New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 24, 1917, Page 6

NEW BRITAIN DAILY lew Britain Herald. | HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY. | Proprietors. Bued datly (Sunday oxcepted) at 4:15 p. M. &t Herald Building, 67 Church St. atered at the Post OMoe st New Britaln a8 Becond Class Mall Matter. iivered by carrier to any part of the city for 15 cents a week, 85c a month. bacriptions for paper to be ment by matl, payadle in advance. 60 cents a month $7.00 & year. ® only profitablo advertismng medlum n | the city: Circulation books and press room always open to advertlsers. i Herald will be found on sale at Hot ling’r News Stand, 42nd St. and Broad- way, New York City; Board Walk, At- lantic Cit;, wnd Hartford Depot. TELEPHONE CALLS. isiness Office . Room |{Among thrue fightin’ men it makes » difference what the feelin's iv th’ ad undherneath may be. 'Tis whin *than on top has had his fill iv shtin’ that th’ trouble’s over. —MR .DOOLEY. WHO SAID THIS? “Universal peace cannot come until justice is enthroned through- out the world. Jehovah deals with nations as He deals with men, and for both decrees that the wages of sin is death. Until ihe right has triumphed in every. land and love relgns in every licart government must, as a last resort, appeal to force. f “As long as the oppressor is draf to the voice of reason, so l'ng must the citizen accustom f1his shoulder to the musket and T hand to the saber.” o "his inspiring sentiment was uttered fore a vast assemblage of people fro attended the Trans-Mississippl fcposition in Omaha, Nebraska, nine- fen years ago. The orator was then f young man, flushed with the first v - of success. His name was fralded throughout the land. Since e day Patrick Henry stood in the e Virginia Court House until this Ine day in '98 there had been no one ose words carried the ring of pa-| lottam clearer than those of this tung man, the boy orator of the tte. For, it was none other svho tered the phrase about the musket lid the saber than our old friend, the fince . of Peace, William Jennings | $5,000 REWARD. Five thousand dollars reward for je arrest and conviction of the per- or persons who attempted to de- roy New Britain by fire Wednesday ht 18 a sum in keeping with the ance of the business at hand. 6 sum is not too great nor too n Mayor Quigley in fixing this neunt of reward insures the city of relentless search. Men who resorted to the tactics ucticed here Wednesday would stop nothing. They have murder in cir hearts. If there are any per- acquainted with the haunts of fiends it would be natural for i©h persons to heeitate before mak- the facts public. This because of o danger from personal engeance, should plans miscarry, ould certainly be, wreaked upon fose who told. The sum of five ‘ousand dollars would enable any an, whether he were a member of a iquo or not, to get away from these avirons provided he saw fit to ex- ose the source of machinations. It is hoped the five thousand dol- ' rs reward offered by the city will be oductive of the desired results. It ould be worth that amount of money b every person in town to know that e diabolical hands have ackled' and the menace om the community at large. The rrest of the person or persons who arted the series of fires that threw jhis city Into a state of terror will an event as sensational the res. The conviction of the guilty ould be halled with glee throughout n enraged community. ih been as FUNERAL REFORM. Disposal of the dead is one of the eatest problems that confronts th people at war in Europe. Experience juffered by the folk who inhabit Eng- Jand, G France and the Balkan hinkers luneral laim rmany, states lead many foremost of the day to belleve that reform at hand. the is present war offers a framatical climax but In kers to long the condition airs Ensgland, scareity of under- ) me and of grave-diggers funerals. cause Peiay many The appens in Germany and other coun- ries. Sometimes for days relatives f the dead cannot obtain coffin the cemetery find graves undug. This because the ighting demands the presence of all bodied men at “the front.” As and 'unerals arrive at to violence. | removed | They | drawn | 1 Journalist, Twells Brex, “the tribunals have ‘combed out' the undertaking trade and taken most of the grave diggers for another sort of digging whose work to the young and brave and vigorous, and not to dispose of the mere chemical s is save thelr souls have of their perishable bodies.” The a condition of war. work is not indispensable to must be taken Consequent- quitted tenancy aforementioned, of is Every man whose course, the ex- istence of the nation away in times of stre: ly, are not as elaborate as in The nameless graves of the young heroic who die on the battlefield cry out against the pomp and ceremony that attach themselves to civilian funerals, and the subsequent elaboraten of monumental in the grave- yards. In England, they belleve that re- form of funeral procedure is long overdue. The London Daily Mail be- lleves that the will have to at once extend to compulsory crema- tion, and eventually to the wider and even more important consideration of the ever-growing encroachment of cemeteries upon land needed for building agriculture. This paper ®oes on to say that it is only a matter of arithmetic to prove that the land occupled by the dead will some day rival in area the land occupied by the living. The problems of England, or Ger- many, or Russia, any of the countries at war, are the problems which the United States must study at first- hand. Otherwise, the United States will suffer as these countries have suffered in the event of hostilitles. One of these problems is the burying of the dead. Without beli\eving.wlth the radical of English that cremation should be made conmipulsory because it is the clean, - simpler, sanitary method of doing away with the dead, weo may well consider the other side of the question,—the mercenary end. Without believing that cremation is the most rational and hygienic means of disposal of the dead, we may readily acquiesce in the belief that it is the least wasteful of money. Having admitted that, we must believe that the present method of conducting in war-time funerals time ‘of peace. design reform or | funerals in America is entirely too extravagant and that more simple rites should be exercised. /The people of Americia, with the people of other lands, are, indeed, tied to the wheel of custom. But it is - written in ecclesiastical law that they must “bury the dead;” there is no mention of cremating the dead. It is true that large sums of money are now wasted 'on ordinary funerals and all their melancholy trappings and corteges; but this will probably continue until the people see the light. The dead should be buried; but without tgo much .‘pomp. There were heroes at Bunker Hill, and Ap- pomattox and Gettysburg who never courted a tombstone, who never cared what marked the spot op which’ they fell, so long as they died for their country. The same is true with the warriors on the battleflelds of Europe. In all the ‘long-drawn disposal that we make of our dead—that cruel stress to those they leave behind of the three or more days lying in the house of bereavement, the bidding of black-garbed mourners from far and near, the Jjoiner and carpenter’s ephemeral and costly preservation of that which is unpreservable, the grav- en brass, the massy handles, the slow- stepping procession, the lingered-upon last parting, the heavy waste of recording stone—there is only one ritual that concerns the imperishable soul; it is the beautiful burial service of the church. The rest is paganism and ugly barbarism. As we learn from London, “The men at the front have death around them every day in its cruellest, ripest visitation; they are soldiers and sextons too. But they will tell you that all the dead of a field of battle are easier to look upon than one death in a civillan home. On the field of | battle they look on a dead comrade’s body as the shell his | has departed from—the mere has given for his passport into the ]‘ immortality of the gallant. They hold him in remembrance no less for swift bestowal his shallow niche while the padre reads the only ritual that matters.” And the thinking people must know that death is as natural as birth. So | why should we hold so un- glorious soul coin he his and much ce mony and pomp at the ending of life, when there is 8o little at its beginning? In the hour of the or death, when what we call Grim Monster has visited friend family, why should there | be so much waste of money, since liv- ing is looked upon as so & ad- Thesc 1t an vantage? it are mere questions, but does seem strangce that men who in life are not considered worth their salt are in death ftreated to a ’ih.r.h class hur and oftentimes at | & cost which impoverishes their sur- viving relatives. { America is not quite but it ready for funeral reform; must come, Il it has Dbeen aptly put by a London lod | | husks that all humanity become when 00 have w We, made a sooner or later. over-sentimentalized death. long like have the abroad, mummery of it. people The drawn curtains, the hushed voices, the lighted candles, F the muffled feet, the slow procession, the silent group around the grave, the lone white slab in the moonlight, all terrible. Rather should are too i there be Once It is simpler cercmonies. it counts, often the body dead is the is dead. that is it | time should be given to the spiritual is the neglected. that soul and it soul that too | Therefore, would seem more and less to the material. POLITICAL Almost every necticut realizes that Senator O'Sulli- van, democrat, was uttering no empty charges wher he stated in the senate ‘Wednesday that the republican state committee, during the campaign, had used stationery bear- ing the seal of the commonwealith. In fact, some of that very stationery was received by the Herald from the pub- licity bureau of the republican state central committee located at the Allyn house Hartford Senator O’Sullivan wa an item of $30,000 for paper ,included in the deficiency bill, approved by a republican majority. While he made no direct accusations, his words were pregnant with meaning to those who knew of the use of public stationery for private campaign purposes. Machine politics,: which has been languishing of late in this land . of steady habits, is again brought into the limelight by Senator O'Sullivan’s ‘disclosure as stationery such as he described is obtainable only by’ tHose holding state offices. What the pub- lic would like to know is the name of the office holder who so generously provided the republican committee with paper. When Senator O’Spllivan began to tread on dangerous ground, the’ de- hate was ended by the deficiency bill being laid on the table and it was said that the committee in charge of the measure would be prepared, later on, to make further explan- ation. , Whether this ~ explanation satisfies the senate is a doubtful ques- tion but it wiil be a difficult matter to explain satisfactorfly to the news editors who remembered that beauti- ful seal, indelibly stamped by a water mark, HARE AND HOUND. news editor in Con- central last s speaking on FACTS AND FANOIES. They are. now -saving daylight in Germany’ though as yet they are not issuing cards for turns in standing in the sunshine,—Baltimore American. The' annual production of about $200,000,000" in gold in the Transvaal is a timely aid to British finance in war time, and it does not affect the na- tional labor supply in Great Britain.— New York World. The statement that when Mr. Roose- velt takes his army to the continent he will fight under the allied® ©com- manders is intended, of course, to save the face of General Nivelle and Sir Douglas Haig.—New York Evening Post. DREAMING. (Tom Daly; in Philadelphia Ledger). I hate to read, of millionaires, Because such reading seems To hypnotize me utterly P And start me dreaming dreams: How many times I've figured. out What I'd be apt to do~ If I were in that fellow’s place And had a million, too. Of course, I'd use my fortune well; More sensibly than he, For I'd give ten per cent. at least To worthy charity. Another ten per cent. would go To help along a few Of my deserving relatives. Whose bllls are overdue. And then my duty to the church; Of course, a goodly share, Say twenty-five per cent. or so ‘Would be devoted there. I'd give this latter quietly, Insisting that my name Must be withheld, that none might know Whence this donation came. I'd only let the pastor know; He’d have to know, vou see, Because my name upon the check Would show it was from me. Another twenty-five per cent. Would do myself and wife; The income we'd derive from Would keep us hoth for life. Then, after that—well, after that I dream away and plan To spend still another ten To help my fellow men. And finally my dreaming gets A bit confused. and then I take a tumble and my fect Touch solid carth 1in; And common sense ires Tt stops me with a jerk, T've wasted time enough to do A dollar’s worth of work. COMMUNICATED, GUARD TH that per cent. me as 5 PI Shuttle Meadow Should Be Protected In the Event of Another Fire Scare. To the Editor of the Herald: I don’t know what precaution was taken, but in casc of another such night of fires, would it not be wise to use the soldiers to guard the water to Shuttle Meadow and let the shops use their own men? Think what might have been. C. KEMPSHALIL. 1917 pipe Fehruary HERALD, SATURDAY, Town Topics | Luring Civil war days and' the panic of 1872, prices soared to heights that were unbelievable and to which people predicted they would never rise again. But they have and today the people of New Britain, in com- mon with other over the coun- try, are paying prices that are higher than ever bLefore in the history of the countr For many people these prices are prohibitive and cut them off from the very necossilies of life. Unless some drop cones soon the al- most positive result may be tragic. Conditions arc chaotic. Never were they so bad for the poor people or those in moderate circumstances. A vear ago a person would have heen lauged to scorn had he predicted that potatoes, for generations one of the cheapest of toodstuffs and commonly referred to as ‘“spuds”’ and “murphies,” would reach $4, and $6 per bushel. Yet it has vome about and now potatoes are a luxury and on the menus of some of the leading hotels are listed: ‘“‘one large baked potato, twenty-five cents When people had to pay seventy-five cents a dozen for eggs, or ahout six cents cach, thoy threw Up their hands in horror, vet today eggs are as cheap as potatoes which in some instances they cost as much as six cents each. Any man who had a backyard garden planted in potatoes last summer is certainly fortunate and the man who had a farr planted with potatoes would have made a fortune if he waited until now to sell. But New Britain farmers claim that they have not made the profits. They say they sold last fall at moderate prices and the wholesalers have been cornering the market until now even the pro- ducers Have to pay these. exorbitant rates. * Meat onions, cabbages, flour beans, canned goods and other staple articles of food are soaring in pro- portion. Unless conditions are im- mediately bettered the poorer classes in this cosmopolitan city are sure to suffer. Ui DR A New York statistician, J J. Hart- igan, commissioney of weights ard measures, has figured that *“a dollar today “will enly purchase food that 12 ' cents wowld before the outbreak of the European war in 1914.” While possibly 'the. figures are not quite so alarming. in New Britain, there is little doubt that a .dollar will buy a small percentage of what it would two years ago. . Of particuar interest to the house- wife of New Britain is a report on eggs by.the home economics bureau of the United States department' of agriculture.. This report says in part: “The principal food -element fur- nished by ezgs is protein, the nitro- genous tissue-building element whose presence in considerable proportions also gives meats, fish milk, cheese, etc., their gpecial food value. Eggs can therefore, be substituted in the diet for the latter foods without ma- terially .altering the proportion of protein egga also furnish fat and a number of valuable mineral elements including suphur, phosphorus, iron, calelum, and magnesium, in an easily assimilable form, and are believed also to be rich in certain essential vitalizing elements called vitamins. “In additicn the housewife when purchasing eggs should consider size and freedon. from cracks. Eggs vary so in size that a dozen large and a dozen small eggs purchased at the samé prize per dozen may differ as much as 25 per cent. in the value of the food elements furnished. Per- haps the fairest way' to buy of sell eggs is by welght. Cracked eggs are undesirable because the breaking of the shell makes possible the entrance of bacteria and fllth. < “The fact that eggs have beeh held in cold storage does not necessarily mean that they are of low quality. Carefully handled £old storage ecggss ofter are of hetter quaiity than fresh local eggs tbat have Leen improperly cared for.” . New Britain is certainly blessed with an nnusually good water sup- ply, a supply that under almost any conditions is nearly inexhaustible and which is sufficiently powerful to throw many heavy streams of water with- out the use of motor pumps. in the highest seetions of the This natural asset was greatly preciated Wednesday. ‘ LRy Chief Rohert M. Dame proved himself a true chief by the master- ful manner fn which he handled the fire departments at the fires. The firemen too, proved themselves effi- cient fire fighters. New Britaln Jdoubly Dblessed with an excellent water supplv and efficient and willing | workers, but it is by a lack of fire fighting apparat At least three more companies are positively needed. A large city such as this should not be compelled to rely upon the taxpayers of Hartford, Waterbury, Plainville and Bristol protect thew. in emergency. More fire anparatus more men are needed at once. citizen can object to any appropriation for more Preparedness s the leynote of the present day. New Britains fire de- partment should he sufliciently pre pared to he able to cope with any reasonable emergency and it certainly is not at prcrent Tt is a queer coincidence that the terrorvizing fires of the past = week shonld have occurred on the thirty- second anniversary of the great fire which, on February 21, 1885, de- stroved the section of the city at the corner of Main and Church strects. That fire lasted two days and started in the block where Theodore Wilson’s store now is. As the tdaze spread the buildings or Church street to Main and as far as Abhe's Hardware store were all demolished. The alarm was wounded on n Thursday morning and it not until the following Sun- day that the firomen were released. Tornay of Ersine nd George Caswell of wy No. 2 apparently cursed sudden nd reasonable apparatus. . was company Engine are the only present the department who blaze, which, as did the T o8 com members fought that 1s | to | No falr-minded | FEBRUARY 24, 1917. HEALTHIEST ONE ~ INTHE FAMILY | No Sign Of Dropsy And Kidney Trouble Since Taking “FRUIT-A-TIVES” HATTIE WARREN Port Robinson, July 8th, 1915, “We have used “ Fruit-a-tives” in ©our house for over three yearsand have always found them a& good medicine, Our little girl, Hattie, was troubled with Kidncy Discase. The Doctor said sha was threatened with Dropsy. Herlimbg and body wereall swollen and we began to think she could not live. Finally, wa decided to try- “TFruit-a-tives”, Sie began to show improvement after we had given her a few tablets. Tn ashort time, the swelling had all gone down and her flesh began to look more natural. Now she is the hcealthiest one in the family and has no signs of the old ailment. ‘We can not say too much for “Fruit-a- tives” and would never be without them ”,) ‘'WILLIAM WARREN, BOc. & box, 6 for $2.50, trial size, 25¢. At all dealers or sent postpaid on receiptof price by Fruit-a-tives Limited, Ogdensburg, New. Yorks ———————————————————— ones of this week, necessitated the summoning of h:&lp from Hartford. . It is now many weeks since the fatal accldent at the - Washington street crossing. Since then there have been numerous narrow escapes at this and other grade crossings, yet, so far as can be learned, the raflroad has done alsolutely nothing to pre- vent repetitions. Cannot the company be compelled to act before it is too late and more lives have been snuffed out? ¢ . .. 5 ' Since the fire panic the insurance men have' been doing a land office business and the people of the city have begun lo realize the true mean- ing of preperedness. One insurance man has stated that not only have several delinquent policy holders paid up premiums and others sudden- ly Adecided not to let their policies lapse, but alto many new oustomers |ington’s birthday, just passed, recally have visited him unsolicited. CRC ) The common council meeting of Wednesday evening was not unlike in- cidents in connection with the burn- ing of Rome, if ones imagination is to be stretched to the limit, and the action of Alderman M. Irving Jes- ter might be compared to that of Nero, except that he had no violin and had nothing to do with setting fire to the city. While the city was burning in » half dozen places and fear was rampant that the entire place might be destroyed, the council members sat calmly in their cham- bers, while Mr. Jester, acting as mayor, proceded to carry out the business, of the evening as though nothing unusual was happening. Nero during the burning of Rome ,dld not have much on the alderman from the second except some abllity as a fiddler. ..o The reign of terror will not soon be forgotten and some stories that now sound funny are being told. In one leading garage the owner re- turned at midnight to find the place brilliantly il'uminated but no sign of his night mechanic. Investigation showed the repairman barricaded be- hind an autcmobile in a dark corner with a loaded srotgun leveled in front of him. “If they come in here they’ll have to pass through the light and can't sec me before I splatter them over the walls,” the mechanic said. All over the city too., men and women hastily packed together their most valuable papers and jewels in order to be prepared for a hasty exit in case of an emergency. e This is the slushy season. Quick freezes and sudden snows cover the sidewalks and then a thaw comes and it is a hurried visit to a shoe store for a pailr of rubbers. Should property owners clean off the:r walks when they are slushy it would be a benefit to the entire community. PR Particularly interesting at this time when New Britain is seeking to have its charter amended are the remin- iscenses of Henry J. Wheeler of Ma- ple street, who recalls clearly the ac- tivities in connection with the adop- tlon of the original charter. New Britain was formally chartered as a city in 1870, the same year that the fire department was organized, and was organized as a city on April 18, 1871. In recounting the incidents connected with the city’'s receipts-of its charter, Mr. Wheeler states that one man cast two votes against ac- cepting it. The ballot-stuffing was discovered and both votes were de- clared void by order of the moderator, whereupon the charter was accepted by a majority of one vote. The wisdom of those public men of al- most a half century ago has long since been proved. Although as the city has developed it has been neces- sary to change the original charter to keep apace of the times, the value of the original code has never been questioned. This month again brings to mind certain stirring events of the civil war in which local men were identified and in the councils of the G. A. R. they are frequently discussed. Wash- these subjects most vividly, especially the awarding of so-called valor med- als of honor were given for the ac- complishment of gallant deeds on the battlefield, and were oftimes named after the general in command of the regiment. One of these medals, the Gilmore Medal, named after General Q. A. Gilmore, was awarded to the i late Martin Van Buren Eddy of this city and he was the only New Brit- ain soldier to receive one, Members of Company E, 13th Con- necticut Infantry, were promised med- als at a time when the company, with a force of 1,000 men, captured Port Hudson. General Nathaniel P. Banks commanded the regiment and Captain i Charles H. Beaton and Adjutant Lo- ren D. Penfield are the only local men ‘- living who were in this command. General Banks called for volunteers to overcome the rebel holders of the fort, after his regiment had been re- pulsed three times. The regiment volunteered to a man, but information concerning the new attack caused the Confederaies to evacuate the fort without battle. For more than thirty years the survivors of this campaign have been petitioning congress for their medals, but have alwavs been refused on the grounds that the men did not take sthe fort in the man- ner expected by the commander and on the basis of which he promised the medals, BABY COLIC A THING OF THE PAST | American Mothers Have Be- come Wise Mothers can end baby colic and up- set stomachs by a few doses of Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup. It s a positive help to indigestion, previues gas and settles the little one's yfom. ach as nothing else can do. Y(u can easily see the baby's condition speed- ily improve for where hefore was pain and distress, soon all is smiles. good nature and restfulness. Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup fis made for children only, not a grain of ‘‘dope or a drop of alcohol, the form-* ula right on the bottle. It cannot do a particle of harm and it always does a lot of good; even the leading physi- clans prescribe it with success where all other remedies have failed. It sure is a panacea for the babies, i Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup is used and recommended by thousands of mothers, who have given it the hardest tests and are all loud in praise of the one preparation they can bank on for sure results: Get a bottle today mother; join the " ranks and reduce the “Colic Percent- age,” give baby a chance and the | Whole family will have peace oncelt again. Sold under guarantee by good | druggists everywhere. For sals In | New Britain Seltzer's Prescription | Pharmacy. AR “ ESTABLISHED 1780 For either brain or muscle Baker’s Cocoa and stocks. you at once. NTENTIONAL DUPE Room 208, is refreshing. Cocoa contains more | nourishment, than beef.” Walter Baker & Co Lid DORCHESTER, MASS. FIRE! FIRE! 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