New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 16, 1917, Page 6

8 NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY, OCTOBER. 16, 1917, . - N Britai Id iNew Britain Herald. HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY, i Proprietors. ! Jesued dally (Sunday excepted) at 4:15 p. m,, [ at Herald Building, 67 Church St. Bntered at the Post Office at New Britaln a8 Second Class Mail Matter. |/ Delivered by carrier to any part of the city for 15 cents a week, 66 cents a month, Aubscriptions for paper to be sent by mall, § payable in advance, 60 cents a month, | #7100 a vear. | The only profitable advertising medium in the city. Circulation books and press room always open to advertisers. ‘The Herald will be found on sale at Hota- ling’s News Stand, 42nd St. and Broad- way, New York City; Board Walk, At- lantic City, and Hartford Depot. TELEPHONE' CALLS. Business Office | Editorial Rooms The Associated Press is exclu- sively entitled to_the use for re- publication of all news oredited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. e Run It High. Let us run high the old Flag, the old, the true Flag; the Flag of George Washing- . ton and Abraham Lincoln; . the Flag of the government © of, for, and by the people; ¥ the Flag of national faith " held sacred and of national I' honor unstained; the Flag of I human rights and of good ex- B ample to all nations; the Flag . of true civilization, peace, . and good will to men. ‘—CARL SCHURZ. P8 5T % A FOR THAT FLAG. .. Siuce the beginning of the war we lhave printed some beautiful senti- pents at the head of these editorial Solumns, but none more lofty than the loregoing from the pen of Carl hurz, a German who knew what '_fiGlury meant to all free people, 0 realized the greatness and the jodness of this republic. Were 'he ng today Carl Schurz would help run high the old Flag, the good Flag, the Flag of George Wash- on and Thomas Jefferson, of hn Adams, Benjamin Franklin. and Patrick Henry. Yea, the Flag of Carl churz. As it is the Flag of the gov- rnment of, for, apnd by the people, 0 it is the Flag of each and eyery ian who believes in the ideals for hich it stands, .who cherishes the gnd over which it'waves. Truly.it is Flag of “‘faith held sacred.and of ational honor unstained”. ‘Today it fghting against a government that ‘no. faith, ‘eXcept the falth which peaks Might over Right, a gov- nent that jhas stained its national @ ‘mire of trickery and in- ue. It'is for this Flag, the Flag weathered Bunker Hill, Lundy's e, Chapultepec, and Manila Bay, t. Americans stand again ready to e their all, their lves and treasure, need be, that peace and good will y come to men. LIBERTY BOND FACTS. ‘@Girard, the famous writer on the . of the Philadeiphia Telegram, ba devised this catechism which Bliould be of interest to all: t is a Liberty bond? It is a nd of the United States Govern- § Why is it called a Liberty bond? cause the proceeds of the bond will jelp defeat the Prusslan tryanny and sure liberty for you and your chil- en. * Should I buy the Liberty bond? I hould buy one for two reasons. It the best investment in the world. t is a duty to lend a dollar to my gountry if 1 have a dollar and my gountry neceds it. Do I give this money to my coun- try? No, I only lend i Can I get my money back? Any day want it. L Can I be sure that I shall get it ck? Surer than I would be if T in- jvested the same dollar in any other property in America. Is our debt for each person smaller han the debts of European countries? [Far smaller. How much smaller? Each Briton's hare of his country’s debt is now more than $400. FEach German’s thare of his country’s national debt s $350. Fach Frenchman's share of jhis country’s debt is $500. But after 8 have sold Liberty bonds for the Jirst year of war or up to $20,000,000 000 each American’s share will only $200. . Does America pay off its debt? Tt jpaid off the debt of the Revolution sompletely. It paid off every dollar of that of the war of 1812. It paid off he Mexican war debt. It speedily d off two-thirds of the Civil War lo | Why did it not pay off all the Civil War debt? The law had enabled na- tional banks to use those bonds to is- sue bank notes and it was deemed un- wise to pay off the bonds and so wipe { out the bank notes. Are Liberty bonds as good for a poor man as for a rich man? Better. Why? ¥ghe rich man will have to pay an income tax on the interest he gets from the 'bonds; the poor man will not. Is it expensive to buy a bond? Does not cost a penny. Can a bond be sold quickly? minutes. In two Can I exchange my first Liberty bond, which pays three and one-half per cent. interest, for a new bond which will pay four per cent.? Yes. How much will that exchange cost me? Not even a postage stamp. Who will do it for me? Any bank, banker or broker. g What do they get out of 1t? thanks, but nothing else. Why do suchibankers and other men like Mr. Stotesbury give so much time to selling Liberty bonds if they [ get nothing out of it but thanks? That part of thelr volunteer service for their country. They fight with their brains, their time and their dollars, as their sons fight in the trenches— all against the common foe. How can I help? By rigidly deter- mining to economize a bit more In the future and So pay for a bond out of _what I have. Must I sell something else to buy a bond? By no means. That would not help. . How then? My By future saving, not by past savings. Is saving a good habit? Rockefel- ler, Carnegie, Morgan, Gould, Roths- child and even old Croesus would never have been rich had they spent all they made. Nearly every college endowment, every hospital, every free library and every public institution of that kind represents in the main somebody's saving. FOF. YOUTH AND AGE. An elaborate entertainment tonight at the Grammar school marks the opening of the fifth season of similar courses given-in the past by the United Parents and Teachers' Asso- ciation. On the programme as presented to the press may be seen the name of a gifted planist and a singer of no mean ability. The same artists have performed here before. Altogether there will be seven such evenings, ranging in scope from musical num- bers to illustrated’ lectures. In (its attempt to promote the interests of the public schools of this city the association has formulated an array of topics that should appeal to every man and woman having: chlldren of school age. In addition to the usual numiber of entertainments the guiding genliuses of the Parents and Teachers’ Associa- tion have been fortunate in securing students af ‘Pedagogy to give addresses on Jjust such subjects as moderns would wish. It hehooves the citizenry of New Britain to take an active in- terest in these things. The education | of youth is far more important today than ever. REV. HARRY 1. BODLEY RETIRES. After nineteen years faithful ser- vice in the pulpit at St. Mark’s Epis- copal church, Rev. Harry I. Bodley has resigned, closing the book on one .of the most.successful careers as a theologian of which the eity can boast. Rev. Mr. Bodley is to rest after years of fruitful work among his flock. He takes with him the heart- felt thanks of those who have labored with him and of those for whom he labored. Rev. Mr. Bodley represents that fine type of minister which Christianity ! holds up as an example against scof- fers. He always sees his duty clearly and performs it consclentiously. In { mental latitude he has no superior in New Britain. He belleves in his church and in the form of religion it teaches, but he also realizes that other men are free to think and worship as their hearts dictate. He is broad- minded, high spirited and of kindly disposition. The greatest sorro sometimes have their campensations and New Britain should be grateful that Rev. Mr. Bodley intends ‘to re- | tain his residence here to mingle with those whom he loves as a shepherd and those who love him. Humanitarians from all over the United States are this week meeting in Providence, R. I, for the 41st Annual | Convention of the American Humane Association. Its program is an exten- sive one, two days being devoted to | the cause of child protection and two days to animal protection- One full day is set apart especially for consid- eration of the work and aims of the American Red Star Animal Relief which organization stands in the same relation to the war-horse as the Red ‘Crm does to the soldier. 'ACTS AND PANCIES. Is there German money at the bot- tom of the strike of grain handlers at | Fort William ?—Toronto Mail and Em- | pire. Germany no sooner gets through trying to explain away the “kultur’ of one of her diplomats than Secre- tary Lansing produces another hor- rible example.—Tacoma Ledger. Villa. announces that he is the food dictator of Durango. It is a safe bet that he will set some new speed marks Toronto Mail and Em- A man who owns a Liberty bond least has a better opinion of himself than he has of a man who doesn’t own one.—Washington Herald. The women who are doing their knitting in public are careful,—of course, that all the mending of their families is well done before this more spectacular work 1is undertaken.— Houston Post. The British Admiralty has now com- mandeered all the rum in the United Kingdom. Yo, ho, ho.—Boston Globe. When a woman tells you it's good to see your shining facd again, it’s better not to return the compliment.—Kansas City Star. Congressmen now have a lttle lel- sure for building and mending fences. —Concord Monitor. No iron cross—in public—for Count Luxburg. He has been decorated with the imperial Prussian order of the Goat.—Savannah News. Whenever a proofreader comes upon a sum in seven figures, in connection with war expenses these days, he adds three ciphers without ever 100k- ing at the copy and knows that he is right.—Marion Star. A Spartanburg man has gone up on the price of his honey, giving as his | reason: “Thé cost of production has increased very materially!”—Columbla State. One good thing about 50-cent whis-' key is that it has brought death to thé national vice, “old treating habit.”-— New York Herald. . Grouch and Slouch. (Philadelphia Evening Ledger). The Grouch is decidedly a popular figure nowadays. He ig the man who wins a eommission. Disagreeable as he may be in the office, in the train- ing camp, his stern demeanor at- tracts the attention of the powers that be. The namby-pamby, pleasant- voiced person does not easily learn to rap out his orders with the action of a-steel rat trap, however great his book-learning may be. There must be a streak of grouchiness in a good line officér, But the Slouch is in worse repute than ever. Dr. Hibben, in welcoming the Princeton students at the opening of the fall term, referred to a lettey he had received from the adjutant general, who gave “slouchiness” of manner, carriage, mind and disposi- tion as the chief cause of failure - to win army commissions. The college president argued that students spruce up generally. It is easy enough to recover from slouchiness of garb and carriage, but it is not so easy to make the mind behave. Students should take heed, but the teacher must play his part, too. Too much of our teach- ing is perfunctory and permits the students’ minds to browse about at ease, More Scraps of Paper? (Christian Science Monitor.) So callous have the Germans ap- parently become, concerning questions involving honesty and morality, “t would be no great surprise if mar- ket quotations on peace should soon be established on the Berlin hourse. If the German foreign office thought $1.700,000 not enough to offer for a separate peace with Russia, and too much to spend on Italy, it would be interesting to know just how much a peace with various countries would be worth the imperial government. Her Versatilit). (Ohio State Journal) No one is more versatile than a smart woman, and we suppose those White House pickets who have been whiling away their dull hours in jail by engaging in rough-and-tumble fights with male guards and colored lady prisoners will soon be at large again, earnestly presenting the crying need of woman's gentle influence in our public life. Sarcastic. A voung author, evidently desirous of benfiting by the experlence of an older brother craftsman, once asked Richard Henry Stoddard how he had acquired such a mastery of Anglo- Saxon. “I.don't know how T ever did it replied the poet, who, after a mo- ment's reflection, added, “I think, however, I must_attribute it to the fact that I never had any education.” A Medical Epitaph, T can’t beat ‘“Tears cannot restore him, therefore I weep,” s a cor- respondent, but the following pithy epitaph on the tomb of a doctor (given me, I hasten to say, by a medi- cal man), comes near it: “He survived all his Manchester Guardian. patients.”— Commercial Facility. “Jones is a regular golden mouthed speaker.” “T never noticed he was so much of an ofator. What made him golden mouthed—perseverance his dentist.” — Baltimore American. Watching Us. (Chicago Herald.) The Kaiser's interest in what is going on in America is never keener than about the time a new loan is being floated. that | EVOLUTION By Langdon Smith. This remarkable poem from the pen of the late Langdon Smith, war correspondent, author, journalist, and poet, is one of the best bits of verse wrilten in the heat of newspaper work. At the‘time it was indicted, “Den- ver” Smith, as he was known to the profession., was a member of the staff of the New York American. He lost the manuscript on one of his journeys and it was some years later it showed up in an old trunv. It was then set in type and placed in a small ad. edition of the ‘““American” as a “filler”, to be “killed” after that edition. A stray paper containing the verse was found by someone in the office who, appreciating its worth, took it to the Sunday editor and it became a half page feature. It has been publshed in many a clime and many a language. Langdon Smith’'s last assignment l\vas to “‘cover” the departure of the American fleet from Hampton Roads, Va., on its trip around the world. His genius was manifested therc where he wrpte the descriptive story of the fleet's departure three days before that event, sent in his “copy”, and saw his story in print the day Y died, his death occuring on the very day the fleet sailed. When you were a t_adpole anq I was a fish In the Paleozoic time, And side by side on the ebbing tide We sprawled through the ooze and slime, Or skittered with many a caudal flip Through the depths of the Cambrian fen, My heart was rife with the joy of life, For I loved you even theu. s Mindless we lived and mindless we loved, And mindless at last w « died, And deep in a rift of the Carodoc drift We slumbered side by side. The world turned on in the lathe of time, The hot lands heaved amain, Till we caught our breath from the womb of death, And crept into life again, g 1 We were Amphibians, scaled and tailed And drab as a dead man’s hand; We coiled at ease ’neath the dripping trees, Or trailed through the mud and sand; __ Croaking and blind, with our three-clawed feet * 7/ Writing a language dumb, With never a spark in the empty dark To hint at a life to come. Yet happy we lived and happy we loved, And happy we died once more; Our forms were rolled in the clinging mould Of a Neocomian shore. The eons came, and the eons fled, And the sleep that wrapped us fast Was riven away in a newer day, And the night of death was past. Then light and sWwift through the jungle trees We swung in our airy flights, Or breathed in the balms of the fronded palms, In the hush of the moonless nights. And oh! what beautiful years were these, When our hearts clung each to each; When life was filled, and our senses thrilled In the first faint dawn of speech. Thus life by life, and love by love, We passed through the cycles strange, And breath by breath, and death by death, # We followed the chain of change. Till there came. a time in the law of life When over the nursing sod The shadows broke and the soul awoke In a strange, dim dream of God. 3 I was thewed like an Auroch bull, And tusked like the great Cawe Bear; And you, my sweet, from head to feet, Were gowned in your glorious hair. Deep in the gloom of a fireless cave, When the night fell o’er the plain, And the moon hung red o’er the riverbed, We mumbled the bones of the slain. 9 I flaked a flint to a cutting edge, And shaped it with brutish craft; I broke a shank from the woodland dank, And fitted it, head and haft. Then I hid me‘close to the reedy tarn, Where the Mammoth came to drink:— Through brawn and bone I drave the stone, And slew him upon the brink., - Loud I howled through the moonlit wastes, And called on my kith and kin; From west and east to the crimson feast The clan came trooping in. Over joint and gristle and padded hoof, We fought and clawed and tore And cheek by jowl, with many a growl, We talked the marvél o’er. I carved that fight on a reindeer bone ‘With a rude and hairy hang, I pictured his fall on the cavern wall That men might understand. For we lived by blood and the right of might, Ere human laws were drawn, But the Age of Sin did not begin Till our brutal tusks were gone. That was a million years ago, In a land that no man knows, And now tonight, in the mellow light We sit at Delmonico’s; Your eyes are deep as the Devon springs, Your hair is as dark as jet, Your years are_few, your life is new, Your soul untried, and yet— Our trail is on the Kimmeridge clay And the scarp of the Purbeck flags, We have left our bones in the Bagshot stones, And deep in the Coraline crags; Our love is old, our lives are old, And death shall come amain; Should it come today, what man may say We shall not live again? God wrought our souls from the Tremadoc beds And furnished them wings to fly; He sewed our spawn in the world’s dim dawn, And I know that it shall not die. Though cities have sprung above the graves Where the crook-boned men made war, And the ox-wain creaks o’er the buried caves Where the mummied Mammoth are, Then as we linger at luncheon here, Q’er many a dainty lish, Let us drink anew to the time when you Were a tadpole and I was a fish! FACTS ABODT THE A first-class battleship is equipped with two torpedo rooms, four under water tubes, and a score of torpe- does. These engines of war are sub- marine automobiles carrying about 160 pounds of high explosive. Com- Pressed air, abetted by an alcohol torch and sometimes by a small amount of water vapor, is the source of energy. The torpedo is about 20 feet long by 21 inches in diameter, and is di- vided into four compartments or sec- tlons. First is the war head contain- ing a fulminate of mercury detonator, dry gun cotton primer, and charge of wet gun powder. Fingers at the nose provide for explosion on impact. In practice an exercise head is supplied Wwhich is weighted and fitted with a torch (sodlum) to facilitate finding the torpedo after a run. A torpedo costs from $7,000 to $12,000, but on account of erratic runs many are lost. Next comes the air flask, about five feet long charged to a pressure ' of 2,250 pounds per square inch. This is very carefully tested by hydraulic pressure before charging. Air flasks have exploded with deadly destruc- tlve effects. The enormous pressure may be realized when a valve is open- ed permitting the air to escape. Al- most instantly surrounding parts he come coated with frost as the 1esu of the tremendous expansion which absorbs all warmth in the vicinity. Just behind the air flask is the im- mersion chamber, which is flooded from the outside. Pressure of water on a leather diaphragm operates hor- izontal rudders to give a cons(a,ntl DOING HIS BIT JAMES J. OLERKIN. James J. Clerkin was one of the first men to be ordered to report after President Wilson declared that a state of war existed between this country and Germany. He enlisted in the seecond division of the naval militla. June 26, 1916 making his first summer training cruises in July, 1916, April 6, the day on which war was declared, he was ordered to report with his division at Bartford for fobilization, leaving for Boston FEaster Monday. There he received the rating of coxswain, being trans- ferred to the U. 8. S. Minneapolis where he was again promoted. At present he has the rating of gun pointed and is stationed ‘‘somewhere i on the Atlantic”. Clerkin is a graduate of St. Mary parochial school and by trade is | printer, being emploved at the Pyne printing coripany in Hartford at the | time he was called into service. Fra- | ternally he is affiliated with the Y, M. T. A. & B. socicty, Knights of Col- { umbus and Foresters. He is the son i of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Clerkin of 213 Elm street, this city. Alcohol Still in Demand. (Portland Press). Forbidding distillers to make whis- key while the war laste didu't bring . ruin to them nor throw “thcusands of lonast men’ oc'd of emplovment, as the liquor peopie sald it would. In. ! stead the distiileries are now engaged . {in mak alconoliithngwhichithose S ! s an fmmcnse demand because of tho war, and not only are all old men at ' work but they are hiring new work: men wherever they may be founa. The best indication of how practical | prohibition affected di-tilerles is to { he seen in the prices for which dis- tillery stock is being sold. The stock of one distillery, vith a par value of $100, cannot be hought today for $1,- 000, This shows that the whiskey manufacturers a making more money in producing alcohol than they could make when producing whiskey. It is doubtful If there is a man who will work who Is out of work | anywhere in the country because of the prohibitory laws -ongress “as passed. Why She Was Glad. (Newark News). “Charley, dear, id voung Mrs. Torkins, “They have “og tents in the don’t they?” . ves. You see, technical term"— “You needn’t trouble to explain, guess 1 understand words of one sy lable. What I wanted to say is, that I'm glad our faithful four-footed friends are provided for.. Only I sus- | pect the S. P. C. A. made them do it.” it's a sort of i According to Custom. i (Rochester Herald) Down in Texas the price of broom- | corn is $350 a ton. We suppose the | grower can prove ‘hat 't costs $349 Ppressed air. AMERICAN ' NAVY BY LIEUT. FITZHUGH GREEN, U. 8. N. Torpedoes depth and oan be set before making the run. Sudden dives or broaches arc compensated for by a vertical pendu- lum also connected with horizontal rudders. Turbine or reciprocating engines and gyro gear fill the tail. With high velocity turbines and super-heated air a torpedo can make 30 knots for 15,- 000 yards. Higher speed and range even than this, are in sight. he gyro- scope like the turbine is ‘When swinging free gimbels its axis tends to remain in the same vertical planc. As the gyro is connected to vertical rudders it re- sists and counteracts any deviation of the torpedo from its course-—which, like the depth, may be set before the run. Conversely the gyro may be spun out of line with the torpedo tube re- sulting in a curved shot, used some- times to overtake an enemy ahead. Gyros occasionally /Jlock accidentally and the torpedo then runs in a circle. To prevent blowing up one's own ship a safety latch renders the war nose inoperative after a turn of 180 de- grees. At that battleships torpedo themselves rather frequently in prac-- tice. We suspect that an English ship thus committed suicide in the Jutland battle. The two propellers revolve in oppos site directions. Otherwise the torpedo wouid run on a bias. Fins give sta- bility and rudders in two planes steer. . John Hays Hammond, Jr., has demon- strated that torpedoes can be steered by “wireless at a great distance. Von Tirpitz has proved they don't have to, be steered if one enough! OUT FOR MITCHEL. Governor Whitmany, Favors Keepin, Present Mayor in. i New York, Oct. 16.—Governof Charles S. Whitman last night opens ly declared his support of Mayor, Mitchel in the municipal campaign ‘and said he expected to vote for him. In a statement which he issued at the St. Regis hotel, the governor said that the only issue in the campaign, to his mind, was, “Shall Tammany hall rule New York?” The republi- can party, he said, was committed to nonpartisanship in municipal elec- tions, and the governor added that he Dbelieved that republicans might prop- , erly support the mayor, although Wil- | liam M. Bennett was the choice at | the party primary, and “maintain |'their party regularity, too.” 4 The governor said that there was | no “Hohenzollern issue” in the cam- | | paign; that he had no reason to doubt,g | the Americanism of Judge John F.: | Hylan, the Tammany mayoralty canss | didate, while he believed that Mr.g Bénnett ‘i§, as loyal to the countryi and the flag as is the mayor or thej governor.” As governor of the state he said he resented the suggestion that the election or the defeat any one of the present candidates would indicate any lack of patriotisny on the part of the people of the cify. Mayor Mitchel last night cxpressed his gratification at the offer of the governor’s support, but emphatically | asserted that the governor was mis- taken in his opinion that there is no “Hohenzollern issue” in the campaign. The mayor said that the issue of loy- alty and disloyalty, “‘Americanism and Hohenzollernism” was not of his making, but bad been forced uvon him by those who had attacked and opposed him because of his support | of President Wilson aod the National government in the war. Mr. Bennett's | comment was that th: governor had “nit Mr. Mitelel ¢ ihe hesd with & club in his right hund, and wipes. the ‘bicod away with the left hand. Our Boys. « (Chlcago Post.) way to offlcc or store or factory or on errands of business, and we re= spect their industrious young man- hood. But if we meet these sams voung men in khaki or in the uniform of the jockies, why is it that we at once feel a more intimate relation-. ship to them? . They belong to us; they haveihe- come “our boys” not simply bylthe wearing of a uniform, but because of what it means-—that these young mien . who wear the khaki or the blue have pledged thelr lives, if need be, to de- fend our country. Could there be a more altruistic or a h'ghor mission? We do well to call them “our boys.” for they are our own sworn defend- . ers—our only defense against a ruth- less and bitterly antl-American foe. These veung men have put aside the biticns of their business or indus- i life, to lay all on the altar of common country. And this fis why you hear men and women say proudly as they are passing. “God bless them.” “Our boys!” The men feel a fatherly ownership in each one c¢f them, and the women, in true motherly fashion, are knitting sweaters and helmets and socks for “some of our boys.” Tven at thae Roosevelt meeting many of the women were knitting and the needles were flying fast except when the workers stopped to cheer. We shall not cease in this genera- tion, at least, to have a very intimate feeling of relationship for ‘‘our boys.” Jjust as another ~generation loved “the boys in blue.” The .idvantage of Good Education. (Louisville Courier-Journal). One great advantage In electing a college professor as the president of the United States is that when the ¢ime comrs to call tho luiser a —-— liar, a murderad, a —— hog, he can do it in lancuage not only free from profanity but actuaily distinguished for elegance, Difficrent "Nith Trouble. ing trouble. doesn’t seem he right word me, Oko not? Oweus hon 1 borrow Ja ton to ralse. I can forget about it right away. We meet our young friends on their & S only gets closej @ & of, it L1