New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 5, 1922, Page 6

.New Britain Herald ‘r COMPAN Bxeapted) el Bties HERALD BURLISIING (Iasued Dully, Bunday At Hersld Bldg, 07 SUBACRIPTION RATES $5.00 & Yoear $2.00 Vehs, | v Month, Now |wm.m’ Three M TRELEPHONE am Hooms Husiness o 988 Editorinl The only 1 | & medium ho Cit thow | Member of The Associnted Press | yeinted Press 18 exclusl af ro-publicnt horwine crodited b- The A to the uwe for eroditad it or n n this o nd wls 14 Meaed hereln, Member Audit Bureau of Clrenlation | ganization ey Tho A €. 15 a nat whicl nows| thsor trietly o treutation ar i, Phis insues jro fraoud In newsnn both national and lo Nonest trihution fgures t enl advertisors HINDERING COMPETITION The the United Bupreme Court, declaring illegal the | deeision ot tates | practice of a packing company in con- | trolling the prices of its products, will have far The fact that the divided court makes no practical difference in the The law on the subject has heen made, The decision does not hold that it is illegal for & company to refuse to retailer or wholesaler who | reaching results decision was by a matter, sell to a will not adhere by the producing compgny. The pro- | a right to sell to | ; this privilege | to the prices as fixed ducing company whomsoever it ple: may not be taken away. The decision does hold, however, that thescompany has no right to continue a policy by which it, its dis- tributors, customers and agents try to prevent other from obtaining the products of the company at prices low- er than those designated by the com- pany. It holds, in brief, that the com- pany has no right to establish a plan whereby its agents and customers con- spire to maintain the prices fixed by | the company. « The policy of the company has been to have the names of dealers who cut prices on its goods reported to it; to enroll such dealers on a 18t of un- desirable customers; to employ agents to report such cases and of marking cases contaiming its«goods in such a way as to make possible the ascertaining of the names of dealers who cut the prices on the company's and dealers goods. “By these methods,” st vailing opinion, *the ‘though selling its produets at prices satisfactory to it, is enabled to vent competition in their subsequent | s the pre- company, al- disposition by preventing all Who llo‘ not sell at resale prices fixed by it| from obtaining its goods.” The country will approve a decision | that is almed to correct the stifling of competition. ILLITERACY The statement of Prof Spaulding, head of the ¥ tional department and chairman of the chamber of commerce committee on education, that the fact that “One out of every twenty persons we pa in the New Haven can neither read write the language constitutes a menace to our streets of nor American American institutions and a challenge welfare that to every citizen who has the of this city at heart,” startled city. Prof. ¥paulding stated that while | New |apartments, but who do not, will prob lably fine | [1andiords to their This of | | something for landlords to do with re- pre- | NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, THURSDAY Heyond the general henefits to the ‘ e community sueh reduction would | bring there remains the fact that abil ity to better understand American ways and thought makes the foreigner | thir most of time bear hard more the more ahle to n to make which A little Conference now and than ls LANDLORDS AND HEAT w great boon to writing men Penants whose landlords have un P their American,” iritish " Phis i8 especially Ly heat in Jikes snap furnish writer, true of a soft lertaken to snap, sutisf that for the was sent to jail in New feel some ction upon hear In splrit one may be a eltizen of the | world, but when it paying nouse for which [taxes he must localize, e news W man who did not il vy furnish heat he was agent | | Peace: A period during which na- {ons prohibit use of th eweapons they out of it hy intend to employ in the next war, this does not establish | New Dritain, but it law which requires heat where they | igreed to do so und should stir | York the other day and was given no chance to got paying a Of course : Learn one thing every day. The driver who lights a mateh to find a lenk in the gas tank always finds it, v precedent in should remind of furnish have Limiting the ratio of hattleships is Wb the thinking apparatus of the few [a good idea. But it might prove even andlords here who fall to abide by [mor profitable to limit the radius, contracts to furnish heat, Many, tenants in | Britain furnish their own mvl,‘ landlord | probably most New course relieves the in that respect. But there still remains | heat and this something is forgotten gard to sometimes or calmly over- this some from looked. There may be something in beauty-sleep theory, We know Although a landlord m: heauties who are always asleep quired under the terms of a lease to |the ears up. furnish heat he obliga- (ion, if the matter is left open when the lease is made, of furnishing four sound walls to a house which will keep the heat in. is thoroughly understood that a“tenant is to make | all repairs, that tenant has a right to assume that the heat he himself furnishes from the coal or wood he himself buys will not creep or rush through crevices and cracks to be lost in the bitter cold outside air. He has a right to expect that the place which |pathy. he has rented will not develop gre gaps through which may enter bitter blasts to conteract the heat that ten- y not be re- has a moral fighting of the for a next Much done s the with r: been A sclentist will he done @ flghting has e, Unless it - =) France says Germany could raise an army in 48 Thours. She couldn't |keep it, however, after she had it | raised. It is a fine thing to sympathize with the down-trodden; it is a finer thing to fix them so they won't need sym- The conquest of the air has ad- vanced to the point where a stunt fiyer FACTS AND FANCIES —BY ROBERT QUILLEN~— JANUARY 5, 192 THE McMILLAN ST — ALWAYS O—RE, Inc. seldom gets more than ten lines when — — e smashes Will Tewin says o modern shell will completely destroy a will, marcover, keep the house from being | built house It Japan has no designg on China, of course; but it s significant that when the door opens in China a hell rings in Toklo, \ys he would spend his 1 dog, He might for a A fancler lust nickel for lot dog. It may be that pathos and comedy are closely related, There is something | pathetic about a comic weekly's effort to be funny, Wells says primitive man scldom used his head, That is comforting, The old-timers weren't so far ahead of the moderns, after all. | The hold-up man doesn't intend to shoot but mercly to bluft his vietim, Why not, then, require holdup men to grey, olive Corded and Woven M adras Shirts—Exceptional Flannel Shirts $1.35°$1.65 " PERCALE SHIRTS 85¢ very | | in use toy pistols? A statesman says our great need is perspective. And we notice that the so-called “great’ problems seem small when one has a toothache. RED CROSS PAPER Aot e o of i ondiy| < BEING PUBLISHED quota are sent back to Turkey, where | o there s no danger of exceeding the | monthly quota for massac }l-’ Tss faculty scems to | make another ‘more acute, and since the world's heart w broken its lungs seem to be in extra fine shape. 1¢ is Out and President Hard- The loss of one ing is One of its Initial Subscribers. The first issue Cross Courier, a weekly Washington, Jan. 5. of the Red ant furnishes. Pride, a sense of moral obligation, | what it-will mean perhaps, if the to say nothing of self interest, should Homeland 14 "consiadren a8 keep a landlord from making a ten- ant feel, when he tries to heat a per- forated home, quite like the man who [tried to empty the occan with o Japanese protected by the four-power treaty. 1t is know” adviser to the Chinese tion, according to report, that Japan rted by an “internationally delega- |thimble. | was able to absorh Korea and to cx- - |tend her influence in Manchuria, Shan- hecause of alliance. He the power tres rued to include the Japanese the States will be stopped from protesting | in the same W compelled to remain quiescent face of such growing power of Japan this “it would be tung and Siberia mainly |the clares | APPEAL TO FAIR PLAY “Keep everlastingly at it is a re- Anglo-Japanese de- further that Ak ieg under four- sult-bringing slogan. People in New Bri itself through its gfficials, have worl led hard to get relief from the public :u\HMiA'S commission in the matter of in, New Dritain . 2 ; mainland, United England has beey in the and cheaper transportation | within the city. Practically has been done by the commission to |give the city what it needs. As far as New Britain know officlally |the commission forgotten that New Britain exists. { : i sessions of Men and women smiled when it was |~ ; > o rested that the transportation com- | This suggestion inspires the Oriental suggested that th ansp o “hi‘ll(-[' o ke him- | better nothing |, . j i “Under four-natfon agreement,” he says, Japan to send her forces to China and possible for seople il : : i I ‘] iheria without confiicting with its has ! provisions which apply to insular pos- insular dominions.” X it G 1 nine-power treaty is ne- T ieeaR e |cessary, insuring the independence of self, “What's the use?” was the | / ; b i | China if there is to he cqual oppor- sral feeli »erhaps it is the general | STalytesiing. AeFhGEs 1 A5 EhEE Y {unity in that part of the world. feeling today. It ought not to be the | o | | feeling. Nothing was ever ac this light and be- general pee g 2 "l e [lleving the commonly accepted theory attacked with a| j Ve * [that Japan would like to have a frec [“what's the use” weapon. N e i Polities and a sense of gubernatorial ¢ ; questio the gen- Considered in compl’ hed when regard to the Jupan purn Manchuria and Siberla, : i i larises why ake i K :) B assing position, b Qs et GIUORTRARS | protection offered by the inclusion of | Ioverett Lake, the man, the old foot- s T 2 £ : {its homeland in the terms of the ball player who believed in fairne S | hard Aignity ower will place Governor lignity and p D $itiie |treaty? Bither this theory of Japan's and who played a clean, square : |game, will understand the feelings of | Lo ¥ |aspect to |the New Britain. Anyone | who lcovered which Yale a ter of the desire is errontous or' there is a1 the situation nof yet dis- people of him a century would make the mat saw Jlay against ; : Gl [ 5y S interpretations of the four quarter of ago knows how ) 1 fight for the people of New | ; RErwoulUs Sl tRr HiE DIb to Japan. It is merely one of the evi power treaty a matter of indifference the percentage of illiteracy in Haven had decreased from 7 per cent ten years ago to 6.3 per cent at pres perecentage in Connecticut A from 6 per cent to 6.2 ent, th had incre per cent. He added that this state is the only one in the Union showing an in the percentage of illiter- increase pov |able to do so. Bearing upon the subject is the| New per percentage of immigrants in Haven which is placed at 25.1 cent I New and the New Haven situation cited hecause paraltel. | Haven figures are given somewhat that New DBritain 1 From the situation in city, and this it is apparent that the most pros- land cities have the that perous of New 1 illiteracy problem to face and there should he no delay in meeting it No matter how splendid the public I no matter school system may he ar ow cfficient are the teachers of city, it is impossi cure the illiter without waorl acy danger tirely naturc iter- ofly amon than men writ remedy the | ry. There chief is a more ituation thorough spr ormation that imm where they of America with this more rapidly Night schools for them for them provi no need to empl reducing the per the work of Americ tion is oue of the greatest importance {Everett 1 Britain where he a member of | y Y being thrown or committee which now sceks an audi- the | ) light |dences of the hitherto popularly unconsidered prob |l@nee before him—which asks him to | hear the plea for just L strong man, conscious [1ends. treatment | which ask H, Cabot And treatie: He called Conceived by minds erratic But Of “G. 0. lof the rightness of Mis plea would Lodge disliked all thing | yemoeratie lanother strong man who, he Democratic; |1ieves, will grant justice where such compacts dangerous, when a rs the stamp and the in which will Thus politics, position treaty e neles of the situation’ himself the * upon it, He cries is armor ‘gainst all foes; Governor Lake will find embarrass Everett Lake man| ‘Tray selze it quick and don it has | to do | ke, the man, however, “Entagling alllances” cover a multi Governor |14 this matter it in his power in an overlasting service to of political shifts, { [ ake the politician, by asserting his | what he thinks watch Don't ask a man living; his love of fair play and by | manhood, evincing those qualities in listening to [about a creed what and granting the appeal of ||\:m_\“h" does thousands of men and women of this| as voiced through its mayor and | And it is the city transportation committee. that F 25 Years Ago Today | (Taken from Herald of that date) verett Lake, man believed would enjoy playing Governor Lake, the official 106th annual installation of of- of Harmony lodge, 1% and A. M., held last Pierce been named worshipful nwright, senior warder ecretary, and George steward Mathews public vacation The SIDELIGHT OF While matters as evening., ., L, final decisic such Klett, senior | George B. music at the turned from a Maine, Leader E. monic band he a baton made of with pearis. politi J. W. Manning, T. W. O'Connor countrias, | K. J. Sheehy wiil ing at th core s of Carmody Council, K. of C tonight. plishments of the conference in re- gard to the the Sh which have teacher of has re spent at sea treaty, the oot pro “haols, ntung question and heen is calledto the Others injected into Lynch of the Philhar- been presented with and tipped discussions, atternton fact that for the t time much in ehony made public re formation has been the cal conditions in Never garding complexities of the ol varions monie has there heen an occasion | : the world problems, of the installation wher person who cared to know world agreement | TR ATYRASRS M B TS TR — PALACE — Mon.—Tues.—Wed. KATHERINE MacDONALD —in— ! “Trust Your Wife” world, ha the politics a position to gain the in- interesting matters, become vital, s China, Few have the Am its publica; newspape wblished by ™ COMNILNICATED | can Red Cross to replac e tions in various parts of the country, Relicf Bill. [ hpeared here today. Among the 1921. | charter subseribers is President Hard- {ing from whom a letter is reproduced Lampert Patent Offic ry, Conn,, Jan. 3, To the Editor of the Herald— In view of its vital importance to [on the cover as follow all residents of Connceticut, T “To the Editor of the to call attention to the grave danger | Courier: which now threatens our patent s) si “I am enclosing one dollar in pay- | Red Cross desire | i tem. ment of subseription to the Red Cros Owing to low sala it has be- | Courier for the ycar 1922, to be sent come impossible to maintain an ef- | to me here at the White House, The ficient staff of technical examiners in | announcement of plans to cstablish the Patent Office. The numbe | national Red Cross newspaper on a patent applications has recently | subseription basis has aroused mounted by leaps and bounds, with | very deep interest, and 1 wish to be the result t the office cannot | among those who make up the char- handle them. The immediate pa @ | ter roll of readers. of the Lampert Patent Office Relief | YA 'Red Cr bill has become a national necessit has Floor Leader Mondell-of the House | for it speci of Representatives has refused to call | that it is exceedingly up this bill for vote, and unless his | have put before the country in a com- ealleagues or the people dem such | prehensive manne W it will carry aetion, the bill will fail to pass. Our @ continuous message that is partie- manufacturers and inventors must | ularly pertinent to the spirit of the then await the passage of the propos- | time and helpful to the servie which *d bill for the general fication of | peoples are seeking to render, today all government salaries, more than ever before, to each other taining any relief from the present | and for the welfare of the world. intolerable conditions. “My heartiest good wishes for the The country simply cannot wait for | 1ted Cross Courier and the success of the “Reclassification Bill,” which | ould not be efiective for at least a | year and a half. 2 m I believe it to be the duty of every [ —advt. person interested in the American patents to exert fluence, by letters and otherwi on his Congressman to support the J N o ; n Suffer From Exposure umpert Bill. The chaos in the Pat-| p, T it | Panama, Jan. 5.—Additional re- ‘nt Office must be ended at once. i i i i { P e [ports from the Pinogana district of ¥ ; o |the province of Darien state that HAROLD (. MANNING, A L MANNING: | numerous villages have heen inundat- Sl AWYET. [ed by waters from the river Tuira. |Fhe inhabitants are suffc from exposure and hunger, their cattle and o Jother ssions having been I Te e T GR Gt [ The government has sent o 1 i launch loaded with foodstuffs and Joglitab: HGralt = | medicines to the relief of the suf On my way to work this morning, || 5 L ! found red with sand, ¢ dessed the adjc r occupants. ent sat in their v will before obh- best butter, §1. Russell Bros. Panama 1 Victims ing pos 5 per cent of the walks cov | o wiust or ashes. 1| r property owners | remaining dows and laughed | butter 51c 1b. Russell Bros. Dest 25 per | —advt. my | swept | PATENT OFFICE IS IN BAD WAY Inadequate Salaries Compel Many Experts to Resign Conditions in resulting it from the inadequate rates | were the chief subject for before the American en- ginecring council of the federated American engineering societies which convened here today for a two day n. The council has voted to co- ate with other agencies in a na- ide campaign in behalf of re- s which it declares to be neces- for the protection of American ud invention. ignations among the cxaminers of the patent office according to Ed- | win J. Prindle, chairman of the coun- ¢il's patent committee have con- tinued “until now more than half of the force consists of young men| fresh from college who have no knowledge whatever either of general or patent law. Twenty positions are unfilled, he added, because it has been ible to get men qualilied to entrance cxamination who | will accept the salary offered. | “At the same time,” Mr. Prindle declared, “the work of the patent of- |fice has increased by leaps and | bounds. “The position in the government service which is most analogous to that of a primary examiner is that of | a United States district judge. IFor | the examiner in the first instance, | must pass upon the validity of the patent to be granted, as to whatever the alleged invention is novel as com- pared with the prior art, and to |whether the novelty to the dig- Inity of an invention as distinguished Ifrom the mere skiil of the calling. “\When the salary of a prmary aminer was fixed in 1848 (at $2,600) cong wpparently considered the | position as comparable with that of la United States district judge for the aries of the twd positions weére the States district from $7,500 to upon the popu- ington, Jan, Patent O impc pass the The United now receive $10,500, depending lousness of thelr districts; but the vitally important and long forgotten examiners have only had one increase of cight per cent in that time.” " judg Pfin}ed, Woven Mz;dr;({sfah;f “Flannel and Wool Shirts | $2.95-83.95 . Senate, OUR JANUARY CLEARANCE SALE AT OUR MEN’S DEPARTMENT Every article has been marked down. We do not carry shirts of inferior quality or workmanship to offer you at a price. Every shirt is our regular stock, some are soiled but the quality is there and we want to clean them up. ¢ Mercd Crepe One a Yorke Shirt grey and khaki GOV. SPROUL WON'T RESIGN FOR SENATE Announces He Will Name a Senator to Go to Washington to Succeed Penrose. Phiiadelphia, Jan. 5.—Governor Sproul will not vesign his office to go to the United States Senate. For- - mal announcement to that effect was made by him last night. He will an- nounce an ad interim appointment within the next two days. He will not appoint a *‘seat warmer.” He has, in mind the man whom he will ap- point. Meanwhile the Governor disposes of his own personal ambitions with the following statement: “If I should ever desire to go to the United States I shall submit my candidacy to the people of the state in the regular way, through the processes of nomination and election.” Politicians believe the Governor will be a candidate for the fall term in the Senate at the May primary. ARE I'OR CONFERENCE PRI British and French Make Out List of Subjects For Discussion, Cannes, France, Jan. 5 (By Asso- ciated Press)—Dreparations went for- ward today for the opening here to= niorrow of the allied supreme council. A meeting was held this morning at which tl ions of reparations and the ] international economic council were discussed by Sir Robert Horne, chancellor of the British ex- chequer Sir Worthington Evans, British secretary of state for war; louis Loucheur, French minister for liberated regions, and Premier Jaspar Theunys of Belglum. This was the first meeting of these four and it was described as a pre- liminary: conversation similar to that held yesterday by Premiers Lloyd George and Briand, KILLJD BY SON'S LOCOMOTIVE Springfleld, O., J —After wav- ing his hand to his son, the fireman on the engine of a Big Four passenger train speeding toward him, Thomas Donohue Sr., 65 years old, ended his life by stepping in front of the train late yesterday afternoon. The son was unable to assign any reason'for his father's suicide. Fresh eggs, 59¢c. Russell Bros.—advt. it the passing pedestrian who slipped wd after cutting the figure § with hi v her Execution in the landed “Ker plunk.” We have city ordinances covering e care dewalks. These ordin- | noee sholld BENnbaErved Bk andtiledr| Between Main street and my home I know of several property owners | 10 make not even a of | clearing their walks. They reason, | Why should T. T get away with it | without a call down from the authori- | tics, why should T worry?” I recall that last winter patrolmen | reported violations of the ordinance | in out of the way places and failed to | report similar cases in what is prac- | ically the heart of the city. Let s have a thorough enforce ment of the ordinances and no favor itism shown. Place the law-abiding | citizen on the same footing 4s the law letying citizen. T object to walking on iey side- walks not covered with sand or asheg while our city 1 I need not de 50 Furthermore fewer air finally enforecement meang claims against the city from citizens who sustain broken limbs and serious injury I hope (o see an example made in the police court of ilagrant violators and know of no better way to reduce their number, JAM COCHRANE. Best butter file I advt Russell Brps. Fleet one of London's ecarliest cot suburbs, was J°resh o I want " THE GREAT " AMERICAN HOME! .-