New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 8, 1919, Page 6

€ New Britain Herald. PUBLISHING Proprictors. HERALD COMPANY, Issued daily (Sunday excented) at 4:15 p. m, at Herald Building, 67 Church St. £3.00 a Year $2.00 Three Months. 76¢c a Month. Entered at the Post Office at New Britalin as Second Class Mail Matter. TELEPHONE Business Office .. Editorial Rooms . CALLS The only profitable advertising medium In the clty Circulation books and press room always open to advertisers. Member of the Associated Press. Associated I'ress is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news credited to it or not otherwlse credited fn this paper and also local news published herein. The GOV, HOLCOMB OPPOSES LEAGULE, Governor Marcus H. Holcomb of the State of Connecticut, in a lefter to Henator Brand oe has expr <00 himself as in accord that gentieman's to the remember being complefc with statement in 13 Brandegee regard Licague of Nations. M. that until we rightly would STl the it has publicly explained he not the He party moment the We have information as to the status of skating | Hell, but devil not vote for L. e froze over." also Republican W canie the stands for League no 1 in as far as we know the is yvet peddling it that Senator ice creamt | the all Na- cones, 5o we take neither Governor nor the are at anxious to support the League af That might posed from other matter in the corre- the subject the tions. reasonably be sup- spondence on without allusion to the alleged continual heat. The threat of the two to leave the Republican ranks, should lacation of it back the League, positive that plans. is proof with The spectacle of they disagree covenant the expiring mammaoth, symbolic of Ih( Republican party, after these trainers its with the blood to alone, two had left of unfealty faithful teais and nearly converts us to skepti- dying side, Jjavelin drawing from its heart, moves us cism where the league is concerned. They the animal Its kind rewafded Surely these two must be right. Thave had too much fram to thus leave it in the lurch. treatment cannot be by de- sertion on the part of its henefactors, 1t is a well known fact, though, that the elephant has a thick skin. the expre tlemen, Mayhbe on of the two clderly gen- | one of whom borrowed the streects to express his convietion, which has proval by has the questionable colloquialism of since been ziven unqualified will ap- the other, be unable to of harbed pene‘rate the outer layer protect- with their thick ive covering words. Possibly the skinned one has his made up that the League never receive his support. well with the world and Connecticut. We need our two stand- mind already will all State 1f so the not | | | is | | of | future of pat the Their declining years will be spent of the fruits of their efforts to conciliate the animal. There fcar for the leaders from Nutmeceg State. in the enjoyment is, as we said, Hell freezing contingency to be feared no immediate prospect of over, and the only is the pos, bility that the Republican party might belief in Jumbo. to old It decrepit be converted TSt poor hard, hard, life present condition to . hear that two of your supports will be knocked from However, the gentlemen have committed them- can z but support the It must be a blow, in L.eague. is, was a your under you. selves; we do naught offer sympathy should League. Your day. you the You were a fine old brute in BEER ON TAP. New Britain liquor dealers have fol- lowed the lead and Country of others in the State and have opened thei places of business for the salc of hecrs and light wines, though most of them are “not attempting to handle the wines. Beer, however, is again nhmm-‘ able after a drought of about a week. "his is not news to the thirsty. There need of list the that are open. They have al- is no retailing a of chaps ready been found and have again col- lected liberal a patronages Still the rages., No one yet knows where we are in the whirl | aof near have liquor uncertainty prohibition. bheen Saloon keepers | arrested July 1 heen | What to do with them | are apprehended all ! imporiant question. Most of the deal- ers, however, are undisturbed in thei: vending of Whatever for selling hard | liquors since —and have allowed to go. after they is the beer. the g¢. customers have found | satisfying than the goods alway praportion of alcohol in the bever it far drink sweetest zone soda Stolen and are the fact that beer sales | frowned Yet sponsible are upon, been though they illegal, deal of temptation =0 have not proven is re- for The out and get a glass of the stuff, now that isn't a great the drinking. 10 supposed overwhelming of to be =sold, is more The appeals to than ever hefore. element uncertainty many. The have tained counsel, are evidently satisfied saloon keepers, who re- that if they are arrested there will not be a heavy fine imposed upon them. Anticipatian of a stiff penalty was all that kept them c¢] ed. Quite natur- ally they had no desire to break the law, but are they breaking it? Congress has not yet done anything in regard to the situation. Neither has A the the President. minority report hrought before House by four of the committee Prohibition it the -judiciary War grounds members Time that conditions objects to bill on legisle the is new ition and that do not warrant the passing of the act. They aud be repealed. The not vet believe that it argument on the subject has taken place though it is daily predict- injunction Walker has . hecause o a ed. In California an taken Hines, been out against railroads, of transportation director company refus He case, one merely beer. the Washing- ton explains, as the matter of inter- state {ransportation of liquor has been left The argument here “What to transpart figurehead in test {o local decision. hinges on the question, is intoxicating liquor? The state of intoxication is extreme- to define Absolute well known Iy hard tion nized. There are many who claim that after had If this are guilty is and ly recogzg- a man intoxicated he has one glass of beer. can be break it proved the dealers ot But if Two and thiree-quarters heer may that ing the law. we doubt can. cre- For matter, so Whi brings ahout a greater reaction in pro- There is question before the United States and of there no anxious ate a reaction. does sugar. ey undoubtedly portion to the bulk. a that it. the Jjoke it all s onc to solve THI: COUNCIL OF DEFTENSE, of House committee to prohe the conduct of the Chairman Graham, the vesterday of with war, opened his campaign when he ized the action the Tresident National relations the hf of ignored in his The United the law Council Defens “secret government the States,” so it is said, conditions which He of the were supposed to act merely ift an ad- control were that who and instituted absolutely lawless. declared the seven members body, visory capacity, were ziven while the cabinet members who supposed to be in charze were rele- to the scrap-heap. These dictated all war legislation, said the Congress- He sated civil- ians policies and man. cited Goetha and h leged action in obtaining supplies for there were nore of tHc an at- army camps, where hy practical Naturally before, defiance council, he made tempt taking 2 up the “Decr Pecpul’ by ‘R line fall council to onut of ~ Busincs: which the was ipposed to have befriended. Mismanagement was present, in the and the supply both, the Navy de- of There Army, and that. ack of knowledze was in partments at home, abroad. is no doubt of An appalling evidence on all sides. Despite this the Congressiman had better look to spe- cific cials charges against government and individua on the i macde. makes ou general state- he We all that many units lacked in ecssentials of We before he men as has know would like We life and fighting. whose fault it wa are not 11 know satisfied with generalizations. (Fen- eral Goethals succeeded by hlankets congratulated. that in to he does action army a getting to that canmp is he why prove It first the Council that to was illegal? is charged the commission’s move was mect manufacturers and the Zovernment. with to for delivery of their supplies to could ? Ma- It sold, the Where else the government get the supplie, out the them of thin air? that its own terialize was charged commission to that have Was the civilians, manufactures and We of there. sclf as a government board profiteering was the result. hold If hlame. something to get there profiteering? there was Council was to The draft declared My, act was discusscd hefore war was and plans formed for it, says Graham. The draft act was the reasonable solu- tion wasn't it? Acts took place bhehind doors We plans closed which not were made public. supposc that a have through of our war should been given to the enemy publishing them broadcast in Congressional Records. The Council Mr. what was high-handed, sayvs But Cabinet Graham. Granted, say we. else could it do? The members were Why there was anyone available who knew not ziven their attention. should they bhe? more of the bjcct than they did why 2y Tt all investigation, should they he deferred fo is peanut politic this S0 far Get down to ca vestigation fn Congres I’rove intent. your to government., assertions that there was cheat and defraud the I’rove that one man, or several, profit- ecred. Then we are with you. Meanwhile it might be well to con- vince us that know what are if Herbert, yYon It you about. be fitting that whem talking might You prove the civilian Hoover, to the President e his job tood did et it there or did he ignore the it was possible to supply the suffering district? Ever since the writer saw food control, mismanaged There was not everywhere, Ihe do his best to need when a member intoxica- ! Knotty | were | formulated | offi- | Council | to | summary But | arrange | What of it? | proper | lie s with your in- | of the House Navals affa committee sidle up to one of the officers of a ship and ask naval him “what those marks on a officer’s tremely sleeve meant” he is ex- skeptical of the Congressman We i Congress could affairs better than we would that it cising its In general. doubt very much have managed they were managed, and like to see some indications is doing otherwise than it prove stop generalizing. exer- lungs when criticizes. There is one way to it. State cas PEAC I stood one bridge, Like God, above And underncath Against Stout To AND WAR morning on a4 Mmisty the maon the current of tugs puffed on, haul the heavy high with coal. on the other tories engines, Wwhite, Darkened o g3 turmoil, toiled in peace. the Seine almost in arges, vain, loaded i And shore great fac- 1 I And breathing black and the misty air into a denser rom out train gray mals Guns drawn zuided tall, men all in blue mist. ! Sitting erect Stiff with the the mi of zur and slender, there came & 3 All like young ani- by gyt horses men, short, and and hy Men But men bearded, mingled with the upon the caissons, pride and of Which cach man, half ashamed, Hides in his decpest heart, Refore the column the BEpright ity white taches, And hard as justice on hi horse. Then, & passed Beneath the arch into the thick mist, left behind the monotone men call peace. LEWIS in love war rode colinel, bristling nius- arcat white one by onc, the sleek guns sray Anid That of toil BROMFIELD, New York Times. FACTS AND ; Doctor | mands to Kaiser. We »disappointed but won't he is Kansas FANCIES. Bethmann-1 be tried in should in itgsuit him tried n his City @tar. follweg de- place of the ex- hate him little particular, just as well if own account ?— to see any The former crown ! havg heen goifused by spondents ,"\\nh one fiel@ Republican. primce zecems to corre- Finnigan, — the in one. same. shows cnse two words of alcoholic of them -Bo:ton ie o .hihl@n‘ that “‘Hru ¥ are y'banned’” {arc a ilowed to be pTranscript. coming while none pro- “harre best be bich citizenship cr. for her da finds Germany will tn Philadelphia that sirable | I'ublic restored de- Ledg \ e — . - 1 The Kingiof FReigium the United Siatc but will not tempt to'advise or instruct us garding the gopernment of the 1 States. is (o, visit at- re- nited Shoe &nd Leather Reporter. If the goveriiment ing ships at the rate. will seon be one antd use them {or houseboats pend summers going mily Lin its own shm.‘—.\'k vlosopb.(};vzcnc. keceps nt apiece, on bhuild- there we pre can or abroad, evep ! If the German; government obtainsg $1.000,000.000 or so, in an cffort to force down food { real results are te be looked for. { doubt the high cost of living in H much to with the really to use prices, No Ger- has ocial many do unrest We can’t mg of { hrave quit® see how the 3ritish sflags hurn- under which Irishmen Shave won honor is | Roing 1o help the jcause of Irish free- dom. But Dublin''s point view is { often a mystery. Brooklyn of lZagle. What shall it profit man if his | cellar bulges with and he not able to escapejythe tax gatherer? | Assessor Burke says that is likely j to levy on this new {orm of liquid as- sets. Suffalo ]';xprnf India, it is said, Will deveiop her oil resources with Asherican e and methods. The gentlemen | persuasive speech and attractively lengraved certificates will he | strolling down the road to Mandalay. -—8t. Louis Post I'Nsp;{;‘l‘h» A booza is he machin s00n and Farmers, (New York Wiprld.) lietters pusporting to, come f[rom | farmers of the wheat stdtes are del- uging congress to such any extent that Chairman Gronna of the genate com- L mittee on agriculture is ialready al- most moved bring in a{ bill to re- { peal the law guaranteein 6 bushel the wheat-zrowed e with { of wheat who ietter behalf to uncertainty. price. Farmers to to big arifies such ress 1l,~n his own ertaifnty for an g real farmer in hand asking con change The guaranteesy to him admittfed that by prlanting evefy hefore, crop a is | a price o { big this more Now Tt He the hig profits. ha would { acres to wheat than that the greatly enlarggfd acreage has brought an unprecedegpited yield, he i= thus by his own ;‘rdn'n:s:um in the | way of reaping thefhig profits. and | the government hafS bound itself to | hand those profits #ver to him as his crop is marketed.s Ts 1t at the mong ingathering of tk he case o ent of this assured huge profits that {he average wheft-grower wauld put the profferefd of fortune hesiege conggress {turn him ainties of a @hicago- away fatness and over to the uncen, made market? Those horny- and harvesters who congregate in the Chicago wfheat-pit have had no chance for som years to make and unmake a whe¥at crop, with prices 1o suit, ten tim@s oveér in a season. There is vet tim& for them, with the government zuawfantee removed. firs to douhble the esiimated harvest of to handed most planters do of ! i and way as } 1919 and put then to halve it and put up against the starving of well the overburdened down, prices Kurope Anmerican prices way as consumen Are ‘thes spontanecous letters 1o the 5e congress cxpression of farmers scattered half the United Stalces, of who teoil and sweat within the Chicago Board of Trade? over or farmers Daylight Must Be Saved. (New FFrom several quarters there are be- ginning to come, with a vigzor constant- 1y increasing protest against abandon- ment of the daylight-saving plan. The repeal the law which half permit- ted and half compelled the setting ahead of all our clocks in Summer was ceffected in at all well derstood of congress, at the it met anything like, or ! proaching, a majority of the American the fraction of them that presented arguments haste of the they did York Times) of a way not un- outside least for demand did not certainly come from ap- people, and dil weals make that the to take the tinctly mysterious. Nobody thinks that the men corrupted. but impression, if not a suspicion, hind the visible movement there was invisible pulzion power that been destroyed instantly That howeve lichted—-should eleclncity?—{hat ing it is not ter is the ing about rather the = ple: of workars and inflicted The hardships ous only in the distributers impoertant cla not clas enot gh Lo men and women of the extra da coma2 to value gardeners also h an inconvenience crievance. for his S0 lawmalkers dis- action was were there is that for repcal power of pro- have revealed dimly or concern- Ret- to bring- repeal, or a law that multitudes professions only a few. the serfe producers They form doubt, but an he- an woulid if is ay by conjecture promising of re devotion of energy the of the re-cnactment of proiil to all on rezion, R0 one < aels <ult s, rcpeal ve and ure n almost hardship Pi case of roached of milk. without either important warrant almost innnmerable light they have 0 Market they than the and an it Jarze is or depriving hour highly. complain, hut rather ve a the raising staple ‘ Crops, arguments against daylight zaving are convincing only to himmself, vet to prove that he can- his operations exactly will “armer he has not conduct he did in th: ance his time schedule for work by cinzle hour ut his men, he not like that: they want free the village when other workers it. They not be that; sire. and as past, if only he ad- a says, do time in have hlamed for innocent cverything subordinate ire to natural and ut few of us have us, and most of us small personal preferences to the gen- eral welfare. it's a de- to suit Influenza’s 1High Mortality. (New York Times) Alvah H. Doty knowledge and contributes to the current The. New York Medical Rec- article caqually interestihg and on right dealing with from oxX- writing long 1R his large perience, issue of ord an imbortant methods able and conymunic- health He of dizenses, especially by boards and as his last presents, other public officials text, leading illustra- pr influenza epidemic, explanation fact that country at a of high nervous with reduced eating in cereals that are not >n innocuous substitutes appreciably reduced the of practically our uses or tion, of its the in the this and high feetion in- time mortality, to vears came when several tension, combined a diet and the able quantitie general consider- of adequate or | for resisting arhole population. That the influenza especially numerous camps, he vilidity of this he surprising only that of the being cxemplars and strength, and wheat, powers deaths were in training not impugn the and it snould those unaware recruits. far from of youthful health wer under-nour od They were accepted service, for what for what made exercisce, our insists, oes theory, to many anaemic, military were when he for not drafted, but and were intlligent life The cpidemic change had been the mortality hig A many is up at dark, 1] H they they could by and came cood " fond, {an outdoor i o the naturally hefore and camps has effected, in the mystery that G S not lcast rendered wae e puzzled whally much cleare loss The New Council. (Bridgeport Post.) Having made main peace Wilson, 1Lloyd Ge tiNel o the the of terms lreatly, the tbig five,” menceau Orlando, and the now " ipan, remaining with representa- have turned over making to the new council treaty foreign ministers and five is formed. The United will represented tate This The Colonel House have only added the re dir because he, the repre of this democ- had commission people. Secretary lLansing through a of States in bhy this council Secrctary a choice. would sentment in he of Lansing. is wise selection of to many ctions as active ‘ntaiive noe dirccet from the has such confirma- a commizsion, the St Rrit representative Minister Arthur J. the men of Britain, a and although in { tion The Forcign one in pher, by nate. will be Balfour, of his times statesman philoso- lacking ASRTCSEIVEe- | noss ance will have fittin “the tiger.” French min has been date. Signor Tittoni He of the formed bhecause able all gard IFinme. character Italian 1 steps the fighting Pich- to Clemenccau, Pichon the He to on. a successor Stephen er of Clemenceau's is foreign affairs. assistant will new the [taly He is a of for Ttaly. Ttalian cabinet other was wanted in re- man of strong the ablest of the He he already indicate that the far from settled represented by the very but ~ery statesmen who cured for Japan”all it wanted out the treaty with Germany-—R: { Makino or Viscount Chinda. Other than in a zeneral way, Japan will not appear is not to get fo one aders, s which dispute | Japan wil | or the oiher taken IFinme is he of astute,j one two quiet, aron congress-- i \ ) { i wrong | the | {aull | the V'ycars, { of relations even be the doings of much concerned with this new council. The 'membership of this hodw is No doubt And® it be, for the great leaders departed have left it most complicated questions decided No one make Treaty will menths succeeding | strong about it. | neeec | who some yet should making to come, unless The Balkan to have 10 of the 1o be | | | for any roing all problems the - peace i | o | { | | | he on signs are wirong. alone furnish enough of the world centuries. disturb as they to again, have Anyhow It Was Net Fraternizine. York Times.) gencral admission: there for tastes. and even who considerations some (New no the By is accounting monarch which for never recorded—is holding the record cluded the way as among the for curious still for a man things he It probably would thercfore, to indulge why many soldiers reason were credited as wisdom n with a maid couldn’t he wa of a ite in con- | in the stationed have fair plain of jecture part of the since the engaged their That terious who, not the tediums German man villages. full how tempting distraction these distraction which ordinary charms, world alluring military time <0 American armistice, in themselves to vicinagze. they have donc indeed to distant having had of idle months towns duller cannot to would the places offered 1 in addition to 1t recoznized potent was made existence arm, Germany marry the of new mys obsorvers =0 scems with ed in Ger- the I onl expericuce pas and realize he the of a forbidding its enjoyment 1t well may that if had not been threatened pains and penalties if they fraternized with the native population*they would have remembered better various emplifications of Gern that the world Wad and would have inclination for the establishment closer than fraternal wonmen so, 1o them and the was over, more by the stern law oldier he oul with divers ex- an character in recent had little or has no with young thoroughl) must Coblenz scctor. there, and it was tions in matters always are, and now authority confessing obedience and mission to take home with brides they have sclected. The chances that they will sooner or later for it was ‘‘frater- that was forbidden, would have to be siretched the breaking to of a alien as. were, those living in But resented distinctly the rebels their sking them always be the Dban as prohibi- personal against are dis- of orders per- the are 1hip nization" that word far beyond cover the winnin and point wife. Battle, Sun.) After (New the York up o coupled it "he circumstances leading vesterday's ecvent in with that peculiar made plain these = 1 That in spite complaint about a cilities in this Jand ditional persons ¢ Toledo struggle truths thr housing 100,000 ~cat of gencral fia- jack of nearly s n contained in ¢ity the normal population of whit hi 180,000, Yo hat the belief that folks are pay the butcher, the mahogany candlestick make men and women planked down 310 ta $100 apiece hot nine minutes’ diversion. 3. That the accomplish the of appearing heavyweight championship to be fought in his state same time of permittir it 4. That greater interesl the ordinary mortal in the physical | of two living creatures | {han he exhibits toward the cour of the planets through the ether o | ward riddle of existence ! the chances of like Mr. Willard voulth of 14 and that we have new resembling in ferocity and tion the late Messrs, Sullivan Tto the Hox e crown and the income that the Kking collcets, of the prevalent hard pre to baker and the 520,000 in face sed from for scats for zovernor of Ohio could impossible that a attle was and ot ta is soeming feat to vegret on z0 a shown | b conflict large or the 5. That aged man hardened a middle | to beat a | hopeless, ! champion, | defermina- and Mc Dempsey of of wWAas a Govern. zoes the £100.000 heavyweights usually Some 50,000 210 or seat of minds horrow who matched and matching of fists still was up to yvestenday's one a vear day may more (we persons pay to see n the phrase lost), is- matching from the at least a one hut or sided assault the more popular sport Who Republican) Chivalry Toward Women Worlk. (Waltcerbury Women are beginning (o be ham pered by the spirit of chivalry that civ- ilization has built up their tion. Perhaps that why thex fighting against it. 1he unthinking men who had to regard chivalry fostoresd Womer New York railvay threatened will forbid women are the lose for is to protec are wonder of been trained | as something to be conductors on the ! bein that The hting line are bill nights he it Regarding hy a legislat their working reported bill their to ma ke the no , against becau vill them jobs night reat state that evil in associations. in mood The arduous lighter take care themselves thank the to leti Rul the public and legis- | and of | by work they 1gre is environ- report physical condition, amount ol ther and \es ment They ! themse in zood with | work thes day work They a4 happy and plrased night than at their work find as traflic is able would the nizht ave of well 1o and publie them lators chivalrous the work, enacting their alone. insist on heing sympathetic nothing woman Knowing the that and, “protect’ lezislation takes away | jobms. Sceemingly They Disagreced, (New York Light, but not leading the always interesting subje of o he deriyved of Willard's wife | Dempsey’'s mother the result fight hetween the men in Mes, Willard said that, while sOrTry hushand was de- glad of it. too championship to de- a private eiti- cshe would “he § Times.) regards fem - inine from and oft the Taledo. was psychology, is the comments on fwo she her feated. she now. having fond, he would zen again and was fQl no hecome he and abl mo ed his joy cmoj on lear to In ciat wol 1ioy like fan g v n pic of ah o a th ag