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

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1917. ritain Herald. | PUBLISHING COMPANT. 3 Proprietors. (Runday excepted) at 4:18 p. m., d Bullaing, 67 Church St. | tae Post Onice at New Britain Bond Class Mail Matter. % iy carrfer to 8 Gentx a week, . for paper fo be Bie in advauce, 60 cents & ‘& yéar. ny part of the city 86 cents a month, nt by mail. G edlum 1 profitahla advectising m I city. Circyintion books and pres alwavs open to advertisers. erala win ve founa op sale at fota- e Neve Stand. 42nd St and road- , New York City; Board Walk, At atic City, and tartford Depot. TELEPHONE CALLS. office 230 per of The ‘he Associated Press is exclu- 3ly entitled to the use for re- dlication of all news credited It or not otherwise credited in paper and also the local news plished herein. The Business at Hand. Dur business now, our biness is to lick Germany. This 1 leave us little time for the Fher flights or the finer shades. | r the present we can't stop to rry too much over personal ubles or class trouble: asion of privilege or rights, rference with leberties of sech or action. We can't tdle our consciences overmuch, pauvge to worn about our als. If we do, our team-play il suffer—and we are done for. jrrid I admit; unpleasant, fmitive, anyvthing vou like. \ly the human race is capable *such folly. Bat such is v ‘ced by Germany upon @ such are its conditions. must win, which means aRly, preserve ourselves from ,tl‘o\'ml ruin. Then perhaps we n all turn to and tidy up the rld and human nature a bit. * —LEE WILSON DODD. one us; And month, | | desirea would be perpetrated upon us To extent had all these crimes against the ! such an directed the that his hecn er was at Con- American nation K by Ambassador that be jeven advised bW gress the American pted. A for with which a cer- shington might cory slush fund was asked tain society was to coerce, or buy, Congressmen and divert thes declara- tion of war that was then standing in the offing. The revelations which the is now making, and Government be published in the news- to will for eachi | w hich pitpers time show how f: some come, was the reptile hand Th that j althoush there were fell the Roneyed and the | for Germany show, too, those who betore soft words and flattery tainted money from German Embassy there were others | who proved true to their trust. For in our midst there must ten every traitor he somewliere near million | i vatriots. DOCTOR., Britain A MA? more A New AND has than its pub- heen the selection of There fortunate in lic officials. have been in- ances, of course, where politics man who was not all he That natural, and a thing to be digcounted. In the Bri- tain those brousht*in a might have been. was but long rui, however, New has been well served by placed at the various posts of service. instance of this is the Bben Reeks who some One notable of Dr. T. time ago resigned as the head of the health department. Under the care- ful of Dr. Reeks this partment developed until it fairly out- case guidance de- shone many other departments of the zovernment. So that the searching for help quell epidemics lighted upon the name of our chief health officer. He was then offered a high place in the councils of the state. No sooner the re Dr. Reeks heen handed in and a logical successor sought than it was found that the place indeed would be a hard one to fill. A difficult one for more reasons than one. Avail- able men wanted, more money to perform the tasks than Dr. Reeks Where the former head of the health depart- much was state of Con- a man to local this necticut in so, the case, had ignation of and do want, received or asked for. ment was paid the salary of $3,000, or QUESTION BEFORE THE | ] CITY. | fany people of there should al farewells to mgn this believe to city be an end the zoing 1o , Mass., for training in the onal Army. e officin] send-off on new | | last Thurs- morning is said to have caused heart-aches than . took ew ything that the Old timers place within confines Britain. who can E back upon the day when this city | its men to ‘the front in the Civil can recall such In War here no scenes. panish when a contingent from same there was not even degree of sadness. Bven 2in recent memory is the day when bovs marched off to entrain for Mexican Then @ no ! there is any feeling of regret at horder such heart-aches and sobs. boys going away to Camp Devens | hust be because they are sent e, without the uniform. re is indeed a great difference he- en seeing men off the lation suits of khaki and witnes them- go pell-melil in their conven- al mufti. lefore the second per- military march in wrge from of sentiment number of are the law sent away this town fler the ice nded w conclusively t. Shall workings should he to such a degree what the be a par: Il these ceremonies be dispensed 2 That the question of the hr. The answer must come fromn people. so as to people there de, or TRAITORS VS. PATRIOTS. PVashington having started of the upon German W plete revelation fue and takes benign, in- perfidy country at ke the discloses with calm, host indifference. Outside these ital for stories om ihe nation's contributing interesting read- the cool winter evening® wdd a ad, fire esmanship. it henzolierns, they cannot more coals upon the he of German The American nation, n before it went 1o war with the had Wilhehn upe of malefactors, he men es are linked wi suflicient evidence convict and his trained in this country whose 1 German agents [plots which were destined to thwart erican good will naturally must er at (he of their of hands fellows, ey wiil feel the wrath of au indiz- Int people i they do not receive ger punishinent rts. We patient b, almost to the point of foolishness. let tools i1t the bands of the have been i peo- B stoud silently by and Gierman ents and their«paid corrupt m and women within our horders, hese things we allowed ster of the German people came the belief that we were moral iwards and that almost anything he untii the there | Selective | thereabouts, those who sought fill his shoes asked for an increase of one thousand dollars, making the place pay $4,000. The hizh cost of living naturally is h in to miven as an for the hi Yet exeuse new sala the tax payers seem in- not ion Not worth it, nor the position high enough The idea Dr. $4,000, did not ask seemingly, did not he was receiving no dispo: to give such that the an crease. work is for such salary. Reeks did not get for $4,000, and, worry hecause $4.000 his work a is, not salary. He went along doing with the same zest and vim he might have expended had he been paid ten thousand dollars. Therein lies the worth of Dr. Reeks. He placed the of the h th | partment above dollars and cents. de- He the joy of working, with that he helping citizen He worked of the city. And going on, work worked for the knowledse vas his fellow for the that what a scramble is being made fnr= { his old” job at a higher flgure, he | wants relinquish all to state honor and come back to the old This we cite betterment now he realizes what s | to claims a town at the old salary as an instance where New Britain is fortunate in the selection of a public ofcial. salary If there is to be any raise in for this office we know who should get it, and there are just five | letters in his last name. SOLDIERS BOOKS 1ronr today. city there il campaign he waged the purpose of which is to provide books the t for Beginning in this a soldier: variou rining of the ho have actually for in nation and those gone to the battle- mps W ficlds of Europe ¥ New | monetary | I movement | share of nation-wide of Asing Britain’s interest in this at five per cent. the realized three { population the sum to be | here should well ov the 1 dollar with T We have been | of 65,- figure thou! mark population that the redited W hat hily ace: a Hi though than Britain is slig] more most radical estimates, New will have no trouble in securing the desired $3,250 for this work. have covered themsclves with glory. The list of worthy accomplishments a large one. [Ited Cross work here is The Liberty Loan of was over-subscribed. There has pre-eminent. 1917 | been no trace of shirking, no sign of the slacker. So it should be with this new demand upon the city’s populace. ng, is the since required the This, it may he said in pa of all of money ively a4 Asiest requests, tho amount is com- par small, and joy of gmiv- ing so for for do our part large. Books soldiers fs the Wwe thought must then thiz week. in the nation's endeavor to secure one million dol- !lars for one million books for one mil- lion soldiers. And we must not fail. ACTS AND FANCIES. Are covering tackle armed the submarine ecaptains, dis- that it much safer to the smaller and less efficiently ships ?—Hartford Times is wonder the crown prince father to let God fight with occasionally.—Atlanta Constitu- Tt's a doesn’t » Tiin tion. Russla is now declared a republic. Mexico and China might have some suggestion to offer by way of guid- ance.—Raltimore American. We aught naturally to ensky. His government has the $100,- 000,000 we just lent Russia.——Syracuse Post-Standard. Major-Gen. Leonard Wood is ever epigrammatic and crisp of speech. “We must finish it on the other or it will be finished here” is his lat- est—New Haven Reglster. What has become of the old-fash- ioned man who thought the would wait until the United came in and then throwing hand exclaim:—*T can't world."—Berkshire Eagle. his the up lick Prof. William Lyons Phelps. the pacifist member of the Yale faculty, s taking a year's vacation at his own request. ‘“Let’s hope he'll take this time to “think it over”. Billy Phelps is too good a man to have off on a tangent.—New London Day. Managers of Boston restaurants say that some of their patrons will not take kindly to corn bread as a sub- stitute for the white hread that is usually served to them. but if some of them can only he persuaded to try it they will find out what a luxury it is. pringfield Renublican. Life, at best, is a funny thing, Twenty-four hour All in which must haye their Sleep, and Work, and Pla fling, Eight hours Sleep, and all Away from dull, dread Over Dreamland’s Wandering ‘way off too short, Care, comely court there. in Hammer, or dig, or Keepin' a-goin' from Morning, noon, and write; crib to grave, night. Eight hours Play,-and how they fly,— Wondrous and fast they go, Barely born before they die; Play-time never is slow. Life, at best, is a funny thing, Twenty-four hours a day. All in which must have their Sleep, and Work, and Play. JOHN J. DALY. S fling, FAMOUS HOU! Colonel House. White House. House of a Thousand Candles. House That Jack Built. Haunted Housé. House of Hohenzollern. Crazy House. House of Hapsburg. Dog House. House of Death. House Divided Agalnst Itself. House of Itepresentatives. Upper House. House of Seven Gables Rough House. House of Windsor. Astor House. Kilby House. Full House. Bee Hive House. Ware House. Poor House. House of Morgan. Freight House. House of the Ascendent. Road House. House of Tudor. House of Lords. Work House. Half-way House. House of David. Alms House. Relay House. House of Cards. Work House. Clift House. House of Saxony. Round House. Roat House. Bath House. Boarding House. Power Housec. Next House. House Across the Street. Slaughter House. Play House. If every person in the city gave hut five cents for this book fund the almost be it 000 peo- aforementioned would That we have not quite 6 sum realized. is. taking sranted ple here, Yet those in charge of this of stitute have under- The he New Britain the task contributions trustec librarian Ir of raising | this. and talen (his | Al the Institute, wherever possibl if to hanks trust companies. money. should be sent to and not. any of the local o | In every public task undertaken in the war began, and particularly since the of America in the struggle, the people since this city entrance for | | { campaign hope to dn even better than Coffee House. Club Hous: Fire House. Smoke House. Vacant House. Torner House. Ice House. Hot House Monkey House. Ale House. Heuse of Commons. House of Correction. House of Delegates House of Detention Mouse of Kternity of Life of Keys of Mer House of Refuze. Parish House. Bug House. Farm House, House House House upport Ker- | side | Eight hours Work, like a galley slave, | Lucky Lads at Ayer. (Boston Herald) Cheers for the chosen men of Bos- ton 1id of New lIingland, those who parade and those who do not, who as semble at Ayer for the drill and the discipline that will make them sol- diers. By all means let them know that we honor them and wish them godspeed— but no tears for them. Not n we well spare ourselves and ny present grief over the haz of their prospective active ser- vice, for that many months and much way happen before another summer, hut we may well refrain from any sorrowful sympathy concerning the hurdships in store for them at the cantonment itself. On the contrary, they are lucky boy and to be enviod rather than commis erated—not simply for the honor of Leing chosen and for the opportunity for patriotic service, but for the life in the enen, the wholesome food and exercise and the general mental and physical regeneration that lies before {them. They may well go singing and Jatighing. for they start on an experi- ence that will show its heneficial re- sults through all their lives, If it s straining a point to call it a’vaca- tion on good pay, it is at leust safe to charactevize it something closel akin to that. What appetites they will have when they crawl out from under the hlankets on these crisp fall morn- ings and how much better things will taste than in any city boarding house. Those who have too much weight will lose it and those who need it will put it on. They will straighten up and get hard as nails, clear-eyed, bronzed and alert of mind and mus- cle. They will come home with new friends, new ideals and new interests that they will never lose, Somie of them will write home dole- ful letters, for boys like to play the martyr and make out that they are undergoing grave hardships: but wise parents and friends will not worry. The boys at Ayer, and at the other camps, are in for the time of their young lives, and a few years from now by far the most of them will be glad- 1y and gratefully acknowledging that they had it. only ¢ them ards Motive for Rasputin’s Murder. In “The Killing of Rasputin” by Lincoln Steffens in Ever the author gives the authentic details as | they wer= related to him by the as ins themselves. A woman of a10ble birth headed the conspiracy. and Mr. Steffens has this to say about hre motives: “The lady loathed the dirty peasant that put his possessing hands upon her. She felt about him as any up- standing creature feels about a crawl- ing snake which has struck and will strike again She had a human im- pulse to step on and crush Rasputin. She counted the fools he had made of women, the cowards he had made of men, and she wanted to save them. This, too, was human. And she had a class consciousness about him. A grand duchess by birth, she hated the low-born interloper who had crept into the imperial family and pulled the ear the T and the Tsarina own to his whisp lins and away from those of the grand dnkes and grand duchesses: turning them ana the aristocracy out of the court to whine and tremble, his slaves, in the courtyard. And she resented his pe version of religion afd his degrada- tion of her church. But there was one other, more democratic. motive at work in her. She accepted the common belief that Rasputin was the 2xent through whom ‘Germany was i designating or purchasing generals in the Russian armies, mismaking and misshipping ammunition, and direct- in= millions of Russian troops into V- shaped vamps where von Hinden- burg’s Germans could slaughter them in blood and mud! | “The lady believed, in short, her beast was a traitor to God, and the Tsar; to her kind, to her class and to her country. And upon that conviction she acted deliberately: not impulsively, but slowly, surely, like the able woman she is. of 1 ving that man, | Cheap Money. (The Pathfinder). People who have cherished the doc- trine that everything would be lovely -if there was only plenty of money are having a very good chance now to ex- perience the actual effects of that doctrine in practice. August 1 the amount of money in circulation in this country was §46.52 per capita. This shows the phenomenal increase of 23 per cent. in the last year. A century ago there was only about | 85 per capita; 1850 tho amount had izen to about $12; by 1880 to about 220 and by $1900 to ahout § It is an interesting and signlficant . that in the last year prices have risen Just about proportion to the expansion of the currency. That is exactly what to bhe expected, and just as long as government continues to blow air into the currency we must expect the purchasing of our money to be correspondingly re- duced. Here simple, | | | in is power inflation pure and results and its bad ones. The only question is when the thing will burst. The little neu- | tral countries of Kurope are quoting ! our dollar very much below par, and even China, who usually will give $2 of her sllver for §1 American, is now allowing us only $1.50. For the first time since the Civil War the United States dollar is de-’ | preciated, and as a nation we find ourselves taken at a discount, marked down and humiliated. Moreover, the depreciation of our dollar means that | we shall have to pay correspondingly | more for all products, whether for- " sign or domestic. The dollar is worth less; hence it will buy less in labor or materials. The radicals in all times and coun- | tries have clamored for cheap money and plenty of it. hecause they thought { that this would benefit the ‘“have- not." The cheapening of money does ! primarily injure the “haves” in one hecause it dilutes the cash cur - { ital they posee: But the trouble value of all property is rents and interest rates go up and in ! the end it once more the poor | worker and poor consumer who foot that at the same time the nominal lthe bill for the loss, we have with its good i way, is inereased; The Connecticut Senators. (Washington Corr. Springfield Repub- J liean.) The New BEngland best in prestige at Washington, if comparisons may he tolerated, are probably the two from Connecticut. Brandegee and McLean are not the men that O. I1. Platt and General Hawley were hack in halcyon re- publican times. As much could hard- Iy be exvected in the changed situa- ation. Platt and Hawley, in these latier-day congresses, would not have ned to such senatorial stature as they enjoyed toward the close of their careers. Senator Brandegee has pos- sibly heen more industrious in later vea He is quite constant in his at- fendance upon the daily sions, which has hecome a noticeable qual- ity in senatorial service. He scru- tinizes measures carefully, especially for small defects. Senator Brandegee has a good legal mind and the he performs in helping perfect ments is eertainly worth while. is not the work that appeals to galleries but nevertheless tells. senators next work It Al- ator Brandegee's activities bute to the prestize of New as a minority influence speaks occasionally and lessly. contri- Ingland there. He quite he is a member. This committee handles considerable important legis- lation. ! Senator McLean is not particulhrly conspicuous in the tloor proceedings. He is a conscientious legislator and has done not a little good work, which advances him somewhat above the rating of an average senator. He was identified with the migratory bird legislation, which he handled in ad- able fashion. Poland as a Nation. (springtield Republican). Farcical though the new govern- ment may be, it serves a serious pur- pose. In the first place, it regular- izes the position of I'oland and gives its conquerors legal rights which they have lacked. It is not permissible, for instance, to conscript the inhab- itants of occupied hostile territory, but by converting it into a state with a government subservient to the con- queror, the requirements of law may be complied with, and the desired end attained. That the Central Powers had reached an agreement about their plunder was made certain the Poles were to be conscripted into the Austrian army. The excuse then offered was the need for more man power imposed by the general offen- sive of the Allies. It is quite possi- ble, too, that the unexpected military energy shown by the United States shows the German staff that no more time must be lost in tapping the mili- tary resources of Poland. the last res- ervoir of man p&wer left. If this is the case, this country has had its share, quite innocently, in bringing this hew misfortune upon Poland, and is morally bound to make it5 rehabil- itation, like that of Belgium, a war aim. But aside from conscription, immedinte creation of a Polish gov- | ernment under Teutonic control wa dictated by political consideration. On the one hand, while péace through the Vatlean, the Cen- tral Powers are doing their utmost to settle, in a way to their advantage as many as possible of the problems which it is proposed to leave to the peace congress the astute idea being that at a great international council whatever had been actually finished and put in working order would proh- ably be allowed to stay as it was. That this policy is perfectly trans- parent does not make it much the less dangerons; if the course of the the | war | ference with the military map much-in Germany's favor as it is at present, the scheme for forcing Po- land, as a Teutonic satrapy, into the system of Mittel Europa would prob- Sale of n Town. (Brattlchoro Reformer) The sale of the town of Lincoln, N. .. recentiy by three Henry brothers to the Parker & Young Company is of head of the purchasing company Martin A. Brown of Wilmington, and a former Prcsident is Harry Parker, ! publisher of the Rradford, Vt. Opin- ion. The price paid was approxi- mately $3,000,000. ! The sale of the Henry outfit is one | of the biggest realty deals on record | in New Hampshire. With the vast | woodlands, in the neighborhood of | 70,000 acres. mostly spruce,‘a lot of | which is virgin forest, went a fully | equipped railroad of ahout fourteen | miles, passenger, freight and lumber | locomotives, etc., more than 100 dwelling houses, an opera house, a fifty-room hotel, whic hcost §20,000 to build some vears ago, a hospitall a seneral store doing a busine of | $200,000 a vear, saw mills, pulp and paper mills, five fully equipped lim- {her cimps with accommodations 100 hands, automchiles, hoarding houses and valuable water rights, in- cluding a town water system. The Parker & Young Company has | factories in Lisbon, N. H., and Or- | leans, Vi, and own large tracts of tim- ber lands in several places in addition to the ones recently purchased. The | sale at Lincoln brings nearly all of the immense uncut timber district cf the Pemigewasset valley under cne control exclusive of many acres previously cut which have been sold to the United States Government as a part of the immense White Mountain forestry | reservation. Lincoln is said to be the cleancst lumber town in the country, where everybody is democratic and capital and labor work hand in hand. rmany’s Mechanical Ingenuity. German “ingenuity’ of our great mechanical inventions, and it is to be cxpected that within a short time after the first new Lib- erty motor falls within the German lines they will be making them, too. | The advantage we have, however, is that they will not have the facilities to make them in the quantities we will he able to manufacture them, and besides we will have a big start ears, has copied ali ‘on them at that. the! though of Old Guard tendencies, Sen- | by the re- | cent announcement from Vienna that ! working for | should compel the Allies to enter cnn-} as | bly go through precisely as planned. | particular interest to Vermonters. The | is | GERMANISM IN AMERICA. {anspa;x»m Wield Viclous and Terri- | ble Influence Over Americans of | German Birth By Vilifying Yankeeland. | (Chicago Tribune) The federal authorities | last determined to deal | with the German language we trust that their orders enough to provide for an tion of “‘Das Jahrbuch der Deutschen in Chicago fur das Jahr 1916." It glorifies evervthing German, slanders our allles. and is contemptuous of | Yankees. In tone and spirit it is a j German language newspaper between covers. There is abundant cvidence that ‘]sll('h papers wield an enormous and thoroughly vicious influence over Am- | ericans of Greman birth or descent, but now and then it appears that they Ihave overshot the mark. An oce sional “German’ American protests. Jxcept that protest is dangerous, more would. Since the publication of “Why the Immigrant Remains an Alien", in- numerable letters have poured in up- on its author, Admiral C'. I. Goodrich have at vigorously press and are broad investiga- ! man language newspapers in America during the war. “No other nation would tolerate them,” says he. “It is not enough to censor them. They would laugh at { cengorship. You cannot censor the right spirit into a publication. Tt would also be difficult to find censors who are willlng and able to do this work conscientiously. A casual read- | er of the German papers may find lit- i tle to object to, while a person who can read between the lines will be prompted to tear the miserable sheet into pieces.” This German Lutheran pastor re- rards the German press as ‘‘the great- | est single menace to true Americanism existing.” Says he: “The German pa- pers are not printed for the benefit of America, but for the benefit of Germany. They have championed Ger- many's cause with the greatest fan- {aticlsm. The men conpected with { these papers are sometimes unnatur- { alized German subjects. Do you think | that our government ought to allow | open enemies of America to publish their seditious ldeas openly in = their newspapers? There were things ex- pressed in these papers which would | not be tolerated if any man dared to utter them on the street.” The most damaging paragraph in | the German Lutheran pastor’s attack, { as we look at it, is the following: “In | Germany not all papers are agre®d | with everything the government may | do but these Germans papers in Amer- ica are always in full and hearty ac- cord with the kaiser and his minions. Thus the German-American press is really more German than many papers in Germany. Some of the German ed- | ttors in Germany who dared to give | America some little credit and ju { tice have been savagely attacked by | the German press of America. The | German-American press seems to be ihe representative of the Junker: Perhaps it receives a subsidy directly | from Berlin.” Thanks for this last. We might { have hesitated to say it ourselves, but | the guess is a shrewd one, and, com- |ing from a German-American, as it | does, may furnish a tip to the secret | service—not without result. What One University Has Done. | (Boston Transcript). [ Although it has escaped notice in the news columhs, one of the matters which proved of special interest to ! members of the American Chemical | society was a report made to the pres- ent convention on a piece of wor which has heen going forward at the | University of Illinois. The depart- | ment of chemistry there determined to see what could be done about re- stocking the country’s supply of cer- tain chemicals, required in small quantities but of large importance to certain industries and to research, which were formerly furnished from Germany or made here from German | products. Since the regular commer- ! cial companies were not finding the manufacture of these materials, de sired in such small quantities, funda- attractive, the I'niversity of lllinois discovered here an opportu- nity of particular usefulness. Its success has been considerable. Not only have some chemicals been com- petently produced if a great valuo to laboratories and the steel industry, hut also it has heen possible to con- duct the enterprise as a financially sound going-concern. The work of production has given paid 2mploy- ment to a number of graduate stu- dents and undergraduates who wel- comed the chance to earn. Indeed, the venture at the University of Il- linois has now found much work on its hands that its efilcient director is appealing for co-operation from other colleges and universities which might offer to take over the manu- ! facture of some of the chemicals. | Collegiate departments of chemistry { wiil be missing a good opportunity if they do not investigate the share they might take in this enterprise. First Aid to the Injured. (New York Tribune.) Philip Albert, an American of Ger- man birth, was arraigned in West New York, N. J., yesterday before Recorder John Brewer, charged -vith making remarks derogatory to ‘he flag and the United State At a previous hearing he had been ordered to decorate his house with the Stars and Stripes. He reported that he had done so. “Here is a flag,” said Recorder Brewer. “Stand up and wave it.” Albert did so. “Say this,” commanded the record- er: “God bless America; I'll stand by you.'" Albert did so. ‘Kiss the Flag,” der’s next order. Albert did so. Now shake hands with the com- plainant nd apologize for vour re- marks.” Albert did so. 1 will discharge you; you can go.” Albert did so. | mentally was the recor- | | fear- | and by far the most significant is one | He devotes a deal of energy | from a German Lutheran pastor who | to the judiciary committee, of which |calls for the suppression of the Ger- [ DOING HIS BIT MAN. “Report for service immediately at the Brooklyn Navy Yard.” This was » the message received one morning re- cently by Albert R. Hoffman, who enlisted as a first class seaman about four months ago with the naval re- serves. It is needless to say that he obeyed order and is now stationed at Brooklyn, where he is undergoing | training. JTe is the son of Mrs. Julia Hoff- man of 62 Jubllee street and a popu- lar member of several local lodges. At the time he received his orders summoning him to report for serv- ice he was employed by the Corbin Cabinet Lock division. COMMUNICATED DEFEND OUR BOYS. Sept. To the Editor of ‘the Herald: Thank you for defending our boys from the sweeping accusation of the Bay State correspondents. Connecti- cut should worry. And Massachusetts pen slingers need not show soreness because Connecticut has overdone her legal share in everything, and try giv- ing them a black eye because of J. Barleycorn. 1 belleve something if they were wet to the skin and had to stand for hours in that condition. ONE OF THE MOTHERS. 2. ANOTHER OLD-TIMER PASSES. Under the Spreading Chestnut Tree No Village Smithy Stands,—A Ga- rage Ingtead We Find For He Has Gone to Other Lands. (Waterbury Republican). A melancholy sign of the from the Woodbury Reporter: NOTICE. blacksmith shop will be for good at noon on Sept. 1917, unless sold to other times My closed 29th, partie: J. B. HALL, Hotchkissville. We have not the pleasure of Mr. Hall's acquaintance but the editor of The Reporter, in chronicling his retirement from business, says he has been blacksmithing Hotch- kissville for many vears. His son has been engaged with him, but pr fers other business, and as Mr. Hall's eyesight is failing he =hutting up shop much to the regret of the com- munity. Thus another New England village loses its blacksmith shop. What is becoming of the village smithy in these days of rubber and gasoline? Alas, it s slowly perish- ing, though often making a bhrave fight. Sometimes a location on a maln-traveled road enables an ener- getlc proprietor to work a transfor- mation scene, put up the sign “ga- rage,” and do a somewhat similar business at goodly prices. But horses journeyed where -automobiles seldom Zo and not every old blacksmith shop in the demnnd for horse-shoes and wag- on repairs fall off. The garage trade tends incvitably to centralization. So many of the old smithies ave closing their doors. We shall miss the blacksmith shops. They were dispensaries of inforwma- tion. The direction of the roads, ‘ho state of the roads, the names and doings of the people who lived along™ the roads and traveled on the roads, the prospects for crops, the chances of getting game, the signs tor fishing,—if yvou' wanted to know these things you stopped at the first blacksmith shop. Tither the black- smith or some of his customers could tell vou. There were generally cus- tomers walting for their jobs to fintshed, telling merry tales, cracking * Jokes, gravely discussing politics, na. tlonal, state and town. Many a shrewd political scheme has started In the blacksmith shop at the four cor= ners. Also, smith. black- an en- we shall miss the Doing business with tive life of the community pass be- fore him daily, he was judicial, rather than partisan. Somewhat of a phil- osopher, too! He had ample oppor= tunities for observation, equal oppor- tunities for reflection as he plied his manly trade. He knew a great deal more than the price of horseshoe. nails. Was not Ellhu Burritt of New Britain a blacksmith? The buzz- wagon age will not develop philos- ophers of the same type. The garage man is more worldly wise and cyn- ical. He 3icts as though he knew too much of the frailtiea of humanity., He has little leisure for reflection. Alien Soldiers. {Wheeling Register.) The entire nation will welcome the passage by the United States senate of a joint resolution which has for its purpose the drafting of all aliens ‘n this country excepting subjects of the Teutonic Powers and such aliens as are exempted by treaty. < they needed ™ ts able to recoup its fortunes when.. tire town, and seeing the whole ac-,