New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 23, 1919, Page 6

(-] NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1 [e] 19, New Britain Herald. HERALD Pl;’flI,IS‘HthG COMPANY, Issued dally (Sunday excepted) at 4:18 p. m, at Herald Bullding, 67 Churca 8t. $8.00 a Year $2.00 Three Months. 76c a Month intered at the Post Ofce at as Second Class Mafl New Britaln Macter. TELEPHONE CALLS Business OfMce fditorial Rooms ........... jThe only proftable advertising medium in the city. Circulation books and press room alwava open to advertisors. Member of the Assoctuted Prons. J'he Associated Press fa exclustvely entitled to the use for republication of all news eredited 1a it or not otherwise credited In this paper and also local muews published herein. JAABOR QUITS THE CONFERENCE. The expected has that the happened. Labor decided there may be no fnecting of conditions left that it has aid down and has the capital- abor fhied agricultural in conference assem- Washington. Meanwhile, apital and the public group are con- vening in an attempt to *‘carry on.” Jollective bargaining was the rock in he channel [P housh the ship could not ps we do not approve of blowing ur horn too much, we cannot refr rom the There wo “l told you so" assertion little of the be an was prospect the factions agreeing upon It now juestion of the hour. nteresting apitalists might sidelight to kick the out of the conference and law the' et the public group lay down the 0 union and capital. Of course, papitalists have a right to be repre- ented, as has labor- the ublic ot do dvance their he pack up the ideas. We believe at he arbitrary but, finally, is to matter. Why might let them that decide the We . fight 0 now? ide: out in pre and pass laws will the present time that stand has been adopted by 1abo is in a position to do so: Ithough, abor ; dt if conditions were different, doubt the not so scarce, we do not ut that capital would have met dvances of labor with bared swords. the saddle; it But this will Labor is truly in is in position to demand. will ot always be. There come a ime when capital will be able to pick its own workmen. Then nd choose which will be anxious Tt Fell if the public could pick will be labor grant concessions. would be middle a chance, anid which it has the round, in it that there the Ly down law now, so 2ight f thingzs be no upsetting of order ~by labor at present or by apital later—under penalty of fine Ind imprisonment. He to tie Gompers has made his threat. plies that labor will be P srence, 21k able industry and force another con- be glad to 154 the public i when capital will collective bargaining. fhe way the land lays eady for the fight to be staged. It Fill Be f that, ave big there is no doubt but he a one, some adjustment will to reached. Otherwise wo re facing oblivion. Gompers may if he does, we have decided. if the il de- royal, it The N tu- lose: so, we have battle as later. apital may ided. Brinz on hay as well come now 001" faces the music e 11y, public but it has it to face. REV. KLINGBERG'S IPAITH. J. E Children’s this at- The annual report of Kling- erg, who conducts the flome in the western part of ity, has reached our desk in an As a ‘human” the is Aansurpassed, as the re- ractive booklet form. locument the introduction to mancial statement testimonial to the powers of pivine Being it is refreshing and Mr. his statements as to the harkable. Klingberg is well nown here, alue of prayer have been read many mes, but the following ones are al- ays welcome. This learted ngly ords, the reward of virtuous faith unpretentious and whole- Christian huinbly and unwit- reflects upon himself, in his Ihd charity, though he couches the sport as a prayer of 1 praise. “In the first place 1 wish that we have received, solely May ) state answer to from 918, May 22 prayer, 119139 thousand to a4 sum one hundred venty-three xty-four dollars and ninety-five nts for support of the orphans and br the building fund, and together ith moncy received for personal use, Bibles and tracts, from sale of f-ticles, interest, efc.. the whole sum b the same period amounts to venty-nine (housand, seven hundred ne dollars and seventy-seven cents.’ hese his words which 2al directly There aling with are opening with the institution, foliow several paragraphs the large number of or- ans created by the influenza epi- emic of Jast Fall and the consequent eavy demands upon the orphanage. here were 33 new children received | 801 The and still iuring the year. eated in 1903 , is touched building fund, being added with essed hope that it will soon be pos- upon, the ex- ble to lay the corner stone of a new ilding to house 300 children. The them | that is | thanksgiving of | | i | i | | i | | them { ting the support death of Miss Maxson is touched up- on, also that of of the Donors of var one which passed aw: ous descriptions are thanked, with the hope that ““the Lord will reward all the his marvelous grace.” A" D liceman, to riches of according sing conversation with a po- two loating Mr. ccording it Lad noted ible of a home, who boys was for Kling- bery to 190 Its respons s first idea his own statements and was in tart is thus described: The boys came on the 22nd of May, 1903, and on the 27th we moved into Heights, having than the bed given to us by the school teach- our new quarters on Ozone no other furniture er (previously mentioned) one table, one kerosene lamp, one kettle, small window screens and a few dishes. Beyond these things was nothing in the house, not a shade the windows, chair, the for any of not a not a piece of carpet on of But any Hoous what was lacking in out- wi antly made by inward blessings We people ap were so contented. * * took Some we we were pity "on us because were so poor, others thought fools for starting such work altogeth- Our ofttimes er empty handed * * sup- plies were inadequatea nd we all. But particle of food wis dinner had nothing at if it hap- pened that every up came used for breakfast, when time there was always some- thing to give the children, and I can remember a single day in the the never history of instituton when we have not been able, through the g of the children three e God, to give s a day.” he benefits that were given are then described and the upbuilding of The $20,- has 138 houses the present home gone into. fund now amounts to the bought. building 000, already besides property which There different been are children in the six under From May May, 1919, of $164,581 the grace of God now the care of Mr. Klingberg. 1903, to 22nd of s testified that has the it the sum been granted by the nead of asking any human being for a and without penny. My touches Klingberg, in closing, thus upon what he considers an important question “Many ‘What" Children's of asked, goin to become Home when Well the and I shall the aie, Mr. you Klingberg? question very important try to answer it in the following way: Dur- the few years 1 have of ing made past this & malter prayer. My thought has been that if the hould be pleased to enlarge work and if there be & need for its continuance 1 would then call a young man with established Christian ciples and a zood stant and if he out- the and to become my as lives me on work on the har- But things con- same principles in perfect mony with the hoard of trustees. in this as well as in other with the My Fath- Whether [ live that cerning the future, I Master, ‘Thy will be done.’ say er knows what's bes or die my hope and prayer is God may bless the Children’s in New Britain more and more and give unto those He puts in charge ol the work wisdom and ability to en- large the Home as there may be need to a good measure of common sense and for enlargement from time time, large, warm hearts that they may un- derstand that under the andg back ragged blouse of the torn jacket that marble eager hearts are beating, and of into a beau- tiful living figure with a strong body each boy is a rough piece that can be transformed and a fine soul, and that pearl fitted the each girl a that can be polished and for the crown of Him the who is ‘Kirg of kings and Lord of lords." The lengthy list of donors it many is indced a one and is made up names [rom districts. Mr. Klingberg has evidently earned his re- ward already in the sterling wor that he It take oceca- is accomplishing so well. that to congratulate him upon is hardly fitting we sion his ef- forts inasmuch as he seems to be get- from onc beyond us. But we v not =) that and help saying to ou selvas, at least, his Divine girt well deserved his object most worthy. THIE TWO PLATOONS. Advocates of the platoon system h in the fire departiment are not call the Pear] the lack tating to attention to recent fire that on street and of men was noticeable for a moment It when or 50 at the start of at it. happened to come at noontime the off the they the apparatus firemen, or part of them, were to lunch. aturally they got to but when scene as oon ‘as possible, the under were not in stations way in care of had the men whose turn for lunch not yet i come. The been that be double that at present, but two-platoon has system described calls for a force will not will give every man an opportunity two there | -d comforts was richly and abund- ! have | often | Lord | this | prin- | business education | Home children | | | | as men are kept on duty that the institution was started. | of y is | them | ing operation. for twelve hours on duty and twelve a- in he might With plan be off meals, the first meal of the day being hours off, when be cons ered a reserve this vogue, there will no time for caten before going on duty. the the station. and the third to be consumed after the second consisting of a lunch in day’s duty is over. It may be readily seen that as long twenty-four hours there must be some of thern excused for warm meals. The fire- men seem to have an which, The found feasible and necessary they claim, has been proved. two-platoon system has been in many other cities, most of it the ones in this state, and should work to our benefit here. This thing the papers arc all talk- ing about, the grafting of glands from monkeys into humans to has us it have of the glands. worried. the young effect bearer again, What human does on When he comes to, after the graft- he ask for bottle? does a co- coanut or a nursing We heard about a fellow once that had an accident to the skin on his upper lip and they g skin to rafted on chicken take the place of what had lost. - And they say he raised feathers in- stead of a mustache. They are busy adopting reservations to Peuce ever the Treaty, in the Senate. al of them have heen added, be fore any vote on the Treaty is taken. It eventually, even with the reservations. locks as if it will e itied, lse why should they make out the sservations. We Brandegee like to ask Senator “‘Hell whether would whether over” yet, or these reserva- tions are merely a coating of thin ice on the original proposition. Wonder whether all. he will vote the Treaty at Depends on the condition of Hell, we suess. The have dock in not workers New York to the returned work despite their promises to union heads. We about the wonder how Gompers feels recalcitrants in the ranks and how he considers that he repre- sents the sentiment of organized la- bor when lower men than he in the labor scheme cannot control Organized labor betrays the individuz in its who will all, listen to the other side at or it has in th strike. Supposing certain Would ment? Gompers had agreed to points in the conference. his men have kept his agree- Not world it, unless he brought them with a golden s around we venture The their Germans last to successfully staged opera night. Five attempts were made interfere. Ilach at. tempt was one agg. Thrown by a who man handled them like one would a hand grenaae. Sufficient. FACTS AND FANCIES. Give a four-hour work a thre week, a two-week month, and perhaps we will all be happy—if we don’'t starve.—Wheeling Intel- ligencer. us -day day, Kansas school teachers are trying to find some way to get salaries raised in their protession. Have they cver thought of getting the administration at Washington to take over the schools?—Kansas City Star. who strike The senators have ing the steel region have come to the conclusion that the foreign workers need to be Americanized, and been visit- | they propose to see thal something is it. So far epublican. done ahout Springticld S0 good. word of cheer the gzood fight the Senate. Do the minute this.—New Speak to who our, “ the men for it you York making America in today—right now. finish reading American, are There are a lot wive sons who might do well to celebrate American- ization Day spending the evening reading the Constitution.—\Watertown Times. by The Germans are now at peace w all the Western world, but the Ger mans in the Baltic provinces haven't heard it and won't listen.—Syracuse Post-Standard h The cost of the Brit railwa, strike is estimated at $250,000,000. That would have paid a good deal of interest on the British war debt.— Saratoglan. ish make | he | | has frozen for | them. | Eher LIST OF NEW BOOKS AT THE NEW BRITAIN INSTITUTE CONTACT WITH WORLD; the latest communication with J. H. Hyslop. “A Dbook that cut to anyone | hands upon anent the after death | rect i world.”—Publisher's | . | CHILDREN OF THE | A. Robinson. | A book of poems THE OTHER evidence as to the dead, by will serve as a short- who wishes to lay his the latest developments mooted question of a life and the possibility of di- communication from the Weekly. NIGHT, HEART OF THE PURITAN, by 1. D. Hanscom “Selections from old letiers diaries which reveal the New England Puritan as he really was. It how genuine and individual were the manners of the Puritans and with what vigorous truthfulness their { speech, whether lofty or common, set forth what was in their hearts and minds."—Springfield Republican. * % . 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[ IDLE TIME. | T wonder if the time | spent Upon an idle summer day, Where shadows lightly came went I Above the butterfiies at Dplay, While insects joined in And honey tasted— 1 wonder that blissful Was wholly wasted? and merry chine time wonder if that day was lost eath skies so radiantly blue, "here life seemed worth the toil cost it And sorrows were so strangely feuw, As fancies ‘mongst the smiling flow In playday wandered— I wonder if those bappy hours Were only squandered? —Washington Siar. 25 YEARS AGO (I"ronu the Herald of That Date.) 22, 1894, I2. of the Methodis Mortimer/ H. Camp the society at their last evening { October | The ¥. P. 8. | church elected | vice-president annual of mecting on Monday running day, six day week A fire broke out last evening in the building occupied by a smelting fur- nace of the P. & I Corbin plant. The fire was confined to the building with a resuiting of $500 Suffield administered a feat upon the local High vesterday at electric field. IPire hydrants have been placed on | the property of the Stanley Works to be used in case of fire. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. flart are visit- ing for a few weeks with their Howurd, who resides in Chicago. William Bulkeley of Rerlin | been appointed administrator of | estate of the late W. W. Norton. eight hours loss 0 team to hool de- son has the Pork and sausage at 10 cents pound; chickens 15 cents turkeys 17¢ pound at a a pound: ! Trewhell a | Death Tist lost and reduced—=Seventy-nine 120 the steamship Wairarapa on her way to Auckland The captain, fi and twenty of with the vessel. Chinese again beaten— a fort at Port Arthur- marching to the front vessels take flight from Wai-Hai-Wei. | A geyser well has been on the farm of John Scholl iington, 111. The well 5 National Happenings. [ Jives saved when was wrecked from Sydney y-eight passengers the went down crew | | i Japs capture i Another army i Chinese war i the port for discovered in Bloom- tube four is a | When it week ago the weighing 600 to a height of spouted fully ' COMMUNICATED sunk to that gas forced the drill pounds out of the well at least 80 feet. Water 125 feet into the was depth a | | ai | ast Berlin, Conn | Qct. 21,19, | The Editor, New Britain Daily Herald, | Dear Sir Will you permit me to ment on your ediforial of the the Tndustrial Conference? many other lahoring men I studying carefully your editor | industrial subjects and am glad 1dmit that your viewpoint than that of many other editors. But in this one in Tuesday's [ issue T fnad much criticiz | Tn stating that “the public has still | to be ground between the millstones of the perpetual capital labor strife” you imply that there are three definite | classes, an upper, lower, and middle class. What you call the “public” is | the middle c Now it appears to me that if a democracy is to contain three classes it bound to come to grief, the three classes being elements of ultimate disruption. If three. or four or five clusses are desired, then a monarchical form of government holds better prospects of holding them in place than a democracy. The lo; cal democracy is to embody a one in which the con- Cerilior and of the “masgses” shall become identical. Our system of common education, of Widespread circulation of newspapers, offer 21st on Like Is on to Connecticut to ass. a is end of class society. the “public” The Stanley Rule & Level will start | al inches in diameter and 200 feet deep. | com- have been | is broader ! | MEN’S, of common parks, of one vote for cach | citizen, does towards obliter- ating the Jower class by bringing it to middle class level. But when at- tempts are made {o pull down the ‘upper class to middle class level we hear the old stock objection raised | that we are trying to drag everyone to a “dead level.” What is really | meant is that we would destroy incen- | tives to - progress. No genuinely | democratic man could have personal use for over a hundred thousand dol- Jars, to say the most. Whatever above this he should accumulate be would acquire not to s y legitimate dem- ocratic personal needs, but to give him power and prestige, to place him |in a class above the public, or middle iclass. In a republic he is really longer a plain citizen but a lord, baron, prince, actually even though nominally. Groups of these sort of nobility, only | here we call them capitalists. They | are with the instincts of the “‘noblesse’ flourishing in a democratic state. We would curb the man who | by real ability, shrewdness, or any { sort of trickery should cast more than | pretend to do otherwise than atlempt one ballot. A man like Taft might |to construe the of events | have hundredfold more political | cording to our philosophy. Like than a newly-made voter of | of mankind wc prone birth, but each has but one | takes. While the let{er This political equality is not | interesting as a veflection of matter of justice, of giving | standpoint, the editorial his due, but it is a matter | refers has been 1iisrea It evaluates men, not b no attempt worth, but by their | sions of our in idealized state. | is referred Thus democracy always has a large | individuals, idealism or altruism in {and some of But in an cra where | ists. Labor ek much CHIDDRENIS WOMEN'S MEN 200 COLORED Fitted with the newest style handles, priced claim by -incentives there, for I upper classes, limiting the amount of money to progress, by increasing the altruistic incentives, by ing the level the these menns an approximate equal- ulti- ihat by curbing th rad of lower classes, no | ! by ity, a one class democracy, mately be established Sincerely yours, CLARENCE HOUSE East Berlin, or a may not form a mer Conn NOTE editor ials are always welcome not Comments on ou ! we course ac- the mis- a city foreign vote | really each man of idealism. their proven potential value are to above is very another’s to which it trifle. Therc three divi- a a make is to ystem, the the gre: of them social to some them undoubtedly part of fthe greater number public an as m capitalists than capital- up of measure of other its political aims. machine industr; malkes public, of as comes to be the |the greater determinate factor in the day-by-day | cause the life of the people, it tends to set up |laborers. In strife such that a superimposed social structure more | tween the coal miners and their vital to existence even than abstract | ployers the public ground political systems. That is the condi- | ween the millstones of strife tion that obtains today, and our | not? Does not laborer struggle of labor against capital has | capitalist alike j outgrown the forms of the old po- | the as litical antagonisms. We can say (o, demand for the foreigner when we naturalize him, | the blame lies with the miners or the { Here is your franchise equal to that owners of the mines? Then,- is not of any other man. But we cannot | (he public being, figuratively speaking teil him at seven the next morning, ground between the two.classes? Here you are equal to any other man | "The last paragraph of the in the shop. your pay and say in-; communication is an expression | cluded. And (his is precisely where | opinion with which 1o not happen our social system fails. It gives al{o agree, though it perfect, theo- man an idealized rating politically, retically. When one limits the returns and a mean rating industrially, unless | to capital the element of reward for he is in the upper class. Tt is a Doc- | competition is removed and competi- tor Jeykll and Mr. Hyde social | tion is liable to be stifled. Thereupon tem. ‘Therefore many despair and | the public will not get the service nor turn to Bolshevism. And your edi- | the results out of the of capital {orial concludes “thdt game cannot be | for its benefit and support. Also, it beaten.” 1 beg to differ with you not be forgotten that many who A @ us are be- em- bo- it the for the and have 1t to pay of the mincrs' money whether more coal a res more above of is we is use must slowly; that much persuasion and much teachin forms clearly for the benefit of all are accepted. psychical. The undertaking profession may o commends itself. But many do not know its value. fegeted have met from time immemorial. such terms as will convince those who are open % > The best way to do this is to give good service. derived, the comfort and satisfaction which result, cannot be overestimated. The FUNERAL HOME offers these advantages. cable in this age and generation. A better understanding of the duties of the em has changed the old order. THE FUNERAL 15 WALNUT STREET, NEW BRITAIN. This is the third of a series of advertisements by Embalmers, Funeral Directors and Sanitarians. (Copyright, 1919.) 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Umbrellas Attractively Priced $1.49 " $1.98 $1.98 " $4.98 " SILK UMBRELLAS s $6.98 " $18.48 might tailed of obvious that every the ide: its there have and competition it been capitalists their all though o must workingman that will bring a potential the proceeding have been built hing have the worid these not reraembered money fo capitalist and world to re- Many up in but an lost in are is nothing in strict om fortunes b one tio idea genera from not Scale of Wages Iascd Cost of Living, (New York proposed plan of a sliding in the navy, ha the the cost of W terest more than the 1 of our w ships, doubtedly h: which will plan as oftered McGowan, the chief of be satisfaction long lincs Sliding on the Sun.) fluc- 11 i id officers they The of pay tuation sed on of livine although un- keen regard bring relief. Rear the ve a for any scheme If miral re by of the Ad- navy bureau ounts should the how other sane citizens supplies and adopted and sheuld the beneficiaries before men in for the mind the have 1914 Work e of would it be of life W livi 90 per would cry in expenses cent not relief have whose S0 or salaries since kept advanced but same On whase have pace the tie risen other there classes of labor 110 per cent. in the fortunate person ale which are sidc are whose has Would pprove pay five ye: these sliding own inc mean Their more than are getting serve, and matter how The sliding ideal if it v human nature slide in only one army or the navy, might work out much than it possibly could in civil life. 50 a thei would not concerned tion? Probabi be: “We hefore omes reduc would a were worth the r now than ill deserve fall.’ pay weakness of of a cry we got we more will far prices of for which appro direction however mare we de- it no we no scale would e re not a In the the idea smoothly pes 3 o ofel © X & B 5% O O w The serv- known, P once G @ to change, and N k’\\. to The methods and sy tems of a few, years ago, and still adhered to by many, are no longer appli HOME (IEEEREONE Andrews & Doolittle, fededetetoteledeo] VISITORS WELCOME