New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 28, 1922, Page 6

New Britain Herald HERALD (1smued At Herald PUBLIBHING COMPANY Daily, Bund Bldg., 67 SUBSCRIPTION Uhuren t RATES 15,00 nr $2.00 Three Months, A Month. E Entered &t the Post Office at Now Diritain | yp,.o as Second Class Mall Mattor Business O 82 Editoriai Rooma ... .. The only profitable ihe Cliy rooni always op 5 5 advertising meliem in atlon \ooks and press n to mdvortisen. Member of The Associnted Press The Arsoclated Presa Is exclvslvely entitled to the uwe for re-publivatin of all new eredited to it or not stharwise « n this paper and aiso local Ufied Lerein. Jubs Member Audit Bureau of rirculation The A, B. C. Is a natlonal organization which furnishes news i tisers with a strictly elrculation. Our clrcula ®ased upon this audit, tectlon agains fraud In tributton figures to both natl is insires pr wapaper dlse e SN | enorgy; “KEEP MY NAME O THE PAPER.” that news cditors the face the difMiculties We world over that crop up in the Herald offic day from persons who have committed perhaps some minor the. law and who call the office with the request to “keep my name out of the paper.” These persons the greatest pests of a newspaper office. Most editors wish to be kind and considerate, most editors do not wish toa man harm, but most editors ha the interests of their paper first at heart, the interests of the community next and the dubious “rights” of a who has com- mitted an offense last. Newspapers to maintain their stand in a community must be known as organizations which play no favorites, which are willing to give an unfortun- ate who is in hard luck the “break” occasfonally, but they cannot deliber- ately repress news, As soon as they do the fact becomes known. If they do it for mopetary reasons that becomes known, if they do it as a matter of judgment it is thought that they are suppose same against in offense up or call are person getting money out of it anyhow. They | have no business repressing news and | the community knows it. As soon as|unti-lynching bill which 5 the habitually pleasant smile f Nted |0t djsappear from his face were one [mand for u continuance of the five- U lo- ent day often | ery | | NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, ~ THE OBSERVER - Makes Random Observations the fame gained by woman of thirty-two 1a home and as Ne to give good the rest of thelr lives 1 Nd wdvice and to make happler the lives Bly to trying honestly in the 1 I raatters of interest to them among cuder suggesting new things of girls who sought that advice column she condueted devoted to them a Seaman was 4 ploneer woman, i much of the always the but she retained admired quality of old-fashioned womun OPTIMISTIC OLD AGE to call Chauncey M. Depew | le Probably would It is saf advanced in years at st old although used with the him should t to characterize the adjective greatest care At ex-8enator Depew is any rate old enough to have begun to take the pessimistic view of life and the pres- sumed by people who have passcd the time of thelr greatest if he going to adopt that viewpoint. He has not adopted it, and in his there tion. Speaking at the annual business meeting of The Pllgrims, in New York he suid: “With the Washington con- fe were ever continual optimism is inspira- ence nearing a successful end, with Irish Free State starting safely upon its career, with the Genoa con- ference settling, as it will, the econ- the |omic difficulties which threaten us, we |bld farewell to the years that have gone and hail with hope the years that are to come, IPorgetting Mr. Depew's assumption, too optimistic possibly for the prac- tical politician and for those who must look at things exactly as they are in regard to the Washington con- ference, the Irish question and the Genoa conference situation, that all these things are wholly satisfactory, it is submitted that there may be cited no more splendid example of faith in the future and sturdy, brave viction that all will be well than the sight of this fine old bidding farewell to the years and *“‘hailing with hope the years that are to come.” man, A STARTLIN Whatever else may he has passed it is known that a newspaper is re-|the House by a vote of 230 to 119, pressing news that paper has lost its standing in the community, it has lost goodwill, the stock in trade of & news- paper. The editor has friends, he is only human, and he values his friends certainly it startles. The bill provides life imprisonment or less severe pun- | lishment for participants in Iynchings, the same punishment for state, county | and municipal officials who, through | a s - 3 X H | as a rule. Whea-one of those friends negiigence fail to stop lynchings, and presumes upon friendship to ask the editor to repress or change a matter concerning him he is placing the editor in a very hard predicament. He owes it to his readers, to his business wel- fare and to himself to print the facts as he would concerning someone he had never met. Most of the friends do | not realize the depth of his responsi- bility, they only look at the matter from their own angle, they do not realize that it was not the editor's fault that they got into trouble in the first place. If he is an honest editor he will print the facts. If he is not he had better get out of business before he wag forced out through lack of public confidence. Consequently, ‘“‘dear friends," subscribers” and “regular advertisers’ we warn you that you should not ap- proach us with requests to take care of you, “just this once.” We intend to maintain our standing in the com- munity, we intend to print the news, happen what will. If you get into trouble it is your fault. Occasionally we may miss a news item through our fault—but we are going to keep faith with our readers. “‘old NELLIE BLY Today little comment would be ex- cited were a great newspaper to select a woman instead of a man to make a trip around the world to test the pos- sibility of making real an imaginative story by a great writer. On the day when “Nellie Bly" was named by the New York World as the person who should start on such a trip, setting for . herself the record Jules Vernc's character, the action was almost revo- jutionary. The whole world, practically knows that this woman achieved the the of success sought, accomplishing journey in something over seventy-two days name v conceived to be dren were told he after Since She became famous at once; her chil- story; games were hier-—-she world 1y that achieve- cter. the L superwoman; named w ) heroine. menl has lost its se Her record membered in the her tional cha hasg been beaten, but name ic Bly" has remained, re- minds of those who were young then. Nellie Bly, Mrs. Elizabeth tnan, was the pioneer, thirty-two yi [ef | | Sea- |ticed ars | that the law would be unconstitutional that counties in which are formed mobs of three or more persons for |the purpose of killing anyone shall forfeit $10,000 to the family of the vic- tim. / Strictly enforced, the old law of the land might inflict this severe penalty on participants in lynching mobs. Such participants are just'as thoroughly ac- complices in murder as one man who | accompanies another for the purpose of killing someone, but who does not |commit the act. The second provision (—) to pun- ishing officials for neligently failing to prevent lynchings is undoubtedly aim- ed at officials who wink at the practice in certain cases of alleged outrage. inclined to offer a show of resistance |to lynching mobs, at least. It is diffi- |cult to see, however, how such offi- cials could be convicted in munity which was mainly in sympa- thy with the lynchers—and as a-rule only officials in such communities are negligent in this regard—as probably no jury could be found which would render against them verdict of guilty. It this bill were aimed at some communities it is probable that the provision calling for the county forfeit of $10,000 would be most effective, The people of the county, considerate of their pocketbooks, would see to it that their officials did not allow such mobs to form. In communities where lynching is of the most frequent oc- currence, however, men forgot their | pocketbooks in their anger at the sup- posed criminals and in their eagerness to teach an object lesson which will tend to prevent a recurrence of such awful crimes as those for which men are lynchcd. Nothing makes any dif- ference to them in their deep feeling, there would be no complaint at a com- a and a houschold one; she was | the necessity of their country's paying $10,000 for allowing the mob, righte- ously angry as such people would say, Lave its way. The bill probably will not pass the Senate. It will urged that it could not be enforced any more than the present law punishing men con- spiring to kNl another is capable of enforcement where lynching is prac- frequently. Tt argued be will be ago of a type of woman now often as an invasion of state rights. It will | 12 seen in the world's fields of Not that she the popula words, but she was 4 ‘new woman' accepted Ted the of those who seclk to mal sense wdvance guard i themselves in life formerly closcd to |[try without due progres women. Yesterduoy day there would have undertaken the died, few she While women her who in were expedition as confidently as did she, today ther are hundreds who would welcome the chance, traincd as they are to believe that women may do what is possibic for man of tne| Jabor, |be argued that it is purely a political in | measure, Irrespective of the merits of the bill the thing that startles is the fact that the taking of human life in this coun- has reached the point where a big majori- ty of the representatives of the peo- ple of this country feel u special law should be passed to try to end the practice. of law MORE ENCOURAGEMENT If the attention of the public utili- ties commission is called to the reports But it is deubtful if many of thege [coming from Norwalk about the re- women of today, were they to kal\i\'r‘lpls of the Connecticut compuny un- | sprinter, will make the trip. 2 con- Possibly it would make officials more | for the five ten end cent fare 18 that the commission will| possible come conclusion that when to those receipts keep showing a tenden ey to inereage over the receipts from [the ten-cent ture, it would not Ao any | | harm to allow the five cent fare to re |main in force there When the this conglusion it will not bhe has reached a difficult | New to be grant- commission step to allow the request of Biritain for a six-cent far lea The latest ports show the revenue last re- in news Is that an inereasc in Norwalk of $161.17 over revenue from the ten-cent fare for a week, Ily what | will fall to | proposed de- | | of argument the commission acquiesce in Norws cent fare, s u question. Dossibly, in- spired th |1t will say that this small increase does | Inot make up for the greater decrease Bridgeport the |amount of money involved is so much | |greater, So, it might little Nor- |walk must help pay big Bridgeport's fare. It might say rate | must obtain all over the state which, | would the same for a ride on | by company's arguments, | in greater Luse say, t the same in the final analysis, be as| ridiculous as asserting that {fare should be charged |the troliey regardless of the distance | |to ve travellea, # | A premium should be !munity for patronizing |especially if by paying such premium |the company increases its receipts. Such premiums should be paid Nor- Iwalk in the form of the reduced fare, | and the attempt should be to| find other communities it | would pay the company financially to | make similar inducements. The city jof New Britain deserves the chance to Iprove that it is such a community. paid a com- the trolley, made where MONEY FOR HEALTH. Were the people to decide today as to how much the health board should be allowed for the year, | there is little question but that there would be a sentiment in favor of | granting appropriation. The nearness of smallpox, the steps which are being advised regarding prevention of a spread of the in- | fluenza, the recent activities in the city looking to of sufferers from tuberculosis, have brought the matter the health of the city to the notice of its citizens. Thus the sum, some $35,600, to be for by the department, would not seem excessive. When the time comes for deciding on the appropriation, howev the health situation may have improved— | and certainly it is to be hoped it will be better and that there will be no dangers threatening. The smallpox epidemic in Bridgeport may be over; there may be little publicity given to | other health matters. Then the situation at the time, while not serious but which calls for a consideration of health matters, will perhaps have heen forgotten. No need will especially | large appropriation, and there will be efforts made to cut down the ap- propriation sought, v]t will be well for those who have the decision in regard to the health appropriation—the city meeting board and the constituents of the | membery of that board—to remember at that time the situation toc 1t will be well to grant an appropriation which will be sufficient for care to | be taken that the health of the peo- ple may be guarded against such dangers as threaten today, should | they arise again. And at the base of | general health, especially of the chil- dren, are the teeth. Practically no disease is unaffected by their con- dition and, far removed as they may seem, they play a most important part M that general health. The dental clinic, therefore, is one of the items that should not be forgotten. When health appropriations made the mind should and mental eyes look ahead. It is one of the most important of the city affairs with which the people have to deal, next fiscal an ample and care of general asked present be seen of an are recall 25 Years Ago Today @aken from Herald of that date) The estimated cost of removing the snow from the tracks of the Central Railway and Ilectric company dur- ing last week's storm was placed at about §600. The state convention of the Knights of Columbus will be held at Meriden Tuesday evening. M. J. Kenney of the local Carmody council will attend. There were from 600 to 700 people at the Kast Main street armory last night attending the annual ball and reception of the Nutmeg Athletic elub. Dr. Bunnell has returned to his former office in the Booth building. There were 12 deaths and three | marriage licenses recorded the town clerk's office this week. at TTLE GOES TO FINLAY BROS. Kenneth Tuttle, who 1 been con- nected with the Stanley Works as as- sistant to the advertising manager for the past two years, will become |affiliated with Finlay Bros. ol Hart- | ford as sales representative. A fare- well par was given Thursday noon at the Stanley Works office. STAMFORD MAY COML: EAST, Stamford University, Cal., Jan. 28 Stamford probably will send a track team to the 19 meet of the Inter- collegiate association of Amateur ath- letes of America at Philadelphia or Cambridge, May At least twelve | men, including Morris Kirksey, crack ! derstands, b= | candidac SATURDAY, JAN On the City the i makes In a statement given to press this week, Alderman PPaones a long explanation of his view of the salary question, Among other state ments, he says that he is opposed to 1y reductions in salary of city em- yes because the movement to effect uctions s fostered by manufactur- ers with the expectation that they will an excu bringing the pay employes 1o lower levels The alderman from the sixth goes Into the subject quite broadly, making the assertion that the rate of pay of a city employe an im portant consideration in adopting wage scales in industrial plants, This is 4 mistake, as anyone familiar with manufacturing problems readily un- On the contrary, the rate paid city employes has no perceptible effect on factory envelopes and wor- ries owners of omes and business hlocks far more than docs manu facturers, In all large 4 have for factory ward i it industrial plants, wages are determined by several fac tors. First of all, nanufacturer must get his costs of production down to a point where he can compete with the manufacturer of goods of a hke character and quelity. Unless e suc- ceeds in doing this, he may as well go out of business because nowadays competition is keen and woe he to the manufacturer whose customers suspect that he is not reducing prices as quickly as he might. The prinei- pal cost of the finished product be- ing the labor that enters into its manufacture, it follows that special attention should be given the wage question, Another element which must be considered is the labor situation in the immediate vicinity., If there is a demand for hands, wages follow their usual course and become higher. In- versely, if there is a surplus of labor, wages go down. In this way, as can be seen, labor is subject to the law of supply and demand just as com- modities are. In addition to earning wages, em- ployes must also contribute to they welfare of the busine: Money must be found to pay interest on invest- ment, lighting, heating, other operat- ing costs and overhead expens and last, but by no means of least im- portance, dividends. In establishing wage scales, all these things must be considered. To the average laborer, there are only two sides to the waze question, his side and the wrong sile. Likewise it is true that all employers are not the soul of honor, and it sometimes happens that certain of them profitecr at the expense of their iployes to the end that the sacred dividend shall be forthcoming at the end of the quarter. It is helieveld that this type is the exception to the rule, however, and that the majority of employers want to see their workers happy—but not so happy that it will] interfere with their work. Alderman Paonessa is one of those whole-hearted and sincere persons who frequently allow sentiment to run away with their reason. It is barely possible that he was impelled to make the statement about wages with tne hope that it might win favor for his for the democratic mayor- alty nomination, but it would be *un- kind to assert positively that this is true, Of course the laboring element holds the balance of power in an in- dustrial city like New Britain and words such as those uttered hy Mr. Paonessa fall soothingly on their ears, so that his aspirations would not he set back at all. New Britain political compuign§ have been remarkably free of appea's to class. [Let's keep them that way. 8o You self-satisfied men who stroll along with cigar or cigarette between your lips, or sit in front of the kitch- cn stove drawing on a babbling briar, little know what liberties you enjoy compared with early slaves of the soothing weed. Today, no one is not even wasted a second glance if he stops on the street to “light up" but when tobacco was first introduced to white men the story was different. Had you lived in the time of l.ouis XIIT and your supply of tobacco gave out, you could not send down to the corner store to get more. No indeed. When that august monarch held sway, it was necessary to convince a physician that you needed tobacco and then have a prescription filled by the local apothecary, We suspect that there was a great deal of sick- ness among the men of that period. At one time, it was a capital of- fense to smoke in Russia. The Czar made a ruling that smoking increased the fire hazard and was a public menace and anyone found in the act of smoking was immediately dis- patched. This was rather rough on the boys, we think, but quite gentle compared with what some wives would like to do to friend husband after he has had some of his asso- clates at the office over for a little game, - King James the First of strongly condemned tobacco. It nau- seated his highness so, y'know, he positively couldn't stand the bally stuff. He denounced tobacco as “loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, danger- ous to the lungs, and, in the black, stinking fume thereof, nearest re- semhbling the horrible styglan smoke of the pit that is bottomless. “All of which leads to the deduction fhat Jimmie was suffering from an attack of liver complaint. At one time, tobacco was known as nicotine, belng named thus after Jeun Nicot who, in 1569, while FFrrench am- bassador to Portugal, ¥ent a package of tobacco seeds from Lisbon to Cath- erine de Mediel. Although Europeans used the word nicotine freely, the In- dian name tobacco eventually sup- planted it in popular favor, and {he latter name has persisted to this day. In connection with this subject, it is interesting to note that the clay pipe is taking its place with dodo birds, free lunches and other relics of bygone ages. It was known by ] ingland, What Are You Doing ‘SATURDAY NIGHT’ Cecil B. DeMille [sumption that the gathering 00 o UARY 19 And some glrl wear blue palnt around th both | far detected, imports are in 1913 calendar year 1021 | exported goods, the value which | —u was 80 per cent, greater than the | value of our exports in 1913, In fack they exceeded in value the exports for any year in our history prior to 1016, 1t is true that there was @ drop of 46 per cent. from 1520 but, a bulletin from the Department of Commerce explaing, this does not i | corresponding decline in of trade, being due to a great extent to hardly be our heating ¢ our | in excess of their During the Iv eyes, | I exports and | value s A thing that a woman is sure to find hat on the head worth two mind we of new on the The average woman spends most of talking about her husband her husband, and Its People her and time 80 does A farm journal y& Adam was the first gardener, And his garden was ruined by the first chicken, One reason why the world persists in wickedness is because the reformers look so darned unhappy. various other names, such as the D", or the dudeen At one time it wus the badge of “poor-but-honest’ workingmen, although it is said that some them learned to smoke it 1use it gave them an excuse once @ while to stop pecking holes 11 the earth with their picks, When friends hered at the bier of a friend, they were aimost certain to find a large collection of clay pipes and a plate of fine cut tobaceo on the Kitchen table, But like the pleasures of the past, the cluy has been shelved for other, and per- haps better things, although the strong men of those days woull look with contempt on the white colla. boys of bhe passing hour who simply must have their cigarette breakfast risk an attack terics, represent volume of falling prices. It has frequently United States has adopted a the manger” attitude toward insiating that Europe buy withhold our purchase is | likewise a deviation from the truth ' because the v lue of our imports dur- mpie | ing 1921 was 89 per cent, higher than PIPCin 1013, This, likewise, was a de- cline from 1920, but the same ©€xX- planation holds true as is given for the decline in the export figures—the value, not the volume, was less, An idea of the tremendous export | business we do may be gained from 4 comparison of the figures for December, 1921, and the correspond- ing month in 1913, The margin in favor of the former period s 862, 413,000, The total tigures for last December showed an improvement of $400,000 over the preceding month. Imports in December increased more than 000,000 over November and 8 ) over December, 1913 Too much emphasis is being laid on idle ships. We are told that so many hundred ships are laid up for the winter at this or that port because there is no demand for their servic But, it should be remembered that they were constructed to meet abnor- mal conditions which had never exist- ed heretofore and that when these conditions ceased to be, their useful- ness declined in proportion. I While the world lived in an arti- ficial frenzy of haste, big fleets were essential. ow that we are enjoying a breathing spell, a respite from the period of stress, these ships lie idle. Some of them may ne breast the foam of the high seas again bhut even if it is their fate to rot at anchor— which is not probable—they have served their purpose and we should not cross them off the slate as a dead Jloss. In the meantime, they will fret at their chains, like full blooded — stoeds cager to be away with the; The prediction, by the IFrenchman, wind, and it is comforting to know [that a great American statesman will that we have them if we need them. [die this vear is something for Tom ihere is a siiver lining to the|Watson ‘not to worry about. foreign trade cloud, if it is really as| black as it is painted, and it is this With our unlimited production and transportation facilities, what a mar- velous business we are going to carry on when our export trade becomes stronger. been said that the “dog In Does any peculiar significunce at- tach to the ract that the Stillman case was moved to a cooler ehimate? we hefore or of lys- At the weekly dinner of the Rotary club Thursday, a rebuke softened by the diplomatic cholce of words, was| administered to yor Curtis, The speaker of the occasion was En- gineer Hazen, who is planning the ex- pansion of the city's water system and whose plan for developing the ‘ilities at Shuttle Meadow had been roundly criticized 1 Thomas H. Kehoe, a former water commi I Mayor Curtis opened the post dial program by referring to Mr. Kehoe's criticism, although he did not mention Mr. Kehoe's name, and told the diners that he assumed that Mr. Hazen had been invited to spealk g0 he could repudiate the allegations brought by Mr. Kehoe. President Spraguc of the Rotary club quickly set Mayor Curtis right by saying, in effect, that the meeting had no political significance, that it was not called for the purpose outlined by the mayor, and that Mr. Hazen had been invited for the sole purpose of acquainting interested citizens with the work that is being planned. Mayor Curtis' attempt to transform the Rotary club into a political or- ganization was the first experiment in that direction. His unwarranted as- s for benefit could not very well go unanswered, and the president of the organization did well to point out to those present that the Rotary club cannot be used for political pur- poses. . Pire chains help some, but the men- ace of reckless driving won't be re- moved until there are ball-bearing chains for the drivers, “The unfinished sentence is the menace of nfodern literature.” The un- started sentence is the ideal goal for a lot of us. The theory that war between Amer- jca and Japan is Inevitable is accepted by thousands of men who are too old to fight. pran- New York plans to make Manhat- and six miles longer by filling in bottles, tan 1 New York bay—with empty | presumably. on the | moon, says a demand for up a lot of Signs of life scientist. The increased moonshine has livened dead communities. Ifable: One upon a time there was a driver who delivered a whole ton of coal without breaking any glass in the basement window. his special 0 City Items s s been laboring under the delusion that tooth brush manufacturers have exhausted every advertising appeal from every possible angle were surprised to read in the Herald this week of conditions among school children unearthed by the New Britain Dental society and Dr. Harry Protass, who has been engaged to examine the teeth of boys and girls. As a result of the dentists’ investi- gation, it was learned that only ap- proximately 600 out of 5,000 children examined had clean mouths and a knowledge of the use to which a tooth brush may be put. It is one of our national boasts that the tooth brush is as essential to our happiness as bathtubs and yet it would seem that we have been boasting without hav- ing all the facts before us. New Dritain dentists are to be com- mended for throwing the beam of publicity onto such conditions. It is now up to parents to insist that their children pay attention to cleansing their mouths and keeping their teeth in condition. More germs enter the system through the mouth than through any other channel. ‘When the mouth is in an insanitatry con- dition, it is a Dbreeding place for disease, An organized clean-up campaign should be launched, ‘e Stop the first ten men you meet on the street and ask them this ques- tion: ‘When will business be normal again?" The majority of them, if they have given the gubject any con- sideration, will answer something like this: ““Well, we can’'t get back to good times until the export business picks up.” I"or some reason or other, the im- pression has been allowed to gain ground that our foreign trade has ceused to exist, It is, therefore, all the more surprising to learn that to- day, when Old Man Business is sup- posed to be in bed with heart faintly fluttering and pulse so feeble that its Thoge. Wiloshavy Benjamin and Vera Benewitz sold today through the Camp Real Estate Co. a three family house at No. 433 Church street. The forty-eighth annual session of the grand chapter, Order of Eastern Star, will be held at Footguard arm- ory, 105 High street, Hartford, on Monday, Jan. 30, and Tues v, Jan, 31, commencing at 10 a. m. A num- ber of New Britain women are plan- ning to attend. The gears for the pump at Engine company No. 1 which broke down early in the week, have arrived here from the American La.I'rance com- pany and are being installed. IRev. Joseph Evans of Boston, su- perintendent for New England of the Christian and Missionary Alliance, will speak at the People's Church of Christ on Sunday morning at 10:45. Mr. Evans was converted in the great Welch reviv nd has had experience as a missionary. General Superintendent 1 phrey of the Traut & Hine Manufac- turing company, has returned from a western trip. A month's mind mass was held this morning ut 7:45 o'clock at the Church of St. John the Evangelist for the late William Mullen. Speaking of the Weather “How cold is it?" “Zero hal's nothing.” Facts and Fancies ROBERT QUILLEN) (BY No, Ethel, the Chile cabinet is not an ice chest. Uncle Sam’s bill for “dry” cleaning ymed enormous proportions. Mr, Ford produced enough fliv- vers to get the world thoroughly rat- tled. We are not sure yet that jazz is dead. But if it is we know where it has gone. Congressional rguments should wax even hotter, now that Pepper is in the Senate. Plutarch, my dear, was like a feline- ure. In the Harvard Classics his “lives"” arc nine. — NEXT WEEK — —FOX— ANNIVERSARY ADDED FEATURES NO ADVANCE IN PRICES i A ian has finished sowing wild oats about the time he begins to wear comfortable shoes regardless of their appearance. Some girls look like human beings. | THE GREAT AMERICAN 77 /L ///‘ | VNN E ¢ 3 1 1/11/4/_ % / /1 | 2 = 111,