New Britain Herald Newspaper, June 28, 1917, Page 6

HING COMPANY. tors. p: Pted) at 4:15 p. e e Ghureh Sb. t New Britain atter. ) % deg to any part of the city week, 65 conts a month. paper to be sent by mail, ‘advance, €0 cents & month, table advertléing medium in Ofrculation books and press Ve open to advertisers. Will be found on sale at Hota- Stand, 42nd St. and Broad- ‘ork City; Board Walk, At- ty, and Hartford Depot. this sacred maxim receive D impression upon our “that if avarice, if extar- luxury, and political cor- are suffered to become .among us, civil discord, izein of our country will ,8Peedy oonsequence of vices.* But while pa- is the leading prinociple, " laws are contrived with s wake of General Pershing: mthoutroo)l.two bw'qo;mm TUnited States? Oh, nol s ,fhe ‘grest armanda A Was comprised, in part, wth m‘”‘ ting of the “'l’ of this board. Pre- fi.mm- ot the puznuw PR in the best of police .18 natural to forecast that ng. . That the public must les of these public ser- ond the question. this order of the Mayor d on the ground that it . For fear that board created to look after the tnter- ests of the city’s police department there is no ‘need of starting on new tactics that embody the very fundar metals of autocratic government. Anyway, we are not so sure that keeping the press out in the cold will help matters at all There is always the danger of a leak: somewhere and then of grossly exaggerated stories Let the boys see for themselves what is going on rather than have them chase up blind alleys for material upon which to work. The public de- mands news. The public wants news. Above all it wants to know what 1s taking place when its public officials meet. It wants to know how they are going to run things, how they are going to expend its monies. If the new police board is to be & private affair the system might just as well be extended all along the line. It should include all the other boards of the city &nd the common coumcil. The press should not be allowed to know anything that is going on. The public should be kept ignorant. But this is not the idea of Mayor Quigley as judged from his late cam- i/ paign utterances. Then he was all for publicity. Then he was for let- ting the people know everything that was taking place or that' wouM take place. 'Pitiless publicity. As that was the slogan of President Wilson so» it yas the slogan of Mayor Quigle; are sorry to see our chief executive abandon the rudiments of democracy and take up the cloak of imperialism. It cannot be his fault entirely. There must be some pernicious influence back of it all, What is it? Where is ‘1t? Ik it the Kalser? 1Is it in Beriin? Surely it cannot have been inapired by any student of government for the Ppeopls, of thé people, and by the Tonight's the . night,—the night service in the United States military forces should wend their way to the and twenty-one, the men between the ages of twenty-one and thirty-one, the older fellows between the ages of thirty-one and forty, are the ones Wwho are wanted. They are asked to consider well the plight aof the nation. . If they are not married, if they have no dependents, if they are able bodied men here to make the success of this campaign & reality. They should not.hola back. The spirit of p.h-lofln: is grow- @eath. Let us then be up and doing even greater things. We have had En- sion charged that the “coal industry is. paralysing the industries of the boosting. Now that the United States Government has taken a hand in dealers there s, happily, a promise for better conditions. The coal dealers have now pledged themselves to the authorities'at Wash- ington to sell the out-put of the coal | mines at fair and reasonable prices. ts might leak: out ‘a rigid | All the coal interests, anthracite and must be imposed to en- pollo. department and its 0 ‘We are as a nation, ‘fight against Germany 2 may bg made safe for New Britain undertakes to the Union in this instance j this m 8 of von Hinden- o Imperial German Gov- iage are the proceedings 5 n rather than'the & @emocratic city. be hoped that the Mayor /&is order barring the MMeetings of the _police To put a check upon the the préss is, to begin with, L . If there have been of the ethics of jour- the past those sins should &8s are the sins of the past $ !im there ' is ‘s new bituminous, have agreed to this pol- icy of co-operation with the Federal Governmeat. If they do not live up to their word, if they break the cove- nant of honor, they will be forced at the point of legislation to give over their holdings and suffer government- al interference. The government has been pressed by many ‘Interests to take over the production and dis- tribution of coal. If the consumers had been forced to suffer much more | at the hands of the operators there is ; little doubt that such a movement would gain added impetus as the days of summer wane and the wintry | blasts approach. Now we are assured E of reasonable prices on coal during i the coming winter. i The public has “been bhled ana ; muilcted to the last ditch. The people have stood up. under -muo-m preles for, lo these many months, or, more properly, since the world war began. With the entrance of the United States into the conflict the sit- uvation was rapidly becoming unbear- able. There was prediction that the prices on coal would' continue to mount skyward until this all import- ant commodity would sell in the neighborhood of twenty-five dollars a ton. That, indeed, would be the limit of endurance. We have had enough oppression from the coal dealers. They now promise to do better. ‘Whether this promised was squeezed from. them by the government through fear of losing their holdings and giving them over to government agencies for operation, or whether the promise came forth as a result of the patriotic wave sweeping the, country, is immaterial. The main fact is that the csars and barons of the coal in- dustry have been forced to abdicate. And with their stepping down from the throne must come cheaper coal. FACTS AND FANCIES, Fortunately for the fool he doesn't know that he is one.—Bridgeport Tel- egram. —_— 5 ‘What became of the old-fashioned theory that a short man could do more work than a tall one, due to the fact that he was oloser to the ground ?—Capper’s Weekly. Funny thing about those women who never leave the house and ‘ yet they know everything that is going on in town.—Meriden Journal. Bvery time the British push. the Germans back Hindenburg retaliates by promising the pan-Germans a pan- German peace.—Springfield Republi- can. Dun’s review indicates that business has prepared itself not to be serious- ly disturbed by eventualities.—Pater- son Call. Germany will see to it that never again will Belgium serve as a base of attack for English troops—Vossische Zelitung. b ? Yes, the way the British myriads smashed through Belgium in 1914 and fell upon poor Germany was shock- ing.—New York World. It was nice of that Australian pa- per to say that America always fights “on the side of the angels”, but it ‘doubtless realizes that America needs airplaines, too.—New Haven Union. Apparently. any visitor to Russia who wants to quit that country in .a hurry can obtain quick.passage across the frontier by announcing that he bears a peace offer from Berlin.—New York Sun. Senator Reed is so opposed to hav- ing Mr. Hoover tell mothers what food to feed to their babies that he would also prevent him from telling them how to get it.—Boston Transcript. A poor, tired, little housewife's idea of a fine vacation is to get away from handling the broom and go and see the ocean breeze doing the sweeping a while.—Paterson Call. —_— A brother of Lord Northcliffe is the fourth man to decline the post of food controller; it may yet have to be filled by conscription.—Springfleld Republican. ‘With tomato plants at $2 a dozen at Pittsfleld and none to be had, the dealers might just as well make the price $5 a dozen.—Boston Globe edi- torial. ~Usually in such instances it is the other way, as in the case of the man who advertised potatoes at 50 cents & bushel and in reply to inquiries said that was his price when he had any. —Berkshire Eagle, The Fair Little Maiden. “There is one at the door, O’Driscoll, . At the door, who' is bidalhg you come!” “Who is he that wakes me in the darkness, Calling when dumbs?” Wolte all the world's “Six horses has he to his carriage, 8ix horses blacker than the night, And their twelve red eyes in the shadows Twelve lamps hn carries for his light; “And his coach is a coffin black and mouldy, A huge black coffin open wide; He asks you your soul, Wolfe O'Dris- coll. ‘Who is calling at the door outside.” “Who let him through the gates of my gardens ‘Where stronger bolts have never ‘been 7" “ "Twas the father of the fair little maiden You drove to her grave so green.” “And who let him pass through the courtyard, By loosening the bar and the . chain?" “Oh, who but the brother of maiden, ‘Who lies in the cold and the rain!” the “Then ‘who drew the bolts at the por- tal, And into my house bade him go?” “She, the mother of the poor young maiden, ‘Who lies in her youth &0 low.” “Who stands, that he dare not enter The door of my chamber, be- tween 2" “O, the ghost of maiden, ‘Who lies in the churchyard grean.” —DORA SIGERSON, the fair little |__NEW BOOKS AT THE INSTITUTE | Cyclel Rim, by Mrs. O. 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The play usually con- sisted in nothlng more riotous than meeting my friends and talking with them.” . “Something to . thankful for.” be . unreservedly P. F. Bicknell—Dial. e . Life of the Grasshopper, by J. H. C. Fabre. “Twenty essays which have all the charm of his other scientific essays.” —A. L. A. Booklist. DR New Poetry, Ed. by Harriet Monroe and Alice Corbin Henderson. “Authology of the work of about one hundred of the modern poets.” COMMUNICATED: PREPOSTEROUS, OUTRAGEOUS, ‘Weekly Grocery Bills Border on Trag- edy—Long Live the “Co-op.” New Britain, June 26, 1917. To the Editor of the Herald: ‘Will you kindly allow me a small space In your valued paper? 1 cannot resist a comment on the fact disclosed in’ yesterday's paper, that the retail grocerymen are pre- paring an ultimatum which bodes no good to the co-operative stores, formed by employes of the various manufacturing concerns. A very natural measure; for self-preserva- tion is one of nature’s fundgmental laws. But is not the law equally ap- plicable to the employes? If a® work- ing man’ is to keep his family, with any degree of comfort, during these days of sKy-rocket-y prices, the co- operative store plan is necessary. He must avail himself of some such rea- sonable plan. Why should he pay four or five cents a pound more for every bit ©f foodstuff consumed by his family, in order that his grocer may prosper as usual? Especially since money does not grow for the poor man as plentifully as black- berries! I wish that my own household were “In” on the co-operative plan—— when I peruse our grocer's weekly bill, for it is, milding speaking, pre- posterous, outrageous, tragic—almost sacrilegious! These days are ones of sacrifice. Surely, it is the part of wisdom not to sacrifice more than is necessary. Let one hundred, or even two hun- dred grocers be sacrificed then,—if thereby thousands of working men and their families are going to be spared cruel privations and insured a degree of comfort. Let the grocers get a job in the factories and share the much-needed benefits of the co- operative store, until war days are past and prices back to nornial! Long live the co-operative stores! Down with the grocers’ selfishneas! Is it not part of your patriotic *bit,” Grocers, to rejoice that so many more Americans can be kept com- fortable during these times of sac- rifice—while our country is marching on to victory? Very truly yours, F. D L. BOYS WIDL BE BOYS. Ringing Door Bell Still in Fashion ‘With Numerous Other Pranks. Editor of the Herald: Some of the youngsters In the east- ern part of the city persist still in ringing people’s door bells, and by the time the call is answered, they have skipped by the light of the moon, and space only is visible, while they no doubt are 4n hiding and | laughing at the little joke they havo | played on you. Flower beds that the lady of the house has spent a great' deal of time | on, are not forgotten by these young- | sters, until they have demolished nearly everything on it and only wish | there were more of them. There is; another class of these kids ldoking | for alms, they ring you ‘down to your ; door, and ‘fill your ears with a pitiful 1 and woe-begone tale, in hopes that ! you will go down in your jegns, and hand them a few nickles, as this Is ' an old “gag” they fail to connect, and | make thelr exit using language that would not look well in print. If a few applications of the cat-o-nine talls were well applied to these youngsters, it would no doubt learn them a lesson long to be remembered. G. H. GRIMES, 865 Stanley St. MYSTERIOUS MALADY RAGING. Cape Girardeau, Mo., June 28—Six- teen children have died within the last few days and more than 25 are il from a mysterious malady which has afflicted the town of Oran, in Scatt county. - Doctors say the symp- toms resemble ‘those of enterocolitis. This is an inflammation of the intes- tines and is prevalent mostly among small children. { who was riding the cycle, THE INSTITUTE Military Books. Engineer in w-.r. hy P, 8. Bond. Home Gulrd mnuu .. Mlnutn.cturo of Ar(lllcry Ammunitior. Military Prlmer. by F. C. Marshall and G. S. Stmonds. ) Submarine Torpedo Boat, by Allen Hoar. ““Of interest to the general reader as well as to the technical man_and naval engineer. ".——A. L. A. Booklist. . e Technique of Modern Tactics, by P. S. Bond and M. J. MacDonough. Universal Drill Manual, by E. J. 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O. 8. distress signal. The French steamer, answering the S. O- S. rushed to .the rescue The detalls of what happened are given by the c.pmin, who says: “When we recelved the S. O. 8. from a ship pretending to be the Norwegian vessel Bergen I gave or- ders to rush to the point indicated, at the same time wirelessing that 'we were coming at full steam. When we made the ship she appeared to be floating normally, but with all lights out. Judge of our jsurprise when within three lengths of her a searchlight ' was played on us, and the Norwegian flag was lowered ard replaced by a German flag. “Seeing that I had fallen into a trap, I turned about, but a shot had already struck us under the water- line. Three more shells struck us in quick succession. We were so near the corsair that we could hear the of- ficers gibing at us with cries of “Vive la France!” We launched our boats, but one was hit and four occupants killed. We sent out an 8. O. 8. and were soon afterward picked up by a British cruiser, the German ship mak- ing off.” NAVY AGE LIMIT- No More Enlistments Unless Appli- cant Is Eighteen or Older. . Chief Radio Eléctriclan M. 8. Brain- ard, U. 8. N, in charge of the local navy recruiting station, has been noti- fied that hereafter no more men will be accepted for enlistment unless they are eighteen years of age or older. He has 2lso been notified that ten more recruits will be sent to Newport for training on July 2, some of whom will be from this city. The Navy League is sending out a large number of posters with a col- ored picture of the Navy League flag, which states that “The Navy League has the honor to announce that this house has furnished a man for the nation’s defense.” These posters will be tacked on the homes of all naval recruits. The navy department, through the bureau of navigsdtion, has sent out similar posters. MOTOROYOLIST FINED Police Oourt Has Sequel to « Sunday Collision This Morning. Max Zurat, represented by Attorney Elas T. Ringrose, and Willlam Sund- gren, represented by Atforney P. F. McDonough, were arraigned hefore Judge James T- Meskill in police court this morning, charged with operating a motorcycle and an auto- mobile recklessly on Farmington ave- nue last Sunday. Pleas of not guilty were entered by both. According to the testimony, Zurat, rashed into Sundgren’s automobile at the junction of Washington street and Farmington avenue. Each at the time placed the blame on the other. The testimony today showed Zurat to be at fault, and he was assessed $10 without costs. Sundgren was dis- | charged. KEOUGH A CANDIDATE. Stanley Works Employe After Clerk- ship of Fire Commission. ‘The board of fire commisaioners will meet this evening at which time the principal business will be the ap- pointment of a clerk. There are two candidates, Howard A. Timbrell, a re- porter on the Record, and John Keough, employed as a clerk at the Stanley Works. Other routine business will be taken up, including receiving bids on heaters for the several fire stations and for the retubing of the old steamer at No. 2 Engine House. The modern idea as to saving shoe leather is te use gasoline.-—Bridge- port DEMONSTRATIOR «#AND® ~Tuday | tire country. MACHINE 0c CLUB PLAN THE “FREE” SEWING N, /i Jn ’E“i J LB Al of its long-standing, durable quali- ties and the excellent reputation it Guaranteed For Life Yes, we mean just If at any time the workmanship. proves faulty, a new part is sup- plied free for the asking. we say. FIRST PAY} ‘ Only 10c & &t Members of Club get & discount. The FREE Machine . | - Gity ltems Clerk E. J. Danberg of the city court has prepared a list of 100 cases “which have been on the docket for some time, and uniess they are claimed for trial before court time Friday, they will be stricken from the docket, Judge William F. Mangan Bridgeport on business. The police received a compiaint from G. M. Landers’ residence early this morning, that a man was prowl- ing about. Investigation by officers failed to disclose the prowler. Members of the family of James M Curtin of West Main street"attended a mass in Waterbury this morning for the late Rev. Jeremiah J. Curtin, who died recently. The New Britain Retall Grocers’ assoclation will meet this evening at 8 o'clock in Turner hall for ths pur- pose of organizing- Thomas Hickey, has tendered his resignation as a clerk at the Hotel |/ Bronson cafe to accept a similar po- sition in Providence, R. I. Luther G. Berry, formerly sales- man for the local branch of Armour & Co., has accepted a position with the Cudahy Packing Co. of Water- bury. = Simon Kennedy of Meriden, through Attorney 1. Henry Mag, has brought suit against Steve and Nicholas FPo- litz of this city to recover $60 for money loaned. The papers twere served by Constable Fred Winkle. The writ is returnable before Justice of Peace Willis 1. Fenn in Meriden, July 14 IMMIGRATION OFFICER COMING. Chief Rawlings of the police depart- met, this morning received word from the United States immigration com- missioner in‘ Boston, Mass, that an officer will be sent to this city to take in charge Peter Mallkowski, arrested yesterday at the request of the de- partment. - According to the informa- tion ' availabile, the authorities assert that the man is demented and sub- ject to deportation. Several- years ago he was arrested at the instance of his wife for non-support and, fol- lowing an investigation by a physi- cian, he was found to be mentally week. Of late years, however, he has contributed to the support ot his family. o CHILD DROWNED IN CANAL. Shelton, June 28.—Stanley Jablen- sky, eight, was drowned in the Housatonic Water Power company's cansl late yesterday. He, with a younger brother, had been fishing. In falling into the water the lad held his fish pole, the end of which wa embedded in the cadal bottom, Fait an hour later Joseph Kendrick duve for the body following downward the fSshing pole until it was located. P CAUSE I)F luhnquant d-nlowun& i death of Peter H.: W tender at the Hotel Regsl, w death was recorded in last night's f sue of .the Herald, showed .that demise was due to suicide, having tied a belt around his in the Hartford Retreat shortly 1 o'clock yesterdsy afternoon, - fornuuon given by friends pt deceased yesterday afternoom; cated that death was due to causes. A McGinley was removed to the fa- siitution last Friday . after friends had, noticed the peculiar and-irtar tional manner in which he was acting and taliing. While walking with friends Iast Thursday, the d informed them that ‘“someone % going to get me,” and a few moments later when an automobile hove. . in. sight, McGinley threw his hands. the air and shouted, “There they: now,” and ran away. 'While h‘u room at the Hotel Regal R was nt to the manager, he st up ‘in bed all night and continued t0 sct ‘strangely, talking incoherently at times and also speaking of \sol- diers standing about him. Dr. Peter ‘W. Fox was called to attend him and- later Dr. M. W. Kinsella and it was. deemed advisible to remove him .te a place of safety. Visited by friends this week at th retreat, McGinley still insisted that someone was ‘“after him” He ate his dinner as usuasl shortly after 13 o’clock yesterday and about 1 o'clock, when a nurse went to his room, she found him dead with the belt about his neck sugpended from a bed post. Medical Examiner P. D. Bunce ex- amined the remains. 5 The deceased came to this city . from Rutland, Vt, and entered . tha employ of D. J. Mullin. He a happy disposition. and wide acquaintance. He lhaa been. much support to his family in- Rut-: land, consisting of seven brothets and sisters. Recently he was called home on account of serious illness in the famil and this is belleved to have on his mind Another report heard is to the effect strangers in the cafe of the threatened him when he refused: h sell them liquor. h‘ body m taken to m intermend,