she, to the Red, White and Blue, | An expert penman, her minutes were | most completely and intelligently written and the correspondence nec- essary to that office most congenial and her reports never returned, and in every way she showed her loyalty to the corps she loved and served so well. Through sunshine or rain In sorrow or pain She was found at her post, Again and again. She ig released from her work, For the Red, White and Blue, And the cause she loved so well, And served so loyal and true. And though our hearts are filled with grief, And we are left to bear our sorrow— God has furnished sweet relief, The sunshine after the shower. CORA HUNN EDDY, Corps President. \T NIGHTS wHwt Be A WORTH HEARING Don'T BLAME ME Joe- I'm NOT on THAY) CommiTree ! terial, ISN'T VERY OFTE You CAN DRAG Me BUT THiS GOOD ARRAY OF NEW BOOKS NAMED IN INSTITUT Abraham Lincoln, ‘wood. “The Dial describes this book as “the most successful portrait of Lin- coln in a single volume, drawn upon a clearly conceived background of political evolution, that has so far appeared.’” It contributes no new ma- but is ably conceived and written and has much interest as the first serious attempt by an English- man to give a complete picture of the American statesman to English readers.””—A. L. A. Booklist. . . by Baron Charn- | American City, by H. C. Wright. “A birds-eye view for the general reader. Discusses the location of citles, government, finance, protec- tion, education, municipal undertak- ings, housing, the effect of the city on its citizens.”—A. L. A. Booklist. 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(Edgar A. Guest, in Detroit Press). anybody happier passed his way ? Does anyone remember that you spoke to him today? This day is almost over and its toil- ing time is through. Is there anyone to utter now a kindly word of you? Free Is because you Did you give a cheerful the friend who came along, Or a churlish sort of “howdy” and then vanish in the throng? Were you selfish, pure and simple, as vou rushed along your way, Or is someone mighty grateful for a greeting to | deed you did today? Can you say tonight in parting with i the day that's slipping fast That you helped a single brother of the many that you passed? ! Is a single heart rejoicing over what vou did or said? Does a man whose hopes were fad- ing now with courage lobk ahead? | Did you waste the day or use it, .was it well or poorly spent? | Did you leave a trail of kindness or H a scar of discontent? | As vou close your eyes in slumber do you think that God would say You have earned one more tomorrow by the work you did today? | TELL Ya G THERE (SN CHANCE N THE WORLD GETTING A TICKET FoR You - EVERY- BopY IS Gowé To HEAR Tu(S SPEECH — Euer THINGS SPeEecH BY BRIGGS It 15 that rare thing, a pleces b; F. 24 “ i o House of Fear, hy Wadsworth Camp. § | i | Penitent of Brent, by Michael Wood. {48 i . s B -