New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 27, 1922, Page 6

New Britain Herald HERALS MIANY (nsued Dail AL Hernid Bllg PUBLIBING (€ Bunday Farept uren HURSCRIPTION RATER 8500 A Yea i} Throa Monthe, 6o A Mont) Entored at the Foat OMce at New Liritain A Becond Claws Mall Matter | TELEPHONE Business OfMee ..., Rdliorini Ntooms T CALLE | . i [HY vee | rtining mettom o | The onlx jroftable o de City, Clreuladd room nlways open 1 i of Member of The Associnted P're | The Arsocinted Prass In ex v tlod | to the use for re-publica eredita’ to It or not ¢ In this paper and atra tighed Liervin, all nows cradited | tocal news jub- | Member Audit Burenn or ctrculation | the conference if by doing so the at- | The A. B. C. 1a x natlonal organ'zation which furnishes newspapsrs and tisera with o strictly honest analviis of clroulation, Our clrculation stutistics are based upon this sudit. This insnres jro-| tection against fravd In newspaper dis tribution figures to both nattonal and lo- | cal advertisers, | EEr—— | THE COMMON COUNCIL MIND [ Before a man may fill an office | properly he should know his duties are. 1f those duties are merely ministerfal—things that no judgment—nhis task is casy, He should never think for himself. By so doing he may scatter dirt into the cogs of the thinking machinery which is lo- cated in the brain of the boss. If the man's duties partake of the judiclal, or are advisory, he should think a lot. An entirely different mem- tal equipment is necessary. The mind of the common should be essentially judicial and ad- visory. That mind is in the difficult position, almost impossible of filling to the satisfaction of cveryone and everything concerned, of representing two factions whose interests while in reality identical, are often apparently opposed to each other. Constantly the common council has to decide hetween the taxpayer and the city. The tax- payer makes a claim. The council must decide if the granting of the claim will establish a precedent that will be had for the city, of which the taxpayer is an integral part, and if refusing the claim will establish a precedent that will be bad for other taxpayers simi- larly placed. And all the time the purse of the city must be guarded. The mind of the attorney, for in- stance, has an easy time in comparison to that of the city., That mind must think only of the client's side of the matter. It is not concerned if the per- son against whom the client has a clainmi does not like the arrangement the lawyer's mind decides upon and seeks to enforce. The common council, on the other hand, must feel that the claimant is no more its client than is the organization against which the claim is made. The board of directors of a corpor- atien has an easy time comparatively. It must think only of what will bring ‘the greatest financlal returns to the corporation. The welfare of the work- ers plays a part of course, but a con- slderation of their physical well being and health about as far as the board of directors of la corporation ever goes. Purely sentimental happi- ness of those workers is no concern of theirs, as a rule. . “City Fathers” is practically theoretically, a good name for city officials, including members ‘of the council. Their duty is to consider not only what will be best for the city financially, but what will make it more comfortable and happy. This is no sentimental theory; it is the most practical of facts. A common countil which is hard, governed absolutely by business precepts of proven worth, is not the ideal sort of a council. Remarks heard at sessions of the council often indicate the momentary feeling of its members—'momentary” is used it helieved that such expressions do not disclose the general feeling of the members who utter them, nor the general spirit of the council. “The common council is a business body; its duty is to get all that it can for the city for the least money.” Such an expression does not describe its proper dttitude. Those to whom the money is paid are just much wards of the city as the other tax- payers help that money. “There are jobs the could be cut 25 per cent without los- ing incumbents,” is another similar re- mark. “Let's decide this and not waste our time any longer,” is another, made when the interests of citizens of the being [ what require council is and advisedly, for is who pay pay of which city regarding a contract are considered. The mind of the commo: should be the mind of a atrong, busi- council nesslike but understanding and just cily father, making plans for all its| and as with | wards us fd possibl economicaily consistent justice. UNITED STATES AND GENOA, | Prestdent Harding is committed to the idea of “something" looking to- ward an association of nations. He is | not committed to an * Nations,” nor a league “We will then able to apj the nations of the carth with a view | to considering a closer association of | is about the way he put it. io be | very Torrington [men walking the are other thousands—millions perhaps —who are working but who are not in suffering the effects of shaving. given up their civiliant work for a time and |that an action brought for industrial or professional nations,” Moreover Harding has his adherence the idea of “closer association” hiz advisors, bis own desire not to antagonize the time moves every made to or ing| from maki lkept him ter tweer Marding nation hid would advise and whlst ntatlon b the il i" thus f Mareh the administration In look at affairs, The Sen J8 by no nleans an Nog ) Is or 1 t Stute Genoa. Lverything indicates this ne has done th LK looking at it as w It is true S wounld carty such conferenec Inclined to e, for Instaned tmpetuois hody, cxitent Hard Tabit the Irives hy nature sort executive who Postpone ment 18 not decrfed by the adminis tration, and possibly in this case ther 1s some wisdom In a short delay here may be no question but that all nations would he glad to postpone the United Tt will decision whether to at- that the The son given will have tendanee of States could be to escape assured, not he possible a tend or not on the ground conference was called too carly merits of any re; to be divulged. It is said Harvey indicates States will attend if tend whole heartily, that Ambassador that the United I'rance will at- This be another evasion. Of course France She may wise. Diplomacy again. that she will attend tend, is holding thereby something may and this is said in no spirit of violent of France; it is the tra- ditional habit of European nations to make use of every means for fur- thering their own interes At the moment France titude is all-important. The sooner in- dicates her willingness to co-operate with England in a defensive plan; the sooner she indicates that she is willing to set the example of sym- pathy with the and the plan for economy, the sooner will the full conference at Genoa he arranged for March § or a later date, today Appears to will attend. not do other- Knowing must at- off to see if be gained— and she criticism she disarmament move FISHING It is pretty early to talk about fish- ing, but it is agreeable to remind our- selves, especially in weather like this, that fishing time is coming some time. It is interesting, too, to note that the new fish and game commission, headed by F. C. Walcott of Norfolk, is trying to improve fishing the state. A number of pickerel were taken from the North Goshen reser- voir, “through the generosity of the water company” the re- port has it, and planted in two fishing ponds in Litchfield county about 10 miles away. Two members of the state in constabulary aided in the experiment and it is said that practically all the fish reached their new quarters in good condition. Mr. Walcott moreover, that there are many Tocali- ties in the state where the same thing may be done; that it is irexpensive and thoroughly practical with the state supervision to insure against planting the wrong fish in a given pond, soft bottom ponds being especially well adapted to pickerel and yellow perch. ; It might be well for the fishermen of this city who have their own ideas of what might along these lines to try to enlist the assistance of the state commission in the way in- dicated. At least the thought is a re- minder of the fishing time that is to come—an especially cheering thought at a time when a sight of the coal bin is apt to cloud the vision of bright, 58 be done warm spring sunshine, ANOTHER SIDE OF IT The matter of the soldiers’ honus has been treated too much as a senti- mental affair. It has been taken for granted in most of the ions, that it was merely a question of paying out a vast sum of money, or of giv- ing something worth a great deal to the former soldiers, and of receiving nothing in return. Little said of the benefit the country would receive were the bonus to be paid. It seems to have been the idea that the beneficiaries the bonus would be the only gainers. It is believed that more should be made of what the pcople in general , indirectly, of course, but would have discus has been of will receiv with an indirection that far reaching, practical effects. Hanford MacNider, national mander of the American Legion, touched on this aspect of the ques- tion when he said: “The adjusted com- | | compensation plan wouid do more to strengthen the economic fabric of the nation than any other thing that can |be done at this time. Nor is there any to bLelleve all ex-service men wiil elect the that (& reason W bonns as al- ternative. But when thousands of ex service men are walking the ser‘t's we don't helieve they ought to be dic- tated to as to what form of compen- Isatlon they ought to take.” “thousands of ex-service " And there There are stree their regular jobs and who are who are not satisfied, restless, cager to | get back to where they belong in the worid. The moral effect of having these President [millions of men feel that the country showing |had recognized their seryices, to have | althem placed In a position to go @ ir worlt with renewed enthuslasm pired by that recognition and by “a his own ! | when done | 44 NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FFRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 19 ineal to t untry, Per | 1o more the than any economic thi ing Leglon i that | fabrie o nation communder puts i, but certainly {would do much to strengthen IHE SALARY QUESTION Should the ity per or should not Wiges generally, be cut hat hut it cmployes, ton cont? has int indeed, Herald must agree proven a [moot 1 seems that | | the with the senti- | {ments of muny members of the Com- | in oves probable that | the mon Council as related last and fecling will s the citizenry it, criminate paper, it is S ¢ exist among There fs dittle question | o indis- | cutting of salary, though a | revision of the salary st | | might well be made by someone, It that the heads of | boards and commissions are unwilling the cutting of wages | person under them. They, quite | | hard- [ship their Without |the whole-hearted advice of the same for {about there should be lis quite evident to recommend of a | naturally, do not wish to work upon assistants, a the |Council will not be properly informed despite the best efforts of s commit- tee on who should be cut and why. The ds economy. heads it is next to imposeiblc |committee to act wis hence trend of the times is to Probably the D is too large. But who is to say where |it Not the citizen, laware of the work of the individual, not the Council, it does not know, not | the committee, it has difficulty in get- ting at truths, The department heads should have the say, they know. But the chances are that many of them are going to be influenced by sympathy or politics and make no cuts, city oll is too lar un- | Sometimes it is economy to hire a more expensive than might be occupying a position, rather than reduce the incumbent's pay. Cer- tain it is that a $3,000 man, for in- who wastes $10,000 through ignorance or inefficiency is worth nothing in comparison to a man whose salary placed at $5,000 but who saves the ten. It may be that several city worth more than they are getting, while a majority may be worth less. The great trouble is to declde which is which. We may keep, while the period of depression is on, man one who stance, is employes are services of a valuable man whose pay has been cut by the blind use of the But that is poor economy in the end because that man tisfied, and will he certain to take the first opportunity to move, possibly at the same rate of pay. If were commensurate with what he was really worth on a the chances are that would be satisfied and | would remain, even though offered more, when times are better, by some- one else. It is poor economy to lo: that man anytime. We might replace | him, but it will cost money to lm-:\ki in the new man. If the Common Council is to de-| termine what each employe is worth | it has a great deal of work Rigid investigations must be put under and thoroughly carried out. We wish economy, true. But again—econ- general wage reduction. will be di: his pay dollars and cents basis, he to do. v | g 1 . omy is not always reducing a man's pay. REAL PATHOS It is fortunate that there exists such a sympathetic body of people as the St. Petersburg Purity League. There is no way in which to figure the aw- ful suffering of married men of IFlor- ida were it not for such organization. There is no way of estimating to what depths of grief and torture they have been plunged how they are struggling even today against the terrible tide of sorrow and woe which may threaten to overwhelm them. Sincerely it is hoped that the Mayor of St. Petersburg will heed the appeal that has been made to him to protect the plight which, according to the Purity League, they | find themselves, | The dispatch which informs of the tragic situation is brief and.to the point. So have been many messages lin history which, nevertheless, charged with tremendous importance. It was in the form of a request and was a pathetic plea that the Mayor appoint a bathing suit inspector be- cause “the league intends to protect {the mariéd men from the wiles of the already, or these gentlmen in were fearless, has promised to go to the beach and investigate. WHEN 1S RENT DUE Municipal | Court tting in Brooklyn will please decision of a ice tenants living in a home on which they have no lease providing for pay- | ment of rent on certain days, and will throw consternation into the hearts of landlords who have given no such leases, if the decision is upheld in the | higher courts of New York and if it lis followed throughout the country. The judge held that rent was not due until the end of the month and October rent, begun before the month had end- ed would be dismissed as the rent | had not hecome due. In the days when there was no place |to go if a landlord decided fo oust a ‘menh the latter was only too eager to pay his rent on any day the land- Jord sought it, if the tenant was able to pay it. As there comes less conges- 05 THE McMILLAN STORE, Inc. — ALWAYS RELIABLE — not carry seconds. ATURDAY EVERY ITEM AN OPPORTUNITY 1t will pay you well to read every item of this advertisement. Every item offers a value that will be hard to match—and every value represents Quality Merchandise—we do Sl CORS at 209 Di for the balance of this BON TON STYLISH STOUTS STYLISH SLENDER LA CAMILLE R. YOUR OPPORTUNITY to buy your favorite P. N. Practical front ROYAL WORCESTER C-B NEMO THOMSON If prices able to resist ment. Our e »ffers you the ET scount month only. WOMEN’S and CHILDREN’S WINTER COATS could talk you would be un- the call of our Cloak Depart- ntire stock at present prices season’s SUPREME VALUES. ‘1 All we & G. from $150.00. 0dd Lots of MEN’S and WO. UNION SUITS Carter’s and Munsingwear. $2.25 values, for $1.50. ELECTRIC SEAL COATS have left at $75.00. Reduced MEN’S $2.00 and WARM FLANNELETTE GOWNS at 85¢—Our $1.00 values. at 98¢—Our $1.19 values. WOMEN’S SILK and WOOL VESTS and PANTS Sizes 5 to 9. Saturday $2.75. $1.95. Values to CHILDREN’S FLANNELETTE BLOOMERS—25¢ PURE LINEN HANDKERCHIEFS .. 3 for $1.00 Men’s 35¢ Men’s 19¢ NEW . 3 for 50c priced $1.49. with Bramley or Tuxedo collars. DAINTY BLOUSES Specially CHILDREN’S SKATING GLOVES White and heather; $1.00 grade, for 85c¢ pair. SAMPLE NECKWEAR Vestees, collars and cuffs, also Bramley sets. ®atur- day 49c each. Values to $1. CHILDREN’S Brown Wool Ribbed SPORT HOSE Sizes T to 91%. Saturday 85¢ pair. Value $1.00. Flowered Lingerie WASH RIBBONS 214c. Satur- Values to 1 day 5e¢ yard. WOMEN'’S SILK HOSE Bontex Silks $2.25 pair. McCallum Silks $2.75 pr. Humming Bird $1.35 pr. tion, however, and as houses apartments are more numerous, tenant is not quite so cowded; landlord is more considerate. There might arise a question of cus- tom in this matter which would alter the situation, but under the decision as it stands no landlord may recover rent for a month, where a leasing is from month to month, until the ten- ant has occupied the premises for that month. It will be seen that possibly the old of the vaudeville It's and the the saying reminiscent stage will become appropriate: easier to move than to pay rent.” 25 Years Ago Today (Taken from Herald of that date) William E. Martin has sold his fast trotter “Dick.” The Philharmonic band will play at the annual reception of the Nutmeg club at Hanna's Armory tonight. There are 11 teams and forty men at work removing the snow from the main streets following the serious blizard of yesterday. The New Britain club held its an- nual reception and ladies’ night at the Russwin Building last evening. The ushers were 15, W. Schultz, M. S. Hart, J. H, Kirkham and A. §. Parsons. John Maher of Engine Co. No. 3 is confined to his home with an iliness. Howard Humphrey 18 visiting his parents here from Yale. Anclent geographers thought Asia lay between Europe and Africa. o ——————— What Are You Doing ‘SATURDAY NIGHT’ Cecil B. DeMille ottt R T A — 3rd Floor — BLANKETS and COMFORTABLES 109 DISCOUNT off the marked down prices for Saturday. One special lot of Comfortables at $4.69. Values to $6.98. ROOM SIZE RUGS At Reduced Prices. Tapestry Brussels Rugs 8.3x10.6 and 9x12 Special at $25.00. SCRIMS, MARQUISETTES MADRAS A Dbeautiful selection. Now priced from 25¢ yard. Our usual large assort- ment of Cut Glass, Hand Painted China, Crockery, Aluminum, etc. Specially priced for this month. Facts and Fancies (BY ROBERT QUILLEN) Usually the fiddler is paid by some one who didn't dance at all. “You just know she wears them,” say a hosiery aid. Well, what's to prevent? ‘ Careless linotypers gshould get to- |gether and start the Pied Paper of Hamelin, Wild oats seem to flourish almost as well ona dry soil as they did when the country was wet. The stingy man doesn't'like the new year. It takes more ink to write 1922 than it did for 1921. A man doesn’t fight for his convic- tions. He fights to cure the other fel- low of his convictions. Beating swords into plowshares won't shorten th ecasualty list while people nurse the ambition to beat locomtives to a crossing. Now is the time to head toward smaller ships and guns. '22 is a small calibde year, so to speak. Girls err who try to drink and work. The stewed chicken of tonight is the canned peach of tomorrow. Song of the Pedestrians: “Sixteen flivvers on a dead man’s chest, yo ho, ho, and a bottle of rum. | Vf course you understand that the i L D R R MEN’S DEPT. You cannot afford to be without a warm FLANNEL SHIRT at these prices. Formerly $3.95, Now $2.95 Formerly $2.95, Now $2.00 Formerly $1.69, Now $1.50 Formerly $1.85, Now $1.00 The above include khaki, olive and grey. These are excgptional values. HEAVY KIMONO FLANNEL 27-in. and 36-in. widths, regular 25¢ and 29c values. Saturday 17¢ yard. New Shades of BEACH CLOTH Cadet, Mars, Reseda, pink, ecru and lavender. 36 inches wide at 25¢ yard. present little of eivilization is the progeny of the dogs of war. ‘When you see a bloom of health in a distant cheek, you can’'t tell whether the girl “has been roughing it or rouging it. The announcement by leading as- tronomers that Mars in uninhabited will be a great blow to the scientists who have been receiving communi- cations therefrom. The flapper has kept her stocking down for several months now, and most of the men want her to keep it up. In a recent® motion play the pro- ducers achieved the impossible. They made a moving picture of a nwssnn’r boy. There are times when a man will offer to carry his wife's bundles. And there are times when her bundles are heavy. . The average man is so optimistic tfat he actually laughs at trouble— except, of course when the trouble is his own. An optimist, again, is the man who reaches for his overcoat when the preachers says, “Just one word more and I'll close.” We used to wonder what per cent of our income the income tax would take. Nowadays we wonder what per cent of our income tax our income will pay. A lot of men, solicitous for the welfare of their employes, keep them from wasting their money—by the simple proces of not paying them aaj. [ St SATURDAY WILL BE A BUSY DAY AT OUR NOTION DEPT. NOTION SPECIALS MERRICK'S DARNING COTTON, 3 Dballs for 6¢; 10c¢ size for 6e. WHITE ELASTIC, three- quarter inch, 6¢ yard. 5 *SEW-ON GARTER regular 29¢, for 16¢ each, CHILDREN'S HICKORY GARTERS, all sizes, 26¢ ea. LINGERIE TAPE, 6¢ yd. CORSET LACES 2 for 6¢ RICKRACK BRAID 9¢ Package. WILLIMANTIC THREAD 150 yard spools, 4¢ spool. CORTICELLI SILK, 100 yard spools, all colors for 15¢ spool. BARBOUR’S THREAD, 26c. WHITE and BLACK TAPE, !j-inch 4 yard rolls 2 for 6c. . 14-inch white, 8" yard packages, for 2c package. TINTEX 10c package. SUNSET SOAP DY 10c package. AUNT LYDIA BUTTON THREAD, 6c. HUMP HAIR PANS, packages 6¢; 10c size for 6¢ package. BIAS EDGE SCALLOP- ING, 16¢ 3 yards. SEAM BINDING, regu- lar 25¢ roll of 6 yards for 16c roll. CELLULOID THIMBLES 2e. LINEN 2 NOTICE We carry in stock MA- CHINE NEEDLES for cvery make of sewing ma- chine in the world. DRESS LININGS, 36¢, 56¢, 66¢. LUX, 7c package. LIFE BUOY SOAP, .6¢ cake. RUBBER APRONS 46¢ DRESS SHIELDS 16c. DRESS GINGHAMS Fine quality, 32 inches wide in plain, plaids, stripes and checks. 33c values, for 25¢ yard. We Deliver Anywhere In The City Two private wires always at your disposa! for tele- phone orders. Use our service — Qall 2721 foy prompt and courteous serv- ice. Ask Reductions in @ Freight on Lumber Washington, Jan. 27.—General re- ductions in freight rates on lumber with a view to encouraging construc- tion activities was asked yesterday by representatives of the lumber indus- try at the interestate commerce com- mission inquiry into existing transpor- tation charges. W. S. Phippen, secre- tary of the national wholesale Jum- ber association told the commission that if the 1922 rate increases were re- moved there might be resumption of construction activity. Anti-Lynching Bill Survives First Blow ‘Washington, Jan. 27..—Opponents of the Dyer anti-lynching bill were rout- ed in the house yesterday when they . attempted to have the bill killed by elimination of the enacting clause. A motion to strike out the enacting clause, made by Representative Sum- ners, democrat, Texas, was voted down 139 to 100, ten republicans voting with democrats in the affirmative. BN XT WEEK — e o0 S ANNIVERSARY ADDED FEATURES NO ADVANCE IN PRICES PALACE--Mon, Tues, Wed. Wm. De Mille’s “After the Show” A e M