New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 17, 1919, Page 8

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MORE FROM MEXICO. elling ‘of atrocities, of indignities n women, that are unpraralleled in i-mythical echoes of cannibal s, Miss Agnes Laut, before the Sen- Foreign Relations sub-committee ch has the investigation of affairs Mexico in its hands, advised against in that lea for ‘‘beneficent pacification.” It she how the prvention country, making understand how she has told, the so contain mpossible to believe what can consider hdits, still t she can advocate anything strictest of military me: The sub-committee expressed its opinion, but acts of and but sures as Fibution. has formally t believes such things as have corae light there is but one course for it advocate, and that is intervention, h the taking over of the police hrol of the country until he habits have become y reformed. rhe extreme viciousness, ted efficiency, of such ing the feet of women captives to b quick, in order that they will not able to walk and thus escape, cap- It is a plan such a as it not- the steps per- as es our imagination. t might have been put into execu- by cannibals who were fattening ir captives for the feast, and had the facilities for watching them closely. That modern peoples, sus- ted of possessing any civilization all, could descend to such measures bms impossible. Where women bple of this country are particular- We are a race of men, are concerned the susceptible. bo look upon the misfortune of a n who has gotten himself into uble by courting disaster, with not kreat deal of s One of the hite sex should be able defend self, we feel, and let it go at that. bt to 2 man we will resent outrages lainst womankind. We still er them our charges, as individuals will. ympathy. to con- d a sex, and probably always at instinct and it v not’ be easily How is is our primary forgotten. that one person thinks that we may ten to tales of barbarity against satisiied with difficul- men and remain of our that paceful adjustment S What te steps be taken to make impos- In- we wish is, imme- le repetitions of the atrocities. rvention is the only remedy that will at once effective that occurs to us. When the cave dweller returned to s home, finding it in ruins and his oman gone, with evidence that she d been stolen by force, he started pursuit of the one that was re- bonsible. While he was on his way L picked out the biggest rocks and ubs available, with which he lanned to drive home his 1 to e man who had incurred his enmity. is jnstinct called for the kill as re- animal as he on bnge. We are rot as as, but we still have his instinct, the esira to rid the earth of women tor- hrers. We may do it in a more re- hhed way than the ancient would have hosen, but we demand the same ing in effect. There is only ay to stop the bloody history of Mex- o, and that is by runninz the place urselves, with our own sense of jus- what one ce, until the Mexican knows stice is. VERBAL FIREWORKS AND THE LEAGUE. Spoken the fight ‘They Innuendo against are still at it individuals is asis of the League of Nations t the present time as it has becn efore. beople Without giving the Americin an opportunity to learn why he League is an organization for the romotion of wars, why it is a be- al of Americanism, why it is a Bolitical cataclysm, the Senate pro- eeds with its course of throwing a hlenitude of mud and abuse at the bresident of the United States and the favor the The enators who Ieague. bresident continues his trip through he West, taking the abuse and hand- g it A bewildered feeks bitter campaign in he time approaches, we are told, for and reservations. back. populace information and regards the confusion covenant its The wiil vote on the fimendments and pallot will e settled and ple Representatives indulged in still be counted, the issue the great mass of peo- who have looked on while its an orgy f vituperation will be in has been done. as it is flark as to what The spectacle, being | appreciated { takable words, herself | Anda | the ! is scarcely of the public. is no call for the words the enacted, itable in the eyes that are pass- ing. Those of Senate have been by far the most bhitter. Presidents have thrown their into the ring with a childish effort to follow in the footsteps of toosevelt, one who understood well ‘when to use scathing word when not to. by Americans. Unmis- when properly used, win the plaudits of even those the other side of the argument. ('c viction over an issue is admirable, providing the issue is But the therefore, clearly defined. issue here is not eviden there is no personalities. cause for the Senator that President Wilson is a Possibly. But it against grain to hear one member of our gov- ernment call Sherman, yesterday, said goes That “‘quitter.” e The senator’s fear all there over a the cumbent is rather amusing when it is coupled drive that the Senate is now conducting against him. He has that is to that. third-term drive on the part of present in- with the reasons for the call for President Wilson's running again, as we have pointed out before. If the vote on the League is to be restricted to a strictly party affair in 1920, fear, but he is creating issue which will ere is but one logical camdidate for thoss who are he wins or sue is settled before 1920, there is no conceivable excuse for the Democrats to nominate President Wilson for a Surely the senator recog- in favor of the League, whether loses. If the third term. nizes this Meanwhile, the steps that have been taken by the United § to ascertain which ates to attempt exact date upon plans to return the province of Shantung, the Japan or the city of Kiauchau, to the Chinese, bring about of expected. may an earlier settlement question than is the now probabilities are that wers promptly, The if Japan ans- the Treaty, as it ists, will be adopted. may resent ex- However, Japan this question as an insin- uation that the early answer. If we suspect her promises and refuse to she does not set little chance for a date, ratific; of the Shantung Article, at least. If she does that the province will be returned upon a definite date, there is answer We ratify, and then she fails to follow out with And, League or no the United States alone will be left to fight this war, as it was the United States that under- took a settlement of the question. We refuse to the promised course, war Japan will result. League, we fear adopt mandator: over other nations, and have China. permit us to promise and then that done so with Our honor will not receive a definite to allow us violated. ‘As for, the see obligation soon as we get ready war, other no, and the League of Nations Treaty will have been broken just as surely as our failure means that it Taking it all in all, it is a pretty kettle fish. The confusion is not due entirely to faults in the League itself; it is handling it to endorse it now will be ignored. of due ‘to the manner in this country. We are still riding roughshod over the tender of feelings of other nations who are Just as hysterical as we are, but who still have Dbeen diplomatic refrain from ahuse of us. enough to WARS AND HIGH PRICES. Invariably, after wars or great nat- ural calamities, which affect many of the populace, there is an era of high prices, of practical famine conditions. When the producers become destroy- ers, when the working man turns into the fighter, when the present is given over to wasting toil and raw material in the costs of war, and the future is mortgaged in an effort to obtain more material to shoot away, there is to be no other result that bill. present world than At are going through this period of paying, though we are told that the bean reached and that we are to look for a the gene: we must pay the the people of the peak of prices has decline, henceforth, in of the average After period costs. Civil where war there was a prices reached even higher levels than we now have, when the discrepancy between the average income and the average cxpense was greater than it is at this time. we have e public is acting with more than that it it continues to do so there is absolute- reason to heligve that American restraint heretofore and Iy nothing to fear from a greater in- crea in the cost of living. The Department of Labor. Bureau of Statistics. has issued with a set of figures that go to prove that we are now on the downward from 1915, fcod of 78.72. June, trend 1914, to increased a December, December, prices total From December, 191 inereased 7 The period of time is included in the lat- per cent. one that is cred- ter There Potential hats Theodore and Manliness in a fight is upon quitter. our the President even a | fell | { Trotzky have { York ; = faith a4 o) not go tion | practically | national | nations will have to, whether or | But | a statement, | 1919 they | mo ¢ statement as was in the rormer, but scveral months have been :dder with the result that the general aver ane fell off 5.43 per cent. There ha been an increase on other items, not- ably housing, but the decrease is here That is certain. It is better for all adual of us that there should be a & decline in rather than a sudden drop, which would vprecipitate a panic. Produc- tion is being increased, we are finding Mean- still a little danger that our way out of the weods. while, there i we may still bring about higher prices. Useless frills and unneces Profiteers and evidences of 1y expend- itures should be cut every family. profitecr- Efli- the ing should be carefully watched. ciency should be the motto of housekeeper as well as the wage-earn- er, Weo are paying our bill, slowly but surely. the producer in the factory. FACTS AND FANCIES. They make fun of Ford’s six cents’ damages, but the jury knew that a nickel wouldn't get him anywhere.— Atlanta Constitution. When President Wilson says the League of Nations is a bigge thing than the government he forget what the government was into the hands of his Philadelphia Press. We also observe that and other New England States admitting the shortage of teachers rural schools that lately brought Hampshire into the Manchester Union. tor New limelight.— Difficulties of cable communication probably explain why Lenine and not wired their sympa- thy and a promise of moral to the striking Boston Springfield Union. When General Pershing leaves New today he must admit, Mis- sourian that he is, that New York has shown him.—New York Sun. Kansas City has 32,550 motor which is approximately than the streets were cars, 32,000 more made to ac- | commodate.—Kansas City Times. Bostonians, be reverting the cost of as some contend, to type, but in living, it is so far as to famous Tea Party.—New ning Post. ma view o hoped they re-enact the York Eve- That Detroit hog that was kept in | cold storage for 25 years must be cool | and 5 mellow by this time. We sug- gest that it be turned over to the meat profiteers for their personal consumption.—Woodbury Reporter. Turkey is said to prefer an Ameri- can mandate to any other, in view of our record in dealing with Cuba. An habitual offender convicted at the bar of public opinion naturally desires to be sentenced by a lenient judge.— New York World. Von Ludendorff’s deceive any Ame isn’t pro-German Birmingham Agi book will an citizen to begin Herald. not who with.— The question before the senate “Must there be a League. of Nations 1f so, how much?’—Washington Sta.:. A lot of men are finding themselves in a position to paint their houses now that they can no longer paint the town.—Des Moines Register. WOODEN SHIPS. are remembering they grew; midnight quiet dance; all the singing they knew haunting still circumstance. They forests where The and the giant And summers that Are their altered Leaves they have lost, and the nest, Tug of the friendly earth denied to ships, These, and the rooted certainties, and FeSt— To gain a watery girdle at the hips. robins in that not ways; this old friend, with drank and laughed, Sits in the stern and talks of other da they had alias still, Or dreamed among the stars on some tall hill —DAVID MORTON in The Bookman follows ever stranger Only the wind They =greet their aft as a on But whom they When held high bacchan- COMMUNICATED A Question Answered. Tditor of the Herald Would you kindly answer the fol- lowing question in your paper for me: Supposing a captain in the naxy; were in charge of transport carry- ing troops abroad and a major gen- eral of the army was bringing his di- vision, or part of it, overseas on the same ship, who would be in command of said ship? Yours truly, A READER. [The naval captain evey (ime. event that something should happen to the ship ard a hoatload, containing the major general and the commissioned officer in the navy, of soldiers should put off from it the re- sponsibility for the safety of the oc- cupants would devolve upon the nav- al man, hence he would be in com- mand. If it comes {o a matter of or- ders to the personnel of the army troops aboard a ship the high rank- ing army officer is in command but lie has absolutely nothing to ith running the ship or the naval com- plement.—FEd.] prices | their { & most that before it party.— Massachusetts are support policemen.— { others to himself. fin this In ¢ lowest | | crete daneinz floors for which music | ana it 25 YEARS AGO (From the Herald of Tha: Date.) September 17, 1891 George 1. Damon has veturned from his business trip Miss Leila Pinks has returned from a visit to Short Beach George Mitchell and Itobert Chalm- ers returned Eaturday evening from trip to Scotlund. The trip was enjoyahle one. Bert Loomis was one of the con- testants at the field day sports of the National Athietic Urion at Travers ind Saturday and tied Bucholz of Philadelphia for first place in the pole vault, both making eleven feet The cases against George Moflitt and Charles Pettingill of this city, who were charged with violating the no-license law were nclled in Hart- ford, Saturday. C. L. Barnes intends to build an of- fice and storc for his use on Elm street near his wood vard. Men's heavyweight bla ished worsted sulis at the Clothing House for $9.00. The High school football team is now getting ready for their fall prac- tice. Couch Cox of Yale is wanted by the boys and it is probable that he will be secured unfin- Globe National Happenings. Big Japanese victory—Chinese loss placed at 16,000—Three days of des- perate fighting end in the utter defeat of the Chinese forces in Corea—Japa- nese now securely entrenched in that country. An Inhuman monster—Tries to kill his uncle, aunt and cousin—Believed that his purpose wes to kill the par- ents and them assault the young girl ; ‘he aged people likely to die—The fiend if caught, may be lynched. The emperor plans a clever scheme to make the navy popular—The dis- play of warships at the naval review off Swinnemunde tended to show the naval strength to other nations. Ante-bellum days—An Alabama ne- gro sells himself into slavery for $25 cash—Owner ties slave to post while making purchases—Leads him home by a halter. A plucky girl—Locked the safe in face of a loaded revolver in the hands of a burglar—Told to open safe which burglar supposed to be locked—Girl stoops to safe and locks it and then tells burglar to shoot—Burglar gets scared and runs away. Will the Fiu Come Back? (Waterbury Republican.) Surgeon General Blue of the public health service joins with other emi- nent medical authorities in predicting a probable return of the influenza this fall. Still, his opinion, which is ad- mittedly of high value, is not depress- ing. *“Probably, but by no means cer- tainly,” he says, “there will be a 1 currence of the influenza epidemic this vear. Indications are that should it occur it will not be as severe as the pandemic of last year. . . . The fact that a previous attack brings im- munity in a certain percentage of cases should allay fear on the part of those afflicted in the previous epi- demic.” The immunization of a con- siderable part of the population and the probable mildness of the disease, i it recurs, should serve to prevent se ous apprehension. Waterbury, espe- cially, may hope to escape very lightly if the “flu” comes back. Now, however, is the preparing for it. Syrgeon Gene Blue emphasizes this point “Com- munities should make pians now for dealing with any recurrences,’” he says. This is a task for the board of health, and there should be no excuse for any town bheing caught unprepared with a plan of organization. sufficient medical supplies and hospital space. But while boards of health should be planning community campaigns the individual can do much to aid in the defensive. TFirst, he should be look- ing after his general health and begin building up his energy. All the time possible should be spent out doors. Overwork and overexcitement should be avoided. Plenty af sleep should be obtained. Ill.ventilated houses and stuffy, foul-smelling places of amuse- ment should be shunned. In short, all the well known rules for health should be carefully observed. “Everything that increases person- al contact should be regarded as a fac- tar in spreading influenza,” says Dr. Blue. This means that the individual should exercise special care in clean- lines He should not wait until the disease appears to do this but should try to avoid anything that may be the | means of transmitting discases from If he will do these things and keep cheerful there is no reasan why he need fear the recur- rence of the influenza. And it is not at all certain that it ill recur anyhow. Upon this question as upon so many the medical authorities are divided; and some well known men do not be- lieve that we will be afflicted again this fall time to A Real Playground. (Meriden Journal) the most interes section of the country is Park, at Bristol, which was developed by Mr. and M AR Rockwell and presented to the city though it is maintained by the donors There are wonderful natural aids which have heen adapted to park needs. Then, the place has been pop- ularized by a splendid beach and swimming pool, with rookeries, chutes and all the things that go to make up One of ng parks Rockwell resort However, the visitors’ attention a real thing that fixes the is the playground, the most perfectly appointed place | we have ever seen outside a very large city. Here is an enclosure filled with swings, with chutes, with self- propelled merry-go-'rounds, with con- piano tennis is furnished by an electric There are basketball courts, courts and many other feature: This place is in charge of a super- visor and yesterday theve were 500 i children, all having a wonderful time, made Meriden visitors thinik thing such a place would Park, or fo City what a for fine be Hubbard Park. Instead, we have several play- | srounds in the schoolyards which are | ! and only indifferently furnished which cannot appeal to the children as this Bristol place does. Moreover, Wwith a trained supervisor, who could teach folk dancing and thoroughly in- terest the boyvs and girls in various games, a great deal of good would he accomplished. ? some philanthropic man or wOman wishes to do something to help the city, a playground like the one in Bristol would be a splendid thinz. Peak in Grand Opera. (New York World) Horse racing is the legendary sport of kings. Grand opera in New York is the modern diversion of princes— at least, of men of princely incomes. There is a new reminder in the offi- cial announcement from the Metro- politan of $7 opera in the coming season for those who sit transiently in orchestra chairs and of $4 opera for those content with places in the dress circle. This is an advance of $1 over last year's raise. There no use in repining over this condition. Probably there is as little use in criticizing or in com- plaining. The organization back of the Metropolitan makes rather a boust of paying no dividends. It pro- ¢laims its interest in grand opera for arft's sake. Apparentl it can get what it chooses to ask for its best ats. The advance in rates nounced is said to be sary by the increased opera production.” Reading that line, one is reminded again of the probable basis in inflation upon which have risen further increases in cos: From the middle 1860’s up to 1883 the $3 rate for grand operat prevailed. After 1883 began the period of lavish offerings to singers which turned America into a promised land for the opera stars of Europe and affordel the Old World fresh opportunity to make sharp though envious flings at the New World's confidence in its dollars. Positivists are ready that we have alway opera stars than was necessary; that even a Caruso need not have come so high; that our purchases of voices have been pushed upward only by our own prodigality. At any rate, having set the pace, we have kept it. The price of keeping that pace, whether fair or foolish, is the large fact be- hind the mounting of grand opera for the general public to its $7 peak. Hoover and His Children. (Meriden Record) Herbert Hoover is turning to the United States for a well-deserved rest. Nobody asks any more, “Who is world over as the man who, by ap- plying American business ability to o bad situation, saved Belgium from starving and subsequently saved a large part of Europe. He has been credited since the armistice with be- ing a veritable ‘“dictator.” He has exercised more power in eastern and southeastern Europe in recent months than the allied council. But power is not what sociate with Hoover's name it, then? Ask any woman. Hoover has a secure place in the heart of humanity today because of the chil- dren he saved. He will receive many compliments on his return. An admiring govern- ment and pubiic will praise and hono= him. But there can be nothing to surpass a tribute he has alrveady ceived across the Atlantic. In Wa saw, before he left for home, there was a spontaneous demonstration of gratitude such as has come to few men ever in the world, perhaps to none. A procession of children filed past him steadily for ' five hours cheering, singing and weeping, in happy recognition of what he had done for them “He has 3,500,000 after now,” writes a respondent On one of the he relaxed from his severe attitude and showed some of feeling inside him, Hoover remarked, “I believe in children.” Msybe thAt is why the world lieves in Hoover and gives him ungrudging praise for his work. A $7 now an- ““made neces- cost of grand to paid take oath more for people as- What is babies to European look cor- rare occasions when business the real he- such Speeding Up Building. (New York Herald) Despite labor troubles, high cost of materials and financial conditions due to the readjustment of capital from a war to a peace basts, building oper- ations for August show a tremendous increase over similar months during the past six yvears. While the re- construction period is fairly launched, it undoubtedly will take several years before the present shortage in all classes of buildings is relieved and normal conditions again maintain. According to statistics compiled by Kodaks You'll for Saturday. want that Your make fast the impress KODAK films will ons of the day that will otherwise soon be forgotten. We have a complete line of Kodaks and Brownies to choose from. Use Fastman Speed Films for better results. All sizes on hand. —The— Miller-Hanson drug Co. 30 CHURCH ST., NEW BRITAIN. CONN. American Contractor, filings in cities last month aggregated al- £170,000,000, as against one- fourth of this amount during 1918. During the latter vear private struction work was practically at a standstill, government operations comprising almost all of the actual work started. Eliminating last vear's figures, the totals for the preceding four years fell far short of the aggre- gate for 1919. The figures quoted only embrace the cities where there are building departments. In New York City the amounts in volved last August, as compared with 1918, show gains of from 320 cent. in Richmond to 1,586 per cent. in Manhattan. These totals are, how- ever, only a fraction of the actual contemplated construction in the metropolitan district No official records are kept for Nassau and Suf- folk counties, Long Island, many tions of Westchester county and New Jersey, where an enormous amount of residential construction is In progres The Herald has said that the only practical way the 153 most many to times costs are high is only Buildings will be purchased at the new levels as readily as when the old prices were in vogue. The shortage of housing accommodations has made rent payers realize the advisability of Swning your own home.” Once this theory is really put in practice, real estate and business in general will e on a firmer and sounder than ever before. incidental. basis The Bartenders Respond. (Waterbury Republican) Pathos and humor are to be found in the quick response of the Bartend- | ers’ union of Boston to the of the policemen for help.f The bartend- ers have adopted a resolution demning the policy of Commissioner Curtis, pledging moral and financial support to the policemen and saying that when “the call comes our answer will be ‘ready’ for the protection of every American citizen, There is to be read between simple lines a on the part of the bartenders for police. It is a feeling begot of gra tude and a sense of common adversity. Shall the many times that certain po- lice have befriended them be forgot- ten? Who is more indeoted than the bartender? His job, too, is passing ity to wink and look the other way? And if gratitude be partly a lively sense of favors yet to come, stands more in need of such favors as the police can gzive in the future than the bartenders? Thesc are times for bartenders. A friend on the beat is no mean friend to have. near beer verges too ciosely upon real beer, shall W@’ a schooner out the side door have its old persuasive ef- fect? It shall, if the bartenders can but show that their hearts are in right place now. As for the common adversity, stands moxe in need of sympathy the bartenders? The police need these the who than have con- | per ; sec- [ relieve | the housing shortage is to build. That | price con- | depth of fellow feeling | ! celebration may be secured b, who | parlous | When | the | struck and an aroused public has turned agairst them. But has not an aroused public also turned against the brtender? His job, too, is passing from him. He feels strongly the need for protection which he is so prompt to offer the policemen. It is indeed a time for all good md true to stick together against a public gone mad with idealism—a public that has puritanically tried and condemned John Barleycorn, the poisoner, and now fanatically insists that policemen shall not mutiny and let loose anarchy upon city. It is @ world gone mad, my masters, and let us practical men stick together till the lunacy over. Thus the nartenders, and drop salt tears upon the dry mahog- BIDS FOR GARAGE of Public men the be say Board Works Opens Pro- posals for Municipal Building— John Downcs 1s Lowest Bidder. Bids for municipal night at a committee at tee considers making some tions in the plans, since the building on which the prices were received, is larger than upon which the appro- priation was estimated The matter will probably be reported to the coun- cil tonight The bid $16,449 for the builder z building in seventy {he concrete work is not required, the would $13,649. : The bid of the B. H. Hibbard company was $15,- 999 and if the concrete work is not quired the price is # be $13,209 Completion in eighty-five working s is agreed upon. John E. Downes figured the contract at $15,816 and if the concrete work is not required the price is to he $12,916. He agrees to finish the building in seventy-five working day: In the presence Downes, the lov make pro rata reduction in from the basic price The plan for the building called structure 88 by 50 fest the erection of the new opened last the The garage meeting of city hall were building commit- modifica- of A. N. Rutherford was the buildinz complete and ees to complete the working days. If be bidders Mr. agreed to his bids original for a of the bidder, SOLDIERS, NOTICE Programs the Welcome Home service men at the Chamber of Commerce af once. There have been several thou- sand of these programs printed and every soldier, sailor and marine in the city will be Interested in looking the booklet over. TLADY DECTES STARTS WORK AT 6, London.—Lady Decies, formerly Vivian Gould, has turned her Sun- ningdale home into a hotel, starts her work at 6 a. m. As soon as Scotswood Hotel is filled, Lady Decies will live in a house in the grounds Seven cottages will be annexes to the for da This establishment occupies three buildings of five stories each, with basements, arranged to make one great store. We actually occupy over 40,000 square feet in the buildings from 40 to 56 Ford street, and also a large storehouse located elsewhere—and every foot of this space is required for our display of house fur- nishings, rugs, etc. We simply state these facts to impress on you the possibilities of variety of selection in every type of furniture—Bedroom, Living Room, Dining Room, etc. The advantage to you of a large stock You are not limited in choice—and more im- fold portant—you will find in is two- every department dozens of suites and separate pieces which were purchased when the market was very much lower—and our selling prices are based on these costs and not on to- day’s excessively high figures. It will pay you to visit Hartfurd and Fuller’s, even if you require but a single piece of furniture. COMPLETE Home FURMISHERS 40-56 FoRa STREET UARTFORD WHERE IS MOHER THAN AREATS FOR GLENWO0D MARGES GYERLOOKING TY CAPTOL RICE. GROUNDR