New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 14, 1921, Page 6

3y — Britain Hera. PUBLISHING COMPANY. Pro, pted) at 4:18 T Church street. ome. ond Class Mail FLEPHONE CALLS: Matter, ftable advertising medium in Circulation books and press ays open to advertisers of The Associated Press. Pross s exclusively entitled for repablication of all news 0 It or not otherwise credited per and also local news pub- ron. udit Burean of Cireu! C. organization s and advers This insures traud newupaper to both national and IT's OV “Friday through the thirteenth ved safely f publicity always should nfter significance before of the “‘day on the And that hat o. bm of waiting until the day tical there is significance one may like it ls passed an occasion this purely one . pra ught yihing any ta fear. There Is uperstition should n to forget that Friday nothi about be de that Friday, led Renerally, even fact apt to The “ trouble a it dr Ing way le i is in le the in its wake about It beforehand s about to enter nervous te who the man LT k to another on a matter portance to himself is apt the sometimes t his best housewife entertain be- ed lest all will not go well where a col take n is noted man, obliged to an the ran his subject, h 1L A Ase professor advised him next day and realiz- on was he was almost ountry with a1 & walk in the and to forget The pnpanion lamination plan work- well hman passed itists say there enters into nce of assuming a casual egard to dreaded days, the transference. A lot half-laughingly, hought hinking wil bring disaster, in day osphere which Influenc subtly impels others to be bring the Friday mistake which will eky" at it and will happened on is not n referring to this day, days, make s it may, it un- thut stakes, o w slips, do unwise things when a or apprehensive, than itely calm about the dread and ise to forget all idays: to cease to t may never happen as It comes, courageous, MEN, TOO. or of wearing sn Is getting to be no joke the only women not ned # the news that the Wom- either. of a certain city has asked al Government to instruct o arrest women who ap- strects wearing skirts with more than ten inches pund and to present the of ourt on the charg e wense of shame." lo reformers that 80 a astep hey urge the mem- police force t they carry meas may be sure the than the ore m the ground before mak st fly. before advancing to of the ggested rhat an inte part program, it esting bo presented on any ir along pop- ghfare if such plan n night the street, un of little sticks be ween officers [ing over their ing, he d termined lated th here comes charming be while some called of the or sex wont to until the minion whether not ordinance the awful there is planne yeott who are seen accompany- whoso skirts are found to trom the ground than The They the fact woman per men will be hu ther from may suffer that they whose skirt of the with a ¥y short—but fear | | of his life in | Edison’s short skirts | | tact prescribed | goes | before starting on the walk. that lhclr‘ fair ap- law.” to outward “\®jthin this country companions are, Pearances at least, But worry women For planned ceived and will be executed, if adopt- far the men in need not yet—men or the reform was con- ed, in aw Budapest. QUE was made the other ries | THE The day that remarks of EDISON statement of the ISTIONS. in one our contempor: the more writer read of the | Ford and Edison on sub- | which they the jects other than those in were interested the specially more | writer admired these men as ex in their own fields Questionnaire,” was, of rather ridiculous affair to college men with the expectation that perts The published “Edison as course, “ submit to young they would be able to all of the men, answ well-educated experience and be expected from graduates, would be ctly even a high questions asked. | questions. Few of far wider reading than ent may re college able to answer of questions corr the themselves, percentage The and important | as some of them d Edison’s part of the mat- the modern univer- fundamental have disclos Mr. studied in which the may been, an ignor- ance on ters college and of theory on sity is conducted The ask—and for the Edison natura to asked man question with all “What about College " it great respect does Mr. Know to encyclopedia one Edison’s Turning an Thomas Alva “He in some measures sup- reads, under nam these words was poorly educated, but the defect This, reference plied by assiduous read- ing.' in to his early life The news of today tells us that he subscribes to and reads regul periodicals, many three some sixty-odd daily papers and at least two or books a week the il questionnaire is driven in final the | re- But n coffin of the by the of a artillery officer, old think 1 is knowledge 1 marks former 26 yea satisfactor- of “not who passed iy, "I answered most he the but from reading, af 1 left deal them,"” quoted as saying, from quired at h school. 1 school, aring and observation economic have read on and scientific Edi- of or that Mr. ignorance Thug it r . ween th de “college son graduates,” consciously unconsciously really hits at the in- they are are the individ- stitutions themselves, as conducted 1 as their jcourses hits not My as a planned, and nt ual who, were dison’s opinion griterion, of the a liberal educa- how the the honors he he wéuld have helpless with Mr. him. eagerly to be taken has prac- four best tically wasted years gaining matter fine high college tion. For no student, or how received at felt himself pretty questionnaire before Young people planning to be discouraged G strong go to college need not Mr in all by Edison’s comment cat men lines have had opinions their special | sphere of men great in more general fields have differed if mistaken, Edison on matters outside from which the majority Moreover, one is not Mr fers to have college men to aid him- or did until an- nouncement avowedly pre- so prefer his latest It is doubtful if he has changed his mind And had a young people who have not | college education and who sec of obtaining pth through him- means one may be no encouraged to learn, the that Mr. Edison educated reading, and from the who that through of his examination self remarks successful one was in reading and observation may do much to cducate man t satisfuction, at least, Thomas Edison A HU “1 have Juc that no regrets,” said ge announcing he $500 fine for of 1-vear-old after the Lindsey, would pay contempt his refusal to tell ward of his M court because fourt Court had told him personal- beli the right. No court | a juvenile Judg has told him. has been set w a ile haw e Juve ly—"1 fight in no regrets. I ve made was wo will ask court to betray what a child rendent isiders his $590 the Perhaps a pre Lindsey ¢ He will come It wo Judge well apent believes in good from gaining tae con- He believes that cases of that fidence of children there will be fewer youthful crime when the boys who have grown up without the protecting care given to wome, feel that there are men in high places whom they may trust and to whom they may bring their troubles and their though bringing them they have to confess | worries even in so to wrong-doing | It hoped that has It Juvenile court precedent hoped udge Is to be a that | not il be asked to testify aguinst a child who Thele nothing that been set is to be another iIs trusted him | th | Ing it. { Congregational NEW BRITAIN- DAILY HERALD, SATURDAY, “JEST RUMINATIN'” (Rober; Russell.) There dikes along river banks that keep the wa ter back an’ hold the power o the stream within its proper i There's things along n's edze that stays the tide, protectin’ fields and pretty homes where hard- worked folk abide. At times those dikes grow old an’ frail the water rushes thiongh— the folks alonz the river hast what they may do. Thos breakwaters that stretch fas out from land get worn an’ old: roll up an’ threat- mis untold iife; some folk breakwaters rouching sea harm Like tha are dikes stand that n land, daike an® or 10 evil un against threuten littls hole it ol enlarpes te o break: a lowering - 0° standards in owm lives means to forsake with ne'er a thought o' others, those whe count on as streng. to steer the path through decency. avoldin' filth an’ wrong. It's bard to be a human rock, temptations loom so lar, bus man 1 de it i he feel Thy brother thy Charge.” A whom to confide—from whom help and sympathetic advice may be sought. Vengeful men may sneer at the ac- They priest, may of Judge Lindsey. that judge, clergyman, doctor, husband or e to tell they tion insist anyone, BT PLANES HIT WARSHIP IN TEST —The U. S. S. Indiana was once a famous battleship. Now it's a wreck. . it as a target, in wife—all should compelled everything about know in order that the guilty may be a crime that e S. puanes used But who are they to say what per- MAY 14, 192f. practice off Hampton oRads, Va., Pic- tures show a bomb making a hit, and sailors attaching 150-pound aerial torpedoes to a seaplane. They are relecased by traps, the sight of a Judge shall someday ap- in all son is guilty before whom pear. The light that lies in woman’s eyes seldom lies until man’s action com- ) FACTS AND FANCIES — BY ROBERT QUILLEN — pels the fabrication = The only place where eat comes be- The result of Governor Lake's study | ) sweat is in the dictionary. bill took the “libera- “deliberation.” of the Sunday What the Reichsbank can’'t guar- Of his antee, the Lanks of the Rhine must. tion” out a thing retains the same odor Necessity is also the mother of hash and similar post mortem dishes. T though called by another name would if the Connecticut run ¥ proveniprone by The happicst people are those who never get their names on the front pages. company decides to “trackless trolleys.” are none so cxasperating Mr. Wheeler probably wouldn’t ob- ject to a bier preseription for J. B. Corn. There those who parade their patience, un- less it be those who imitate to irritate. not be real gueue from will her peril takes The yellow until China Japan. Although there Home,” the reports some women have the faculty of pre- imitation for the ben- like that is o Place indicate paring a pretty efit men who have there. no businesy of There no exceptions to prove rules that are govern women, merely ause there are no such rules. To paraph much better to ery: “Let’s at it,”” than thought it is ase an old 5 The aver: American consumed 44 gallons of milk last year. This is remarkable when you reflect that gallons of this was from a cow. A stockade for prisoners. used to write political The who hesitate if such hesitation is purpos man Bull pen: Also the pen -_— addresses. 3ooty Luring Police Kids to the Parks with Spades,” startling headline Poor hag no “Parks with Spades.” “Buried and reads immigiants are those is willing to part Undesirable the home country with. New Britain water with with mines Flooding British mines means flooding American pounds sterling. End of modern novel: And they married and interested themselves in vamps ever afterward, who is tired of his car cd The often man has it re- instead of retir- plan your next vacation anticipation. You With But keen ¥ The infant prodigy had been told that he must not eat werms. “Et tu,” said he mournfully, where in all creation to g0 Perhaps some invitation Would And Now an you afford Normalcy will meay more hammers used on nail heads ' and fewer on official hcads. aid the situation prove your sole salvation isn't this quite so? R. P. M.: Very technical; moaning “revolutions per minutc.” Gauges the power of a motor and the failing power of an empire. tood that the 1920 crush ed will provide enough oil to last the country what need a he loud mant who knows is | The talking about does not \oice It is unde of cotton s genuine olive three years. is one whose described A bromidic attitude person mental is best by a platitude. Arter slatesman has worn out a perfectly good typewriter framing political notes, you can’t blame him for sending an ultimatum, a i | 25 YEARS AGO i Now that we have given Colombia $25,800,000 to’ protect oil interests, the two car owners down there may expect to pay more for their gas. (From The Herald of That Date.) A fair is being held at Turner hall for raising funds for the local pital. The New Britain Cricket Club will hold a practice game at Electric field this evening at 6 o'clock. Several local members will attend the 11th annual meeting of the Woman's Home Missionary Connecticut at Bridgepor, hos- of 0. T. Frank lLee is visiting his brother »hn A. lee at Yale. The water commissioners will build a new house soon for the keeper at Shuttle Meadow lake. The average membership attendance the Boys' club for the past week 507 Union May at was SALEEBY ACQUITTED. Man Implicated in Famous Wood Al- «ohol Tases Is Not Comvicted. New Pork, May 14.—A Jjury in Brooklyn last*night acquitted Samuel K. 3aleeby, druggist, who was tried A lot of people pray as though they thought God had nothing to do but run errands for them The most astonishing feature of the situation is the variety and number of non-beverage purposes. And one way to avoid good health is to use a perfectly sound stomach as a-medicine chest. Men will this year. wear pants longer An economist says we must beware of sharp curves on the road back to normalcy. Also sharp practice. Heinie has taught us that all is not lost when the book agent forces us io sign on the dotted line. Noah and his boys douBtless worried at times because the world returned so slowly to normalcy. As a means of communicating with the land of spirits, that phone line to Cuba will prove more satisfactory than a ouija board. The chief stumbling block in the way of safe readjustment is the fact that ybody is trying to force everything down except his own income. When you read that the criminal is caught, you know (hat it is a dctec- tive story and not a news item. If Panama doesn’t wish to love, honor and obey, she has the inalien- able right to the love and honor part. Thonor part. informal in thy what home O Beer, brewed ot messes name. are Bride, offici: “Give me to a trans ating er, clergyman: please.” is some consolation to know that the It payer their best. to the tax- Allies dun In Czecho-Slovakia they have in- troduced a bil requiring all men under Pfty to have two wives. And they call 1 lthm self-determination. Even if you don't need the clock on an automobile, it’s a great con- solation at times to have something about the darned thing that will run. —_— ° Dead language: One no longer usecd. tExample: “Haven’t you something at ‘a Mtile higher price?” THE OBSERVER MAKES RANDOM OBSERVATIONS — ON — THE CITY AND ITS PEOPLE. Just at present scenario writers m to be concentrating their atten- tion on the production of motion pic- tures whose theme is spun around the Chinese, a number of these produc- tions having been issued within the past few months. This, in itself, means: nothing because motion pic- tures, like the spoken drama, are sus- ceptible to fads which continue for a season or more and then disappear from view. There is one element, ’however, to which friends of China must object, and that is the focusing ' of attention on the very worst aspect of Chinese life, the gambling den, the opium hell and all the rest of the usual stage paraphernalia. Those who have read at all about the Chinesec know that many in our American cities are not truly repre- sentative of their race and that no effort is made by scenarists Lo portray the better side of their nature. In China, a happy lana despite its per- ennial floods and its famines, there is a state of ization and a code of ethics which the Caucasian, in the ignorance of his provincialism, does not admit exists. It might be stated that the Chinese are an honorable race. This fact can be vouched for by commercial travelers who have done business in the Orient and who know that the word of a Chinese, mer- chant is as dependable as his bond. Tn business transactions they are -rupulously honest. Honor is car- ‘d to an extreme hardly thought .ssible in this country. ‘It is not unusual in China for relatives to pay debts contracted by deceased rela- tives although this neither legally nor morally necessary, according to Occidental standards. Chinese family life, in the major- ity df cases, is tranquil and, under the influence of Wesetern civilization, the women of the domestic circle are being allowed an increasing degree of freedom. The Chinese do not have the same angle of vision as we do, but to say that they are wrong just because they are different would be betraying a narrowness of spirit which could find no justification. It is said that the Chinese never knew what opium was until it was introduced by white traders and vig- orous steps are being taken by lead- ing men of the country to suppress the evil because they realize that it threatens to undermine a large part of the population mentally, morally and physically. Nothing that has been written in any age or by any men has greater clarity of thought than the proverbs written by Chinese scribes centuries ago and what can compare for beauty and understanding of life with the works of the ancient philosophers of the Far East! . Confucianism is based on highest principles and ideals which the white man could well follow with benefit to himself. It is nothing more or less than an exposition of the Golden Rule by one of the most learned men the world has known. We are accustomed to classify Chi- nese as laundrymen, proprietors of tea and souvenir stores or domestic servants. Yet there are a great many learned men, economists, educators, inventors, landscape artists and ensi- neers in the land of the Yang Tse Kiang, some of whom are the proud ownera of diplomas from Yale, Har- lvard and other prominent American institutions of learning. For the sike of relieving the mo- notony, wouldn’t it be a good idea for scenarists and motion picture, pro- ducers to lay less stress on the evil in- clinations of a small part of the great Chinese world and more on the high- er emotions of the majority lest we galn a falsc conception of a racc that was making rapi@d vrogress in the arts and scicnces when the white race was just beginning to take root? PR If people sometimes lose pdtience with their government it is usually due to the blundering methods with which the latter conduct their af~, fairs. Everyone who had relatives in the rccent war certainly is cut of patience witn the government . for its stupidity in publishing slacker lists which have not been verified. Circulation of falsities by an indi- vidual is usually laid at the door of long-suffering human nature but no excuse can be found for a sgovern- ment which, with an indifference de- void of ail compassion, deliberately brands patriotic young men as trai- tors to their country, and this is just what is being done in thousands of instances, through the distribution of the so-called lists of slackers. Already cases have been discevered of men who rendered valorous service to the flag being held up to public contempt through the idiocy of those in charge of publishing the lists. These cases are bound to increase un- less the war department recalls all the lists and makes an earnest at- tempt to verify them. Officials at Washington plead that the task of verification would be tremendous and beyond their power. That is the height of nonsense. Entrust the task to a couple of live city editors rein- forced with a staff of police reporters and they will finish the job without T tting up a sweat. What the government is asked to do is all part of the day’s work on a newspaper—the verification of news befor: it is printed. Sometimes there is a slip but when the cause is run wn it will usually be found that fault lay with the person giving the information rather than absent- indedness on the part of the re- i porter. ment should be able to clear up tH muddle in short order. Publishing the slacker lists in tl Congressional Record in an attem to make the lists “‘oflicial” and, ther; fore, removing the danger of li suits aguainst newspapers, is procect g along the linc of least resjstang Congress cannot create slackers o of patriots any more than it ca create gentlemen by proclamation, Every real American wants to.. the slackers exposed but far bet: that their ideutity remain unreveald than that red-blooded fighting me be exposed to shame they do not dj serve. .o After a year's labor, skilled art] sans of Russell & Erwin Manufactui ing Co. have completed a bronze Ict to commemorate the sacrifi its employes in the world war. 4‘}' Jewelers' Circular,” the organ o jewelry trade, describes the tablet “an excellent specimen of bron: art.” This same journal says: “The tablet is made of solid bra with a soft statuary finish. It mea ures thirty-four inches in width ag is fifty-one inches in height. TH weight of the tablet is 170 pound Every detail has been brought out H the designer and modeler, Prospél Tommasoni, an expert in his liné has been with the company for. maf y . There are 153 names on ] tablet and eight stars indicate th this number of men died during., World war while in the service.. Fij copies of the tablet were produ at the factory. . “‘At the top of the tablet thers represented an .American eaglé, wi outstretched wings. Beneath the b: are branches. of the oak, sigfi?&l strength, and the laurel for victor Two columns of bronze stand op eag side of the names inscribed an tH tablet and over the names is the lowing: “A Patriot Is One Who 1 His Country and Is Devoted td Welfare.’. Above this in large lette and numerals one observes ‘1917. ‘World War Honor Roll—1918." TI tablet has attracted many lovéers d art.” * . Something stronger than curiosi{] is stirring the souls of stock ewnen in local factories as the time for summer dividend draws near : there . is considerable conjectug whether the dividend rates that Hi existed will continue in force. ' It would not be surprising if_so: of the factories found it necegsa to economize through a reduction g dividends and this would be consis with the policy of reducing forcing the owners of the prop to shoulder a share of the burdé: that have been created by the bus! ness depression. This would only b fair because what is sauce for ¥ employe should be sauce for the e ployers. Investors in large national inst! (tions - have experienced a shrinkag in their incomes due to the reductio of dividend rates and in many 1 they have been deprived of dividigss entirely. While this has weakenc )| value of stocks as investments i Ix‘eally contributes to the rength o ithe industrigs affected because | gives them greater financial reserv] |and prepares them for a long sieg of slack business. Economy is the watchword throughout the industrial world. Bag ‘habns formed during the days whe: prosperity was at its height and o {ders for mefchandisé were bein, tossed into the wastebasket must b corrected, and they‘'are being cor; |rected in a manner that reflects th sound business sense of those wh are in control. New Britain factory stock differ: from many others because it lacKl the speculative factor. Local manu! facturgrs have been progressive, bu at same time conservative an consequently the )Kr};e majority o our indusiries are In good conditioy financially even if orders are light) Another element which contributes td the conservatism of New Eritain i jthe -fact that home industries are dai recied and contrelled. by men 3hd thake their homes here and de {heir waking hours to the further™ velopment of their manufacturing in terests. > e v, o ! Lights and Shadows j il By John J. Daly : . -] ;——-—v_——-——-_« — b IN MEMORIAM . “xs At the sign of the Bock, As the oldeters remember, Each Sprihg showed a stock That would brighten an emben There was always a flock! Ev'ry Tom, Dick and Harry From block after block & Came to purchase and tarry. | When the hands of the clock { _Pointed high to the ceiling, { There was many a shock 0 To a sensitive feeling. With a chain and a lock Someeone closed all the portals, the crow of the cock Waked the innocent mortals. Ti. No one ever could knock Loud enough so he’d failter; For the man at the dock Was as firm gs Gibraltar.