New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 19, 1919, Page 6

pUBLISHIN COMPANY. ? prietors. Surta at 4:15 ..2“;&;\& Buil bfi.mgh\n—oh sty it or not phpet and. »;n-m adyy oi{to&,e nurl Fof trains on the w E‘nen To: erady and the statds ¢hat trat- will again benormaly % WRA o | week is. res::sunna- tq n it daeq, dqgne * about ‘aportatmn huestum i bad u basis of Prises for ¢ VAT rclgm and “passéngers ™ B@istrict may’ again A eascdt. prigitetion adin ’\ acturing - 'Hrlng \progress. iet, as ng)s ut,op the munu‘ g concern thatiwe base all of ot tence. "The railroad men have, in umnds, the furthering of ‘our ‘,work or its frustration. Their ¢ to soclety is greater, just now, that of any other class of labor, pital, for that matter. [ While we are loaking forwagd to in- ed pioduction by the use of ex- e offorts and anticipate with ure the fraits of labor, which we “ eventually reap, there is a specter ‘the feast of unity, a spectér-that las more in his power than any capi- filist or group of capitalists. The ost is ‘the uncertainty of the tem- of the He has, idently, not gained a raise in wages, it obtained his desires. We assume ‘as there has been no statement ldemands gragted. Meanwhile wo nder whit he is planning to do, or much he is going to ask when he ih gaes ‘out, when he iS going to Uncertainty here robs our toil “its value, makes us hesitate to ceed. Literally theé railroad Work- Fmay take the from our ouths. Will he try bhievement of his {ds? This question should be settled | ay; it will have to be n go on with our waorl our railroad man. bread to do so for the own personal a decisive v Pfore we ag § want our just Does the iy, besides his own? [ The cost of living Por's excessive demands is another. 3y man, providing that he is capa- of producing a fair day's work at job which may fit him, deserves to able ‘ta buy necessities and a fair Rount of luxuries. We will all grant jat. But a class of labor is no more lerving of all of the returns than capitalist is, and if that class en- iVors to hold up labor for the result fits work it will soon become gteast in society. LIf the railrodad man is getting less A he deserves, 1éss than it costs him b live and enjoy life, let him get ore. We, the rest of labor, will giye to’him. But let us reach an under- inding with. him now, under- hding that will be lived up to. Let B give him what he deserves, if he is it getting it, and figgre frogn that our s'and our returns. Also let us be red that there will be no further fouble frem him in order that we fay not have to figure upon the un- nty of Hisustock in trade when s ave setting a priee upon our goods. ittle the railroad question now; until is settled, finally, we have v the future. returns from railroad man want is one thing. an an no hopes POPULATION COSTS. *Forty years.ago I onum buy eggs @ flve cents a dozen,” is an expre: ‘that has become familiar to us in g ‘discussions of the High Cost of | ng, held frequently of late. The @beard of the family delights Jdn the past when food prices are related. He will tell tales that iy make our mouths w The ent issue of the Manufacturers’ ord has a few remarks to make Wt conditions then and now that interesting. One of the reasons the increase in prices is pointed being ‘the shifting of the popu- from the country’to the city, the ranks of producers to thosé Snon-producers, fromr a food stand- Bint, jarne paper points out thebe facts, Ich we will put into our own words P breyity's sake. Tn 1880 tHe popu- g of this country of ours was in ghborhood of MAfty million. LAND FOOD | to ter. | states had the prohibitfon FAct at an early date. food of the ;fhe?' fifteen million and raising some for'themselves besides. Is it any wondeér that there was a sur- plus of supplies, with consequent lower prices? In 1910 the rural population was 53.7 per cent. of our total population, and the Record states that, in 1920, the uroportion dwellers to countrymen will probably is to fogv. About forty per of our total number of peoples will' live in the country and produce foad for the sixty per cent. in the city which is dependent on the farm labor. Isd#t a c for wonder thag there is a shol'lagc‘of supplies, with"a conse~ quent rise in: prices? of city be as si . cent. use 8? The balance between farm Jabor and ity labor has not Leen kept and un- it is restored by the attractions ming life there syiil be a grad- BLincreasing le. AThe. price of R zo up, and with\it the price ufactured goods wirl\yyhich to buy its food. Even a¥ghat, is ‘a vocation toward snoroJReus must drift, though it proml frem the country to the\ than the re- " héreasing rather _influence in in- e the price of food, profiteering heen a factor. .But with con- B dition fiike\the above it was inevitable Fehat there would be inereased prices anyhow. We are concerned with this side’of the subject at present. There has been a’steady decrease i the amount of crops raised, while “there has been “an increase in the population. That the increase in pro- duction has pot kept step with the in- crease in populdtion is proved by the comparison of the wheat crop the Mumber of people in the United States. The increase in population 1912%to 1919 ten per.cent. of the total——we are short 728,000,000 bushels 6f wheat this year as compared with 1912. If our pro- duction had kept pace with the popu- lation we would have had a gain, this vear of 562,000,000 ?.)ushels. The loss, it is readily scen, is over a billion bushels of wheat, over what we should have to keep prices where they were in 1912 and fill the demand. The Record furnishes us with an in- teresting set of figures. There is but one answer to the difficulty, and that is the reversal of the tide of humanity from the farm to the city. We do not presume to be able to suggest how this is to be brought about. Unléss the higher and higher prices of farm products.attract labor to the country there is little relief in prospect, ex- cepting the short-lived one that may be brought about by of the profiteer. o from was ceriainly the elimination STATUS OF PROHIBITION, of the first states to take local action on the liquor dquestion, Nebraska, has recehtly de- cided, through a district court that the ratification of the Eighfeenth Amendment by the legislature of that state does not express the will of the people and that the voger, himself, is the only one who has the right to pass upon the question. ' A referen- dum vote will be required in the state, if the ruling of the court is observed. Thus the fight of the “wet” interests begins to take shape. From ' court to court, the case of the referendum will be fought, providing there is the least hope of proving that legislative action does not set the stamp of ap- proval upon a law passed by Con- gress. Connecticut would see no such fight even if it had ratified through the legislature. drawn, THE One a purely Its constitution is so as we understand it, that it would be hopeless to try and prove that it was bevond the powers of the representatives to ratify. But there are numerous states in which, it is id, it will be possible to force the issue o a vote of the people rather than leave it with the legislatures. Should it be determined that a referendum was necessary in a large, number of the states the liquor ine terests may be able to secure a post- ponement of the Prohibition law until such a time as a sufficient number of ratified through its voters to insure the approval of Congression- al action. Referendums take time and it is upon this that the interests are counting. What the outcome will the results of the concerned is not a great deal question. There are enough states now dry, ignoring the War-Time Pro- hibition, which be as far s referendums is a of a have been placed in columns votes of the people to make the enforcement of the Iighteenth Amendment more or less certain, ultimately. Unless the voters who by have already decided to enforce local prohibition reverse their decision on national there will by voters a matter be the ratification themselves. Adyocates of the selling of alcohol in its most attractive form are watch- ing the President with a great deal of interest and conjecturing upon his release ,of the War-Time Prohibition Demobilization and will W& were fifty miliion, mguths to “with'the” products of ;the 'farm. is population there were 70.5 per is progressing soon be over. The first of November™has been set as the date for complete demobiliza- tion of the army and it has been fore- | told that the Mars would again be al- lowed to open until the Eighteenth withe 1S A It T 13 AIN DALY HERALD, TUESDAY, AUGUST 19, 1010, Amendment is effective. We are not discussing the advisability of opening for the short time be- then and the first of Januar though it app¢ars to us that it will be useless for such a short time, but the possibility of a longer opening he- fore the Eighteenth Amendment may be emforced. Should the fight to ratifica- tion to the people in one-half of.the states of the Union be successful and the War-Time Act he lifted thé fipst of Novempber' we will period of wetne the galoons tween carry probably see a of a year or so. The courts will drag the case out for that length of time. Should {he rati- fication be left to the people and the | voters in present dry districts rever their opinion8 there will be no pr hibition. But this is doubtful. We do believe that there will be a period | of litigation wherein the saloon-keep- may profit. Nebraska's d is er ision is but a forecast of further same character. ones of the Many of us know where our meal is coming from—but it’s an un- ugually Wise man who knows where he can get h next g S0 ki Senator Reed say suftering from shell ble with the Missour can't tell shell-shock f game.—New York World. nation is The trou- s that he rom shell- The ent painters’ strike makes it possible for parents who have = boy with talert to advise him to be- come a painter instead of an arti Wall Street Journal. 1t ‘s not expfained how the pro ed embargo ¢cn arms for Carranza will help himgto put down the bri ands and guerriilas; meanwhile the United States js sending arms to Kol- | chak, vrhose couniry is in worse dis- order than Mexico.—Springfleld pu?:lu-:m. Re- Restoration of peace betwecen Great | Britain and Afghanistan is a good thing, esoecialiy for Afghanis Montreal Geaaette. is obviously re o give for as much | hington Star. Part of the caused by . gener: litgle return as pcs mboney 1s possible.—W o | kifg British But | over there, | i i England’s the people “to probably urges libor and to lot of people like 1 lot of people over here, emerge from the war period without the slightest inclination either to labor ox save.~—New Orleans Times-Picay- une. It is a humo government ow would “cut the cost of livirg. McAdoo should write a scenario o it for his Gistinguished client, Char- ley Chuplin.—St. Lovis Globe-Demo- er ous suggestion rership - of that More Out of Work. | The fields are dappled brown, gone (Bridgeport Population at th. jail in this city is rapidly declining, according to Sheriff Simon Pease. At present there are only 83 prisoners; one year ago there were 171, At that time there were 30 women inmates of the il; now the are but two. Thus is another great American in- dustry declining—the industry of | housing poeple in jail and supporting | them at the public expen More of | the baneful results of prohibition, of | course—and the infringement of | people’s personal liberty to go to jail. MID-AUGUST. e i Spiders are spinning their I hear pears falling, Birds are still; ‘yesterday They were singing and calling. webs, Grapes are swelling now, Globes of silver green, Their leaves lie close, but the Slips in between. sun Thera’s a blue haze in the air, A butterfly’'s questing flight Leads wheve petunias bloom, Crimson and mauve ana white, Goosenecked poppies are dead— They have had their fiaming hour. Marigold buds are green Ve wait for the yellow flower. The goldiinch sits like a jewel | By dried hollyhock seed The wayside is adorned With vivid weeds. fled t with hay that spills e bav And sw Clover. distilled. | | August's a quiet time. | Do you Iear pea Cicada s 211 ds And at nightfall Thev katydid’s sharp c1 Prophetic, calls the hou: Of bins for the fruit L} And deatl: for the flewer. 2 LOUE DRISCOLL, —in the New York Times. 25 YEARS AGO } (From the Herald of that Date) Iks is soon to b A_number who lodge reside in will have a A branch of the E started in this cit belong to Hartford New Britain and" they lodge here shortly. Officers Lee, Hellberg and Bamforth dropped into William 1. Martin's cigar store on Main street about o'clock yesterday afternoon and found nothing but some glasses and few empty beer bottles. Professor Marcus White, of Nor- wich has been elected principal of the Normal school here at a salary of 500 for the first vear. M. 'C. Swift, of Lake strget, has to Block Island for an outing John Sullivan, of Beaver street, spending his vacation at Block Island. John Burns was injured this after- noon at the new building which is being:erected at the Stanley Rule and Level.factory The following New B were registered at New yesterday: G. W. Corbin, C. J. White, Stewart House; Parsons, Windsor Hotel. John Kerin is spending his vacation at Block Island. National Happenings. Big battle pending—Iifty Japanese uts killed by Chinese—100,000 troops ordered out by Chinese govern- ment—Japanese returning from all over the world to take part in the fighting. rly 22,000 idle—Greatest Ic out of textile operatives ever known— IPall River’s important industries par- alyzed. Aur drive trict. Carnegie company plate frauds reported the house— Confessions made by the superinten- dent and other officials proved— lates on certiin ve: to be re- tested. a st 1in peovle York hotels Denis Hote!; o281 & ousted—The Spanish of the Bluefields d sailors them out guilty—Armo to fatter With Tex: Journal Courier.) wit and wisdom of a What's the 3 (New Hav, Obviously t} l | Texan Williamy* Allen, White is need- ed to return an answer to this per- plexing inquiry. It will bé, remem- bered that Mr. White gained his nax tional reputation as an observer by answering the question: “What's the matter with Kansas?" Texas Is a citadel of democracy: Her power was pivotal in the conven- tion which nominated Mr. Wilson at Baltimore. Colonel Edward M. House comes from Texas. Postmaster Gen- eral Burleson comes from Texas. Former Attorney General Gregory comes from Texas. The entire feder- al administration is colored—we al- most said weighted—with Texan blood. And yet Texas is miserable. She does not like the administration at Washington. She not only finds fault with the policies of the admin- istration itself but charges that the democr representation in the halls of feder legislation is poisoned with international socialism. She looks at the pictures of Jefferson, Jackson, Tilden and Cleveland and weeps, and then swears. Her heart goes out to these stout defenders of the doctrine of democra: and she wants it re- vived. One faction seeks relief by the organization of a new party to be known as the ‘““American Party."” Another factfon, headed by that trained high stepping democratic war horse Joseph Bailey, formerly United States senator from that state, has adopted far its slogan “Old Time Democrats.” The fact that disfatis- faction with things as they are at Washington is common to them both will lead to their consolidation, and in that there is misery for those who still believe that a democratic pick- pocket is more to be trusted in of- fice than a republican church elder. We must say the South is behaving badly during these days which hering in, the eve of the next ! democratic nominating convention. Texas is not the only state below the Mason-Dixon line that appears to be suffering from political indigestion. 1f we watch her more careful than the others, it will be because she is already organizing in revolt. ti Grand Opera Out of Doors. York World.) 30,000 (New to the range from the Estimates 40,000 attendance for perforn “Ajda” Saturday evening at Sheepshead Bay. At either it demonstrated that as people can be brought out' to and opera in the open as-to witnes baseball game between highly popular teams. The rush to Sheepshead is not to be accounted for wholly by the details that reai soldiers marched for Rhadames, that ther was a real elephant in the triumph céne and that the chorus was the largest of record. Saturday evening's event was in the large, one of a number of affairs of local enterprise going to show that New York has befome a city well es- tablished in appreciation = of the possibilities af its out of doors. Its open places, it has learned, are fine as well for cultural diversions as for sports. Hence the popularity of the nights of music in the City College tadium and of the band concérts on the green at Columbia university. Hence too theefreshened interest in in the parks—an interest the city fathers will do well to encourage. It is presumably true that the g light saving device has been of use in promoting the popular apprecia- fion of out-of-door performances. Under the new dispensation of sum- mer-time the after-dinner interval has become for the many a period more than ever worth while, more than ever full of possibilities in help- ful good cheer. If nothing more had been accomplished by the act than the broadening of the love and the' opportunities of the open, the sotting forward of the May-to-October clocks still would be justified. as to ance of sigure many hear was | doctrines. COMMUNICATED. THE SAVING MARGIN. Increase of wages among the work- ers does little toward preventing un- rest and the spread of revolptionary o long as, through one agency or another, all the increase is taken from them. Normal Hufijan nature is so consti- tuted, deubtless for a wise purpose, that it cannot be content or happy if no progress is being made toward some wished-for“goal. Let a man get the feeling that, de- spite his most strenuous endeavors, he is losing ground financially or only just keeping his head above water and he is bound to become discon- tentad. Let that condition prevail among a great mass of the people fof ny continued length of thire and weé have fertile sofl, fit for the propaga- tion and growth cof all sorts of ideas that may offer a possible remedy. What man is there who can feel content when he looks back and sees the constant steady labor of years go for naught. Every penny earned, spent for rent, clothing, fuel, and food. Then comes the war and,men pinch, scrimp and save, they Work harder than ecver. By stern self de- nial a little something saved in thrift stamps or bonds. Then the men who handle our commodities get- in theif handiwork and those who labor for salaries or wages see all they have saved slipping away from them through the exhorbitant cost of the needs of life. They see themselves getting back to the old condition of living from hand to mout see *hat the men who things they must have more prosperous than at time—they further note that the mil- lionaire and multi-millionaries have doubled in number during the war period. Preaching to the people that their present trouble results from the *‘cost of high living” as one of our legisla- tors recently in a speech in con- gress, will not remedy the matter. A standard of living has been set up by the American people fully within their means if they are permitted free command of those means. That standard cannot be changed without bringing about a lower level of civili- zation. T do not think any wise per- son desires this. The eternal pinching ahd saving of every penny poBsible begets the nar- row“outlook of a miser and leads into a blind alley. This nation has not reached its present standing in the world through any such pro- cess. The burning question today is this: ‘How can the people he assureda sav- ing margin over and above their nec- essary expenses? Questiong like these | n never be settled until the cause of the Lrouble is found and removed, and I may say, without dispute, that, it is just as much to the interest of the employers of labor distribute the were never . They also | the present | | if a majority of its citizens .and handing them to Joe Jackson, simply | | standard .of liying that permits of | question of | to have it settled right as it is to the | laborers themselves. It can be pleasure to the employer to feel that he is sitting on a volcano which may at any moment burst forth in an overwhelming, blood-bringing struction to all within reach, must be some stop to.the everlasting round of increased wages followed or prez>ded by increased prices. Some- how a margin of difference must be left to the worker so that while living up to the American standard he will still be able to save something out of what he carns. Therein lies peace, contentment, happiness and progress. The other way leads to discontent, constant turmcil and ultimate ruin to all concerned. Now we have the produeer end of our economic system, the con- sumer at the other. When we find that the cost of the necessaries of life is out of all proportion to the cost of production what is more reasonable than to feel that somewhere between these extremes lies the cause of our present %rouble, and we find it in the large number of profits charged by those who handlé the goods we need, Having found the cause, let us seek for a remedy. It would seem that in our economie course we have outlived the need of certain agencies, which, in oui” period of development had their use. There- fore what more sensible plan could we pursue than to eliminate this needless darain o2 our economic tem There are three recognized medistes between the producer the consumer, the wholesaler, jobber and the retailer, there are more. Be they three or many such and cvery handler must havan profit or all transactions. That all these services should be required in order that Joe Jackson may get the grain Peter Jones raises or the fruit John Smith grows dces not look reasonable. As a matter of fact, when calmly considered, is there not a great deal of uncesessary machinery and time wasted through this. pro- ces: And often, instead of facilitat- ing the excharge of commodities from producer to consumer do they not hamper and restrict that ex- change? And can it be doubted that these vavious divisions of are combined in a close in restraint of trade? in plain language are ganized with the direct of giving the producer as possible for his product on the one hand and charzging all the consumer can possibly pay on the other? this is not true why is it that Jackson cannot buy flour, meat, coal, manufactured goods direct the producer? do not conspire to keep prices unnec- essarily Pigh, why “‘he constant and ev: more constant uniformity of prices on certain of our most essen- tial commodities, no matter where vou buy? Why the well authenticat- ed instances of the destruction waste of articles of food when thoy are plentiful in order that the price to the consumer may not be reduced? at one inter- and the relati or they nship to put it not or- end In view, just as little from Tt is known that thousands of bushels | jes at their or| of potatoes were permitted to rot used as fertilizer, when the conserya- tion of food was most essential, dur- ing the war, at the same time prices here ranged from three to four dol- lars per bushel. Why the wanton destruction of car- | loads of vggetables, the sinking of de- | There | scmetimes | distribution | ;o If these intermediaries | agd | no | i | whose civilization leaving of boatloads of bananas to rot at the wharves of our ports of entryj The holding in ‘storage, great stocks of food.when the market is depleted? ‘Why the instant rise in price of every article of food recommended by the food administrator to take the place of meat during the war? Why tiese and counfless other devices to Kk pric at tke top notch and preve any reductlon in cost to the consum- er. All this franspiring while at the same time there are millions of people standing in need of these things but unable to get them becavte the high price forbid No combination to mairtain prices? Tell it to the visitor from the planet Mars, hut-don't mention it 1o the man or woman who buys supplies for a family. No combinaticn among or middlemen? Why the strong op- position fronr that quarter to the es- tablishment of cily markets where the eopsumer can purchase direct from the producer? There is a remedy for this unsatis- factory condition. And the Americar people can apply it. Through the es- tablishment of municipal markets the farmer and market gardener can bring their products to a central dis- tributing point and be assured of a sale and the consumer ¢an go and buy these products direct ox with but one intermediary and that the muni- cipality. The establishment by the municipalities of storage warehouses where products when in surplus can be kept until the glut is past. Furs ther the establishment of other mu- nicioal stores for the handling of gen- eral merchandise, where manufactur- ed goods can be handled on the same ba Through such a plan at least two intermediries could he dispensed with and their profits saved._ A municipal market could be es- tablished right here in New Bri say put wholesalers ‘the word. United effort could it inh operation very quickly As for the middleman, ler him ‘go to work for a while whcre he can piro- duce something. , He has been living fat by simply taking the things Peter Jones raises and John Smith makes in- cidentally taxing for hmiself all the profit the exchange will bear. Cap- tain Kidd has nofthing on these mod- ern pirates, in fact the captain would look like a white angel alongside of his majesty of the cloven foot~ in com parison. tions, is set, their time is passing like that of the rumseller; let them g0 with our choisest blogsings. To press home the thought présé ed in the beginning of this artighe, me repeat: It is folly to expect “he laboring man to be content with & 0 progress toward the more com s { ‘@ttainment of the desirable things of life. But let us, as a majority, feel that we are gaining, that those who Rav& plenty are willing to see the rest of us have aplenty tco, from the loweést to the highest, and democratic ineff- tutes are safe. Defraud us of thése modest realizations of hope and you extend an open invization to all the “isms” that run rampant throughout the world today. We must. work tcgether for this end. ‘“Co-operation of all fof the benefit of all,” is the battle cry that will carry confusion and to the organized interests that prey upon the life blood of their Tellows, and make a moébkery of free institu- ' tions. At the same time it will sound the death knell of anarchy. It is fust as much to the interest of employérs as employes that it be adopted. If we will become fellow workers in the A perlod to their opera- - destructiof®® £ honest flela of life, each willing to do'® his or her share toward the general good, life will be worth livng indeed. AN EMPLOYE. JAPAN DOES NOT : WANT SHANTUNG: Officers From the Orient Declare Their Country Will Not Insist On Holding Peninsula. 0., Aug. 19.—Captains Kamiuski and Hirisuki, Japanese army officers both of Tokio month's tour, of jhe Unitéd States data on the manufacture Cincinnati, gathering of machine tools and automobile and afrplane motors arrived in Cincinnati “ until Wednesday. leave for Atlanta, Ga. Captain Kamiuski, who was in en- gagements along the eastern front W’ Russia, during the world war, said in speaking of the Shantung penins sula clause of the peace treaty: “I don’t belleve the Japanese will insist on holding Shantung nor do T believe it should be considered as ® serious question. “Japan does not want this stretch of land for it is inhabited by*Chinese who speak another language and is still in the mak- and will remain when they or ' Japan to gain anything through the holding of Shantung would mean that we, the Japanese, must educate the Chinese in that dis- trict to modern customs and ways, while we need a}l the time and finan- | cial assistance in promoting indus- | tries in our nation.” PUBLIC AUCTION TOMORROW Constable Fred Winkle Will Sell Gro- ceries At Sign Post At Central Park. Local people will have a chance. to morning to purchase grocer- the Centrak when Constable Fred Winkle, the orders f the morrow own price at Greea, acting court, o'clock selling grcceries of varie kinds to the public. The auction has & been. brought to satisfy the execution of the city coirt in the case of 8, Vi under bargeloads of fruit in the ocean, unlnu against Jobhn Delio Pietre. on &/, \ ity will Yold a public auction at 104