New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 24, 1919, Page 8

UBLISHING COMPANY, Proprietars. M Sunday/ excepted) st 4:18 ‘Herald. Bullding, 67, Churoh St. Ye! LR 5 .08 Thre Y k T8¢ & Month. >3 Bfered ak the ,Post Omce at Naw Britaln #8 Second Class. Mall Matter. i [ “ " BELEPHONE CALLS v Offce. -1 Tih, - mmnmnz medtum 10 [Girculation books and press ‘open to advertisers. Member ot the Associated Press. ® Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news R 10 1t or not otherwise credited H 1s paper and also local news vublished heretn. on, introduced by Senator ich callg for an Eteel strike and ‘of ghe ‘‘great orather than Wi belligeront ing late, will he he “third party,” par- x 5. able to accomplish FSettlemen! which will result in ¢e -to:the public. However, it is oubtfal whether any information of urport: will be obtained, and, if_it is, & doubt_again arises®that proper etion will be taken. The Senate had letter turn - its attention to the coal hiners, who have threatened to 50 it November 1, and decide this atter before the trouble Yakes place. The stee] strike has come about, e fight is on, and Congress is to hve no more effect than did the Fesident in stopping or remedying “Lirles have been laid by both des for an industrial showdown, and fere is nothing, that we can see, that going to block this but a decision ought about between the companies 4 their emploves through the test strength now being held. As much the public is interested, as much it is to suffer, there is nothing that may accomplish. The statements both sides in the strike prove this; ither will offer an estimate of the uation that may be accepted by the hblic. The strikers claim much, and Congress will unable to get any more informa- do the companies. bn than there is forthcoming in the wspapers#oday. The public has as ch knowledge as anyone may get. e best thing to do, now that the ike is under way, is to fight it out bng the lines set down., There will a solution. But if Congress would do a real e to humanity, let it take nizance -of the threat made by the al miners, Let it ascertain why the bn should demand a thirty-hour ek, with a sixty per cent. increase pay, and should threaten to lay wn their tools and *go fishing"” on pvember 1 unless they get their mands. If the strike comes about, ere will be a great deal of hardship s winter—coal is mow scarce—and might be possible to block it. here are wings of the Labor party t have wundeniably got into the Inds of radicals of the worst ‘type, ether they are foreigners, or erican labor profiteers dissuised crusaders. The great trouble ely has heen among the workers o are mainly of foreign birth, or nally foreigners. Coal miners and el workers are largeld of this class labor. - They came fo the “land of bmise” many years ago, are living fter lives and . getting more pay n they might ever achieve at-home, théy ‘'see an opportunity to get re. They believe’ “the ries that are told to thef by pro-, readily sional agitators of the vast riches y are putting into someene else’s ts and are easily led into iking. t is questionable what Consress do to prevent them from going It may legislate against strikes years, but it cannot question the ilege of the American to transfer m one job to another, to go to and e from his work as he pleases. Tt b, however, deport many of the n Who are trouble-makers and o are not capable of taking out zenship papers. This might help some extent. But this is for Con- ss to settle, if it wishes to please public. Labor sentiment, whon 1 American labor considered, s not approve of many of the ac- s that its confreres of foreign od are getting under way and 1d iook with relief to a fair solu- h of a problem that is giving labor It a Black eve. STEEL TONNAGE. he Guaranty Trust Company of ¢ York, in its weekly review pub- ed before the steel strike became ctive, makes public some fizures bn unfilled orders of steel products t are doubly interesting in view of ent developments. The United es Steel Corporation, at the end August, had on its books figures wing an increase for the month of 000 tons of orders. W B carried along for® future pmductioniFAcTS“ AND “FANCIES. | is 6,109,000 tons, which compares _with 4,282,310 tons at the cnd ofiMay, 1919, which was the lowest Hgure since May,, 191 Recently the United States Railroad Administra- tion placed an order for 200,000 toms of steel rails, divided equally between the United States, Bethlehem,, and Lackawanna companies. Charles M. Schwab, of the. Bethlehem _Steel Company, has estimated that during the next twelve months the roads of the country will need about 5,000,000 tons of steel rails. It has been ascer- tained that the average annual pro- duction of rails in this country from 1914 to 1918 was 764,898 tons less than that for the period of 1909 to 1913. It may’readily be seen that it will take enormous production to catch up with themestimated orders that are to be placed for rails. LIFTING OF l’h()H[BITl()N. It is said that'when President, Wilson returns from the West he is to issue a proclamation declar{ng that the demobilization of the Army is now complete, with the raiulf that }he liquor interests in the States will ibe again’ dble to resume business and e salopns will be open until Jahuary® 1, 1920. That is, it is expected by the saloon men that this will be the result, and their attorneys are preparing to fight their cases for them on the basis thét the Wartime Prohibition Act is invalid with the return of peace and the demobiliza- tion of the Army. Peace has not been declared, although the possibility “of the ratifi- cation of the Treaty by the three great Powers is here and trade has been resumed with the enemy. It is upon these grounds, coupled with the demobilization of the Army, that attempts will be made to get an opinion on the legality of the act. To all intents and purposes there is no war, although peace has not been ratified, and the action of the President in demobilizing the Army, officially, will sweep away the last obstacle to the short time which the “wet” interests have left to enjoy their beverages until the right is swept away by the force of the Dry Amendment. It is - questionable whether the American public desires this short period of spree before the long drought. It will certainly prove upsetting. The fact that it will be | impossible to obtain any liquor after Janugry 1, that the dry spell is about due, will cause much more indulgence than would usually be the éase. The saloonkeepers who have kept their places of business in shape, awaiting the lifting of the ban,” will welcome the opportunity of getting rid of some of their surplus stock, but they will be the only ones to benefit. Should there be any possibility of resuming the liquor trade in a normal way, without the threat of complete removal hanging upon the, horizon, it might be well to allow the saloons to reopen. Unfortunately, this may not be done, and the lifting of the ban will be the signal for an .extended orgy such as We saw on the last days of the wet period before July 1. Howaver, it has not vet been' thor- oughly decided what is to be done. Good judgment may act to control the situation -hefore : it becomes acut Let us stay dry from now on, or re- move all Trestrictions indefinitely. That is our impression of the need today. ‘. Wonder " how long the present weather is to keep’up.- We:.are a' little hit' skeptical through force of habit. There was no one at the Berlin Fair yesterday but the ticket-taker, the balloonist and a Herald reporter. Maybe it wasn't quite as bad as that, but the ticket man got plenty of rest just the same There should be a good many people there today, if it doesn't rain between this writing and press time. And, somehow, we think it will not. ut it will take a few weeks of sunshine to revive our . mildewed tempers. By the way, there was a test vote in the Senate yesterday on the Treaty fight. Lodgze won, 43 to 40, on the calling of amendments which will be placed on next week's program. But some one of the Republicans has discovered that Hiram Johnson has been gaining a lot of political prestige i the West among the Republicans. Which has caused apprehension agong Presidential aspirants from other groups of the party. With the result that the Johnson Amendment to the Treaty will be de- The (otu.I‘ Johnsonized if it is passed. It is still too early to say whether Ttalian history. will eventually cal the | soldiers who have captured' IMame rebels. or, ratricts.—Boston Trai« script. Having done so well thus far with its labor .difficulty, it is hoped that Boston, long famous for its beans, will not spill them.—Prcvidence Jour- ral The growing weakness of the once almighty dollar is showh by the wee little smitch of foodstuifs or dry goods it is able to bring home then it returns from shopping these days. —Rostdn Transcript. The Tgalian government is now going tu try to starve D'Annunzio out of I'iu %A poet who has rveached T ntlinzio’s age without starvinz probably can endure a mere military and naval bleckade.—Kansas City Star. After seizihg power by a coup d’eiat, escaping assessiratfon, and putting gdown a rebellion, President Leguia of Peru is now ready to be inaugurated i due form.—Springfield RepubMean. If congress proposes to give a sword of hoMor to Marshal Foch when he comes here in November, the joint committee had Letter *get busy, as the great French soldier i very fastidious in his tastes in rezard | to works of art —New York Herald. ‘The presidast is saving such dis- paraging things about the Bolshe- viki that we're afraid “The New Re- public”” will never, never, never con- descend to mention his name again. —Charleston News and Courier. In Mr. Carnegie's $1,000 bequest to Mr. Taft the “Liberty Press” finds a substantial coutradiction to the thm‘ that hobody loves a fat man. —MWledo Blade. When Mr. Wilson drirs into slang he reminds us of a nice girl trying to swear. Ferhaps ne thinks it helps him to get next to the people Wy us- ing their shirt-sleeved vernacular; but shirtsleeves and a silk hat make a quecr combination—B. L. T. in Chicago Tribune. MY BROADWAY BU ALOW i The summer jaunt is over, the rose glow ‘fades to gray, And TI've forsaken field and fell for stony floored Proadway, But when I think it cver, why, really, you know, I find I'm rather glad I'm in my Broadway bungalow! We never have mosquitoes; - the nights, these days, are cool; And—if you wish to take 2 chance— vouwll always find & pool. To dodge the whizzing motors will keep ycu red and fit, And when you're auvll—in-daytime— there are loads of hay to- hit. Youw'll see some pigs, and chickens, and lobsters, green and blue; At Madison Square there's a Garden, and it's a big one, too. The Park has gots its meadow, and doesn’t lack for stylw. ‘Wherever you may chance to roam the daisies rod and smile, In lieu of lowing kine a-lea,-there’s lots of bull ‘afloat The prices that ore has to pay get anybody’s goat. So hit the elevator—Boy, = floor fif- teen, {you know— There’s no place helds a mazda to my Broadway bungalow! MAURICE MORRIS, York Sun. Nationalization of Coal! (New York World) The United Mine Workers of Ameérica have come out squarely in their convention at Cleveldnd for the nationalization of the coal mines. Their plan’is like ~the Plumb plan for the:nationalization of rallroads. The government is to purchase the mines ‘al’ their actual value as ap- praised hy federal agents and the mines are then to be operated by a hoard Wherein ' the government and miners will"he equally represented. As with the Plumb railroad plan and- practially -speaking; this would be an arrangement for operating the mines at the, sole risk of the owners, who would be all the people of the country, and fo the exclusive profit of the miners, or a comparatively small class among the people. The legislation proposed would thus bo class legislation and the government would set up woulé to that extent be a government by and for a class among the people instead of by and for the people. to De said for the miners, or, that their plan is submitted in a better spirit than was manifest- ed by the railroad brothcrhoods with the Plumb plan. Public acceptance in that case was made alternative to a tie-up of the roads “so tight that they would never run eagain.” No threat of freezing the country fto death the coming winter is made by the coal-mirers if their plan is not accepted out of hand. Bul the fact remains that when either plan has| been adopted the government of the United S:ates will have ceascd to he in fundamental principle what it has cver bezn hefore. Descriptive - Matter, (Bristol Press) The Courant this morning says: “Through the colirtesy of Senator Brandegee The Courant has received a bound copy of ths proposed treaty of peace with. Germiany." it consists of 537 pages, each nine and one-half by eleven and three-fourths inches and is one and three-fourths inches thick. This is' some book.- One page is in French and the page opposite is in English.” By the same token one might de- scribe the sender as a zentleman of five feet seven in height, two hun- dred pounds in weight, fifty inch st measure, who is member of the Hartford club. . Washington.— Uncle Joe“Cannon is still on the boards with his black ci- gar despite his secvice ol 22 terms in congr And here is the dean of congressmen with one of fhe newest representatives, Congressman King Swope, of Kentucky, a veteran of the Great War. About 200 time Smalley and schools. by new to be formed mine anl spccifically set forth the fundamental tion” will not hold its first conven- tion until December 9. Civilization, | civilization to be decided. has to wait eleven weeks the details of her| founders says that Let her be patient, meanwhile| grave veril and great preparing to abandon her own ideas| per! of self-determination if they are not| graph. They are asreed in by the fath8rs of the new| blackly— “predato therefore, learning The nam eight th: without name are sufficient guarantee civilis examined, Chicago.—Chicago to in Th trains hecat traveling The cortract may not be awarded urtil November. York Sun) political party which is principles for dealing the future of civiliza- CHAD 5 bn'a proposition entailing something — Jess: than the overthrow of the solar Attendance This Year Fully 100 More Than Last. | aved. tom riveted about good muscle that The circular of cious interests, Plumb get together par fem the job is certain to be hand- somely done; and in the present case i they ars only one-twelfth children in the city| carnest company which has have been attending' :s tennis racquets and taken up the school on half time are now receiving cudgels for « pleading werld. instruction, as a resujt of the redistricting of the Kast street,|if weo may call it and New Burritt| namre is unfurled at le there was some ob-| cember—to ‘restore arents on agcount of the! cpecch and wction change, an explanation that it was of | the greatest number satisfled them. It is the task of the Blank Party— i strike off the shac oad fo the greatest| minds nnd muscles | men.” Full liberty of speech, we take The school attendance this vear is{ it, will be a scientific system by which about 00 greater than a year ago.| cverybody can talk at Plans for the new Northend school|interfering with anvbody are exo2cted to ba rceady by October| that obviously is the on 15, and they will be sent out to bid-| to liberty of speech existing today. The process of siriking the shack- les off minds and muscles will interest S everybody. Does vour infeliect clank Eleven Weeks Hence Cilvilization Will | wien it walks? Are the fetters of cus- cerebellum ? But must elev- hindrance Wait untit December. en weeks pass before the For will frea the muscles it sees enchai the Urited States| eq? There is a wide need of produc- the avowed purpose ‘to deter-| tion, and eleven weeks is a long time. If the new party leaders know of any there are hundreds of ezger employ- ers who wculd hire the owl er: out even waiting for the the Blark are seen in almost interests,” “menace to the safe- s of the committee of for-{ ty of the Republic’—that lacies and gentlemen who| to see hope between foundation of the party| body viil helieve, comes, that there is auy hope at all. is to be thoroughly Nohody, we sav: but of course we ex- renovated, patched, dry| clude the happy ed. When Amos| er of St. Louis who niust even now be Pinchot, David Starr Jordan, William | preparing the lavette and Glenn December @ own runal her FORSAKE TRAINS FOR TRAVEL BY AIR homeward journcy Houston, j oil. It's a hLittle three-passenger Ori- out of the| ole Mrs. Cox bought exas in, but the Cox have a seven-passerger B Cox wiho' istiredSof |i a0 g1 W0k ia, 0 0 bushand was a | mour, who flies with for vears, and who | Mrs. Cox, uses a plane to v wavels by air now that he has struck | property 460 miles 25 YEARS AGO (From the Herald of That Date.) Sept. 24, 1919, { Work will be begun on the hospital | cr New Britain carly in the spring. There is about $15,000 on hand to begin work with and more money promised by spring. It is planned te" erect a brick building and all the plwwe for the structure will be com- pleted this winter. Q. F. Curtis has been awarded the contract for the ecarpenter work at St. Mark's church’ which is to be 1emodelled inside. The organ is being moved from the rear of the church | to the front right hand side. John P'inches is building the choir stalls for the boys' choir. The polls were opened at 9 o'clock this morning to allow the ecitizens to vote upon the High ‘school site over which there is so much agitation. The annual town report shows d tursements to the total of $105,122.78 for the year. This .s $16,000 less thar last year. Bert Loomis won second place in | the pole vault at the athletic games in Boston on Saturday, clearing the Lar at 10 feet 4 inches. ’ The Tramway company have dedid- ed upon a new uniform with double treasted coats fifty inches long for fall and winter use James McGrail of E. E. Lirke's store has returned home from a trip thiough New York state Thomas J. Curtin has teturned from his vacation trip to New York National Happenings. The cyclone's work—Death and de- struction in the Northwest—Fully one Tindred people numbered on the death list—Iowa, Minnesota and Wis- cousin were in the path of the storm —Over $1,000,000 damage done. Praises the Kaiser—Bismarck com- mends the action of the emperor— Says the Polish people are revolu- tionary—The Reichstag to be opened in the new parliament building on the anniversary of the birth of the cmperor’s mother. The trainmen meet—Eleventh anni- versary celebrated at Baltimore— Meetings held yesterday were of a religious and social nature—Impor- tant topic for, today is the question of federating the six organizations now composing the trainmen Passing the Buck. (Bridgeport Post.) Senator Johnson in laying the blame for the high cost of living upon the president and the administration hinges his accusation upon a mighty big “If.” “If” the blime can re laid to any one man, sa Hiram Johnson, then the president is the man. Of course. If any human or divine catastrophe, the Boston riots, the meanness of 2 beer, the rainy sum- mer, can be laid to any one man, why lay it to the probable opposi- tion candidate for president. Who else could be responsible for all the terrible #hings that have hap- pened save M Wilson? Certainly the republican party in the fifty years and more of the administration gave us a perfect country. ~Only since the terrible democrats were shunted by Fate to a commanding position at the very greatest crisis in Amerlcan affairs, have we had any troubles. The high cost of living, however, cannot be laid at the door of any one man. If the president and the dem- ocrats did not care a hoot aktout the cost of living last January when as Johnson sa they had a chance to control things, it is because such action is not in the book of partisan politics. The republicans were in Why dldn’t they do ‘better? It was not until the people of the country through the newspapers, their editorial columns and cartoons, made the esteemed senate and house un- derstand what was troubling them most, that anything was heard about the high cost of living. Long ago the press of this nation was pointing out the thing upon which Bolshevism was feeding and growing fat. While congress fiddled and fumed over Mr. Wilson's absence, over the treaty, over a thousand and one little things, the people were fuming over the cost of making both ends meet. Then it was that both democrat and republican woke up. Then it was they smelled a campaign issue. Then and only then did thev exhibit any interest in what was a most com- pelling topic of conversation the na- tion over. Why blame it on the president? It is the system of party politics, and the G. O. P. is as much in the mire as the democrats, control. Bringing the Seashore Nearer. (Manchester Herald) The old railroad bridge across the Thames at New London, which has been reconstructed as bridge Dy the state, is to be orened to public travel about Oct. 1. Tt will Le operated as a toll bridge. Auto- ists from this part of the state going to points along the shore east of New London have this year been using the new ate road between Norwich and Groton ¢n the east side of the river. therebv avoiding the crossing at New London. This is a new piece of road and is in excellent condition. Next year there will be a Aow state road connecting Norwich and \Westerly, which will shorten the distance between Manchester and Watch Hill about 20 miles. For the past few years train serv- fce between this place and tho southeastern shore has heen very in- adequate, but the new highways and the shortened routes are now brin ing the shore resorts within easy ac- cess by autcmobile. It will be a great advantage to our people tao have these salt water breathing places so mear at hand highway It's about tire to organize our squadronnial little club of three who positively will not bhe candidates for e presidency.—Milwuukee Journgl. | New York.—The Right Rev. Chds. Burch, whose confirmation gs bigh#® op of New York niust be madg by thé House of Bishops the conference, of the Episcopal church in Detroft, October 8, was one time editer of the Grand Rapids, Mich., Pregs, He was, ordained in his fcrtieth year, Bond Thefts in New York. (Waterbury Republican) “New Yorkers’ were gmtged fast week when their papers csfried the funny story of the Long [gland sher- iff who had been given a warning that the banks of his town might be¢ robbad and who consequently &pant sleepless davs and nights guardipgl against thieves who never came. The laugh really i on New York. The banks in the little Long Tsland town were not robbed, hut New York bas #) been subjected to a series of theftyg that its police shouid be ashamed t* have entered in it crimiral annals Since January 1 thieves have got ten away with $766,125 in securities that were being sent by messengers, from one firm to another. Hardly A day goes by that does not turn upg the story of a theft of this sort ing, the big city. The troublc is rot due to a wave of crime. Liberty bonds 4re respon- sible. These bonds are’ virtuaily as liquid 1s money and are /;:n-‘ bought and sold in large nurfbers. Hoys who have in the past carriedl salchejs.y with railroad and indurtrial St6eks and bonds of high value have heen safely entrusted because such secur- ities could not be readily turned inte cash by aryone other than the right- ful owner and the temptation to way- lay the messenger was not freat. Liberty honds, however, -are readily convertible and cffer tempting spoifd to thieves who know that ' messems|) gers carry such bonds to the valug of $100,000 and even up o $500,000 As was the case with one “boy:l week. What is needed is live pol ing of the “dead-line’ distriet. Po- lice work that keeps crooks out. of, this rich fleld is better than detec: tive work that in some cases cap- tured the thieves after they have put through a job. An Outside View. (Waterbury American Tho editor of the Londan Spectator was the personal friend of Col. Roose velt. He visitéd the colonel at thg White House when the colonel was He was one of the coterie president » whom the colonel included among hiy clos friends when visiting England. The London Spectatar, also, has never been favorable to the league of nass itons. - It h used ower and over again the iliustration of the Holy Al- liance to prove the - futllity of the jeague. The Spectator has, however; accepted the league as part of ‘the treaty because America favored It For the reasons above given,. the Spectator's analysis of the present situation, as between . the president and the senate, is interesting. ~Says the Spectatof§ y Any single textual alteration would probably cause vast eemplications. Take the Shantung arrangement, for cxample. By 8 votes fo 7 the foreign relations committee have taken away . th.e old German rights in Shantung from Japan, to whom the peace con- ference gave them, and have conferred them on China. They have done this by the simple expediment of saying effect: ‘“Wherever the word ‘Japan’ occurs _read ‘China.’’’ Unfortunately Germany has signed and ratified they treaty assigning Germany's. pre-war right in Shantung to Japan. It would seem, therefore, that a new treaty be- tween America and Germany would be nece; ry. The Allies could not con« sent to this without tearing up their « own treaty. Fancy taking on the bus- s of making the peace treaty all ain! Let us not deceive oyr- it would have to be a really, fresh treaty for the present treaty i a structure of fine balances, and if one balance or check were removed the rest wauld not hold together. And meanwhile there would be no treaty b.tween America and Germany; that is to say, technically Germany and America would remain at war This is an indorsement of President Wilson's position from an unexpected source, a source by no means fri%ndly to the league of nations idea. Reser- vations that really reserve would com- pel the negotiation of a new treaty. Such reservations could not be ac- cepted by the Allies. The work would all have to be done over COMMANDER HONORED. Ottawa.—Sir Arthur W. Currie, cont nder of the Canadian forces overseas, has been made a full gen- eral and inepector-general in Canada. Newfoundland, the oldest British i coleny, was founded by Sir Humph- € ey Gilbert in 15683.