New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 1, 1923, Page 10

P ¢ NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD MONDAY, JANUARY 1, 1023 — o —— e ———. MERICAS EOREUOST NEW YEAR RESOLUTION- JHAT SHOULD IT BE =L ALICE PAUL, suffragist, head of National Woman's Party:| America’s foremost New Year resolution should be, I think, that our country should during this coming year remove all political, civil, legal, economic and other diseriminations against women, so| that women shall no longer be in any form of subjection to men in| law or custom, but shall in every way be on an equal plane in| rights, as they have always been and will continue to be, in re- sponsibilities and obligations, | ROY A, HAYNES, federal prohibition commissioner: As a nation we should solemnly resolve that we will not knowingly vio-| late any of the laws of the land; that we will hold sacred the Constitution of our country, We should covenant with ourselves that we will not encourage others to disregard our laws, even| though it be by remaining silent when our laws are violated, We should pledge ourselves not alone to law observance, but also to the aim and purpose of Militant Americanism, which devotes its best effort to prevent lawlessness, to promote reverence for law and to create an abiding devotion to the free institutions of our Beloved Republic HENDRICK WILLEM VAN LOON, lecturer, author of “The “Story of Mankind": To let all decent people find their own salva- tion after their own fashion, HUBERT WORK, postmaster general: That there shall be in America during the new year less selfishness and more co-opera- tion, less repression and more freedom, more “we can do it” and less “it can't be done.” HARRY PRATT JUDSON, president of the University of Chicago: 1. To make fewer new laws, 2. To respect and en- force those now on the statute books, 8. To be less eager for radical changes in the Constitution of the United States, WARREN A, CANDLER, Atlanta, chancellor of Emory, Col- lege, and bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church: The resolu- tion that our country will not continue longer the foolish and fu- tile attempt to live unto itself. No nation, as well as no man, can live unto itself or die unto itself, CHARLES P. STEINMETZ, electrical engineer and sociolo- gist: Let us mind our own business and keep from trying to mind that of the rest of the world, Europe in particular. LOTHROP STODDARD, author and authority in the Near East: To look facts in the face both at home and abroad. MOST REVEREND PATRICK J. HAYES, archbishop of New York: To promote the spirit of Lincoln, whose “charity toward all, with malice toward none,” should be a fundamental principle of our national life, Liberty, peace and the pursuit of happiness are seriously menaced by sectional, racial and religious hatreds. The unity and integrity of the Republic is based on giving all citizens a fair American chance. To do otherwise means a year not of progress but of reaction in American deas. b WALTER CAMP, athletic authority: To work hard and keep well. vesolution ?" is the question which the “Herald" presented through NEA Service to a number of Americans representative of various national activities, Their answers, presented herewith, reveal a wide range of ideas, With them you may agree or disagree, but at least vour own thoughts will be stimulated,. What do YOU think is most important for the nation to resolve as it enters on 19237 “WIMT should be America's foremost New Year M. L. BURTON, president of the University of Michigan: America, if she is to realize on her inyested hopes and aspirations, must be world-minded. As we approach a new year, we must resolve anew to do our part in solving the problems of civiliza- tion, If practical leadership does not find expression in America, where may we turn with hope? MICHAEL 1. PUPIN, professor of electro-mechanics, Colum- bia University: We should make every effort to find a way by which we can employ our wealth, our stored-up intelligence, and our moral power for the purpose of helping Europe to emerge from its present chaotic condition, DR. RAY LYMAN WILBUR, president of Leland Stanford University: To play a man's full part in international relations. . WILLIAM A, SUNDAY, evangelist: America should resolve to return to the faith of our fathers, to put His word into every heart, home and school ; to swear respect for law and order, a new loyalty to the constitution and uncompromising antagonism to every man and thing opposed to the flag. GENE STRATTON PORTER, author: To save America for Americans. By which I mean that at the present appalling de- crease in the birth rate of purely American families, and the equally appalling increase in the birth rate of foreigners coming to our shores to be naturalized, it will take only one or two more generations to put our government and institutions into the ma- jority power of people having no understanding of, or love for, things indigenous to American soil, character and institusions. WILL H. HAYS, president of the Motion Picture Producers and Directors of America, ex-postmaster general: America needs but one resolution for 1923 or for 2023—and that is to be STEAD- FASTLY AMERICAN. . JOHN BARTON PAYNE, lawyer, chairman of the American Red Cross: To study and understand American institutions, what they are and why they were brought into being, and how com- pletely they solve our present problems if rightly understood and sympathetically but thoroughly,observed. CHARLES F. MARVIN, chief of the United States Weather Bureau: Stop the pursuit of selfish interests and profits and go to work for the work’s sake and the welfare of humanity. d ;| typhoid, scarlet fever an JOHN L, LEWIS, president of the United Mine Workers of America: A more just and humane industrial relationship; a prac- tical application of the thoor{ that the worker has an inherent right to strive for his material uplift, CLARENCE 8, DARROW, famous defense attorney: The restoration of Freedom of Speech and the Press, FRANK M, GOODCHILD, pastor of Central Baptist Chureh, New York City: There is no resold’ion America so much needs as the resolution to be thoroughly honest; making the wares that are to be sold as good in quality as possible, and exacting for these goods only the cost of production and a reasonable margin of pro- fit. A revival of common honesty would transform our land, mak- ing the life of all better and happier. It is to be feared that such a revival is not likely, for Shakespeare said that when the world grows honest, doomsday is near! NATHAN STRAUS, philanthropist: To stop the appalilng waste of life, Not by doubtful cures, but by positive prevention of diseases, Foremost among preventive measures ranks the pas- teurization of the milk n:rpl,\'. It kills the germs of tuberculosis, diphtheria, and prevents intestinal in- fection of infants, Pasteurization has the remarkable quality, while killing all noxious germs, of retaining the nutritive and di- gestive {pmpemes of the milk. I make this statement from 80 years of experience and of results obtained in both hemispheres. Wherever milk pasteurization has been introduced, the death rate has fallen as if by magic. LUTHER BURBANK, naturalist, originator of new fruit: and flowers: To work more and talk less. To have more faith in ourselves and less in what the other fellow has to say. To think ourselves and not to let our thoughts be cyly a readjustment of old prejudices. To look for light and knowledge wherever found without regard to their sources. If a race has not acquired per- severance and adaptability to meet all the changes to which it must always be subjected by its ever-changing environment, it will be left behind and finally destroyed, outstripped by races bet- ter equipped for the fray. DAVID WARK GRIFFITH, motion picture producer: To be tolerant, in the ablest sense; patient and discerning with the full- voiced outcries of the few; protective and broadening to the calm- er moments of the many; to regard the world as motherhood con- stantly renewing the host that advances; to accept all peoples ac a brotherhood, uniting, above the petty if necessary wherefores of the hour, in that precious philosophy of Christ, ‘“Whatsoever we would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them.” WILLIAM F. ANDERSON, Cincinnati, bishop of the Meth- odist Episcopal Church: I would say that America should formu- late her New Year resolution something after this fashion: “As Americans we are grateful to Almighty God for His providential leadership and we will accept the responsibility of His leadership and seek to meet that responsibility in the spirit of service to all mankind ; seeking always the guidance and help of Him who holds in His hands the destinies of all the peoples of the world.” IRVIN 8. COBB, humorist: To repeal the Volstead Act. uate can grasp it. KILLS HIMSELF AT WEDDING. Realizing the terrible shortage of simple things to swear to do we are Guest Causes Panic Among 30) at RESOLUTIONS By TOM SIMS You people who have the time and wherewith to think must realize New Year resolutions have been wrong 1921 years. In. the past we have sworn to stop certain things. In the future we should Solomonly swear to start certain things. ‘It is simply a case of the atmos- phere overcoming the hemisphere; solemnly the positive taking the place of the| negative, or a similar something. During these past 1921 times the dufficulty has been in finding simple things to swear to start doing. It was easy to locate simple things not to do. You could swear not to make a, million and live up to it in spite of all inclinations to the contrary. You could swear off shooting ele- | phants and, without an | streak of bad luck, | phants. You could swear off smoking, which you had to do if you got any cigars | for Christmas. You could swear off cussing traf- {flc cops and «not brak it more than once, or perhaps just half that often. | Finding simple things to swear not to do has been as easy as convincing a girl she is the exact image of a movie star. | But finding simple things to swear |to do has been as hard as convincing a bow-legged girl she is knock-kneed. It is only 1923 list of swears that will stay sworn, we think. This list is so easy a college grad- uncommon you shot no ele- Rogers’ Silverware Water Pitchers, Butter Creamers, Syrup Jugs We have a full line of Dishes, Sugar Bowls, and Table Sets. PEOPLE’S 1 TO 98¢ STORE 328-332 MAIN ST. New Britain, Conn. giving away a list free. We even venture so far as to say your boss could understand several of the minor suggestions. Swear that you will go -hungry if you have nothing to eat for a while, That you will let it get dark every night just after dusk. That you will pay the coal dealer what he asks you to pay. Thgt you will get wet if you stand in the rain long enough. That you will let Congress forget why it was elected. That no matter how mad, you will refuse to whip Jack Dempsey. That you will let the sun continue to rise just about sunup. That (unless you are too rich) you will pay your taxes. That you will let perpetual motion remain a secret. That you will let your colds get well of their own accord. That you will wear what the style makers say wear. That you will let Wednesday come between Tuesday and Thursday. That you will kiss any girl wants you to kiss her. That the missing link shall stay missing as far as you are concerned. That you will jump when your wife tells vou to jump. That you will let Amundsen visit the north pole for you. That you wiil never insist there be two nights without a day between. That you will be behind with your grocery bill. That you will say this is the worst blankety blank country in the uni- verse even though you know it is the best. Our ninety-nine-year guarantee that none of these resolutions will be broken, no matter how flimsy they are made, goes to every reader. But what we started out to say was who “Happy New Year.” . Haverhill Festivities, Haverhill, Mass, Jan, 1.—Three hundred guests attending a wedding reception at a public hall here yes- terday were thrown into panic when Joseph Pace of Clinton, one of their number, shot himself to death in the midst of the festivities. I“riends said Pace was enraged because his sweet- heart, Gilila Alessandro, danced with another man. . Pace walked up to bls father, who was in a trefreshment booth in the hall, and eaid: { mc. You wi'l never see Then shot himself dying instantly. Women fainted, and there was a wild scramble for exits until a few cool heads restored order. P he produced a revolver and through the temple, Check Chest Colds and Coughs with LINONINE At the first sign of a cold in the head or chest; coughing, sneez- ing or a choked-up feeling; take Linonine. It will break up the congestion, relieve the cough, res!oreyourslrengthnndquicfly get you out of danger. For bron- chitis, there is nothing so good as REETINGS and Salutations, kid. And also “Welcome to our city'” The Old Year's blowed, we're glad he did, His gears was gettin’ worn and gritty; He wasn't hittin’ on all six. The poor old wreck could hardly toddle, He wasn't worth the time to fix; So we get YOU, a brand rew model! true the roads he found was rough, Chuck full of mud and sand and gravel; You'll find some ,too, hut DO Your Stuff, Let's see how smocthly you can travel. We're wishing you the best of luck And that is straight, we wouldn't con you; Go on now, show your pep and pluck, We're for you, kid, our wad is on you! lT‘ s HAT old bird, 1922, Done well, though his career was checkered, But we're expectin’ more from you, We're backin' you to break his record. Shoot! Start you act! Get busy! We Are watchin’ every move you're makin’, Go to it 1923, Step out and cop the well-known bacon! (Copyright, 1923, NEA Bervice) e e— THE HERALD AL Minimum Space. § Ldses Minimum Book Charge, ¥ Centa Biggest Task Up to Science In New Year By Edwin E. Slosson Scientist and Author " The most important scientific event of the coming year, so far as can be foretold, will be the confirmation or sontradiction of Einstein's theory of relativity, Already the evidence 1s In hand, Director W. W. Campbell of the Lick observatory has returned to California with the preclous plates that may set- tle the question which is right in re- gard to itation—Isanc Newton or Albert steln, He says they are good negatives and likely to prove-— something. But what they will prove will not be known to the world untll the images of the faint stars surround- ing the eclipsed sun are measured with the micrometer of a thousandth of an inch to sce If they are farther apart than when the sun is not in their midst. If they are so separated and to the right amount, it will show Einstein was right when he sald in 915 that a ray of light from a star passing near by a heavy body like the sun would be bent out of its straight path toward the sun. To get these few photographs the American astronomers had to travel across the Pacific to Australia and up the west coast of the island con- tinent to a place in the desert known as Wallal. Why did they go there? Because it was in the desert—ana therefore likely to be clear veather during the six minutes of total eclipse. Other astronomers went farther and fared worse. The British, Ger- man and Dutch astronomers chose Christmas Island, in the Indian Ocean, as their observation point for the eclipse of September and it hap- peéned to be a cloudy day so they had to return without any evidence on the Einstein theory. Triple Test Einstein, like Portia's suitors, has to pass a three-fold test, He pre- dicted, besides the deflection of light rays passing by the sun, that light rays proceeding from the sun would have their waves so lengthened that their spectral lines would be shoved toward the red end. Here the evidence is conflicting. Some astronomers say that there is such a shift. Others find more of the sort required. This question is being most thoroughly tested by Dr. C. E. St. John at the Mount Wilson ob- servatory. The third test, or rather the first in point of time, is the famous ex- periment made by Michelson and Morley in 1886 to determine the rate of either drift. This gave the dis- concerting result that there seemed to be no ether at all. Einstein interprets this to mean that everything shortens as its speed increases: that at a velocity of 161,- 000 miles a second a footrule would shrink to six inches anc a watch would lose 30 minutes an hour Apples Still Fall Professor D. C. Miller of Cleve« land is now repeating the Michelson- Morley experiment on a more exten- sive scale and with more exact ap- paratus, but his results so far are inconclusive, But we may expect all three of these crucial experiments to bring out convincing evidence within the theory. If the theory ts confirmed it does not mean, as some have hastily concluded, that “gravitation will be abolished.” No. Apples will still fall from trees, So will boys, if they do not hold on tight. Bht it means that boys in college will have to study geometry of four or more dimensions instead of the plain and simple Euclid that they make such a fuss over now. And it means that we elders will have to try to adjust our inelastic minds to ideas more revolutionary than those that were Introduced into the world by Copernicus and Darwin. BLACK DIAMONDS AFIRE. Fire due to spontaneous combus- tion, broke out in a pile of soft coal in the cellar of the Professional build- ing at 87 West Main street, yesterday morning shortly before 10 o'clock. A stubborn blaze kept a force of fire- men under Deputy Chief E. F. Barnes busy for over an hour, The damage was confined to the coal, which was in a fireproof coal bin. Artists and photographers say & woman'’s face usually is more beau- tiful seen from the left side. CINDERS R THE HERALD The A-B-C Paper with the A-B-C Want Ads