New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 20, 1921, Page 6

New Britain Herald. HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY, 1 Proprietors wued dally (Sunday excepted) at 4:15 » M. at Herald Building, 67 Church street. $8.00 & Year. $2.00 Three Months. T6¢ a Month. Fotered at the Post Office at New Dritain a8 Second Class Mail Matter. TELEPHONE CALLS: Business Office . . Xditorial Rooms . The only profitable advertising medium In the city. Circulation books and press Toom always open to advertisers. Member of The Associated Press. Asscciated Press is exclusively entitied to the use for republication of all news credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also local news pub- lished herein. ber Audit Bureau of Circulation. T . C. is a national o i SPCh turnishes newspapers and adver- sers with a strictly honest an reulation. Our circulation statistics The {the p: count for it. The hot wave extends all about our globe. Europe has hot- ter weather than she has scen in fifty years. Long-frozen Alpine glaciers are melting and floods, rushing down in elsewhere streams have dried up’ and crcps are parched. it is cla‘med, Europe and tinent se= opposite conditions of tem- perature, when the other is true today. It has not tively idertify sun spo tions, says chief of disturbances cannot But the Weather Bureau several weeks show a peratur sing 12 degrees above normal in the Great Lakes re- gion and from 5 to s degrees Us this ally, con- spell one has a hot cool. The opposite is been possible to posi celation between weather any hot Charles I\ bureau. connected. condi- Marvin, Other and Dr. the weather be charts for tem- 10 to warmer arc based upon this audit. This Insures protection against fraud in newspaper distribution figures to both national und local advertisers essaice— s o JAN SMUTS. wearmsg tne past several years, ever #ince the Boer war in fact, the world has been aware of the existence of a singular individual, a personage whose wit and wisdom seems to be bringing him to the front national affairs much more than oth- ers, who have had enormously great- « I3vantages of position than he. The personage is daily becoming more of a leading light, providing that he is the factor that brings the disagreeing factions in Ireland to- gether he will have furnished an achievement that many think impos- sible. The quiet, but effective, work- er is Jan Cristiaan Smuts, general and premier of South Africa, once a fighter against the British, now one of the Island Empire’s most faithful allies. Less than twenty years ago Smuts campaigned against the British in the Boer war. His faction was de- feated and he gave in most thorough- 1y, immediately setting to work to or- ganize the Union of South Africa, amalgamating the various South Afri- can states, his first big achievement. He was a drafter of the League of Nations pact, most of it being drawn up, in preliminary form, under his direction. He declined the testi- monial offered him, that of general secretary for the League. It is said that he can cook a meal or try a lawsuit with equal ease and his ac- complishments are many. He is a plain man in his home life and a student of national policies. He pre- .fers to work for England, which coun® try he loves, for no political advance- ment. He numbers his years at 52. General Smuts is the man who is trying to bring together the warring factions of Ireland with the British government and it seems that he is most eminently qualified to bring or- der if any man can. lImpelled by his regards for the empire and his de- sire for ‘a united front he will do all that he can. Once a fighter him- self he can most easily imagine the feelings of the Irish race, and one who can do this may make allow- ances for the Irish. In addition to all he is serving for no honors that may come to him but for love of country, which the Irish know as well as the rest of the world. Conferences over the question of Ireland are still going on without, much visible result excepting that the north of Ireland representative has dissented from the opinion offered, whether it was an opinion of De Valera’s or Lloyd George's we have still to find out. The mere fact that nothing of note has appeared on the surface since these conferences start- ed would indicate that an agreement in inter- for the remainder of the central states and the coastal areas. Texas, Oklahoma and New iiexico are show- ing below normal. Rainfall, of late, has becn distributed and the European drought conditions do not prevail. In the summer of 1901, if you wish a grain of cheer, the mer- well cury remained above 100 degrees in the Mississippl valley for 30 days. We quite realize why it is that the Weather Bureau boys have worried about the heat during long hours. 1 had reason Like ourselves, they have not much sleep and know the therefore, whereupon they ey are unable to account for it, so But all we know isthat it It certainly is hot. _ HUNTING THE JAY-WALKERS, Councilman Henry Rice received a nasty slap on the wrist from Mayor Curtis, who has stated that the Coun- cilman's project to impose a smali ne upon ‘“jay-walkers” is going worry. are we. is hot. to is still distant. Had Lloyd George and DeValera found a common point or two we are inclined to believe that one of the two would have so signi- fied, relieving the strain upon the rest of the world and paving the way to- ward a final settlement. There is, however, no friction between the two apparent which augurs well where other items tend to disappoint. Back of all of these confprences, somewhere within reaching distance, is the advice and counsel of Jan Smuts. The peacemaker extraordin- ary is seeking a way. Lloyd George may make the public announcement of what has been done, the British Empire will agree with Ireland, if an agreement is reached, but Smuts will have had the hand that bore the ‘weight. THE HEAT. Many New Britainites are spending several hours each night, after they have turned in, wondering why the deuce it is so hot. Some of them are lying the whole night long, their strenuous wooing of Morpheus to no avail, with their minds upon the same sudject. It makes little differ- ence, though we wonder, why it is 80 abnormally hot, so long as it again gets cool, but there 1s no promise of that. Meanwhile we swelter and to wonder, continue to because the heat is the uppermost subject in our minds, after we get in bed at least. Down in Washington Uncle Sam’s weather experts are spending just as much time wondering as we are. They probably cannot sleep either, and when a government employe is un- able to sleep it is time for action. Being of a scientific turn of mind they ar: conjecturing upon the sci- entific reasons for the heat, and they admit they are lost, they camnot ac- be consigned to the waste-basket, at once, quick, pronto, tout suite, £o forth. The great New Britain pub- lic deserves more consideration tlan 1o be haled into court and paying out couple of dollars for the privilege of suaying from between the lines so carefully laid out upon the bitulithic of Main street, says hizzoner. 'Tis enough to have one of New Britain's courteous guardians of the ex- and law plain to erring Mmaid or sinning man that he has wandered from the beat- en trail into the haunts of the gas buggie and, hat band according to the sex of the of- feuder, request or order in hand or club n (see abave) same to return to the point which he or she so fondly forth upon the journey. We feel for the Councilman. O1e's <t project should not be held up to jublic ridicule through statement. from salued any such Why waste the brains of he City Fathers by throwing their away products of their cerebral cri- Why, oh why? Hizzoner has been adopting a high- ly exemplary attitude lately (it is but a few months till election and a strong opponent is in the offing), he has been protecting the public of the <1iy most strenuously. Seldom has he iailed to show regards for the citi- zens. He has an employment bureai, hie roesn’t want the people too strictly Leld by the jay-walking requirements, ard he is strong for the reduction of fices? 1a1es by the trolley company, or the continuance of jitney serv ‘When he appeared before the Public Util- ties commission in Hartfori at a jit- ney hearing recently he was not quits so enthusiastic, then that wa different. He said then that he want- ed it understood that he was not for o1 against the jitneys. Now he sieps into the breach and protects the pup- lic from the nefarious designs of Hen- 1y Rice. In all fairness to the Councilman it should be borne in mind thata regu- lation is scarcely there is attached thereto a penait One feels ridiculous in being order- =d back by a policeman, which is some penalty; one gets ready to (isht when one of New Britain’s bull voiced ~inions of the law becomes offens- ive, which one or two occasionally do, effective un.ess When the latter condition exists la hating instead of law-abiding citizens aie made. There should, enforcement, be a penalty The public has been restricted as to it shall walk, the problem is lo make people travel inside the lines. to sécure it seems. where If they are not made to do so the element of safety is removed. On the other hand, the traffic lines are new. Many an old resident of the city, accustomed to go where he pieases and in the habit of crossing Main street almost anywhere, will un- wittingly break the law and it is ques- ficnable whether he should be fined ‘or so doing. We have a community that is progressive enough and telligent enough to realize the neces- sity of controlling foot traffic, and we believe that members of the commun- 'ty having had the existenee of the .aw impressed upon them a couple of tmes, will thereafter remember it and gradually form the habit of con forming to it. Intentional of the rule, moved by a ake trouble, pear. in- violators desire to may occasionally ap- These should be punished and A way may probably be found to do so. Pretty quick the Republicans will prove that we didn't win the war at all. NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY _IULY‘ 20, 1921. e e Try This On Your Wise Friend you put 111 999 down Can and 777 in addition make them add 20 by striking out and form and six of the numbers? i to yesterday's: plus 50 38-76 equals 100. Answer 491 That husband, in New York, who has agreed not to speak to his wife, except when actually nine years hasn’t shout about for to necessary, done so much after all. Many a husband to his wife, even longer than that. has not spoken if necessary, for He hasn’t had a chance. Josephus Daniels, owing to a turn in the tide of politics, is “getting his™” daily. A Senate committee, com- | posed of Republicans in the majority, bawls him out unceasingly and finds nothing upon which him. to commend Which is not surprising, but to be] deplored, as it is destroying t(he prestige of American arms in the war, the history of which will live long after Daniels; the Senators are dead. Sims and In kicking around the American navy they are destroying the service records of hundreds of thousands of sailors to gain what slight political advantage there might be in proving that Daniels did not know anythins. Future generations are bound to hook up the personal service of the LEE TR ] LIGHTS AND SHADOWS By John J. Daly = IN ST. | ) MARY’S COUNTY. Through the meadows of rye, where the Severn rolls by, And the Chesapeake's breezes caressing Blow over the steeps where the sweet myrtle creeps In Maryland’s domain prepossessing, There are’many fine traits that the rest of the states Emulate when they want to impress you; But the custom I hold to be finer than gold Comes from “St. Mary’s county, God bless you!” There the natives, ’tis said, upon going to bed, Fall down on their knees in thanksgiving Should you ask, * And the reason is this: You must step up and say, in In the grant to the Lord individual with the record of outfit. his COMMUNICATED “The Public Under Control.” New Britain, Conn. July 20, 1921. Editor Herald: _The communication in last eve- ning’s Herald over. the signature of West Ender would hardly be worth replying to except for the im- plication in describing present con- dition of French’'s large bus. I would state in regard to that matter that Mr. French is far sighted. enough and thoughtful enough of his patrons to not let a little thing like that cause inconvenience. Having provided equipment for just such emergencies he is able to lay up his large bus for repair and not run it in a ran shackle condis tion as are his rivals, some of their trolley equipment. In regard to West Ender’'s statement that the trolley company’s franchise that they paid the city for should be protected. That is too funny for anything. Per- haps 'West Ender’ will favor us with another communication telling how much the city got for that franchise, (for nobody else seems to have heard that the city got a cent for it), which has since turned out to be a lemon. No friend West Ender you are from further west than West End—from Missouri, I should say. But do not worry as we seem to have departed from government by the consent of the governed, the “P. U. C.,” (Public Under Control, or Public Ultimately Canned), will straighten the matter out for us or rather the Connecticut urs truly Theri Thev&% Crisp, swee or b Grape:Nu It gives balanced nourishment without taxing the digestion as heavy, starchy foods do. It adds energy without taking energy away. Grape:Nuts with cream or milk contains the es- sential elements needed by body and brain. elightful — GrapeNuts is an idea) And praise the good Lord for the gifts He has stored In that part of the earth where they're living; Then, lest He forget where thosé homesteads are set, Each person — the thought will obsess you — Concludes with the phrase that is part of His Praise, “I'm from St. Mary's county, God bless you!” [t's a habit of speech going far in its reach, 'Tis a pleasure to hear the expression I'rom the mouth of a maid, or a broken-down blade — On the stranger it makes an impression; For no matter the man he will follow the plan, And the answer will' fairly caress you, ‘You're from where?” he will say, with a flare, “I'm from St. Mary’s county, God bless you!” From the first sainted kiss That a mother of St. Mary's county Bestows on her child, to the day it's exiled, She impresses one lesson in bounty: “When you meet on the street,” she will say to her sweet, “Some unknown who sees fit to address you, a chivalrous way, ‘I'm’ from St. Mary’s county, God bless you!" ™ From the days of the swords that were carried by hordes Baltimore, To this time of our own when the airplane is flown That's a habit on Maryland’s shore, You may walk through the state at a leisurely gait Or motor — you'll hear it, unless you Are deaf when you meet all the folks on the street, “I'm from St. Mary’s county, God bless you! Oh, St Mary’s people, from stock-yard and steeple Forever are shouting its praises; And never stop telling of joys found in dwelling Where naturé is kind in her phases. It's really worth while, then, to bask in the smile Of a man who could never distress you ‘When he says rather proud of his home, to the crowd: “I'm from St. Mary’'s county, God Bless you!” = | i | i - | FACTS AND FANCIES | — BY ROBERT QUILLEN — J 2 The reason we hate an end-seat hog is because he beats us to it. Man’s inhumanity countless thousands returns. to man makes fake their tax Even the most savage peoples wor- ship some kind of god and make some kind of alcoholic beverage. We can understand how some car owners get along with so little oil, but it is rather difficult to understand how they get along with so little toil. The army and navy bill for 1922 would build 150,000 homes, or keep 1,732 used cars in running order. When we decide what to do with ex- Presidents, perhaps we can find a way to rescue ex-Cabinet members from obscurity. We can’t love the man who goes to church and.sings “Stand up for Jesus,” and then won't stand up for a woman in a street car. The announcement that there are more males than females in the United States is obviously an error. Perhaps d neuter lounge With You ? One oftwo companions leaves the breakfast table with youshelp or handicap. food Eives you alift with the day’s work. ts welghts you down. d st or h. “There’s a Reason™ Made by Postum Cereal Company, Incorporated,Batile Olrek,Mlchigml. — Home, with a great many people, is a place they can lay aside their uncomfortable clothes and their good manners. The knowledge a college graduate has in his head does him very little good until he gets the swelling out of his head. / The physician who says no fast will prove fatal to a healthy man within twenty days probably doesn’t mean to include Belfast. The weather bureau frequently re- fers to it as a “mean” temperature. Laymen use adjectives of a little high- er horse power. There dre two classes of employes: Those who are an asset to the business and those who are forever excited about their rights. There is a religious revival in Rus- sia. Evidently they have given up the job of reforming the world, and decid- ed to begin at home. As a rule, the men who get turned down by life insurance companies as pall bearers for the ho didn't get turned down, isahelp. 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