New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 11, 1922, Page 6

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Today, Armistice Day—the day we recall the hour on November 11, four years ago when fighting ceased, is a good (day to make the determination to remember conditions as they were in this city and in this country last Tuesday, election day. Today, when we hold solemn ceremonies of thanks- giving that there would be no more call upon young men to give their lives for this country's cause—the cause she had made hers, and when we hold serious memorial services for nhom who had given their lives—this ,dnir is & proper one to determine that ‘sve will do our part to make condi- ftions better two years from last Tues- ‘day than they were then, And to do 'this we must remember politics and p\lhll'c affairs cvery day, The danger is that we will forget. * Many will let things go on, making & sneering complaint every little while perhaps, but failing to enter heart and soul into movements which will “make it possible for political affairs “to be better In the city, in the nation. It is submitted that there were few thinking men and women, who knew the facts, who did not have a feeling that “all is not well” as they cast their ballots last Tuesday. It does not ' matter for which party candidates they voted. Allegations s had been .made in which many believed there was, a grain at least of truth. Some candidates were put up for office who, to say the least, were not rep- ', resentative men; others were accused of selfishness. Only those who refuse to face the facts will declare that the conditions are not bad in this city, this state and in the nation. At Washington there is a President who wants above all to find out what the people want and to do it if it seems “expedient” to his advisers to whom he gives a‘respectful ear. It is sald that he intends to assume real leadership of his party. That is a false hope. He has been too long a follower, and this theory of life has . brought him into the White House, There is talk of a new party. It is freely predicted that there will be a party of “Wets'" as opposed to a party of “Drys.” Roger Babgon, the con- servative economist, declares that pos- " sibly by 1924, certainly by 1928, there will be distinct conservative and pro- " gressive groups—that this will be the great dividing line. If we look back - beyond the great Republican year which brought President Harding in- to-the Presidency, it will be seen that “conservative Connecticut” did not follow the spirit of a desire for a change shown in the nation as a whole. Connecticut, New Britain, will wake up, possibly after other states have had the advantagethat will come to ;! those who want action. But one thing is Nothing may be accomplished by sitting back . and letting things go as they have. Today, Armistice Dty, when we re- ‘ gnember the men who did real things for our country, may well de- ' termine to be real men and women ' and, by keeping track of how mat- ters are going, taking interest in pub- ! lic affairs, do our parts. 1f we don't " no one else will. sure. we CROWDED CARS AND BUSSES. The fining of jitneymen and the owner of a jitney line for crowding the busses beyond legal capacity, and the remarks of the judge indicating that' the trolley company should suffer similar penalties, bring up a new transportation problem. And there seem to be enough such problems already. It is notorious, not only in New Britain but in most cities, that cars and busses are continually being over- crowded. Yet, likewise in New Brit- ain and in other cities, the transpor- tation companies are complaining of insufficient receipts to give the service demanded and to make necessary improvements in rolling stock. It is obvious that the people who make the “extra crowding” must The obvious solution of the trouble would be to place more vehicles in service. This would not mean as great a com- parative outlay for the Conneetleut company as it would for the jitney- men. The cost of trolley car is much smaller, of course, in propor- tion to the company's capital thén is the cost of a bus to the capital of the jitneymen. In fact practically all of the latter's capital is invested in Jitneys. Similarly the fares of those of ride, a illegally carried by the jitney amounts to u greater sum, as compared to the Jitney's total fares, than does the sum recelved from the trolley company's extra passengers as compared to the total fares received, Thus it is clear that the jitneys could less easily pros- per were they to be prevented from overcrowding, than could the trolley company, The law must be course, Overcrowding dangerous and ought to be stopped, Tt should be stopped in the fitnfys and in the trolleys, as Indicated in court Thurs- day, Perhaps there are a few busses in this city large enough to make the line upon which they run prosper without any overcrowding, But it Is safe to say that strict enforcement of the law against overcrowding in New Birtain would penefit the Connectleut company in that it would pm‘bly put some of the jitneys out of busi- ness. This 18 no argument against strict observance of the, law. sLiveg are endangered whenever the rule is broken. It is merely 4 warning that; if the people of the city are to be enforeed, of ) served-as they are now being served, by jitney and trolley, the jitneys must increase their capacity.! And before jitney owners make further invest- ment they should cgnslder well the present attitude of the public utilities commission. They should consider well how long will be the life of their business. _EUGENIC MARRIAGES 1t is proposed, out in Chicago. to try to obtailn a pledge fro school girls that they will demand & certifi- cate from the men they are fo marry tending to prove that he has led a clean, decent life. Mere discussion of the idea brings out the old guestion: “Would you take from sweet yqung girls their pure innocence?” The an- swer comes strong: “Yes, if by ‘pure innocence’ is meant ignorance of life's vital facts.’” For if “pure innocence” is put in the scales against a life of un- happiness, with diseased and misera- ble children, the terrible weight of the latter will make ‘“pure innocence” seem of little value. 1t wduld be better for the individ- ual and for the race, of course, if there were some way to provide that only offspring of spiritually splendid | people were brought into tne world. What a wonderful place the world would be if it were possible to per- petuate only high ideals, =plendid, ‘strong standards! This is impoasible. We are human. \ s But it is not impossible to take all the precautions available to prevent physically weak babies from cumber- ing the earth-and from bringing un- happiness n’nong us—an unhappiness all the greater because of the unhap- piness of the victinis of the sins of their fathers and mothers. And only in' this way should the restrictions come. No man-made law should bind man farther in this realm so suscepti- blegof abuse. The limitations should be adopted voluntarily through a de- mand by. wdmen of a single standard of morals, And in this day ¢f women's equal rights the arrangement should not be one sided. The mule of Lhe species should not be the only oié un- der suspiclon. There should grow up an unwritten law among the enlight- ened that, 'as far as it is humanly possible to do so, proof of the physical health of the perpetuators of the race should be given with only a regret that there is no human way by which the spiritual health, also, ~ might be shown. . THE AMBULANCE-PATROL. ‘“'Tis an i1l wind” and all the rest of it. Possibly it is good that the police patrol-ambulance needs repair or there i{s need of replacing it. Pos- sibly the discussion over what shall be done will lead to a decent solving of the problem, It is absolutely ridiculous” that in a city of this size the police patrol should be the only means of convey- ing people to the hospital. The use of that vehicle for this purpose is repugnant to all idea of propriety. The police patrol should be a police patrol and nothing else and no one is especially anxious that it should be comfortable. The ambulance should be an ambulance and nothing else. Comfort should be the primary con- sideration in procuring it. If the cost of maintaining is the only reason why the hospital has felt unable to get one, an- arrangement might be made whereby the police could man it and care for it, as the police have shown a willingness to to take care of the lights that haye be put in place to guide traffi¢ at night. The ambulance itself is the important thing—a deal more impor- tant than the patrol. Whatever ar- rangement is made the ambulance should be a proper one. RED CROSS ROLL CALL. No person in the world is free from the danger, always threatening, of be- ing overtaken in the awful clutch of a great, terrible calamity. War, famine, fire, flood may fall upon any community at any instant. No care- fully planned precautions are power- ful enough to provide against them. The organization that stands ready, on instant notice, to respond to the call of the sufferers from such calam- ity is the American Red Cross. The instant the signal is given the ald comes. “Preparedness” is its creed. And‘ it is because of the constant, e.lun-‘r. generous response of the men and women and children of the coun- try that this organization is always prepared, Today begins the annual Rell Call of the American Rted Cross. No pub- licity organ dares to fall to remind the people of this fact. No publicity organ would fall to remind 'of the day even If it dared, To emphasize such matters Is one of the most solemn duties of the press and of the people whose volces are heard all over the country. And the abllity to reach so many people in reminding them of such a cause 1s one of the Joys which make the possession of influence one of the, great pleusures of life, Your dollar, your, neighbor' dollar, this man's dollar, that man's dollar and the dollars of men and women evérywhere are the sinews ,of the tremendously now:rful nnd‘ tender machine, ‘called The Great Mother, which is always ready because you and all'the rest of the generous, the thoughtfil of the country do not fail to join or renew your membership in the American Red Cross. 'As, today, we remember those whom the Great Mother nursed back to health in the great war, and as we remember those for whom she did all that was hu- manly possible to do to save, we will again show our desire to be one of her helpers, Facts and Fancies (BY ROEERT QUILJ When there are no war profits, there will be fewer prophets of war. A savage nickname is a fine thing for a fighter who feels the need of it, The victory of a “wet” candidate serves only to keep sore spots tender. Fable: Once there was a man who didn't think his job harder than any other man's job. All of the dead-broke nations seem agreed that it is somebody's duty to finance Germany. It is a large question whether it is better to massacre minorities or tax them to death, Times don't change much. Even in _the old days, reaching for the hip in@licated that somebody was going to suffer. Freud says we forget what we wish to forget. Did the man ever get stuck for g used caf? So live that when you become a has-been your memoirs will find a market at $4.86 the word. Late in life, success expands the waistband. Barly in life it merely expands thé hatband. A happy ®ife is one who has an intimate friend withwhom she can discuss her husband’s faults. Correct this sentence: . “The baby wept and walled and the young father was glad its mother was down town.” And it may be that.the doughboys preferred Owsley because the sound of him is reminiscent of a. w. o. I ~ No wonder the roads are bad, with the fellow in front burning up the highway and the fellow behind eat- ing it In this country, Imost anybody can become a porter; but.in India they have the caste and carry system. It must be a great comfort to a sgarving and freezing European to know that he has America’s moral support. Thrift is the art of burning 30 cents' worth of gasoline to find a place where $10 shoes can be bought for $9.98. Still, the ‘man who wishes he had voted is in somewhat better case than the man who wishes he had voted the other way. Much of the world’'s visible supply of futility busies itself wondering which has the larger income, Ford or John D. SRR RS 25 Years Ago soday (Taken from Herald of that date) Charles McCall of Plainville was awarded.a $20 gold piece at the Y. M. T. A, and B. fair, which closed last night. The enumeration of school children has been completed and there are now enrolled in the local schools 5,100 pupils between the ages of four and 14 wears. This is a gakg of 185 over last year. P The annual examination of faucets by, the water department brought to light several which were leaky and the persons were ordered to have them repalred. At the meeting of the Philharmonic society yesterday afternoon, A, J Sloper was- clectd to the executive committee. = " - THE 0 B SERVER - Makes Random. Observations On the City Judging by reports from Water- bury, J. Henry Roraback, chalrman ot the republican state central com- mittee, is not a hero in the eyes of the voters In the “Brass City.” In fact, the overwhelming defeat of the party ticket, including Charles A. Templeton, In Waterbury Is ascribed to the dislike of Waterburians for the methods of Roraback in his ca- pacity of a power and light baron, it being well known that he has a deep intorest in the fortunes of the Con- necticut Light and Power company. It is .claimed that the company, whose spokesman in the legislature is Roraback, inteffered with the plans of Waterbury to dsvelop its water re- sources;” Naturally, the citizens re- sented this fact and when the cam- paign -opened democratic orators lost no opportunity to point out that a xote for the republican ticket was a ote for Roraback. The result shows what effect talk of this kind had. The people decided to bury Roraback un- der an avalanche of votes and in so doing, they buried their fellow towns- man, Governor-elect Templeton, and his ‘associates ‘on the republican ticket, If the democratic campaign speak- ere threughout the state had concen- trated more of their gunfire on Rora- back the democratic ticket might have been elected. Roraback is a live issue. As chairman of the G. O. P, state committee and as a friénd of the lighting and power trust he has a dif- ficult time reconciling’ his position, On another occasion if the ‘minority party will carefully explain to the voters that Roraback is not the prop- er man to direct the policies of the glate government they may run up a plurality which will surprise even the democratic candidates. Republicans who are not under Roraback’s control aré said to be dis- satisfied with his leadership. They believe that he s a liability rather than an asset and it would not be surprising if he is informed that he i# persona non grata. When the re- publican party starts to clean house it can start with this reactionary from Canaan who thinks in terms of twenty years ago. Unless the G. O. P. starts this house sleaning, it may find assistance from the democratic side of the - political fence two yeart hence, PR The Observer got his little pencil out the other day and while waiting for reports of burst shells or blast- ed hopes along the political battie front, decided he would investigate The New Britain Herald. His inves- tigations revealed some startling fig- ures, Figuring on the present circulation, the width and number of pages, he speedily found that if all the New Britain Heralds printed in one year, were pasted end to end they would make a pathway the width of a page and 1,000 fhiles long. Tiguring on the amount of set mat- ter in a year, advertising and read- ing matter both, reducing the same to its equivalent in lines and then plac- ing those lines end to end, would reach 260 times around the world. 1f the same papers, published dur- ing the year were piled on top of each other, they would make a pile six and one-half miles high. Wiguring on The Herald's 300 news- boys and,allowing that each boy in the course of his work walks at least a mile and a half every day a paper is published, Herald newsboys in a year walk 140,400 miles or practically five times around the world / every year. The weight of these papers would amount to about 6,552 tons, or enough to fill 218 1-2 freight cars carrying 30 tons each. ) Allowing for a boy who takes 50 1bs, of papers every day, each hoy would carrp in the course of a year about eight and one-third tons of pa- pers. "o Among the most interesting Armis- tice Day window displays in the city\s the full grown Ambrican eagle just received by Henry C. Chapman of 33 Court street, which is mounted and is on display in the windows of B. C. Porter Sons. The eagle was killed in Saybrook, 35 years ago, by a broth- er of Mr, Chapman in defense of his life. It was in the summer of 1887 John Chapman, of Saybrook, was hunting in the woods not far from his home. Suddeply a large Américan eagle swooped down and sunk its talons deep into his shoulders. A battle fol- lowed which resulted half an hour later in the death of the bird and the disabling of the man. So badly In- jured was he thht it was a month before he left. his bed and at least six months before he was able to work., He was arrested on a charge of killing an American eagle but was discharged on the grounds of self de- fense. . Recently Mr. Chapman diéd and his mother wigh whom he lived and who is 91 years old, did not wish to keep the bird, which he had taken home and mounted. Saturday it was ship- ped to the home of the local man who will keep it in his parlor aftergit is taken from the Porter window. “ e Because of the many complaints re- ceived from people living in the Unit- ed States, Postmaster W. F. Delaney of the New Britain postoffice, has re- ceived word from thé postal authori- ties in Washington to refuse to ac- cept for delivery all letters addressed to the following companiés in Mon- treal, Canada: 4 Grand Silverware company, Impeér- fal Silverware company, Imperial Sil- verware department, Prize Silverware Gepartment, United Silverware com- pany, Roy Silverware company, Ra- diant Diamond company, Internation- al Silverware company, manager prize department, Radiant Diamond and Jewelry company, Canadian Sil- verware company, Standard Silver- ware company, Hawailan Diamond and Premfum company, Oriental Jew- eiry company, Commercial Silverware company, Community Sterling com- pany and the Tabléware Manufactur- ing company. " 1t is alleged that all of the above companies are obtaining money by fraudulent methods of advertising prize contests in which everyone is a winner. When the prize is won théy announce that so much money must and: Its People be sent to cover postage, wrapping, etc, and then nothing rurther is ever heard from the companics, the postal authorities claim, Mr. Delaney says that any letters addressed to any of the above. companies from New Brit- ain will be returned to the person sending 1t Postmaster Delaney also announced that extended city mail service has been granted to the residents of Sef- ton Drive, Lake Boulevard and Kuclid avenue In the Belvidere section of the city as well as on Stanley street from Francls street to Park Boulevard, The additional service was inaugur- ated this week. o In view of the near approach of' the holidays, Postmaster Delaney calls the attention of the publie to the ne- cessity of malling all packages and letters to Europe early if they wish them dzlivered in time for the festive season, . To insure delivery all packages for European countries should be malled from' New Britain about December first although they will be accepted for delivery after this date, Packages for Austialin should be malled during the latter part of November. LU ” A call has been i{ssued to all Jew- ish communities in the state ‘of Con- necticut inviting delegates from con- gregations, Zionist socleties, lodges and institutions for a convention to be held Sunday, November ‘26, at the Hotel Taft, New Haven. This conven- tion is called for the purpose of in- augurating the Keren Hayesod Drive (Palestine Foundation Fund) for Thé intensely interesting MR. GEOR! $200,000 to be raised by the Jews of the state. Only one session Will be held, which will be devoted to the election of a state campaign commit- tee and officers to launch the cam- paign. Large delegations are expect- ed from Hartford, New Haven, Bridgeport, - Stamford, Waterbury, New Britain, New London, 8. Nor- walk, Danbury, Derby, Greenwich, Ansonla, Totrington, Winsted, Wili- mantie, Colchester, Putnam Middle~ town, Ellington, 8. Manchester, Meri- den, Wallingford, Bristol. The call has been issued by the pro- visional Keren Hayesod committee of the state and is signed by the reglon- al director, Isaac Carmel of Hartford. The call has also been endorsed by prominent Jewish leaders and rabbis of the different communities of Con- necticut. The Keren Hayesod is the most im- portant national Jewish fund, which is alding the settlement of Jews in [Palestine, by creating better sanitary conditions, looking after the health of .the people, establishing and maintaih- HOW DO THEY LIVE? Ang educational story of the way in which . the French' people live today will be told by E:T. BERRY Field Secretary of the National McAll Mission in France < at the ' SOUTH CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH Tomorrow Afternoon, At Five o'clock .EVERYONE IS CORDIALLY ‘INVITED French Music Will Be Played By Mr, Beebe The Little Ladies and Gentlemen' of the Children’s McAll Will Sing. institutions, care of immigrants and supporting large coloniZation enterprises, This fund which 'has beén started ahout elghteen months ago has gained the recognition of all classes of Jewish people for the excellent restlts achieved, Rl e e fir Nonchalantly ~walking through Fafryiew cemetery one afternoon re- cently, we came across a grave upon which was a most beautiful plant ot pom-pon chrysanthemums. Strugk by the beauty of the gorgeous red blossoms and being a lover of flow- ers we stooped down to examine the brilliant red clusters. A Our attention, however, was: imme- diately drawh to a small white card which was attached ‘to the plant. With our curlosity aroused we turned up the right side of the card and were_ startled to read the. following inscription written thereon: ‘Many Happy Returns of the Day.” ‘The answer {8 still unknown. ) CEASE FIRING! 55O 15 [Pusi given delow: Gommpnding Gemersd .8, PERIOD Armist sr“ Bumber 267 Sec. PERIOD: A11 hostilities oce eleventh imstant two four seven Ses PRRIOD Acknowladge OFPICIALS PAR; 3rl, /“4/ Sovember 1134, 1918, with Germeny has been signed st ¢slegen hours this date the 10D Instruotions oontained in teléegran m‘::r @ 3 these Hesdqgarters will be cemplied ‘receidPt ’ll@ Y KDWARD O, LOGUIRE or Cavalry u.goo. Gen, Staffe Chiof Aly Service Oeples to: ch}o' n{ 0TV _Ohiess This s a hutogrnphlc tion of the ‘cease firing” order is- sued by American general headquar- ters to the United States troops at the fighting front in France—an armistice had been signed in the World War, The order, as will be seen, was ad- dressed to the Iirst, Third and Fifth United States army corps and to the Second Colonials of Franc Endurance and Economy Form A Triple Alliance reproduc-| of 8 From the copy rgproduced, dress to the First and Fifth corps and to the Colonials was erased, for relay of the order to the Third corps. The relayed telegram ' containing the order to cease firing on the stroke of 11 on the historic Nov. 11, 1918, was brought back to the United States by William Morey, a telegraph oper- ator at first attached ‘to Company B, 319th d Signal Battalion, which the ad-|’ tecame the First 8ignal Corps on ar- riving in France, and later trans- ferred to Company C. i After returning to- this country Morey resumed his old position with the Western Union Telegraph ¢om- pany, in Dayton, O. .He died: a yeéar ago and the cease firing order -an cther messages of histori¢ valu found among his offect BEAUTY of design and perfection of finish are combined with refinement and me- chanical excellenee in this new Phaeton Reo, : built upon the famous Reo-Six chassis and powered with that perfectly balanced sweet- running six-cylinder motor. Gracefully roportionea isthe softly curved low hung from end to end and merge hood, cow! ly with straight lines that sweep 1 and . body panels into a pleasing entirety. Arm chair comfort is delivered by the liberally dimensioned, form-fitting seats and backs. Covering them is gray hand-buffed leather of Dualtone finish. Proving that beauty is more than deep is the Reo double-framed the power units so frame as to foil the ravages ruggcdisthesoh.‘p.enfin&‘ ers, crankshaft, intake valves remarkably accessible—it is motordom’s Spirited and With ground cylin most enduring “Six.” body- chassis, with in the inner- ‘'of road shocks. large ports, 4-bearing i‘z head—each part Price $1645 f. 0. b. Lansing, plus Federal Tax KENNETH M. SEARLE & COMPANY REO MOTOR CARS and TRUCKS GABRIEL SNUBBERS Cor. ELM and PARK STS. New Britain Tel. 2110 ——=