New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 2, 1921, Page 6

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PANY ot 4:15 h etreet Rritdin ”e medium 1o pross riinors jod Press. usively entitied jiton of all news herwine ed Jocal nuws pub- Olreulation. n th nat newspa nal NCOLN. ttended the He he " a #t night omobile the Drinkwuter tomoblle: he cane ust Wilson fixed pass e will Judg ne be would been judg of great ¥ be time his men used, it appropriately In regard to writings I come, will light plicable h e used tmosphere Al because cane ! to travelling to would have £ transporta- a8 now; he mne had he of the dead with that of fin the White hmen ts the ch mann orld condi- . the row and ~humorous, Abraham of Wilson, saying, stage son; some ween the {1 be torn tll then, neighbors. all the D DEATH. te of making death ty ot ory Arkan bank Fha those an death son ment for rob- lor many to mako other e, which it is tha more de ve than were ablo to eea surround- als, the death too severe But Herein lles in me our . attempting to and death into significance in 0 of Arkansas time has long the rowth h o eriminal of thao s no place aimost ve been called been pression is used days. Crimao 1 degreo reached have on abid- that is in their insas has made verity Other their end to crf to Law of | ) many | | | | | | COAL RATE INCREASE. The increaso will Britain shipments in railroad probably got 1t believed hera will not be changed. Xor {s the wish father to the thought The g0 not anticip raise im- rates affect New the on in rates on coal dealers themsclves the necessity of a mediately, due to this increased rate to fight roads to the limit Moreover they the edict of the Perhaps are prepared there is nothing at this moment that would cause a greater bitterness among the than an Coal winter. not there people increaso the of coal thia but that in prica has been a nightmars Nature taken has favored us, has awny the feeling is this winter Any an increase In the price is v lot of have coal excuse given to dc al- ers for mos: "“the lust straw " to the r the we The lot Coming from the sublime i- diculous, us most people judge superstition of the xround-hog have a pleasant «ay today saw A us. ground-hog his shadow more winter i1 in store for ac cording tu the superstition. No mat ter how level-headed a may be ad 1 harmony man v bad omen to a firm convic tion therewith, makes that man's worry just a bit keener in instances But seriously again, it has been said men tre- big make heads patriotic that rallroad They quent displays And numbered ara They in their ire giving to good indeed good men causes. many ars among them a bit of this feel- of man now, inopportune Let them disp of the them vy Ing brotherhood Let realize how fa the to coal Let them take deep thought of the effect will general unless such let time raisé rates on such action have on the raise them public, and, absolutely necessary the contemplated until time when the increass, will be no such shatterer of the hope that better are on the way And i this perhapa they find increase was not necessary. postpone action such timen do the they will that r KANSAS AGAIN. we have hand it to is Once to Kansas. the more Not she but brain only great things, her nvighty of the man_out n in now she s to inv t “groundhog” theory.” where the where the great turning gation A ette there cigar- at- liffer- betwees employer and employe they of making a is taboo; tempt is being madt to settle ences where have bility in the home of the has the on a human basis; discussed th advis wife an employe husband tor groundhog to the determined of m stttle himself matter h groundhogs and given cha Kansan five This acterist purchased them homes In a creek bank. He has bullt while the sun shines here will watch their will have the winter tell not the an observation tower and today, W New Bri- tain, he movements. to wait un- he he of to Of course the before expect #l end will be able an nt world wheth groundhogs acted true to form But whether their actions predicted what did come the duration of the we will happy. We may 'r or majority the then, when we know in regard to winter, be may we At five fond tradition; gain confidence in know lose a its value any rate we will whether ground- hogs, out in Kansas, were wiser than we THE UNKNOWN “BUDDY.” 1y France of It is proposed to bring the b “unknown soldier’” from it in the National Arlington an and bury cemetery with solemn rites, as a tri- to the soldlers of this who died in France. General Pershing has the of War has disapproved Vast the bute country appraved Baker will Secretary it plan be of be difference It Pershing the soldiers objecting to the with the opinion the will that th his favoring or upon matter. said General does not know entiment of that jdea makes little difference survivors of the It will sald that Secretary War Baker's promise that the bodies of Ameri war be of dead would either be home or left where they France may well be broken in a case brought are buried in such as this The latter may parent who been the promise of the War Department that the body of a son will lie here h would not be d thcught that. perhaps, dier” was in fadt all t beloved be satisfied A with true has peacefully ased \son. ne ploneer ; left, and we must | | 1 ; of “JEST RUMINATIN.” (Rokert Russell.) Will taxes be lots higher now the big, grand list s made, or will the rate be lowered so that all may be prompt paid? Wil city accumulate so that in vears to come New Britain will be overwhelmed by their tremendous sum? Your guess is jest as good as his, but one thing’'s mighty sure, New Brit- ain ain’t set down among the cities that are poor. We got the dollars an' the cents; some day we'll have the sense to see that liberality would bring its recompense. We hold our city we save a mill or course that helps the )ooks 0 him an’ mec But how ahout the ones that soon will take our place: will we leave them a itage o' debts to our disg : Will be- ath to those young ol’ buildin's due to fall; will we allow those younger ones to that we were “small?” So when the city meetin's come an’ taxes are discussed, let's recollect actions will come up—though we dust debts meetin's an’ two: pucket you o' an’ vounger we folks qn say our are true Americans is in fact of those who fell The his paid cach one service man feels today that Tox appreciated. bonus. the action in offering Mims.If the possible sacrifice is The of th and commonplace discussions that econo- my raised it, have placed many a former soldier on not matter enthusiasts have over the defensive. The cost of this tribute to those fighting men would be com- paratively slight—and even a com- ment on such cost.seems out of place. I it memory will bring into ecverlasting the deeds of our men in the war: if the memorial will stand as an indestructible of the in which we there can proposed plan evidence honor hold them, the be carried out. he no reason why should not the seems Isadore Simons, pay of new Ta ers’ association, consider- ably concerned because this paper saw fit not to publish one of his advertise- that he has re- sorted to “pamphleteering. We thank for his unintentional advertising and ments, 80 much so him us, warn that shall might individuals we print advertisements that be construed as on life. There absolutely no justice in involving those who are not attacks in private is directly concerned in ecivic con- troversics The man who laughs at *the folly of his ways' is less jolly when he pays. One who wears a $24 pair of shoes must have a gocd soul—perhaps two; nor does he mind a good “kid.” Reports say Trotzky gives orders | for next Bolshevik off¢nsive. No need: Bolshevik is alws offensive. “Dry than Soldier’s,” Agent's Risk Proves Greater headline. But gets a sniff of the stuff. at least he Although it is wise not bridge until you come to it, to cross a it is best to remember, as cheerfully as possible, that there will be bridges ta cross. The | When girls will want new season of the year is near honnegs— When poets take their pen 1n hand Tc write their Springtime sontets Byt there are troubles worse than these, the ordinary For, We To as sun folks must warms waxes, sweat raise the cash for taxes. —— 25 YEARS AGO (From The Herala of T'hat Date) The committee of Daughters of America. who have charge of the cel- ebration of Washington's birthday will meet this evening. An entertainment under the aus. pices of the Black Rock Mission wih b 1eld at the Y. M. C. A. tonight. The New Britain Y. M. C. A. Reg- ulars defeated the Waterbury team at the Arch street armory last night in basketball by the score of 12 to Mr. and Mrs. M. N. Judd have re- d from a trip to Chicago. The Cricket Club will hold a meet- ing tonight The Camera exhibition at tu Club will give a free the Y. M. C. A. Tues- day night : FRENCH A SUICIDE stoner Killed Self With Middietown, Feb. #.—-County Com- oner George B. French of Ess was announced Monday not | THE RED LAMP SHADE TO BE RAFFLED OFF TONIGHT AT THE TOWN HALL WAS WRECKED THIS MORNING BY ONE OF LEM SPR/NGERS BY:STANLEY & PRIZE HOLSTEINS . FACTS AND FANCIES 3y The simplificd spelling of propagan- da is b-u-l-L America’s greatest overhead ex- pense is the money paid for blue-sky stock. We shall'avoid balloon travel untit the things have a boomerang attach- ment. Perhaps a school teacher shuts her eyes when she is kissed in order to avoid the scrutiny of her pupils. The man who howls loudest for government by the pcople gets mad- dest when drawn for jury duty. Friction makes heat, perhaps, but this doesn’t apply to the friction be- tween the tenant and the janitor. When a man lies .1 his grave, the tombstone lies above him. T In casg of war, the Japs might not in ¢ the eastern part of the United Sta' but the taxes would, It may be well to explain ‘that Lieutenant Papa, the Italian flyer, is not the father of aviation in Italy. Raflway travel will never be with- out its thorns until special coaches ate carried for fresh-air fiends. The three prime asses of the world and the man who thinks he is pretty. the man who thinks he is important, and the man who knows ae is pretty. ROBERT QUILLEN The Florida stop street spooning seems determined to put the gall in gallant. A new Congressman is much like a ' flea. He can't hope to attract atten- tion without making himself a nuisance. You can say one thing for dancing. In these days of jitneys it keeps the race from losing the use of its legs. This five cent loaf some bakers are putting on the market looks suspiciously like the old fashioned bun. Reflection concerning the Fiume incident leads one to hope there are no poets amang Nippon’s subjects in California. Make yourself famous, you,die the A. P. will send out a three-line story and the papers will spell your name wrong. Natives of Armenia would be sur- prised to hear a wail of hard times from Americans who can’t bend over far enough ta lace their own shoes. There are two reasons why affect to despise money: first, because they have tried to get it and failed; second, because they are too lazy to try. and when | men WILSON ATTENDS THEATER. Today the President Shows No Il Ef- fects of His Little Jaunt. [ Washington, Feb. 2.—So far as had | been learned at the White House to- " day President Wilson was suffering no ill effects from his attendance at the theater last night, his first since | the illness which interrupted his speaking tour in September, 19189. With Mrs. Wilson and his brother- in-law, John R. Bolling, the presi- dent witnessed a performance of John Drinkwater’'s ‘‘Abraham Lin- coln.” The flood of light on the president's box gave the assembled hundreds their first clear view of the man whose whitened hair and niore deep- lined countenanced bore &eviftence statesman who would in Washington of the effect of the long illness. Prests dent Wilson, using a cane, made his 1 i { i { entrance into the box on the arm of { his brother-in-law who also aided | him in rising and leaving the theater { @fter the performance. The presi- j'dent used one of the rear stage doors Ion entering and leaving the theater. ! WAR ON HIGH RENTS. Pittsburgh City Officials Begin Agita- tion to Reduce Prices. ] Pittsburgh, Feb. 2.—City council jand the Chamber of Commerce of ! Pittsburgh have entered the campaign | against higher rents in this city. The | council finance committee in a com- | munication to the city clerk today re- | quested that a resolution be prepared { for introduction in council next Mon- day authorizing the city to advertise the fact that increased taxes this year | do not justify large increase in rents. Commenting on the action of coun- !cil, J. H. Dailey, a councilman said { he had been advised that certain landlords had increased rents 50 per cent claiming it was because of the higher tax rate. The question of rent increases will be taken up at an excessive rents mass meeting called by the Chamber of Commerce for February 11. ABUSES WILSON, Debs Refers to Him As Benedics Arnold. Atlanta, Feb. 2.—Eugen: V. Debs, in statement last night, assailed President Wilson foir his Russian and Armenian policies, and his treatment of Robert Lansing. He said he hoped the president wquld sleep aa quietly and restfully in the White House as he, Debs, was sleeping in the tederal prison. Debs asserted that for the presi- dent to have pardoned him would have.been the equivalent of Benedict Arnold pardoning George Washing- ton, and he added: *“It was my own only fear that I might be indebted for my liberty to Woodrow Wilson. My record, good or bad, is at least consistent, and that is the only way it could have been smirched.” a Modern ' GEESE AS FIRE ALARM Birds Awaiting Slaughter, Squawk and Squeal and Attract Attention New York, Feb. 2.—Two thousand geese, ducks and chickens, awaiting death in ‘a poultry shop chorused a alarm esi-ly this morning for fire tha* caused heavy propgrty loss in 11 retail clothing and food stores in the Bronx. The unusual squawking awaken~c residents of the neighborhoad and a!- ] tracted a policeman who telephon«. fire headquarters. The blaze was con roled after a two hour fight &t FORD DEFENDANT IN $5,000,000 80 Morris Gest, Theatér Magnats Alleges Slander and Libel ’ : Chicago, Feb. 2.—Morris Gest, na=;} tionally known theatrical produ and son-in-law of David Belasco, fileds a $5,000,000 damage suit agaim Henry Ford in the circuit court-o Cook eounty. < Jad The suit, based on alleged libelob: statements published on Jan. 22 .ing The Dearborn, Independent, Henry. Ford's international weekly paper, isj the forerunner, gccording to the law firm of Schuyler and Weinfeld, of oth=] er suits soon to be started in D troit and elsewhere. 3 Only the praecipe of the suit wa filed yesterday. Gest’s attorneys, howg ever, issued a siatement last nigh§ outlining the substance of the declad ration which will follow. ) 3 Both the character of the th#g¥: cal manager and the type of his sta productions were discussed in the ticle in' The Dearborn Independen The article will be contained in fi in the declaration. It said in rn “‘The American stage is under t influence and control of a group former bootblacks, newsboys, speculators, prize ring habitu Bowery characters. - At the pre writing the most advertised man the world of theatrical produgc is Morris Gest, a Russian Jew, has produced the most salacious* tacles ever shown in' Ame ‘Aphrodite’ and ‘Mecca.’” It is rep ed that the scent of nastiness been so strongly circulated & theatergoers that tickets are year ahead for the Chicago tion of one of these shows, trons being, of course, mostly tiles. - “Now, it is a fair question, this Morris Gest who stalks his fellow-Jews as the most fu] producer of the year? It is ing against him to say that he from Russia. It is nothing him to say that he is a Je nothing against him to say TS though success hgs favored hi father and@ mother are still in sa, or were until recently. Ye! recent interview, in which 3 fessional note of pathos was ¢ sively present, he lamented thaj was not able to bring his pa \ America.” e ‘The article goes on to make ous more or less definite * ¢ against Mr. Gest, but he parti resents that suggesting that neglected his parenta. * The suit is filed in the: Court here, Gest's counsel ej because it is in Chicago that d ducer has the most of his'® ‘Whether or not the courts x sider that sufficient re 7o Jurisdiction in il e question;--ttre “Attorneys admit. A number of co-defendants named in the ‘suit. They are'§ Ford, E. B. Ford and W. J. Cai 2 The last is the editor of the Deai Independent. “Mr. Gest's father and very wealthy and do not q sistance,”” said Attorne; Weinfeld. ‘“To intimate that h neglected them is a false and @ ious lie. | A Jewish boy never £4 or neglects his parents.” Mr. Gest said last mnight: make that -Peace Ship Henr dearly for what he has sa d more, too, I'll make him eat h worda.” K CLASSMATES ELOPE AND Parents Grant Poughkeepsic School Girl’s Plea for Forgh Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Fel When Mrs. John Addison B returned home from a movin ture theater she found a no her 17-year-old daughter reading: “Don’t worry, Mother. Gl 1 are married and have gone Don’t hunt for us, and plei have the marriage annulled,, know you can.” ¢ The girl was a junior 'ind school and was preparing for The youth she married, Glen Robertson, son of Mr. an Robertson, also of this her class and is 21 years old. “We have talked it over no the bride's mother today, *‘ not contest the marriage. WV no objection to Glenn, and t! ertson family think everyt! Dorothy. Only we wish th waited. Glenn's family expec to go to Cornell, and we hag Dorothy would enter colleg her graduation from high scl haven’t heard from them, bu going to forgive them,” e 1t is’ known that the yo obtained a marriagé license son, but where and" by h ceremony was performed. th have not vet learned. R WANDERER'S DUPE IDEN “Ragged Stranger” Proves tg Kcesee, 3 Chicago, Feb. 2.—The strange! hired by Lieut. derer who was shot to de Mrs., Wanderer was Ki whom the ex-army Of hlame the death of his identified yesterday at morgue, where the body since last summer, by Mrs, pendorn of Danvyille, Ill, the body waa that of hi E . D ) the