New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 7, 1923, Page 6

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1028, WHAT'S GOING ON "IN THE WORLD Events of the Week, Briefly Told This admission whe s & arrie 'I welfare an New Britain Herald | be takien as 8 wholesale enlogy of the away by & sense of injustice rich, Now Net long ago the son of a pich East- | wWas leaving & in the He had worked on that raneh, two years, deoing » kid remarked the “you've done & lot By CHARLES P, STEWART The hoys thought,| Just as & man who's been eritically {111 for so long that his attendants have {nedrly quit worrying abeut him takes (@ sudden turn for the worse, starting the dootors and nurses seurrying frans tically again—even so has the Turkish “situation” developed terribly alarm. ing symptoms over the week-end, | With this ela e disoussing this HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY | N e ;s one discuming (Tosued Daily, Sunday Bxcopied) AL Hersld Bidg., 67 Ohwrsh Brest, matter ealmly has nothing te de, even Neo that erner ranch West | and ethers though such injustice be admitied one will dispute the statement capital is working toward combination same the true se- for SUBSORIPTION RATES: 08 8 Year The $2.00 Three Montha la The o Momth man's jeb, “Hay boss of the outst of good put here before you worked with ‘em, that rieh Kids wasa't never ne good. They know hiteh will come when the is attributed to But when the theory of the that should he com- undertakings in ak this centralization truth in this story, it would be tre- mendously important, but it's almost certain there isn't, FINE TIME WILL BE HAD BY ALL ive elalist Batered at the Pogt NMoe s New Britaln | socialist there o Becond Clase Mald Matier THLEPHONE CALLS Pusiness M-, " | munity every difrent Not long age the editor of a popu- ar magazine aceepted a story in which is considered now Everything’s ted for the Afth Pan idea is apparent American Congress to be held in 3| Our wresent form o wovernment, Best for Two in Business or Play Bdttorial Rooms ne snly profitable advirtising medium in the Clry. Cireu'atien boaks and press mom Alwees open to advertisers, Membar of Tie Assoclated Press Mhe Asscrtated Proes is exclusively entiiled te the use far scpublication of all news eredite to 1t or not otherwi editen In thie_maper aad alse local news pub Ashed hereln, Member Audit Pavean Cirealation e A R, O fa a nattoral erganization Wwhich furn‘shes newspapers and adver tirers with & strictly honest analysis eireulition. Our elreulation statistics a based upon this wudit, This insures pr teetion egainst fraud In newspaper dl tribut’an fgures to both national asd lo. ol advertisers. = a A CITY MANAGER in the *sug- There nothing new faastion ut this time :dnpnr-u of the city manager plan of 1t has been in (he minds Former is of this city's government. of many people for some time Mayor Halloran has discussed it in un interview much as others have dis- cussed it privately, Many have felt, and many feel now, that it will be the form eventually adopted; the question is, however, whether or not New Britain is ready for it or whether, having onee adopted it, the city would outgrow it By peculiar coincidence the plan of Dr. Steinmetz for the National gov- ernment, which does not differ a great deal from the ‘city manager plan,” was given out by him recently. His belief is that the National govern- ment will eventually be taken out of politics, and the of the city manager plan is based on the same jdea. Certainly the latter plan, to be succdssful, must climinate politics as far as it is possible to do. The main elective officers, under the plan as now suggested, would be the five commis- sioners, public safety, water, public works, health and charities. They would select the city manager. He, of course, would be directly responsible to them; they, to the people. On the merits of the matter there is no question but that the theory of the eity manager plan the correct theory. Probably there is little ques- tion but that taxes would be lowered just as the expenses of any great busi- ness are smaller under one head than were its affairs to be managed by a large body of directors, for instance. But the personal equation enters. An c¢fficient city manager would have to be a big business man. There are very few men of such calibre who have any patience with the petty tricks of small politicians. They have not time to placate their critics; if they make time to do this they take that time from their work to the detriment of that work, A city manager of the city of New Britain would have 2 hard time to please everyone and if he did plase all he would not be an efficient city manager. The attitude of the common coun- ¢il at the meeting where the members ‘decided not to approve reducing the number of that body shows clearly the jealousy with which they hold their positions, and the feeling as shown frequently that exists between the city mecting board the council strengthens the conviction that the city's “fathers” are not yet in a fame of mind to adopt the plan nor give it a good trial were it to be adopted. A great wave “bigness” must theory is and of el ! says Dr, Steinmetz, is the form adopt- od between the old menarehy and the government which will come, President will be ’Il\l- country's general manager and | Congress a body with ehecking or pro- f will vote | "yves" or questions, | but the manager and directors will res | main in office as long as business goe " Yet there will not be government | control until the ne | longer a politieal matter, Neither the | wise capitalist nor the wise socinlist today wants government control as the government is now constituted; all recognize its inefMeiency. The fact that this student sees solid prosperity for capital and labor alike only in co-operation, centralization, consolidation, declaring that the aim of the true capitalist and soclalist Is | the same, is worthy of thought by those who would speculate as to the cffect upon their own business such centralization would have. iitimate form of when the hibitory powers, The people 0" on general | wen government is ANCIENT LANGUAGES As a practical matter people are interested In the report that there is a possibility that Latin or Greek will be eliminated at Yale College as nec- | essary to obtain a degree. When one | remembers the hours, weeks, ‘months and years spent over those subjects, and the practical matters that might have been mastered with the same degree of care spent over them, one is inclined to regret the time spent on the ancient languages and wish that it had been given to a study from which more practical advantage might have been derived. If this was so years ago, how much more necessary is it today to use every moment of available time to meet the more intensive competition of today. Years ago a gencral education, a smattering of many things, prepared a person to take up future work, such future work not having been decided upon when a boy entered col- lege, perhaps. Now almost everyone specializes. To meet a specialist on an equal footing one must have specializ- ed. Boys decide earlier in life than formerly what they will do in the fu- ture, College courses are being ar- ranged to meet those desires. Unless a study of the ancient languages is necessary for future life work it | would be wise to leave it out. Along the same line it may be predicted that the time will come when there will be more law schools | and medical schools which will de- vote themselves to merely one branch of those professions. As the practice of a lawyer used to be more general than it is today, embracing criminal as well as civil law, real estate as well} | as banking law, so now the busiest! :)u“',\'t‘rs are specialists, In the 1urgr:ri | cities especially criminal and civil law are almost completely separated. So in medicine, to a less extent perhaps, except in the matter of medicine and surgery. It would seem that a movement to make study of the ancient languages elective would meet the popular de- mands. WAR MEMORIES Just as the last of our men are re- turning from the occupation of a por- | @ vieh young man was the hero, show- ing unexpected courage and resources fulness in an emergency, together with @ broad humanity, The editor was eriticiged, “Rich, idle young men aren't like that,” he was told, The editor smiled, *You should have seen some of them in France on the battle field," he replied, and he wrote across the munuseript, referring to the type desoribed in the story: “You can see them any day driving their cars | uround New York,"” He knew; that editor knew, The boss of the ranch knew, too, All this in defense of the “poor rich boy" who often, despite the handiea of being taken for a “mollycoddie” has it in him to prove himselMa man ~and does it. The “poor rich boy" and the “poor poor bhoy" work side by side on the football teams of the coun- try, and there is no more of a whimper from the lips of the rich lad when the accident happens than there is from those of the poor lad ac- customed all his life, perhaps, to work and hardship, Give all the praise in the world to the poor lad who fights | against circumstances and, through | his own courage and persistence ar- rives In a place by the side of the rich hoy who deserves no praise for getting there, But give the “poor rich boy" eredit for holding that place in competition with the stronger lad who has been trained to fight and work. And learn to give them both credit for being just what they are, Facts and Fancies (8Y POUERT QUILJ.EN). Thrift is the art of accepting the cigarette offered instead of smoking your own. A limited vocabulary isn't a great handicap if it includes the two words, “Thank you." Two can't live as cheaply as one, but a five-passenger car costs no more than a roadster. Bveics A moral sense can't improve ‘the movies greatly, however, without the | aid of a little common sense. Vanity is the quality that makes a fat and awkward man feel righteous when he refrains from dancing. One part of greatness is in the ability of the leader and nine parts the docility of his followers, Fable: Once there was a man who could carve the roast without trying to make some funny remark about his awkwardness. Some couples have been married ten years without speaking a cross work, and some have better memories. The old-fashioned girl was different in some ways, but she had the same knack of making a fool of a man. The modern who hides his light under a bushel always parks the bushel where his press agent will find it The “Lausanne conference, Which the “powers" abruptly without an ag Turkey's side is this: The ex-sultan, while still en the job, granted a lot of concessions and made various agreements very prejudicial to Turkish government, having depesed the suls Turkey's interests, The new tan, rejects these agreements, The other “powers" might stand for this, but not Enghnd, The one thing England draws the mandat rkey's rieh oil provinee of Mo. This is exactly the thing Turkey line to wul, Insists on, t is surrender of her ‘\\'AR LOGICALLY FOLLOWS Late last week lord Curzon, Hrit- were trying teo come to terms with Turkey, ’n ended mént, Chile in Mareh, The United Ntates and all the Latin American countries will be represents ed, with the possible exception of Mexico and Peru, which haven't ac- cepted invitations yet, the former per- haps becayse she doesn't feel settled enough after her years of civil trous Lle, and the latter most likely because she's too hostile to Chile to care to attend a meeting there, It will be a perfectly lovely affair, and the American delegates will come liome and report & whole lot accom- o [plished, That is to say, they'll réport that the Latin Americans were enthu- slastically in favor of the things they want_accomplished and that the ac- tual accomplishments are golng to follow just as soon as a few perfunc- tory little details have been attended to. But the perfunctory little details o ish representative, told Ismet Pasha, Turkey's negotiator, that Ismet had got to come to his terms or he'd guit, It sounded like an ultimatum hut ne ver will be attended to, JOKE AT EXPENSE OF THE | them, M. Bompard, French delegate, sail he didn’t understand it so, meant it that way, he added, arate treaty with the Turks, This meant the kicking ot Curzon's I"rench support out from under him, *“unbelievalile | Bompard would do such a thing-— He declared it was only he had, At any rate Curzon made his threat Curzon quit. Logically war between England and Turkey's the oniy thing that can fol- low, but it may not work out logical le to ment that goes to war over Mosul will he in grave danger from its own people, unquestionably Presumably she has good. Ismet stood pat, Desperate efforts will be m it. Any British gove Iy, prevent Turkey, ready to fight. Russian backing, however, At the best it's a threatening out- look. CHR v The Ruhr troubles promiscs to de- These r nts are bad, not only in ‘themselves, but also because they velop into something chronic, chronic comp make the patient so susceptible complications, often a good deal worse than the original disease. However, it looks a little more ¢ll etting to a point where they'll be willing to have an outsider straighten the situ- Germans would Le overjoyed at this goes without say- The Ruhr occupation is ruining longer for the I’rench to find out that it's likely to Still, the idea seems the time as if the Irench were ation out. That the ing. But it takes ruin them, too. to be sinking in. If an arbitrator really should brought in, unquestionably it will be Washington administration has let it be known al- ready that it will be more than de- llighted to mediate if both French ana Germans desire it, but that it doesn't the United States. The propose to “BUTT” in. Of course the big danger is that a good deal worse trouble of some sort break out before this can hap- That's what no outside power world can will pen. can guard against. The only hope for the best. News dispatches say Germany much exercised over reports that the British plan to cccupy Hamburg and Bremen, as a means of checking any spread of French power on the Kuro- any pean continent. If there were 1t Curzin then I"rance was prepared to make i sepe NIC TROUBLE IN RUHR e s ) s o a0 O O 25 Years Ago Today (Taken from Herald of that date) Frank B. Cox was elected dreasurer of the Knights of St. Patrick at meeting held lagt evening. The office has been vacant for some weeks., Alfred Anderson has entered the employ of Martin Curry as bartender, D. McMillan has purchased the en- tire stock of the bankrupt stock of D, The Latin Ameriean is the politest person in the world, When some- body asks him to do what he prefers not to do, he wouldn't for the world give pain by refusing to do it, In- stead, he agrees, with all kinds of en- thusiasm and cordiality—but he does- n't do it, “It is well known,” said “La Pren- sa,” of Buenos Aires, South America's foremost newspaper, commenting on the coming congress, “that the most important measures recommended by the four preceding congresses haven't been ratified by the signatory coun- tries. “This might seem to imply a con- fiict of opinion between the exccutives of these governments, who are. repre- sented directly at the congresses, and their legislative branches, which per- sistently refuse to indorse the meas- ures recommended. “In reality no such conflict exlsts. Quite the contrary. ““There is a general understanding among the countries represented that these recommendations shall not be ratified. = National executives sign them and subsequently submit them to their legislatives as gestures of dip- lomatic courtesy. But they are care- ful to insert in the ratifying acts evasive and apparently innocuous L.clauses that permit them ostensibly to fulfill their signed engagements, vet at the same time make plain the principle that they are not to be tak- en seriously.” DEBT PAYMENT PLANS Details have been made public of the tentative agreement reached be- tween the Britons and Americans who met in Washington recently to discuss funding England’s war debtyto this country. “The debt is $4,604,128,085.74. The prineipal’s to be paid off, if the agreement sticks, in a series of in- stallments covering a period of 62 years. For the first ted years, inter- est's to be at the rate of 3 per cent; after that, 3 1-2. There are a lot of little sub-clauses which don't sound important now, but may prove to have “jokers” concealed in them when the time comes. The London cabinet, albeit some Britons say the interest rate's pretty stiff, has indorsed the plan. It will come before Congress next and in the Senate there's sure to be opposition, especially from those who want more interest: and from others who want to hook the repayment agreement up with a soldiers’ bonus bill. BOOTLEGGERS' ‘ARMY’ FIGHTS REVENUE MEN IN MARYLAKD Two Score Escape—One ‘Wounded Man, Captured, Refuses to Tell to be is a What His Name Is Washington, Ieb. 7.-——One man was in a hospital here with a bullet wound A glance reveals why business and professional men, as wellas all others who seék the roadster type, find the new Buick roadsters, both fours and sixes, exactly suited to their needs. They are roomy and comfortable, with every refinement and convenience for easy, restful motoring in all weathers. They are sure and fleet on any road with the flexibility and certainty of performance so traditional to all Buicks. Aride in'a Buick roadster is éssential to a complete understanding of the finer qualities of these thodels. Ask for one. ! Fours Rouras, Coupe Tourng Roadster i 1 5 1335 Sedea - 10 5 , o — 2 Pass, Roadster $1175 S Posws, Touring 1195 § Pass. Touring Sixes 4 Pass. Coupe - $1895 7 Pas. Touring 1435 7 Pase, Bedan + 2195 Sport Roadster 1635 Sport Touring + 1678 D-15-28-NP NEW BRITAIN BUICK CO. 225 ARCH STREET. PHONE 2607 'ngen better ausomobiles are built, Buick will build them Washington officers under the direc. tion of Lieut. O. T. Davis and were said to be an aftermath of the whole- { sale raids conducted on local boot- leggers last week., Several thousand gallons of finished corn whiskey were said to have been seized at the larger plant anl large amounts also at the smaller stills, half a mils away. Both plants were described as elaborately equipped the police estimating the cost of erection at not less than $25,000. ‘When the enforcement agents, arm- ed with riot guns and 45 calibre re- volvers, arrived and separated into two groups to make the raid, after leaving their.automobiles on a road a miles away lookouts were said to have given the alarm at which more than a score of men left the stills and opened fire. They then backed off, it was said, to meet on a line of defense which they held for more than an hour. Breaking from there the fighting then waged over a mile of open fields and wooded ravines for two hours more during which the bootlegger force was almost doubled by reinforcements, be- fore its members escaped into the woods. BART BIFFS BOASTING BISH P Mister Bishkyibble, cast, ' As it could not otherwise be For, as at Lausanne, this session is the last, You seem so out of sorts with me, Now, the die is I have often thought that I would like to write— To imitate your pleasing style; But never did I think I would have to fight A crabbed man, chock full of bile, I flattered you, Bish, in be fair— That you would not knock a man down, thinking you'd Before he had set his foot upon the stair To your tiny little throne. / But, since you have thought it right, to lay me out, In scorn, ®efore the public gaze, The only thing for me to do, is just shout, And scream, and ‘yell, carned praise. your well Now, you should know I am not the only onc’ Who would haul you loads of laurel. Some say he's made a rep., others he needs one, For he nothing does but quarrel, Of sobs and sighs, and also, smiles and laughs, And other things so truly fine, Including aches and groans, oodles of chaft(s), Each properly placed in its line; and You have so much we all sit up and admire The fighting Bard of Jingle Town, Who invited everyone out with his lyre, Only to jeer and cast us down. Then fare thee well, my old friend, Mister Ibble, : ] Never more will I cross your way. I think others will never care to nibble As theéy'll surely rue that day. Lastly, 1 hope the paper in your pages, So prolific may be your pen, Will reach way down into the coming ages To entertain all future men. o BARTLET P. AIR 7 2 Ibs. 25c., Russell Bros. Pure lard —advt, e e} THE HERALD . The A-B-C Paper with the A-B-C Want Ads strike the city before this plan will be approved. in his head, and his two score com- panions, alleged bootleggers were still at large and unidentified today follow- ing their hour gun battle with 15 prohibition enforcement agents in Prince George's county near Walnut Maryland, late yesterd. The wounded man, who was said to be in a serious condition refused to give his name be- fore lapsing into unconsciousness. In the scizure of three stills, one of one thousand gallons capacity and a great quantity of corn whiskey at two of the largest known liquor plants in Maryland after the defenders had taken to the woods when their am- munition gave out, the authorities say they have shut off one of the chief sources of Washington's hootleg liguor supply. The raids were conducted by A. Gilmour and will place it in his commodious store on Main street. Lizzie McMahon, who was’ injured by falling plaster in school a few weeks ago, has returned to school, fully recovered. Officer Michael Cosgrove made an- f | other arrest today. The office is surely The power of suggestion is all right | 10Ing his duty these days. in its way, but it won't do a darned | George Lynch exccuted a xylophone thing for a furnace fire in the morn.| 8010 at the Court Beethoven, I. of A,, | concert last avening and J. M. Curtin rendered vocal numbers, J. W. Manning has been appointed | chairman of a committee hy the Y, [ M. T A & B. society to make ar- rangements for a reception to the young ladies who assisted in the re. cent fair given by the socicty. tion of Germany and the southern city | of Savannah is preparing to show them the honor due them, a reminder | comes of the war against Spain in the | that the rve the | 1'LLe CLoSE THG Deal wits wwooL, MR,TRUE , 1= You'Le QUwvE mMms NinETY DAXS, America could get results in Europe if her statesmen were not too.much interested in getting votes at home, . STARTLING STATEMENTS Dr. Charles P. Steinmetz, addressing the Babson Institute at Wellsley Hills, has made the statement, startling, to those who believe socialists and capi- | talists are completely at odds, that| “True capitalism and true socialism are one and the same * * *. Both of these apparently opposite groups have been gradually coming together * * *, Capitalism was once synomymous with | country there was the same anger, the | individualism and hence the capitalist | same consternation when that news | hated the Now conditions | came telling of the death of some 266 teputation will keep you on the front page; character gets little pub- licity except in your obituary notice. form of an announcement Spanish War Veterans will ok 25th anniversary of the sinking of lh?‘ ‘Maine” Iebruary 1’5, 1598. The sinking of that battleship ago is a rather affair i the minds of the young people today, but there was nothing “hazy i about it when it occurred. All over the | hazy socialist. have changed, and capital is as keen| men of the United Slates navy, as that for centralized control as are the most advanced socialist leaders.” Where goes the old saying “Competition is the life of trade,” when Dr. Steinmetz declares, “There can be no permanent prosperity with industries competing with one another and with a half dozen little shops in every block as at ! present?” There are other extracts statement upon which long discourses might be based, but the above, sug- gesting the unity of aim of capitalism and socialism is enough for present comment. And the important part of it is that Dr. Steinmetz is exactly right if one distinguishes between true so- cialism of today and the old idea of soclalism as shown by the radicals who see no farther than their noses’ ends, and between wise capitalists of today and the old conservative capital- 4sts who were as ignotant, in their way _@s the radicals are in theirs. _ Combination, climination of waste, 18 the idea of the capitalist who knows " his business. Combination, elimination o waste, is the idea of the wise so- of the! nk- the to| all'l] which followed the news of the s the All over young men were eager college | iinl: of Lusitania. country leave work, school and take up arms to fight for their coun-; I'try. The excitement was intense; the people were roused. Twenty-five years from now the re- | !turn of the last of the American Ex- peditionary Iorce from Germany will be a rather hazy aftair in the mind¥ | ot the young people of tha¥ day. It, land the war from which they came, should not be a “hazy” memory in | the minds of those old enough today !to appreciate what that war meant | | and the ending of it symbolized today | by the return of these troops. No mat- ter how blase grow: no matter how modern habit of thought tends to | change the traditional American senti- ment and patriotism, events such as | thege should not be forgotten. we THE POOR RICH BOY Let it be admitted that there are| many “rich boys” who arc no good,] Just as there are many “poor boys” jit if you will; but still it p | cars on a hill. ' | N | Getting a camel through a needle's| eye is child’s play compared with get- | ting a progressive idea through a con-“ servative's head. | An old-timer is one who can re-| member wHen one could flirt with a| strange lady without flirting with an| emergency ward. | Dictating your letters is a more ex- pensive method, unless you count the time you would lose looking up the spelling of words, History repeats itself. When dry land appeared, the dove didn't come And it_hasn’t been back since ca went dry. Correct this sentenc=: “Don’t sepld "him,” said the hostess; “it was an old | quired to fill out a detailed report on vase and 1 don’t caré much for cut| glass, anyway.” It took man many millions of years to develop from a water creature. You can’t expect him to get accustomed to a dry land in one genefation. g;APITOL JOKES BY EDWARD D, RICKETTS S. Representative From Ohio, Eleventh District | IKE CASEY, an| old-time section foreman, efficient | but not educated, had to report fatai accident. A car of pig| iron had gotten| ray drom the | x rorHorlick’s The ORIGINAL Malted Milk “| ‘The Original Food-Drink for All Ages. OfficesFountains. Lunchet Home, Milk, Malted Grain Extractia Pow- deras Tabletforms. Nourishing-Nocookios. Mexican who war | S8~Avoid Imitations and Sabstitutes of it} in charge dowr | had xun a steep gradel and then had overturned in the ditch. The Mexij- can was killed, Mike was A RICKETTS re- the form provided by the company, and after a deal of work and worry. be completed it, save for the space entitied: “Remarks.” Over this Mike puzzied time &nd then wrote: for some i Hotels, Dri .“0'“"7' lf;‘c. i ..x""'“'-.—. ) SV E R Ty BT m‘,z, 't Mediterranean: 3 “He never made any, he was dend."l ankC.CIarE._T CLARK'S 20th CRUISE, June 27 % MEDITERRANEAN visite s STON and ott: 10 Eurape i reasonablerat i 65 days eral o = SKweezum ! TR TIME U IN ADVANCE You'we OrF DOUGH, BUT YWVIRE ALAYS IF 1 WeRE A JUDREG o BENCH I'D QUADLY VS You NIVETY DAYS W = For Yoo, T Al THE