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NEW BRITAIN DAILY \ HERALD, WEDNESDAY, Britain Herald. IERALD PUBLISHING Proprietors COMPANY, 3 o ed daily (Sund : m., at Herald F $:15 st xcepted) at 67 Church $8.00 a Year. $2.00 Threc Months. 75¢ a Month Post Class tered at as Second the office at Mail New Matter Britain TELEPHONE usiness Office ditorial Rooms CALLS 225 he only “profitable city medium ana advertisers. in Cire press always op Associated Press, is exclusively entitled republication of all news oF not otherwise eredited and also local news credited in_ this published to it papcr herein. 100 PER CENT. AMERICAN. Sentiment is bound to be uppermost n weighing the accomplishment of a Priited States the tlantic gain, irman in The crossing ocean greatest owcver, pnstrated is to science, that-such a onditions-being which has dem- feat, weather considered, Pos: ple.~The actual flying time of the NC-4 rom Trepa Bay, o Lisbon, Portugal, is sey Newfoundland, was twenty-six forty-one minutes. The estern and eastern hemispheres have been linked in a manner only dreamed pf ten years ago. Immediate pas ours and enger service over the Atlantic will not be probable. The jlight was in the nature of an experi jment, a costly one ever: ent of expense. Passenger service vill be developed. within the next few frears and the scientific data collected @by Lieutenant Commander Read and fhis less fortunate companions who did not complete the journey will be of inestimable value for future addition- Bl experiments. In these daj the wildest imaginations produce practical ideas it is fiot too much to that but worth when venture a guess the passenger steamships will be superseded by swifter transportation machine. Per- haps a hundred years from now steamships will be employed only for carrying freight while man, merly depended on the pelled water through the air in an overnight trip from New York to London and Paris or vice versa. a who for- steam pro- craft, will wing his way Every American can rejoice that the continents have at last been spanned by an American airman. Others equally as brave have begun what an American has finished and their valor should not be overlooked. The fact will stand out in bold relief in history that the first flight over the ocean w an at made by American citizen, in the service of the American navy, a machine made in America, of Ameri- can material, American in by workmen, equipped with an American engine. WHO IS TO BLAME? Stories boy messenger robbed York's trict are “breaking’ regula the latest morning as the result of pearance of Liberty $25,000 which had B youth under had a part in the theft of the securi- ties. New York, it will be conceded, Wew York, different from of being in New financial dis- coming the this disap- at been entrusted to teen years of age. He is now bonds valued arrest and is believed to have is other ut human nature same in New York or Kalama- ¥oo, and it st a bit puzzling why men of affairs, whose business acumen has made them famous, will dispatch Yoys with fortunes in cash or nego- tiable bonds. A sixteen year old boy is not the proper person to employ for such purposes. The temptation put before him is more than the aver- mge youth could resist. if he awere honest, Pphysically older and sturdier men bent upon robbing him. The finan- clers have heen requested to dispense with the services of children and hire former soldiers. any spot in the world. Is the Even he would be for 1t is a sound plan. JUSTICE FOR WOMEN. Since the United States entered the war, woman has been patted on the back, told big help been, and so on, what a she has urged to keep up the good work and that is about all. demands. have it woman should It admitted would have been not recognition and that the death list much longer had it the They were the actual scene of conflict as g0. They without com- been for nurses. as near they were permitted to worked incessantly and plaint. fessional mothers who drifted Besides performing their pro- duties they acted god- and to boys as big sisters the back from the front line wounded and dying. Ts there any nurses should rea- son why not This atid of Women's The And we are receive ranks the same as men? Question asked last dng of the Federation Clubs of Connecticut. was: *No.” agree. Mrs. James R. Mason, the federation, made a strong argu- ment for ranks fof nurses, sayving: “We deplore the fact that the nurse's own personality has been made her is a I'riday meet- answer inclined to with monotonous | no match | | men and tne Now | | diers and president of | chief means of problem solving. No- body else in the army has to depend on his personal charm for to orders. else who is en- provided obedience Everybody titled to give an with rank to enforc The army nurse has functioned as hut without order is his authority. an oflicer throughout the war, she has had absolutely tools, duced When have I'rom to do it She has been re- pleading. results without rank. 10 wheedling and these arts have failed failed too. another Boston, comes a demand for equal sex recognition. It is proposed to award a bonus of $100 man who served in the point, to every army ning of this a deleg: enlisted, to be included in the grant. they all that or mavy. Lear tion of yoegirls, regularly marched to ‘the state capitol in- sist that they In voicing their right In the opinion ex cised a Am they have enjoyed by cans. their derand re- the They ceive bonus they will support of fair minded citizens. couldn’'t go to sea, but their work on land was necessary to the prosecu- tion of the war. REDUCING LABOR TURNOV In support ot a request Secre- Wilson of the Department of by tary La- bor that an appropriation he made by Congress the of United States Training Service, are to further work the pub- licity notices Dbeing received by purpose of the service the progress already made. The service instituted during the war to make up the defi- in skilled labor throughout the country order that quantity duction of munitions might pt newspapers explainng the and was| ciency in pro- be made ble. Courses in instruction are installed in factories, 300 manufactur- ers already having adopted the gram of the service. pro- In order to determine labor shift, a census of was recently taken Since leaving school, the average 500 workers in Baltimore. three-fourths of had changed their occu- pations more than once; seven per cent. had changed four or more times. A bulletin issued that “these figur that the average worker, not prepared himself for the work now engaged in, industrial t this number by the service says es are cited to show having he is can profit immensely by ining such as the training service is promoting.” Production experts to the of industrial having had no real to be thoroughly trained, 50 per cent. efficient. claimed that “under the method by which most workers introduced into factories approximately twice are majority quoted prove that employes, chance are It scarcely is also haphazard are and shops, as much time is by employes in acquainting themselves with their would be required if they Portunity of attending partments Among derived, it id, unnecessary thereby safely consumn new tasks as had the op- training ~ de- the benefits to would be the overhead be elimination of expenses, the present high an antidote for maintaining wage schedule. As Bolshevism, the serv- ice claims training of labor would be a progre There is no great economic waste annually TUnited States because of turnover. Men drift from factory accept- ing and in many cases making little return on the investment their are sive step. doubt that there is a in the the labor factory to and from city to city, jobs that pay high money wages represent be- not skilled. Training courses not only are helpful to indus- cause they try as represented by capital but are also a hoon to the young man whose finances force him leave school education and elementary knowledge of to minus an academic without an a trade. YALE AND THE The old feeling “TOWN BOYS.” that always exists between “town boys" m college towns the college has cropped out in New Haven in a new form. It is claimed Ly ex-service men who par- aded in New Haven were Saturday that they Yale men stand- hissed by ing on the curb. ter-charge to them The students .coun- that the soldiers “slackers.” of the betwe referred of the unpleasaniness about 100 sol- Yale students morning on the campus, s of its kind that has oc- New Haven in than night's at- as One developments was a clash en sailors and early Sunday the first fr curred in twenty-five years and last tack on a larger scale. At this distance, it scems that both sides to the controversy blame. If parading ferred to Yale men a; appalling has done contributions more are partly to the soldiers re- they ignorance of the war and red-blooded Lt the students retal- ed by hissing the soldiers they were the “slackers disclosed an what Yale of its in in men, officers and buck privates. on the other hand, in wrong. No right believes that Yale men do their bit the have been =atisfied their case with public minded did students to per- son not gladly and should e opinion the purposes of education restraint and grasp on oneself. ing had One of is to reserve and a The Yale men, hav- the advantage of college teach training, have overlooked ghtless | could easily an affront offered by a few tho individuals their In would and could have borne wounds with dignity, the final analysis, it that the g bared probably be found body of “town boys” who thein breasts to enemy machine guns do not believe Yale men were “slackers” and the great body of Yale students do not endorse which a handful the hissing of their number indulged in. of the " and the stu- clash last the A humorous rivalr between the feature “town hoy dents occurred during the night when the Yale men soldiers to enter the college buildings and dared were dared in Neither turn to come out. side accepted the dare. No! Noll Not We Licutenant Commander the protest against Read crossin Atlantic ocean rplane. have | in would an George Washington done it. not An inventor is said to have perfect- ed an appliance that amplifies an or- dinary voice over a wireless phone (o it sounds like won't such volume that the roar of a he please hitch Whisper cannon. Then and that up one of the scts to Brockdorff-Rantzau Germany lost the wa FACTS AND FANCIES. The mayor of Morella, as heedless of personal rights as our anti-saloon league. He has issued an order that hereafter all male residents | and visitors must wear trousers in the ! public dtreets. Underwear alone, he says, will not do. Is there no free country anywhere?—Waterbury R publican. Mexico, is why the United St Great Pritain should enter treaty for the protection of Fr a mystery. If Fr of protection, well what has she to fear from a Germany | stripped of every vestige of military | i power?—Kalamazoo Gazette. The Puritans in this ceived a shock when Pr aised his glass” to answer toasts at various I"rench ceremonials. Now he | has given them another shiver by go- | ing to Longchamps fo look at the | | | Just tes and | into a ance is | ce is in dire need and good; but country re- | lent Wilson ponies.—Charleston Ivening Post. Another thing President Wilson will have to be raked over the coals for, we | suppose, is that George Washington | in all his long and honorable career never so far forgot himself as to send his message to congress by cable.—— Ohio State Journal. discussion of won the war?" may assume a direction wherever it becomes known that the American army smok- ed 425,000,000 cigarettes a month.— Springfield Republican. The “What new the question, Albania now puts in a request to have the United States take over her zovernment under a mandate. Al- bania must think all our democrats are deservir and ftitted to be govern- ors-gencral.—Kansas City Star. If the Germar do not sign the peace treaty the®e will he nothing for the Allies to do but name Marshal Foch as receiver for the German cm- pire.—Dallas Now: But the amateur mind the sprin vents the dust from flying so obvious- Iy when his drivé digs up several inches of earth.—Boston Transcript. golfe wet weathe doesn't It pre- Bolsheviki have selected the drag- onfly as their symbol. They should have selected the blowfly. They have no sense of fitness.—Toledo Blade. Hereafter many a Mr. will expect Mrs. to maike doughnuts like the ones the S. A. made at the front.—-Philadelphia Public Ledger. Newlywed Hereafter all immigrants should be compelled to check their hyphens when entering the U. A.—Shoe and Leather Reporter. HER PROTEST. = Tpon her hand so small and white He very gladly laid his own. She drew it ck, as if in fright, And whispered in a trembling tone: “You mustn't."” He sat a little nearer still Whereat she moved her chair He gazed down in her eyves until He heard her rather feebly “You mustn't.” awal He hent above her where she sat And softly stroked her silken hair; She seemed so agitated that She could but faintly declare: “You mustn’t.” Around her waist he slipped an arm And drew her closely to his side: She seemed possessed of wild alarm And in imploring accents cried: “You mustn't.” Deciding to possess the bl That Fate had put within his reach, He claimed a sweet and fervent kiss, But did she then in horror screech: “You mustn't?” She didn’t. 5 KISER He Dian't. (Louisville Courier-Journal.) “Do you think only of mured the bride. “Tell me think oniv of 0 it this explained groom gently. “Now and then T to think of the furnace, my dear. me?” that mur- you me, way,” the ave Merely Psycholog (Panther.) i “You smoke | number of cigareties, Mr. Puff. 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