New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 2, 1917, Page 6

oo carae NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, THURSDAY, AUGUST 2, 1917. tain Herald. RALD PUBLISHING COMFPANY. Proprietors. d daily (Runday excepted) at 4:15 p. m., &t Herald Buflding. 67 Church St. itered at the Post. Office at New Britain #8:8econd Class Mail Matter. verea by fer to any part of the city f2r 15 cents a week, 65 cents a month. ptions for paper to ba sent by mail, yabie in advance, 60 cents a month. 7.00 & year. only profitable advertising medium in “the city. - Circulation books and press Toom alwava open to advertisers. Herald will be found on sale at Hota- ling’s News Stand, 42nd St. and Broad- way, New York City; Board "Walk, A lantic City, and Hartford Depot. TELEPHONE CALLS. Office . 3 Rooms isines: torial Our Country. And for your country, boy, and for that flag, never dream a dream but of serving her as she bids you, even though the service carrys you through a thousand hells. No matter what happens to lyou, no matter who flatters you or buges you, never look at another flag; never let a night pass but you pray God to bless that flag. Remember, boy, that hehind offi- cers and government, and people even, there is the country herself, —your country—and that you be- long to her as you belong to your own mother. Stand by her, boy, @s you would stand by your mother. —EDWARD EVERETT HALE. | IN TIMES LIKE THESE. et lightly and not too much meat. Avold excessive drinking of ice iter. caretul about the use of stimu- ing beverages. It is not true that stimulating drink is always a cooling Ink. Keep in' the shade as much as esible.. It you are in the sun and s1 the heat gripping you, seek a ady spot and rest immediately. There are tWa kinds of heat affec- n, heat exhaustion and heat stroke. heat. exhaustion, the person be- mes pale and weak, showing almost pulse. The use of ice in these cases K prove fatal. Stimulants may be IIn cases of heat stroke, the person omes red in the face and has unding pulse. In these cases the plication af ice will help restore .the rson to nopmatl condition. Stimu- ats should not be used. When a person is overcome with the at, immediately treat him like a sick reon. Call a physician or an ambu- ace just as you would in case of any her sickness. Postpone all unnecessary labors ally performed during the middle | the day until late in the evening | early in the morning. Dress as lightly as may be proper # the time and place. Bleeping rooms should be thorough- aired and cooled off during the ening and if possible, should not be cupled until oceupants are some- hat cooled, perhaps by a bath or a r ride, if necessary a very late car e. STATES' RIGHTS. “Whenever two-thirds buses shall deem ngr. shall propose the Constitution of the United Jates. Such action once taken, the endment “shall be valid to all In- ds and Purposes”, as part of the nstitution, “when ratified by the slatures of three-fourths of the eral States”. This, under Article of the Constitution of the United ates. | Yesterday a proposed Eighteenth endment to the Constitution of the pited States passed by the ited States Scnate, the vote being to 20, or six mére votes than the quired two-thirds the endment States of it necessary”, both the amendments was majority giving the several e right to decide fhether t within six years country The remains now shall be “hone vy’ or ‘wet upper House, wing so votod, it en the to he whether House of Repre- ntatives will concur in this move. If if the votes as e Senate, the forty- ght’states in the Union must ratify w amendment hefore it can be added » the Constitution. The resolution submitting prohihi- pn to the several states as a national lestion was introdwced in the orig- al by Senator Sheppard of Texas, d bears his name. There was aflixed the Sheppard resolution an amend- ent proposed by Harding niting to six vears the time in which he States must ratify ine oposed measure this lower House did thirty-six of Senator or reject Because of endment there authori- are many les on constitutional law who see a hw in the proposed legislation, brand- g it as unconstitutional. It is held by limit placed on the various states in deciding such an issue; shall go about the business of voting for own time and convenience, when the states themselves call for an amendment after three-fourths of their have signified this in- tention in conventions assembled. Undoubtedly those fine number points of will be cleared up before the Sheppard resolution is fin- ally disposed of, one way or the other, by the House of Representatives. Or, granted that the House neglects to up all musunderstanding, the measure may be whipped into shape | through some medium so that there lc n be no douhbt as to the- censtitu- tionality of each and every part of the proposed legislation. The business of asking for an amendment to the Con- stitution of the United States is no child's piay. Previous attempts to put through amendments have shown just how much hard work is required. There are now twenty-six states in the Union which have enact- constitutional law clear some ed tion prohibiting the sale of aleoholic beverages within their bor- ders. It is to be presumed that the Legislatures of these states would vote in precisely the same way should the Sheppard rescluticn get by the lower House of Congress; that these states already “dry,”” would vote for the rest of the states to be made so. If ten more states were to do likewise, in the event the proposal is made to them, the entire nation wduld be made “bone-dry’ as such legislation can control the morals of individuals. leg insofar In the event the Sheppard resolu- tion meets with the same approval in the House of Representatives that greeted it in the Senate we may ex- pect then that for the next six years prohibition will be the one great topic of conversation and chip on the shoul- der of the nation. Just the moment this measure is passed by the House, just. so soon will the fight begin. It will not be a fight among the peo- ple, but a fight by the prohibition lob- bies thrcughout the country to win state legislatures arouvnd to their way of thinking,—conversely, a fight by the liquor interests to defeat the pur- poses of the prohibition lobbies. Regardless of whether prohibition | is a good thing for the country, or a | bad thing, the Sheppard resolution, if | passed by the entire Congress, will not admit of rigid inspection under the microscope of repiesentative govern- ment. If the people of the United States were asked to come forward and vote on this question, that would be a different matter; but they have never yet been asked to do so. Presi- dent Wilson, in his last campaign, did not advocate nation-wide prohibition. His opponent, Charles Evans Hughes, did not do so. It has always been felt that any Presidential candidate who should come out openly for such a thing would suffer dismal defeat. This would seem to show that the time is not ripe, if it ever will be, when.a mi- nority of the people can impress their likes or dislikes upon a majority of the people. No one will gainsay the fact that if tae nation goes dry un- ! der the proposed amendment to the Constitution, it may be made dry by a minority of the people even against the will of the majority. It must be noted that the adoption of the proposed eightcenth amend- ment to the Constitution of the Unit- ed States, should it he passed by a majority nf two-third# in the Con- gress, would have to be ratified by three-fourths of the states of the Union, not by three-fourths of the people of the nation, in order to be- come part and parcel of the Constitu- tion. Therein is the rub. The state of New York has a population of 10,- 366,778, according to the latest census Agures, which is 276,193 more than the population of the following elght- put together: Arizona, Colorado. Connecticut, Florida, Idaho. Maine, vada, New Hampshire, New Mexicp, North Dakota, South Dakota, Oregon, Rhode Tsland, Utah, Vermont, Wyoming. The total population these states as given in the census of January 1 of this year is 10,090,585, Although their population is less than the one state of New York, in voting the have een states Delaware, Montana, Ne- .and for on the proposed amendment to constitution these states would New York's which, to our way of thinking, is not eighteen votes to one, exactly representative government, not government by the pecple. nor of the people. In such a vote, Nevada with its population of 108,000 would have as much inflience as New York with its population of 10.000,000. ing of Wyom- 182,000 would have as much power in deter- with a population mining this question as Pennsylvania with a population of 8500,000. the Senate should undo. What House has done, The never the Senate never has been, and tended to be, the truly legislative body of the people. each state, no was in- representative This because matter how great or how small its population, has representation there. The House is supposed to be the real.rep- an equal hese folk that there can be no timeJ resantative body since its membership that a state | a constitutional amendment at its | except | ccording to the populatiop! Without going prompted prohibition foist the posed Eighteenth Amendment people of the nation at this time, jt is easily seen that the fair way of deter- let each state decide the question for it- Under the Constitution as it is is allotted ¢ in the several states. into the motives that to 1obby pro- mining the prohibition ssue is to self. tion ‘the people of each state have vested in them full authority to reg- ulate the manufacture and sale of all alcoholic beverages. We believe in allowing Connecticut to solve jts own problems in the way Connecticut sees fit, not in the waw Utah or some other state would have us do. This is no time to abandon states’ rights. OUR BOYS. In a few days the local exemption boards will call before them all those young men between the ages of twenty-one and thirty-one who are eligible under thé Selective Draft Law and who, upon passing the ex- will be placed in the new national army. Before this new army is fully made up, before New Britain's quota is sent away, it were well that a complete list of all those who have gone be- fore be compiled. The Herald is al- ready work on such a list. has been for some time. It asks its readers to consider well the impor- tance of gathering this ‘data. The names and ages and other informa- tion called for in the blanks should be sent iInto this office as soon as pos- sible. An elaborate card index sys- tem has been in working order for the past two weeks. When the com- plete system has been worked out, this city will have ‘a record of which it can be proud. We will know just how many of our boys have respond- ed to the call of the colors, who they are, and when they went. The value of such a record as this is ‘beyond the realm of computation. The roll of honor thus written could not be bought for money, no matter how great the sum. Every man and boy who goes away from New Brit- ain to fight in the armies destined to make the world free for democracy should have his name set high on the books of time. In this way can it be done; fill out a blank and send in the information. aminations, at FACTS ND FANCIES. What was without doubt the crown- ing achievement in irony was reached when $25,000 worth of Liberty Bonds were proffered as bail for Emma Gold- man.—Springfield Union. After seeing the trouble that is re- sulting from the attempt to have two heads in charge of the shipbuilding operations, it would seem that con- gress ought to see the advisability of one over three food administrators.— Norwich Bulletin. During all of the past -week nat a word issued as to the care of the faithful horse. A quarter of a cen- tury back and faithful Dobbin would have been provided* with headgear, nets and a bath frequently during such a spell of weather as the past week.— Middletown Pres: “France is delighted with the demo- cracy of the American soldiers,” says a Paris cable. There's nothing that wipes out class distinction like the swapping of tobacco.—Boston Trans- cript. The senate may or may not decide to conscript aliens. But could not this impartant question have been decided before the draft was made instead of after? Fighting the war backward has its serious disadvantages.—New York World. The American people have not failed to note that when two eminent shipbuilders recently retired one was picked for an engineering post in France—and the other returned to the practice of the law.—Boston Tran- script. No man in America has a right to become tremendously wealthy as a result of this war. We want no pawn- broker patriotism. The foremost place in patriotism is that of an American who actually goes to face the shells and cannon.-—Theodore Roosevelt. We can think of only one ohjec- tion to the use of the song “Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here!” by the Ameri- can troops in France. The gang is not all there, as time will - show.—New York World. “Wonderful.”” Bov fetch us a jar! Here's a word that needs canning— “Wonderful! And never a word was in more need of banning— “Wonderful!" Lang Syne, when first edges.were new, it's battered and nearly worn through. Boy, a measure of brine! but one thing to do— ““Wonderful!" minted, its Now dented and There's ‘Whatever the noun is, this adjective’s there-— “Wonderful!" A dinner, a sunset, a golf ball in air— “Wonderful!” A rose, the Grand Canyon, tennis lob, A picture, a book, or { the cob; Was ever a word more the mob? “Wonderful!" —B. 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It was of partcular interest to them by reason of the New England characteristic which Vance had portrayed and which he was spreading over the country to its edification. So the lecturing bureau got Vance on ts circuit and he made a tour of New England. His audi- ences grew in numbers as newspaper reports of his lecture gained circula- tion. The New Englanders flocked to hear him tell of how, sharp as the Jews undoubtedly are, they had found it impossible to make a living in New England. “Outside of Boston,” Vance told them, “‘not fifty, perhaps, can be found in all that lahd of unsuspect- ing integrity and modest righteous~ ness. They have managed to endure with long-suffering patience the knout of the czar and the bow-string of the Turk, but they have fled for life from the wooden nutmegs and the left- handed gimlets of Jonathan,” ‘Is there any man who hears me tonight” he asked, “who, if a Yankee and a Jew should lock horns in a regular encounter of commercial wits, would not give large odds on the Yankee? His own opinion was that ‘“the gen- uine ‘guessing’ Yankee, with a jack~ knife and a pine shingle, could in two | hours’ time whittle the smartest Jew in New York out of his homestead in the Abrahamic convenant.” The New Englander is going to find Charlotte full of historic gems of this and like character. Around almost every street corner he will stub his toes on some- | thing worth writing about. A Brief Exposition. (New Haven Register.) In the Hartford Courant there was an anonymo ticle” under the head of Christianity” recently little “ar- “Christ is which is worth reprint- ing for a sermon which may interest those who are unable to get to church on these summer Sundays. It is suc- | cinct; it contains argument which isb of the best; and it sets its claim of proof on such logical grounds that it | is recommended for the perusal of those wWho enjoy the warking out of an argument with facility and brevity. “There can be but one absolute and final truth in any realm of knowledge. The Lr_ue astrgnomy is that complete explanation of the physical universe which can have no competitor or sub- stitute. The true religion is man's right relation to God. There can be but one. 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