New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 9, 1917, Page 8

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The Associated Press ls exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news credited to it or not otherwise credited fn this paper and also the local ne ed hereln. specialties that they have entirely tor-‘ Baltimore has a girl of thirteen who gotten the finely woven thread of, gov- ernment that winds 'round each and all. No matter in what walk of life a man may hald forth, he should evince | a lively interest in the affairs of his city, and state, and nation. He should be as much interested in the manner in which his local government is Tun as he would in his own business. A city may be looked upon as a sort of corporation, with each and every taxpayer playing the :role of stack- holder. Any man who pays even a dollar as personal tax has a holding in the government of the city in which he lives. Every man who does not pay a tax, but who enjoys the protection of the police and fire de- partments and the benefits given in the form of well-paved streets and brightly illuminated thoroughfares, owes something in return—and that is, he must help remedy bad condi- tlons and appreciate good ones. With even these small things in mind, the average man will soon develop a bet- ter understanding of municipal af- . TMs is the word that year by year, ‘While in her place the school 1s set, Every one of her sons must hear, And none that hears it dares forget; This they all with a joyful mind Bear through life like a torch in flame, falling, fling to the behind, “Play up! play up! the game!" ~—HENRY NEWBOLT. IN GOD WE TRUST. | “We have been given the opportu- | alty to serve mankind as we once werved ourselves,” explalns President Whlson in his Thanksgiving Proclama- tion calling for “a new and greater national spirit.” “A new light shines upon us. We shall never again be divided or wonder what stuff we are made of,” says the President. After what has happened in the past year we should know where we stand. Before our And, host and play ed, as we had never dreamed was possible. Now, however, the national spirit Is becoming rapidly a single conception of what is right and proper. On the Thanksgiving Day that | marks this year the American people o#n well gather in their homes and | pray to an omnipotent God ‘“that In all humbleness of spirit we may look Thus We renew again our faith in the na- tion, and live up to its motto. « THE MAKING OF MAYORS. In declining the honor of a re- nomination, Mayor Cooke, of Meri- ment through the press in which he sets forth the reasons that actuate ! his refusal. In private life Mayor | Cgoke is a physician. His practice is | growing to. such an extent that he must give up one or the other—poli- tles or his profession. Looking into the uncertainty of serving the public, and believing he can o mare good in the role he has played for these many yeéars, Dr. Cooke decides to cling to the old love—medicine. ‘When Meriden went cred pathways that approach the noble profession of medicine and there found strolling ane who would | fill the office of mayor, it broke a| precedent. Seldom, if ever, are doc- tors called upon to perform civic duties of this nature. The lawyer, yes. And yet Meriden did samething that every city in the state and na- tion should do—namely, look outside the realm of active politics for men to handle the reins of government. Under our democratic form of gov- ernment a man ,with average intelli- gence does not have to study all his life in order to make a competent mayor. Given at least a bit of busi- ness ability and honesty in the nth degree, he can become efficient, hav- ing at the same time an active and hearty love and pride for his city, We had almost sald he can be “just what the doclor ordered.” Whether Dr. Cooke has been a good mayar or a bad one is for the people of Meriden to say. We believe he has been a good one. We believe the people of Meriden will say the same. The thing to be here considered is the vast amount of good paterial lying around in the various professions— material from which can be gleaned the highest type of executive citizen- ship; from which can be gotten just the kind of men needed to run our modern American cities. In this one Insgance it happened to be a prac- tising physician that the fingor of fate touched, and le, a mayor was made. It might just as well have beer tho next of kin, a druggist; or, if you will, a pharmacist. ,LAn® se &n down the line. The men who stand at the into the sa- | a merry-go-'round. fairs. Meriden did well, we believe, invading the medical profession for a mayor. It can probably do as well again by entering the ranks of some other profession or business and tak- ing therefrom someone to fll the boots of Mayor Cooke when his time comes to lay down the burdens of office. These are the kind of men who should be encouraged to take an active hand in the management of our cities. Men of integrity in their own professons cannot go far wrong fn public life if they have behind them the proper people to take care of the various departments under their administration and the whole- hearted support of the people. The trouble all along has been, some of cur highest class men hold aloof from politics. They should be encouraged to enter, even where angels fear to tread. by HOPE FOR THE BEST. Three problems now before the Russian democracy are outlined as, follows by the Maximalists: First, an immediate conclusion of the war; for which purpose the gov- ernment must propose an armistice to the belligerents. Second, the handing over of lands to the peasants. all NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9, “1017. js six feet tall. But her parents are, not discouraged. They know that a girl hardly has her growth at thir- teen.—Hartford Times. Of young “Rill McCarthy, weigh- ing 100 pounds at just under three years, it is to be noted that although he lives now in Philadelphia he got! his start in New York. He is still going strong.—New York World. i When a rural community doesn’t know and can't find out the detectives might as well give up.—Capper's Weekly. ! When people everywhere are dis- pensing with luxurieg it is rather dis- appointing to learn that the Igor- rotes in the Phillppines refuse to give up eating dogs.—Springfield Union. We pass this along for what it's worth: A Salt Lake City woman has just got a court order restraining her husband from interfering with house- cleaning.—Paterson Press-Guardian. The Veterans’ Pledge. If we could have restored to us Our old-time youth and strength, Would we be found as we are today | While younger men fill the trench? Our patriotism again is stirred, But our age compels us to stay, And while other soldlers fil] the ranks, We cheer them on thelr way. They come from old Cambridge and Concord, From Boston and our Bunker Hill, | From Gloucester and Salem and, Plymouth They come our ranks to fill, The fire that stirred the blood brave Warren Still courses in their veins, And the courage of Israel Putnam In his descendants still remains. of | Upon the Green Mountains they tell | us, From Rutland to glassy Champlain, Where now stands another large for- tress Bearing a historical name, At this rendezvous is now gathered, From mountain, hill and glade, The sons of our brave Continentals, Known as the “Fighting Brigade.” If the rebel yell heard at Cold Har- bor Btil] strongly rings in our ears, Let its echoes resound the world over, While the Yankees respond with cheers, For the North solid And in the ranks march side by side, And will patiently walit vict'rles ‘Which Uncle Sam will hafl with and South are now for our Third, a complete settlement of the economic crisis. It does not require a telescope to see that this is a socialistic program, pure and simple; not so pure, not too simple. ’ The seizure of Petrograd by . the Maximalists' does not mean that they will remain there forever. They can be dispospessed just as readily as the Kerensky government was over- turned, just as easily as the Romon- offs were sent from the throne. No one has a monopoly on Russia at this moment. Revolution is rife. As to the Maximalists, or what is sometimes known as tho Bolsheviki element, they are made up of the extremists among the Russian revo- lutionary sociaiists. As such thelr program which calls for an immediate peace will have little effect even among the powers that be in the Ger- man government, from whence comes the inspiration. No one need be upset by the thought that Russia will effect an im- mediate peace, or that she will fall altogether out of the Entente circle. Isefore that can happen, Russia may have a civil war; and that, of. course, would cripple her far worse than any- thing to date. Yet she would not-be given over hook, line, and sipiker to Germany. . Berlin’s insidous propaganda has been a potent factor in bringing ghont the present situation in Russta; but Berlin is not:prepared to take com- plete advantage of such a crisis for the reason that Berlin cannot place any more faith in what-Russia is going to do than can those powers more interested. S The Bolsheviki may be knocked into a cocked hat at the next turn of thé Life in Russia is somewhat of At this distance it is difficult to tell just what will hap- pen, and even the Russlan ambassa- dor at Washington is as much at sea as anyone else. The only thing the American people can do is to adopt the old-line policy of “watchful wait- in,” and hope for the best. wheel. FACTS AND FANCIES. It's easy to love your enemy after you have downed him.—Albany Jour- nal. “Chasing submarines on paper will not do,” says a writer in the New Yovk Tribune. No, indeed, paper is too cxpensive for that sort of thing.— Houston Post. If there is not something wrong with the heart of the man who asks at this late day what America is fight-. ing for, his head needs attention.— Pittaburgh Post. Emperor Charles of Austria says he is willing to make peace but ready to fight to the end. That is old stuff. head of the professions in this na- tiep bave mot so far delved ipto their Kaiser Wilhelm could put it hetter.— Portland Oregonian, pride. Remember Valley Forge and her suf- ferings And what those brave Continentals endured— ‘Without pay, without food, clothing, Til1 rellef from abroad was cured, History tells us of their benefaoctor, The young Frenchman, de Lafay- ette; Of his gifts to our suffering solders | Our nation can never forget. without Should the Germans attempt to in- vade us ‘With unjust and evil intention, Every veteran will shoulder his mus- ket And be ready for instant action, For the Blue and the Gray still re- member 1 Their experiences n the past, And whenever our country may call them | Wil1 be faithful to the last. AMBROSE P. CHASE. After Effects of Gardening. (Minneapolis Journal). How much of the increase of the American food crop of 1917 over that | of 1916 should be accredited to the, patriotic speeding up of the tillers of | the soll may never be known. But| one 1917 farming fact that stands out beyond dispute is.that the production | of- foolt :by the consumer as a side ! liner, through-the application of idle | hours to idle:land, s a large factor in the year's product. Certain results of this garden cam- paign promise to remain permanent. One is that a few milllon men who had hitherto thought gardefiing profit- less play will hereafter so serlously | to work to make the garden produc- | tiye., Another fact Is that the dlet| of America will show an increased vegetable element and a correspond- ing decrease In meat. It 1§ not good for any man wholly to 'withhold, his hand from the soll. {The wery aat of growing things 1s recredtion ef a hjgh type and most men have dally Haurs for recreation. It is possible for .fearly every eight- hour worker to make and malintain a garden—a plot large enough to yleld perhaps one-third of his food. To become acquainted with vege- tables at first hand—corn and peas, for example, only an hour from the ‘garden to the table—is to look with tavor upon.theni ever after. In spite of popular belief, they may be profit- ably made to take:the place of a por- tion of the customary meat dlet. And this very fact will make It possible to feed well a larger populafion in America, because meat as food dB- mands much land for its growing, and because it will henceforth be ecom- paratively scarce and high. Room For Omne More. (Everybody’s Magazine). Nora had been gullty of what was considered an indiscretion, so the mis- tress of the house had her on the car- pet. “If such a thing occurs again, Nora,” sald the lady, ‘T shall have to get another servant. ‘Whereupon th a grin, re- sponded: “I wish you would, mum— there's easily enough work for two of us!" © FACTS ABOUT THE AMERICAN NAVY BY LIEUT. FITZHUGH GREEN, U. 8. N.“° Submarine Development Mr. Wells, the English novelist with the hundred horse power imagination assured us a few years ago that sub- marines were only passing nuisances. Like hoop skirts and run-away horses they would die a natural death. Why indeed fight blind-fold when— ) Mr. Wells had another guess com- ng. Rev. John Wilkins, 200 vears be- fore, was more nearly right. In his “Mathematical Magick”, London 1708, that peaceful gentleman describes a | “Publick underwater conveyance for remote Voyages.' He avers that an enemy wouldn’t have the shost of a show against this invisible “Reptile of Man’'s cunning.” And for peace purposes, ‘‘several colonies may these inhabit, having children born and bred up who could not but chuse to be amazed with strange Conceits up- on the discovery of this Upper World”. Even keen John Holland never con- ceived of using a submarine for a human incubator. Of course Bob Fulton had a crack at the U-Boat game. Aged 31 he spent a delightful winter in Paris hit- ting the high places, but compensat- ing by trips under the Seine in a 20~ ft. submarine, which he tried to sell to Napoleon. The gentle General (see “A Horse of a Husband” by Jose- phine) pronounced the device ungal- lant and immoral. May 7, 1804, Fulton cashed a sight draft and crossed to England. | Pitt, then Prime Minister, was much taken with the young American en- gineer. But Admiral Vincent squashed the proposition by declaring, “that gimcrack would do away with our Navy, on which depended the pres- tige of Great Britain”! Exclama- tion mark is mine. The great states- man was vastly right and hugely wrong in the same breath. In 1806 the inventor returned to New York, save in which he was not without honor, and tackled Con- gress. Once more the ‘immorality’ of the project defeated its military promise. Whereupon the discouragad Fulton is said to have seriously con- sidered taking up the sclontific de- velopment and perfection of the an- clent and honorable game of tiddle- dywinks. The first successful submarine and the only one that up to the present war ever sank an adversary, was the Confederate David, named after the Bible story. She was built at Moblile and brought overland to Charleston. Her body was of bolted steel plates, 35 feet long and 6 feet in diameter. Propulsion was by hand cranks at- tached to a screw shaft. Eight men sat in a fore and aft line .like mod- ern cyvlinders. Their remarks on the heat and labor were the first cylinder knockings on record. ,The David earned the name of “Peripatetic Coffin” by sinking five times in five trips and drowning 36 out of 40 men. Lt Paine C.S.N. her commander through the first three disasters, then took to bridge jumping as a safer occupation. i On Feb. 17, 1864, the Coffin made her last attack. She sank the Fed- eral warship Housatonic with 200 Ibs. of black powder. Later divers found her sticking in the hole she had made, her crew caught like lobsters in a trap. Holland, the American genius was ploneer in the modern submarine. He modeled his first craft after the ‘Whitehead torpedo. Later Great Britain pald Holland large royalties for his patents. His first attempt resembled the Niagara Falls man- barrel. She was 16 feet long by 2 feet in diameter, and a one man boat— but the kind of fool necessary to her success was so scarce that Holland had to try again. Altogether he built 9 submarines and spent about $1,- 0q0_01\0 before the government bought one for $150,000, ‘That was in April 1900 when, after 26 years of experimenting, came the last and greatest advance in subma- rine construction, viz., that one sub- merged must run by electricity. Gas engines require too much air. By means of storage batteries modern U-boats can make 14 knots and more under water. This saving of ofl ex- tends surface crulsing to 7,000 miles without refueling. The illustratious Frenchman Ad- miral Aube flew intq a rage when he heard that Paris had gore In for “sub- marine mastodons with neither eyes, speed, nor teeth to bite. . He took no account of the wad this glant squid could squirt, making all the little Tommies, Poilus and Sammies run screeching for the beach. . . . Much Ado About Dr. Muck. (New York World). Dr. Karl Muck, it seems, has re- signed as conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra in a Plckwickian sense. He continues to lead the or- chestra and will lead it at concerts in New York, Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington: this week, and on the attitude of the audiences in these cities will depend his future status. If they voice “a public de- mand for the elimination of Wagner and all German muslc from the soci- ety’s programme,” Dr. Muck will go and eventually the orchestra will be disbandea, Is there not too much ado about Dr. Muck? There s no public clamor agalnst German symphony music, which is wholly different from Ger- man opera, and there is no desire anywhere to have the famous Boston orchestra disband. The whole question is as concerns its alien conductor’s position with re- gard to plaving the national anthem, a position he made needlessly offen- sive by his failure to use ordinary tact in the matter. His artistic usefulness in this country may be done for, but that fact in no way impairs the or. chestra’s usefulness. It was a great musical organization before Muck and should continus to exemplify its high ideals without him. WILLIAM RILEY. William Riley enlisted in one of ' the local companies in June, 1916, during the time this country was em- | broiled in controversy with Mexico. ' He was sent to the border where he was stationed at Nogales during the summer months, later returning to New Britain. Last April when Presi- dent Wilson issued a call for volun- teers shortly after it was declared that a state of war existed between this country and Germany, Riley again re- | sponded to the call and offered his services in the regular army. When last heard from, he was stationed with a heavy artillery unit at Fort Han-' cock, N. J. He is the son of Mrs. Mary Riley of 276 Washington street. GENERAL WOOD’S IDEA. A Regular Army Always Backed by a ‘ Yearly Training Class of 600,000 | Men As Perpetual Preparedness, (Kansas City Journal.) One of the most admirable things about General Wood is his frankness and outspokenness. To be sure, these qualities may sometimes have | i worked to his own disadvantage; but | he has a fine grasp of the whole mil- | itary problem that now confronts the | United States, and it is fortunate for | the nation that he is not afraid to tcll , what he knows. “We are beginning | to prepare long after the war has been | declared,” said General Woods. The ! most pitiful thing I have ever seen is | the thousands of boys at the camps | ready and willing to give their lives ' to their country, but who cannot get equipment or even the necessary things a soldier needs in barracks.” He cogtinued: “All war comes like a thunderbolt or an avalanche. War is here, very much here, and we are teaching the boys how to kill men, for | the country that does the most killing ! will win the war. Germany is not disorganized and the only way to win | the war is to learn to kill better than | they can. We have the better cause, but the war will be long. We should | have remembered the advice of states- men, get ready for war in time of peace. We must be prepared for any- | thing that may come ten years after | this great war. We must get prepared | and keep prepared. We cannot de- | pend upon other nations fighting our battles for us. We cannot expect any- thing from peace leagues. Alexander ; the Great preached that hundreds of | years ago, and still we have wars. God knows we don’t want war, but let us fight our own wars with our own soldiers. * * * My idea of a per- fect-system is a regular army strong enough to do the police work neces- sary In a country as large as ours, with insular possessions. Back of this regular army should be a year- i1y training class of 600,000 men. If we had been thus prepared when Ger- many first began to slight us, do you think they would have dared, force us to stand supinely by and taKe their insult:? No, we could have demand- ed our rights and been powerful enough to get them. Here is presented again the almost forgotten demand for universal train- |ing. In the stress of work congress | omitted to take up this important is- i Special Prices For Saturday Selling In THE COAT ANDSUIT [¥ DEPARTMENT You are going to need that warm coat very soon now, and you might just as well get it here, and save five to ten dollars from Hart- ford prices. Kersey Velour and Zebeline Coats Very latest styles, all sizes, sortment that are worth $26. Manufacturers At a saving of one-fourth to one-third. of a kind. them worth $5 to $10 more. Specially priced $19.98, $24,98 to $39.98. Come and see. Childrens’ $14.98 each. Values in this Sample Coats Many of them only one Every one of Coats and Misses’ Coats All sizes in the wanted materials at $2.98 up by step to $12.98. Every one a bargain. Make Your Own Muff! FUR COAT COLLARS. Black and Brown Coney, all made to put on coats, $1.69 each, value $2.00. Extra large Coney Collars, Saturday $2.98 each, value $3.98. SPECIAL SALE OF FOX SCARFS. ‘White. Special Saturday $2.98 to $8.98 each. Brown and Grey Fox scarfs, flat shapes, satin lined. Saturday special $6.98 and $8.98 each. MUFF BEDS 19c to $2.75 ea. Youi&n make your own muff, by covering this founda~ tion with any material to match - your Hat, Suit or Coat. FUR HAT BANDS, FUR BUT- TONS, FUR TRIMMINGS«AT REASONABLE PRICES. MARABO OAPES. We have a limited quantity of these special capes, on sale Saturday $3.98, $4.98 to $6.08 each. Good Warm Underwear and Hosiery Union Suits, separate Shirts, Drawers, Vests and Pants in all grades, for men, women and children. WOOL HOSE. Women's, 39c, 46¢ pair. Women’s White Cashmere Hose at 66c pair. Fleece-lined hose, 39¢ pair. MEN’S WOOL SOX. Cashmere, 85c, 89¢, 450 pair. Heavy Wool Sox for Soldiers, 35c and 46c pair. to b9c WARM GLOVES. Children’s Golf Gloves, to 79¢ pair. Women's, -36c to 88c palr. Men's, 29¢ to 98c pair. Heavy Wool Skating Gloves, 69c to $1.15 pair Buy these now for Holiday Gifts as they are very scarce. 26c SWEATERS—Plenty good values to choose from at our Sweater department, 2nd floor. ! BLANKETS AND COMFORTABLES—Which we bought et the Mills last February when prices were low are now on sale at our Bianket department, 3rd floor, so come here and buy your Blankets and save money. sue. But it should not be neglected. The nation today realizes the folly of unpreparedness. The people are ripe for the adoption of a system thal will mean future protection and a higher standard of American man- hood. The disposition of the nation today is so strongly for a universal training system that it could be put [into effect with but little opposition. If we wait until after the war has closed there will be the inevitable jreaction and a lessening of interest in military affairs. The people are awake and interested. Legislation of so vitally necessary a character will; The Problem. (New Haven Journal-Courier.) We have no way of proving the in- tegrity of the following statement credited to an alleged German states- man but it contains sufficlent truth to warrant our accepting it as probably true: “The trouble with this war is that it will be ten years after it is over before I can go to London, twenty years before I can go to Paris and forty-nine before I can go to Vienna.” This states In another way the problem which is bothering the states- not be strongly opposed now, and when once established. the value. of universal ‘training will vindicate - {t- self so thoroughly that it will never be discontinued. The Same Argument. (Detroit Free Press). “I don’t see why you complain about the size of my bill,” sald the docter. “It's not as big as it might have been.” “That’s all right,” replied the man. “I wasn’t as sick as I could have been either.” Discretion, (Life). “A wounded German prisoner In England refused to g0 'to a hospital.’” | “He knew that would be one of 1 the first places bombed by the German raiders.” men of the world outside of the cen- tral powers. Germans will be at lib- erty to visit what nations they wish to visit when the terms of peace have been determined and agreed upon. The warmth of their welcome may leave much to be desired and not quite so much will be taken for granted in their fricndly greetings. But the real trouble is how are terms of peace to be arrived at and depended upon with Germany one of the signers? She has to her own embarrassment taught the world that no value is to be placed upon her written or pledged word. As Frederick the Great sald, “My ministers at home are to be clerks; my ministers abread spies.” That has been the dominating emphasis of the German imperial government since his day. outside of imperial Germany are asking themselves, in what manner are we to covenant with a govern- The statesmen of the world | ment that has bullt itself up on this understanding of the outside world? If the word of imperial Germany could be depended upon, we should be nearer a peace pact tomorrow by many thousands of lives and many billions of dollars.' The world is sick of war; it wants peace. It dare not negotiate peace with a government that cannot guarantee its pledges. It is that fact which makes the allies fight on. It is that fact which is driv- ing America to unprecedented efforts to play her part in the war. It fis that fact which appears to make the decisive defeat of imperial Germany essential to world-wide peace. If Germany will become trustworthy, she can travel where she pleases and her statesmen will not be assaulted. An Injustice of Censorship. (Ohlo Btate Journal). One of the grave injustices of the consorship is the way it humiliates our prominent fault-finders so to have it come out at last that what they've been vociferantly blaming the War Department for not doing was done about three weeks ago. Necessary Discrimination. (Ohio State Journal). One thing we should all be par- ticular about, as we shape our attituda on public affairs, is to discriminate carefully between party loyalty and pinheadism.