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

MRALD PUBLISHING COMPANY, Proprietors. 4 daily (Sunday exoepted) & £ @t Herald Butlding, ¢ < —_— &g at the Post Ofice ab New Second Class Mail M . 3 ? fer to any part of the city ts & week, 65c. & month.. Tor paper (o be spnt by matl, in advance. €0 cents & moath $7.90 a yeau: < v red by ca for 15 cen iptions te 42 only profitable mdvers! medium ‘n the city: Circulation. booke and rress always onen to advertisers. Terald will be found on.sal ‘Mag'e News Stand. 41nd St. aflu' York City; Board Cit/, and Hartford Depo:. CALLS. E TELEPH Office Workers and Warriors. | “The industrial forces of the Sountry, men and women alike. Will be a great national, ‘a great internationa! service army—a no- fable and honored host engaged in the servicegof the nation and the World, the efMicient friends and sa- ¥lors of" free men everywhere. housands, hundreds of thousands men otherwise liable to military vice will, of right and of neces- #ity, be excused from that service d ‘assigned to the fundameutal Justaining work- of the fields and ctories’and mines. and they will e as much part of the great pa- otic forces of the nation as the fen under fire”. —WOOUDROW WILSON. B’ NEW BRAIAIN DAILY HERALD 5 i - 7 g ! UESDAY; APRIL, 24,1917 in this war are at the disposal of the { United states. Volunteering in “Eng- land was a fallure. It has already proven a failure in this country. Since the declaration By Congress that n state of war cxists between this coun- try and Germany there has been a call for volunteers iy till the ranks of the Army. and the Navy, and the National Guard. Some six hungred men were ‘called- fo come forth. { having yolunteered there is fio other choice but the meth- od: proposed by the President®and en- dorsed by the leading men in cduca- tional and other walks of life. thousand They have not & . CAVALRY HORSES, So much attention has been paid to the development-of the automobile in dustry in this country during the past deccade that the horsc has heen some- what neglected. In’ the midst of war attention is dalled to the lack of cav- The men in the army now deplore the ‘lack ‘breeding which_has brought about a dearth of these horses. [t is not too late . to remedy the copditions prevalent’ in the kingdom of the horsc. In many parts of the country there is an added interest taken in horse- manship, all of which augurs well fox the future of the horse. \With renewed interest in the sport of racing breed- the alry remounts, of crs will soon he able to furnish Government with the proper horses for the cavaliy and other branches of the service. The army mulc, an Amer- ican idea. has been brought to the highest state of development. The army horse has likewise becn bred with the utmost care, but his number has materially fallen away. Here then is a great opportunity for those who have in the past been am- bitlous to enter the business of breed- ing horses. The vast lands of the South and the Southwest recently | thrown open to the public by the Gov- PLANT TODAY. contribution to the censerva- raf foodstuffs that New Britain J/make will in turn effect an iomy in the state of Connecticut, £ s any effoft of Connecticut in 8 entefprise will make itself ma- fally felt by the nation. George M. ders, appointed by the Gavernor “member of the State Food iy “Committee, has pointed out Jin this city alope therg are ‘one d acres of registéte Further, he calls t that only half of rm ‘1and is worked: during the year. As this ig 3 year, one fraught y otential possibilities nt;w it duty -of every fatheéfiof m jily to ponder well the Benéfis to inéd by planting - a: ghrden. nd to which attention; i called for the most part, been 1aid open e who desire to till it~ The es and the other owner§ of jdand have generously o'l.'*'d it ose who manifest a desire to lend ping hand in laying low the high Bt ‘of living. Now is the time for on. Spring is here. Plant today. & NO OTHER WAY, om the University of 'Virginia, d by Thomas Jefferson, comes ® subjoined petition to Congress by the president of the insti- and all the membeYs of the s faculties: ng firmly of the opinion that ‘Wmerican soldiers to’ be ‘enlisted P the war against Prussianism should I8 chosen, as President. Wilson advises, on the principle of universal lia. by to service, and heing convinced at the vast majority of the young i enrolled as students at this insti- believe in this principle, we do lereby respectfully but strongly urge je Congress of the United States to bte .promptly for the same as em- in the army bill indorsed by Administration. We emphatically fieve that the choice of soldiers’ by getive draft is not only the most | sticable method, but also the most | sratic and the most jus 4 Edward A. Alderman, president he University of Virginia, and his ates In _arts, letfers, and the Bences, may be counted on to ad- e the consensus of opinion among | ‘students. “Those who have delved B history will readily admit that the | ering system is not the ideal | hod of raising an army in a demo- country. The principle of se- draft as advanced and advo- ted by President Wilson approaches ’@wl more nearly than any other gested In this day. i i 15 not conscription in the true lise of the word, It differs from, w taken place in Germany. Nor be likened ‘to the draft as ex- ed in our own Civil War. “raising an army under the selec- & graft this nation will place in the | # only those men who are best {0 go into the field. Aside from | it will hold at home an industrial ufficient to take care of the ma- i \needs of the men who have gone y. Experiencg shows that for ery mian who goes to the front there ‘five mem naeded at home to turn fhe necessaries of war. The. les- learned by England and France | eountry to the riilroads then opening or | ernment should furnish at least a small means of rehabilitating the horse#b his former prestige and glory. ‘The United States Government has al- ready established a stock farm of its own on the soil of Virginia, not far outside the city of Washington, D. C., where all those interested will “be given any help needed to start in the great work of preserving the particu- lar breed of horses needed for cavalry OREGON-CALIFORNIA LAND CASE Away back in the Sixties the United States Government. granted certain Tands ' in the . great Northwestern up-that territory. These grants werce given with the understanding that the land be purchased by the railroads at $2.50 an acre; that the railroads re- sell the land to settlers at the same price: that in the event of mineral ‘discovery the land should revert to the Federal Government. The railroads sold the land in ques= tion to those early settlers who wended their way west after the ad- vice of Horace Greeley: but the fail- roads, in most cases, collected more than $2.50 an acre for the land. When the raiircads found tracts of land that contained valuable mineral deposits they saw that these lands were kept undér the careful fingers of the corporations. Those who held title to any such lands did so in trust for the companies. Yesterday ‘the United States Su- { preme Court dccided that the Pacific | roalreads have violated their original contract with Uncle Sam and that these \valuable land grants must be turned over to the Government. 1In Oregon and Washington the Govern- | ment will retain 2,300,000. acres of land valued at $30,000,000. That is the value today. Experts. agree that eventually this land will possess a value of almost one billion :dollars. Any land the railroads are alléwed to hold will yvieldits timber and minerfil { wealth to the pecople of the United. States, not to the corparations. | Becalse District ‘Attorney Marshall’ of New York saw fit 10 criticise certain { members of Congress'for questionable | actions he was peremptorially *har- contempt prpceedings. Yesterday the Uhited.States Supreme Court vindicated him. In thé decision the court. points out that Congress has no power. éxpressed. to punish anvbody for contempt. In ‘Bagrant cages, when the_attack on Congress is sufficient to warrant such proceedings they must be conducted under implied powers nof yet proven. The Chief Justice contends that to allow Con- gress to punish those who criticise its { actions would be to strike deep “at the very root of representative govern- ment”. Thus has free specch won an® other victory. ; ragsed with The selective ; Germany has now Invited all Amer- ican newspaper correspondents within its borders to leave the country. The boys must have been writing the , truth about the food riots and strikes in the munition works. Otherwise, I why send them away? Truth hurts. The full havoc of war will be real- ized by the young when they are put . to pulling weeds in amateur gardens. | —Bartimore American, Again we Wwould like to.inquire of the weather works what the wind does at night that it gets up so late‘ in the day?-—Charlotte News. 1t food control intensifics in Eng- land those fellows will wake up some. morning to face the dreadful pros- pect of only threc meals a day.—Ex- change. - Russia flonts a liberty loan, Great Britain a victory loan, Germany a U-Boat loan. Perhaps the last should be an L O. U.-Boat loan.—Springfield Republican. Villages, towns and cities have no ! foom "for loafers this vear. Send them to the ficlds where there will be lack of workmen and stlF plenty of { work ta do.—Utlca Observer, In this war the big job in Kansas | will be to hustle the grub for the bovs in the teenches and in the munition | factories. And there Is considerable patriotism in_being & harvest hand in Kansas this vear.—Emporia Gazette, When the emergency comes We propose to leave the women to do the work and supply an eager public with this daily rag. while we take the | Seven Reasons and show th® Teu-| tons a thing or two.—Tipton (Ga.) Gazette, . Today it takes over, three ounces of silver to buy a bushel of wheat. Yes, we used to be told by a certain, school of statesmanship that an ounce of silver and a bushel of wheat would always invariably exchange at equal value.—Norwich Record. Sir Sam Hughes, former minister of militia in the neighboring British dominion, says that railroad contrac- tors and newspaper men make good officers, but lawyers, unless properly trained, are too metaphysical. Rail- road contractors are used to handling men, and newspaper workers arc quick and observing he says, But with the lawyers “the habit of bal-| ancing one thing against another de- lays decision.” Of course, newspaper men will be grateful for the unex- pected compliment.—Springficld Re- publican, “I Hear You Calling.” (Reprinted by request from Herald of December 23, 1916). Ole Cap Kida was a slick old soul, Before he died he amassed a role; But he never knew what he could do On the stock exchange with a branch or two. In Cap Kidd's day when the world was young If they broke the law they'd all be hung: But now they call ‘em right and left If they deal in stocks and are neat and deft. A man named Glove just the other day Decided to take some change away To give to his relatives far and near So they'd be protected when days came drear. He bought a seat on the steck ex- change, Went out gunning on the market's range, | He shot so fast and he shot so fine He slew all the sheep in the gam- boling line. When the sheep were slain and blood was stirred He waded in for another herd. | Then he got the lambs and the bulls | and bears And when he quit he had all of theirs bis | | With the money he got he formed a ring Which he called a company,—it's the same old thing,— And Glove & Co. sang While business was rushing with. a biff and bang. 4 Yes, ole Cap Kidd was a slick old bo ! But a piker compared with Glove & Co., When they get the boys running, they give one shove! Oh, you might kid Kidd, but you can't ®kid Glove. NOT BY JOHN McCORMACK. COMMUNICATED. THE PUBLIC BIE DAMYED. Aged Lady With Failing Sight Vic- tiy of Trolley Crew's . ' humatie Treatment. 3 . April 33, | To the Editor of the Herald; _While ineffi¢ierfoy of street ‘employes is still fresh in the public "mind “pleas# ‘allow me. space to call attention to’a ‘glartng case of-deliber- ‘ate disregard of: the welfare.of pas- sengers of the part of the crew for Arch’ street, leaving Central park at £:07 tonight (Monday). 7 A White haired lady, whose sight was impaired and who appeared to be at least seventy yvears of age, entered the car at Central park and requested the conductor to stop at Minor &> Cor- bin's box shop on Arch street. The conductor transmitted the request to the motorman while the latter was raising the semaphone signal at the $outh Congregational. church. Mr. Motorman grumbled something about “stopping at the next stop” and the conductor- offered no remonstrance. True to his ord, the motorman did stop at t#€ next stop, West Pearl street several hundred feet beyond the spot at which the aged woman de- sired to leave the car. 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Mil- discipline begins with the must ne imparted to the brain A rounded shoulder is a slack rope. | The soldier whose body sags out of shape spends almost as much energy in pulling himself together as he does other hand the man whose muscies are disciplined is at a balance, ready at once to respond to any command [from the brain. When a man's muscles are soft, they sullenly resent all orders from the hrain. They have not learned to obey. The nerves must be even more strictly disciplined. For cven if a sol- dier’s muscles are trained to execute any order he receives. if his nerves rum away with him, good legs only him faster. And discipline the mind is most important of all, for | the. mind administrates through the nerves. A disciplined mind will think pre- cisely. That s why military training requires that a soldier speak pre- cisely. That is why military training receiving and transmittng orders, in making out reports, in addressing a letter. The crispness of military in- ‘tercourse does not stunt mental de- velopment. But war is the most ex- act of miodern sclences and a soldier { must strive to hecome exact. In other j words, he mply taught HOW to think—not WHAT to think. | he will understand | panies make wmd become imbedded in the ! in the specified motion itself. On the | of | As soon as a soldier begins to think his place in a group formation. He will famiharize nimself with his work in a squad, and ik that way dis- cover his importance to the command as a whole. The squad .consists of eight men, in_two rows of four. It is under the command of a corporal. Two squads form a section, under the command of a sefgeant . Three sections (at peace strength) form a platoon and two platoons a company. a hattalion, talions, plus a headquarters company, a regiment. The young soldier learns that, as, the squad moves, so the company or the regiment. mov He learns that if he individually e fie receives in the appointed space at the appointed moment, 2 whole reziment may wheel from squad to company front and back again, example, without the loss of a step. Fach part of the machine will fit per- fectly into place. On the other hand, it he as an individva) falls down in his part, the squad evolutlon is spoiled, the symmeiry of the com- pany 1s broken and the whole regi- ment suffers in consequence. The re- sponsibility rests upon ecach man this the vounz soldier’ must learn. And he must also learn that discipline is the quickest means yet devised to give any body of soldicrs that per- fect team work, that automatic, ung congeious co-ordinaticn without which battles and eampaigns cannot be suc- nd fought. compa explain th the soldier le will lamental position of and its importance. (Copyright. 1917, by the Wheeler) Syndicate, Inc.) . men emploved ®n New Bgitain line: Jnvack, lack of intefligencd’ seems to be the prime requisite for candidates who- enter +the -employ of .the Con- necticut company. = To make matters worse, the con- ductor in topight's case offered no apology tothe lady and so fagMorgot hi$ manners—if he ever had any--as ta neglect to assist her to the street but conténted himself by, lounging.in the. the platform, with a vacuous expres- sion ot his countenance that can-best pbe described by that’ inelegant bt forcefy} phrase, “Nobody home.” Two tugs’on’ the beli cord.and the*incident was closed for him but not for : ONE WHO' SAW IT. HOWER FOR'MISS MOORE. A miscellancous, shower was held last evening,at, the home of the Misses Laura and Ida Hancock of 31 Fair- view street in honor of the approach- ing marriage of Miss Lucy Moore to J. Walter Lawrence. During the eve- being a mock marrjage in which Miss Moore was the bride, Miss Laura Han- cock the groom, and Miss Gladys At- water the officiating clergyman. doorway, half in the car-and half on | _hody was picked up at the passenzer | : station. ning games were played, the feature | ACCIDENT VICTIM IDENTIFIED. — \Vll"v of Man Killed by .Cars Recog- nizes Remiains, ‘Although she bordered om, a state of | hysteria after viewing the remaips of }_ho victim of the accident at the depot | last Wednesday oveping, Mrs. Alex | ‘Sdbrynowicz of 144 Grove street iden- tified_the body in John A. Andrews’ undertaking rooms -last” evéning, as that of her‘husband who was missing for more than a week. Certaln marks on the bady gave the weman the clue. The victim hgd, been ermployed by the Nortir & Judd Manufacturing company up to a week ago.. His dis- appearance caused his wife some con- cern, but because of her inability to read the papers, mews-of the finding | of the body did mot reach her until | vesterday. when a friend called her attention to the fact that an unknown | The deceased was about 23 | vears of age. The funeral will be held ‘Thursday morning from his late pivots upon the handling of a squad. ' Four com- | three bat- | a machine gun company and a supply | cutes the orders ! for | i These DIES AT HOSPITAL DOORS ugust F. Foth Was Being Taken There for Treatment. Seized with an attack .of heart i trouble brought on, it is believed. by | the excitement and exertion attend- {ing his transter, August F. Foth, aged { 58 vears, one month and eighteen jdays. of 139 Cherry street. a pneu- monia patient, died suddenly as he was being admitted to New night. CURATE GOES T0 PROVIDENCE Rev. Carlos E. Jones of St. Mark’s Church Accepts Invitation to Bes Rev. Fiske, 30, Rev. Carlos E. Jones, curate at St.#8 Kk‘s church. will nag return to higs in the middle west when he come Associated With 3 H Britain | severs his connection with the local He will learn that | Gieneral hospital from the police am- | church soon afte¥ May. 1: the handling of large bodies of men | hulance shortly befors 9 o'clock last|was announced today, he will become He had been seriously ill with | senior curate at St. Stephen’s church.’ Inst i the disease and his transfer to the !|at Providence, R. I. having received hospital was considered advisable. He |a call a few days ago. St. Stephen’s | was seized ‘with the fatal attack while !is the second largest parish in the city’ in the ambulance and despite a rush |and the invitation to become associat-’ trip and emergency treatment :by the} ed witl. it is. considered no little com-" policemen in charge was btreathing ipliment. ! his last when the hospital was réached. ! Born in Germany, he had béen:a ! resident of<this city fot many years. | having been employed as a.lockmaker at the Russell & Erwin plant. Be- sides his wjfe, he is survived by six daughters, Mrs. Kittie Yorgenson of Hartford, Mrs. Augusta Hemingway, Mrs. Florence McHaley, Misses Lilllan and Elsie Foth, and one son, Freder- iick Foth. The funera! will he held from his home at 2 o'elock Thiursday | afternoon with Rev.Wanren F: Cook i pastor of Trinity Methodist church, | officiting. The burial will be'ih Fair- { view cemetery. i AUSTRIAN SOLDIER SUED. Action Is Brought to Clear Local | Property Title. ° Because the where;tlvuuu of Joseph Gerent, formeriy of this city, now be- lieved to be fighting in the armies of | Austria, are unknown, notice of his | being made defendant in a civil | suit, brought by Attorney M.:D. Saxe |for Andy Gerent, also of this city, to clear the tifle of real.estate on { High street will be madg¢" by publi- caiion. Gerent s notified, to appear © the superior court’in Hartford the first Tuesday iin June. . The . plaintiff. prays that it' be or- dered by the court that a mortgage on the property be declared invalid as a lien agalnst the real estate in discharged of record- The plaintiff contends that he paid the loan con- nected with the mortgage but that the defendant did not execute a release with a resuit that the mortgage is still on feeord and servés“as a cloud on the, title “of the property. The de- fenllang left this country about Au- gust, 1911, and his whereabouts are claimed to be -unknown. R SOUTHINGTON SEES SNAKES! Southington, April 24.—A bonfire started hy Ernest Hobson of Plants- ville ‘today in his back yard, which -got .away from him and burned over a neighboring lot revealed the pres- ence ‘in the lot of a score of snakes. included copper heads, black and milk snakes, and it is believed one rattler. Threé of the reptiles were burned to death and the others were killed by Hobson. All of the shakes were fairly grown it was said. HOSPITAL: NAMED AS WILL. Norwich, April 24.—The William W. Backus hospital of this clty is named as a beneficiary under the will of Dr. Nathan Johnson, filed for pro- bate tod Dr. Johnson died at Boz- rah, April 17. He was 66 vears old. The estate is estimated at a quarter home with- services in the church of the Sacred Heart. Burial will be in the Polish cemetery. of a million dollars. The hospital will receive the income of a fund of about $125,000. question-and' that it be cancelled and | | i The rector of the church is Rev. George McLellan Fiske, D. -D. who has occupied his office for th | past thirty-three years. In addition to Rector Fiske and Mr. Jones, thé church has a junior curate. N The successor to Mr. Jones at Sty { Mark's church will be Rev. Samuel Sutcliffe, at present rector of Holy I Trinityichurch, San'Juan, Porto Rico Mr. Sutcliffe is a graduate of the Uni- versity of the South. at Sewannee; | Tenn.. and has been in San Juan about two years. He is reported to be very | popular with his parishioners. PROULX MAY SECURE BOND- Magsachusetts relatives have come {to the ald of Donat Proulx, until his store, held for superior court .in 1h0nd5 of $1,000 for alleged deffaud- ing of the “New Haven' road through false .shipping reports, and he is ex- pected to be out on bail before night. Attorney M. D. Saxe, his counsel, was morning with notification that mem-; bers of the family with the neededs- money in cash would arrive in New, Britain today. An attmept was mada: to secure his release yesterday on &. real estate bond but it was not acs cepted because the property in quel tion is located out of the state. MAY BUY MORE LAND. _ The water commissioners, at a meeting last evening, voted to make an offer for the purchase of a plot: of land on Harvard street, adjoining® the city’s storage yard. They also. voted to install a number of additional electric lights at the Burlington reser- voir as a part of the preparedness campaign to protect the city's water- works.: The water commissioners this afternoon visited Shuttle Meadow lake and also inspected the highway ia that vicinity. FLAG AT HALF MAST. As a tribute to the memory of Ser- geant Brown of Company E the flag in Central. Park has been lowered to half mast by his former comrades. ‘The, boys of Company E are at present in charge of ralsing and lowering this flag at marning and night. Sergeant James Kelly and a detail of men at- tend to this matter daily- PARKING SIGN STOLEN. Policemen are investigating the re- port that one of the department’s forty-minute parking signs was found a today by Hartford authorities near Cedar Hill cemetery in that city. Sergeant George J. Kelly at police headquarters was notified shortly be. fore 7 o'clock this morning of the find by the Hartford police. As far as can be learned none of the New Britain official signs are missing. | arrest, manager of the Newark Shoe S ead, it "3 communicated with by telephone thisg é ']