New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 25, 1922, Page 6

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A COMIC OPERA PLOT the Member Audit Burean of Circulation The A zation which Avor One tisers elrcula nd ur tion nalyais of analy B C. s furnish with by ongs for ability of Gi Jsronla st wd in new sures to both mati and George Cohan to bring he longs for these bert Sullivan statistics are for the the art of DeWolf Hopper Williams to power and late Bert na life—one things in the presence of the prettiest, FREIGHT RATES CUT The satisfaction the eral reduction in freight rates must be the that most inspiring plot for a’comic oper: E ed by over n- which ever has been sugs news stories. tempercd by realization first there must of that transportation, of rallroad permanent industrial disaster When something like sixty per cent it will be rates wages [For war has broken out hetween a reduction in wages and paral Ll the gypsy musicians of Hungary and | the of | rcondly railroad employes negro fazz-band “artists,’ many Amer The Hun- garians have sung to and made laugh populace that thousand Today “colored gemman” “artists” in that country. There the shimmy is shining, the jazz jangling, inspired from far away. garian gypsies are beside zing feterioration ny permanent any' permaner of whom are cans through would bring property the of country for a year, a is * leading the of go into w seen that must be lowered. There farther their If hi no great shortage of cars, for instance receipts azz band with the lower no room for the baton of is by railroads to cut €X=i the negro The Hu themselves are placing their elongated feet on the Hungarian toes. The gypsies have manifesto condemning the of the invaders. The there been penses of upkeep. The gentlemen of color certainly there has been no abundance of them, and of inability to keep engines imminent. a shortage, because and cars in is cited issued a repair, was This merely as an example of the wall that | has been built against greater economy The govern- | ecrazy music ian towns have risen in their menac- in the matter of upkeep. ; ing miglk ment does not go on record as setting | o 1 n wages against reduc- | g - off reduction in wages a e Iiios ates, to the | § rates. It < ; ment that might be sung, inspired by atte eaves the other to take care | JRLRT: L1 lsavencily tradition the of itself. Thus the wage reduction that st come. 3 L1 brought in as a foll by the colored That the freight reduction will help |~ | ge eme g immediately there can be no question, | 5¢HeMeN who, As already noted in the news the re- duction should for in-|ment in the riot of roaring laughter stance, cheaper, alw he and his black would stir when the great dewwand coal| The comes the railroads are in a ion|at the thought of the comic operatic to transport it, not having suffered to possibilities in the situation—and the the extent of becoming ineficient|Practical man goes out and places a through the efect of the reductions. |little bet on the gentleman from sissippi, the shimmy and the the winners the war of the “ warblers. and solemnly decreed that and shimmy must go. the sweet Imagine of senti- tion in has atter Hungarian Imagine boisterous comedy might be from Mississippi would drown the sad songs of senti- make coal, 's providing that | band tor imagination hecomes enthused pos Mis- Quick action in reducing freight rates was expected. The looked for earlier. Had the commi: sion worked over the problem of re- ducing rates acording to" the modities to be transported more time | would have been required. The com-|an mision took the easier way, adopting |republican, Indiana, a horizontal reuction, because, it says, | the Indiana rates must not change with changing | tion. True to tradition markets. is made be- |the great G. O. cause it is admitted that a horizontal precate youth reduction, such as adopted, will affect |asm for progre " unequally articles of different change spells they 1t is believed, however that the diffi- | sounded out in Indiana the keynote of that the|the theme of the be | ganda be published The boy traveling the dark churchyard at midnight may as in action was “NO APOLOGIST NEEDED" “This administration does not need com- | Senator talking republican apologist,” s hefore state conven- that god of P. old-timers who de- with youth's enthusi- and change improvement, This reference where prices. republican propa- culty of adjusting rates so constructive industries, especially benefitted, would be helped more than the industries dealing in higher prices commodities, influencaed the commission somewhat in deciding |courage—in fact upon this horizontal reduction. Delay, | that he doesn't itwas felt, would be more disastrous he whisties just the same and feels a than any possible unfairness of the |lot better as he listens to the sound. method of reduction adopted. Conservative and moderate Locally there may be nothing but|ers and refrained satisfaction at present the criticizing a lot of things at Washing- tion of the interstate commerce com- |ton, realizing the situation following n|the war with its necessary reconstruc- that sought to to small he states decidedly speak- writers have from over ac- mission. Good results should be se even before the reduction goes into ef- [tion, and appreciating fect. time must be given to golf and other fact relievers of strain. Cures for condi- COMMITTEE MEETINGS Attendance by the people slons of the common council has been urged. A more intelligent grasp of the city affairs may be obtained, course, after hearing the discu, on the floor of the council chamber. Sometimes, it must be auditor learns much tions could not be effected at once, of it is believed tor Watson's speech, full of denuncia- nd the at ses-|course. But that Sena- tion splendidly orthodox in of | hugeness of let deeds and fail- complishment, will loose a )ns | @ rent of criticism of the confessed, the ures to act of the present administra- the evident which would tion, have remained by failure of the council member to un-|charitable seclusion had they not bheeén stirred up possibly derstand what he is talking about. But as a rule much information he gained from hearing such discus An improvement in the attendance | at these meetings has been noted. Quite it did that not oceur to war may ons. | Senator Watson the recent should shoulder the the some of for things he places upon the Often there are.many ocoupying seats | shoulders of the last administration— outside the railing. They are wel-|the war, which a democratic president comed. The council, for from being|did not Keep us out of, fortunately. distracted, is placed on its mettle he- | Possibly he will not agree to the state- | war, as well as the last Often a -member of | ment that the administration, fore an audience. that audience is able upon from the chair being made, to give|deficit-creating™ ete, would not agree o request was “debt-incurring, ete. ad libitum the have valuable information to the council in | Possibly he that regard to the matter under discus- last administration sion. Going a called to committee meetings. In them | the intimate workings of the city gov- ernment appear. They are not secret into power confronting such problems affairs, these meetings. The public is|0f complexity and difficulty as those not always invited but | Which were inherited by President the public is always treated with re- Harding and the republican congress,” spect when it is represented. True, |Perhaps he forgets that “no adminis- the, meetings are held smaller | tration ever before” confronted such rooms, and there are seldom more and difficulty than enough chairs to go Wil- Nevertheless it would be possible for| §on and congress a person, especially interested, to at-| The largest step ‘ tend committee meetings occasionally | tional peace with and gain therefrom a more precise|has known in all its knowledge of the situation which in-|President Harding's call for the arms terests him. The lack of room should [conference. True, perhaps—perhaps be no drawback as there is little dan- | very true. But, Senator Watson, ger that the ordinary committee meet- |there not a great idea floating around ing will draw huge crowds. The sug- | fomewhere, the child of a democratic gestion is made, however, merely for | brain, which was seized upon and ap- would not been “debt-incurring” and fhe rest of step farther attention is|it. had it not been for the war Anl when Senator Watson says that “no administration hefore ever came strenuously, in problems of comjlexity around, |as those presented to President toward interna- justice the history™ world was was { the situa-| citizen that the men they have | Mississippi | municipal councils of seven Hungar- ! " |even though it should call for sacri- \\'a!.\'on" *lany of the charges preferred against not need his whistle to keep up his| need to whistle—but| its claims for republican | tor- ! in | blame | NEW BRITAIN DAILY H e by | would # he red And ‘Mln( Harding, not noted propriuted President Harding Pres- | previously | for startlingly original ideas, have | \genceived the conference plan had it| not been for (he presence in the world | that brain i great idea, horn of a other than his own? UNION has some practi- erg il talking he unigon of churches from a| CHURCH Montreal, ¢! |eal el ymen. Inste of fabout t have ask- | five be theorctical that they, standpoint they ol five Anglicans and Presbiyterians, be allowed each to ordained in the other denomination, continuing to hold their loyalty to own church *tion is surprising. and thoroughly to he approved | of their The least, | to say the {by those who believe in the unity Christian denominations. Offensiyve the idea those devoted to dogma there is no| question byt that people refuse to the orthodoxy. Starting with the for argumént, namely that the world is | better off under Christianity than | would the arises as to how best retain in this| as may be to today abide by rules of granted basis it be otherwise, question | {country, for instance, the influence of | | the There | doubt but there are people so fanati- | cally fond of their denomination and Christian church is no |50 wrapped up in it that they would | remain away from the Divipe service | rather than attend service modi- [ fied to meet the desires of members of other denominations. The question at once Chirstianity | stronger than their partisanship? Are |they the ones to be considered, or is arises is their it not better to make an attempt to | forget theological technicalities and lm-ing to Christianity a greater num- | ber now driven from it by those very | technical’ teachings? Most church-going people are very | fond o It | would be hard for them to alter those | their churches and servic | services, those forms, in any particu- | lar. But, it people | today are “church-going” people. | |One third of the inhabitants of this! are Christians. One-third do| sad as is, most not countr: not attend church regulariy. {5 ibmitted that if a union of | the churches bring a greater number of people into active Christi- lanity; if efficient working organization would and | if there would come a greater free- | dom the restriction of theo- | logical straws by a union of all the | churches, the result would be of in- | estimable benefit to the world, and| is a would a more result from | fice of the forms and thé services dear | to the hearts of many people, the sacrifice would be infinitely worth| while There are | statement that there AL’ DENIALS” | i dignified | truth in! times when a is mo a man, is sufficient. Sometimes the im- | i | possibility of denying charges in all| their ramifications, is obvious, It would seem as though the matter | | of the allegations connecting Attorney | | General Daugherty with | release from prison, called for some- the Morse | through | hing more than one of these “general | d0n't attend church. The first is that denials,” however. In the face of the | presented, if indeed they are| tacts, it would seem that the aloof reliance. upon - the- belief that ‘“the | beople of the country appreciate the| enough to| strengthen that people's faith in Mr. | | Daugherty. | As believed | facts situation” is scarcely attorney, Daugherty that Morse if he remained in prison and that the ends of justice would be served by relieving him of the remainder of his term in was prefectly proper, for him to profes: efforts to obtain a But Mr. would an die prison, it of course, use onal the release. he has denied some things, that he might well have admitted. The sit. | that it scarcely a time for retaining a seem- ingly stand. General Daugherty's frank statement, | even, uation has become such is| disinterested Attorney made now and not referring to letters written in the past, would be welcom- ed by who hesitate lrlhr-\r*‘ a man chosen by the President of the United States for such post guilty of the wrong implied. those to a was | | A { 25 Vears Aéo Today3 | ¢ (Taken from Herald of that date) The street committee |the matter tonight of laying a side | walk on the west.side of West Main | street along the fWalnut Hill park side | | Rev. 8 G. Ohman is planning with his parishigners of establishing a | | Swedish Lutheran Parochial school | | herd, | The Philbarmonic band will give a | concert at White Oak, Sunday, when [the. formal opening of that park will |take place | The Normal schonl graduation ex |creises will be held on Thursday, June will take up will the \' The Y. M A. Wheel club vide to Bristol tonight under leadership of Captain Pinches | * Yellow corn is superior to white| {corn for the feeding of hogs not on pasture. ) The flag of the German republic (o] | for | though they don’t know a single one |of the Isult \ | sort of “general denial” of any trutn] at all to the allegations made against him, which he has made, in itself calls for some explanation. It suggests that (the German government is not unlike- |of the most stubborn knots. (inates the conference, will not ERALD, Facts and Fancies (BY GOBEKYT OUILLEN) A criticlsm a day keeps the flapper that way, Backward, turn bhackward, O Time in your flight; let us once more walk home safely at night. Sucker: One equipped by with uncanny skill in the matter locating fake stock promoters, * The man with an ambition to die poor can begin to monkey with used cars and let Nature take its course, It might be worse. style of suits don't really resemble the young men in the ing ads. The newest make us cloth- While that economic conference is in session, we hope ft will take up the matter of hleacher seat prices, Turk scolds giving 50 him him The world hates _the cordially that it for a long period another concession. always before A school geography asks: “What forces keep the world from hecoming over-populated ?”” Well, there are diplomats. A writer speaks of “Europe, heaten to her knees.” We know of no more helpful attitude for one in her fix. . No government will again he popu- lar until the peoples of the earth have finished paying for their madness, the traveling man in the about the great market| it's probably a *‘bull” When smolker tells his wares, market. Another way to play solitaire is to get the habit of feeling sorry for| yourself and talking about your troubles. The war is over, but vou will ob- serve that young men still feel rather| important when they put on leather | putties. i | About time for paragraphers to start dressing the girls up in summer| furs. Fortunately, the disorders a change of climate will cure seldom attack anybody except those who can afford the change. That expression of divinity on her| face in church is caused by the knowledge that many envious eye: are fixed on her new. hat. Still, if you will look about you will find people who are happy even new dances. There are 7,642 reasons why men they are not interested. others don’t matter. And the A feminine writer says ladies are more easily approached than they| once mora. She isn't talking about the one on the dollar. A motorist should never confess that #he accident was wholly the re- of his own carlessness. The| shock might Kill the judge. MORGAN DEMANDING FULL SECURITIES | | | | Paris Bankers’ Conference Not So/: Likely to Sucoeed ’ Paris, May (By Associated | ss)—The second day of the in- tional bankers' conference finds| ituation less reassuring than the first, for, attending to Berlin advices, Iy to reject Finance Minister Hermes THURSDAY, MAY proposals for balancing the budget| which the reparations commission found acceptable. | Such a step would considerably add to the already monumental task before | the bankers—that of straightening out the Buropean financial tangle in| which the German situation forms one | J. P. Morgan who admittedly dom- | be in-| fluenced by sentimental or diplomatic | considerations, it is stated. He will require tangible securities which can | be readily controlled such as rail- road and customs receipts and lhr" like. | The bankers are approaching the| question of a loan to Germany by in- | forming themselves of that countr economic arrahgements-and resource: Herr Bergmann the German repre- sentative today continued his exposi- tion begun yesterday of the present ation, submitting numerous docu- ments to suppfement his oral pres- entation. He analyzed the new budg-| et and the consideration upon whh»h; it was constructed, with extreme full-/ ness. The bankers also have had laid be-| fore them masses of information re- | specting Germany's finances gathered by the reparations commission. One of the jirst points to be set-| tled is the amount of the loan to| Germany. This, according to the| | would | energy. ox 25, 1922 19 7 19T TRUE THAT ALL THIS ONLY COSTS ersley, British delegate and Dr| Vis- soring, representing Holland. These three will also have to re- solve to what extent Germany will participate in the issue, for, it is felt that, inasmuch as Germany is to get part of the loan to help in her economic restoration, she should be reqnired to invest therein some of the foreign currency estimated at 6,000, 000,000 gold marks which she, pos- sses ahroad. The allied governments have re- ceived a plan for an international loan applicable to reparations, the author of which, according to the newspaper I'Oeuvre, is I'rank A. Van- derlip of New York. The plan is un- derstood to have had a favorable re- ception and will probably be submitted |to the bankers committee. DISCUSS PLANS FOR IMPROVED SHIPPING Would Make Gonn, River Navi- gable for Unlimited Commerce Hartford, May 25. going to improve your Connecticut river so that you can hring lumber from Oregon and other products from all parts of the country,” said Con- gressman S. Wallace Dempsey of N York, chairman of the congressional committee on rivers and harbors, at the Hotel Bond in this city last night luring the course of his rema while taking the negative side of a debate conducted hefore a large and interested audience as one of the principal events of the annual meet- ing of the Connecticut Chamber of Commerce now being held. The af- firmative side of the question was taken by former Congressman J Adam Bede, of Minnesota. Both speakers were eloquent in support of their claims. The debate was attended by be- tween 500 and 600 persons, including a large number .of women. The Colonial male quartet sang several se- lections,during the evening. Railroad Situation. E. Kent Hubbard, of Middletown, presided and gave a brief introduc- tory talk telling of the initiative taken by Connecticut in getting the co- operation of the other New England states in an effort to improva the rail- road situation. Of equal importance was the St. Lawrence project, the topic under discussion at the meeting. Mr. Hubbard then introduced the first speaker, Mr. Bede. In opening hi “We are soon rgument Mr. Bede said his cause was just and that it was not intended to ‘“put anything over on _anybody.' Huf(JIl‘O wa against the project because' of “rakeoff" on freight transfers. objected on the same reason, and New York too, because that city wanted all the commerce to go through that city. The farmer and producer. of the West have much cheaper transportation because of the projected improvement. There would a treal | be a saving of seven cents a bushel. Cent a Mile, It is now possibie to from Duluth to Buffalo, for a cent a mile. Buffalo nearer Liverpool than New York. The cost to ship grain from Buffalo to New York was 13 cents a bushel for only 400 miles. The consumer in the iZast would profit just as much as the farmer in the west. Wheat was shipped from Argentine to Liverpool for 10 cents a bushel. The cost from Duluth to Liverpfol was 23 cents. ship 1,000 grain miles, was | Was it fair to place such a handicap Ameérican former? Benefit to Country. 8t. Lawrence canal awere opened the country at large would profit greatly. Tt not fair to im- pose a handicap on the producer on account of the selfishness of New York.© Cars to ship ‘products were impossible to obtain and cattle died 7 the plains in large numbers be- food could not he obtained for m. Lakeand canal transportation was much qiicker. There were tie- ups on the railroads and troubles at loading points. The Panama and Suez canals had done much, and the canal from Liverpool had helped both Claims of the opposition that freezing of the 8t Lawrence hinder greatly were not sup- ported by facts. The canal would also give New York and New Eng- land a large amount of electrical Claims of costs in excess of estimates were not true. Ships could be used both on the canal and on the ocean The canal would be 30 feet on the 1f the cities, the has pever been flown in some parts of | Journal falls within the special prov-ideep, thus allowing 99 per cent. of Germany. “mce of Mr. Morgan, Sir Robert Kind-{all ships to enter, he said. Mon- | Cheaper Coal and Iron. Tron ore and food products, as well as coal, could be brought to all New England: ports much cheaper than at present. New England manufacturers will soon be in serious difficulties on account of the high cost of coal un- less the St. Lawrence project comes to the rescue. The proposition should not he made a source of contention be- tween New York and the west. Rather we should enter upon the work in a spirit of friendly co-operation with our Canadian neighbors. We want to load in our own port and ship to the nds of the earth just as easily as we now mail a letter. We want cheaper trapsportation and here is the best possible opportunity. The west is not asking anything unreasonable, but is asking only the right to market its products to the best possible advan- age. Power Develooment. Congressman Dempsey opened his remarks for the negative by saying his opponent had not explained to his hearers what the project was about. The real meat of the subject was whether the United States and Can- ada wished to enter jointly upon the improvement of the St. Lawrence. Far the most important side of the ques- tion was that of the power develop- ment based on the report of the in- ternational commission. Benefit to Canada. The question of cost had not at all been considered by Mr. Bede. The sum of $252,000,000 the cost as es- timated would, on the estinfate of one of the greatest living engineers be in- creased to a billion and a half. Why should we improve one of Canada's waterways before we improved our 5,000 miles of navigable streams. The interests of New York and New Eng- land were identical. The cost of lum- ber had increased until it was now al- most prohibitive. The future lumber fields were in Oregon. With harbor improvements in thatfstate completed t would be possible to bring lumber the Panama Canal up through ppi and Ohio rivers to alr e country. Congressman Dempsey said that the St. Lawrence project would benefit no- body but the wheat growers. Im- provement of our own waterways would benefit the entire country. Of the 100,000,000 tons of tonnage handled on the Great Lakes 96,000, 000 tons was for domestic use. The project if completed, would undoubtedly result ex- clusively in Canadian control. Can- ada would have everything, and the United States would have nothing. In time of peace our efforts should be directed toward developing chan- nels of commerce which would be ours in times of war. fhree-Quarters to Canada. The agreement made by the inter- national commission provided that hree-quarters of this water power Iwnuld go to Canada. This was most unfair to our country. The previous speaker had evaded this side of the question. Canada also was unable financially to develop the 8St. Law- rence. It was perfectly willing, how- ever, to let the United States pay for it. Sentiment in Canada was not unanimous for the improvement. Im certain regions it was even hostile. “Right here on the Connecticut at Enfield,” said Congressman Dempsey, 40,000 horsepower can be developed, and a permit for this work has been granted. It is estimated that one year after this goes through that a 12 foot channel will be built, thus affording facilities to transport 600, 000 tons of freight every year."” At the conclusion of Congressman Dempsey’'s remarks Mr. Bede took a few minutes time for his rebuttal, He accused the negative speaker of evading the real issue. The arguments at this point reached the heated stage, and' after Mr. Dempsey had interrupted Mr. Hubbard was forced to call both speakers to time. -~ Mr. Bede called attention to the fact that Germany did not own the mouth of the Rhine. The St. Law- rence was our, river for navigable purposes, and we had all the right in the world to use it. Hartford Bridge. “We are asking,” said Mr. 3ede, ‘“only that we may be enabled to use our own stream. He would use the Connecticut river, but I ask him how he would get throubh the Hartford bridge. He would require you New Englanders to pay higher prices for food and other necessities . than are necessary.'” ‘Congressman Dempsey then closed the debate with a few remarks. He said that the clearance at the Hart- ford bridge was 45 feet, twice as high as was required by the war depart- ment, whereas 15 to 23 feet was the figure. usually found in other sections of the country. GET-RICH-QUICK PLAN Branford Farmer Buys Machine To Turn Paper Into Money. New Haven, May 25.—John Groos of Brooklyn and Frank Zilinski of this city, were arrested by the local police on complaint of Alexander Struzinski, a Branford farmer, who claimed the two men sold him a “pa- per money making machine” and thereby swindled him out of $3,000 the two men were locked up in de- } fault of $10,000 bail each on a tech- :nical charge pending a hearing before 1a United States commissioner. Valuable new drug plants have been found by explorers in the Amazon river basin. Zoological gardens in England are in the market for American bison. ' Besse-Lelands Play No It Is Favorites! a Store For Everybody In times such as these the man whose bank roll is small is the chap who helps keep prices down, because he can ’t be sold unless the price is right. We have no difficulty in selling him here for we have the merchandise and the values. BESSE-LELANDS Everybody comes here