New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 13, 1923, Page 6

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1923, . PAYS TRIBUTE T0 ABRAHAM LINCOLN Letter Written by Rev. L. 5. Johnson Read in New York The “"Herald" has come into pos- seasion of a letter written by Rev, American people with results such as these; The development and possis bility of noblest American manheod, @8 per copy In Abraham Lincoln; the untrammeled liberty of millions, bors in slavery, to work out their in the way to fortunes, homes, educa~ [tion, citizenship, respectabllity and greatest honors of American freemen, Hetter than all is the withess of those once arrayed in open hostility to our government, themselves being judges. They had no pleasure in yielding the lash of the taskmaster, They them- selves are free and thank God for their deliverance, They are” our st the above address and have kind care by & graduate nurse, 1 have & brother—health wmueh impaired—re. siding at 1759 Tapping avenue, New York eity, As It relates to that extraordinary character for whom we had the honor of voting in 1860, it may be said, he stands out in the pages of the world's Listory as a character without dupliy cate, He was great without knowing it, He was wise ahove many without |consclousness of it. There was |strength in his weakness, His unsel. fishness was wealth to the v and oppressed, His love for UGod and own publie commission, but | to make a purchase, in a place away | superintendant of the Russell & Brs tation company | from his ewn money, seems unduly “"“‘“'“': shop. edloulated to make the skeptie smile [N 3 yvesterday, Rev, 8. G, Ohman eynically and suggest that the actions | was elected a member of the executive | of such careful persons are more for "“.'l'_‘,"“““- ; e o 3 J L show than of any fear of| 0 ::"r'"':”’b;c‘:‘:"‘:":;:;“‘:‘ “"‘“’ | misappropriating Property | sown clerk's office this week. | of others, New Britain polished off Walling- Today, frem many sourees come |ford with ease in the polo game las the statements that the werld would night, This “makes 11 vietories for { he a lot hetter off were old-fashioned to their rather to the which. all transp of necessity, eonsiders first of the request whether or New Britain Herald net the propriety of HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY (asued Dally, Sunday Bxcepted), | AL Horsld Bidg, 87 Church Burest, | of the people, but rather not it would be a paving proposition becatse funds or tor the company All of which goes to show that the conditions BUBSCRIFTION RATES: | 0500 & Yoo | peaple who are 5.00 Thres Monthe The » Month. alive to | recognize where the practical |muu" This, publie lies te grant requests without suggesting that the their how the local team over Wallingford with. out a defeat, Britain Baterad at the Post OMce ar o Becond Olass Mall M CAL THLEPHONE® Pusiness OMcs Bditorial Reoms o 0 Avirt'sing medium tn tahle 4 The only prof the ™ reom always open to & to the use for republis eredite) to it or not ot in thie paper and also lo Arhed hereln, Anilit ¥wurean of Cireulation » nattoral newspapy tirers with a strictly hone elreulation. Our eirculation st based upen this audit, This | tection sgainst fraud in new tribut'an fgures to both Batl cal aavertisers. CURING CHILDREN, The statement first startling, that LEL children examined in the past month by the school examining physiclan, 687 were found to have defects of some kind other than those of the teeth—a that afflicted 650, Sccond however, remind one that persons in the world are absolutely free from some defects, and they get along very well notwithstanding such troubles, This however, does not de- tract from the importance of the health work in the schools, nor make it less advisable that the defects dis- covered should remedied. The point is that there would not be so of adults suffering ailments today if years ago, such or- ganized health work in the schools as there is today. What was good enough for us not good enough for our children as long as we have dis- covered a way and have the facilities for making their lives happier and more healthful than our lives have been, But the prosccution of this health work and the emphasis that is being laid upon it suggests that the curing of the children should be brought about with due regard to the psy- chological aspect of the situation. Men and women of today were not examined by school physicians. Again let it be said that it would have been much better for them if they had been. The work is splen- did, and we are strong for it. But it must be remembered by those who have charge of this health work that children are easily affected by sug- gestion. We, for instance, were not told when we were children in school that we were suffering from severe organic trouble. We were not fright- ened. We thought we were healthy and we acted as though we were— which was a good thing for us. Care should be taken, in the modern health work, not to frighten chil- dren; not to give them the sugges- tion that they are weak and ill. The line between making .light of a trouble and over-emphasizing it i a very fine one. Certainly children should be impressed with the neces- sity of obeying orders from doctors, dentists and nurses as -well as par- ents. But they should be told that in order to be as happy and strong as possible they must do these things, rather than that they must do them in order to free themselves of terri- ble disease under which they labor. One does not have to be a firm be- liever in Coue's theory of autosug- gestion to see the necessity for han- dling the children in such a way that they will not consider them- gelves invalids. Again there appears the wisdom of studying the sensitive mind of the patient in successful treatment of especially sensitive bodies, thoughd school is at out trouble thoughts, few very fact, be number different had been, great a from there THE PEOPLE S AlD. The action of the in p tioning the president of the Connecti- cut company for jitney service be- tween New Britain and Hartford, via| the Stanley quarter and Elmwood, is significant. Quite honestly it is ex- plained that the residents of Belvi- dere have wanted a continuation of | the north end trolley route and, this not being found necessary by the company, they now ask the company to put in a bus service, It is quite possible that the insti- gators of this movement see in the Connecticut company the logical dr- ganization to which such an appeal should be made, and there is no hint! here ‘intended that they were not! correct in this assumption. In fm‘t! a glance at events of the past garding transportation would gest that such appellants were un-! usually wise and far-sighted. The significant point is, however. that it does seem wise to appeal to| & corporation instead of to the pub- | lic utilities commission. The latter body is supposed to be the one to which complaints of lack of service should be made. it is a matter of | record that frequent complaints have been made to it, and frequent re- quests presented to it. Now nlong' esmes a group of people, wise in people i- re- sug- | this declaration utilities commission has net the er nor the inclination to give people relief in transpertation is cited merely to show sub-conseious, pow. the mat- the of I opinion. wise persons as to the influence appealed to in re. 1ers, possibly some which should gard to transportation matters in this be state THE DORMITORY, It is quite natura) that an execu- tive, seeking keep down the amounts of money authorized by the political division of which he is the head, deprecate as many planned expenditures as possible the hope that cnough of them will be withheld to accomplish his pur. pose, And, of course, such execu- tive's motives are the best, He wants to save money; he would keep down taxes. Of course, also, he will gain a reputation for trying to do this, whether the desire for such a repu- tation is the inspiring motive or not. No exccutive should be criticised, especially at this time, for economy. But withholding a dormitory from a great State school even temporarily is much like refusing to permit the appropriation of money for a pipe through which water is to be pumped into a new reservoir which will fur. nish water to the thirsty. Of course the pipe would be laid eventually, for people will always nced water, but a delay in completing it would delay giving the people to be bene- fited by it that which they need, and in the meantime much water would by diverted to other uses—and the people would remain thirsty, Th new State Normal school New Britain will need that dormitory the moment it is opened. Many young women, planning to enter, will not be able to do so, prob- ably, because of lack of such a build- ing.” There is a cry for more teach- ers. Education is being held up as the panacea for magy of the world's troubles, If an appropriation for the dormitory is not forthcoming those who oppose it will not be injuring New! Britain as much as they will be injuring the people of the whole state who are looking to the great institution to develop teachers capa- ble of preparing the young children of today to be the intelligent citizens of tomorrow upon whose right-think- ing and wisdom the future of the state depends. should in in new JAIL—NO DISGRACE? Thoughtful people begin to won- der if the time is coming when it will not be considered a disgrace to be sent to jail. Certainly if break- ing new laws—not on the statute books, fortunately—is uni- versal because of general disap- proval of such new laws, there will be a feeling that there is no dis- grace in being sent to jail for vio- lating one of those new laws. I‘rom this situation it would not be a long step to a condition where many peo- ple would feel it no disgrace to be sent to prison for violating other laws. In other words the general disregard for all law would become common. This thought is suggested Ly the news that certain ‘“society” men in New York have been given jail sen- tences for conspiracy to violute the Volstead act. There was a ‘linner at which wine was served. It was.held in one of the fashionable clubs in the metropolis. Some disgrace may attach in the publie's mini1 to somne of the men becajuse of some of the matters proven. But it is safe to say that many of the friends of those men, considered at least reputable citizens, will not look down upon them because they gave a dinner where wine was served. The to serve does conspire to violate the Volstead act probably. He might be sent to jail, perhaps. Would he be disgraced in the opinion of a major- ity of his fricnds—a majority of the people of this country? Again it must be asserted, for fear of misunderstanding, that every law on the statute books should be en- forced if possible. We insist upon of propriety. But incidents such as this in New York even the prohibition now sentenced merely person who buys liquor make in are calculated to most firm believers tion of affairs and ask the question of the sincere advocate of the Vol- stead law: “Quo Vadis?" OLD-FASHIONED HONESTY, We ‘are inclined to smile in a perior sort of way at the man who keeps “office stamps,” or those to be used for the business of his employer as distinguished from his personal correspondence, in a separate place so that he will not, by chance, use his empid@er's stamps for his own private affcirs. So it seems carrying the thing too far when we find an office worker never using his em- ployer's stationery for his own let- su- ters. 1 | Thé man who puts the change to prevail One economie has gone as far as to state not get back honesty expert that the werld will to full prosperity until this old- fushioned square dealing befween man and man becomes more univers sal, until the spirit of religion means something as it used Just following the anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln a little concerning him his honesty is worth emphasizing, Al of ws can not imitate him in his @at power of vision, in every phase I8 greatness, but certainly all of us can feel the spirit of the motive which prompted him to put away, in an old trunk where it remained for years until a ‘government official called for it, the 817 which remained in his hands, belonging to the gov- ernment, after the post office of which he had charge was closed, The habit which many have ae- quired of using temporarily property not their own, such as little articles Iying about the house, perhaps, is a letting down of the bars against dis- regard of the rights of others which has assumed great proportions, Old- fashioned honesty is a pretty good thing even though carried to ex- tremes, anecdote and Facts and Fancies (8Y POCFRT QUILJEN). Home is a place where somebody knows how to make thickened gravy. Fable: Once there was a woman who wasn't secretly rather proud of her “nerves.” The survival of jay walkers would indicate that the blooming idiot is a hardy perennial. Alexander was lucky. He con- quered the world and died before the time came to collect the indemnity. The chief difference old-fashioned dime novel modern novel is $1.90. It must be nice to be a conserva- tive leader and have nothing to do but be alarmed once in a while. the the between and The man Who owns a used car never has to wonder where his small son picks up that Kind of language. A wicked wet comes in handy, however, when a dry needs a little whiskey for a®sick wife, The difference between domestic service and matrimony is that a girl gets paid for domestic service. The League isa't bothering about the Ruhr business. Just wait until something serious turns up. A wife is a person who asks you at intervals what you suppose is the matter with her wrist watch. The point of saturation in the au- tomobile market is the place where the price comes down. The honeymoon is over when he begins to think of the things he could do with the money he spent for her solitaire. b 200, of Everybody should visit the The animals may have a sease humor. People who kick about the weather probably wouldn't be sfied even if winter and summer should change places. sa There's one consolation. The rat. tle of the sword can't be heard di tiactly for the -attic of tax receiphs. Matrimony settizs down to normal wvhen the bride (lecides never to let her girl friends know how disap- pointing husband= are, education. he in getting If a man misses an finde a lot of consolation | think seriously of the present condi- | rich and scolding tvol college gradu- ates. ' Correct this sentence: “At any rate,” said the flapper, “‘l have nev- er had a moment's regret since 1 bobbed it.” e e s e} 25 Vears Ago Today (Taken from Herald of that date) Thomas Lynch of this city is being mentioned as a possible candidate for an important berth on the Chicago Nationz! leagtie baseball team. Miss Helen E. Hadley of West Main street, entertained a number of her young friends last evening with a whist party. 1t is said on good authority that @Beir generation, which appeals not from a bill someone has given him william E. Parker will be the new The grocery and meat business of | H, Oldershaw & Co., has been or. ganized into a joint company with a capital stock of §15,000, A cake of Castile soap and a wash cloth for 10 gents at Perkins Drug store on Main street, BY ROY O, WOODRUFI U, 8 Representative From Michigan, Tenth District LDERLY Mrs, Nrown was i1, She was a some- what irascible lady, kindly of heart and loved in the nelghborhood. Mrs, Green, a block down the street was anx- fous to know the state of Mrs, Brown's health, 80 she sent her small boy to in- quire, WOODRUFF “Jimmie,” she said, “run up the street and ask how old Mrs, Brown is." Jimmie returned presently and re- ported: “Mrs, BroWn told me to tell you, mama, that it's none of your business how old she js!" COMMUNICATED. Taxes, but Editor Herald: . Dear Sir—I would like a little space to say a few words about our taxes. As you know, the majority of our citizens are factory workers, and are paid by the hour. When they are sick or out for any reason they lose money, or when a depression comes they have to live accordingly, and deny themselves and families the very necessities of life, as you see by an investigation of the children absent from school showed many cases that the reason was lack of proper clothing and shoes. Why should these men whose children are unable {o go to school as above stated pay more taxes than last year or more rent which will follow? Compare Hartford and our city. Taxes in Hartford are 21 mills and here 25 mills, if those outsiders who are running our city have their way. By outsiders I mean our superinten- dent of schools, who is here today and gone tomorrow, and who is the whole school board. ‘What we need in this city is more men like the the late P, 8. McMahon, who have the interest of the city at heart and who will be here through thick and thin and not fly away if things do not guit them. What we should have is a reduc- tion in pay of all our city employes, and by the way, I see no one opposing the raises that went through lately. What every man and woman should do now is to get after the aldermen and’ councilmen, and also the mayor, and tell them where they stand. If they don’t taxes and rents are going to be higher. The factory people have been cut 25 and 30 per cent and have received very little back, and now they are asked to pay these city employes more money who have: never been cut. This includes our superintendent of schools, who is to receive a 8600 raise, making his salary $6,000 a year. Imagine this salary in a workingman city where children can’t go to school for lack of shoes. It would be a Zood thing for our finance hoard to go to Hartford and get a few pointers. Now it is up to the people to get Lusy, like in Hartford, where a pe- tition was signed by 4,000 working- men for lower taxes. Don't sit back and let George do it. The firemen should be also cut 25 per cent if the two platoon system goes into effect, Thanking you for this space, 1 am, A WORKINGMAN, About Whooping Cough. Editor New Britain Herald: Dear Sir—Ieplying to the inquiry from you roffice a few days ago, as to the prevalence and threatened epidemic of whooping cough in Ber- lin, we can say that since the first of this month one case has been re- ported to the local health officer. Iive cases, four of them on the ex- reme borders of the town, and di- rectly traceable to contact with chil- dren in nearby cities, were reported in Januarv, and one in November. This constituted the so-called epidemic. We may have a real epi- demic something, no one can tell, but just at present the only epidemic we seem to have is an imaginary one. The health officer has no way of knowing of contagious or. infectious diseases aside from those under his reported to him. Al physicians and most parents have learned to be very prompt in making such reports, and is evidence that no epidemic exists. In addition to attending physicians and parents, it is as well the duty, and the law requires, that all persons responsible for the care of people Laving infections or_ contagious dis- cases ghall see that such cases are rc- ported to the proper authorities. This means that school teachers 2nd school superintendents knowing of children out of school on account of reported corgagious diseases, shall report the same to the health office. Very truly yours, R. M. GRISWOLD, M. D. ——— i A typewritten petition cannot be presented in the English House of Commons; it must be writtem cwn personal care, except as they are | when no such reports are received I(‘ Lyman 8, Johnson of this eity and read at a luncheon of men who voted for Abraham Lincoln at the home of Warren C, Crane of 121 West T0th street, New York city, For the greater part, the letter consists of a tribute to the memory of the Great Emanci- pator, A notice appeared in a New York paper recently asking for the names of men who had voted for Lineceln, Rev, Mr, Johnson replied and found, 1o his surprise, that he, and Mr, Crane, who sought the names, had many mutual friends and acquaintances in Winsted, Correspondence followed and Rev, Mr, Johnson was Invited to the luncheon, He could not attend but consented to write a letter to be read before the gathering. The letter follows: 7 Newbury Street, New Britain, Conn, February, 1, 1923, Mr. Warren Crane, Dear Sir-— Your letter of Jan, 27th was duly received and was full of interest from beginning to close, It seems re- markable that your generous invita- tion should disclose to us such in- timacy of neighborly interest in carly life, The people of Winsted, Conn,, whose names you mention, were nearly all known to me. I was for a short time in the employ of Norman Adams, the East Winsted merchant. Possibly Mrs, Crane may have some Snowledle of my mother's relatives. Josiah Smith and Truman Smith, father and son, succeeded each other in the deacon's office of the Baptist church on Wal- lin's Hill. The former was one of the pioncers of Winsted and in the organization of the First Congrega- tional church was one of the com- mittee making applieation to the as- sembly for necessary permission to build their house of worship in East Winsted. In 1848-9 the old house was rejuvenated and 1 assisted my uncle, Luman Smith, with whom then re- siding, to draw the brick, necessary for the basement, from the Torring- ton brickyard. 'Twas a slow process to draw them with oxen. It is quite possible you may have known my cousin, Orlow Smith, whose boyhood was also spent in the family of Luman Smith. He was an officer in the army of the Civil war. Your photograph indicates, as does your penmanship, rare vigor for one who voted for Abraham Lincoln, in the early sixties. May mention that I am much alone in the world. My dear wife, with whom I had lived 61 years, passed on two years ago. She was born in Philadelphia. I have a pleasant home S e ————— I Making a Woman Happy “You surely made one woman hap- py in this big world when you sent me the shoes I've been trying for over one year to get. I put them on and went right back to the P, O, and got the enclosed Money Order and I want to thank you very kindly for making me the shoes. As I've said before, they are the only shoe I've every had that's perfectly comfortable on my foot. Sure they are large, but I am a large woman and on my feet all the time. Please don't let anything happen to last 55, for some day 1'll be sending for another pair of shoes.” The above letter from a woman in the West came last week to the Can- tilever factory. It is typical of many letters written by wearers of the can- tilever Shoe. There's a reason for this. Yowll feel the same way yourself when you have been properly fitted to a pair of Cantilever Shoes. FLEX WITH THE FOOT Cantilevers have no stiff piece of steel in the arch, just where your foot ought to be allowed to flex. They are made with a flexible arch—just like that of your own foot-—built on the same Cantilever plan. They let your foot flex when it ought to flex. They allow every muscle its natural exercise—which keeps the reet strong and young and supple, They throw the body's weight on the ball, the out- side of the foot and the heel, just as you will sée it should be if you will take the trouble to look at the im« print of a child's bare foot in the sand or its wet footprint on the floor. Cantilever Shoes will leave your foot as free and natural in its action las a child's bare foot. No bifiding |anywhere—just a snug, comfortable | At without a.bit of waste room. Ti rounded toe and medium heel of Caff- tilevers is now all the style. It has always been the vogue for the youth- ful foot. Be fitted to a pair tomorrow and keep your feet young and your spirits buoyant. humanity was consumi There was literalness in his deoing unto others as he would others should de unto him, He was passionate, He was too great to foster a grudg He loved his enemies, For them, as for his friends, his life was given in sae- rifice, His vielent death afiixed the seal of eternal shame to enmity born of cowardice, In his life, in his work and martyrdem President Lineeln, for whose elevation to office, we of the sixties in the 10th century claim honorable share, presents to our na- tion and the world the purest speci- men of true American manhgod and statesmanship known in our history, To you, my dear Mr, Crane, making possible the contemplated guthering at your residence Feb, Sth, 1 our vot. ing associates of 1860, there remains this sweet consclousness, With love for all mankind and malice toward none, we voted our convictions and for what we deemed best for the whole Top It a brethren, We esteem them as our fellow citisens, “Let us have peace." Pleased as I should be to acgept your kind invitation for Veb, Ilhx - attended I deem it & little Wnwise at this season of the year to venture far from home, Please, therefore, acoept my grateful acknowledgement for your thoughtfulness and extend to coms rades of 1860's voting list my All Hall! and wish for cordial good time, , Bincerely yours, » LYMAN B, JOHNSON, XICAN VEGETABLES Mexico City, Feb, 13,~Philadelphig tables are ndw being supplied dally with Mexican tomatoes and onlons. ixpress schedules between the grows ing fields in Tamaulipas and Jalisco and United States points have been established on the rallroads, and sev- eral hundred carloads of the veges tables are being shipped monthly, The Gna; American Sweetmeat off your meals with WRIGLEY’S and ¢ive your stomach a lift. ids digestion—1it provides the “bit of sweet” teeth WRI comes it in_ WELL, AFTER ARGUING THE POINT OVER WITH NoU | T SOM& (ENGTH, TLe ABMIT YouRs in beneficial form. Helps to cleanse the and keep them healthy. GLEY;S pays very big dividends on a very small investment, “ It’s the best chewing gum that ¢c.n be made amd It wax-wrapped to keep good conditfon. RIQNT € HuH, or COUR SE UM RIQHT ¢ T Kvow WHAT 1M TALKING. s AatovT L) il [‘W It \fllr et