New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 25, 1917, Page 6

NEW BRITAIN DAILY l:lERALD. WEDNESDAY, JULY 25, 917. Britain Herald. D P(;BLXS'HXNO COMPANY. 4 daiiy (Sunday excepted) at 4:15 p. m.. #t Herald Building, 67 Church St 4 at tae Post Office at New Britain &8 Second Class Mail Matter, Mivered by enrrier to any part of the city for 15 cents a week, 65 cents a month. Abscriptions for paper to bs sent by mall ? rylbla in advance, 60 cents a month, 4 7.00 a year. | | | | | %6 only profitabls advertising medium 1% the city. Circulation books and press Foom alwavs open to advertisers. 38 Herald will he found on sale at Hota- | Ung’s News Stand, 42nd St. and Broad- way, New York City; Board “Valk. Al lantie City, and Hartford Depot TELEPHONE CALLS siness Office . Utorial Rooms ing hand that is desired. The execu- tive ability of Mr. Hurley will bring to bear a new order of things. The ! lezal talent and forceful character of 1 come to v f anewered in one war or another by the Bainbridge Colby will insure the proper amount of precaution. All in all, President Wilson has brought about order out of chaos where order was a long time being recognized. THE IRISH CONVENTION. All oyes are now turned on TIreland { where today meets the Irish Conven- tion, the supreme purpose of which is ta bring about some sort of Home Rule for Ireland. Whether this will ss is a question that will be present ccnvention. There have been and will be many | accusations hurled against the Eng- [ ma lish government anent this conven- tion. The ckarge has been freely the convention will even- to be what is com- packed convention.” e that tually he proven manly called “a | That may he so,.and again it may not i be so. || 555, The American Idea. A democracy,—that is a gov- ernmerit of all the people, by all ‘the people, for all the people; of course, a government of the principles of cternal Justice, the lunchanging law of God: for shortness’ sake I will call it the ddea of Freedom. —THEODORE PARKER. REMEMBER THE BLANK. Some of the returned blanks in the rald’'s campaign for i of sailors and soldiers from e | 1 Itain tell sting slorms.i il | | complete New very inter ree blanks received at this office sterday came from the same house. ree brothers are registered Bting ranks of Uncle Sam. fs the things that 2 work of lere the s o patriotism tathes. | 3oon the members of the | nal army will called ors,—the men who are e in the These | to and show add interest ot new na- be to the | on paper to bc representative | the Whitever else may be said of this convention on the face of things lcoks as if it was a thoroughfy Irish gathering. That is, it shows up of all the various parties and factions in Ireland. The one rock that is feared will wreck it is, of course, factlon- alism. And, if the factions succeed in the overthrow of this convention Home Rule will be set back until.such time as circumstances again dictate a aeliberation among the leaders of Irish thought. There will be 101 members seated today in convention assembled. Among these there will undaubtedly be a few professional politicians who can and may make trouble. Yet there should be enough safe and sane men of the denominations and avocations to bring about some sort of agreement. For there are at this con- vention :men of the cloth, high city officials, labor leaders, members of Irish peerage, pedagogists, farm- mauufacturers, and spokesmen various ers, | from almost every other walk of life. From such a representative gathering ligible fory thore should come at least one ray of vice under the selective draft law. | jign,. ien the 513 New Britaln men who | s called under this draft are put | o the ranks the officials will give | . a complete list of names. No | j or with Russia. leady gone. The object of these | Ll;ks which are appearing 1d from day to day is to supply deficiency. Just as soon as the urns warrant it the roll of honor | I be published. JEvery mother and father in litain who has a son in the service, | ether in the army or the navy or national guard, should be inter- enough to see that the name sent into this office. Every friend a man “at the front” should see at this 1s doné. In this way only In the list be made complete, and less it is complete it is little better an worthless. Fill out a blank to- iy and send it in. in the | | | New ORDER OUT OF CHAOS. 'President Wilson has wisely and laciously put an end to the long wn out controversy in the ship- ng board, the personal quarrel be- een two men which threatened to ld up for the entire war time any tion towards the completion of 2 ogram. Major General Goethals having, obably at the suggestion of the esident, handed in his resignation, hairman Denman was called upon do likewise. Commissioner White ent the way of his brothers in arms. place of Gen. Goethals President lson has appointed Admiral )e Capps, chief constructor of t avy. Edward N. Hurley, of Tllinois, jho was at one time chairman of the ade Commission, has been named Denman! Rear succeed Mr. Bainbridge 0 plby of New York, the Progressive | o figured so largely In the last] sidentia] campaign as a sponsor of e Democratic party, has heen placad a commissioner in the chair occu- E ed by Mr. White Just who was to bhlame in tha| emises is a question that can | ell left unanswered at this time. | BLOOD AND IRON. Something has got to be done for This is plainly evi- Hopes of the world outside of Germany are based on Premier Ker- | ensky t fre country has something else to do 1 psides searching for a anation of the pntroversy which reason in ex Goethals-Denman | put the new ship- | ing board In such a had light before @ public. This much is known: The d could get nowhere so long a3 e fight lasted. And the fight gave omise of never drawing to an end. he public will therefere see the wis- pm of President Wilson in gettin d of two men, no matter how great ey are, who could not bgether. With €hairman Hurley instead hairman Denman; with Rear Ad- iral Capps in place of General Goe- als; with B&ibridge Colby to do e work formerly allotted to Mr. get of Vhite there is a promise of action. | he new board will be able to go to ork with a new he experience of slate, a clean slate. Admiral Capps val construction will lend the help. alons, | | Tsn't Lil f | | | | | | | | 1 I 1 ference between who has been appointed dicta- or. As if he means business, the new dictator :—"Repiying upon the confidences of the masses and the army, the Government will save Rus- sia and Russian unity by blood and iron, if argument and reason, honor and conscience, are not suffteient.” This, seemingly, is the occasion for the doctrine of blood and iron Russia. Argument and reason been resorted to; honor and con- science have failed to be awakened by the events of the moment. Ru has gone on a wild spree from which it must be brought back before its democracy can be made safe for the Outsiders have been promi- say in have sia, world. nent in forming the spirit of unres. and anarchy that has suddenly gripped the throat of the bear that walks like a man. It will take a strong hand to stay disaster in Russia. German intrigue has gone a long way in upsetting ths calculations of all those who planned for a republican form of government at Petrograd. Blood and iron is not a pleasing way of restoring order, es- pecially in a democracy. Yet blood and iron must be brought to bear on a situation that once beyond con- | trol will mean more than blood and iron.- If democracy is to live, Tyranny must be wiped out; even if it takes blood and iron to do the job. FACTS AND FANOIES. The smooth, noiseless hand of Colo- nel House is not visible to the naked eve, but Texas gets the training camps just the same.—Omaha Bee. Organized labor has never looked better than in its determined effort to throw out organized German dis- loyalty to the U. S. A.—New York Evening World. With what complicated emotions a dentist must watch his offspring cnt a tooth.—Don Marguis in New York Evening Sun. “Avoid kissing if you would have a beautiful mouth,” says Lillian Rus- This is outrageously false. in's mouth pretty good looking after all these years?”—New Haven Union. sell. Oh, well, those far-fatched water- melons will do as well for horsd-oeu- vres until we can get the real Ber- gen county goods.—Paterson Call. worst shock New York so- has had in a generation is the apparent fact that two of the Gou'd heirs have married the giris they just naturally liked.—St. Paul's Pio- neer Press. The ciety A Two-Edged Compliment, (Columbia §. C. State.)* If the ability to talk raises man above the beast, think of the vast dif- woman and the beast. “Moonlight Zipas “A rain of silver upon murmurous trees; A splash of night-dews on wide meads that never Perish of living green and forever; Far-off, retched moonlight seas, And faces looking starward; har- Sonata.” light salls upon dim, in beauty like a ecrystal Pouring in lucent ecstacy a-quiver, Freighted with odorous lily melo- dies; Anon, a moaning sea and winds that sweep Below the moon, awed at the face | of storm; | Awfulest thunder wed to waves Of | might, And cries of wreck wpon the roar- | ing deep! i Silence: and on aged trees white dews drip warm, And on still meads a rain of silver ligh —CHARLES J. O'MALLEY COMMUNICATED COMPLIMENT FOR HERALD. Former Reporter Tells of Good Work Done For Recruiting. Co. No. 7, N. Y. Reg't, July 23rd, 1917. Editor of the Herald— Si Now that the Herald's excel- | lent service in publishing the results | of the selective draft has informed me that my name is in the first five hun- dred to be called from New Britain, may I be permitted to explain my clalm for exemption. When we fllled out the registration cards In camp, we were advised by the officers in charge to claim exemp- tlon in arder to avoid any possible clash of jurisdiction in the event of the draft being compiled before our Federal enlistments as candldates ex- pired. 4 The claim technical. I was, therefore, purely have no intention of pressing it. If there are not enough reserve officers’ commissions to go around, I shall be glad to start train- ing in September in the ranks of the New Britain quota. As a former member of your staff permit me to compliment you on your splendid efforts to boost recruiting in your news columns and editorials. A newspaper with the right slant on national service is a big asset for sane patriotism. Sincerely yours, EDWIN N. LEWIS. The Batterie (Newark News.) The pitchers for today are the Man Behind the Gun and the Man With the Hoe. GERMAN LINE IN | Russian [ the war FORESEES DISASTER FOR THE RUSSIANS Arthur Henderson Believes Iron Rod Must Not Be Spared Lndon, July 25 —A great tragedy is being enacted in the life of the free people, according to Arthur son, member of the Britisn council and representative of labor, who has just returned from an extended visit to Russia. He is con- vinced that unless the situation is handled with firmness there must be an_inevitable disaster. Mr. Henderson said it was nothing less than a misfortune that the con- tinuance of the coalition government had proved impossible. The difficul- ties the government had to cope with were such as no other government ever experienced. It was impossible to convey anything like an adequate conception of the extent to which the extremists dominated the life of the capital, demoralizing the army and navy, especially those units in close proximity to Petrograd. The true extremists, he said, - did not represent more than a small mi- nority of the population. but such had been the spirit of terror exercised, to- gether with their destructive influence over certain sections of the military forces, that they had succeeded in making a stable government difficult, if not almost impossible. Mr. Henderson considered that the most disastrous experiment of the revolution was the relaxation of disci- pline in the army and navy, coupled with the direct association of those services with the political and revo- lutionary propaganda. The resump- tion of the offensive caused the ex- tremists considerable annoyance, and although they had the wisdom to re- main quiet while victories were being sained it was generally recognized that they were waiting for an oppor- tunity for the move recently made with such disastrous consequences. “If Russia is to rise to the greatness of her possibilities the forces of dis- order must be resolutely dealt with " continued Mr. Henderson. “The fu- ture, judging from the recent past, is largely in the hands of the new Work- men’s and Soldiers’ Council, elected by the All Russia Congress, which repre- sents a large section of the commun- ity whose representatives are likely to become the dominant party in the constituent Assembly.” The Russians, said Mr. Henderson, were exceedingly anxious concerning the conference of the Allies, including the United States. because they hoped it would enable them to announce that treaties had been revised in the direction of renunciation of all in- Hende war WEST IMPREGNABLE Cannot Be Brokem by Present Force, U. S. Ofiicers Say | ‘Washington, July 25.—Nine Amer- ican officers who accompanied Gen- eral Pershing to France and made a tour along the western front have re- turned to Washinaton, prepared ta submit a report to the mencral staff. These officers represented virtually every arm of the service. They were | sent with General Pershing to make | first hand observations and to .como | back immediately to the capital that | they might give the war department detailed reports on conditions in tha | trenches and outline the principle needs of the Allles. The group went to the war departh | ment upon reaching herc yesterday | and then went to the war college, where they started a seri of con- fergnces with Brig. Gen. Joseph Ku! head of the college, and his assistants. Despite the fact these officers, or at least most of them, have studied every move of the war from long dis- | tance and were supposed to have a fairly clear idea of the situation, they announced at the war department that they had no conception of the situation until they had followed the line of the trenches from Switzerland to the sea. 4 They admitted they were astound- ed at conditions and that virtually all of their preconceived notions were faulty. According to the observers, the German line on the western front is virtually impresnable, so far as -the present alignment of forces is con- cerned. The Allies cannot budge this line unless they receive tremendous assistance from the United States. There is no evidence whatever that the backbone of the German empire is about to be broken hecause of in- ternal dissensions or of shortage of foods. The Allied officers on the front ad- mit freely that they cannot break trt German line with their present force. Temporarily, at least, Germany is in the ascendancy in the air. There are at present approximately five | million French and British troops in France and they are facing approx- | imately 3,000,000 Germans. Behind | this force Germany has 4,200,000 re- | serves. Of this number 2,000,000 have been caljed out to meet the antici- | pated spring drive beginning on | March 1. The other 2,200,000 will be called to act as the third line. The officers reported that they had been informed repeatedly that the Allies are looking to the United States for the greatest kind of help, and unless this country meets theit expectations it is useless to hazard an opinion upon the time when the war may end. { ADMIT SHORT MEN TO ARMY. Rome, July 25.—Short men will have a chance to fight after August under a new decree which reduces the minimum height by four inches. It | aftects 100,000 men whose height | group tentions inconsistent with their own declarations. They said frankly they were determined—keeping Constanti- nople in mind and having doubts re- garding Mesopotamia—not to leave the settlement of the paramount is- sues of the war to chance decisions of a meeting of diplomats. Until this position was clarified he doubted whether the whole army or a majori- ty of the moderate Socialists, upon whom so much depended, would give of their best for the successful prose- cution of the war. The Russian Socialists, he said, were strong advocates of an international conferenc He disclissed the subject with M retelii, Minister of Posts and Telegraphs, just before leaving Petrograd. M. Tseretelli urged the importance of such a conference and of Great Britain being represented. SEES DEATH GOME SKIPPING OVER SEA A. P. Gorrespondent Present Dur- in Attack on Transports A British Port on Southeast Coast, June 27 (by mail)—Just how-a Brit- ish destroyer acts when attacked by a submarine was unexpectedly demon- strated to an Associated Press corre- spondent today while traveling on one of the modern oil-driven torpedo boat destroyers from England to France. The correspondent had been taken aboard the destroyer for the purpose of observing British methods of com- batting the submarine menace when the hoat was suddenly attacked by a U-boat, a torpedo missing it by a scant few feet. The destroyer was one of a certain number which were convoying in the usual manner some large transports carrying British troops to France. The of ships was half way across the channel when suddenly one of the lookouts spied a pair of twin peri- scopes rise for a moment a few in- ches out of the water a half mile away. They were gone the next in- stant, but almost before they had gone came the shout “submarine on port bow,” accompanied by a shrill call of warning from the destrover's whistle and the fluttering out of the flag which notified every ship in the convoy of [<the enemy’s presence. On every ship things began to hap- pen more quickly than the telling. Guns were swung in the direction of the periscope had been seen, ready to speak if the periscopes appeared again. Torpedo tubes likewise were swung in line and the numerous anti- submarine devices along-deck were in the hands of their skilled expert crews. Torpedo Skips Over Surface. But even while this was being done came the torpedo, plainly visible from the deck, its gleaming brass body | glistening in the bright sunlight, its propellers pushing it at express train speed straiht towards the destrover. lh.\ther'.o had been a bar to enlistment. Something was wrong with the mech- anism of this particular torpedo for it should have traveled 12 or 15 feet be- low the surface. Instead, it came bounding along in plain sight now and then leaping toward the water like a flat stone made to skip over the sur- face. Even then, it might have found its target but for the presence of mind of the 60 year old coxswain. He had been first to sight the periscopes and had rushed immediately to an emer- gency lever whereby he instantly stopped the port engine, thus swinging the ship with a lurch to the left. The torpedo whizzed through the waters six feet behind the stern of the de- stroyer, its gradually lessening speed as it sank into the swirl of the en- gines indicating that its mission was v done. But for the coxswain's action in twisting the ship from its course the missle would probably have made a square hit. The wireless was at work notifying the hundreds of patrols in all direc- tions that the submarine was near. The destroyer’s captain, according | to his orders, must not leave his con- voy to seek out and attack the U-boat. Others would attend to that. Already they were gathering for the chase- trawlers, chasers, drifters, destroyers, even a dirigible airship far off on the horizon had caught the wireless call and with the quick turn of a seagull, was swooping down to the pursuit. The transports and destroyvers, al- though fairly confident that the U- boat would scarcely dare show her- self again, even for a pot-shot, were nevertheless taking every precaution. Every ship was at full speed, oil burn- ing destrovers constantly protecting their charges. The whole attack occupied bare seconds. Convoy and charges were out of range in a few minutes at the most. Nowhere had there been the slightest panic or flurry but movements of men and ships were made with almost au- tomatic precision and speed. The effi- ciency of the British naval men is the efficiency of clock work. Every cog knows its place. There is no med- dling. No clashing, no interference, but a confident rapid efficiency which somehow demands the use of adjective “‘deadly”’. Twenty minutes later the troops were safe in their port of destination and the destroyer convoy was oftf again, 30 miles an hour down the coast to its next appointment. 2 ALLOWS DEFORMED INFANTS 10 DIE Physician Refuses to Operate on Babies Hopelessly Abnormal Checago, July 26.—Following the death of the Meter baby—whose life might have been prolonged but whose physical and mental deformities were such that Dr. Harry J. Haiselden re- fused to perform the operation which might keep it in the world—the sur- geon declared that he has in his care two other infants so hopelessly af- flicted that he is permitting them to die. When it was learned that nothing was being done to keep the Meter baby alive, an investigation was begun by Dr. John Dill Robertson the Health Commissioner, despite an announce- ment by State's Attorney Hoyne that there was nothing criminal in Dr. Haiselden’s action. “I can see absolutely nothing crim- inal in the attitude of Dr. Haiselden toward the Meter baby. Certainly, tfrom all T can learn of the case, there is no basis for prosecution,’ 'the State's Attorney said. But the Health Commissioner sent detectives to the German-American hospital. They met Dr. Haiselden and were assured everything possible was being done for the baby. But it soon passed away, just 24 hours after its birth. Has Other Cases. ,There are two other hopeless babies under my treatment,” said Dr. Haiselden later, ‘‘and they, too, are being permitted to die. I suppose the authorities would raise a sreat dis- turbance if they knew I had three cases in all. “But. as with the Meter baby, there is no suffering. The Meter baby was brought to me from West Pullman vesterday, a few hours after it was born. Its father is a mechanic, less than 21 years old. The mother is 20 years old. Its grandmother is the mother of twelve children, only one of whom is dead. By the way, she, too, became a mother just eleven days ago. “When I saw the baby I knew it | had lived too leng already. The brain was extremely small and there | was no normal skull formation. The head rested on the shoulders and there was practically no nec The ears were deformed and ther> were other deformities. “The case was absolutely hopeless. The life could have been saved——but what a life it would have been! The child would have grown into a hope- less idiot, perhaps just able to eat. It would have been a burden to its par- ents and the State. “I performed a slight operation to stop a certain bleeding. Then I called in a committee of doctors. All but one agreed with me. The parents al- ready had given me permission to do what I thought best. So I simply went over the slight operation I had performed and the baby was as she was brought to me. Its death was only a matter of a few hours and there was no suffering. Due to Pre-Natal Influence, “Baby Meter's condition may be the result of a fright suffered by the mother. Half a year before the little one came into the world, the mother witnessed a frightful accident in which a man was mutilated. This is incidental, but it may interest those physicians who have held this sort of thing impossible. ‘. The first of the other babies is five months old, born to a family named Mattys. It was brought here a month | | plained to | ing enough McMILLAN " THE STORE, Inc. ALWAYS RELIABLE OUR ANNUAL JULY CLEARANCE SALE NOW GOING ON FOR THE BALANCE OF THIS MONTH, EX- CEPTIONAL VALUES. A THOROUGH MID- SUMMER CLEARANCE Sale Price 18c yard. Price 98c pair. 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SCISSORS All sizes for this sale 21c each. ago, paralyzed and with the incurably affected. “By operating I could have pro- longed life for a year or so; anyway, for a number of months. But such things are a strain on the family and eventually would be a strain on the State. So I did not operate. I ex- the parents, and they are willing to wait for death. ““The other baby is Paul Hadzima, three months old. His head is mis- shapen and defective, and there is a malady that makes breathing an agony for the infant. I am prescrib- paregoric to keep it drugged until death ends its suffering. “In doing this I feel 1 am doing the greatest service to humanity. It is better than experimenting with knife for my own satisfaction.” In November, 1915, Dr. Haiselden, then as now in the German-American Hospital, was brought into wide pub- licity by his refusal to operate on Al- lan J. Bollinger, a defective boy, six days old, who was a patient in the in- stitution. head SUES FOR SLANDER. Napomocina Josefek, a woman, has brought suit for $200 against Peter Skaper for slander, alleged to have been committed on July 4. The case is returnable in the city court on the first Monday in August. Lawyer J. G. Woods is counsel for the plaintiff. Constable Fred Winkle served the writ. | League | Ruth Hoagland, a | READY FOR REUNION. %, Students of Upsala College to Gather Here for Annual Reunion. The annuai reunion of the studenls of Upsala college of Kenilworth, N. J., will be held in this city commencing tomorrow and will continue until Fri- day. The program of entertainmenty which will be in charge of the Luther of the Swedish Lutheran church, is a varied cne. The commit- tee of arrangements consists of Emil Larson, chairman; v Johnson, son, Min- nie Johnson, Esther Peterson, Mildred ' Johnson, Linnea Johnson, Sadie Friw dell, Anna Borg, Ellen Johnson, Es- telle Lofgren, Helga Berlin, Amanda® Carlson, Clara Johnsor, Hulda John- son, Sadie Ericson, Alma Anderson, Ebba Nordgren, Susie Gustafson, H. A. Sjolander and Albert Kallgren. Pre- ceding the entertainment tomorrow evening, a supper will be served in the church parlors at 0 o’clock. Friday afternoon, the visitors and members of the committee will ad- journ to Lake Compounce, where din- ner will be served and other forms of, entertainment enjoyed. On the re- turn to this city, a farewell entertain- ment will be held in the Swedish Lutheran church. Tt is expected that upwards of 50 students from various parts of the country will be in attend- ance at the reunion.