New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 16, 1921, Page 6

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This insures protection against fraud in newspaper @istribution- figures to both national and Jocal advertisers RS s g ———— TUNEMPLOYMENT. iAccording to the Department of Labor report recently f{ssued the un- employment situation during the month of June was not on the mend, from a worker's standpoint, but was rather otherwise. Barometers of business are being closely watched these days, there are those who will grofit by taking advantage of their conclusions based upon government reports and the situation as they see it in their own particular field. Con- sequently the employment guestion is of generai interest. " Three per cent. is the loss in em- ployment during the month of June, three out of every hundred workers who had jobs the first of that month had none the first of July. The num- ber of employed was none too great at the first of the month. However, in Atlanta there was a galn in employment of nearly 17 per eent,, Toledo, 16 per cent. and so forth. Paterson, Brockton, Fall Riv- er and Kansas City are among those Teporting a gain in employment. San Francisce, Syracuse and Cleveland weP$ Cities. reporting greater unem- ployment. The cities raentioned in the report make no particular products, Toledo and Atlanta have not the same class of manufactories, which would seem to prove that it is rather a question of districts than of products demanded that is causing an increase in employ- ment. Neither have San Francisco and Syracuse the same class of em- ployment centers, although they show decreases, Naturally the mill towns, such as Fall River, who were the first to feel the financial depression, are | picking up trade. The factory stocks were so reduced that the demand was greater than the supply, they hired more hands and are endeavoring to take care of the demand. But the diversity of the products from the towns which are pickinz up would in- dicate that there is a growing demand, that we may reasonably expect a greater buying which will bring about more employment and a more normal condition of affairs. The public can- not at once throw us into such busi- ness conditions as we had a few years ago, it has not the buying capacity to do so at this time. But it can, through increasing the demand slow- 1y, bring about a steadier market and a more stable condition. The rest of the summer will probably see no further depression but a slow picking up may assume the proportions of mnear stabllity, with a gradually in- creasing demand as workers take jobs to manufacture stuff for their fellow ‘workers in other lines. Albert Apple, financier and writer, Jooks over the business weather- vanes and draws optimistic conclu- sions from the reports of the rail- roads which state that the idle freight cars in the country are now 373,971 @gainst 507,274 three months ago. In comparison with one year ago there were 775,061 cars loaded with revenue producing freight for the week end- ing June 25 and 845,684 the same week in 1919. But the latter period was before the depression. With about 20 per cent. of all labor in the United States connected, directly or indirectly, with tha transportation systems it can be seen that a resump- tion of freight activities will mean in- creased employment on the railroada with increased buying power for their labor. , Whereupon the increased buy- ing power will bring about a greater demand for equipment for men and machines. This opens up the cloth- ing industries and the steel industries, whose workers will likewise pass along thelr wages to other producers. There is considerable light in the situation now, even though we may be prone to a gloomy outlook. It is certain that conditions must improve. EXODUS OF FOREIGNERS. The steamship booking agencies in the city of New Britain daily tell us of a comparatively large number of foreigners that are leaving this city for their native lands, on visits to parents or to remain there casting their future lot with the country of their birth rather than that of their adoption. It is with regret that we learn of the action of some of them. “For- eigners’’ includes a large number of local people, although it does not in- clude those who have become citizens, in thel strict sense of the word. “Fhe e word has brought about expect 10 meet as a foreigner, which of course is mnot technically correct. Many foreign born are not foreigners strictly speaking, many born here of parentage that, years ago, came from other lands, are wrongly called for- eigners. The chances are that the greater majority of those that are leaving are properly “foreigners,” in that they were born abroad and have not vet adopted this land with the formality that is required. many good Americans in the making, how- ever, drifting from our shores and they are of the temperament and characteristic that is hard to lose. The mere fact that they have money to pay for their trip to the homeland is proof that they are the desirable kind. They have been thrifty enough in the time of good business to save enough to give them the trip they so much desire when the time is right. Thrift is o strongly desirable charac- teristic in the American’ population and anything that may teach us thrift is to be welcomed. On the cther hand there are many foreigners stranded upon our shores with no thrift, with no desire to keep any money that they might make and with a strong feeling that the Ameri- can people owes them something be- cause they have not picked up enough gold off the streets to line their homes and gorge their stockings. They are the chronic Kkickers, they are the embryonic Bolsheviks and they are the undesirables that we- must keep whether wé will it or no. In a few instances the worst of the breed has been shipped out by the Arifting mal- contents are still in evidence. 'To the' foreigners who leave, volun- tarily and with their expenses in their own pockets, with perhaps a little surplus for putting an addition onto their parents home or buying a new cow for the old folks, we wish, the realization of all of their desires and a speedy return to these shores to aid us in creating the American race as it should be created, as it is now bullding itself up in the pot.” Britain residents who are going back, with their heads up and a happy heart because they have earned the right to enjoy themselves by proving their thriftiness and their ability to look’| into the future. There are “melting THE TURKS AND GREEKS. Lloyd George and De Valera, of England and of the Irish Republic are gathering in * conference with the hopes that the Irish question will be once and for all definitely settled. A weary world hopes so too. - President Harding has called a conference of the principal powers with the wish to at least discuss limitation of arma- ments. These two items are of the greatest interest to the most people in the weekly grist of news. They are concrete, the Irish question hits pretty close to home because of the fact that English speaking nations are involved and because the Irish faction in the United States have kept the issue well agitated for several years. In President Harding's scheme we take an active interest because of the knowledge that it may remedy what has been a thorn in the side of the taxpayer for generations. We have our own affairs to con- sider and are taken up, at present, with the trolley question. With all of these things going on, with the front pages of the newspapers de- voted to the news that it is thought will be the most attractive to read- ers, the little altercation that is going on about halfway around the world from here, between nations whose na- tional languages and aspirations are little understood by us, is paid prac- tically no attention to by the public, despite the fact that there is more or less seriousness in the situation. The newspapers hide the stories of the fighting in obscure places, they yknow that the public cares little what is going on. The Greeks, lately, have some suc- cesses to their credit, although this is negligible in the summary of oper- ations. In diplomatic circles there is alarm over the possibilities of further Turkish action under Kemal. Con- stantinople and the Dardaneclles are practically untenable for allied troops and ships a fact which has rendered more difficult -the settlement of the Near East situation. Should the Turks follow up their advantage they might make matters even more seri- ous than they are. Americans have completely lost sight of the fact that the total loss of life in the Turko-Greek affair, up t» July 1 was.over a million, 700,- 000 Greeks are already numbered among the victims of the war. A few years ago, or maybe a years hence when local irritations are less numerous such an affair would arouse great interest and a great desire to do something to avert the waste of lives and money. We are extremely selfish in our occupation with our own affairs strictly, it seems. Loss of life ir. Ireland, through reprisals, has been small indeed compared with that further east. But we have read of it upon the front page of every news- paper for months. The newspapers try to give the I iblic what it wants and have fairly accurate methods of checking up on the desires of the people. They are not to blame for allowing the Turk prgposition to go practically un- few NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD. SATURDAY, JULY 16 § : Try This On Your Wise Friend Can you arrange four 7's with arithmetical signs so that will make 1007 they 79 plus plus 2-6 Answer to yesterday's: 5 1-3 equals 84 1-3; 84 equals 84 1-3. e e e e e h el s s e came so aroused that something be undertaken to avert further blood- thed. CITY MANAGERS. Up-to-date communities are becom- ing more and more interested in the city manager and commission form of government. In this city the plan has been broached several times, never meeting with any great en- thusiasm in political circles for rea- sons which are perfectly obvious. No definite action has been taken, al- though we venture to say that a large number of individuals are of the be- lief that a business form of govern- ment here would bé better than the existing system. It is probable that no action will he taken, although New London has seen fit to look with fa- vor upon the plan, for several years to come, In Dayton, which has had the city manager and commission form of gov- ernment for some time, a petition, signed by 8,000 peo'ple has been placed in ecirculation. It asks that there be a referendum vote upon the advisa- bility of discontinuing the system and going back to the common plan of electing a Mayor and an assistant body of local lawmakers. The out- come of the election will be watched with 3 great deal of interest. It is a fact that there are no communi- ties which have adopted the city man- ager that have gone back to the other style. In Dayton the trouble arose over an increase in the local gas rate. Bon voyage indeed to the New |The people were dissatisfied with the price charged and asked that the manager be recalled by referendum. In Connecticut cities a petition to the Public Utilities commission would be the only resource of the public in a like cause for complaint, but we take it that the Detroit manager had pow- tr in adjusting rates either because the plant was public owned or the laws of Ohio so read. Arbitrary action, with an increased expense to the public, is never popu- lar. Possibly the manager of Dayton was justified in allowing an increase to the company which operated the plant ér making a higher charge if Dayton operated it. Possibly the city manager has saved enough in busi- nesslike administration of city affairs to more than compensate for the higher rate of one of the necessities of the householder. Undoubtedly the question will be thoroughly fought out before time for completion of the referendum, and in the fight much de- tail of interest to others should de- velcp. After all human beings are only human beings and city managers are human. - A poor choice of the leading executive, of the city administrator would do a great deal to make the commission form of government un- popular elsewhere as well as in the city where the man was chosen. It is certain that the greatest pains must bs exercised when the manager is picked in order that no party fa- vorite or incapable individual gets the reins of city affairs in his hands. But the city manager form is the logi- cal method of government notwith- standing, that it seems to deprive the people of the opportunity to vote oftener. We believe that Dayton will keep up its present system of govern- ment despite tne petition. If it does not we shall refuse to accept the ref- erendum as a testimonial to the inad- RANDOM - Action of the Hardware City Loan Corporation in making another reduc- tion in rents that it owns is com- mendable and worthy of the special mention given it in the press. In brief: About 130 families, hard hit by the industrial depression, have had their financial burden lightened by about 10 per cent insofar as rent charges are concerned. When it is again called to mind that this is the third such reduction the corporation has made since the first of the year one can readily understand and believe that it is governed by a board of direc- tors who are not only good business men, but aNo honest and conscien- tious. Unfortunately however, this action cannot he heralded as general about the city. True, many landlords have reduced their rents and no mention has ever ben made of it. In their in- dividual cases virtue has been its own reward. But how many more have not reduced their rents and how many have sought to increase them or keep the latest increases effective! A fair return on investment is to be expected and when taxes are increased the landlord should expect to get a proportionate increase from his ten- ants; but it is unfair and unjust for him to levy an assessment that not only pays the increasinged taxation, but also adds a bit more to his pocket. And this has been done. e nd while on the subject of prices: have all read with as much sym- pathy as interest in the movement of the campaign in New York to visability of city managers. 25 YEARS AGO (From The Herald of That Date.) The annual meeting of the incor- porators of the New Britain Savings bank was held last night. The re- ports show an increass of $240,000 in deposits over last year. E. J. Skinner and family are spend- ing a vacation at Westbrook. The Trinity Methodist church will hold its annual excursion to Watch Hill tomorrow. The Baptist church will join them. Officer Hellberg moved his family from Black Rock into his new house on Lincoln street today. Miss Mary A. Tormay was present- ed with 3 handsome mirror by the choir members of the Kensington Catholic church. Miss Tormay was formerly organist there. SEIZE TWO STILLS Early Morning Rail at Village Hill, Near Willimantic, Interrupts Moon- shiners at Work. Willimantic, July 16.—An early morning raid at the home of Willlam Beegeu, Village Hill, New Lebanon, about six miles from here, is declared by Constable Stanton L. Briggs, who led the raiders, to have resulted in the discovery of two stills in full operation and the seizure of more than 30 gallons of moonshine whiskey, ,When the officers entered the house they found a 20 gallon cask of freshly distilled liquor that had not had time to cool. Willlam Seegeu was not at home, but his father and Frank H. Martin.of this obtain a reduction in the price charg- ed for ice cream sodas. In Boston the price of ice cream is also subject for publi¢ protests and there is a move to have it declared a food necessity so that under that heading the price charged might be:regarded as too much, But here how is it? The price of milk has been lowered somewh.it from war time peak prices. The\price of sugar is away, away down. The cost of syrups is also less and we all know that the price paid labor is less. With these facts in mind it will take a lot of explaining on the part of those who dispense ice creams, college ices, sundaes, ice cream sodas, etc, to prove to the satisfaction of the public where tliey are entitled to charge such such exorbitant prices gs 20 and 25 cents for the more palatable dishes of ice cream and 15 cents for the old fashioned ice cream soda that used to cost a nickel and once in a while a dime at the more exclusive stores. e \ The jitney muddle has been too well aired to need added comment in this column, but a fact that seems to have escaped the nétice of a good many might be touched upon. Origin- ally the committee on cities and boroughs was to handle the trolley situation and, it has been =aid. this committee was almost ‘hand picked" with a view to eliminating the jitneys in favor of the electrics. This, how- ever, became unwise as a storm of sentient in favor of jitneys was seen gathering on the horizon. What happened next? Our astute managers of publc affairs fix up the laws a bit and pass the buck on to the public utilities commission which, it has been said, is more or less of a “hand pick- ed” organigation and most decidedly not unfriendly to the trolley com- pany. But there is yet more. While attention of many legislators and cer- tainly the public was attracted to other quarters a legislative committee slipped 'overta measure providing for special licensed for jitneys. The result is that all jitneys must have a special license and, it would apper to the layman, ‘the Connecticut company has THE OBSERVER MAKES OBSERVATIONS o ON — THE CITY AND ITS PEOPLE. ment- can be called upon to arrest him: for he is not violating another state law that provides he must have a special license? And these special licenses be it remembered, are obtain- able only on an order from the public utilities commission. Verily, the ways of politics are strange. . .o Winsted had better watch out, for New Britaip is running a close sec- w.d in getting into print in the metro- politan journals.-In one week the New York Times and other big papers in that city and also in Boston have fea- tured a story about the city planning to permit delinquent taxpayers to work out their debts, and then considerable space was given to a newspaper re- vorter here who gave a half pint of blood to save his brother’s life. Both of these stories were printed as far west as St. Louis. Next these papers printed the story about the rent re- ~uctions. s 014 associates of Roy N. Buell, both in business and municipal affairs, will Le interested to learn that he is now in far off Australia where he is making good, is identified with a million dol- lar corporation and bids fair to rival “Hen” Ford or some other of these men to whom great success came rather late in life. e Sometime considerably more than a year ago one of the electric stand- ards around Central Park was brokens| off. The cable post§, sticking about a foot out of the ground, were protected bv a wooden cage. That was, as has Lteen said, more than a year ago, but the old cage is still there and the city has shown no intention of repairing it. No other reason why this cannot be called a “city beautiful.” e Appropos of the council meeting at ‘which Mayor O~K. Curtis took a man’s sized wallop at the Connecticut com- rany many' people have expressed some wonderment where hizzoner got the nerve to come out flatfooted against this powerful corporatior which has the backing of the evea more powerful politicians. Likewise, some comment, favorable too, was ex- vressed to note that hizzoner, on ong thing at least, decided to climb off the fence and take a decided stand, or at least take a stand that left no doubt what his views are and make it very iifficult for him to do the w.k. back- qip. * S e Truly, this is a ‘strange summer. Have we not had weather of the hot- test and most humid variety? But ctranger still, compared to past vears, is the lack of enthusiastic vacation alk. In the past vacation talk began about Memorial Day, and from then on it was plan, plan, plan. It was con- tagious too. This summer finds com- paratively little enthusiasm. People &re thinking more of the morrow than they were wont to do, it seems. DR Those who have so generously con- iributed to the Fresh Air Camp for the poor and anaemic children will certainly realize that their money is peing well spent. and others will un- consciously feel their hand moving to- ward their pocket. if they but take a trip up to that camp. Anyone with a car can make it in less than an hour, and the road is not bad at all. The most direct route is from here to Farmington and Unionville. At Union\’illg cross the river and take the Collinsvilie road. A short dis- got them going and coming. If by any slip up or appeal the jitneyman keeps running and cannot be temporarily halted by the public utilitles com- mission ruling, then the police depart- tance brings one to the little Burling- ‘on railroad station on the right. Here there is a road leading off to the left, and by following that, and the signs rosted along the way, one cannot miss ( =) JFACTS AND FANCIES ! — BY ROBERT QUILLEN s TV And now none but the brave will ask the fare. Class consciousness: Envy of the fellow who has a bigger wad. The lily toils not, spin. And it soon shabby. neither does it begins to look Every ’ism is but the shddow of one man’s personal profit. lenthened desire for a Woman's face is still her fortune, but it is now listed among the con- cealed assets. Note to brid The thing that sparates a properly hitched team ot horses is the tongue. It seems funny to read of the old- fashioned heroine who thrust the letter into the boson her dress in order to conceal it. of The immigrant dare not spit on the flag, but there will be no objection it he spits on that other national em- blem,’ the Ford. When you tell a woman she re- sembles an acquaintance, she always says: “You flatter me.” But what she means is: “Do I look like that?” “If the next war is in the air, queries a cynic, “where shall we hide Man has his little troubles, but it is comforting to reflect that the ultimate consumer is the worm. It might pay France to devote less attention to infant republics, and more to infant Frenchmen. The next international sporting event will be another lap of the race between John Bull and John D. The first Ruth worked with the gleaners to clear the field. It wasn't her business to clear the bases. Tino started his war too late. The only way to get on the front page now is to figure in a divorce case. It is very easy to love your neigh- bor as yourself if he will treat you as well as you treat yourself., Well, if the reformers can't per- suade women to adopt a new style, they might slip over a law requiring men to wear smoked glasses. As we understand it, only the 100 per cent American has the right to a deep prejudice for or against Eng- land. The objectionable kind of hyphen is the one that peruades a man to culti- vate a prejudice that doesn’t match yours. The effort of Congress to standard- Admiral Eberle (right) and Maj . Gen. George Barnett, of the marine corps, snapped on the flagship New Mexico in San Francisco Bay when Ebgrle took over command of the Pacific fieet. — o — —— =\ LIGHTS AND SHADOWS By John J. Daly BEFORE AND AFTER. A young and giddy spendthrift went to the marts of trade And tossed away his birthright, the wealth his fathers made; And as the money jingled upon the pavement street The hungry hands of misers stretched out beneath his feet. He trampled on their knuckles, asd kicked them from his way. They touched with awe the garments that clothed the man of clay And groveled low before him with greedy eyes aglow; They fought with one another for favor at his toe. To get the leather boot-mark ingrained upon the chin, Provided coin went with it, was worthy of a grin. They gathered in the shekels as farmers reap the grain And called the stranger Brother and counted of their gain. To them he was a savior who But now a broken mortal with scattered joys untold. They asked him for his blessing—and kissed the cross of gold. An old disheveled gamester came up the road one day. And tried to find his fortune — the one he threw away. There "were ‘no scraping mortals upon the thoroughfare Though many men, contented, A lavisher of riches, they welcomed to the land; were idly standing there. thin and empty hand Came seeking for a pittance, and each man turned his head And no one heard his pleading because he asked for bread. To be a palsied pguper with shriveled face and mien, An outcast on the curbing, is sinful and unclean. And so they left the highway and hid behind the doors And, fearing for their hoardings, locked up the treasure stores. A Thief, the old men called him, &ifd left him in the cold. They cursed the ground he stood on — and blessed the god of gold. the camp. And for a scenic ride this cannot be surpassed either. o Oh, for the life of & newspaperman If there is a man alive who is a friend of everybody today, and .to- morrow finds every man's hand against him, it is the average reporter. The. most independent job under the sun, it is at the same time the butt of everyone’s criticism. He must educate the public to know what is news, be- fore he can get news from the public. “Keep it out of the paper,” says Bill Smith when his automobile bumps into' & telegraph pole. But when his neighbor’s car moves a promineat lamp post six inches up the street and he falls to see it in his daily paper, he growls in disgust as he throws down 75 to 100 columns of live news, “The darned old paper never has any news anyhow.” “No, I don’'t know a thing” says Sally Green, who is secretary of the home for crippled chickens “why dan't you have the story about my sister Mabel going to Kalamazoo last week 2" and the disgusted reporter gets out and learns that the home of which Sally is secretary has just purchased a $100,000 property around the block. “No, we never hear any news in our business,” answers John Billings, chairman of the Amalgamated asso- ciation of Sunshine Sweepers, as he cheerfully mails a letter to the nation- al headquarters stating that the a. ciation’s funds are strangely missing and the whereabouts of the treasurer are shrouded in mystery. Oh, we didn’'t want that in the paper,” he re- plies the next day when the reporter, who finally got the story from another source asks him about it. Yet when Rev. Go Get 'Em Boies of the Mora- vian Evangelist church, who works for a salary of $9.82 a week doesm't al- ways get it, appears in the pulpit with patched trousers, John raises thunder been “granted” a decrease in wages, and the next day be bawls out the newspaper man because he couldn't find anything in the paper about a strike at the American Rainbow fac- tory. “Oh, pshaw,” ejaculates pretty Mol- 1y Ryan, ‘“Here Annie Williams has been in town for three days and I never knew it,”” and the next day she tells the representative of the Morning Blizzard ‘that she doesn't believe in putting personals in the paper, any- how. When a man wants to be a physi- cian he goes to a medical college; when he wants to be a lawyer he goes ' to a law school, but if he doesn’t go to either he doesn’t feel qualified to criticize those who do; yet, in the opinion of the cub reporter, anybody who can’t do anything else can always tell' the newspaper how to handle news. If Annie Lurie only knew the re- porter had the interests of her young friends as much at heart as she has that he knows more about human na- ture as it is related to the publicity proposition than she does, and that his copy is scrutenized carefully by responsible persons higher up, she probably would not feel that the re- porter would ruthlessly trample upon the feelings of others, entirely ignor- ing the effect of his story. All is not grist that comes to a newspaper man’s mill, as is commonly supposed, and one of the most essen- tial features of a reporter’s training, next to having a “nose for news,” is the faculty of knowing what should not be published and what is confiden- tial. I see a man walk through the doors of a show, ‘Where great throngs are blocked the sign S. R. O. The crowd he ignores and no ticket by because the home paper overlooked the patches. “I don’t think we ought to publish the names of these children,” con- scientiously ~ declares Miss Anne Laurie. supervior of the Daily Picnic For Crippled Children Association, because their parents have so much pride they might feel hurt if anyone knew they accepted charity.” -Yet everyone of these parents feels like writing a letter to the editor and stop- ping the paper because Willie Brown, aged six, who was accused of taking the price of an ice cream cone out of his sister’s savings bank was not committed to a reformatory and branded for the rest of his life. You ought to have more considera- tion for a man’'s feelings,” said Mike Boozie, ' who' spent the night in a cell after getting drunk and making a spectacle of himself for an hour on the principle street, just because the reported refused to “soft pedal” the story. “1 don't want anything in the paper ize nuts was not, as commponly €un- about our business at all,”” says Super- intendent SBimpson of the D he buys, “Ag actor,” plies, “Naw, he's just one of the newspaper save” I ask and an usher re- 1 I see a man shove his way through the lines Of the cops where a fire glimmers and “shines. “The chief,” I inquire and a fireman "1 reply. “Why that tellow’s only & newspaper wox brightly I see a man start on the trail of a crook, He scorns all assistance, him a book. “Mr. Burns?” I inquire and the police says, “Why, that fel‘low's only a newspaper guy.” vet brings And some day T'll walk by those great streets of gold, And I'll see a man enter, unquestioned and bold. “A saint?” I'll inquire, -~ Peter ) zend .