New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 20, 1923, Page 6

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VR e = A WARNING A Btate Institution on Ward's Island New York, a torrible fortunates were tendants, It had long been known that the Buper- intendent had mad to the authorities to be, given fire had pro- has come numerous inves- the seene o has just been Twenty-two un- tragedy Killed and threa's place was a firestrap; the state protection. The state crastinated The tragedy and today tigations under way as to the cause of the fire » No % to who is to blame for the needed, The legislators at Albany are to blame 1 the appeals of the Superintendent and provide against the happening of such a terrible thing the more terrible because the victims of the flames were irresponsi- ble people who were confined in that institution because of their infirmities, Ther for the neglect. The not speak in whose care them in vain. The city of New Britain has Town Home. It is known to be a fire-trap. The inmates of the Home have feeble voices; they can not ap- peal for protection themselves, but there are investigation” 88, of life Is for failing to he Wwas No excuse for themselves, The man a appeals have been made in their be-| no need for an/ half. There would be investigation as to who was to blame if death through fire or cold should come to them. A new, safe refuge should be provided for them by the city. The tragedy in New York comes as a warning. THE FUEL SITUATION The emergency fuel to bring trouble and uncertainty. For- mer fuel administrator Harry C. Brown's refusal to serve again, after his resignation, was to be expected. Under local fuel ministrator be, practically, a “supernumerary” state policeman. Orders issue from the Superintendent of the State police, and it would be the new law a a would the duty of the local fuel administra- | tor to obey those orders. But, despite his lack of power to frame policies, hewould be blamed fof the practical policies to bring re- It is one thing failure of those lief if failure came. for a business man to serve with other | men in other communities, in emergency low-townsmen, undeér a superior cre- ated for this emergency, and call of the head of the State po- lice Torce, no matter how cfficient as a police head that official may be. But the situation has to be The responsibility, at the moment, upon the mayor. No matter how may feel about the emergency legi met. is lation, he faces a distressing situation. | Theorizing will do no good. New Brit- | administrator; The only thing ain is without a fuel such official is needed. for the Mayor to do is to take means that the state has furnished him, whether he approves those means or not, and see to it that there to look after fuel matters on the presenting the person has the Superintendent of was the proper unwisdom of taking the is some one here. Tor this Mayor Paon case to the given authority, the State Police, tion. Admit the this coal problem of the men who straighten it out action T of in who been ac- the hands were trying to of placing out of and in the hands of men of no experience | in the matter, nevertheless those in- experiencd men are the only ones, ap- have authority to law has been in- who as the parently, anything, terpreted. But when summer comes and the sunlight drives away memory of these cold days when we are all ‘distressed | by the muddie that has been made of the fuel matter, melt the memory of the handled. way it was THE WORLD SITUATION The attitudes of four of especial importance in the affairs, Germany, France, nations arc world sition is pretty sure; she will not pay her indemnities if she can help it; she will do nothing to help unless she is obliged to. Months ago both Franee and England would have welcomed the aid of th® United States, but the «United States was waiting for an gnvitation. Secretary of State Hughes frequent appeals | inmates of that institution could | they were spoke for | law continues | an | for the benefit of his fel-| but it is quite | another thing for a business man to be asked to place himself at the beck he it do| the warmth will not | England | and the United States. Germany's po- | a1 New Haven. Tod aring his speech rge s asking us to I oyd Ges e ' show is little likelihood Ip efela N deg private rlaw answering | « ares that Pra oxd Georg now e would consider interfers enee only unfriendly but hestile the adminis has farther attitude of tratioy re, vightly or wrongly had the effeet of placing us willing ning out A country rom a pesition o to do our share in straight | the dificulties the In Lleyd George's present stand it is to ted from whieh resu war connection with be remembered that, in brought Germany to terms by threat- by the allies that France has now taken, He cited to pay res He of Ger- showed she did intend to her Under econdi- tions, he said, the allies had a right to Ruhr, Now that the man who defeated him for the Premiership is unwilling to offend France because doing just what ening the same action refusal attitude ligations entirely not enly German's reparations, but her of ~ud ng her indicated that every action many not keep word such enter the France is NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1928, quetes Hughes to but only | cane make up his mind to it he{ Lioyd George said the allies had a right to do and would do If Germany did not meet her obligations, Lloyd George makes what must be construed to be a political appeal to the United States a political appeal because it is prob. ab! Bonar must know from Secretary Law's stand and because not intervene without France's approval It ton the wanted to isolate States absolutely, fathered by the wish to oppose he Hughes' speech that the United States would ean | who thinks he he the administration in Washing- l'nllwl‘ it has gone about| accomplishing this very effectively as | far as the general European situation is concerned, MUSSOLINT AND BORAH Speaking at the occasion of | ratification of the ference agrechents the Italian Senate, Premier Mussolini is reported to have said that Senator | position did not give him sufficient ‘prf's'ig(‘ to compel the acceptance of | *his collection of more or less fantas- | tic appeals,” and he referred especial- Iy to the Idaho Senator's proposal for Mussolini “too by an international conference, characterized this suggestion as cessive.” No brief is here held for Senator Borah, his proposal, or for Premier the Washington con- Borah's | it out on this line if it takes Mussolini, but it is interesting to com- | pare the two men and their positions exchanged, Borah in Mussolini's place, the ltalian Premie in the United States Senate. And it interesting to turn to words toward himself, Ttalian peasznt, in a section where romance and ad- venture was in the atmosphere, then in a position to give him prestige to compel the acceptance of his more or less fantastic .Lppcals"' And yet no one to belie that the first glimmering of the ambi- tions of Premier Mussolini strengthening of Italyscame to more as he lived Was he, will fail for him while a poor man, or less in and secluded a mental recluse, | romantic, adventurous locality. | life today who might be living Mussolini's life thinking ambitious of thoughts, years ago, bitions, picturesque, spectacular, man is Senator Borah. Taking only known of the lives of the two men, | disregarding their private entirely, it would not be imagine Mussolini in the States Senate today giving a good imitation of Borah, and the Idaho Senator, over there in Italy, taking Mussolini's place and, with the Italian's experience in adventure and freedomi of personal action behind him, leading the black shirts of Italy just as Mussolini has what is hard to United very as effectively led them, Were the old days here, and Mussolini to sit together, table between them upon which rest- ed containers for liquid refreshment, Borah to take such position it is after some hours were Borah a small or were 1t very in in some quiet retreat, probable that, of conversation, they would bow ac- knowledgment | most thorough mutual respect, while murmuring “Bottoms up.” | TACT WANTED the Italian’s to imagine | | about her married sister's fine | —Headline. “suficient the | that | If there is one man in public | imagined as generally existence | Well and the grasshopper But there were no jitneys to dodge in | them: it silenced these whe might b i greal assistance to the there, on 0 Governor There in his work is no use in declaring to any hopeless is hi ameunt to Just as well He can do ne 0 matter how he anything and he that will might worse than fulfil such predictions; certainly such statament coming from not the more courageous sinee lie will be- lieve that ne matter what he does his worth will net be recognized in places of authority, That declaMtion of R, Mont Reily marked the beglhning of | his troubles in Porto Rico, in which the milestones have been against him based upon aets and great. It fanned the flame pojitical ¢ sition to him undoubted- Iy it ingreased the number of his polit- ieal opponents, While a strong man is needed to take his place, the char- acteristic of tact, next to that strength, is necessary to make that man's administration a sucoess, one in autherity will all of of Facts and Fancies (BY POUERT QUILIEN). The grateful, best way to keep a wife Don't blame the lrl'nnh They dun the best they know how, The thicker lllc head, the excuses, the thinner An ideal hll\lunl Is any hushand | an ideal wife, If it is something that will neces- sitate the building of more emergency wards, it is called progress. hllrllt'n\umr tax is that desire to. impress the | The most imposed by a neighbors. A normal girl is one who can imagine herself the hergine when her | | pet movie hero opens his arms for the closing clinch. Heinie seems determined to pout| all sum- mer, | A hick town is a place where every- | body wonders how Bill Jones manages to dress his family that way. | Once there was a bachelor| could grow enthusiastic FFable: girl who A fashionable church is one where the preacher doesn't talk much about | the camel and the needle's eye. the | p born and growing up “Lost memory; finds himself rich." Must have forgotten how to say *Charge it.” Correct this sentence: “I don't care| if there is company, aid the small| boy; “I want to go to bed.” Unless hulnnn nature has change Adam's ‘“temptation” qonsisted in | chasing Eve all over Eden and taking con- | the apple away from her, vinced of his ability to realiz® his am- | that A married man's sympathy for an old maid is just regret that she can't do as well as his wife did. fable the ant fared perished. In ancient those days. There isn't muGh hope for a man when he has fallen so low that a small town bank won't let him over- draw. You need not be a stranger in any city. The city directory will tell you where the churches are, and the hotel porter will tell you wherc the other | Kind of things are. The prize optimist it the life-termer | who can remember that his confine- ment is only temporary. A writer gays that half the 1890 wished to be bandits, Well, weil; s0 that accounts for so many fllling | | stations. The final outcome of that little to each other in the | Ruhr matter should throw some 1|ghu mean- yon the theory that hell is paved with | | good intention SLIPS .\NI) BREAKS WINDOW Sam Sayed of 14 1-2 Spring strect, | If there is one sort of person w 1|o‘r(nort('d to the police last night that impresses by his ineffectiveness it is the man or woman so subservient to tact that he or | & word that may hurt someone, speaking is necessary in many But speaking that is brutal and which will she will never speak Plain and often to he admired, plain | accomplish no geod, is to be avoided, | | E. Mont resigned ‘\gnu-rnnr of Porto Rico, began team by stating that the | United States did not approve of in- Reily, just as plainly | dependence for Porto Rico and, in | effect, that there was no hope such independence. The fended not only those for attitude of- | working for Independence, those their minds the possibility of such in- depehdence at some future date. The attitude gave the political agitators grounds for patriotic appeals and furnished them for fervent epeeches. It made opponents of such agitators heshate to stand against who werc unwilling to put from texts cases, | his | agitators there | but also | | cial street and in so doing he broke lie slipped on a sidewalk on Commer- window in M. P. Leghorn's jewelry spore, inflicting a gash on his hand. Ay S | 1 o |at the [to be angadded attraction as thg saie of tickets is the ain Sanctuary grand success last night. | tainment Fitzgerald, may and J. M. Curtin. {their game ags | night by the ab EZS Years Ago Today | § (Taken from Herald of that date) T ——— Town Clerk Pentield recorded three deaths and issued four marriage li- enses during the past week. The soprano solo by William Muller basketball game tonight seems -ason w Brit- The enter- ! was furhished by Michael J. J. Madigan, Philip Tor- largest of the The smoker given by the N of Shepherds The Regulars will be crippled in nst Middletown to- ace of Pete O'Don- | teil. An injury to his arm will keep | m out of the game, make him | clothes. | boys nf‘ sl Chestaut are visiting friends in Mid- aletown A large lamp exploded on a table in the house o W, J, Rawlings on Emwmons Place tast night and caused damage to the exte of about §26 Mr. Hawlings extinguidhed the blaze before any further damage was déne It is pretty generally understood that Couneilm O, %3, Parker and Alderman O, ¥, Curtis of the third {ward are ecandidates for the mayer- |alty at the election in the sprin The wheelmen of New Rritain are {being asked te help pay for the maintenance of the path between Meriden and Berlin, The Meridenites say that they paid for it last year and |{the New Britain eyelists had a great dead of fun on it, charges | BY FRITZ G, LANHAM resentative From Texas, Twelfth District A negro walter in a small town res. taturant where the menu consisted of ham and eggs, steak, fried potatoes und coffee, took a trip to New Yor There he soon spent his money and |upplied for work at a smart hotel and | was assigned to a table, A fashion- able couple entered and were seated, Waiter,” sald the gentleman, \ ‘please bring me some consomme and lm- lady some boulllon," s—yassuh,” said the waiter, “Then you can bring us some pate de fol gras, a porterhouse a la Bor. deanux, potatoes T.yonnaise, and head lettuce with mayonnaise, | "And finish with two pineapple | parfaits, some rochefort, Dent's wa- ter crackers and two demi-tusses," “Ya—yassuh,” sald the waiter, un- | certainly, Then hewent back to | pantry, where he yelled: “Gimme! the butler's The cook was busy and paid no at-| Again the negro shouted: tention . simme! “Give you cook, “Gimme my hat and coat,” said the what?" growled the | Our Poet’s Corner | A Popular Song. (Contributed.) Oh where, oh where {s my coal, gone, Oh where, oh where can it be, With its weight cut short Ahd its price so long, | Oh where is the coal for me? A FIREMAN, An Ode to Winter. (Contributed.) | 0la Winter' we've endured you Iindured as best we could, | And it's certainly right you should. | For we're sitting in the gloaming With our mufflers wrapped about, The furnace we've ceascd stoking, And the kitchen fire’s gone out. The mercury keeps dropping, We're in a sorry plight, .\D\\ Mr. Winter, tell us, ! Do you think you're doing right? | You must have known about it, This shortage of the fuel, And knowing it, why still persist, | In treating us so cruel. | Of course you'll come again, But, old Tyrant when you do, | Remember that you've left us Cold enough for two. We hoped that you'd be generous, ‘When you had us on the hip, At least would treat us mildly But you've held us in your grip. | We've had aches and rheumatism, The quinzy and the flu, We've only just survived it, And we're mighty glad through. D. C. PECK. COMMUNICATED About_the Streets. To the Editor of The Heraid: If the average person in New Brit- jain would be as much concerned about health and the spread of dis- > as he is about the salaries of officials and taxes, there would far less “flu” and grip in the city. | Anyone walking on Main street this morning couldn’t have helped being| | disgust sy nothing of nauseated, | from the spitting on the sidewalk, A New Britain physician is quoted ying that with the melting of the | snow discase is bound to increase and [with disensc ulready in the air, every mrmunmn should be taken to prevent city be 1 there is a law prohibiting spitting {on the sidewalk, why isn't it strictiy |enforced? Such conditions are a dis- |grace to the city and surely show a lack of good citizenship, A CITIZE WANT AL IA lll.l mms S, Air Service Will Try to Smash Every Aviation Mark. Calif., Feb, The tes army air service will a systomatic attempt this year break every world's record not San Diego, United make to 20, According to information received here today from Washington, orders for special training of airmen have been prepared. \ The war department has sent word that now is being built a plane which is expected to eclipse Ly more thah 40 miles an hour the fastest time ever | made over a measured course. CHANGE IN R. R. SERVICE, Announcement has heen made by | the New York, New Haven and Hart- ford railroad company of a change in service from Hartford to Dristol, ef- fective Monday, February 26. The train now leaving Hartford week daye at 6 a. m. for Bristol, will leave at 5:50 a. m,, arriving in New Britain at 6:11 o'clock and in Dristel at 6:30 Robert and Richard Pinches pt;oclock. But we're glad that you are passing, | you're | already held by an American aviator, | UNBLEACHED SHEETING 86 in, wide 10 ™ Sl ROBINS = SHEETING 36 in, wide 8™ §1 814348 MAIN Dre” GOOds Store STREET S a3 In. DRESS 46 In, l'lull(;Al.lu all new designs; fast colors 7" 81 APRON GINGHAM CURTAIN GOODS white with border 12 Yands $l 32 in. CHAMBRAY all colors—fast colors PAISLEY CHALLIES all new designs 5 Yards $l SILK REMNANT SALE Paisley Orepes, Taffeta, Georgette, Satins $ l .00 Each . P dog- | SEE AS THEY LEARN Coco-Cola King Fits Up Former Transport As Educational School to r World—Is Costly Trip. | | | Tou Baltimore, Feb, 20.—Asa G. Candler, .lr. son of the millionaire Coca-Cola of Atlanta, has completed ar- rangements for the conversion of the Hormcr army transport Logan into a xumptuoul sce-the-world-as-you-study |college for boys. The work will be |done by the Bethlehem Skipbuilding | corporation. The Logan will leave her berth at Curtis bay today and proceed to | Sparrows Point, where'she will be met {by Mr. Candler, Professor Zebulon |Judd, dean of the school, and sur- | veyors of both the Amefican and Lioyd [bureaus. She immedtately will be surveyed and classiffied and turned ‘a\cr to the shipbuilders for recon- \ struction. With 400 boys, a large faculty, a | erew, managers and clerks of the l\ar\oun departments, the rebuilt ves- |sel, under the name of the Candler | Floating school,, will set sail on Sep- [tomber 15 on hér initial voyage. She | will complete her combined school |term and voyage June 10, 1924, | Mr. Candler said that the school is Inot a philanthropic foundation. It is |a purely business proposal and only | men of means can afford to send their sons through such a course. “My own son,” Mr. Candler said, “and the son of my brother Howard will go on the first cruise. This ex- | presses my confidence in the scheme, | “The view I take is this,’” Mr. Cand- ler continued. “There are many poor boys who attend schools and buckle | they have no other interests but there |are many sons of rich men who have {their cars and their clubs and find |too much to do other than to study. If the rich men's sons are sent to | my school they will enjoy themselves |but at the same time they will see {that they must concentrate on their | studies.” LATER OPENING OF SE ON American Association Wili Swing Into Playing Line On April 19. Chicago, 1eb. 20.—Club owners of the American association met here to- day for adoption of a schedule and |to make other arrangements for the opening of the 1923 season. President Hickey said last night the season would open either April 18 or 19, a week later than usual, Oct. 7. l!()l'Y IS 1DE \'III 1ED Chicago, Feb. 20-—A mutilated body found a week ago in a snow- bank at a seclideg spot five miles from Geneva, Illinois, today was named as that of Samuel 1. Hawkins of Chicago. Three men, one of whom said he had been Hawkins' room mate, said the body was that of their friend. More than five hundred per- | | { KOREANS DISSATISFIED Seoul, Korea, Feb. 20.—(By the Associated Press)—One of the recent symptoms of the undercurrent of unrest which apparently is pervad- ing Korea is an attempt to copy the Gandhi movement in India. Koreans are being urged by leaders to use oniy articles of Korean manufacture and to aid otherwise in non-co-operations. -t BETTER MAITL EQUIPMENT. ‘Washington, Feb. 20.-—More and better reliway post offices are beihg provided by the railroads, cight lines having feécently added 109 new steel 56 in, Camel's Hair BARONETTE all colors—§3.00 value SILKS, CREPES, PAISLEY RADIUM |down to their work in earnest because | and close | sons had sought to identify thé body. DOLLAR SALE = — STARTS WEDNESDAY — 41 in, INDIAN HEAD LINEN ALL WOOL NEW uu.l‘o\ NES CANTON CREPE all colors $1.00 .. WOOL SERGES all colors—Special 59 C van DE CHINES all colors 36 in, SATIN $2 value—Wednesday " $1.25 v SILK ANTON CREPES plain and brocaded all colors—$2.98 value "$1.85 v DISH TOWELING white 10™*$1 white and l(rllM 8 Yanrds $1 08 In. TABLE DAMASK 2 Yards $l NFAST SILK DRAPERIES 36 in, wide, $1.00 valuo 59¢ v "TTURKISH TOWELS 5 For sl 72x00 SHEETS good quality 75¢ Ready Made TABLE CLOTHS white—Special SKIRTIN! $4.00 $2. 00 Vot SATIN S CRE $1.69 vou One Lot of PAISLEYS, TAFFETAS to $2.00 values $1.00 y. SILK Specisl cars to facilitate the handling of|stedt Mallory,, American lawn. tennis malls and provide greater safety for| champion, left today for Monte Carlo FAUWAy SRl S Rpke: where she intends playing in the ten- nis tournament, beginning Feb. 26. She may meet Suzanne Lenglen, the French star. MOLLA TO MONTE CARLO “Paris, Feb. 20.—Mrs. Molla Bjur- us Havor- of sweet sugar cane inasyrup of highest Delicio qu%tyfl ”0 Syrup Swpeten it with Domino’ Granulated, Tablet, Powdered Brown; Golden Syrup . St Honey: Molasse \/ Confectioners mon and Suy coms! (et's co ) THOUGHT You MiguT |OVER To CHUBR'S OrFied BE INTERESTED IN [AND WG CAWN Qo ALe THAT AND SUGGSSTED| OVBR THE MAgTTER THAT T SE& You. 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