New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 22, 1922, Page 6

- New Britain Herald - | SNRALD PUMLISHING OOMPANY (Istuod Daily, Sunday Excepted). At Herwd Biag., 87 Church Brrest. SUBSORIPTION RATES: 0560 & Year, .00 Three Menths 750 & Morth, | i Matercd at the Post Offion at New writaly a8 Bercnd Clacs Mal' Matter, T0e oaly profitadle advestising rasdiom i | he Oty Circulation booke .nd press | reom always open te sdvartisers. ‘ Wembrer of The Aspociated Proas ¥he Amociated Pross is cxclumvaly entitied te the vae for ra-publivsticn all news treditod to It or mot otherwis: end.lllfll i this papcr ané aiso loeal news pub- lshed heretn, | Membiw Audit Durons of (irculntion L] s & nationsl M';‘“I‘ fistrs with & strictly houest aralye civiolation. Our corrulation statisties are vpon thie andit, This fuenies pro- toction against fraud in nowspaper dls- | tribution figures to both msticonl and lo o8l sdvertisers, e AN UNEXPECTED VETO. Announcement by Benator-elect | Covert and Representative-clect Al- | * ling that they will not be bound by _ the decisions of the charter revision committee brings up the Interesting question whether they are ebllgatvd‘l by public opinion made articulate' through the committee and the com- | mon council. There is nothing in the charter or lordinances which throws light on the subject. Revision of the charter 18} simply a civic habit formed soon after tha consolidation of the eity and town governments. At that time it 'was decided that certain.amendments | to the charter were desirable and the mayor was authorized to appoint a committee to weigh recommendations | and make a report to the council | Since then, a charter revision com- mittee has made its biennial appear- anoe, has considered amendments, has madeé recommendations to the com- mon council and like the Arabs, has folded its tent and silently slipped away. The committee's report has| been discussed by the council, accept- | ed in whole or in part and has been sent on its way to the legisiature. mcntunlly it has found its way |nta‘ thé hands of the committee on cities | and boroughs. and has been sent back, in the form of a report, to the | General Assembly, where final alspo-' sitién has been made of it.* | Sometimes it has been the case that ~practical politicians, m_ ways that are | ‘mysterious to thé ordinary run of folks, have effected changes in the draft of the amendments after the | gcommon council report had reached the committee on cities and boroughs. ‘This has not occurred with sufficient frequency to cause alarm but often enough to create the suspicion that, with the proper application of | acoustic principles, politicians have been able to reduce the volce of the people to a mere whisper. Because of conditions outlined in | the foregoing paragraph, it 18 desir- able that our representatives in the legislature plead the cause of New Britain, as represopted by the charter revision committee and the coffmon councll, instead of allowing thelr per- | sonal preferences to coior their judgs! ment. It is true that they are not legally bound by any aet of & munici- pal committee or by the council. Neither can it be sald that they have mandate from the people to inter- ret what the people, through the revislon committee, have said they want in the way of charter amend- | ments. To set their own personal ;oplnlons against the judgment of the government of New Britain is to endow themselves with an omnis- eience which 18 non-existent, If our senator and representatives have the moral right to use thetr Influence in the General Assembly to pet at naught the recommendations of our local government, why bother to have a charter revision committee? Would it not save time and mental effort to have the senator-elect and the representatives-elect sit as a com- mission to hear suggestions concern- ing the charter, acoepting here and rejecting there as they msaw fit? The danger in arbitrary action by the senator and représentative les in the fact that they are in close contact with the committee on ecities and boroughs while the members of the eommon council and the people, hav- ing to spend so many hours at their daily tasks, are “outsiders’” more of less dumb. Because of this situa- tion—as well as the practiee of “back | seratching” indulged in by legisla- tors—our representatives are usually able to persuade their colleagues that their way of thinking is the oply way to think. The progress of the charter revi- slon report will be closcly watched after it leaves the common couneil. There is a possibility that the council will not recognize ite own child after the tailors in the committee on cities and boroughs fit it to new clothes, THE SADIS CLAIM. Universal sympathy went out to the family and friends of who was drowned in the municipal swimming pool last summer, Thero would be no great outery, probably, although some might questi the wisdom of the precedent, yfere the eity to give the young marje father #ome amount of moncy iif responseé A Bis human appeal for fhssistance, I young Sadis | PR AT, matter goes there is propriety in the | Accept Benator lLa EW(' must have a metchant marine. not, however, as an answer to his claim for legal damages, will come up before the claims com- | mittee tomorrow evening. But as far as the legal vide of the law which would, probably, hold that the father had no cause of action against the city. If, every time the city tried to establish some place of | entértainment, amusement or educi- tlon for the people of 'the city, the city assumed the risk of secing that no harm should come to those enjoy- ' ing the pleasures or advantages of such places of entertuinment or edu- cation, there would be few such places established, 'The city would be Inclined to sit back and let people find ‘thelr own amusement; educate themselves, The city would not care to assume the great lability of insur- ing ‘the safety and lives of all who should go to such places. Sometimes consideration for “all the people” involves tragedy for some of the peo- | ple. That is because we are human, THE SHIP SUBSIDY. People all over thé country are trying to form an honest opinion as to whother or not the ship subsidy bill should be passed. It 18 a deep, perplexing and important problem. The bill's adherents are the President and a small mijority of the Repub- licans in Congress. The bill's” oppo- nents are thé Democrats in congress and a large Republican ‘minoriy. Foreign nations hope the bill will not pass. The present situation |s, ac- cording to the President, that gov- ernment opération of the ships costs $50,000,000, He says by passing the bill this amount would be cut in half, and at the same time there wouldl be established and maintained “an Amet- ican merchant marine, privately operated, but serving all the people and always available to the govern- ment in any emergency.’’ The President says also “‘our imme- | diate problem is not to build and support merchant shipping * * *; our problem is to dea) with what we now possess. Our problem is to re- lieve the public treasury of the drain it is already meeting.” In other words the President wanta to use the ships we have. Buch authorities as The New York Herald, for instance, insist that we should forget all about the old ships and ask the question should we embark upon a policy of committing ourselves to a ship sub- sidy if we had no ships on hand? Such authorities say we should not do this. £ Along the same 'line is the state- ment of Senator La Follette, of Wie- consin, opposing the bill, who says | that after the war. our ships were put in charge of men taken from private steamship companiés whose interests have been to make government operatfon of ships a failure. ‘*Instead of doing the sensible thing,” he con- tinues, “and continuing govefnment operation under direction of men who wish to make it a success instead of a failure it {s now proposed to sell these ships to private ship companies at about 10 cents on the doliar and to pay to these private owners many millions of dollars for an indefinite period for operating these ships and | to permit them to charge such rates for transportation as they please.” If Senator La Kollette's statement is correct as to facts and insinuations, the bill should be defeated. He im- plies that a change of the men who handlé the ships.for the government, and a restoration 6f the excess profits taxes and the surtaxes, would take care of the cost of operation by the government “many times over.” He, therefore, brings into the discussion a restoration of these taxes. Tt is diffi- cult to belleve that the men who have been handling the ships for the gov- ernment have intentionally —made them fail to pay. It is difficult to Follétte's state- ment in its entirety. Thére are certain patent points It 1s costing the government a large sum annually to conduct it. The re- moving of liquor from our ships and the increasing demands of seamen for higher pay will make the operation of the ships more expensive. It does not seem that getting new men to handle the ships for the government would greatly reduce that $50,000 annual cost. And yet that annual cost must be reduced. The President's plan would certalnly establish our mer- chant marine. We must never be caught again as we were at the time of the waf, The passage of the bill would prevent the recurrence of such a situation. “Preparedness!” | The public opinion of the “men in the street” all ever the country is probably against the bill.. The expart opinion is probably the other way. The one thought that remains in the mind, however, after honest endeavor ! to solve this perplexing problem is 'that if the bill is passed we will have the great merchant marine making us wealthy in trade with the world in | peace, making us independent and strong In time of war—and foreign nations do not want us to pass the| | bill; they want to carry the trade of | the world on thelr béttoms with the United States paying for that trans- portation. POWER OF THE WORD. Is New England asleep? England wake up? Statistics answer the first question THE PRINTED | Will Néw g ot Wit b A bt b S affirmatively, The mattér | supply the answer to the second, and Mmanager of commercial research fof the Curtis Publishing Company, asked the delégates to the convention question: her marketa?" and gave the following answer: everyone recognizes. from our supplies of raw materfal, ‘we muyst bring them in, manufasture them and ship them to market. is consumed and the cost of ,trans- portation is an With all these disadvantages to retard our progress, the situation is by no means hopeless. Backbone and {tlative—that's the antidote. representing one of the curity houses in America, said that newspaper advertising was the best and only medium’ to secure a favor- able public attitude utilitied. declared, néwspaper adveértising was the best medium to secure favorable public attitude towadrd anything. win conviction for publie uttlitles in this critical age, can anyene question its power for accelerating a busineas whereé customers sec what buying? jokes, have it. driver have the right of way. prudence. Only New England can At a convention of the New Kng- land Association of Advertising Clubs in ‘Providence this week, figures were | offéred to prove that this section of the country s falling behind in the race for industrial falling behind gradually, outdistanced manufacturing 1em 18 un old one but in spite of years of agitation, Httle effort is being made to improve conditions. supremacy, = Not but being progressive The prob. by “more sections, As an example of our decline, in 1870 our manufactures constituted 30 per cent. of the nation's total; last dropped to 11% per cent, clearings, the figures went from 103 per cent, in 1010 to 4.6 per cent. in 1921. Not a record to excite enthu- slasm, A the have bank census reveals that they In The answer is obvious: serve, Advertise Charles Coolidge Parlin, this “Can New England _hold There s only one answer—can she sell? Do you know why Westegn firms are doing so much advertising? They are trying to get business you already have got. The trouble with New Fng- land manufacturers is that they haye hitched advertising to one side of thelr business and when it came time to retrench, it was simply lopped off. New England, if she ls going to maintain her menufactures, must get branded and advertised goods, especially it she is going to compete with manufacturers in other sections of the country on quality alone when their goods aré so much better advertised. o New England has handicaps. This, We are_distant Time unfavorable factor. in- Another speaker at the convention, largest se- toward public “You can't beat it"” he He might have said that If it can they're Facts and Fancies' (BY ROFERT QUILIEN) How not to raise children: “Don't bother me." About all the Allles are saving in the Near East is their dignity. Speaking of terms of endearment, there are instaliment terms. The first step In getting back to Nature is to scrape off the rouge. 8till it there were no Prohibition people might forget that we Other vices mean no evil, but seifishness is just premeditated cus- sedness, The office bully who voices his de. | sire to lick the boss usually gets no further than his boota. It isn’t chivalfy that lets a woman 1t is b After all, there isn't much differ- énce between being contentéd and be- { ing concéited. The difficulty is not in amending a Constitution, but in amending péople to fit it Hope is the quality that keeps a man patiently trying to strike a match on a saféty box. Correct this sentence: “No matter what théy do, 1 never spank the Illm-I dears when I'm angry. We have known but few péople who " were invamMably ¢heerful and they are now charges of the state, Iiven if they're ghort of coal people don’t notice. much difference if the Janitor makés the radiators resound at intervals, Wilhelm may réflect that many a better man has had to keep atill and saw wood after marrying a widow. Old Dobbin might have remained popular if there had been some place on him to fasten $200 worth of acces- [ German money has now. sories. NATIONS IN STATE OF FLUX The world has seen many radical political changes In the past few days, The United Btates in included, So far a8 concerps the names of parties, election ohahged the majority in neither” house of congress, Yet the Lalance of legislative power ia now In new hands—the hands of the ten | progressive senalors, Borah, Brook- hart, Krazier, Howell, Johnson, Ladd, La IPollette, , Norbeck, Norrla and Shipstead, in the upper branch-—the hands of a similar group among the representutives. England has had an election which, in its result, seems to mark the pass- ing of David Lloyd George as his icountry's governmental leader. Hin recent resignation as premier did not | necessarily mean this, Under the English system a premier was has been forced to résign may be restor- ed to power very quickly if he wins the next election. Lioyd George, how- ever, did not win, The country went conservative, Andrew Bonar Law rémains as premier, In Germany Joseph Wifth handed i his resignation as chancellor, or pre- mier, to Président Ebert. Wilheim Cuno succeedéd him. - Party reasons were given for Wirth's retirement. Really he quit because he had aban- doned hopé of straightening out his country’'s tangled affairs, Cuno has been’ director gencral of the Ham- burg-American line—a business man, not a politiclan.: Not many days have passed since governments changed in Italy as a re- sult of what was, in effect, a revolu- tion. | The sultan, recently deposed, though he refuséd to admif himself retired, has fled Turkey. Kemal Pasha is real fuler, | WANT A NEW SET OF RULES The old United States congress, not the new one chosen at the’last elec- tion, met in special session Nov. 20. It is through this old congress that the Harding administration will trv to hurry the laws it is most anxious about and fears it cannot get passed after loss of tha -present large repub- Hean majority in both houses. When the new congress meets in March a figQt will start over the comiittee chairmanships. A proposeéd law, introduced in sen- ate or house of representatives, is not acted on immediately. - Instead it {3 referred to an appropriate committee. The committce decides whether it likes the bill or not and reports ac- cordingly. ‘Its suggestions carry much weight., Or perhaps the committee, disApproving a bill, pigeon-holes it and never reports at all. A chairman has more than any oth- er member of his committee to say. S0 he possesses great power. It has been the custom to’'give the important chairmanships to the old- est members of the majority parties in both houses. i Now, by virtue of seniority, men like Borah and La Follette will, if the tule holds good, become chalrmen of the most influential senate commit- tees. The republicans do not con- sider Borah, l.a Follette and others who think as they do, republicans at all. So they want the rule changed, to prevent the progredsives from be- ¢oming 80 powerful. “ In the house'a similar contest is | expected. Some think it will involve especial- ly the judiciary commitiee. Represen- tative Voletead who, as everybody knows, was very dry, was chairman, but he was beaten at the last election, Under the senibrity rule his Successor a8 chairman will be FRepresentatite Graham, a wet. But Wayne B. Wheeler, lawyer for the Anti-S8aloon mix in the “seniority contest.” ' At any rate, there unquestionably will bé a wet and dry struggie, the rival forces seeking, as one most im- portant prize, to elect, on the one side a wet, and on the other side a dry, speaker of the house of represen- tatives, THIRD PARTY TALK Since . election there has been in. creasing talk of a new party. A movement is afoot to bring the farmers and labor toegther. It is a not unnatural alllance, and equally natural would be a union of such a group with the progressive bloc. The wets and drys each would like to ally themselve with this body, but | this may not be so simple. lLabor in- clines to be wet, the farmers incline to be dry and prohibition is an issue upon which the progressives are split. BONAR LAW TRIUMPHANT IN ENGLAND The victory of the English conser- vatives was clean cut. They havé not a large majority over all other parties combined but it is sufficicnt to make them safe for the prosent. The liberals divided between their old leader, Herbert H. Asquith, and David Lloyd George, 80 that each of these two will head a minority group | of his own in parliament. Labor, which is a separate pgrty in Fngland, gained ground in thd elec. tion and in parliament will be next in strength to the conservativés. It is not expected the conserva- tives will show any very backward tendencies. Conservatism is muéh more advanced today than it was 17 years ago, when the party was last | in power, NEW HAND AT HELM IN GERMANY The new German chancellor faces great difficulties. The allies want the money which the peace confoerences awarded to them and the German government is at its wit's end for means to raisc it. Capltalists say the only way is for labor to work harder and more hours a day. The workers say.the only way is for the capifalists to pay higher taxes, Once a German mark was worth nearly an American quarter, Today it takes about 2000 marks to buy a quarter., This shows how. little value The Germans must have @bout Z,- league, says his organization will not | WHAT'S GOING ON IN THE WORLD Events of the Week, Briefly Told T'preach peace to suggest such a thing. o \ SRR, R 000,000 tunw of graln fFom other countries moon, or starve, Thoy can buy this grain only on credit, and if they can get mnybody to let them have it on such terms, the indebted- noas will deive the mark: still farther fdlown—from next to nothing, to even less than that, | And ¢ren then Germany won't have pald the allies, The ablest financiers in the world can only wonder how it will all come out, Bonito Mussolinl is making a good start as premier of Italy, ‘but so lit- | tle s known of him that there still is | much anxiety as to what his policies will be, SULTAN, FRIGHTENED, FLEES : The sultan, whose job the follow- ers of Kemal Pasha declared at an end, escaped from Constantinople on a writish warship, bound for Malta. He sald he was afrald 4e¢ would be killag if he stayed in- Ti@key. Kemal wpl! ‘demand his return, as he wants to try him, But there i no probability England will give him up. Bome Americans—mainly those who Ialieve Christians in the Turks' power will be made to suffer—want the United States to send troops to Tur- | key. On the other hand, there seems to be an Increase in the number of Américans who suspect the Turks haye been misreprésented to some cx- tent by their enemies, and probably have their side, too. z At all events, according to Wash- ington dispatches, evidently on excel- lent authority, President Harding's mind is firmly made up to have no physical part in the Turkish trouble, and the dispatchos add that he con- ! sld€rs it ridiculous for people who American representatives will have no active share in the meeting soon to be held at Lausanne, to make peace between Turkey and Greece and to try to settie the whole Turkish question, bu‘t they. will' wateh closely Victor Bonar Law ihdulged in an uncon- servative smile when the election re- turns showed the conservatives win- ning in the Knglish election, Here he is shown addressing voters from & coach winddéw on his journey to Leeds. 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Pages. “Omler Your Tuvkey Now. | to Lelng sacrifived, | stantinople to this meeting, I8 quoted a8 saying: ['oyr reconstruetion, stable | treatment ‘and splendid basiness portunities” | of Chile, tofagasta and shakén by an carthquake and than swopt mates of the number of dead are ae high Andes carthquakes therefore aye frequent, American Revolution was in 1800, prevent American interests from Ismet Pasha, who came from Con- reaprosent Turkey at 25 Years Ago Today (Taken from Herald of that daté) - T v The Y. M. C. A, will start holding its shop receptions this week and the Russell & Krwin factory men will at. tend the institution tomorrow night, Mrs, 8, G, Ohman entertained ‘the members of the Sewing Aoclety of: the church at her home yosterday after- noon, H . The world's greatest marvel, the Animatiscope, refined and astonishing pietures, will be shown at the Rugs- win Lyceum theater,this evening, Gilmour's clothing store |s adver- tising Saturday specials with gentle- men's night shirts at 35 cents; ladies' hosiery at eight cents a Pair; boys' grey underwéar at 19 cents; corset covers for 10! cents and 12 cakes of purd castile soap for 10 cents, “I hope Americans will profit hy They will find government fa- Turkey, go.d op; . Twelve hundred miles of the coapt hetween the towns of An- Valdivia, have heen by a tidal wave, Home: esti- 2000, This section geologically as in of the young and The Soclety of Daughters of the organized GIVEN BY St. John the Evangelist Society | State Armory ARCH STREET NOV.24 toDEC.4 $3,000 In Cash Prizes . ENTERTAINMENT AND DANCING EACH WOMEN’S'ARCH PRESERVER SHOES The_re‘ are women wfw have trouble with their feet because they are not wearing the right shees. 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