New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 3, 1917, Page 6

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It Shall Never Fall And thou, my country, shalt never fall, but with . children. WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT. thou thy [N NEW HAVE D WATERBURY There will be great surprise out- de of Waterbury over the elections held there yesterday. TFrom what in- prmation outside folk had gleaned looked ' as if Mayor Scully would In “hands down"”; but, it is the old of political dquble-crossing. Ao EidtOT Tluitley “at | Prgnest. John" went out £or" with ‘the now, well knowh esnlt. The 5Kl democratic war horse £ Waterbury nust relinquish his t to William H. Sandland, a news- aper man. As if to furnish conso- ion to those Democrats who de- ore the loss: of a mayoralty in any bwn, New Haven offset the Re- ublican machine, threw our Mayor pner who held the seat since the eath of Mayor Rice, and elected vid E. Fitzgerald mayor. Truly e ways of politics are wonderful. g TRUE TO THE COURSE. | There is one thing public officials f New Britain and their advisers will Bt over some day, and that is start- g out to do something one way and en deciding to do just the opposite. | here is lacking here the power of beision. At one moment it is agreed pon to do a thing in this way and e next moment it is decided to unteract the order. This has hap- pned in the case of the celebration r the men going to Ayer, Massachu- tts, under the Selective Draft Law. st it was thought expedient to pld the public farewell on Wednes- | evening, tonight. Then it was ¢ided that Thursday morning, to- orrow, would be the appropriate fne. Before the sun goes down to- ght we are very very lucky if a leeting has not been called to post- me the celebration altogether. One of the main reasons for de- g to hold the formal send-off of le drafted men on this evening was /Ced after the last farewell to e first detachment. At that time it seen that the morning of depar- e was no time for such a farewell. heart-rending scenes were ch as to warn any man with com- m sense that they should not be jpeated, if possible. A campaign conducted, through the ers and otherwise, for the pur- Ise of sounding public sentiment. d public sentiment said this: We Et not go through again what we it through when the last detach- nt of drafted men went away. st have no more such scenes. In- ad, let us have a parade the night ore. Let dispense with this 1y morning trial. ow comes the committee dn pgements and, having alr P word abroad that the affair e place this evening, e the agony gone through with orrow morning. For the next bnth we shall to hear hing but condemnation on all sides rightly Experience proved, it has ever proven anything, that p early morning hour is no time for h a celebration. - It is argued that news- us ar- 1dy sent would decides to expect so. drafted men should be allowed to | ind the evening with their friends p families, that they should be given night off. These e been thought of before. d also thai many of the to show things should It men in up when celebration took place in the even- previous to their going. What if ¥ did? They can fail to show up the morning just as well. e firmiy that the com- is er cities refused believe | through | tom We | time being so rot properly celebration will | Many will ching and waiting | When they find out! they will down nal program. The short the word has gone forth that the not take place therefore tonight. he w for the parade. the truth of the not waste the town again tomorrow morning and go with it all. What though | there will be a goodly crowd on hand situation, tinfe to come rrow, it will not be such a gather- ing as might have been mustered to- gether tonight. And on the thoughts will not be the they might in the sooth ing hour, . There is amor softness the morrow : as in-, me be fluence of the eve: een the and the This psycholo; should a difference bety of | the ea morni i of the night. fact, it no other, commanding inflience on these wha decreed that the should be held tomorrow marning instead of to- night. Rev public officials and Britain must does not pay te public!: thing this moment and to counteract the order the next hour. This has been the case too frequently of late. The people here that such and such take place this they were worked over the prospects were warned, at the last moment, that ical have had a rarade rting back to the original idea, in New it other: lenrn some day that announce one have been told would when an afiair evening, and up in enthusiasm of cntertainment they that it time. the show had bcen called off, would be given at some other We have had enough of such indeci- It steer true to the cou sion is time we learned to NOT TOO LATE. For some reason community has not should to the fund to provide books for original allotment for was based on the population, W™k five cents for each man woman‘@ad child In the city. Tt belng taken fer granted that wc have a populatio ' of sixty thousand, we should have contributed somewhere near three thousand dollars for books; but we have not even approached this | ¢ sum. There have been so many for money that the populace, not only in New Britain, but in other cities, has grown sick and tired of hearing the call. Hence it is that this fund has not been subscribed to it should have been. If people will just stop to think they will realize that one of the best things they can do is help provide books for the boys in khaki. The training camps are de- void of the entertainments usually found in the cities. A few good stories will be relished by the boys called to the colors. The national waged to the end: for a million books for a million sol- diers. As the latest returns have not public no one knows work has or this responded it collected soldie The New Britain another as being some- appeals as campaign has been a million dofars |t t been yet made just how been. All community in the nation has not it should have done. It however, and either with which to pur- successful this is that this one |1 re- | i we know sponded as is not too late, books or money chase books will be gratefully re- ceived at the New Britain Institute for this fund. WHY IS IT? the mneighbor- hooa of fifteen from Unionville, —one mile this way or that makes little difference. Coal in New Britain casts eleven dollars where in Unionville it is sold for $1.50 less, or $9.50 a ton. Evidently the coal dealers here figure, as in the case of distance. that one dollar this way or that make little difference, People of this city who have figuring on their winter coal supply wonder why it that this com- modity sells for a dollar and a half in New Britain that it They have into all angles of the situation have failed It has been New Britain in is mile: a ton been i is a ton costs delved and, up to to find an expla said that New Fritain is off the main line of the railroad because this fact the price of coal must nece d here. Yet, it is also noted Unionville is more in Unionvilic. this writing, ation. and ot which entails extra hauling, arily be incre that much further off the main line than New Britain; that 1 ton of coal hauled into this town be off one spur track, it has to be shunted off on two it be delivered And still a ton $9.50 in Unionvilie same of coal | mands cleven dollars in New Britain. they remark wher must taken on | side lines before it can at Unionville. of coal for | whereas the sells ton com- As were wont to the olden rotten in days, “There omething | in Denmark.” with the Must to Now dealers of New what 1s wrong Britain? coal they really get eleven protit or conspired to fleece the pub- of a dollars a ton make fair have they lie out iollar and a half on each 28 Dhatsi: the sold he for deserves ton of coal a fair question, and, suke of all answer. coal dealers may be unjustly ac- concerned, The fair ee in charge of these arrange- jats made a grave mistake when d not go through with the origi- cused. They mayv be in the right. We should like to hear their side of the case. The public has a right to democratize it?- wiping out for a foreign Star. chine runs office, mand of the Canadians should be succeeded by General Bang, But the Though, That the crowd know the inside facts, if there are any, in such a vital matter. In the foregoing, the town of Unionville has been taken merely as an example. It is not the only town in Connecticut where coal s sold cheaper than it is in New Britain. In fact, ton of coal can bhe buught aos near as Hartford for the same price it may be purchased Unionville. And, if we want go further, the same ton of coal that costs eleven dollars in New Britain be bhou t in Middletown for § These re the facts in the They de- serve consideration, only from the public that must pay the unless something done to alleviate n the dealers here have their good faith ques- a in 10 case. not vrice is conditions, but 1 who now tioned. LATE ENOUGH. is not for the war the High this year would be over- crowded. The enrollment for 1917 more pupils than Anticipating a possible Were school shows 1916, bhut ten in a peace at some time in the future, Principal | Slade goes back to the ever recurring appeal for more space. Classes must be assembled in out of the way places. The auditorium is pressed into use. The basements are utilized. If there were a roof garden at the High school and the weather here were balmy the vear around we have no doubt classes would be conductad in the etherial regions. When is this condition zoing to be remedied? September, 1918, is the date fixed by the superintendent. That seems to be late enough. ACTS AND FANCIES, But has Germany the democrats to Boston Herald. About all that the Crown Prince secems able to take is a back seat.— Atlanta Constitution. . Russia will scarcely be content with local graft to make room tyranny.—Washington We like the way the Italian war ma- short on brag at the home but superbly long on fight in he field.—Manchester Union. One of the most difficult tasks that the American public now has before it is to keep track of the different for- eign Rochester Tnion and missions visiting this country.— Advertiser. There are those who do not know enough to come in when it rains. The ex-Czar Weekly. is one of them.—Capper's Fellow who owes us four years sub- scription stopped us on the street and | asked erty Bond. Mo., a Lib- City, us if we have bought We told him.—King Democrat. General Byng, retiring from the com- in TFrance, o comport with the fighting spirit of hose troops.—Concord Monitor. Some people think that the Congress should sit continuously during the war to assist the Président. The Northwest ooking over some of its Congressmen, s not so sure.—Minneapolis Journal It is very late in the day, but Ger- many's reply to Argentina that it will pay indemnity tional law shows that even diplomats World. interna- German learn.—New York and observe may IN 19—When? The bulletin shrieked of a victory in France crowd in the street didn’t seem to enthuse; as strangers drew near, the crowd broke with a cheer, And the strangers said: “Ah! rejoice at the news!” But a closer inspection-soon made it quite plain They wasn’t gathered for viet'ries—but grain! the people at last, poseful mood Were hanging a fellow who'd gambled in food. And in a pur- So the passed on till they came to a park To which people were thronging with blood in theire eye; And the strangers said the folks celebrate! “Hurrah for the country!” and “Never ay die!’ So they asked, “What's the cause?” as the crowd hurried fast, And the mass paused an instant be- fore it swept past. “We're lynching a gu) mid the yells, “Who put profit of his shells! “Great! ‘See it explained not powder, inside So the strangers, still marveling, hur- ried away, they presently came to a clean, sunny square Where civilians. with rifles, were lined up to shoot. And the strangers home guard’s drilling here,” But the strangers were wrong, and excessively pained When, “Oh, just a firing squad!” the people explained— “The gazaboo who's pl in this stunt : Sent beef that was rotten to boys at the front!” —JAMES L. MARSHALL, in the Spokane Chronicle. Must Be Paid. (Kansas City Journal). “Pad, T want to he a musician.” “Then I'd be either a piper or fidaler “Why 2" “When there done, I notice ferred creditors.” Till said: “See the ing the star a to he pre- is anv are paying they always | i BURDETTE R. OLIVER. The young man pictured above in U. S. uniform is probably on high seas embarked for France. He is Bur- dette R. Oliver, a member of Com- pany E which was recently merged into the 102d regiment, part of which has landed in England. Oliver is 22 years old and the son of Mrs. Fred Eliot of 30 High street. He graduated from the New Britain High school in 1911. He enlisted with Company E of this clty July 1, 1917, HADLEY D VAILL. the Grandeur That Was Grecce and the Glory That Was Rome As Seen Through Humor- ous Eyes. As the World Wags: President Arthur T. Hadley's latest contribution to educational literature appears in the September Harpers under the caption ‘“College studieg and college tests.” This argumenta- tive and richly suggestive . essay. is refreshing and of inestimable value, in these days of doubt and uncertaliity as to the most effective methods of instruction and the best selection of subjects to be studied. One finds, too, a rare bit of humor in the parody on the famous lines of Horace, which, for the purpose at hand, are ren- dered: Oh “Some like to raise Olympic dust Through four years' course in college, And clip \the corners extra close To win the prize for knowledge.” Roes not this make you hark back to the days of boyhood when the comic translation of Virgil gave us more real pleasure than the original text? Very likely there were sev- eral translations of this nature, but the one in mind was by Vaill, erst- while editor and proprietor of the Winsted (Conn.) Herald. The work is out of print, but some years ago the author’s brother, who had suc- ceeded to the editor's chair, assured me he still had the original cuts and copy for “seed” and he hoped to get out another edition. Do not the following lines make you wish to hike back to the classics and once more drink deep from the Perian spring, or could you yourself in a better fashion render the invo- cation ? to me ti to know hero of e facts, if ‘em, this “0O Muse, relate you happen Concerning the ishing poen Explain why the queen of the gods was so terribly eager So clever and pious a man step to beleaguer: Why with wrath she with shipwreck .and thunder; Do they cultivate such morals up yonder?” aston- at each pursued him, tempest and reprehensible And is there not a full measure of snap and go in the lines: “Dido no longer acts clandestinely, But openly, and quite indecently , Calls him her husband, and in this way tries To pull wool o'er his circumspectious eyes, But Jupiter, old Turk, Woke up, and gaped, and looked, and said: ‘What work! Mercury, my son, put on your po quick, drop on streak; Aneas is there, hanging around Dido; I want to know what he means by it, T8 a0t the great, grand, high shap- And Carthage city like a I know where there is a copy of this worl, and if the possessor passes over before 1 am called I will get it and then when Charon, in his fexr- ruginous bark, ferries me o'er {he and the sop to Cerberus is saf v stored in my whetstone pocket, I will bury my nose in Vaill's transla- tion and, thus cheered, enter the great unknown. —ROBERT L. WINKLEY, in Boston Herald, Boston. Pacifism on the Ranch. (Washington Star.) “I don’t believe in war,” remarked Bronco Bob. “Neither do Finger Sam. “And I also don’t believe in hoss- stealin’; therefore bein’ willin’ to get out with a fircarm an’ discourage anybody who tries to introduce the custom.” * replied Thrée- Not Yellow. (Baltimore Star) By declaring war on Germany, Chi- na has proved that while she may be a peril she isn’t yellow. Quatified. (Life) Why don't You're broke marry time Newlywed old top? anyway. you all the I be The McMillan Store, “Always Reliable” OUR FALL OPENING THURS DAY, FRIDAY AND SATUR OCT. 4TH, 5TH AND 6TH Displaying the New Seasons hoais, lits, Dresses, Evening Gowns, Bress Fabrics and Silks "We Inv.te You to Be Present During Our Fashion Display Days s PSYCHOS1S," | A New Form of insanity Discovered in Russia But Which Has Been Exist- ent in America For Some Time. (New A new form of insanity discovered in Russia. Prof. P. J. Rosenbach, president of the Russian Association of Psychiatrists, says that the sudden advent of freedom in Rus- sia has been too much for the minds of many persons, and that an epidem- ic of the new madness has been one of the results of the political transtorma- | tion of the country. Prof. Rosenba¢h applies the name of ‘‘mass psychosis’” to the insanity caused by suddenly acquired liberty. He says that one of the symptoms of “mass psychosis” is an. ‘“infatuation with committees, delegatios, and demonstrations.” With all due respect for Prof. Ros- enbach’s eminence as an authority on psychology, ‘“mass psychosis” as de- fined by him is not a new form of in- sanity. Nor is it confined to Russia. The “infatuation with committees, delegations, and demonstrations” may peculiarly characteristic of the Russian people under the stress of the epic days through which they are liv- ing. But the same symptom is to be ob- served in New York. has been gaining ground for several months past that in New York, as in other parts of the United States, there are altogether too many ‘‘com- mittees, delegations, and York Evening Mail) has been moment. The sufferers from ‘‘mass psychosis” in Russia seem to be devoting their energles to every purpose under the | sun except the one vital purpose of winning the war. So are some of the sufferers from ‘‘ma ps hosis” in New York and other parts of Ameri- ca. Our New Friendship for England. (Harrison Rhodes in Harper's Mag- | The most difftéult area is the The impression | demonstra- | tions” concerned with matters of little | | ship. azine). Much of our own anti-British feel- ing was, during the first part of the| war, a mere feeling of impatience at unpreparedness, blunders, and slow- | ness. But the antidote to this feel- ing is perhaps already at hand. Our own way of going to war has brought home to some observers an un- dreamed-of similarity between Amer- ica and England. We were unpre- pared, slow and muddling for a while, and we were unemotional about it all. Of course, after three vears the gilt is off the gingerbread of war. Belng oldier iy no longer a popular pleas- ure; we must be content if it is a popular duty. But there is some- thing in our American fire burning | deep down and coming slowly to the surface which can be better compared to the heat of England than to that of any other of our allies. Such| things are indications that the two countries may in this period of trial find they are more alike and better | friends than they realized. Perhaps when the seas again and we revisit our familiar English haunts, we shall not easily recognize the people which inhabits them. It is gradually coming into the | mind of the world that this war is something more than a war; that it is | perhaps a vast inexplicable convul- sion by which humanity is to advance a few milestones more along the road to freedom. It is perhaps the great revolution to which the French revo- lution was but the prelude. It is quite possible that to the new Eng- land which is slowly emerging any oppression of Treland is unthinkable. There are great traditions of libert in England from Magna Charta down; some of the great new traditions of liberty will be rooted in that new England which we now begin to see across the waters. There will be new traditions plant- in our American soil, too, and our shores as well will take on a new look as England looks toward them into the sunset. And if, as both America and England believe, the war is being fought to bring peace and better understanding and greater friendship between nations, the half- | forgotten ties of blood and language may grow stronger as the new day a are free ed Lower Flour. (Bridgeport Farmer) In certain milling sections the price ! of flour has been reduced $1 a barrel, which makes a retail price of $12. This $5 lower than the r1aximum priee of §1 the hest srad . which lhu\i been reached in many cities when § | the nation calls upon the son to serve | scenes. : and distribution of the government began its campaign of feod regulation. From this campaign large advan- tages have been gained. It is true that the downward trend of prices has not vet begun, or is not strongly marked, | but the upward trend has been check- ed in the case of the principal and necessary commodities. This is no small matter. If prices cannot be lower, it is good to know that at least they will not be higher. The regulation of necessaries from the point of production to the point of distribution is diffloult and complex. retail market, where merchandising is fre- quently most expensive, although it pays little or no profit to merchant. Food stuffs are sold in hundreds of thousands of small stores, which are Busy only a part of the time, and which necessarily charge up to com- paratively small supplies of food, rents, lights, clerk hire, heat, profits, and business mistakes, all the expenses of conducting a small business. “How About Dad?” (Berton Braley in Chicago Post.) There’s been a lot written about the brave mothers who are giving their sons to war. And no one will quarrel with the words of praise ut- tered in their behalf. It is impossi- ble to overestimate the sacrifice they make in the service of their country. But 1 want to speak about the fa- thers. A boy's long very largely to his mother. His father and he may be the best of pals, but because the father is at his work all day, while the mother is at home, there cannot be the same intimacy. It is not until the boy verges on manhood, till he reaches that time in his life when he is ready to play the game Wwith men, that father and son find themselves in a closer relation- Then Dad discovers that the kid” talks his language, and the “kid” learns that Dad is not only Dad, but a bully good companian and friend who understands his point of iew as no mother, however loving, can hope to understand. This is the time when the father and son plan together on the boy’s immediate and more distant future, when they have long smoketalks and look more deeply into each other’s hearts and souls than ever before. And it is just at this place in their lives that war steps in and separates them. It is just at this period that and the father to sacrifice. The mother has had the past, the father gives up the future. For if the boy does not come back the father cannot have quite the store of memories of the mother, and if he does come back—as most of | them will—he will have spent the time that might have been the fa- ther's with other men and in other And though he may be a bigger, stronger and better man for it, Dad and he will never quite tauch the intimacy they would other- wise have known. So, without belittling .the ‘beauty and holiness of the mother’s sacri- fice, I speak this brief word for the brave, quiet, fearless sacrifice of Dad. Dreaming of the Future. (London 'Times). 1 The German industrial and com- mercial interests are never tired of discussing plans for resuming opera- tions with the utmost possible speed when the war is ended and the block- ade is raised. Such discussions are especially lively when German “peace offensives’” are in progress. The Association of German Cham- bers of Commerce has now published a long resolution on the much-dis- puted questions of the in.portation raw materials. It appears that German traders are all very anxious to escape as soon as possible from government control, but it is universally recognized, on the other hand, that, owing to the de- preciation in the value of the mark, uncontrolled trading with foreign countries will be impossible. There are also disputes between traders who | have concluded bargains for the sup- ply of raw materials from foreign countries and traders who want all available supplies to be divided by the state. The compromise recommended by babyhood and youth be-‘ are necessary for economizing the re- sources of German shipping and German railways, and for raising the value of the mark. Where restric- tions are necessary they should be applied to any other goods rather than to important raw materials. The state should not attempt to control in- dividual bargains by refusing means of payment, but should do everything possible to facilitate payments by means of foreign loans and credits and foreign money. During the ‘period after the conclusion of peace, during which scarcity of raw ma- terials continues, it is necessary “for social reasons”'to distribute raw ma- terials as equally as possible, accord- ing to the capacity of particular con- cerns and the extent of their activ- ities immediately before the war. The “various' industries should establish their own distribution centers, but these centers should not be given any monopoly of freight space and foreign | money, they should “leave the impor- tation of raw materials as much as | possible to free trading;” care must be taken to guard the respective in- | terests of industry and trade. Tt f: insisted that the compulsory fusions | of business which have been effected under the Auxillary Service law should be abandoned immediately aft- er the end of the war. The chambers of commerce are holding out against legislation which would compel employers to take back former employes on their return from the war. They express general ap- proval of the government proposals for demobilization, and say that In particular it is much better to retain men with the colors for a maximum period of four months, or until they have obtained definite employment, than to attempt any ambitious scheme of support for the unemployed. Father Cassidy’s Acid Test. (Boston Transcript). - Let these organizations show at once how they are meeting the acid test suggested by the Rev. James 8. Cassidy, of St. Patrick’s Catholic church in Fall River, in his address to the national army soldiers in that city, published in the Transcript on September 15. Father Cassidy said: All tribes and kinds and tongues and colors for one reason or another have taken up their abode within the confines of these United States and have here enjoyed, if they would, every right and privilege of a free people dwelling in a land of rare op- portunities and undeveloped natural resources. America has been called the melting pot of nations. Now is content of the kettle tested. Now shall we know whether we are a united nation or a conglomeration of unassimilated and unamalgamated and easily separated units. Now shall we know whether it be with unanim- ity. Now shall we know upon whom we may depend in any future strug- gle. Now shall we know those who allow their love or hatred of any oth- er country to make secondary their allegiance to the Stars and Stripes. Now, in a word, shall be forever set- tled whether the people of these Tnited States, born where you will or under what flag you may, can be Americans first, last, always and for- ever. The time has come for the Irish societies to say under what flag they stand—whether with the country or their people’s refuge and of the pride of their youth who have sprung to arms in that country’s defense, or whether with the Cohalans, Devoys and O'Learys, with the Bernstorffs and von Papens, with the plotters against America’s integrity and wel- fare, with the oppressors and murder- ers of the Belglan people. They should speak at once, and with no un- certain volce. A New Use For Rain in Kansas. (Kansas City Star) A new blessing which rain brings to Kansas has been found. Among other good things, rains make the motor- thieving industry harder to carry on. A big car stolen from Winfield one night last week was found stuck in the mud near Arkansas City the next morning. Useless Precaution. (Chicago Journal) “This seems to be a very dangerous the chambers of commerce may be summarized as follows: The removali of restrictions on trade i of thej greatest importance for Germany's in- | ternational trade. Restrictions upon the importation of raw materials should be confined to measures which ; precipice,” remarked the tourist. I wonder that they have not put up a warning board."” Yes," @ ered the guide, “it is dangerous. They kept a warning board up for two years, but no one fell over 80 it was taken down.”