New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 27, 1919, Page 6

ew Britain Herald. HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY, Provrietors. ed daily (Sunday excepted) at 4:1% p. m, at Herald Building, 67 Churca St. $8.00 5 Year. $2.00 Three Months. 76c & Month Intered at the Post Office at New Britain as Second Class Mail Matter. TELEPHONE CALLS ustinéss OfMce 5 ditorial Rooms ........ 026 pe only profitable advertising medlum in | rculation books and pres! to advertisers. the city. Ci room always open Member of the Assoclated Fress @ Assoclated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news credited 1 it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also local news published herein. MANHANDLING The ommittee THE TREATY. Senate IForeign Relations is still busy mauling and busii Ind In effort the text of the Peace Treat the League of Nations plan in to make its defeat seem the hore certain. In addition to the irtual repeal of the Shantung clause, \ i 4 has now comnditted itself upon the bject of American participation in e several allied commissions for the matiers The Fall the overnance of international jhrough a central body. mendment, as adopted by com- hittee, removes our interference in ternational matters, leaving, ver, our representation on the repar- tions commission, The blanket voie n the amendments was easy to take; simply struck out the words “‘and ssociated” where they occurred in e phrase “principal allied and as- pciated ipal ulties Thus it is hoped to keep the United powers,” leaving the “‘prin- allied” powers to settle diffi- in future policies. tates out of further European les by allowing it the diffi- effect no word in discussions that rst that follow The any ulty may arvise. he amendments f dopted, t is the same as that Shantung he the League of Nations is orthless sc far as we are concerned, s our representatives will lemoved from the equation. he new amendments, however, we elieve, would be more o acceptable uropean powers than the that Shantung sue. We do not think they are tensely concerned whether we enter affect commitied nto discussions that might peir policy. They have Jhemselves to the Shantung allot- hent; therefor they will see it hrough, whether we join in mighit States them 50 oing or not. Though they ish the aid of the United that cannot in my sreat conflict the that we— may in uture arise, we believe ey care particularly jii ar whether only nation that entered the late with noth but a sense of fair Jay at stuke—bring our weight Ouy nto fiiture councils or not. sense of air play might defeat some plans hat they might have. Of course, we re “‘cutting off our nose to spite our lace.” The other fellow should that. amendmen's not eel any great alarm Still, if the re adopted and the Fall amendments dopted, of Vations. the over Shantung we will have no League "The greater issue is The, 5 we are concerned, will depend upon yet phantung plan. League, so far he Senate vote upon that amendment. urther bt “teeth” t may reservations, further drawing in the plan, are useless. as well be voted upon now as that foy, the undertake ater. It has come to pass a i is forced. 1f with Germany It is time Hecision we must a ew treaty on our swn nitiative, time that ktarted. The hmendments we got the the inconsistencies of Faly coupled with Shan- ung amendment and previous cx- ressions of opinion by League op- onents, to the The are, say least, amu-<- ng. Senate committee has placed itself on record ake oted on as wishing to part in world affairs when The a Shantung Irish the Poles, ion, zyptian question, that of he and innumerable others ipon which there have been speeches Imade, all go to prove that the Senate, fwholly or as individuals, wishes ‘o ave its say on international matters; make the felt the wishes to weight of the States Now United throughout tha jworld Foreign Relatlons [Committee would leave us out talk emoving of any upon international matters by our representatives from nternational commissions. Presum- jwbly, the senators scould d rave on un- turbed if their utterings were to be rried no further. The foreign-born ot represenia- partisan of one or coula tive's another dist read with glee his attack upon some nation (hat was afflicting the people of and let himself few pages Record and t obtain from trict. his blood the representative would not for a thing other than a of the Congressional he votes that he might the foreigners of his dis- Should we have representatives upon one commission or another, the words of seriously. But all of the foregoing the Senate might be taken is how- | trou- | of | | set amendment. If | have been | the it! ques- | { aggrandizement NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27, from the point. The amendments are requesting defeat for (he covenant. There have been enough suggested to it same beat should the 1t the Senate be that the attitud: as of its committec is time for vote. NEW YORK-TORONTO Imagine FLIGHT. for yourself the interest | that a cross-country flight of the mas- nitude of the one but recently com- pleted, would have attracted four Years ago. Picture 1d along in the at the vour mind crowds that w have gathered of machinas that were entered, and there was every point the route large number, to see the bird- men and their accomplishments, Con- jure up the number of sprained necks that there would be in the United States today from locking into the the have clouds and estimate that interest sale of resulted Try newspapers would from the acrial And that you, York-Toronto flight of yesterday when the in derby. | then consider your interest, and of those about in the New | threa machines completed a round trip between the Canadian and Ameri- can cities. ls the flying machine Lere to stay, is its work being accepted as again, | pocket hy marching vastly taken. It realization of the duty to the Home Folks that will call the is mis is a soldier out. the the desire to march and it is only of the duty To soldier we say just th writer has no particular througzh an acknowledgment out- is anxious to It fitting tribute to the hospitality of the people | that “party.” lined above that he see everyone turn out. is not a here we refuse to to Why them? | FACTS AND FANCIES. | Did you ever notic how often a “gentlemen’s agreement” ignores the old rule, Iirst catch your gentle- man ?"'—Louisville Courier-Journal. Looks as if the packers' attorneys have a busy season ahead af them.— Des Moines Register. =0 | their | them | not pay the re- spect due It is said that Halifax was awed by the presence of the Prince of Wales. Hope the boy won't expect that sort of thing in the states.—Manhattan Union Whether in prices for commodities or labor, for reduction of production or curtailment of reasonable hours of a matter of course rather than a spec- to flirt that it It is probable that you recall tacular altempt with death? You will admit is. seeing a column or so of the testants in the flight. in your newspaper of the The chances are at the tongue i Several that told success con- that, without another glance papers, you cannot bring the name of any of the fliers. to years azo you could have recited the whole list, with the accomplishments of ea~h, now you are only interested in passing. Surfeited with the an- nouncements of feats of endurance and of great omplishments become e we | hove bics There is nothing | more to be said about aviation that will greatly interest. The development of the @ commercial proposition, as aeroplane as an as- to our transportation methods is now under It know it. way. Its circus days are over will all interest is here, That it slay, and we is what our lack of means. ANONYMOUS COMMUNIC! TTIONS, The Herald again finds it necessary | to call the attention of its readers_ to the fact that unsigned communica- tions addressed to the public via The Herald will not be printed in this newspaper, despite their timeliness or their subject matter. Many such articles consizgned That in future as it are to the waste- basket every day. will be their resting place the Since the d has heen in past. cussion of the Welcome Home celebration started we hawve re- | ceived many communications from | persons purporting be of to ex-soldiers. | Some them worth | were really printing, others we would not but print under any circumstances; most of | them were unsigned and thrown away. We do not insist upon running your name with your expression of opinion, but we do demand it wish to publicly express you to know If you have any articles that vou | | self upon editor must know your name. That is_final and not to be ignored. DEVFLOPMENT or HBOME. WIELCOME Agitations favorable to a general participation of Home military men in the be held gaining considerable ground about the city and indications are that there will for the affair. embryonic Welcome parade to next month are today be At local a large turnout ing the a meet- post of last even- a resolution was adopted to favor of the American Legion, held ing. the participation of local men in the event. fully few American here, members so far, that city to properl tion which The organized is but that it to appreciate the recep- | it was planning Legion it but not has a few did decide owed they the to tender We also veterans of- the the soldiers and sailors. have it that the Polish war, a large local organization. is favorably inclined also. Tts members have even considered the holding of a few preliminary drills in order that the showing more orderly With the may be these two organizations to aid rest of the local soldiery Tt the ball is evident that the should readily decide to but As soon take part. needs a few to start roiling as it a number will parade rest will be willing to. The eclement of self- will be lost if it is seen that all There still are to partake. remains the mass meet- ing of Friday evening to decide, fully, to it mili- just what is be done and how is to be done. The unattached fary man should turn out in great te numbers and make himself heard. is in the majority it the thing and it is up to him to put across in a great We time and again, that every effort owes it to his host, the city, to de so. believe. we have reiterated it | i style | | | | man should make a great to be out. He That is all there is it satisfied element is putting money to that The dis- thinks that it into any concern’s | thrift, work, don’t be a party to the attempt to gouge the public. Danger lies in that direction. Come back to the fair basis.—Utica Observer, In reducing the high cost of livin may be found practical to work from the ground up and begin with shoes.— Washington Star. If the time, money and the people now engaged in investigations of one kind or another all over this fair land were devoted to raising potatoes or digging coal, both the food and fuel situation might be perfectly relieved —Pittsburgh Gazette-Times. “Experts’ are now busy reviving the corn crop they burned up a few days ago. It is a wonderful summer pastime.—Omaha Bee. Lots of people live in a dugout of darkness when all they have to do is to punch a hole in the roof and look upward to get light.—Ashland Bugle. The British government and mocks it by restrictions on beer.—Toronto The strikeproof understudy ought to he in great demand in New York theatrical circles just now.—Buffalo Commercial. preaches removing all Globe. Heaven the pound, the franc and York livening Post. Also lir: mark! the save the as though the trying to live United down its into the w; out.—Tcronto Mail It looks States were reputation of heing last by being the last and Ixpros Count that day lost whose low- descending sun sees no new plotting | hatched, no probe begun.—Savannah News Killing of daylight saving is merely another suicidal blow at work and thrift, but the fuel and lighting inter- ests kept the legislators in line, which is more than the president can do.—Wall Street Journal. It may seem whimsical now, but the time may come when the labor unions will demand that no man who cannot show a union card he permit- ted to sit on a jury.—Springtield Union. The American slogan of a ago ought to be brought up to date— millions for defence, hut not another cent for tribute to Mexican bandits.— Providence Journal. GLOUC century Erpe On Dinny Hill the daffodil Has crowned the year's returning, The water cool in Placket Pool Is ruffled up and burning -1n little wings of fluttering fire: And all the heart of my desire, Is now to be in Gloucestershirg The river flows, the blossom blows In orchards by the river O now to stand in that, my land And watch the withies shive The yearning eves of my desire Are blinded by a twinkling fire, Of turning leaves in Gloucestersfire. The shadows fleet o'er wheat Which like green water washes The red old earth of Minsterworth, And ripples in such flash As by their little harmless fire Light the great stack of my desire This day to be in Gloucestershire. —F. W. Harvey in the New Witnes 25 YEARS AGO the Herald of that Date) springing (From . 1894, amily spent Sun- August Sloper and day in Avon. H. L. Mills has outing at Milford A. W. Abbe has returned vacation trip to Massachusetts Mr. and Mrs. George A. Cadwel] re turned Saturday from a two weecks drive about Connecticut. Charles Swain has returned from his vacation. W. H. Booth h, vacation to fhort Beach A. N. Lewis and family will spend the next two weeks at ('osy Beach Charles Iteynolds has returned from two weeks' trip to Asbury Park. Thomas Duffy crushed two his fingers on a press at the North & Judd factory. Howard Curtis of the New Britain Savings bank, who has been enjoying an outing at Block Islanc, was in town vesterday Maxwell Hart has secured a position as clerk in the New York customs house and Harry Hart has entered the 7 ‘ returned from an from his returned from his a of employ of a Providence firm. George Chapin, head clerk at the Lyceum pharmacy, is confined to his home on Maple street by a severe at- tack of the grip. John Burns is sup- plying his place at the pharmacy. National Happenings, No settlement in view-—situation at New Bedford practically unchanged— mass meeting of strikers this morning. Pythians in session at Washington— meeting of supreme lodge—1700 tents erected to shelter visitors. Closing of session of congress to-morrow—final days marked by pe- culiar incidents. . Fred Miller is walking Orleans to New York on ger $1,800 if he makes it. COMMUNICATED. 524 from foot New Will Uncle Hir sometime n Returns, It has been since Uncle Hiram broke out in print. your Fact is, I haint wrote a word for the news- papers the Head- since “Punkintown acha” turned up its tces But secin’ my old friend Hank Long hu.‘\' broken loose and butted into the \\‘|:|I|n' game | kinder reckoned | might get a hearin' too. Now that Hank has been mentioned 1 might just well tell the folks that’s interested that the picture that Hank has published along with his writin's was tal'en about fifteen years ago. 1 come pretty near knowin' Hank's age as him and I was boys about the same time and went fishin® together mor'n cree. I reckon Hank's usin’ the picture as a sort of *“camou- flage” as they call that new war game they've invented for makin’ things seem different from what they are. By the way I'll have to tell you about that fishin® trip sometime. I wouldn't have give Hank away on the picture, but T heard a young widow say she would like to meet Hank—and T know she would be dreadfully disappointed when she found out how he'd ed. But Hank's after all ¢ ideas even queer way But chang- felloaw class of a pretty good 1d he's got some fi it he has got a of expressin’ ‘em. L didn't start out to write about Hank altogether. I wanted to tell the folks a little story that's sort of bound up with the “high cost of livin' * which seems to be interesting most people just now. Of course you all know I'm a farmer and don’t do much of anything ‘ceptin’ raise things to eat. It's a fact I'm agettin® more money for what I have to sell. I've g0t to in order to keep off the “Town Farm.” But my bank account ain't growin' so terrible fast after all and my old wallet don't stretch my pock- ot any on account of its unusual size. You see it's this way: while I morc for what I have to sell it me considerable more to raise used to pay Enoch Baxter twenty 's & month and hoard; fifty and wants sixty-five. machme played out had to pay onc dollars cash for machine 1 used lars, on time. st sort zet costs it I dol- now he gets My mowin’ last spring and I hundred and twenty the same kind of to get for forty dol- I've been stocked up pretty heavy on cows feed give out kinder early and I've had to pay eighty dollars a ton for feed I could have bought ten years ago for {wen- ty dollars, and so it goes all along the line. I bad a big peach crop Couldn’t sell ’em all here Britain so I shipped some and New York. Between the cost of pickin’, the freight and the commis- sion, to say nothin' of containers and other sr-all items I realized about thirty cents a basket; hut peaches sold at ten and fifteen cents a quart retail. My brother Amos is a Boston man. He’s got a son thyt's in the wholesale business. Harry dropped in to see me last week. Naturally we got to talkin' about the hizh cost of livin'. 1 kinder insinuated that the whole- salers was takin’ mor'n their share of profit. 1 showed him the article writ- tin by “An Employe” in last Tues- day's Herald. He read it, then laugh- ed and said: ““What's the use of talk- in’ about municipal stores. Mizht just as well shut up. The middlemen () gettin’ things cinched tighter every day. The people howl about the high cost of livin’, but that’s all it will amount They'll never do anything about it. They are like the politi- cians they send down to \Washington to represent them. They ftalk and pout and zet red in the face and tell what they are goin’ to do for the folks back home but that ends it all. The great ‘unwashed public’ forgets all about any {roubles it's had as soon as it gets its stomach filled and its mind occupied with plenty of blood wnd thunder movin' pictures and a pri fizht thrown in now and then by way of variety. WIly they've been vellin’ about Wall Street gamblin’, bein' robbed by the railroads, iron maste=s and oil kings for years but what have they ever done to change it any? When they vote. do they vote together for any particular thing® Does one out of a dozen have the faintest ideca what he's votin' for? You can het your life they den't. You will find the noble sons of toil votin® for every blamed candidate in the field. The very pl they sht win out if they worked together they split all to picces “Who do they send to the state leg- islatures o represent them or to Washington to maka laws for benefit—some of their fellow laboring men? Not so yvou can notice it. Thex are mosily lawyer Do the lawyers look after the interests of those who sent then Yes, when it makes good busines lawyers to do not otherwis “The figuring ture busine that's all right my e las vear in New to Boston a to ce ni down their for <0, lawyers’ ont chief occupation that will make themseves things stand now. ‘And, Uncle Hiram, you can put this down in your hat. We wholesalers follow the same pan. We busi- ness to make money for ourselves that's what we are in busin for 1t’s all a fool idea to think we are con- ducting a charitable agency and ing business for the benefit of fellow men Our system of bhusiness is not built it way, and you can bet vour bottom dollar as long as the law don't .top us with something more than a fine we are going to take ‘all the traffic will bear. “That municipal i is fu- And laws for as do our a would, work 1919, ° WISE, SMITH & CO., . . 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But they won't do anything They are wailing for the to do something politicians, the all d b hem {5 long Uncle he Kind r fellows ers, the ve placed in authority like hook representin know ‘em, too. or hot-headed now there and flip out but they'll republican, to see. men the in know ‘em i and iy ‘em government they may nere and democrat, Catchem, se get sharp, Atorney yer in is place.” nd U'm blessed if T don't think my is about right, lookin' at it of view. But there's that it's a long road any turn in it. 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And th hits off the want prices s ther'll expect avellin’ thoush saw that “If you way 10 to this it would drive into rden sass at bein® obliged deliver we tor is Lo get out vours market be ki town one me o cer to twenty- to things chin As- in e, road ome ime, 11 be It ere's case to and ideu nder and wral to four bushels of potatoes and a dczen bask- ets of 1 was Washington. he ain’t got ‘omatoes readin gettin' after them profiteer today that they dow But the president power erovgh to vas n at says swat MATTCD Georgette Banded Piush | Ready-to-Wear | | Polished and | brim with velvet facing, ribbon band and how, in | sailor, sideroll, chin chin and mushroom styles. plush crown HATS in embroidery, ff -face, and chin chins hand ribbons colors featured. Unusual Values m These Trimmed Hats $6.98 and §7.98 Snappy of silk velvet, duvetyn the immed models Lyons and panne also in a pleasing variety of newest shapes and trimmings. Don't miss these values. New Trimmings AT SPECIAL SALE PRIC Burnt Ostrich JFancies { gmall, medium large effects at 19 in " 98¢ ather Black Ostrich plum colors: at in tips 98¢ ol and and New newest fall, at Silk ¥all Trimmings Ornaments. designs for the 79c popular 49c Ostrich Bands of curled burnt ostrich, in $1 49 | black and colors . \ Tussel Very or em right. And Al the power slick way of do anything and way the matter stands now Conne-ticut read that little profitcering that c ered. It's pretty hard prosec 1or find something want to find v far have body ing there ain't the old flag 1 reckon’ I've the republican he not he's got pretty Th obliged the neec t's bein to that's about Here there's very he discov to get he don’t n see we an worl a to as I c we 13 high prices a there thi o nay And if m just any- 1in't tate any profiteer to say any here it's sulc here clse under zaid about erough for this iime. There’s a lot more things, 1 want to speak about, but the editor says he's got to have a little room left for advertisements so I'll have to post- pone it to another day UNCLE HIRAM HOLLISTER.