New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 26, 1918, Page 6

BN ‘accomplish- Charles M. Schwab of Bethlehem, be some other person with al] the ramifications of this enormous His not vet come to light ments it is Pa. There may better acquainted industry. name has as So we may take en- couragement from the steel magnate’s figures showing how America is pre- the submarine ac- Germany. He says that the United for use more paring to combat of eighteen have tivities within States months will ready boat destroyers than all the f the world put together. And be it under- torpedo navies boat destroyers, the most effective torpedo stood, means knawn for dealing with the under- boats. be argued that war will not last eighteen months. good; but if it does,—watch are now sea It may the Well and the American Navy., WITH THE SAME STAMP. Before answering the fourteen proposals of President Wilson of \-Hungary seem to iplomatic giants have gotten together and planned out the entire fabric. There close har- One can is a mony in both utterances. well conceive of Tirpitz the old sea-dog von and the sword rattler von Hindenburg standing immediately over the wielders of the pen and making noises like conquering heroes. or, perhaps the Kaiser himself strutted through the room chandeliers and smashed a few to give an ad@ed-touch of warning and a re- jminder of the the JHohenzollerns. ruthlessness of Count von Hertling's be- a speech ore the Reichstag Committee is arvel in move ways than one. Ex- ept in so far as the Austrian coun- erpart, uttered by Count Czernin be- ore the Reichrath, which might contains a few ‘jokers" xplanation, the two speeches can be onsidered as Von Hertling ust first be congratulated upon the kbood presentation of a bad case. De- need secparate one. ending a murderer caught in the act s, to most laywers, a hopeless job. 'o von Hertling, probably because e has to obey the mandates of his the task is at once opportunity. That the fence. If, Germans believe that fall ord and master, R pleasure and an from his side of however, the world will prostrate before diplomats he he rhetoric of as the world would fail before of hope he bhrandishments the shining word and the mailed Vilhelm fist, Emperor has another period think coming 0 him in ch he can things ver. not dazzled the say The world by have is nor is baffled what German Nor, in- riguists to judging bm the despatches naw coming over he wire, are the people of Austria swallow From the entirely given to ng hook, line and sinker. ips of Philip Scheidemann, leader of he Social-Democrats in omes a direct to Count effect: peace and all shall throw from & a challenge It is to an on Czernin. this ‘'You vith thers ou complete the concerned all honorable Russian people o ilk riot. we and the hroughout 0 bear out the hreat. your power. nd stories of and disorder the kingdom would seem meaning of such a Yet poor Count 0 means to bow before the will he people and attend pt his real master at von Czernin has of voice to the one and the Germany | b one bow pres the his carry pro: . oo PIehBa and Berlin just what we ex- | pected, replies to the President’s | peace proposals which are in fact no !re‘pll& at all. That is, so far as they | may be deemed peace replies. There | i« contained in both of them not one | sentence that might be conmstrued as fair and honorable so far as a com- plete negotiation might be made up. And yet, there is also a noticeabls turn-about in the German utterances of former occasions. In this speech of von Hertling there is to be found only a slight trace of braggadocio and nothing Iike the spirit of blood and iron that permeated all the ut- terances of his predecessors. This time last year the German statesmen were ready to bite the head off any man who dared call the name of a Hohenzollern in vain. Now the tem- per is somewhat smoothed, which is the only good omen in the documentary discussion. It and sword-swal- who The evi- He a about i entire the fire-eater von Bethmann-Hollwesg the place was lower stage has meat. occupied his last year one who holds dently is not half so caten less of raw wild. Given time, cxpeet that .even the Hohenzollerns and the Hapsburgs will see the light. While Chancellor emphatically President Wilson’s dif- ferentiation between the German people and the Tmperial German Government has had effect, it so used as | we may the German denies that is seen | that the Count's speech isa the war-weary, peace the Father- to hold common pabulum for hungry, inhabitants of land. It is a further attempt the people together, { union with the Emperor. rves its biggest end. in As such it { THE WILL AND THE WAY. In welcoming fifty nliens into citi zenship yesterday, after he had ad- ministered the final oath to them, Justice Albert Seeger of the New York State Supreme Court cailed their at- tention to the fact that he himself was a foreign born citizen, a native of Germany. | | | it | it | Austria, | We will suppose, for the fun of it, that these fifty aliens, standing before a judge of a United States court, were born asking naturalization | papers in Germany. Is there anvone | who might imagine that the | judge who would there admimistrater American | | | | | citizens for even from a Supreme Court, or would of native ranted that | the oath equivalent, be its American stock? some citizen might have wanted such a capacity, would the Flohenzollerns confer on him such a The chances are American to serve in title or position? a | thousana to one against the propos tion. ; The ffty aliens who were yester- | day made citizens in New York state and who had the honor conferred on judgze whose bovhood was them by in the Fatherland wera given in spent | practical lesson Americanism. - | ¥very man coming to theso shores has | that Count Karl von his chance, his great opportunity. He | can be either one thing or the other. He can be a goo0d citizen, as Judge Seeger turned out to be: or, he can be a scoundrel and plot against the na- tion that offers him everv advantage. In sither case he may eventually hope to see the inside of an American court room,—as a judge, attorney or attendent. or as a prisoner before the Where a will there's a bar. there's way, | field | in the valley | “The instead of { NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, SATURDAY, JANUARY 2 | E AND FANCIE The government should seize all thermometers and regulate them five jor ten degrees upward.—New York { Sun As Garficld remarked to all busines establishments east of the M “Shut up!’— Greenwich Graphic. ississippi, News and The fact that America is exporting $12,500,000 worth of aniline dyes alone, wlhen it once reaches the Rhine town, will loom larger to the workers { than the Loasts of von Tirpitz that (ile]fm:m,\ has won the war, though the Allies don’t Kiow it.—Philade] i Public Ledzcr SAUDE Sir Bdward to explode so often tion -can littic Repubiican (‘arson has threatened that the detona- surprise give Jack Spratt would eat no fat, his wife would eat no lean, and twixt them both they Hooverized to bump the Kaiser’'s bean—Don Marquis in New York Evening Sun. ’ A man has been granted exemption as a maker of baby carriages, because the president considers that an cssen- tial industry. Hey, Waodrow! Ih, what?—Portland Oregonian Where are those railway we loaned to Russia? Should we not send them a message, “Come home; father very ill,” or something of that kind —Baltimore News. workers Well, the weather is still cold and there are a lot of fellows down here who bought such heavy axes that our wives can't hardly chop with them, and of course we get pretty cold these mornings without waod.—~ Scvier County (Ark.) News. The Kaiser’s Birthday Party. (Wilhelm TI—Born Jan. 27th, 1850.) Kaiser was holding a birthday, | with feasting and revel and wine, And the roar of his cannon re-echoed from Riga across to the Rhine, Blaspheming the name of his maker, mouthing a braggart boast. He stood at his birthday table, called for another toast. and “Here's to my gallant Allies, and here's to them every one, Since their God has been good allowed them to share in place in the sun! Then spite of the burst of cheering, and spite of the drunken din. There came a voice from the door- —‘Pardon, may I come in?" and my way “‘Who is it that seeketh the wondering Kaiser ‘Only another Ally’ sleek voice replied: to enter? cried, And the same ‘Only another Ally, bringing his homage to you, rendering every honor honor is surely due. And where “Then the the had down who Kaiser table, to the gues come at his call— Turko and arrogant Austria, bargain- ing Bulgar and all ‘An Ally that I have forgotten? Then Gpen my portals wide!’ did they leap to his bidding—ANT THE DEVIL STEPPED INSIDE. looked So “There he did stand in the doorway, looking round with he numbered his comrades in their of sin. ir, T am proud to toast ever since hell had birth I had hoped to find the colleague who would open a branch on earth a grin, newly As found brotherhoed you, for “Then he snapped his wavering wine- glass, as he swung on his heel to go, And the wine ran down o’er the da- mask cloth like blood on the Belgian snow. ‘Brothers! he cried, ‘I leave but not with a final toast: Tonight 1 stand* your Unbidden Guest -——tomorrow I'll be your Host!"" E. M. UNMACK. COMMUNICATED. JOXCE R you-— TTRACTS. Withdraws Statements Made in Com- municition Against Alderman Curtis. 26, New Britain, Jan. 1918, Mr. O. F. Curtis, city. Dear Sir:—In reference to mnnication written by me and printe ed in the New Britain Fvening Her- ald of December, 1917, in iwhich T stated that you sent out circulars broadcast to German voters in the spring of 1916, quoting from an ar- tical appearing in the Herald a year or so previous, T wish to say that my statements were based on common report and not from my own know- ledge or from any proof in my pos session consequently 1 now withdraw the assertion and also the statement that the city comptroller, over his signature, stated the accounts of the municipal farm committee were cor- rect, as I now find this only applied to his own hooks—not theirs. There- fore your statements were not in confliction with his. \ Respectfully, a com- THOMAS THE COUNT HAS WINGS, To the Editor of the Herald: In yvesterday's issue of the Horald appeared a dispatch dated Ayres, Jan. 23rd, conveying the JOYCE. ne Lurburg, form Iy German minister to Argentina, is in a critical condition in a German hospital in that country. A few weeks ago the writer served in a forcign lanzuage paper, published in orcester, Mass., that {his same Count Luxburg had afely arrived in Germany on “Rergensfjord,” and noted with parent satisfaction that he thus succeeded in making the home. in spite of the refusal of the Entente powers to grant him a safe passage. Why this discrepancy? KONTRAN PERFIDULOJ. ws news | ,AD- had ) ! high class vauderville. Buenos | the | journey Town T bpic ) The peculiar attitud Orson F. Curtis in 1} tacks on the administr refusal to serve on cially the salary obviously may b pute with is causing politicians. lderman insisient at- and his committees, espe- committee which g itself into bad re- a certain clique of voter: no little talk the “What does Curtis want? the oft repeated question. aver that he is merely anti-Quigley and determined to bring discredit up. on the adminiswration for his person- al satisfaction. Others think he is a public spirited citizen intent upon cleaning up City hall. Still others think that he has an ax to grind of his own. There are others who think that all three elements enter into the situation. But here arises the qucs- tion of what that “ax” might be, since he has stated over his own signed name in the press that he has no am- bition to be mayor. This statement | is also strengthened by the unverified report that he has approached at teast three prominent men to urge them to be a candidate for mayor. While there is no reason to think that, the following idea is necessarily the correct solution, there are neverthe- Jess, many men conversant with poli- tics who think that it may not be far from true. Alderman Curtis is at present a deputy factory inspector of the state labor bureau. Wouldn't he like to be chief of that department? There are certain state politicians who have their own Congressional candidate already picked and want the votes of the Now Britain delegates. But to get the votes of the local delegates ans that Mayor Quigley, a Congressional aspir- ant, must be defeated decisively. To | cast discredit upon his administration will assit in this. If Quigley's ma- chine is smashed at Curtis’ offensive it might be assumed that he would take the reins of the G. O. P Thus, he might be able to deliver the local delegates to the state politicians. As a reward it might be assumed that he could have about anything he wanted from the inner ring. Now the ques- tion is being asked, would he to be chicf of the labor burean? o tion among is Some is is me here. like the sa At the initial meeting revision commiitee D recommending a ra clerk, remarked ,that was no friend of his even know the name. “Well, I do,” prompted Chairman A. E. Eichstaedt, “it's—it's—it's—well, T've forgotten.” of ry Sullivan, in e for a certain the incumbent that he did not P Thanks for the compliment. thought Assistant City Enginesr Edward Me- Carthy when he learned that Chair- man Hichstaedt, in telling what a capable man he was, added that “he uses his own automobile for the city use somectimes, too.” The assistant engineer does not own an automobile but nevertheless one likes to have people say nice things about them. On Monday the T.yceum theater will azain be inhabited by actors and actresses that live and breathe after a lapse of ahout a vear during which time the movies, or ‘‘canned drama’ as some are wont to call them, has held sway at this once premier pla house. Time there was a few ve ago when all of the leading stars of stagedom frisked and frolicked, thun- dered and roared, or cried and sobbed on the Lyveeum stage. For some reason however, the patronage did not warrant a continuance and when T. J. Lynch turned his lease over to George LeWitt about a year ago these same patrons put up a loud wail that they did not want all movies. Rut they ot them and for several months the films have reigned supreme until there crept in a growing demand for In response to this demand the IL.yceum theater has been entered on the vaudeville cuit and inasmuch ag it is now affillat- ed with the irruit. throush the United Booking Agcney., which s headed by Keith, Albec and Proctor, some good performers ought to be seen here. Evervbody that hundreds of good v Britain dol- lars are turned into the coffers of the Hartford theaters because of too much motion pictures. Now is the time for the theater-going public to pause. ILet the lovers of en- thuse, and the lovers of real drama take heart and hope that the intro- duction of vaudeville on the stage of the Lyceum may only be a fore- runner of the return of the lezitimate plays. cir- Poli « Kknows variety .o Next Saturday and Sunday will be eventful days, particularly for those registered in first class and also for the doctors who will be called upon to give of their time and services to examine the same PR The New Britain War Bureau is a strongly pro-American institution. so much so that “made Germany' cannot be tolerated in print. lork Barl Kisselbrack has a small fancy clock the face of which is now somewhat disfigured. The reason is that after making the purchase the clerk was disgusted to find that, print- ed in small letters, was the phrase “made in Germany.” Although the time may seem fo many premature, the pdlitical pot has heen placed on the fire by the demo- | crats in this city, and with the slow that going on, the | steam brings to the surface the { of Baward O. Kilhourne as the demo- ? oratic patriot who may carry the mayoralty homnors the polls this spring. o those are within the charmed circle where the real dope is alwavs to he ha it said hotter standard hearer could lected to wage the agzressive democra will put this than Kdward O. commonly to the “‘Mavor of He business as member in aven boiling is now name to v ho that is no be se- | i | | jeht soring, referred Stanley Quar- man and of the demo- party is that is praise- | worthv. Mr. Kilbourne has been be- ) fore the public on many occasions, n as ter.” I record | At | et a 6, 1913, | TODAY'S TABLOID TALE By Joe Blast. What the Public Takes. Smeardon Counter wrote a play. It took him two years to Write it, cighteen months to re- write it, and six months to per- fect the punctuation. The critics went wild over it. The Evening Matinee said “Ponsonby Pimmel's Punish. ment, by Smeardon Counter, is the greatest modern play since Hamlet The Morning Sunset said, * greater play will ever ten in any language tha sonby Pimmel's Punishment, because Ponsonby Pimmel's Punishment, is the last word in great plays in any language. Smeardon Counter runs the samut of the emotions like everything.” Former President Taffvelt, who attended the opening per- formance, was o moved that he rose in his box and said, ‘‘Pon- sonby Pimmel’s Punishment is the most elevating play I have ever seen, and 1 have never missed an elevating one. Pon- sonby Pimmel's Punishment will never it will live forever.” But the public failed to come after the second night, and the management lost $50,000 on the production. o Tit- “Pon- be w die, because i, Smeardon Counter wrote an- other play. He wrote it one night in fourteen minutes, while he was intoxicated, on a bet. The crities went wild over it. The Evening DMatinee said, “Rickoff’s Revenge, by Smeard- on Counter, is absolutely the worst play anybody ever wrote in any language.” The AMorning Sunset “Tickoff’'s Revenge ently written by an idiot while his mental were at lowest ebb.” Former President Taffvelt, who attended the opening per- formance, so moved that in his box and said, tickoff’s Revenge might bave been worse, but at the moment 1 fail to see how.” But the public came en masse in droves and flockingly, and in eighteen months Smeardon Counter had collected $8,000,- 000,000 in royalties. (Copyright 1918 by George Matthew Adams) said, was appar- incurable powers was he rose and has proven his worth as a vote getter. True, he has lost, but this does not prove that he is not still in a position where he can command a large vote. In the avalanche which the republicans snowed under the democrats here in 1916, Mr, KHibourne made a run for representative that shows he ill in the ring, and in with both feef. The republicans have looked on with silent glee’for everal years as they watched slowly but surely the fa of the Sixth ward from the democrats to the republi- cans. But when the votes in the fall of 1916 were counted in the demo- cratic stronghold, this glee was some- what changed when it was seen that Mr. Kilbourne had again shown that the party very active up north, when the right man v put before the voters. Whether the republicans renominate Mayor Quigley some other candidate is not causing much concern with the democrats, for many feel that with Edward O. Kil- bourne heading the ticket, they would make an excellent showing A hoom been started for Jo- seph M. Halloran for the democratic nomination. The feud which cropped up with the memorable fizht waged for the postmastership, several years ago, has not been forgotten. and this will tend to have its effect. The name of P. F. King, chairman of the | police board, lias also been whispered. » e is s was ri or has The following are excerpts from {he Herald of 25 years azo Jonuary 20 Representative James Roche has introduced a bill whereby the mayor of New Britain will re- ceive a salary of $600 per vear. be- ginning with the next mayor. Wil- Jiam Rilair was clected president of the local Trades council last night The New York and New FEngland road has brought suit against the City of New Britain for $10,000, claiming that the city has not paid its share for the Black Rock bridge. F. G. Russell. who has been em- ployed at the Aetna Works for the past 21 vears has left his position as foreman of the packing room to be foreman of the packing and ship- ping room of the Kast Main street hranch January home of night and eatables and There were fers in the Bchaefer of Burglars entered the Father Tierncy last made away with some three napkin rings. four real estate trans- city last week. Richard this city has been eclect- ed secrctary of the grand lodge of the Sons of Hermann. They are claiming in Berlin now that the ther- mometer went down to 28 degrees Lelow last Thursday January 22: Sunday January 23: A. J. Sloper was clected cashier of the National bank ind W. E. Attwood was elected cashier of the Mechanic’'s National bank at annual meetings held today. Otis M. Scripture was vears old on Saturday and a number of his in- vited friends calls to help him cele- Lrate the event. There was a $650 fire in J. A. Traut’s greenhouse on Avch street last night.” The Choral nefit union has decided to disband. January 24: R. J. Vance will act as chairman of the annual entertain- ment of the Thistle club tomorrow evening when Robert Burns will be culogized tanley HWddy, son of Mr. nd Mrs. 1. B. Hddy, who fell and hroke of his arms several days is zetting along well 21 Rev. 5 | | | | one | ous | but permitting powder | Britain Sick Benefit society, ago Tanuary 25: Col. Charles B. Tarich son will speak on “Discipline” at the annual banquet of Co. I {omorrow | credit BY LIBUT. FITZHUGH GREE Under life doesn’t mean Human much these days. So people are saxing. Of they mean we are sacrificing tremend- numbers. But we are sacrificing for a tremendous object. If in the rush and tumult of battle men’s senses numb to their peace-time loathing for blood and pain and death it is only temporary dullness of a natural in- stinct-—the strongest instinct man has 1o preserve first his own life, and then course | that of the one nearest him Every battleship carries tons of ex- plosive for her guns and mines and torpedoes. The deadly stuff is stowed in rooms called magazines, refriger- ated to an unvarying temperature. ventilated to an outdoor freshness, and guarded prison-like by bolts and dogs and heavy padlocks on thick steel doors. In action or at target practice the doors are open. Not swung open, to be passed through holes covered by large brass flaps; brass because steel might mako a spark; and flaps to prevent flame of cxplosion from shooting through ana setting off powder. Bags are passed or hoisted up by stages, each stage an enclosed space with flap-doors leading in and out. A bag which has left the magazine finally reaches the pit or platform | under the gun's great breech. Two men stand ready to seize and heave up the heavy burdens the moment ‘bore” has been reported clear—that. is so soon as the opened'breech per- mits the gun captain to find out if any burning particles are left in the zun Instantly up comes the next charge The cumbersome bags are swunp swiftly into the gun-powderman's waiting arms. After four are up and in, the breech is closed and the gun elevated. Since the loading shelf is made fast to the gun it comes down like the lowered end of a see-saw outside the turret the goes up. It so happened in a certain type of mount that this steel shelf lowers to within a few inches of tha deck below. Jim Short, an old hand on the U. 8. 8———knew this all too well. Once he had nearly got caught under the heavy girder like an ant under a man’s foot. He had plenty of nerve but the shiver he felt as he escaped by tho breadth of a hair stayed with him. Daly. the other pttman had been in the turret only a few weeks. His as | gun-muzale | the Gun. | stock build had caught the turret of« | ficer's eve, and though a green man he filled the important job alongside old Short. “Whatever you do” Short warned the lad, “watch out when she's down atop us.” He shook his close cropped head. “Jelly would be substangial stuff alongside what our baby would {do for you if she caught you betweem shelf and deck! ‘But wouldn’t the pointers | me vell?” was Daly's illogical repiys H 0.” said Short; “too much noism, I 1t you're snagged it's a pretty safe | bet you're gone.” | Just then came “Station for load- |ing!” The men braced. At the whis- itle they leaped upon the gun ke | wildcats and loaded her as animals might tear flesh from the bones of their prey. “Ready!” from the gun captain. |He was wrong. Daly had slipped. | His head struck. He lay stunned di- | rectly under the lowering steel shelf. Short sprang to drag him clear.. It | was too late. The sturdy s seamanm could only roll the body enough te | delay the inevitable tragedy. o | He screamed. Afterwards he didn't | know he had even cried out. But | the man below heard and thought it | was time for the mext charge. The bag shot up through the trap. Shozt pounced on it. He whirled . and | wedged it between shelf and decky Daly was saved. | Two minutes the turret officer | swore openly and with great earnegis | ne hort,” he snapped, ‘“you've ved Daly’s life. But do you know that the first eafety precaution -is not to expose a second charge be. ! fore the first has been fired? Did you realize that you were jamming ninety pounds of powder against a hot and sparking motor? Do you know if that bag should go we'd all go? _Da |you know that the turret and mosg likely the ship would zo—about & mile high? Flaps don’'t always Fanic “Short nodded without answering, Then, “I know now”, said he, “that [in the hundredth part of a second I | saw happen everything you say might | happen—saw it happen. But I had te save Daly.” He could hardly speak. “I don’t know why, but I had to!” It’s true. Men will give their lives | for others. But first of all men will | give the lives of others for the life of the man nearest. Believe me, you would too. . . & unless. We're working to build up !the character of that unless. hear cvening, while Congressman Robert J. Vance will talk on “The Militia of Connecticut Under the Administration.” Miss Gertie Hall and Willie Hall, children of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hall of Camp streét en- tertained 25 of their little friend last night and had a pleasant even- ing. William Revoir and Miss Susan Daily were married at the chapel of the Sacred Heart this morning by Rev. FFather Tierney, James Sweeney and Miss Annie Lynch attending them. Jannary For a number months past the business of Union Works has been growing when warmer weather comes a factory addition will be built. An- other new organization, the New has been formed in New Britain and Willis H. Roden has been elected president. The citizens of Berlin have decided to make many improvements in their roads during the coming vear. ( Smith has invented a molasses gate. Baseball enthusiasts are planning a state league with a team from New Britain in it and Frank Cox is pleased with the plan of the and new, Th well less little episode known taxpaver and well known constable. had just cn the former and. duced to throw off one dollar on the costs, the w. k. taxpayer said: “Well, ain’t you gzoing to buy a cigar?” “Sure.” replied the self-satisfied constable as he threw a half on the counter. Out came a perfectly good five center, and ding-a-ling went the cash register. Up came the registration number and fifty cents is what it showed Nonplussed, the constable smoking a “fifty cent cigar.” concerns hardly The a after being in- a left, An amusing story of clever repartea at the local High school is now being passed around among the teachers. One instructor, who was endeavoring to induce the class of embryo lin- suists to articulate the difficult phrases of that particular tongue in the most approved fashion was sud- denly interrupted by a teacher from the next room who objected to the verbal chatterings which were wafted over the transoms, under the nd through the keyholes. Teacher No. 2, opening the door a crack, spoke to teacher No. 1 thusly, “I can’t stand this noise. You and your class sound like a Chinese laundry.” .. days later teacher No. a class in the guttural opened to the page carols. As filtering afore like- sud- crossed Several instructing German tongue, of Teutonic Christmas the Germanic songs were into the adjacent room the mentioned teacher, accused of a to Chinese laundry smiled. Then a scowl lines of the usual benign a dignified k hurried opening denly the patient face. There was across the room, of the intermediaie door and amid silence this helated repartee was heard: “T can’t stand this noise. Why jon't vou teach your pupils to ‘sing Christian songs?” a The the Red Cross drive is over. entitled to a place on roll have obtained all the due them. So why retain the honor roll signboard on the green? The streets honor Present | .| filea latter | served a writ of execution | dollar | doors | and ap~ beings It is not a thing of beauty parently its only excuse' for there is that it is. And in this connection attention of {the proper authorities might be | called to the fact that Christmas is | past and gone and no longer do | bands play and choruses sing holi- , day carols on the wooden platform which also decorates the green. Y oo . Monday’s news item-——and the mowve ing picture houses played to holiday crowds. Yes, and at holiday prices, roaw The patriotic co-operation of the i local saloon men to close on last Mon= | day and Tuesday commendable, | As far as the authorities can ascertain, | but two liquor men failed to obserwd | this voluntary closing edick It is | now reported that unless these two men change their tactics and close | Mondays strong objection will ber next spring against the renewal of their licenses on the grounds that they are not fit men to hold them. was a No More Ghettos. P (Boston Transeript). Dr, Levi, the minister of Templa Israel, is perfectly right in saving that there is no need for ghettos now. At all event there is no mneed for them in free America. The ghetio was a limbo—a ‘“pale,” decreed either by unjust law, by prejudices or by unjust economic pressure. American institutions, American thrift, have no use for the ghetto. But thera | are some, even among us here, who [ would have nothing but ghettos. For- tunately such ideas, which are thosa of Lenine and Trotzky in Russia, do { not prevail here. Dr. Levi Is against | the notion of the relegation of the. fwhol@ world to the zhetto condition: He believes—and the great mass of his American co-religionists believe with him—in the liberation of all, hy free labor and thrift. from this con- dition. Greater freedom, larger op- | psrtanity, more rights, are abolish- ing the more or less volunta cttog into which the immigrants from abroad collected themselves. Organized American society. i moving toward improved housing | conditions, toward public sanitation, { toward universal education and uni- | versal thrift, i abolishing the eco- 'nomic ghetto well as the racial ghetto. Tts total disappearance will be the sign and token the com- plete success of our political institus® | tions, (New York Sun) “To get 100 per cent. fighting effi- ciency out of John Parsons you've got to give him his old carpet slippers ifter a hard day’s work in the trench- es. A =ood cigar and a pices of avp- | ple pie to round it out and vou've zot | @ satisfied man that will do anvthing,? vou tell him. TUve lived with him for [ 10 years and I know." | This note, addressed corps headquarters hy Mrs sons, also contained an whether there was any embargo on | carpet slippers. Retsey Lees and ap- | ple pie going to fighting marines in | France. | TIt's a big question, and while the Marine corps maintains no time study or welfare departments, it is felt that | If his old carpet slippers will enhance / John Parsons’ fighting qualities he'ly i just have to have them, that's all. to Marine John Par- [ inquiry as to | {