New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 16, 1917, Page 6

#w Britain Herald. ERALD PUBLISHING COMPANT. Proprietors. d datly (Sunday excepted) at 4:18 p. m., &t Heraid Bullding, 67 Church St d at the Post Office at New Britain ws Second Cla Matter. red by carrfer to anv part of the ity for 15 cents a week, 65c & month. iptions for vaper to be sent by mail, yable in advance. 60 cents a month, 00 a yemr only profitable advertising medium :n the city: Circulation books and rress m elways open to adve-tisers. av, Nuw York City; Board Walk, At- mtic City, 4nd Hartford Depot. TELEPHONE CALLS. AMERICANISM. play is the basis iz founded. do ‘the safety board and the ‘of the police department refuse w the supernumeraries to state side of the case in their petition creased wages? supernumeraries are public ts and the public demands that " be given the opportunity to file £ brief with the board of public on § American court ever sentences until he is proven gullty. But upernumerary policemen are pced to silence under penalty of | @ismissed for insubordination. ‘us have justice! Let the super- #los be heard! ORABLE ACCIDENT. * facts disclosed at the Town t would seem that’ the Charity d has just cause for an imme- f investigation. Until all the de- { {'connected with the death of s Beaberg have been learned should be no dlsposition on the lew. Britain people to be hy- ‘The Mayor has evinced ‘to Institute 'a searching ¥Pown Farm is a charitable in- pl.in which' the good people of My aro intensely interested. It at least in recent years, . dependent upon the, efforts rity Board. In meny ways the complexion of a public / Warious churches have v part in administering wants, spiritual and materiel, tes'there. Ministers of the all denominations, have gly kild to the poor un- harbored at the ' Town The Sunshine society and oth- peimtions of kindréd spirit /lSbver hllowed a Christmas or a gtving to o by without offer- pe sort of entertainment to ‘the comfines of this cause of these things, be- the many men apd women 5 devoted their time and en- 4 money In the interest of 0 the Town Farm oc- . umlque place in the hearts Britain folk. Who' have visited the Town watched the charitable ing on there have not been express keen admiration for ane interest displayed by Su- dent:George F. Kibbe and his i3t will' not be readily believed fearelessness or inefficiency on fpart had anything to do with Beplorable scalding to death of mate. There has ever been a co-operation between the Su- pudent of the Town Farm and g}w display an interest prompt- purely charitable motives. ry to the ‘attitude of some Su- dents of like institutions, Mr. rs. Kibbe have never expressed ed displeasure at outside in- Instead, the doors of the in- n have been open to visitors for iction at all seasonable hours. nable to suppose ‘ations will not suffer from any #igation, no matter how rigid. ‘BACK TO THE FARM. i )derick C. Howe, Commissioner bamigration, has observed that a pumber of immigrants are com- | from theé country into the He attributes this condition to that a great portion of the formerly devoted to agricultural is mow unavailable to furnish fmmigrants with. a necessary area. Mr. Howe advocates king up of vast private estates farms so that the foreign jlation may be given to agri- | pursuits. . this time no one but the hissioner of Immigration has attention to any appreciable from the farm to the citi fso catled to the ment,” ording to thls opinlon, I have Other- there would now be no influx of 'n born from the farm land into fitics. 'But we had attributed this ment to another reason. And, ¥, it was the high prices avail- ‘or labor in the munition and tactories. Here in Connecticut jaye concrete evidence of what gge in the agricultural werld i 5 ek Farm ac been successtul. It | that their ; NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY, JANUARY 16, 1017. shortly after the European war began. In 1915, according to the state report, there was not one abandoned farm in the entire state. Toward the latter part of last year's farming. season, Connecticut farmers complained be- cause farm hands were deserting the 50il and seeking some of the profits prevalent in manufacturing centers. As a result there are hundreds of acres of land lying ldle in various parts of the state. Where farms are being ‘worked the labor is so expensive as to enter direstly into the problem of the high cost of living. If there is any state in the union that can offer itsclf as the subject to carry out the experiment suggested by Commissioner Howe,—namely, ' the cutting up of great estates into small farms,—Connecticut is that state. There are some wonderful tracts of land held here as private estates. The men who own these vast parcels of 1and usually and often do pay a higher rate of wages tham the farmers who operate on'a strjotly commercial basis. Also, there are enough of these estates to assimilate the best part of the foreign born population now wending its way into the cities. Just how many of the owners of these estates would be willing to divide their land into small farms is a question the bureau of immigration might answer. It would make more progress, how- ever, if it listed the great number of untilled acres now spread over ¢the great Southwest, the Northwest, the old'South, and even parts of thickly populated New England. LET THE PEOPLE RULE. Nation-wide prohibition and - equal suffrage are two vital issues before the public mind. The former has been brought to the immediate at- tention of the country again because of the recent decision of the Unitqd States Supreme Court on the Webb- | Kenyon Bill. - The latter is now in evidence because of the insistent at- guard duty around the White House. Both are worthy of debate ffom social and moral stand:points. There are two ways to bring about nation-wide prohibitfon. and equal suffrage in all states of the union. The one way, and the democratic way, is by action in the separate and ‘individual states. The sweeping way s by an amendment to the Federal a The advocates of their, constitution. dry nation would sooner have fdeas thrust upon the rest of - people by the amendment to Constitution. This method would re- and ratification by three-fourths of the state legislatures. The same ap- plies true to the suffrage. Oppo- nents to nation-wide prohibition and equal suffrage are calling for a hear- ing of the cases by the people in the states. Thelr claim 18 In keepin® with a democratic form of government. From the very foundation of this na- tion until now we, as a people, have carefully refrained from forcing our ideas upon each other unless the majority is consulted vorably. Except in the case of the District of Columbia where the people have no vote, this holds true through- out the country. Men who have never tasted liquor in any form, as in the case of the two senators from Massachusetts, are against instituting nation-wide prohibition by an amend- ment to the constitution. To be against prohibition for the reason that it should not be enforced by an action in which the people have no voice is merely an exemplification of democracy. To be against woman suffrage for the same reason does not necessarily denote an enemy to “the cause.” If the people of the United States want nation-wide prohibition, and there are a great many of them who do, there is no power on earth strong enough to prevent such a condition from being created. If the men of the country are satisfiéd that the women should vote they will event- ually yield before the insistent de- mands that are being made; but they would rather consider the case state by state. The arguments . against nation-wide prohibition and equal suffrage brought about by an amend- ment to the Federal constitution are the same. They all evolve batk to the question of state rights. Now that the United States Supreme Court has decided that the Webb-Kenyon 1law is constitutional, and that the Federal laws will not hamper any state in its efforts to keep liquor on the outskirts, one of the real argu- ments for nation-wide prohibition is It has been previously contended some advocates of a “dry” nation that all efforts went for taken away by | nought since *“wet” states could fur- to territories already To insure pro- nish liquor ed by a drought. tection for the states whose people had voted them “dry” these ponents of prohibition wanted the en- tire country in the same boat. Any state that is “dry” now or intends to be so in the future need have no fear that prohlbition within its confines will not prohibit. Because of this, Jecaguse the states that arc dry can vis pro- S titude of the “stlent sentinels doing | attempting to Invent a sanitary top | for milk-bottles. How about consti- tutional prohibition of milk?—Louis~ ville Courier-Journal, . the | the | quire action by the national Congress | and acts fa- | The mother within ' . But my dreambaby never 1 remain as they want tp, the same should hald true for the state that allow alcoholic beverages within their precinots. What 4s sauce for goose is sauce for the gander If Connecti- | cut, for instance, wants to go in the dry column, it should be for the people of Connecticut to say so, and not for the people of Virginia to dic- tate to us. What holds true for na- tion-wide prohibition is also true when equal suffrage by constitutional amendment is considered. Let the Ppeople rule. FACTS AND FANCIES. As might be expected, Georgia led in 1916 lynchings.—Brockton Times. Some statesmen have feet of clay and some have tongues of mud.— Philadelphia Ledger. Down in Mississippi when a repub- lican candidate polls two votes they indict him for repeating.—Seattle Post-Intelligencer. We don’t know how effective Eng- land’s new commerce protectors are until the Deutschland tries the come- back.—Burlington News. The report that Villa has shot his secretary for doing too much writ- ing may start a rush of overworked stenographers to. Mexico~—New York Evening Sun. If the potato could open its eyes and observe the ce 1t costs! us, would it shrink from shame ot swell with pride?—Atlanta Constitution. The Colonel makes desperate ef- forts from time. to time to break into the front page again, but Mr. Hughes 1s still sitting tight.—New York ‘World. i g It is an old-fashioned winter, all Tight, but where are the old-fashioned boys with tippets and ear-laps and high leather boots?—Concord Moni- tor, e A New Jersey man lost his mind When & man with only a few dol-| lars to. his name can read unmoved of. the hundreds of millions in gold imports, of the billions in national bank resources, of the unprecedented ‘rallway earnings, he is a true philoso- pher.—Baltimore News. . = . _ The Wakening. o laughed and 5 Bang 2 § :In the jov of a love to be— Strawberry lips and milksweet breath Asking their life of me! ‘My dream-baby’s halr was gold N LA the moon, . 1 My dream-baby’'s eyes were blue, . My dream-baby’s voice was ‘a rap- turous croon— came true! The mother within me wept alone < While I strode with a stately show, _Battling the curse with a face of steel, Daring the world to know, My dream-baby’s hair grew faded and pale, 3 Y ' "Her blue little stars closed tight, And the rapturous croon was a com- fortless walil ‘{Ax she left me alone in the night. The mother within me shivered cold And the love in my heart grew still; Soulless, I sheltered a stranger babe And my loving awoke with & thrill! Ah, babe of another one's flesh and bone, g Ah, babe of the mist and the dew, But babe of my heart and my soul— babe of my own, 5 Ah, baby, real baby, come true! —Jane Burr in New York Times. Where Congress is Supreme, (New York World). « The act of congress forbidding the shipment of intoxicants into prohibi- tlon states, now upheld by the Su- preme Court of the United States, was passed early in 1913 over the veto of President Taft, who pronounced it unconstitutional. In this opinion he had the sapport of George W. Wick- ersham, Attorney gencral, and of Philander C. Knox, secretary of state. How lawyers so eminent could reach a conclusion which seven of the nine members of the court of last re- sort have rejected can hardly be ex- plained except on the theory that they failed to grasp the issue in all its aspects. They held that, as liquor is a legitimate subject of interstate commerce which 1s exclusively under the control of congress, to give the states any authority in the matter was to nullify the Constitution. In this they evidently overlooked the fact that they were considering an act of congress and not a state law. The act of congress was passed to support state laws. By that act the power over “interstate \commerce which the Constitution recognizes as sovereign was exerted. Interstate commerce in itself has no sovereign rights. The soverelgnty is lodged in congress, and when congress exercised it in behalf of local legislation it was the will of congress and not that of the states which became binding. As the power of congress over in- terstate commerce has no constitu- tional limitations, it is obvious that it may be’used to prohibit as well as to regulate. If congress has not acted in this case. no state could have in- terfered with interstate shipments of liquor before they reached their con- gignee. Congress having acted, the final authority in such matters has spoken, and It is difficult to sce how great lawyers can have any confu- sion of mind on the subject. A i\ PR SR REVIEWS JEWISH AOTIVITIES. Frelberg Also Makes = Recommenda- tions to Convention. Baltimore, Jan. 16.—An exhanstive review of the work of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations dur- ing thHe last two years was made by J. Walter Freiberg of Cincinnati, president of the organization at .the twenty-fifth biennial counci] of the union here today. He recommended the raising of $3,000,000 for home mission work and for eduecation. In this connection he dwelt upon ‘“the remarkable growth” of the Hebrew union college, the Rabbinical college at Cincinnati. He spoke of the unusual success which he said attended the depart- ment of synagogue and school exten- sfon, a new' departure in Jewish church circles. i This body deals with home mission, education of scattered groups of Jews by correspondence and other kindred activity. Mr.' Freiberg bespoke the contin- ued interest of the union in the work of the Tract commission the board of editors of Jewish literature, the su- perannuated ministers fund, the Na- tional Federation of Temple Sister- hoods and recommended several changes in the constitution. BRAZIL RAISES TARIFFS. Hopes to Mcet Its Expenses By New Duties. b ‘Washington, Jan. 16.—New Import duties and consumption taxes fustsput into effect in Brazil are expected to ald the government in meeting Its 1917 expenses. Reports to the depart- ment of commerce today gave & list of the jmport duties, which in many instances are increased as much as Y¥welve per. cent. Consumption taxes on cigars and cigarettes, shoes, per- fumery, cannéd goods and hats have been raised and to the list of taxable produets have been added butter and roasted coffee. 4 The new law provides that fifty-five per cent. of import duties must Ve paid on a gold basis. g ey T T SRR PERMITS FREIGHT INCREASE. e c..’c. on Train From Middle West. Washington, ‘Jan. 16—The Inter- state. commerce cominissions today reversed a_ previous devision and per- mitted an. increase of approximately one cent hundred pounds in freight rates pn grain and grain pro- ducts from points in Illinois, Indiana, igan, Wisconsin, Iowa, Missouri and. Kentucky to Atlantic ports for export. 73 The Increase was granted after ad- ditional evidence had been submitted at a re-hearing,' to the effect thal the proposed ingreases would main- tain the present relationsh v n thowe to i Washington, Jan. 16.—Foreign born citizens and former United States sol- ‘diers testified today before the senate military sub-committee in opposition to the proposed compulsory military raining legislation. ~Among these led to ‘the stand were = Philip Schiaeffer of Chicago and W. B. Har- ris of Weston, Pa., tb discuss, respec- tively the Swiss and the Australian military systems and Frink Bohn of Orange, N. J., to speak from the standpoint of a former enlisted man. s was the final of the series of hearings under the auspices of the American Union Against Militarism. between | ALFONZO IN ROLE OF PEACE ENVOY 'h‘urmcr\l’mnjel' Dato Hints King of Spain May Be Principal in Negotiations. Madrid, via Paris, Jan. 16, 5:08 | a. m.—An intimation that the king of Spain muy play a prominent part in coming peace negotiations was given in a speech by Eduardo Dato, fr premier, at a banquet given in his henor by the moderate section of the conservatives. After paying a tribute to the hu- manitarian role played by the king and alluding to the prestige he had this gained throughout the world the former premier said: ) “On a day more or less distant— and please God that day may be near ——the great prestige gained by our king may, for the greater good of hu- manity, make of him a messenger of peace. Let us have confidence, gen- tlemen, in the destinies of him for-the peace of the world and the prosperity of Spain. May heaven aid his ma- Jesty in his noble and patriotic aim.” 'PRISONERS N U-BOAT Four Crews of Merchantmen Aboard ;German Submarine Arriving Port—Oaptain Boasts Fifty Vicitims London, Jan. 186, 4:56 5a. m.—A Ger- man submarine has just returned from a oruise with four companies of merchantmen on board as prisoners, according to an Amsterdam despatch to Reuter's quoting German newspa- 1 One of the prisoners - is an ishman. * The submarine is inr charge of Commander Arnauld. Oommander Arnauld visited Carte- gena last June on ' the submarine U-35 and delivered a letter from Em- peror Willlam to King Alfonso. .On this occasion he was quoted as saying that he had destroyed fifty ships, in- cluding the French liner Provenio. in BOLLERER THREATENED. Valentine Bollerer, Commercial street saloon proprietor, called at police headquarters to complain that a_ patron had threatened him be- cause he would not serve him with another drink. The threat, he said, was that there would be some shoot- ing. Bollerer was soothed with in- formation that the police will pro- tect him from would-be gunmen. *'B. & 0. WOULD RAISE RATES, cmflmrhe Baltimore and” Ohiv rallro filed a petition with the public service commission of West Virginia for permission to ad- rates from two cents a mile as prescribed 4 by the laws of West Virginia vance its interstate passenger to fenat 23 cents a mile. A hearing will "bo heard on the petition 27. About one-fourth of the more and Ohio's mileage is in Virginia. ITALIAN COMMERCE COMBINE. ‘Washington, Jan. 16-—Formation of a corporation by four of Italy’s big- gest shipping concerns to develop trade between Italy and South Amer- ica is described in despatches reach- Ling the department of commerce to- day. The commisson has behind it the .Italian shipping inferests with Jjoint securities of about $20,000,000. at February Balti- West *Bi6 REAL ESTATE DEAL Landers, Frary & Olark Takes Step Toward Increasing Factory Facil- ities' by Purchasing Strong Property. One of the most important real estate deals in the city in many years ‘was recently consummated, . -when Landers, Frary & Clark purchased from the Y. M. C. A. the large plot }of land at the corner of East Main and Elm street belonging to the es- tate of Sarah A. Strong. By the pur- chase the company acquires property Kncnw occupled by George White, Sam i Lee, M. J. Moore, A. Czienski and J. Cote and with the exception of the Justus Hornkohl property of Elm street, owns all of the territory em- bracing Commercial, Center, East Main and Elm street. The late Henry P. Strong wes the original owner of the property and with the provision that at her death it would come into possession.of the Y. M. C. A. Mrs. Strong transferred the property to the assoclation which has disposed of it to the concern. The rapidly growing business of Landers, Frary & Clark hes made it imperative to secure meny building . sites in the past few years, and while it is not probable that a new factory will be bullt immediately it is but a question of time, when the concern will occupy the land owned by it. FIREMEN PRAISED. Dept. Also Receives $25 From Berlin Selectman. Berlin authorities today recognized the effiolent work of Chief Robert M. Dame and a detail of local firemen at Saturday's fire on the Henry Hol- lister estate. The service is credited with saving other barns and the house. A check of $25 accompanies the letter recelved by Chief ling of Berlin. It will be added to the department's pension and relief fund. The letter follows: “Enclosed find check for $25 as a slight token of appreclation by our citlzens of the valuable service ren- dered by your department to our feHow townsman, Alexander Bruce, in saving from destruction his dwelling house and other buildings January 13 during the conflgration that en- tirely destroyed his barns. That you were able and willing to answer our call for assistance, mak- Ing the distance of five miles in so short a time and to confine the flames to the bullding full of hay, in which it started, is cause for gratification by our citizens and speaks well for the efficiency of your department.” REALTY OO, ANNUAL. M. T. White was chosen president of the Realty and Development com- pany at the annual meeting yesterday afternoon at & o'clock. A, N. Ruther- jford s vice president and secretary and George A. Quigley is treasurer. The company has secured an option on property owned by Hugo Doerr at the corner of Lyon street and Shuttle Meadow avenue. CHICAGO JANTTORS TO STRIKE. Chicago, Jan. 16.—About 1,100 local Janitors are under order today to put out the fires in their furnaces tonight until their employers meet demands for an increase in wages, on a graded scale, approximately fifteen per cent. The janitors are members of the Jan- litors’ union. on his death he willed it to his wife | Dame | from First Sclectman Willard I. Al-| HERE’S WHERE YOU SEE WHAT YOU GET Milk Campaign Statistics-Watch for Your Milkman's Name In. this space daily appears the re- sults of the laboratory examinations of milk sold in New Britain. While the health department makes a full chemical and refractive examination, of each sample, only the amount o fat and the degree of cleanliness of the milk will be recorded here in or- der that the reader shall not be con- fused by an array of figures. The average milk contains from 3.5 per cent. to 4 per cent. fat. The statute requires that it shall not be less than 8.26 per oent. fat. Milk should be = not signify a dirty milk. On the oth- er hand, there is a no excuse for milk containing a small or large amount of dirt. The housekeepers can do as much toward making the campaign a success as can the board of health by, reporting to both their milkdealer and the health department any adverse condition they find In the milk they buy. This daily report will continue throughout the month and later a full report will be made of the sanitary condition of the dairies in the city and on the farms. *J. Hofherg . *J. Hofberg. &3 J. E. Selbert & Son... J. B. Avery & Son. Louis Dworin . S. Hittleman C. E. Flood. . H. Larson .. T. A; Stanley. P. C. Flood.. Vine Hill Farm. . A W. Hall...,.. Broadway Lunch M. P. Sandbers. . F. 8. Miller.. C. D. Vetrano Kate Taisher P. Emonds .. L. Rabinowitz it Enterprise Prov. Co... Julius Rick Jacob Baver L.. Rabinowitz Jos. Orvesko . 4.20 Jos. Orvesko .... .. 4.30 6 *Farmer sold milk to a New Bi ain dealer. . Milk watered. Has befh stopped sending milk to New Britai R T. E. REEKS, "¢ Superintende; .90 5.00 3.26 3.60 3.50 3.70 4.00 1.90 3.40 3.89 MEETING NIGHT CHANGED, Charter Reyision - Committce to Mes Thursday Nights Hereafter, The charter revision committee b of Friday evening. The change in_ th meeting night will be continued eaci week until the committee's business 1 completed. . L. Teich, one of thi committee members, has found it in possible to attend meetings on Frida: night, owing to pressing busine hence the change. 3 At this week’s meeting various chard ter changes will be read for approv: and it will also be the last opportunity for receiving new business. Ain’t it a Grand and Glorious Feelin’ — AND You THE RADIATOR WAKE UP ON A CoLD WINTER MORNING ~AND ARRIVING THERE You FIND A PEACH oF A ? FIND ~ AND, BEAT THE CE To You DRESS _ BY BRIGGS CURSING TROUNDLY, AND T For LLaR AV BUILD A FURNACE FIRE ~— O+ awT GR-=- AND AND /’ GULOR- - Yus -AND You @GO BACK AND DISCOVER YoU HAD NEGLECTED To TURN IT o — TRHATS ALL 1T A meet on Thursday evening instead olg. onl™ % ] clean, but a mere trace of dirt does © iii—" e Sl - ————