New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 20, 1919, Page 6

6. NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1919, ew Britain Hera;ld. HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY, Proprietors. 4 dally (Sunday excepted) at 4:1% . m., at Herdld Bullding, 67 Churca St. .00 8 Year. P.00 Three Months. T6c a Month ered at the Post Office at New Britaln ®s Second Class Mail Matter. TELEPHON tness Offico torial B CALLS 228 26 Roams oo o only profitable advert!sing medium in the city. Circulation books agd press room always open to advertisers. Member of the Associated Press. Assoclated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republization of all news credited to it or not otherwise credited In this paper and also local news published herein. THE FINALE OF THE CELEBRATION. the essential Now that i1y he and Wel- of the fit- over, but final episode, the part, of the Home celebration the marines have been official fu they did not matter ory, now that soldiers, ors and the b1y made an hething that want ch the t the now had with public demanded, people of the of music and earnival_the dancing the city have re or less a “good time" fireworks on the park, we e reached the time when it is essary to get our celebration, of the loss which we granted our- past We and the attrac- took over make up what we can nomic yes during the week. ak of which the carnival s theoretically our minds from our work and which ually took our dimes from our If the measure of there the kets as an ) has asure for economic full has spent, If for loss. obtained a what it been no actual loss. of attractions sed the 1 loss ount al money expended car- and trimmings individuals We in there have gained through our citizens But production, for which #ood. There is no in civic le and co-operation lvement which brought fether re has been a a in a common cause. let-up in fall as it have been, will may o individual e have make je been xpenditures of ney for pleasure which he the must laced coffers der finess in family by work It or closer attention to is our job now to the last by make s good for ourselves and he display of fireworks night s thoroughly enjoyed a large ber, the parade today w ich to be proud. The to congratulate its The various committees did as one of city has elf the people who son on hture as a whole. ved on the ir work the affair. are pleased, nobly, witness the All shoild though there success be pleased. be ew who have incidents of the week of. 'he boys are may complain lad to be home, we ve shown that we are glad to have Pm and have had a good time our- about it. Now - the up-grade pull to make up for at the but it? a ves while we were week has cost us. How THE STEEL ‘RTIKE. beds Mon- Tpon from y morning we will pd of conjecture arising our be facing a until the success or failure of the strike in the 1t e to have the strike, pe. the details steel workers “basic” trade that leaders of the en have made this much public. We to come known. seems we ive now the len it will affect, what the result will approximate how strike gen- a1 is to be, how many in regards to our particular bus less, and what the set‘lement will be. d what llowing etoin shrdlua shrdlu cmfw of at- closely upon the strike blicemen in Boston, fnded with much all pe that there repetition such scenes in this connection. the all which w disorder, we will be no Our| timents may back but unions y not tcome, The issue at stake farized ade may we await the are easily sum- The steel workers have public what th wish, and eir demands follow closely upon the hedule of actices are any union they body. Union what require, what have and the put emselves on record as being against. ion practices the are just ': ads of companies e steel heads will en, not meet to the that they the a unit, the getting it Will industry or as to listen ar ments, ask d b enforce ded e The men say E. H. d his supporters, say there will not. men do, not their request plan The uestion to be de- there be is, unionism not? in steel there will, Gary, attempting to enforce what they Ky the union leaders claim that they able tie up the indefinite period, and, we assume, e to industry for e corporation men believe that they We jre not able the hrength of the unions as they now fist in the plants, neither do we now hew long the plants will be osed providing the union may draw hough men from them to cripple em. That will be settled some day. may judge of union strength in ill be able to continue busine: to pass upon the next few days but even then able to foretell corporations we will not be how far the will ge in their strike. The men, in their ressons for re- of the October fusing the to request President wait until after 6, when the capital, labor, agricultural, meets state that con- vention conditions in that and the plants are such they will bear them no longer that the corporations are resorting to force in to break unionism and it. the an attempt up who advocate They of terrorize those those of right, accuse in charge comi- They of justi- panies virtual Kaiserism. may be we have no means knowing. If they are, they are fied in their strike, popular sentiment will be behind them. whether one is directly But opposition interested in unionism or of no not. the man there is the that it job against argument hold his individual may on his wili, another claim which we are bound The to ognize. of back history the origin of the 1918 American strike dates to when a convention of of 1 it the St. Paul the this tion bhor was held in and decided On was to May five wait upon Judge States Sieel unionize steel industry 25th year a committee of men were appointed Gary of the tion, to United Corpo amuel the king that the steel union He committee, Gompers wrote to Judge, be a recognized refused to do this or the in he of to meet because, would e in the Wilson's efforts it so doing, acting recognition unions. President unavailing and the strike. and so were hold adamant decided ry was to Judge is ars the leaders of the twenty-four unions represented in the industry. The strike has been called s going through, told. this industry 1850, which was and so we are Strikes in are by no means new. In puddlers gave up a strike started in 1849. In the adjustm.nt period after the Civil War there was a strike the and unions won recognition and a basis for a scale of wages, the latter part of which is still in operation. In 1882 there long strike unions and was a which the 1890 weakened 1880 and at between the labor in the mills height of strength. Wil thoroughly was the Homestead this plant 1892 the fight was brought about that broke the time, though it was a horrible affair and there were was its The only steel unionized, so far, mill and it was in in that unionism for The authors’ point unions lost many deeds of violence. of the deeds have been ever the and a moot since. However, in the final chapter the the ap- italists obtained had civil grip which they have The brought ever since. war in Homestead was about over just such the The, July the town. Three Pinkerton strike enter an is- sue as we now have, refusal to recognize the out unions. workers vent in a body in and took possession of hun- dred breakers at- tempted to the iown and were met by a mob of workmen. first shot Someone fired the the battle The Pinkerion men and was on. sur- rendered after six men tiad been killed and were told that they could leave town. Huzh O'Donnell, union men, lost However, leader of the trol of the gang, made up of, and were attacked rendered their con- whatever it strike-breakers they had There this violence even among result was the after sur- arms. were but little support, men, and the not further met with the union that casualties, was unionism was again recog- for- In nized in the plant though back to many mer employes went work. 1901 unionism started to regain strength it this time that the United States Steel Cor- and thereafter, and was at poration offered to sign contracts with This did not please the unions, however, unions in certain plants. they They wanted recognition. did complete not get it and the present cri is now us. It may upon another fight soon see what to the finish, the finish is we is to be. EACTS AND FANCIES. The president asks if America will “desert the world.” Well, there might be good points about moving to Mars.—New York Evening Sun is evident that people will never satisfied in this country until has more pay than every- Worcester Gazette, Austria next time will be particular in the choice of her Atlanta Journal. It be everybody body else. more ally. are assured the same 1z and slate per ton of of price.—Wall Consumers amount of «<onl regardless Street Journal The British invention of a hell that keeps ringing on a stalen automobile suggests some developments. How would it do to rule that blood-curd- ling screech horns on autos announc “This car isn't paid for?”—Manche: ter Unlan A plaln citizen drops in to say that the high cost of seven-dollar opera will not affect him at all. Sitting the part of the house that he does, he will not be concerned until some- Federa- ' ' THE GREAT A L == = A MAN DoESNT KNow %2 (- ¢ g LA HOW BRAVE HE IS UNTIL HE'S PUT To THE TEST— MERICAN HOME thing happens to opera.—New York the cast of high Evening Post | The position of Mr. Plain Citizen in the struggle of labor and capital is much like that of Holland during the war.—New York Evening Sun. Gov. Holcomb of Connecticut calls President Wilson a soloist. And the president persists in singing his favor- ite solo in spite of all the other tunes! there are to sing.—Providence Jour- nal, The principle of “mare work and less talk” still seems to be distinctly applicable in this country.—Taunton Gazette. A Bolshevist cares nothing about | collective bargaining. He omits the bargaining and simply collects.— Washington Star. e | | | rs’ time our | It is going to require 25 ye and billions of dollars to pay war taxes. But that is not half as bad i as it would have been were we pay- | ing them to Germany instead of Un- | cle Sam.—Savannah News. a If there is a coal six-hour-a-day miners pect to be supplied with thémr coal! very promptly next winter.—Wil- | liamsport (Pa.) Gazette and Bulletin. famine those need not e RECOMPENSE. o—a Brief is the time for song, Yet the brown thrush sings, Careless of winters long Or of vanished springs. Grief is the lot of all. Yet the meadows know Only when gay rains fall Will the harvests grow. Swiftly the years are spanned, No dreams abide, But steadfast the great hills stand Till the stars have died. Sing then thy song, nor care If the winter near; Know that the rains prepare For the springtime’s cheer. Heed not the dying rose By the season’s slain; Fair till eternity’s close Love shall remain! Arthur Wallace Peach in the Chris- tian Herald. ‘What hall We Do With Our Jal (Waterbury Republican) The population at the New county jail has decreased time last year from falling off is credited to prohibition. Since the jail can accommodate 450, there are 284 emply cclls there now. The only prisoners in the Middlesex county jail at Haddam are those bound over to the superior court and if these are sent elsewhcre the jail will be empty. There has been some ; discussion of the advisability of clos- ing the Hartford county jail because of lack of patronage, and reports from other parts of the state indicate a growing disuse of the rest of the county jails. If this condition is not altcred ufter the danger of a wetl period past | and federal prohibition has come to | stay, it would seem that Connecticut | i Haven since this 292 to 166. The 299 is should economize by doubling up on its jails. There is no need for each county to maintain a jail capable of | holding hundreds for only a handful | of prisoner Couaties should ar- | range to maintain jails in common ‘That would throw a number of emply jails on the market. but there would probably be no trouble in finding a use for them. Other institutions that need huildings could move in afier some alteration, or they conld be sol.l for factories. Or, if housing condi- tions continue to be critical, the cells could be thrown together to form light housekeeping apartments. This suggestion does not seem so inhuman | when one remembers actual tene- ment conditions and present high i rents. | WORKS MANAGER LIST OF NEW BOOKS AT THE NEW BRITAIN INSTITUTE AREER OF J. H. Sears. LEONARD WOOD, by o ox FRENCH WAYS AND THEIR MEANING, by Edith Wharton. MESSAGE OF THE TREES, edited by Mr M. C. Hare An anthology of leaves and branch- | es. “An excellent collection that will b enjoyed by poefry and nature lovi —A. L. A. 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The road was unprofitable and seems impracticable to increase fares to meet expenses. The fate that has overtaken this line has befallen other street rail- ways and will extend to still others if existing corditions are not altered The public may as well make up its mind to that; wag2s and materials are higher than ever befcre and trolley managers are not exempt from the increassd econcmic pressure of time. There must be a fair-minded recognition everywhere ¢f the facts as they exist. No good will come from wishing that conditions were they used fo be. Providence and as CHOLERA EPIDE) New York, Sept. 20.—An of cholera in China last August caused 1,600 deaths in Newchang alone, according to a letter from Mrs. Calvin Wight, missionary, made public here today by the Pre: byterian board of foreign missions. epidem in- Wil- | 1 The action takes place | that | one AND arraignments advantages | increase pioneer to sell the | it | the | and Manchuria HANK THE MAGIC ESSENCE. (Contributed.) Above all liars I've ever listened to, is my friend of his yet, prevarications— I for say what you may, 1t will he gen- | erally conceded that if one can suc- cessfully lie one is always welcome in ny society and always given the seat f honor at table, especially in Am- erica. And, this brings me to say, that in some way lies—American lies, are not what are known in the con- crete as lies—at least to Americans. My friend and I had been discussing the rapid strides science has made in various departments of the world's | activities, especiz Ily the war. I | bad invited my friend who had just returned from France to spend a week with me. We were sitting on the piazza smoking the last of his French cigarettes. and looking over a lot of photosraphs he had taken. “What wonld vou say.’ said Bill my | friend, “were 1 to tell you that I met a man in France who had dis covered a magic essence which pos sesses the quality of tuning anything to life when it is applied to that { object?”” “Why." T replied, “I'd sa either the one teliing the story was daft, or the one making the asser- tion was a fool.” “Then,” replied Bill I suppose you don't | the story?” | “Well—er, not plied, but, well er, th' story. Bill ignored my words and launched off in znother line of thought in which he proved to me that liars were as necessary to the { world's comfort and entertainment as | are Sabbath hreakers, horse racers, | gamblers and the like “It was this way,” began his delightfully droll way, “I the little town of Picardy, where I | had gone In response -» the kind in- | vitation of my friend Monsicur de | Vergnes, that T come there and spend i the hunting season, though T intui- in spite of the fact love him, since “I'm nuts, and care to listen to quite that,” I ahem, g'on re- with a moment, Bill in was in F. | tively knew it was not for the pleas- { ures of hunting I had been invited, but something quite the reverse. Five vears previous I had one day met { this friend. At the time I thought he was under the influence of liguor vermouth absinthe—vou know funny stuff—brings all kinds o’ weird | thoughts to the mind—well, he told ‘me he had discovered a magic fluid {and when I laughed it him he be- gan in proof a long lingo 'bout co- { hesion, adhesion, molecules, atoms, | organic and inorganic matter, first principles. and what-not. I declare before [ knew it I almost believed my friend was able to do with the | stuff what he said he could do, but was not prepared to see two photo- | graphs that were sitting on his li- tempera- | brary table come to life, and breathe, and the one tell the other ‘ust how she was murdered.” | “Come come,” T cried, “this drawing it almoss too strongly to Bill jumping up as if 1 cided to turn in. “Well, as you will, T am not very anxious to finish the story, to tell the truth sitting here listening to the winds in those ever- greens does rather get on my nerves when T think of that right in Mon. de Vergnes' library.” You better believe I was now all | attention now, and would have gone | to my knees before RBill that night | and begged for the story. ‘“Wait,” I said as Bil! termined to pass inside. “and I'll l'a little something that'll help story along.’”” T soon returned a bottle and glasses. Bill ! and continued. “It was a bully | sat down to that night Mon. was | delighted as a child. He sparkled | with wit, and after we had discussed some of the trivialities of the day, and | had smoked in his den we went to his Hbrary. Almost the first objects | to claim my attention were two photo- graphs standing on a rosewood table [in the center of the room. T im- ) mediately picked them up one in each hand. and as I stood compar- ing them side by side, Mon. Henri de | Vergnes having excused himself entered the room, and noticing | delighted look as T zazed on | beautiful face of one of the photo- graphs said, ‘Do you not recognizc her?' p ‘No.” 1 replied, then as T again | studied the features more closely and turned my on Mon. Henri, I | recognized instantly that the photo- | graph must be the picture of some relation of his for there was no nuJ taking the deep full set eves, and firm chin as well as that imperial carriage of the head Mon Henry smiled sadly and replied ‘Yes, my | friend you have guessed it, it the | photograph of my sister—Countess Rosa.' His voice was very sad and as T directed eyes again to the I saw wipe (ears from | and speak is ' 1 sai had de- s0 for and seemed de- ret the with partoolk good supper we re- my eve: is my | pictur> him his eves. | “‘Pardon me, my frienc | for somehow intuitively I knew | wa mystery behind the two tographs I held in my hand “‘Yes,' began Mon. Henri, *‘There | is 2 mystery concerning my sister's death that has never been solved. Tt was supposed that while her husband was away from home, and she alone in {he house with the butler, that he murdered her, indeed the fel- low was apprehended in the crime-— | just leaving the rcom when Count Barsca, my sister's husband, unex- pectedly returned and grappled with | the fellow and turned him over fo | the police. e suffered for the | | crime some years ago. But do you know,'” and his voica took on a | dreamy strain, ' ‘T helieve—'" Just then a big arsgora cat leaped to Mon. | Henri’s back as he was bending over the table to rearrange the two photo- graphs I, in my excitement, had drosped to the ficor. As he leaned over the table and the strong i T said, pho- a was the | there | lighty abolishing their positious, THE MAGIC ESSENCE. a story by LONG “HANK LONG.” 4 was fell just had, to get thing with a 1t was ish liquid face I what manly before there this fact in mind I saw some- flash from his pocket and fall soft pop on the polished table. three ounce vial vellow- The contents splashing in deluge of gold all over the faces of the photographs. ¥ “In anger Mon. the cat from him, and furning on me fierce- 1y grasped my arm as though to hur- ry me from the rocm, but before he could accomplish this, »re both compellad vy some hidden force sink in our respective chairs. ““My God,’ " brcather Mon nowiasitalediaboyesmesetic broken the bottle of magic and all that which I had some day witness alone shared with anotker.’” “I tried to cry to go from the room, but my stiff against the 100f of mouth, “Suddenly, before Degan to slowly materialize the form in all its completeness beautiful woman. The other was that of a man with dark and longish hair as black the wing of a raven. 1 remember in a subcom- scious way 1 likened him to Pée the great writer of those weird and vet fascinating tales. He did not stand upright but cringed as though the denouncement that was to follow would be:too much for him “‘You beast,’ " began the woman in the most mournful voice to whieh T think I ever listercd, “ ‘You beast, to kill me, thinking you would get My | monev—how well you thought veu | had planned it! Do you Know ! that I learned all after you stabbed me and death came? What a foel | You were thinking you could cNangos clothes with the butler and then séfd him away from home, making sute to have him return at the oppertuhe time just after the dastardly crime. T after dexth! I saw you sneak room and remove all traces of crime then mesmerize him and place the bloody dagger in his hand and force him in my room after ! was dead. 1 | even have Leen permitted ‘o know thé | privatc working of your corrupt i b when the idea first presented i o you. You under plea of cfitimes kept away from me 1 who loved ‘gnd trusted ‘Adax,’ you said morning to the butler, Mon. Porrett’s and convey my pliments, and say that I shall him the day after tomorrow. You will arrange it so that will ar- rive home again at pre half past one o'clock—not moment later, mind. You wili weay a suit of my clothes. Mon. Porreft being a keen observer, will inquire why you wear my clothes. You will latgh and re- ply “It is onc of my master's idiosyn- < crasies’—you will remember this word. He will ask you about your mistress’ health and you will reply, he is well!” Then you will return to the house and don vour cwn clothes and again retrace your steps to Mon. Porrett's and say that you came to sce his butler about a certain brand of wine, and when he inquires about this farce you are playirg, concerning the change of clothing, ete. You will laugh, and repeat these words, My master and his lady left this day for Paris, wnd before he left he instruct- | ed me to do all this I have done. I | know he is crazy, but law me, what have I to do but ohey 2 good master a master who thinks so much of me and my family that when any of them are ill, he too, ill, ¢ and— “Here Bill,” I said, “vou | tieve I'm believing that Mon. What's- | his-name was such a darn fool to | direct a servant to do any such cussed oft-headed foolishness do you? You don't believe that I believe you're | telling the truth, and that what youg | are teling me ever happened to you?" “W-—no." replied Bill reaching for the glass, but seeing we're on the eve of national prohibition, I thought I'd celebrate by telling you a real good lie.” on his remember 1 thinking but even a face he was time a of Henri threw we Henri Tk liquor, hoped to must now be that I would fongwd was my diy him us, two forms One was of a eves no committed it all in his the you saw selt the sickness you that witl fateful 20 to com- expect “vou you isely a is almost don’t be= as THE END. 3 MAYOR HYLAN DISAPPROVES, i New York, Sept. 20 Mayor Hylan,* in a letter to the heads of all depart- ments under his centrol, has indicated hie disapproval of the action Thurs- day night of the executive members of 15 city employes' unions advocating formation of a central council and their afiliation with the American Federation of Labor and admonished: » them to give immediate attention those employes engaged in agitating® | 'and making trouble with a view 1@