New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 26, 1919, Page 6

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, MONDAY, MAY 26, Britain Herald. num: PUBLISRING COMPANTY- . Proprietors. ued dally (Sunday evcentel) at 4:15 D. Ty "&b Hereld Bullaing, 67 Charch St itered at the Post Ofce at New Britain as Second Class Mail Matter. TELEPHONE CALLS usiness OMce .. ditorial Rooms e only profitable advertising medium in the city. Circulation books and press room always open to aavertisers. e Heraid will be found on sale at Hota- ling's News Stand. 42nd St. and Broad- way, New York City; Board Walk. Ate lantic City, esd Hartford Depot. Member oX the Associafed Press. [fhe Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news credited to it cr not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published heremn UPSETTING THE F PERTS. It is discouraging for the experts Who knew positively how Hawker met his death to learn that he is alive, happy and, as a London dispatch says, “in the pink of condition.” It is so disconcerting to explain in long detail how things happened and later to be informed that they did not happen at all. A number men familiar with the perils of air hastened to ad- vance the presumption that the engine on the Sopwith biplane had frozen up while passing over ice fields. Others Were as certain that the machine was caught in the whirl of a cyclone which, lashed the air over the Atlantic about the time that Hawker Grieve arrived the middle of the ocean. So annoying to have someone come along and tumble down these pretty houses of cards. Of erll the world two who were and Grieve of the by coincidence, and in there were confident that Hawker | could reach They were Mrs. Hawker, who had supreme faith in her husband's ability to ex- tricate himself from almost mountable difficulties, and Raynham, | his rival, whose Martinsyde plane was wrecked while attempting to rise for | & twin flight across the These two were right; world was wrong. The reappearance of Hawker Grieve is the most thrilling in the annals of aeronautics. in particular was staggered by the | news and is planning a tremendous re- ception to the heroes. The London Daily Mail, for whose prize of $50,000 the feat was attempted, has announced that it will give the airmen half that sum as a consolation prize. America extends its greetings to the daredevils and will root for them if they decide to try again. land. insur- | sea wastes, the rest of the and England DON'T YOU REMEMBER? Don't you remember how the Marines smashed into Chateau- Thierry and forced the Germans to evacuate? Don't you remember how the Marines captured Vaux after one of | the most stubborn hand-to-hand bat- | tles? Don't you member how Major Gen- eral Bundy of the Second Division, said “Retreat? Hell, no!” when be drawn back. . You remember distinctly the thrill of pride that ran through your veins when these things happened. And yet all of the incidents curred only in the minds of imagina- tive or readers who jumped at conclusions. The Marines did Chateau-Thierry. The Marines did not capture Vaux. Major General Bunday never said it. Edwin L. James, a Coblenz respondent of the New York Times, strips the glittering tinsel off some of the popular war fiction in a letter his paper yesterday. On July 19 when the Marines were supposed to have driven the enemy out of Thierry they were forty or fifty away, south of The glorifying Unecle Sam’s sea for taking Correspondents were informed ahead of time what units would be sent against the town. They faithfully corded the names of these units their dispatches. Then the censor used his blue pencil and the names of the regiments that captured the place were eliminated. As the Marines had been fighting in this neighborhood it was assumed that they ble for the victory. foregoing oc- writers, not drive cor- in miles Soissons. Vaux was a re- in In fact, it the Ninth and Twenty-Third Infantry | Regarding | Division. Bundy’s remark, Mr. “It is pretty generally here that General Bundy that famous utterance. fiction of the Second James writes: known It takes place alongside of the to hell’ Lost Battalion of the sent to the German major in the in Ar- gonne when the Americans were called upon to surrender. Major Whittlesey has himself denied that 1 be- lleve.” story, Some day historians are going to straighten out the interminable tangle | and give credit where credit belongs. It will be a wearisome task and the true history of the war may never be written. 4 { from incident | it | was suggested that the American line into | Chateau- | story | soldiers | natural error. | were responsi- | was | over | didn’t make | its | ‘Go | which Major Whittlesey of the | 77th Division | SIGNING THE PEACE TREATY. Thoughtful, public spirited citizens have been devoting the past few week to pointing out the danger of the United States not signing the treaty. There have been threats from Sena- tors that the document would be signed only over their dead bodies. Others not holding political office have declared that America ou the verge of surrendering its sovereignty. Some of these utterances may be dis- counted hecause of the political bias which inspired them. Others are made public through an honest desire to protect the nation. It is hardly that former President William Howard Taft would possible wilfully perform an act against the in- terests of the United States. His rec- ord for patriotism and loyalty so well established that it would be ab- surd to question his motives. Speak ing in New Haven Saturday night, Mr. Taft said: is If the Senate of the United States refuses to ratify the treaty of peace and it goes back to the nations of Europe and is accepted by them, as it surely will be, it will place the United States alone in the position of being at war with Germany while the nations of Europe will be at peace with her. Another speaker on the same plat- form was President A. Lawrence Low- ell of Harvard University who sented the pointed probiem: pre- If we set up several small gov- ernments in Lurope and then go away and leave them what is to prevent Germany from seizing them in the future? If France is compelled to zo to the aid of small countries with which it has commercial relations, France will face bankruptey and probably will be forced to cancel her national debt, thereby endangering the economic structure of the world. 7x-President Taft is a Republican. Dr. Lowell is a Republican. Both are of the finest type of American citizen- ship. Both are brainy men with wide | visions, who have studied the question all angles. They strike being leaders on this us as occasion who ! can be followed with safety. FEDERAL “BLUE SK George W. Br tiating a movement for the enactment LAW. stol, a lawyer, is ini- by Congress of laws which will prevent the issuance of worthless industrial, mining and oil stocks. He believes that a federal law should be passed which will prevent “wild catting,” rather than punish the offenders after they have skimmed the cream off the public milk. Speaking along this line, the lawyer says: No state laws can completely cover the conditions and ‘needs throughout the country. On the other hand, 1 think that state laws should be passed to supple- ment national legislation. But na- { tional legislation we must have— | a law passed by Congress to pre- i vent misdeeds that we now only try to punish. Sending an offender | to jail does not give their money back to the people he has swin- dled. And, besides, not all this victimizing is done by dishonest men; they may be only careless and overenthusiastic; but if their stocks are worthless their pur- chasers lose their money just the same! Mr. Bristol suggests that Congress | pass regulations under which the mails would be closed to any corpora- broker or individual or to any periodical advertising the stock of the tion, | corporation until that corporation has successfully passed a thorough inves- tigation by a federal department and | its stocks are known to be good. Schemers who sit up nights plotting how to line their purses at the expense . of the people are birds of ill omen who usually fly before the wave of pros- | perity. Their wings should be clipped ‘ before they find it possible to exit | from their nests. The safest invest- ment industrials. The local factories are well known. Their character and business ability can he measured. | The financial condition of the panies vested is in home { managers of the usually com- are public secrets. Money where the investor that in- an see it is money | nights ‘l | The Bolsheviki fired on a train | guarded by Americans to ses what the | Americans would do. i causes few sleepless Their curiosity | | is reported appeased. At last accounts they were in full flight trying to find ' | a place to jump off the earth. How | those Reds do love to monkey with a | | puzzsaw. | The League of N | up again today Nations covenant is | in Congress. Battery | | for the wvisiting team, Senators John- son and Reed. | ‘Urrah for 'Arry 'Awker. FACTS AND FANCIES. | ! home.—Washington | Did with his pistol i Who ! for Edward De Valera, who sent a tel- | egram to Premier Clemenceau saying | that the Irish people would not recosg- nize the treaty of peace, ought to be | in the United States senate. He is! wasted in Ireland.—New York World, | | | | | Germany can thank her lucky stars | and the leniency of the allies that the peace treaty didn't stipulate that German bition.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. No, Brockdorff-Rantzau will hanlvl.\ succeed in setting up an alibt for the German people. That is just a wee bit too obvious.—Manchester Union. One thing any weman wants more than a vote is her own Wway. congress, being mo: ‘married, cedes poth.—Wall Street Journal. message to CONEress President Wilson con- By boiling his down to 3,000 word makes a very successful bid for ularity.—New York Commercial. The president’s message Shows close interest in the unfinished busi- n before the public when he left Star. a The revenue bureau has ruled that! it 1t gar- underwear is underwear, even can be seen through the outer ments.—Indianapolis News. We never knew how much thought of the NC-3 and its crew Star. England lets it : - is short of whisky. Shake, Britannia! —Cleveland Plain Dealer. be known that At any rate, remain in the English-speaking fam- ily.—Toronto Globe. A BALLAD OF RFI)IH/!D S DAY. e Talk of the Greeks at Thermopylae! They fought like mad till the last was dead; But Alvin C. York of Tenneessee Staved cool to the end though his vir was red, Stayed mountain cool yet blazed that | zray Octobeer the Eighth as Day. Redhead's With rifle and pistol and redhead nerva captured thirty-two. A battalion against swerva From the Titans' sent to do: TFourteen men under Sergeant Early And York, the blacksmith, big and burly. He one hundred him, he did task they Sixteen only, but fighters all, They dared the brood of a devil nes And three’of those that did not fall Were wounded or the rest Were guarding a bunch they'd caught, When hoth were trapped by a fresh onslaught. of boche cepting York, who smiled “Amen” And, guns, Potted some twenty bird; for and then eight more Huns thought they Yankee alive In each red pound of two hundred and five. could crush a That was enough for kill-babe Fritz; Ninety in all threw up their hands, Suddenly tender as lamb .at the Ritz, Milder than sheep to a York's com- mand And back to his lines he herd. Gathering more on the way—Ab- surd! drove the Absurd, For here head, scorning a fall for the help he lacked, il Helped himself till he won instead: An elder was he in the Church Christ, Immortal at thirty; ficed. RICHARD B. GLAENZER, —in the New York Times. but true—aye, gospel fact; was a man with a level Who, his faith suf- The New Penrose. (Springfield Republican.) The triumph of Senator Penrose was doubly insured from the begin- nin of the oBrah-Johnson fight against his appointment as chairman of the finance committee. The insur- gents had no candidate of their own, and an old political maxim has it that “You cannot beat somebod with nobody."” Mr. Penrose, furthermore. testably dorsed representative of the republi- can party of the state of Pennsylvania. In 1914, after his political past and his sordid political ideals had been fully exposed, he swept the republican primaries and was renominated for senator by an overwhelming majority. Even Gifford Pinchot, who has con- sistently fought Mr. Penrose, must admit that the senator is Pennsylva- nia's favorite son. Perhaps there is a new Penrose coming along. One catches the sus- gestion now and then that Penrose has heen liberalized, if not reformed. This is a new day. with a new political atmosphere,;so why not a new Prim- rose? At all events, the stage is set the Pennsvlvania senator to the pilot anticipated budget reform: is incon- and, | success erowns his efforts, he may vet be known as a constructive states- man. Since they cannot Mr. Penrose as their nomic and financial in eco- the leader legislation. wise thing to do is to force him 10, gm0 o0 g ey oana, play the reformer in a field where he can display his undeniable talenf. Keep him out of tariff making—at least until after the presidential elec- tion—and do not let him cut down the income taxes of the rich, appreci- ably, while throwing the tax burden upon the consuming publie, or the poor. Identify him with budget re- form, at all costs, and it may be found that the Pennsylvania senator will carry his own weight instead of being a burden to his party and a li- ability in 1920. A Great Career in China. (The Congregationalist and Advance.) There died in England last month, while at home for medical treatment, one of the great men of our gener- ation, measured by his influence on of | the recognized and duly inv‘ be ! through the senate of thel if : cannot end a war must adopt narional prohi- And | pop- | we | un- | til it was reported lost.—IKansas City she | the honors of the air | and= not | were | out of the scrap; | spotting the nests of spitting | | | | { | are competent escape having | erate 1919. WISE, SMITH & C0., Hartford Dacoration Day Millinery splendid Summer Holiday of the wear. collection Hats for and later featuring All-Taffeta, Taffeta and Georgette and All Shapes: blue. black leghorn, with of flowers burnt trich ete., goose rfl" cts, Sport Outing Hats $1.49 Made of Panama Clath. Woven like Panama. looks like Panama, in Panama color. Mannish aflors, Side Rolls. 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He came to this position of confidence by no road of official diplomacy, but as a mis- sionary scholar and a counselor proved unselfishne: He founded a university and spent much of his life in making a new, modern and Christian literature for leaders of the hundreds of millions of Chi- nese people. He went out under the Baptist missionary society. He met ihe echailenge of the re-awakened Buddhism in China’s aroused nation- of ; himself | al consciousness by his campaign for Christian schools and books. Tt takes a quarter of a page of the crowded Fnglish Who's Who to report his ac- tivities, honors and publications, and all the learned societies as well as the Chinese legation in lLondon at- tended his funeral. In an interview in the Rritish Weekly Dr. Richard once said: “The Chinese nation is led by comparatively few persons—the mandarins and the educated classes, who number about 100,000, The su- preme need is to send out men who to guide and instruct the thinking clas When these are won for Christ the whole nation will follow. That was his task and op- portunity, and the results of his life work will he shown in the history of China and of the world for genera- { tions to come. The Sultan and the Debt. (New York Times) Perhaps it is not only solicitude for the religious susceptibilities of Indian Moslems that is back of the movement to keep the Turks in Constantinople. To leave the sultan on the Bosporus with “nominal” authority, at the same time giving him ‘“a degree of | temporal power over some verrim"v] in Asia Minor to be selected.” mwml | | preserve the form of the Turkish Em- pire, who conciliate the diplomatic pedants would have us believe that you | without a treaty peace, even if you have to keep the | enemy state alive solely to <et its | signature on the treaty, and ‘“‘would prevent the obliteration of the Turkish pre-war debt.” That debt of | held largely in and French and right to some But in about g the was British investors have a guarantee of their investments. the guarantee must be obtained some more pleasing way. How Turkey's debt inc d during war—not the money which she hor- rowed from Germany, but the debt to the murdered Armenians and Greel the debt to a world which has tal- erated the Turk and believed his promises? The pre-war debi was some $650,000,000; the Turks mur- dered, according to the most mod- estimate, about §00,000 Ar- menians. The Armenian massacres were the crowning proof that the Turks were unfit to rule anybedy, par- ticularly Christians; vet the sultan may be left in Constantinople, and With a part of Asia Minor, to be se- { Turkish | penalties { should not leave my | four years would be worth a great sac- lected for its revenue-producing ca- pacity. It seems, then, that the Ar- menians are not wortly $800 a head; their blood cries out from the ground, but not loudly enough to amid the protests of Indian Moslems and the alarmed outcries of investors. Naturally, the talk of an American protectorate of the Turks in Constan- tinople is ridiculous. America will certainly have nothing to do with maintaining the Turkish Empire. That is Europe’s work, if anybody' urope kept the Turk in Constanti nople for a century, at the cost of some millions of Armenian and other Christian lives; if Burope wishes to renew covenant with death, let Europe do it. But the outery which is alrcady coming from influential French and British newspapers shows that Furopean sentiment is fully awake to the meaning of such an famous compromise. Investors bonds can be bought can be reminded that age of Mohammedanism was age before the Turks appeared t the decline of Islam has been largely traceable to the decline of Turkey. The civilized world has backed away from this plain duty long enough; if it breaks away once more, the price will be paid azain by the Near Eastern Christians, not by the timorous politicians. But theré ar that could be applied to those politicians, penalties that poli- ticians will fear; and it is the duty of the civilized world to see that those penalties are kept before their eye: a a off; Moslems the golden the and \ New Glimpse of Pershing. (Letter From Philippines to Re of His West Point It is unfortunate indeed for higher on Class.) me that authority has concluded that I post at this time. This is a great disappointment to me. There is nothing that could equal the pleasure of meeting once more with old companions of my youth, the friendship for whom is above all others the dearest and most lasting. To be again for a few hours as in the olden days at West Point with those who stood shoulder to shoulder with me and I with them through over ce. The thought makes me for cadet days again. I go back into the corps, (although of course it has gone entirely to the dogs since we were cadets), and glad- Iy (in spite of this) go through the whole course from heginning to end to be with you all as we were then. Life meant so much to us—probably more than it ever has since—when the soul was filled to the utmost with ambition and the world was full of promise. long would gladly How About Mr. Gillett? (Boston Herald.) Although Frederick H. Springfield, the new house of represen on all possible occasions that he has reached the height of his ambition, some of his friends are wondering if he does not possess—or mMay not come to possess ailability for the presi- dential nomination. The speakership is an office of distinction. 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D'An- part due to his abounding health and I nunzio who W a volunteer exer- Rome, | nunzio, vigor, and his lave of outdoor sports. ! cised his right in asking to be retired, William Henry Harrison, who holds | saying that he considered the order the seniority record, became president ' from the general of a political na- when he was 65. But the great dif- | ture rather than military. ference in the vitality of the two raen 1 seems wholly in favor of our assa. ] REDS BEATEN chusetts speaker. May tack on Friday night Esthonian forces | broke through the Bolshevik positions along the whole Pskov front captured and advanced to within sj miles of Pskov. capturing 1,000 pris- oners and many cannon and machine cuns, according to an official state- i ment issued at Esthonian staff head- AGAIN. London, 26.—By a surprise at- One-Sided Proposition. (Exchange.) “Well, I declare,” exclaimed Aunt Nancy, gazing at the photograph of a | Britisher all dressed up in his mon- ocle, “If these FEnglish people ain't the savingest fc\levk. Think of wearin® only one spec’ just to save the other But then,”” she added thoughtfully, “mebbe the poor critter blind in one eve.” Tzbors! TAX BIL Berlin, May is S PASSED. (By Associated Press.)—The German cabinet has ap- { proved a number financial bills drafted by the ministry of finance, cluding a tax on incomes from prop- lerty a levy on capital on the basis of { the last year of the war, an inheri- tance tax and an increase OR Sugal and tobacco duties. Pensions, (London Opinion.) “Well, Bill. what are vou going to do when vou gets Gemohilized 2" “Live on me pension, of course.” “You don't think ver goin’ to get a pension from the army, do yer?"” 0. not army—old age pension, mean.” of ins I