New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 21, 1919, Page 6

HERALD PUBLISHING Proprietors. Issued dally (Sunday excepted) at 4:1§ ‘p. m, at Herald Building, 67 Churca St. 38,00 a Year. §2.00 Three Months. 750 a Month Entered at the Post Office at New Dritain as Second Class Mail Matter. TELEPHONE CALLS Business Office Editorial .. 926 926 | Rooms The only profitable the city. Circulation room always open to adver| advertising medium n books and press sors. Member of the Assoclated Tress. Associated Press is exclusively entitled | to the use for republication of all news ! credited to it or not otherwise credited 0 this paper and also local news published herein. The TWENTY-FIVE YBEARS AN EDUCATOR. Professor Marcus White, principal of observing the State Normal school, who is the twenty-fifth anniversary insti- of his guardiarship of the local tution will receive the congratulations of many sorne of whom are former of his friends, i | | | pupils, upon the rounding Bout of 2 quarter ~f a century of faith- | Eful'and efiicient public service, to New | EiBFitain and the % Miany of the city’s greceived ¢heir first school discipline at literally, state rising young men | his hands, we do not speak ) and it is but few of ihose who went | through the Model school who do not | remember, today, visits | to Mr. White's | methods, cne or more office. Disciplinarian though not harsh, were nev- | He knack | forgotten is the punishment er capuble of ‘a trae giving proper er clear recollections of a for it being of | i principal, with the proper in the The writer has rath- to the the shion. visit | sdnctum, the and twinkle in the Professor's e admiaistered His while doling out punishment, is easily reason in he yes us rebuice. manner, reconstructable to an educa- that The principal's efferts a his line, is testified to oy the high zuult*} New fm‘| | tor of educators, success in ! of his gradvates. The schools of Britain have long been a model work a others and the of the Normal school has had a great deal to do with Marcus White blishing his purpose in an our local has been ystem. acco | unassuming, capable way. May he| continue to do so for many years to come. THAT “WELCOME HOME." AP#he common council meeting last evening mach of the debate centered about the the time planned for the Welcome and ola Week month, from one week to two days. the advisability of shortening be held next A Home to manufac would be statement local turers to the effect that they willing to ten toward the is figured at about forty thou from give thousand dollars detraying expense, which nd, was responsible for the arguments pro and con. The chided forw. was agreed that it would be consider- ed the expenses were given those gently coming manufacturers were for their tardiness in rd with sheir proposition but it Figures to the on Council by in charge of arrangements. We Council and mer of the plan advanced by the factories, are inclined to agree with the hants in the criticism jnasmuch as it is coming rather late in the There has been ¢ plans for the entertainment progre for change | will them considerably. How- ever, the point that tion would be slowed up and a considerable loss follow game. ser ing several weeks and a upset prod to the citizens would enter- tainment lasting a We ent times week that that time an week was also well made. able in are scarcely pre: to take what amounts to a vacation with the loss in goods will result. It is probable, a have days as we would affair their planning the mer- fa- thers have overlooked the one import- ant item the Are we may just as happy a if weel. two the all of in we dragged out for a With chants, city manufacturers and of whole matter. they going to get the men who were in uniform, and who will hetthe guests, out upon the day of the parade? That is still a hard thing ta determine. Per- little It seems to be taken for granted that the will sonally we are a skeptical soldie and sailor: willingly come out them the ure in force, to parade. Without fail- The writer knows his own views, day, or week, will be a and he was in uniform. For the sake will tell, he S of information, he briefly ha- public as He in as possible, how fee no particular desire to appear but he if the city | so desires, providing that the majority the will 4o likewise. He does not wish tq be one handful parade uniform will do so of other men who served of a and will not consent to unless the rest do. He has no What city going to do about it? There is one thing that meeting of military served. Make s tend the meeting assurances that they will is the to do, call of who re that they at- Then let them set- tle the matter and give assurances to each other that they will come out. The concerted action must be institut- ed by the soldiers themselves. They do not wish to be told what they have and is, a all will mass men, H | ators to New Britain Herald. | COMPANY, e —— to do, they know what they should do, but held to what the ather fellow wants are by lack of knowledge as Hold the plans further, and dispel the doubts of the soldiers and sailors. that meeting at once, hefor: go any DAYLIGH We nails SAVINGS KILLED. tre brting our journalistic finger in wrath, we are looking fors ward to a summer, next year, of dark- ness and gloom, we are overwnelmed, specchless, the he justice, in calamity that overtikea us. There is no Daylight Most. A Senate and House have yiclded to the advocates " i the of the mechanical Savings nas been hopelessly farme idden of ng via call the rooster of notwith- rather ‘han jangle the Biz Ben. Our jrofests standing the heartless Solons have de- creed that we get up later in the morn- ing, go to bed later at night, and lose an hour of sunlight after werk. Why coul 10t Why not an agreement to let the man- ufacturer of soft cider, they have compromised? which is bound 1o get hard, go on, midst whara, while ihe wcity dw hangs of cller his tongue in thirst, if the toiler the soil would allow us to set cur clocks to sui: ourselves? Gentle reader, thay a jugfull, they whele did it not, not by gave the farmer the works even had to over-ride the veto ithe President though they of to do so. Really we are not as eng the preliminary phrases would give one to Py as suspect. Daylight Savings, was 1t bills home, it allowed us to us, a fine olan. saved lighting in fuctory anc more recreation in the open light. We tunity fo fulfil our desire for the great We the we common flalter air, while yet there wis had an oppor- the loss’ of the out-doors. icel hour. But, have and, may we ourselves, habit as past. praise- worthy of regarding what is American by, of doing thing do, and doirg We are part of We wish set of pleasure out but cannot help, rast The public. has culli- that it them the pub- for several vated years gone a habit does not wish to gracefuily. to moderate lic. a amoun® of something which we do not like, by joking about it. THE TREATY Pittman’s four reservs FIGHT. Senator ions, as presented by to the tions pact, h him yesterday League of Ni raised howl of protest from pronounced anti- and decidedly Republican correspondents Washington, paid to present mat- ters in a certain light, have played up from many angles, which tempt to ridicuie the effort League newspapers. Special in most of at- to concili- ate those who are wavering. The adopted as resolution was to have been a preliminary warning United to other nations that the States bound of the would not be by the “moral obligations™ of pact in It attempt- ed to define our attitude on the Mon- rae Doctrine, the event certain contingencies. withdrawal from the League, questions of internal or pure- ly domestic problems, and our inter- | pretation of Article X. It was intend- ed as a warning before adoption that the United States would terfere, notwithstanding reading of tain refuse to in- any other the document, It “moral” under cer- contingencies. released us from intangible obligations. It was our declaration of policy The plan was hailed by certain Sen- be a new Administration at- tempt to, befog the issue, who appear very much put out that their own ef- forts to do so have been met if that was the intent of the tion We that the four tions originated elsewhere than in the mind of Senator Pittman. They Adninistration beyond But they reasonable They do not seem to us to ¢ tent ta hefog. in kind, resolu- believe reserva- were efforts, doubt. are enough. Arry an in- They are carrving out the idea of the President as expressed to Senator Brandegee of the moral side of the covenant and defining our construction of that what moral side, fore- consider Why ire casting we ourselves privileged Republican to do. they hard to see. Republicans are doing little else than setting angry at the Administration these days, which is nothing but proof of their we: should arouse is kness. If they do not intend to ratify under any conditions, let us have a vote on decide. We will confronted with a specific If the whole thing is no £00d, throw it out. If Pittman's reser- vations do not cover the Senate they the subject and so then be a situation. the points upon | which has been arguing— and have that seem to—Iet us some Quit the growling and let us We need it. do. have action. FACTS AND FANCIES. One is inclined to suspect that Mr. McAdoo saw something coming when he resigned from the position of di- rector of railroads.—Albany Journal. In scanning democrats for the canvass of Indiana NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 191@ nations would have been far simpler than the effort to provide of reservations.—Washington temember how we hoped for peace so that the price of shoes and other necessities would come down?—Des Moines Register. a system Star. It is encouraging that we read a little less about what do for Kurope.—Albany hear and we must Journal. The lawwers ought fessional holiday of cago Tribune called anarchist. That prosperity for a lo Inquirer. to make a pro- the day the Chi- Henry Ford an was the dawn of host of them.—Buffa- In the actors’ strike wrights, who have mediation with the managers, stand in the position of innocent, but not disinterested, bystanders.—Springfield Republican. the play- vainly proposed along towards time for to pay that bhet he put Hohenzollern.—Manchester Getting Carranza on Rill Union. The initials “H. C. L. stand for a trinity of woes—High cost of living high cost of licker and Henry Cabot Lodge.—Houston Post. add to the labor and seems to We High must cost of this. last. trinity, it can't OUT OF JOINT. I hate the rain! T 'spi I don't like nothin’ no, I don’t! What nursie says I'll never mind— I's 'solved to that—I surely won't. e the sun! of all T brought night little gir: that’'s worst A boy would mayhe be hate the But most That the baby man here last A of all all! right. Nurce sayvs But have And thank And act I'm not to be the the baby little man doctor for’the pleasant as I now, girl can. My gran'ma says thal now my nose Is out of joint, but I can't see Just where it's wrong or out of place Or where the crookedness might he. But To I've been like the mother, I hope she'll love me just the same, Because, you see, I'm baby's brother. Philadelphia Ledger. coaxed, kid so T and will please try my Killing the (Manchester ry time there which deprives the thing it needs the public turns to substitute. Many travelers are forced to resort to automobiles and motor trucks because of uncertalnty of rail and trolley transportation. It is even now hinted that trolley lines will be fore long he junked of the competition of motor tramic. In such instances strikes help to defeat the very bject they aim at Unless an industry is prosperous it cannot pay high wages, and every attack on i prosperity decrewses ifs ability to pay from its earnings | Unfortunatey the place where the strike is most effective is in the public | service, where it does the most dam- age. The railroads and the streef railways serve millions of people who are in no way interested in the dis- | putes between employers and employ- | ed except that they must have service. Secause of thir urgent need and he- cause the owners of these utilities Goose, Herald.) Ev is a Dbig strike public of some- hecause presidential timber, we note one vote for J. Hamilton Lewis. Let scoffers remember, however, that great oaks from little acorns grow.— Chicago Evening Post. Senator Borah continues to intimate that his plan of having no league of must keep them going the strikers have a strangle hold. But when | manufaciuring concern has a differ- | ence with its employes over wages the | situation is different. The product of | few manuftacturers absolutely es- | lenient sential to the public. Of course a manuficturer wants to keep his plant [ LIST OF NEW BOOKS AT THE INSTITUTE | AN AMERICAN Parker, The life IDYLL, @ of Carleton H. Parker. CHIMNEY-POT Brooks. S s PAPEE by« C: of affecting the autho a Charles Lamb happy vein' which mockingly deplores and rily puts to his advantage. They charm of jsubject and literary making leather suspender: mornings, and smcky chimneys sible of discussion in the vhilosephy and the with A. L. A. Bookl flavor, their mer- have touch, rainy pos- me breath classics, CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTOI, by G. Kellogg. “As chairman quiry, this author iroubled consciences hundred Americans who objected to military duty. In his book he gives an interesting history of the problem these people have created from the Christian erd where dcath w usual punishment to the more schemes of CGreat Britain and United Stales in the last war. L. A. Booklist. w. of the has oard of in- examined the of over eight carly their the A, w % CRIMINALS, CRIME AND Mai tion Dyl C AT ic veiy 'clear, interesting contribu- to i tudy of crime, which is alo o leparture in mony ways. There are chapters on the psychology and nature of crime, kinds of crimes and of criminals and the prevention and punishinent of crime. A book to pro- voke interest in the short sightedness of many of our WS, AT Booklist. FERNANDO, by “Autobiography Johr Ayscough. of the carly ycars of Monsignor Bickerstaffe-Drew, who writes under the pseudenym of John Ayscough. Told in story form it cov- ers the period of his life which end- ed in his conversion to the Roman Catholic faith. Monsignor Bicker- staffe-Drew was serior chaplain of the English forces during the War.” SENTLE CYNIC, by Being a translation stes, stripped of of the Book of later addi- tiong, IDEA OF by H. G. Wells. “*Discussion T.ionel Curtis, Wickham Steed, A. Spenier, Murray. It A LEAGUE OF NATIONS, by Viscount William Archer, H. A. E. Zimmern, J. Viscount Eryce, Gilbert ar criticisms Grey, wers and Great | Morris Jastrow. ; gives w1 guments for I.. A. Booklist. the league."—A. . JEWISH CONTRIBUTIONS TO CIV- ILIZATION, by Joseph Jacobs. “A convineing, clear and, modest thesis by an authority. Dealing with the Jews of the past, it shows their contributions to Kurope as religious and philosophic thinkers leaders of commerce, and consequently as leaders in bringing the knowle: of the East to the West.”—A. L. A. Rooklist, as ze L. LABOR TURNOVER, LOYALTY AND OUTPUT, by F. H. Colvin. | A book moxily of sugsgestions on the small points which employers overlook in hiring help and maintain ing its efficiency, such as creating in- centive for good work, developing a sense of co-operation and responsibil- ity and relieving monotony. The book dascribes many training experiments.” A. L. A. Booklis MOON OF G. O'Neill “These one act plays arc sketches of sea iife with ail the sea atmosphere cutality, both words and THE CARIBBEES, by E. in host gift is that of a hard and virile pathos. Among men he in touch with reality; among women he is mercly romantic. It places him definitely among the handful of Amer- ican drawatists whose future is of genuine importarce to our theater.” —Nation. is e e MOUNTAINY SINGER, Campbell. “An American Campbell's poems Dublin in 1909. They Iyries, weird in ther beautiful in nature A, Booklist by Joseph editicn first of Joseph published in are dainty old time lore and pictures.”—A. L. SWORD OF ORAH, Tennyson. irst-hand impressicns of the Brit- | ish women's army in France THE BOLSHEVIKI, min. AMERICA DE hy Jesse F. TRAILING Carl Ac hy . WH.A Kelly. A\ record of ackievement prosecution of the war, DID, Fiction. IRON, by NIXOLA OF WALL STREET, by lix Grendson BRANDING K. N. Burt. Fe- SECRET THE theny OF Hope. TOWER, by An-| but when hecome going at profit; the mands Sf labor that he connoi do this he can his mill and pocket his loss. The lic will not be the losers to any extent and the clsewhe 50 close pub- This proce zomz on already. At Bridgeport where 5,000 cmployes of the Columbia Grapho- phone company have been on slrike for weeks tne owners have decided to abandon Rridgeport and cstabli faciories in otlcr places where they expeci greater freedom from rouhles At our neighboring City of Rockville the Kcek Manufac- tnring company have clesed their mill indefinitely owing strike of their spinners. S s can laber Some manufacturers, .throuzh a combination of circumstances, are in where they can excep- wages. If theif product they can simply raisc the cor sumer and get ing ther profits. in much a fortunate « position pay tionally nigh is in ds.nand their piices to alon without Others position bor beconic exces! sac de- excessive | trikers can seek employment | h | Edwin Pugh, a fello at down the or go present market necd to work in another the hala then he zoose to the wall. As long as hortage in the labor xists the wage esrner has no worry. If he cannot have one place he can have it in But the time will come when e will be the other way and will lament the loss of the that laid the gelden cgg AR ROUTE —Air TO BIND navigation FMPIRE. will of touch London bring the than could. That's keenly interested of the Gilbert and Bllice islands in_ the South Pacific, for instance, lie 50 miles apart. And there’s 190 miles between the groups. Scaplanes would bind them closely. the widely scattered units British sempire in closer ever ocean why Britain most in aviation. Many navigation U, G. WELLS' BI London—¥. G leading writer today, chance to read his DGRAPHY. Wells, Britain’s will have a own biography. writer, is now work on the book. \ | ca ~ed the price of calico and cheered the HANK LONG — Speaks on — THE COST OF LIVING, GIVING and FIBBING WITH CUSTOMARY CLARITY. (Contributed.) live, and move This Bible Like all good od By have our being slightly much eating we and is only revised. things, food in the stomach too is for nothing. Too much bad as too few bathing is quite as clothes when in swimming. To expose the stomach to too much corned heef and cabbage, or surfeit it with blond or brunctte cclairs, alimentary and the say the least ts mean. When God gave us bodies He expected we would at least take as good care of them as we do our automobile, our dog and the lawn moker. Nor is this all. far He gave us a brain with which to think whether it would be best to zo without coat and vest and invest in twa o1 three pounds of Frankfooters, a can of heer and half-a-dozen pigs’ rm.“ wherewith to have a few hours of olid enjoyment, or, buy the vest and | the rest of the suit at $55! One sees it would be far better to buy the clothes, but at present prices of either what's to be done? [ answer: Sell a Liberty bond, so that the fellow who manipulates them. can buy more stock in woolen mills, thereby controlling the output and thus keeping the price of clothing up until clothing almighty high that congress will law so that all revert to leaf. cream puffs, is asin azainst the spleen which to to is pass a the fig ma, Stk mETm e i1 m mert e || side myself whenever I zo to buy a | pound of steak, a hunk of liver a| calf's foot. \Why, I approach the| market ltkc a felon, a thief, a mur- derer! Somehow, I get the idea I am accountable for the high prices! Way back in my brain something whispers, “It's all your fault! You're the fel- | low, the hound, the skallewag causing all this!” Then I hang my head in shame, take another hitch in my belt | and slink home again like a whipped | cur. Why? Simply because I know as well as that I know the ten com- mandments, that 1 am ta blame! 1 know that if I would go only one week | without eating; and get others to do the same thing, prices would drop. Is thiz not s0? Think of a hundred mil- lian people denying themselves one little week! Think of a hundred million going without clothes, or but- ter, or soap, or jack-knives, or razors, or corn plaste ar or moving bictures, or false teeth, or hats, caps, umbrellas and canes, don’t you sup- pose there would be a slump in the market? Don’'t you believe grocers, and butchers, and tailors, and soap- fat men would begin to sit up take notice Why, of course they would, even if we were too weak to do so! Of course, there might be a advance in the price of coflins, but what of that? Think of the many and not the few! Think of the noble cause under which we've | Jam | street only | and | little | kind of and cuse the is a I have head, for Peter 1 George outing at WG outing at has rett Miss G , Westbroo Miss 1 from her M. F | his vacat state. Mrs. T. | is spendi {in New ¥ | Mrs | Sheehan gone (Consta | raided this after a Big fir a the banner en- listed! Think of how we've been blistered! Think of how, when baby was sick and you had but six cents in the house for milk, and you asked the milkman for one little tiny pint of milk he put his finger to his and said, “Gedap” to his hoss! Why this little picture alone is enough to make us weep and sweep up our tears in shame! It's enough, too, to an angel milkman take his wing of the can of milk while he talking to vou. It was only last week I went to huy a pair of shoes, a hat and a two-piece suit—Palm Beach I believe they call them. It's the kind of goods (so I'm told) that when washed the whale suit sort o’ crawls up around the neck and makes a first class necktie, or, if one has a sore throat, a bandage What do you suppose the little and white fellaw soaked me for them? Why, with scarcely enough animation in his puss to move the little tache he'd borrowed, he said “$25 “Twenty-five?”” I gasjed turning red in his presence, “twenty-five what?" “Twenty-five?" I gasped turning red in tween his pearly teeth. I him a hundred dollar bill, and as he tender- the change I said (gosh, I was mad) ‘Don’t be in such a darncd hurry, 1 want you and I want a necktie! out been mus- gave a to undersf But, we understund that a billion dollars is to be appropriated to offset the wheat problem, and that wheat will be a dollar cheaper. We have it all figured out for us, that if this is the case, beef will be cheaper, and as the horns, bones and hoots of the steer is used in the manufacture of overcoat buttons, why the natural in- ference to draw that the coming winter one may have twice as many | overcoat buttons as formerly. It! sounds good! It harkens fine! But, | in God's name, where are the 1 coats coming from? Cheaper grain of course means more hens and eggs (7) but, who in the world ever saw a hen lay an overcoat? is GIVING. this head 1 say—or give. I am Liberty bond, and am for therc great satisfaction in | knawing that even if I do not own a home, or have no interest in any large manufacturing concern, that if the Hun had come here I would have had less to lose than some of those ducks who cheered so loud, and thousands, and today on whom you can't find a Liberty bond with a fine tooth comb. These ducks who boost- have nothing still paying on glad I'm able, | to a Under who have Joudest when the boys marched by These fellows who hought front seats! These muts who are a disgrace to the nation, and who hop up cgtchup, and button hooks, and susmnde& and oth- er necessities of life that their ne might be feathered, and are able now nose | make ! pink | at qu. called i capes. A fam woman and ¢ which arrests The Eugene mony be commissi da ! uppos | The made sey—over they sett i | { Senato tracted could ms | hefore h and behi agent, attorney the tilled Tt sang: “Grapes, in proh vir was But An ¢ A juicy Unless And as i She r i it Sen, quoted Palmer i Quaker i coming ir will d seekinz t dismuy t paradice One of back fro derlip is ities too ¢ clique in the worlc ruined R cent. of is in Er active capitalist ger the sists o whic majo minority whi The lessc ware of to take r it. his The im to loll back in their cars with puffy hands folded over fat paunches. But, this is foreign to my heading, “giv- ing." You bet your life it This 000 in The chief diamond Holland, skunk does not 25 YEARS AGO i| (From the Herald of that Date) F M. to Madison rested—father captured hard made strike seventeen their that one, the (Waterbury minority having this country give—he robs, Benedict Arnold No. 2. B digression FIBBING. nothing to I've alread: under this said it g HANK G 21, 1894. .ong is in New York Swain has returned the shore latt returned W Mi Duff- ¢ ihe \ugust from his from his today Hotel vaca Russwin ned from his eorgie Parker spending her ke aAzzie Walters has returned outing at Indian Neck. Sullivan has returned jon trip through New ion of South: High vacation’ &y from York W ng {aven D and Mitchell few Vine with of street a days friends lLeghorn Rose and the Mclntyre Rawlings barn Misses® have week and Washington found bles Gibney tredt 2078 on noon but no lic wtional Happeni at Memphis arter million nto use—many placded every engine narrow € ily of robbers—mother and ar- escapesiie long chase officers, in clubbed N. J. President son after with is a the ble is badly near Trenton problem fight const. -as Debs fore the on—claims strikes would solve it—testi- mnal have N tc Tabor dways locusts ppearance at New h Jert wherr yeax e - 25 to the le Paradise Regained? (New York r Simmons ha: a farmer, ake cider without im yawned the nd him stalked revenue cider, according to the cral, “is not prohibited by law not Sun.) ‘ if surad ked i fear that penitentiary wi . ibition 10us 0 of Mot being o aise they sa n ‘round plenty [ Other fruit a hundred and twenty. she, I've heard, prcferred ate the ion heliec t slaked the lads jed. ‘What a for!’ " ator Simmons attorney pple her— s thirst thing good is has correctly and Mr. in his opinions as s said to be there is a boom 2 apple orchard property such the unregenerate wets and of a general s as set a to elight o regain a paradise he drys fearing th gained - lost los The Aggressive Few. An erican) hrought A. Van- mino¥ A small war on the clear impressicons n Europc hy Frank the startling one that »ften control cvent Jermany forced t i. The Bolshevists ussia do not make the total population land a small and antagonistic ic and h can only rity, which who have ip 5 per There intensely to the A dan- vith if order, mn- like States, fire ova creating he W it. - Therc element in the deing its best on he brings power of to neutralize dealt nts s a United to start a be- n.inorities and or resiat. back is to means stones intd $51,500,- ports of precious declined from 24,272,000 in 1918, items of loss were unset which+ came largely from nd pearls. 916 to $