New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 12, 1917, Page 6

iay smcapted) at 4:18 9. M. 17 ) &t 4: jullding, §7°Church St. 7 — ‘at the Post Ofcs st New Class’ Mall Matter. to any part of the eity week, S5c 4 month. paper to be sent by mafl. in advance. 60 cents a moath. Britain L with. which te conquel"t.‘ln world. It was this samc neutral trade which .was .defcating ' his, enemies: They called it merely ‘war disgulsed. They lookégd ‘uponiit as & veritabile fraud. Realiging that Napoleon could never be defeated unless this. endless stream were somehaw cut off, Eng- land, then as now, mistress of the sea, decided to choke off his supplics. He ‘had been throttled on the waters. On 1and he was invincible. . Great Bri- tain instituted ‘a paper blockade of French ports, and enforced it by cap- tures at sea.. By a seri¢s of Orders in Council ‘England virtually declared every. port. of Europe closed against néutrai shipping. “In retaliation | Napoleon answered with a series: of '} @ecrees which closed every English n & more -interesting or plexing condition than this eitjzenship In - the. United 5 this whith constitutes & ¢ American - problem: “nat port so far as his cruisers could close themi. By these imprecedented acts 'of war America’s trade stvod & chance of Leing totally cuf off. To all in- tents and purposes war might as ‘well | have been declared against this coun- try. ~ English cruisers -ovérhauled American mierchantment, wherever they ventured. ., There. = were o scruples. .- Whenevet- Bhylish skippets met Amegicen ships they looked into thelr miffffests and bills of lading, rhade thém 'to continue their ‘voy- ‘agos, and even went so far as to take imén ‘to, serve In English _ were all sorts of ex- .Jingland's disposal. The ent did -not fail to instruct stcamen in the laws of ncces- As there were many deserters _English navy on 'beard American: ships, English ciptains ware simply reclaiming runaway Eng- Jishmen, according to the British.Ad- _miraity. Then again, was not Eng- ‘land Tfighting single handed against Napoleon who had all’ Burope. with him? American ships were held up ‘| and manhandled by: British seamen d>in impartance by only ore tion,” Who i 'an” American by his mastertul nu\mfl}v n important subject _has ‘because Engiand so desired it." Brit- i8h officers made o pretense to exer- cise good judgment (in holding up AAmecrican ships. Whether there were deserters aboard or not made no dif- ference. All American ships were sub- Jected to the same treatment. Every thethod employed was an -insult to 'the American flag: - The climax came | in 1807 when - the British; cruiser ‘Leopold after following the American | trigate Chesapeake out of ‘Hampton ‘I tion that many propose today. Roads fired upon her and took four men as. deserters. Not having the necessary naval forces, and being un- alterably opposed to war, President Jefferson sought a method of retalia- He recommended an embargo which afterwards‘became law and absolutely ‘prohibited all foreign commerce, closed’ the ports against all nations and even against the exit of American ships. Jefferson’s closing days of ad- | ministration proved the embargo 'a ve enough to Hve in the of the. condidates ''for all il men and wémen from the sea who come here to ir homes are taught the ob- ins of this land, and the full g8 of citizenship, we may well de , Who will be an American jundred years from now? se of slip shod methods In we are’ confronted with the Who is an American today? are questions the answers to ‘must be determined by ‘pa- - mativé born citizens o 2 States who must © set the ‘example for their fellows from | #tho sea. : i » 18121917, ire. i5 . not much difference be- en the Europe which: -harrassed e administration of Thomas Jeffer- A and the Europe which is causing e h anxiety in the early part of An Jeflerson's time was at war. ‘now is at war.'’ Pnnc‘: et _all Europe afire in of ;the ninsteenth century. . attempting to be. the 1 was drawn into -the only with the 1812 the American flag was the one under which f was even then the recognized v of nationg.” Bécause of conditions " carrying trade of the world fcally felf to American ship s who, as neutrals, were free to futile effort. - The United States suf- fered more from this act than the nations abroad. America’s trade was Tuined. Shipsrotted at their wharves. | 'Vessels which not leng before tl had carried the .commerce of the world .were, under the - embargo, fendered . worthless. Prices were dropped. 'Men' were thrown out of employment. . The country "almost 'vgnt into bankruptcy. Smuggling took the place of legitimate trade. The system eventually sounded fits own death knell. The Enforéing Act of 1809, which authorized the Presi- dent, through the collectors of cus- toms, to.seize any goods of American growth or manufacture that might be found going towards the sea and to hold fhem till heavy bonds were #iven that:they would not go out of the ' United States, proved the last straw. The governor of Connecticut, Jonathan Trumbull, refused to help enforce: the act by sending out the militia. Others followed his lead. Becession.was in the air. Accordingly, . President: Jefferson, before turning over the reins of office to-his sucoes- sor, Jamey Madison, destroyed the absolute embargo and set up the Non- Intercourse . Act which prohibited trade merely with England and | France, leaving the rest of the world ports open to American ships. ‘Fingland nd’ France weré both try- ing to use the United States for a catspaw. Hoth were violating the laws of nations. Both. deceived the statesmen of America. Mr. Madison 4fd not want war any, more than Mr, Jefterson. He too wished to fight weapons.. of nominal peace,—embargoes and other retali- atory measures. Even- after he had allowed American ships the right' to ‘rade ‘with Engiand again, his good falth was imposed upon. . Sefsure of | American ‘ships in’ continental ports- did not stop. _skippers were lured into hostile ports’under the cloak _of false security... Their ships and “cargoes were seized and confiscated. .. Twelfth Congress assembled Novem- ber 4, 1811. 'These mern 'hidde up their minds. that.the country.should | fight for the freedom of the seas. On the 18th' of June the following year war was deelarad. events. that ded up to the, NEW ‘BRITAIN DAILY (HERALD, MONDAY, MARCH 12, 16 17.. WAz, of 1812 ORIGIN .OF THE GROCER. are similar in many ways to the events that. have transpired 'from the begin-. ning of this European war up to the arming of iAmierican merchant ships.| Nothing is g0 necessary in any com- ‘Where England seized our ships and { munity, nothing so unescapable as the their cargoes,.Germany attacks them.| Srocery. It ls the first business of the without warning and sends them, car-| frontier settlement, and it-plays the goes and_passengers, to the bottom.|most important role in the business That is the only difference. drama of any town. One can hardly imagine a city, in any age, in which there were no grocery stores, and yet the institution is a comparatively mad- ern one. Do you Know how gro- ceries originated? asks *“Tht Cleveland Plain Dealer.” * a few hundred years-ago cer- resighted tradesmen in France went about .the “country buying up bargain lots of merchgndise. They bought firé damaged-goods, bankrupt stocks, all sorts of commodities. They bought these things ‘“en gros” and Title and Trade First_.Used by French men. \ CHEAPER AND BETTER. ‘Manufaeturers and - shippers who use boxes to any great extent will be interested in an experiment recently conducted ‘by engineers of the Forest Products ' Laboratory - at'~ Madison, Wis." It' was there demonstrated that 2 much strongér box than the type ordinarily used can be made with less e viBhegt UL OE thom. « hs trade material, by in¢reaging. the numberi ... .qrrjeq to England, wheére a man of'nails and by properly proportion-| who b8ught hardware, thread, furni: ing tho.thickness of the ' sides and'! ture, vegetables “en gros,” or in. large onds,, . . 7. quantities, vegetables ‘‘en gros,” or " A loss that renchies many millions, in latge quantities, called.himself an y s . 1%en grosser.” This was later short: of} doHars annually ' 1s “caused DbY gned to “grocer,” but the terin s dmnage ‘to goods- in .transit,* Jargely | still applied to :the proprietor of a ‘bdbause . of faulty containers. The| Beneral ‘businéss. The grocery. was:.a W09d experts of the Forest Sarvice be. | 80Tt of racket shop, like the modern lieve that. this loss can be dectdedly Gradudlly, it appears, th “groser” idecreasod by better construction of | found it more profitable to deal fa the boxes in which goods are shipped. tea, coffee, spices,. fruits and non- Changes in, the design of hoxeg | Perishable foodstuffs, and he cénfined which ;vere recommended as a result kis attention to these things. Out on our Western frontier the saloon was of the tests at the Laboratory have ' sounds strange to read in the borier been udopted - by several assoclations. | formerly known:is the grocery. It It is' stated that demonstratioms at a | Jotters of seventy-five years ago “The o€, meettug" ol tha Canners’ Asso- Eroceries are the curse ofvour camp.” clatiansof what has been done by the & Forest . Service/ along these lines The Handicap of Beauty. aroused considerable interest among (New- York Tribune) the manufacturers, ~Many of these Poor Miss ' Jane Cowl, men are .said.to have expressdd their 4 t th in the intention of carrying ou @ SUE-| beauty as falls to the lot of.few ac- gestions of the Laboratary experts. tresses, is These are the little things in 1life |-about such charms. that count, If they are money.|8nybody far. Beauty helps to e * opening, but there. it pavers: they are’more than worthy of| stranded. Moreaver, it tempts to las- consideration. y laboring un‘ou:lh 8 successful theatrical season face of as great a handicap of pathetically despondent They never. carry t an leaves you Individuals as well 2§ iness.- Double effort and double am- | ALIENS AND OTHERS SEEN BY DR. HILL South Church-Pastor Talks o0 - New Residents, of America - ln‘corporated F Yesterday afternoon. at, the South ! éhurch vesper service Rey. Dr. George W. C. Hill gave. an. address on “Americans. or Aliens” in the course which hé is.now.giving at these ser- vices, on the *“Amierican State .and Civilization.” - He began the address by calling ‘attention .to the distinction h Roman citizenship between citi- i| zens by“adoption and the native-born and stated that this 'distinttion was one that had been known in some degrec amonk all nations. Starting from this as an illustration he pro- ceeded to speak of the situation in America. £l “Nevér i the course of history has there been a more interesting or more pebplexing condition than this matter of citisenship M the United :States,” he said.” “t is this which constitutes a “distinctive American problem, not Hlquor, not social vice, neither the In- dian or the Negro is the great Ameri- can question /hut this,—Who will be an’ American ‘a hundred years from: now? It is interesting to note the rise of this problem on the establish- ment of our nation under the princi- ple of self-government. - With univer- sal education and.free ‘churches, free speech, economic rights, fair taxation with corresponding representation, commerciad- justice and a thoroughly démocratic government, those born in the colonies were naturally considered citizens. - All these institutions, 50 entirely strange -in -history, -began to attract attention abroad and many bethought themselves of the advant- Some Dutch See Window dis; TOWR 98¢ large groups of manufacturers can | bition are peeded to overcome it. Bet- take heed to'the stery of the boxes.’ ter far be plain and condenined to | earn public fave The government annually spends huge Yét‘,’ “h:‘“ 0;0::,5"“;:;:::‘_&]:3:; sums of money in A experiments de-|‘we tutn te wonder if there is not a signed to help the people of the nation, g:“"l-'fl";"'“m:“ éfn:"““‘ in' Miss o wl's philogpophy. e-male animal lt.h a.form of he!p that must not be 18 unquestionably susceptible. But to cverlooked, ? what? ‘Is it to beauty, sheer beauty, —_— or perhaps to something a little more FAOTS AND FANCIES. age that might accrue from,citizen- ship under sucha government. “In 1815 the second peace betweer: the Unjted States and Great Britain was concluded and the opened for a great economic oppor- tunity in the states. ,At this junc- ture also the close of the Napolsonic wars left a period of the greatest nomic distress in Europe.’ Great Brl ain is even now paying interest on the debt incurred in these wars. Then began to start in a great tide of im- migration for the fifst ten vears of which_ we have record, 1820 to 1830, 160,000 came to the new country. This number has gradually increased until ‘in the last ten vears, 1900 to 1910 nearly nine million of Europe’s, population .found & :home .in. the| United States, In the ninety y nearly twenty-eight ~ million hate passed ‘the open gates into the New World. The causes which af first led to this astounding flood of worth: while and a great deal.. more within the achigvement of most wo- men? Whether you are discussing ac- tresses, waitresses or , stenographers, or sweethearts or wives is it. perfect contours and textures that count or sometling else agdin, something that might be convenigntly assembled un- g:‘r t'ih! t!t: of personality and be lefly rated as charm? me“;=|饓“‘:‘;:':::" Hg:lr)—‘!.du_r_ The searching, consclentious inves- - R ~ gomes MY tigation 18 reminded of. the startli tatlor.” —Boston ' Transcrip £ gt el 2 diversity of taste among . males by -Be. kind ito the dumb. crestures-— this does not include your wife, but Between cloture and Kultur, which should prevail?—New York World. , Another real New Yorker is he who' doesn’t know that theaters have box offices.—New York Tribune. rated g distressing beanpole by parti- of embonpoint. And ' what is way was|"® nary values. ¢ Look for Wednesday Evening's Advertisemesits in the Horald. Mo MADR CURTAINS SPECIAL AT $1.25 PAIR effects, all ready to hang. Now on sale. WATCH FOR SALE 8o .it - was - wheh. the {. | ctat ana financial centre. thrust uperi the _which & -delectsbly meagre maiden is be kind to vho:r also.—Paterson: c-.u.» less ‘Invigorating to the student LA little ‘group of . 'wiiful men' means, translated into the Roesevel- tian, malefactors of - great . stealth.— New York San. 4 tive andsome’”? '~ The Most pathetic feature of it was that the president’s man Friday in the senate did the stalling.—Berkshire Evening Eagle. 3 i ) —_——— There is a ‘;hm ge of 1,000,000 hogs in this dountry, not counting the = kind on end seats, at post office ;?1:;,‘ conmpicubus. windows and in other conspicuous places.—Nogales ' (Ariz.) Herald. riage, males, young as old, . A woman will pay two bits to have | pick on a different plan. the life line how long she is going t0 | not the point, on stage or off. = live. But you may have noticed that 25 rofl 2 the insurance companies stagger along blindly and pay no attention to White House “Optimism.” palmistry.~~Paterson Evening News. (Louisville Courler-Journal:) The president of the United States, who has been accused by Germans of being the friend of England, cannot bring himself to. believe = that Ger- ‘We should not be surprised at all to see, Mexico take over Texas with- out ‘a battle, if its efficient defense is left in the hands of such men as the late Representative: Callaway and others of his ilk.—Ansonia Sentinel. — The Modern Magazine Verse, I poetized a theme one time — *‘Twas fashioned as a sonnet, And you must 'know that sort of rhyme Has lots of labor on it! It pleased me well! I slapped my knee E “They’ll purchase that, I warrant— It's meter runs so strong and free And madly as a torrent.” An American (?) Semator. (New York Times.) The Hon, James Aloysius O'Gor- .man has just ended, amid the rejole- ing eof his fellow citizens, his term as a Senator in Congress from New York. He was chasen to represent the great- est State in the Union. He lives in its -greatest manufacturing, commer- - In his most notable votes and acts and his chief The Cemter of body of national and infermationgl (Milwaukee News) doctrine he has faithfully and con, | Some one wants to knew where the the center of profanity is. Under the mo- Bt many is' indeed capable, upon ma- ture dfl::emiofl. of the ~monstrous crimes committed at the outset of the U-boat.campsisn and before the United States 4 the murder ‘of women with their bables in flli'l.:' as thé accom- paniment of the battle cry “Deutsch- land uber: alles. ' The English Believe that the worst ‘which Q"%lfld of herselt, in declaring her s lons, is true. The French belleve it, and do not profess to be greatly shocked, or at afl sur- prised. The Turks believe it, and are d at lagt to find in Northwest Eu- 1 gave it to ‘my typist maid g QL tacian conntry. ta (For whom I simply lack woeds) . | wneye of the opportunities and By some infernal chance the Jads | privileges of war s as stimulating to Transcribed my sonnet backwarddt|the Turkleh imagination as a recital She just reversed it through “,‘eo! the .trlumphs of any Turkoman, iiroush, % {Tartar or Seljuk Emir who flourished FRsTarything anve aueiie | the period in which the founda- And then the mald dispatched ft-to . |tion of the Turkish empire was be- A magazine for selling. . fng- laid upon hroken bones and ce- w4 mented with ‘blood. What could T do but. sterms‘and-cuse | COthman. Orona, Bajazet; Mahomet Deplore it and bemoan ft,. 11, Selim L. Solyman, Wilhelm IL,” And swear by spaving E say the Turks when celebrating the > That never would I own it! . | names of great leaders unhampered But now I've ceased to rave and |by the anaemic Western and mod- “rife,” 7 exn ideas which forbid the fighting of And grown more humbly quiet, ruddy wars in the good old-fash- For ‘banking eolely on your - style” | ioned manner. The edit wrote, “I'll buy it.” The President of the United States, (John D. Wells'in Buffalo News). a man of peace, an optimist, an idea- list, stands almost, or quite, alone as a holder of a good opinion of Teu- tonic kultur which has not been in- vited by the Teutonic program or proclamationsy How shockingly and shamelessly unjust have been the ‘charges of Germans that their great- est flatterer, the man who cannot be- lleve evil against them, has been pro- Entente and anti-Teutonie. et of admirable bones than the curves so often passing current under the adjec- intensely scrubbed, applecheeked maiden, com- | the other, ~Added to this were the monly denominated ‘‘wholesome,” has a wide following. Yet so has the dark lady, redolent of mystery as well as the bathtub. Finally, we seem to re- call a sentiment amounting almost to disfavor directed by youth toward s 1 those too outstanding beauties who were the object of many admiring eyes and rendered one's awkwardness One might dance such a houri for the thrill of it. For steady. diet, for the calm hunclr| which results in friendship and mar- seem to her hand read so she can learn from | positive handicap or not, bel.uty’ .|: population were, first of all the great, famine in_ Iréland and the hard timps in Germany on the one hand, and the’ discovery. -of -gold in California on contact ‘with our native-born citizens who'show 1A many instances an gi- most ;contemptuous regard for Jaw and its restrictions. The really great- est menace ‘has been from pegation of ‘these peoples in the centers, ‘whereby custom and ideas adquired in the home land have been perpetuated and there .has been a stated disin- clination toward acceptance of pure- ly American ways and ideals. *“What now is to be done? These peoplps have come with two objects in view—a - bettering of' their. for- tunés and the freedom of life. ' That they have found:both of theése is a matter of fact. Their economic’ gain has been amasing, for: the .most part maintaining ' themselves in 'comfort- able circumstances, and in many in- stances amassing’ great wealth . and ‘sénding frequent sums of money home for the support of relatives and ; friends. But ‘more -remarkable hgs Been the wonderful social gain where- by undeér our 'institutions' the lot of ‘these people has become supremely ‘blessed ‘above that they ' kmew in ‘Burope,” and the children of the sec- ond and- third - génerationhave risen ‘to high ‘positions, in many instances outdistancing the children of the na- ‘tive born.. Politically they have also made great successes. = “In consideration of these things what have the people of our country | and the government a right to expect? Blood ties are very strong and the spell of one's Fatherland is likewise powerful but the great question is what are a man's highest longings htest dreams? Reply to this to be found in mest suc- a- tion of Independence, that among the inalienable rights of humanity are ‘Life, liberty and the pursuit of hap- piness?. These are what most men desire and the land and government and institutions that best guarantee these are most worth while and ought to win love and confidence and alle- glance. That these privileges are to be found in our country is axiomatic, and what is asked in return is only than are in any city in the German | that these incoming pgoples who, by empire except Berlin, more Italians | this natjon have been welcomed and than in any city -in Ttaly with the | sheltered and protected and given un- | exception of Naples; more Jews than t limited ‘opportunities for proper de-| were ever In the City of Jerusalem in ; Velopment, should hake grateful ' its palmjest days and twice as many A acknowledgement by becoming cit- - Irish than iIn the City of Dublin. izens and swearing allegiance to their ‘““These startling ' and significant | foster and real mother. In pursuance facts are somewhat indicative of tHe | of this deésire the advantage and right problem which has been created. In ;and privilege of naturalization has many quarters this/immigration has | Deen established by which under cer- increased greatly . the questions of ; tain reasonable conditions thess alien pauperism and ‘crime. A glance at pPeople may obtain citizenship on the the court reports {n our local papers : full parity with our native born. or an inquiry at the charity depart. ' This matter of . naturalization has ment of our city will show the truth been in the vears past for the most of this. But for the most part these part exploited by political parties peoples have added aj strong element Who have encouraged aliens to Amer- to. our population. some Ways lu.p citizenship simply to get votes? they: have shown themselves worse 'But American citizenship ought than OuF native-born citizens, but in to mean something more fhan merely many ways they have proved them. voting and cheering for a certain par- selves better. These. people | bring ty. For ome I am inclined to think with them for the most part a gen. - that this method of _induction into eral instinot of regard for law, and citisenship has tended to.belittle: the ‘whatever abuses thers may have been -high sigunificance and ..-—un.lty encouraged , h’y"l % intolerable burdens of taxation, es- pecially. for military establishments in various European nations, poitti- cal, and religious persecutions at va- rious times, and our free institutions and ° democratic soverpment,' to- gether with the healthy .condition of our labor, market in which greatly higher. wages could be obtained than in European .countries. . “The frst. immigration was from the North and, West of Europe, prin- cipally the Teutons and Celts, but af- ter 1882, because of better soclal and industrinl conditions in.Germany and Britain, the .character. of the jmmi- gration - changed and immense num bers from. South and Eastern Eu- rope began to pour in, Slavs, Rus- sians, ItaNans and peoples from the Balkan regions.” New Problem for U. S. The speaker then-gave some in- teresting illustrations showing _ the great volumn of < this immigration and the perplexing problem’ which “it aised. 4 “Whole cities of peoples from ° the various = countries landed on our shores,” he said. “The immlgflflon of a single year showed Italians suf- ficlent to’ people a cify the size of Minneapolis, Austro-HungaJians equal in number to the population of De- troit, and Jews and Poles that dupli- cate the Inhabitants of Providence, In the year 1905 there were enough lliterates among sthese incoming peoples to re-populate Kansas City, | Albany, Meriden and New Britain, or, to dut it in another way, & .lptl. year’s immigration was twenty-five thousand more‘than the whole popu- jation of the State of Connecticut, At first this immigration settled for the most part in the West, encouraged by jarge land grants, but later when these gmants were. withdrawn settle- ment was' for the most in the cities ; of the East. Now New York city, as is well known, has large centers of foreign population—more Germans ) A with giving a larger ‘and me ficant meaning to this righ 4 | zenship if the final step were taken in a large public meeting on one of: national holidays. Let the timas known as ‘Néw Citizens Day.” there be a meeting at which all who have applied for citizenship jlll‘ln. the year should be present. Let there ‘be addresses by men of prominence and abllity setting fo the meaning of our Co: principles of government, the:institu- tian and significance of citisenship in a. democracy. Let each new citisen ' be presented by the city or state with ° a little booklet containing the "Deoc< laration of Independence, the Consti« tution of the United States, Lincoin’s address at Gettysburg and such ‘ather speeches of our great men as woulll: ‘be jlluminating, and in addition & few of our national hymne. Let ' each‘ new citizen be given an’' Americah® flag, and together stand and saluts ‘the national emblem. This might da somewhat to make citisenship & " more serious. and important thing than it now appesrs to our.new citt« gens. : ‘“Americans are they who #nd practice American principles ideals; who believe in freeom, & license but freedom, in education, imi: religion, and. a man's .remsonablei worth; who belleve that the governs:i ment gets its power from the | consent of those , and .who believe that all. men were created /. equal and have the right to ‘i Hberty and the pursuit of For such a country it is worth while i | to live and, if necessary, to dfe.” from the standpoint of the Owls, take place Wednesday evening wh the annual whist and dance will be held in Electric hall. The following will ‘carry out the program: issem - Virginia Coby and Gertrude McGreg=. ory, of the Soby Dancing Hartford, will give a auum bition, Master H. Jack e% character sketch: Miss Irene 4 of Plainville vocalist and °violnigt, " Master Archibald . Waters, violl ) Mrs. -Carr, soloist;, ‘R. ‘Dorflinger, ‘di= rector of music. Dance music > be furnished by the Owls’ orchestrs and after the dance refreshments will & be served. - tiw NOMENATED B YPRESIDENT. : o ‘Washington, March 12.—President * ‘Wilson today sent the following nom«; inations fo the senate: Willlam H. Pa (“Big Bill") Edwards of New Yorky collector of internal revenue for the second district of New York; Charles | R. Rattigan of Auburn, New Yark, customs collector at Rochester; -Afe. belt L. Moisse of Philadelphia, toms appraiser at Philadelphia, GEORGE ST. JOHN RESIGNS. George 8. John, for the past = years employed by the - Connectis company as starter at the' t has left the employ of that pany. Mr. St. John has return the Corbin Cabinet Lock: where he was fo! 'y { b BT