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[ {043 tsflmo COMPANT, Toprietors. ¥ R (Sunday = excepted) at 415 4Jd Bullding, 67 Church 8t t the Post Office at New. Bfitain Second _Clags, Mail Matter. Business Qffice Zditorial Rooms B The only! profitable advertising mediuniin .« the gity. Circulatign . hooks and press | “room "always open 'to advertisers. pher of the Amsociated Press. Geiated Press js exciusively entitled use for republication of all news ed to it or mot otherwise credited i paper and also local news [shed herein, : SHE VOTES. e Senate, following in’the foot- Steps of the House of Representatives hds finally -passed the Susan B. An- S thony amendmént to the constitution fatter 40 years of argument fot equal i rights for women in the United States. " All- that remains | for complete franchise of the fveaker sex is the ratification by the various states of { the amendment. Thisids forecast but | not. yet assured. The ‘senatel by a of two votes, gave the two- vote necessary for an adoption. Massef bf: women in ‘the Senate gal- leries gave. vent to audible expres- sions of pleasure in ' no mistakable manner while’ the Senate | them to continue with their ‘unwarned. ~ Thirty-six. Republicans and twenty ‘Democrats . voted for mdoption while eight Republicans and seventeen Democrats voted against it. Tt remfins for three-fourths of the states of the Union to ratify, in their legislatares, the action of the higher body before the vote for women be- comes an &ccomplished fact. Thirty- six of them musi find jn favor and pne year aftst tiie thirty-sixth rati- fles xhe‘mmkma;t. will become. ef- fective. Suffrage leadels are cconfident that the vote will be made in .time .for women to -exercise -their new privi- lege in the next Presidential election. | Their jenthusiasm may be’ «carrying thent. away. Ratification is”iot,yet complete. The women still have. a, fight ‘before them. = a 3 allowed applause : THE LOST AVIATOR. !"After having been missing for near- 1y a week Captain Mansell T. James, Canadian aviator, has been given up for ldst. Last Thursday he attempted “to fly from Lee, Mass., to the aviation 45/ field at Mineola. Since his start-noth- < ing has been heard or seen of him. Searching parties from the fléld have flown ‘over the greater part of the route he should have.covered with an eygl toward the earth fn the hope of ‘‘sighting a fragment of plane ar other signs, of lan accideht. MaHy rumors of % his proximlty to <certain districts have ' been run down and nothing discov- ered, © It is hardly possible that'the fiyer could 15:‘* descended in any part of this state ‘or of Massachusetts without having peen bbserved by some one. Though the Berkshire section is not rgc)m Populated there are sufficient rris to insure the plane having been sen during the greater part of its urnby. The altitude at which-a ma- ine’ would have to fly makes it sups posabe that it would be. vistble ‘for vmfles, upless the pilot was flying exs 2 Mgeme{, ingh {Byen then his descent B 19, smore conspicuous %finm und or some large ; obably hides the re- ptain James and his ma- erwise somethirg would be ive a clue to the aerial % THE BOMBISTS, fSsured from many quar- lice officials, national and BBrogressing in’ their efforts mystery of the bombing several ‘days ago. The ssins Yesterday today it radiating point and _explosives. Chicago or San Will be settled upon. John Johnson, of Pittsburgh, has been ar- ‘résted and profmises to give informa- “He says he knows the homb fet* The police have discovered a by 50 we are told. Ain I‘hllade]phl.’a‘ alo is the 4 literature “tomorrow @411 10 be mixed up in it and have fberaphed the scalp of the man to pieces by his own machine in #shington for evidence. The whole thing is progressing nicely, we are in- formed. ¢ Meanwhile wgéfeel fmpelled to ask fgkios is it that the or- purderers were able did accomplish the ques ganizeg fon getting After the epi- iwhen a forecast of ne was freely ow eould ad organizationg as its activities iproved the band to be, continue with Ats plans and achieve even the limited jguccess of the other dav? The campaign of horror hds a di- ¢un‘ head. xnd a iarge bady of suh- re gan bt no doubt ot to handed such a wide- ourishing }ln- known to the police. The American public should know why. The outrage itself, as it turned out, Was the best thing that could have happened to the country. That it failed in results was lucky. It will have the effect of hastening action on and order if such a®thing is possible. Com- | ing close upon the hecls of a similar ‘attempt, frustrated again by luck pure and simple, it will/ prove the need of efficient watchfulness over description and the | the part of the guardians of law disturbers of any need of adequate legislation to assure the arrest and conviction of any that are even of asotting. | Let us hope it will prove to the po- lice that they should be less careless about such were made | May first and should take steps to nip sing that comes to their LL[-‘ in suspected such forecasts as any upri tention the bud not waiting until | the damage has been. done. GRAIN FOR EUROPE. Herbert C. the field the European countries, will call upon- 470,000,000 rye survey of that with Russia the United bushels of during thie commg Burope will raise 1,550,000,000 bushels, or about Hoover, abroad, in a has estimated excepted, States for wheat and vear. per cent. of her the war. ¢ Her consumption is,such that she wili need at a minimum 700,000,000 bushels for T normal crop before import. It is also figured that there will be the grain exporting countries a | maximum of 900,000,000 bushels over | their needs. The United- States, present rate consumptiop, should have about 470,000,000 bushels from the 1919 crop to export, and exporting countries 400,000,000 bushels as a surplis. At this rate there will be plenty grain which has.not been figured upon as a producer upsets scales in some ‘unforeseen way. scarcely in at| the of other of to go around, unless Russia, or consumer, the 1t isy probable that she will pro- duce any great amount of surplus | but it is possible that she will demand some frem The is, however, that she will eare of hers as grain is con- ‘erned, which leaves the situation for the future wvery clear. grain, us. infer- take If as far ANOTRER “LEAK.” The allegation by made Senator Lodge that copies of the peace treaty were in circulation in New York iness hou#gs has stirred the august upper house ¢f which he is a mem- kber to an eXtent“that has not been witnessed since’ the famous “leak” of immediate pre-war times when it was said that government officials and business houses were profiting by ad- vance informgtion ou the war moves of the United States. much upset that business terests should know what before the Senators themselves are taken intd the secret. An inves- tigation to determine how the treaty fell into the hands of the financiers is to be undertakensat the suggestion of a Democrat, Senator Hitchcock. Sensational disclosures are promised. However, sensational disclosures were promised at the time. of and little of any to fasten or person. Granted bus- The Senate is very in- is going on the moment developed- responsibility on any party | [ that Senator Lodge was right and that copies of -the treaty are in' circulation in New York, there were numerous methods of advance information on ment. > Financial interests have kept | their representatives abroad to forward any advance information on the peace terms to this country at $he earliest possible moment. Thousands of copies of the document have been in the hands of clerksand translators. | That the government's representatives in Paris have been kecping to the promise made at the Peace 'Table, | that no information would be given | out in advance of a release from the other powers, is not hard to believe when it is remembered that the re- quests, of various departments of the United States government, notably the War Department, for copies, wer® re- cently refused. It appears terests government getting | the docu- | many is the beaten that have simply financial in- | the | its efforts to keep the | affair a secret. What the Senate can | do about it remains to be seen. W doubt that it will be able to do ‘any- thing, or, even proven that out in though certain that it should be | firms had the in- | will be possible to for the Certainly no law against a business fi formation, fix the upon it responsibility leak | there is | rm getting | n through any person. all of the information methods and it never that the methods were illegal. it c; legal will 1 proved The high cost of living has been in- vented sincé the day a prominent citi- zex could of hig pants without causing comment. wear a patch on the seat t hi ways anniversary or other bomb demonstrations. Mon- ay w<s the thirty-second anniversary | i ll An anarchist sayé tha i selects {for tribe al- some | January | Rhode Island “leak” |y, | from the government pay | Manchester Would Take Twenty-five Special Ses- sions to Ratify in Time, (By Marguerite Edwards.) June, 1919, seems destined the vote into the women—just han of American too late to make it of much effect in the of Navember, 1920. Why ? Because, to become effective, suffrage amendment to the constitu- tion must be ratified by 36 state legis- latures. : The last biennial session of the ma- jority of state legislatures convened in January, 1919, and adjourned a few weeks later—to meet no more until lfl:l——-“y month too late to let the ladies m"?n choosing the next resjdent Iif order to ratify {ge amendment in time for <‘rmuns at least 25 state governors the would have to sum- mon legislatures in special ses “sion! . The chances are that that will nat be dofe! Ag'a result, the women in the 23 states alleat» enjoying full presiden. tial suffrage as a result of state action, will be the only ones to participate in | the next national elections, while their sisters who have just attained vote by federal amendment—keep on waiting patiently. Five states, Maryland, Louisiana, Mississippi and hold legislative sessions in might be expected to give votes—except that they the “sdlid south,” the anti-suffrage sentiment reasonably Kentucky, Virginia, 1920, and 5 rati are all part of stronghold of and cannot be counted o nto.endorse the amendmet. Six other chusetts, states, New Georgia. Mass Jerseyy. New York, and South hold annual instead of biennial legis- to put national elections the the | ng | Carolina, ! lative sessions, and so might possilly hould the five southerr add six votes of ratification. But, even he six annual ession 1 state; states all and atify | the suffrage amendment their total of L1 votes would still leave twenty-five | The Women Who Won It! N } These ders deskerve the honor or bringing the vote to wamen Alove, left, M Chapman Catt, president of the Nation®l yum. icgan Woman's Suffrage Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, American suffragists, . leadership from Susa: B. Anthony, !and, right, Mrs. Maud Wood Par chairman of the suffrage congression- al committee. suffrage le: ic a Center, of ean inheriting They Pug,Up a Fight For It. The mititant ng of the suffrage party wagled by - the natfonal ' \'\om- an’s part¥gwho! picketedi-the White House andivent to jail for Left, below, Migs' Lucy Burns, s yith Miss Alice Pauln®Enter, f woman's parti.: Miss Maud right, chairman of thel tee, ®on many senato crmtre: of the 'sentencing of John Most of New York to jall for two vears for at- “tempting to incite revolution.~ Been a little more fitting if his name had been Al Most. The* Rhenish republic segins to be getting tHe diplamatic ha-ha. The jake was intended to be on the Allies mmj i Wall street is reported to be incens- ed over the treaty leak. It is too bad that aj] of the Lrokers were nat de- clared in on' the deal FACTS AND "FANCIES. It's an odd 'l‘lL]\ of fate that per- | mits one a the Atlantic when ‘man to ' veniure and be promptly rescued _ compelled to - alight on its stormiy surface while another is lost in the' “wilds” of Connecticut flying from Lee., M I.—Bristol Herald. 1h the cabiffet of Mexico's organized revolutionary Senor Villa is secretary cerding to zll accounts ought to make a change. across to Mineola,- L¥ newly government, of war. c- of him, he 200d one.—Ex- An Tllinois man has just received for a horse killed in 1864. , age any one who doubts the ultimate purposes of Uncle Sam to settle with his craditors.—Omaha Bee. “More Copper Ceitts Needed.” is the headlined repovt from Washington. Yes, and the widespread impression that the national capital is short common sense, ;}og.‘-—Bostolx seript. on, Tran- We suggest that the GGermans be no- tified that if they're not goi we'll set Sergt. York at 'em, again,*and let him finish up the job this time.— TUnion. It would be much easier for the young man's fancy.to execute its an- nual turning moygsent if there were more flats and €heaper rents.—Chica- 2o News. Tead also proves that .if there should be a ‘*‘next war” aerial trans- Atlantic raidswould be pretty surely a matter of course.—Springfield fiepub- lican . E Buttinski: 1 will meddle in. your affairs, can’t meddle in. ‘mine.— Post. Uncle words, but yvou Washington The Tc on, (Waterbury Republ The report of the aldermanjc com- mittee investigating the ice situation in Waterbury malkes it appear that the city ean do nothing to assure an ade- guate supply of ice for the people this summer. The chartgr, savs the report. does not permit the city to en- gake inwthe ice business, either by the establishment of a m\nxu]ml ice plant m city CwRnc re an necessity lic health. thore 1. pubs of health’ while - This ought to encour- | » It does not seem reasdn- able 1 no way can be:found for the city to come to the relief of thos who in all pr lity will haye-to go without e this summer unless the city. ac e e One' thing is_sure, and that is that the city must not be gaught in this situation ag@h after the next gession of the general assembly. The _city charter 'must be amended to Silaw ihe H city to make or sell ice i#self. Tt i g | sad comtmentary upon the ability of human beings to look out for them- selves if a large city must be depend- | ent upon the caprice of the weather for its ice. helpless? a H LABOR AND Réconstructions for a by Paul V. Kellos Gleason. CLAUDE's BOOK, Kelway-Barmber. 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Haggard “Being an account of the grea venture of Bastin, Beckley and buthnat “A thrilling Seas.” by H. story of South the [“ihat the libe profess to have have overlooked. rlooked by that they re culties in the triumph in democracy he particularly intereste iaar mines have been 'l;('l't s the lnl\im‘ Republic, (F royiflenge Journal.) 2 The Jdng expebted proclamation of a repubiic o\‘ 1he Rhine is nonydeliv- ered. The “good:German pggple” of the Rhineland Are. fired hyfithe new emotion of geif-déterminatién, and | hreathe the pRirggapifit of déinocracy. A free ar inflependenta® hiptiand | Wwill now address itsell to the or- ence af th the i gmnm\' that its boundaries he appffided and its ‘ nment vized: at of state. to pratect n‘b hereafter perpetuity from th Fman I Incidentally—n the Rhine re- yect e, relieved of | are of the penalties to Germany in- the dic- broken wi not It Ain o for terms., Wil that they ought to from the Rhine republic? It is unbelievable that Agere in g peace decree will b cious fispensation U created “autononii® Rhine Rerlin shows & £t the pr provine Anows—and sume that serland s, Ailing 4o biegesesc idea of_saving the Dieces 2Wiindrto put th ng he imp tated peace. H his spasm republic is fsat tondéd ut f super-virtiue in the | tears loubtedly countgh: ig four into con republic is to be Tecog ve tofpe 1 ion fLorrfo thrnw R L (13 qred ihces st §an ofith sinca these shoulds nofJ crimesiof Garmany pet ‘ohlenz Tet Pa in ep f & Gormas s for ti f together i the bhig four, taAnts stite “fake aful @ frauc } ‘mirsting inta wolt of these Rerlit knows, th Ge of F d. now i be q as < $ t gain, f‘the Ruine district—a consideration _loving people who now will not either, possession this rance for allotted to some periad to come in the peace | the, big four, v a line of tb a gra- nows » #a with the fath- rmany be as- of | new | will | the her son | taken suddenly The | and ist, it 1o after very practical purpose is attained The Saar coal fields afte embrag ,3‘ of saving so much of the German skin | a can be accomplished by such ruses. With the dragging out of the peace settlements, fresh manifestations of the ineradicable German genius for throwing dust accumulate. The in- dustry of German propaganda flo ishes, though the German war indu. try has gone into bankruptey. These revived efforts are not confined to the Rhineland. The good German people, for whom Mr, Wilson has said we should entertain sentiments only of sincere friendship, are strangely adept 1t reviving -the methods of the bad German autocracy everywhere. We are encountering them in Anier- 158 quired sion “to wws i %&m on b A %“ ‘tiad -upiil Shwiloge; 1 e or women' “‘ portance L&n { ! more give women' (H presqéntim.& primaties. 1 The grandss freely dpplau,cz\ independent of ment—are in trolling 263 electoral i “senting 25 staths of The suffrags amein be finally accepted by tongress ‘an the senate in 1919, was drafteds B Susan B. Anthony “in_ 1875 .gnd known as the Anthony sn_enc?menL It was first introduced®in the e in 1878 Sargent i5 Thirty time§ since it /has been imtr duced, and defeated or tabled. The, United States senate has on suffrage four ti Py ,&hfl 34 Tioes] apd ¥4, nHd T a0 by ’gnd BB butgite vote gD nantly clgsed, # % Whitever “the emilend Rhine’ republic may st Cplogne or Coblenz, or Maind reed he decetved *by it. In ture, it will Le the black flag ot many. The -allied armies . sthmdl V\Ill\jJ\ on the Rhine are not golng# be Withdrawn next week. The e®: ence of Pa W “proceed to p% .f s rightedus Apdgmeénts—and. & , make A umn more to this hoad gxasperal daily m demanded thi to éx?tsmn m e g fltncs* :md close mnl‘cal s\i@ § veillance afterwagdagl] fwitn the is wron ity By " dentsid sonalig ius di much e And more- af ETrows among the modern eol and be g paeo. with of collg umns. rious shortage. of petrole now menaces” the countr; second relates that oil (‘(fln% n competing actively for the 3 trade which South \me’rau ing for on account of. the % there due to lack of trangpo during the war. The firss grm fhat the supplies in-Ameriga are pretty well knowfi and ghét prol production iz now at i ax and will steadily decline.® T¢#* that England is trying to get co of the oil wells of Mexico and we know it we shall be i secon third. place in fusl and power | ica, where there -is already oy a move- ‘BShing ayr A ment on foot to of ‘the restore German langw schools. The other dag club in a Pennsylvant for the first time in its higt ident of neither German origin—the thousand sought to testify were Americans. 180 pe when the newlvfelected presideft{s went to' the: club’house he fbund the German flag flving oyer the roof. He tore it down, of tourse, declined the honor conferred upon him, and indig- i P i birt: members publiely L4t plies from oil instdad of in the 4§ nlace &s now It goes on to giden careless handimg, and “ag' imd- suggegts meAns of applying . fhelatest .econonny #a this zreat et §f; the ear The othér a “onpito descrihe the effqriss ers of thi% cetintry SnAFige, (o find a place to sell... iv tneet ‘eontrast. We. aré likely. " o)l we bave. and not “enough. We e%also trying. & as much. of wi w rapidly, as we 1 it..«