New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 30, 1917, Page 5

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, MONDAY, JULY 30, 1917. PATRIOTISM KEYNOTE OF NORTH & Anchor Brand Foremen En- tertained at Viila Louise, Sachem’s Head, By Vice President H. C. Noble. If such a thing were necessary, pa- triotism to the nth degree .was in- stilled into the spirits of the foremen of the North & Judd Mfg. Co. Satur- day when they enjoyed the hospitali- ty of Vice President H. C. Noble at his summer estate, Villa Louise, at Sachem’'s head. They were all pa- triots before they left the city. But they were better patriots when they returned and each one was eager to work harder at his tasks in the local manufacturing plant “to make the world safe for democracy.” It was primarily an outing for pleasure and relaxation but underlying the fun was a tone of seriousness, heightened by the eloquence of the speakers. It was Mr. Noble's democratic spirit that made such an outing popular. He realizes that the men who work for him are the backbone of the en- terprise and he is one of thcse manu- facturers who belfeve in keeping in close touch with their personal af- fairs. Like Napoleon, he can tell any of his subordinates by their first name. While it was the outing of the Anchor Brand Foremen's club it was really an H. C. Noble outing and it is not necessary to state that Mr. Noble enjoyed himself as much as anyone present. Leaving here Saturday morning, the party proceeded to Savin Rock by automobiles. The land boats were temporarily abandoned for the steam- er “Cynthia”, which Mr. Noble had chartered for the occasion, and the gathering was transported to Villa Louise. No submarines were sighted on the way although the lookout in the mizzenmast was certain he saw something suspicious off the port how soon after the anchor was weighed. Investigation proved the suspicious object to be an obese New Havener floating around on water wings trying to keep cool. ‘When the “Cynthia” reached the dock at Sachem's Head a brass band was there to welcome the party. At 2 o’clock everyone scampered for a dip in the surf and as a result appe- | tites were whetted for an excellent shore dinner served shortly afterward at the Sachem's Head Yacht club, which had also been engaged for the occasion by Mr. Noble. Captain Johnson Arrives. While all were enraptured with the courses, Captain Herbert A. Johnson arrived. Captan Johnson was for- merly superintendent at North & Judd’s but, llke hundreds of other pa- triots, he has set aside his own per- sonal advantages to go to Washington and assist Uncle Sam as a member of ! & committee associated with the work of the National Council of Defense. | Captain Johnson's arrival was the cli- | max nécessary to make the outing the success it proved to be. The men rose en massee and cheered him to the echo. At the conclusion of the dinner, George H. Shine, president of the An- chor Brand Foremen's club and toast- master, introduced a number of gpeakers, including U. S. District At- torney Thomas J. Speilacy of Hart- ford, Mr. Noble, President George M. Landers of the North & Judd Mfg. Co. and Captain Johnson. Mr. Landers referred to the fact that thousands of men who are not ordinarily considered as workmen are now ‘‘doing their bit" for their coun- try. He sald it was not necessary for men to work in overalls and jumpers in order to assist Uncle Sam but he knew they were giving just as many hours every day and working just as hard as the men in the shops who are turning out munitions of war. Much of Captain Johnson’s talk was of such a nature that it could not be printed. But he assured those present that down at Washington there are committees and committees giving their time almost freely to help to- ward a successful prosecution of the war. Mr. Noble's Speech. Mr. Noble's speech in part was follows: “Today as with such a wealth of golden sunshine to make our sur- roundings so beautiful, I am sure that these historic grounds will greet you all with delight, and later on, when you take leave of the land where Indians fought in the days of long ago, it will be with the hope that | you will return again some day and once more partake of the hospitality that it has been my pleasure to extend to the boys from the home of the Anchor Brand and others who have been =0 good as to favor us with their presence “Eagerly we assembled this morn- ing at the starting point and all have so happily joined in the pleasure of the occasion that I trust you will| carry away with vou golden memories | which will rremain fragrant like | flowers in the garden of friendship, and never fade. “1 am confident that you will be interésted to know that the historic ground about here was in the days of our forefathers known as ‘The Great Ox Pasture.’ Later on the name of Sachem’'s Head was given to thie section, dating back to 1837, whith was two years before the white men led by one Whitfield and his company settled in the township of Guilford. “The story of the battle of Bloody Cove (a shore distance from here), when Uncas and his Mohicans were victorious over the Pequots, is well | known to all of the older inhabitants. | A tugitive Pequot sachem, hiding among the rocks of Chimney Corner (which s where the Yacht Club | stands), until he thought himself un-l observed attempted to swim under | ment in the JUDD OUTING H. C. NOBLE. water across the harbor to the west- ward shore. Coming up to breathe he was seen by the watchful enemy and shot with an arrow, sent, it was said, by Uncas himself. The wounded sachem was brought ashore, behead- ed and the head placed in the fork of an oak tree stainding on the high ground across the bay, which is now the property of E. C. Seward. It is said by Charles Benton of Sachem's Head that when he was a small boy, more than fifty years ago, his father, the late Dan L. Benton, pointed out to him the stump of an oak tree and told him that the tree which stood there was the original oak which had held the head of the beheaded sachem fom many vears. Tt also ap- pears that an Indian village, called Sachemdom was located near the head of Bloody Cove until the remov- al of the Indians from this section. “Since last we met for a very en- joyable evening at the Anchor Brand Foremen's club a new era has dawned. Its magnitude and signifi- cance in history, manufacturing, commerce, and trade, no man is wise erough to comprehend. Our nation, not long ago at peace with all the world, has now joined in fighting those with whom we never had a quarrel. This may plunge us into the dark shadows of mourning by the loss of thousands of loved ones on foreign battle fields—it may overwhelm business in our country with universal disaster and bank- ruptcy before peace is declared. Tt is true, however, that wars and panics have been passed through and endured throughout all of the past ages, and we can only hope that the final sequel, when the present awful conflict is over, may prove to be for the world a blessing now dis- guised. “And I wish to tell you frankly that one of the pleasant features of my work since our Mr. Johnson was called away to take up his duties in the war department of our govern- ment at Washington has been my frequent interviews with superin- tendents and foremen of our varlous manufacturing departments. I have found them all to be broad minded men who are honestly and intelli- gently striving to help us improve the quality of Anchor brand products and are most willing and axious to work in perfect harmony with the management, as we are also desirous of enjoying harmonious relations with them. “We desire to have the very clos- est co-operation with heads of all de- partments, and through them with our employes, believing that the re- flex influence of prosperity cannot fall to make for the benefit of us all. To this end I expect to fre- quently confer with Mr. O'Hayer, general superintendent, as well as cur other superint:ndents, Supervis- ors and foremen, and shall at all times welcome any suggestions which may be offered. “It is occasions like this which to me invest the commonplace things of life with an enduring charm and if T had the time and means to grat- ify so high an ambition it would hbe to arrange for weekly gatherings of this character and spend at least a part of our time as we are doing now, where the air is filled with mu- sic and the cares which infest the day fold their tents like the Arabs and silently steal away ' Never in the history of Sachem'’s Head, which Mr. Noble recounted so Interestingly, has there been delivered at that spot a more eloquent patriotic address than that delivered by Mr. Spellacy. When he concluded he was greeted with a burst of applause that must have reached the Imperial Palace at Potsdam and if the cables bring reports of the Kaiser spending a restless night everyone will know the | reason. Mr. Spellacy’s Address. Mr. Spellacy spoke in part as fol- lows: Mr. Spellacy’s speech follows: "It seems strange, nevertheless it is true, that this country, although it is but 141 years since the signing of the Declaration of Independence, is the oldest country in {ts form of govern- world. In this brief time, for 141 years is a brlef time in | the history of nations, every country on the face of God's universe has changed its form of government ex- cept the United States. “The immortal document penned by Thomas Jefferson, establishing for the first time, in the history of man- kind, a nation that was in name and in fact a free and independent re- | public where every man was his own | sovereign, dedicated to the principle of the right of people to govern them- selves, was a new experiment, Men for thousands of years had looked forward to such mn ideal but it had never been attained, Here and there, for a moment, there had appeared, & new government with the high ideal of liberty but such a government nev- er lasted, its life was as fleeting as the struggle for it was everlasting. “The Declaration of Independence sounded the beginning of the end of the doctrine of the Divine right of kings. Every change in every gov- ernment since that time has been toward the abrogation of that doc- trine and the extension of Democracy. Today there are really but three au- tocracies upon the face of the earth. These three are now united in the last death struggle. Germany, Austria and Turkey alone of all the nations of the earth have maintained their au- tocratic form of government. We are now at war with Germany. We' are at war with the idecal of German au- tocracy. The world cannot remain divided between democracies and au- tocracies. So this war will determine for all time as to whether or not our form of government, our ideals of liberty shalk vanish from the face of the earth and the autocrat be en- throned in the place of the rule of the people. “Our country is at war. We did not enter this conflict until the allies were exhausted and our entrance was es- sential if Germany were not to tri- umph. From a selfish standpoint alone it were better for our own safe- ty that the war be confined to Euro- pean shores and kept away from this side of the Atlantic. It requires no imagination to realize that Germany, successful abroad, would look with covetous eyes on this great American republic, and it would be only a ques- tion of time, and perhaps a short time, before there would be invasion of our own shores. While we are now fighting the battles of the allles, while we are endeavoring to main- tain upon the face of the earth the right of democracy to live, we &are nevertheless primarily fighting for our own preservation. To conquer and overcome Europe would natural- ly inflame the Teutonic mind and to conquer the world would simply mean to overcome and make powerless the United States. To attempt this would be the logical and inevitable sequence. This country from its very incep- tion has opened its portals to the op- pressed of all the nations of the world. We have welcomed to our shores the immigrants flom every land. We have offered to them that most sacred right—liberty—with the attendant privileges of freedom of re- ligious worship and the opportunity to make for themselves and their families a place among men. Debt of Immigrants' Sons. “If you will pardon a personal al- lusion, I am the son of an Irish immi- grant. My father left his native Em- erald Isle in order that he might wor- ship God accordingly to the dictates of his own conscience, in order that he himself and his children might have the opportunity of advancement that was denied to him and would be denied to them in the old world. He came here for the same reason that every other immisrant came, and this includes those who arrived in the Mayflower as well as those who ar- rived on the last hoat ar Ellis Island I am certain that if my father were here that he would desire-to repay to the United States some part of the debt that he owed the United States for what this country has done for him. As his son, and T know the same teeling is shared by every other im- migrant and their sons, it is my duty to pay that debt, just as much my duty as if the debt could be measured hy a monetary standard. “It is the duty of all of us, with un- divided allegiance, to direct every eaf- fort, every thought, toward the one end—the preserving for ourselves and our posterity the democracy of America apd to hand down to o children this country and its starry emblem as fgee and unsullied as it was handed to ue by the fathers. We owe to our country all that we have even life itself—and ungrudgingly and wholeheartedly we ought and wil pay this debt. i “A democracy is not an ideal fight- ing instrument. We have been satiat- ed with freedom, we rather resist be- ing told what we will be obliged to do. That is why an autocracy s0 much more successful. The mastet mind may determine what each one should do because of autocracy and the life long obediance to ite dictates | have | the individual responds. We been our own masters, and it is diffi- cult for us to conceive of being order- |, ed and directed, vet to be successful | we must realize that every man wo- | man and ohild in this great nation must make sacrifices, that we all must with one accord support those in au- thority, that every fibre of our belng, every impulse of our'soul, every beat of our heart must be given for our government and in this way alone may we help to free the world and retain our own independence. Why We Are Fighting. “T sald a moment ago that I am the son of an Irish immigrant. I have heard it asked why should an Irish- man or the son of an Irishman fight for England? Thank God this view is not shared by many sons of Ireland. I answer that we are not fighting for England, but that England has been fighting for us. I ask what have become of this countrv in the last three years if it were not for the smoke stacks of the British navy in the North Sea? No my friends we are not fighting for England, we are fighting for the counrty that wel- comed us to her shores, we are fight- ing for the country that gave us free- dom, we are fighting fer the preser- vation of free government and what red blooded son of the gall can re- fuse to enlist {n such a fight? We are fighting that our wives, our mothers, lumbus: we are fighting for France that gave us Lafayette and men and money to win our own independence; we are fighting for Belglum and for her people that have given their all in the cause; we are fighting for the sanctity of our homes; we are fighting that our woves, our mothers, our sisters, our daughters. and our sweethearts, may never know the concubine desires of a savage and barbarian foe, as have the women and girls of Flanders, Belgium and France; we are fighting to partly re- pay the debt we owe America; we are fighting as Americans have al- is in war | would | ways fought—for mocracy. “We fought in 1776 to obtain our own liberty, in 1812 for the liberty and freedom of the seas; in 1861 in order that the Declaration of Inde- pendence might mean what it said and for the emancipation of 4,000,000 slaves; in 1898 for the liberty of Cuba. We have never fought for the ac- quirement of territory or indemnity. We are fighting today for the liberty of the world. We did not begin this war but with the grace of God we are going to end this war. “There may be people in America that love some other country better than they do the United States. there may be people that love some other flag better than they do the Stars and Stripes, * if there are, then in God’s name let them get their passports and 80 back and fight for that country— they are not wanted here, “Some people do not seem to realize that we are at war. The scene has been thrce thousand miles away. The two passions fear and hate, which seem to be necessary to a successful combatant, are absent. We neither fear notr hate the Germans. We might well do both. Every man can- not go to the front, every man is not required at-the front. There is, how- ever, work for every man and every woman and every child. America demands that we not only do our bit but that we do our best. Whatever our work we should with dilligence attend to it. We will, and under God Almighty, preserve this union of states, this santuary of freedom, this liberty and de- government of the people, for all the generations vet to come.” The exercises of the day were ended with the singing of the “Star Spangled Banner” at the Liberty pole in front of Villa Louise. The party returned by the same route, part by water and part by iand. WANT TO BUILD TUNNEL. The water commissioners plan to present to the next meeting of the common council a detailed plan and explanation of the proposed tunnel to bring water from the Burlington brook to the Whigville reservoir. City Engineer William H. Hall has care- fully investigated this scheme. Ex- perts from Yale University have sanc- tioned the plan and Hiram A. Miller, an engineering expert from Boston has added his endorsement to the plan, considerng it feasible, cheap and efficient. The water commissioners were ask the council to authorize the building of this tunnel. STRAIGHTEN LAKE STREFET. City Engineer W. H. Hall has pre- pared a map of Lake and Washington streets, showing the proposed changes whereby Lake street may be straight- ened so that it will not join Washing- ton street midway on the railroad crossing. Railroad officials will meet with city officials shortly to again talk over the plan for safeguarding the lives of people at this junction and it is expected that work will be- gin soon. Buy an Indiana truck. | RENIER, PICKHARDT & DUN 127 MAIN STREET. OPPOSITE ARCH. TELEPHONE 383 FOR WEDNESDAY MORNING WHITE DRESS SKIRTS, at ..... Worth $1.25 CHILDREN’S COLORED DRESSES, AT ....§ Worth $1.00 and $1.25 3 WHITE PETTICOATS, AT : worth 79¢ BELTS and GIRDLES, worth 50c to $1.00, NO EXCHANGES 79c each One Cent a Word Each Day Pays for 3 Classified Adv. the Herald. You Get Results That’s What You Wa epiiaoprisls ‘ PEPSIN THE BIG BUSINESS:MANS GUM And here’s a little bit of advice to you. Always carry a few packages of Adams Pepsin Gum and chew it often. It will keep your stomach in perfect trim and will help you keep a cool head in the thick of battle. Your job will be here, ack, Jack. when you come