New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 23, 1923, Page 17

Patriotism at High Pitch at Ku_i!fi_u of Columbus Banquet Fourth Degree Social Fune- tion Addressed by Lieut. Gov, Bingham and Auxil-| iary Bishop Murray, Social history was established by Bishop Tierpey Assembly, Fourth Degree, Knights of Columbus, at the second annual banquet of the organi- #ation last night at the banquet hall of the New Britain lodge, B, P, O, B, Over 300 members, guests and friends were in lendance at the funetion, which was ene of the most success- ful affairs of its kind ever held in this eity, Speakers of stateswide reputation, in the persons of Lieu- tenant Governor Hiram' Bingham, who is filling the duties of chief exec- utive of Connecticut, during the ab- sence of Governor Charjes A, Tem- pleton, and Rt, Rev, John G. Mur- ray, auxiliary bishop of Hartford dio- cese, were present, After splendid speeches by the dis- | tinguished talkers, an excellent en- tertainment, and a bountiful repast, prepared by William J. Fallon, the | caterer, those in attendance left the hall ecarly this morning, pleased in évery measure at the success of the affair, State and city officlals, prom- inent clergymen, and men and women in all walks of life, assembled to pay tribute with the organization to the memory of George Washington, “Father of His Country.” The hall was bedecked with the natlonal colors, and at the close of the ban- quet and speechmaking, the audience Joined in singing “America, After the dinner Dr. Henry R. Lasch, navigator of Bishop Tierney Assembly, dellvered an address of welcome, At the Guest Table. Seated at the guest table were the following: Lieutenant Governor Hiram Bingham, Rt. Rev. John G. Murray, Patrick I*, King, toastmaster; Willlam | C. Collins, of Hartford, master of the| fourth degree in Connecticut; Senator Richard Covert, Representative Benja- min W. Alling, Representative Ernest W. Christ, Rev, John T. Winters, Rev. Patrick Daly, Rev. Charles Coppens, Rev. Edward V, Grikis, Rev. Stephen Grohol, Rev. Thomas J. Laden, Rev. John K, Fay of Plainvillé, Rev. J. Leo Sullivan, Rev. Raymond J. Clabby, Ttev. William A. Krause, Rev. Francis Keough of Hartford, Rev. 8. J. Iciek, KRev. William I, O'Dell of Elmwood, and Charles Cleveland, grand knight of Daly council. Dr, Lasch presented P. ¥, King as toastmaster, and many of his witticisms and humorous re- marks were happily received. ‘Warm Welcome for Bingham. The applause that greeted the in- troduction of Lieutenant Governor Bingham lasted several minutes after the crowd arose. The speaker sald that it afforded him much pleasure to join with the Knights of Columbus and friends, in paying tribute to (ieorge Washington. He said he felt gad that Governor Templeton had gone north to’study the fuel and the fee question for next summer. He had anticipated when he accepted the in- tation to address the banquet, that he would be at a sacred conclave of the Knights of Columbus, but he was agreeably surprised to find himself in the midst of so much of the youth and beauty of central Connecticut. The lieutenant governor spoke as follows: “A citizen without responsibility ceases to be a citizen and becomes a subject. The progress of centraliza- | tion tends to deprive citizens of their responsibilities, Prussia was, perhaps, | We now find people saying openly that | the best instance the world has ever seen of a government which was out- wardly extremely efficient but inward- | Iy rotten at the core. The munici-| palities were the envy of every friend of good municipal government; the educational system was the admiration and despair of school men and uni- versity professors throughout the| world. So far as material efficiency was concerned they left little to be desired. This was accomplished by| extreme centralization. The local community was given no chance to| make mistakes. It was told exactly| what to do, how to do it, and when to do it. To the eye the results were extremely pleasing. The effect on the | spirit of the people who were gov-| erned was not agpreciated until the| ‘World War brought out the fact that Prussia had no citizens but merely subjects, that Prussian subjects could not think for themselves but could only follow the direction of their leaders. *“There is no question that the more you take away from a citizen his lib- erty of making decisions and his| power of initiative—the less interest | he has in exercising his rights of citi- | zenship. If for the sake of achieving results you create an all-wise govern- ment and permit it to tell the citizen | how to decide every question and force him to do such things as are| right which he does not care to do| voluntarily, the less you leave him of | e Palace—Mon., Tues., Wed. DI VITO’S BAND with Phoebe Whiteside 12—People—12 GUEST OF KNIGHTS AT BANQUET HERE LIEUT, GOV, HIRAM BINGHAM civie responsibllity, and the more surely you reduce him to a position of a dependent subject. and Self-Government. “We are celebrating today the birth of the first President of the United States, His experience in the Revolu- tionary war led Washington to be- lleve that n strong union of states was necessary. It is extremely difi- cult for us at the present time to rea- lize how tenaclously the founders of, the republic held on to the rights of the soverelgn states and how loth they were to give up even such rights as were absolutely necessary for the successful functioning of the federal government, To them independence meant local self-government. They finally were willing, however, to sur- render such privileges of sovereignty | as would enable the United States gov- ernment to wage war successfully and |efficiently, to make treaties with for- | eign countries, and to function prop- erly as a member of the family of na- tions. Anyone who will read and study the so-called critical period of Amer- fcan history knows how very difficult it was for Washington and Hamilton to secure the essential powers for the federal government. In view of that difficulty it is all the more remarkable that now one should see the people of the United States asking the federal government to assume the functions of state and local governments. Today there afe a great many worthy citi- zens who desire to have the federal government ‘eure all social ills. They also would Hke to have the state gov- ernments take away from the towns the priyflege of making any mistakes in running their schools. For the sake of mecuring efficiency and ma- terial prosperity they are willing to take away from the individual prac- tically all of his responsibilities as a citizen, leaving to him very little ex- cept the privilege of choosing his rep- resentatives, and leaving to his repre- sentatives very little opportunity for independent action and initiative when these representatives are of the grade of town officials. “We have come a long way from the position of the founders of this re- public who objected to giving up any more_of their independence than was absolutely necessary in order to enable the central government to function. if town officials are unwilling to do things that are for their own best good they must be made to do so. “It seems to me that the history of Connecticut points to the conclusion that it is better in the long run for people to make progress slowly, pro- | vided they do it by their own initia- tive and are influenced to do it by the force of public opinion, rather than to make progress rapidly at the bidding and orders of a central bu- {reau, which by rules and regulations aims to force progress faster than public opinion demands it. Modern “Little Red Schoolhouses.” “There are people who are anxious to make it appear that I want the old things because they are old, and that I am unwilling to recognize that thie conditions under which the one- room schoolhouse was a success have passed. To them I should like to re- ply that I know of one-room school- houses in Connecticut, which are of recent and modern construction, be- cause the public opinion of the com- munity has demanded it, and which are taught by daughters of members of the community who understand the children and homes from which they come and are able to give and do give the children better guidance and in- struction than many a teacher whose life is devoted to teaching only one grade in the city school' and rarely has the opportunity to know the fam- ilies from which the children come, or to get acquainted with the children for more than the period of one school year. In other words,'the conditions which made the one-room schoolhouse a success one hundred years ago have not entirely left the state and I hope they never will leave the state. Per- sonally I hope to see the country towns increase in population and pros- perity. I believe that with the build- ing of good roads throughout the state ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE OPENING OF THE Marion Hat Shop February WITH A FULL LINE Ol 149 MAIN STREET 24, 1923 F SPRING MILLINERY NEW BRITAIN Your Patronage Is Invited and the increasing prevalence of mo- tor transportation, that we are going 10 see In the future & mevement from the city back te the country, “In fact the movement has begun and is well under way, During the 20 years in which we have seen auto- mobiles develop from the scaree and curlous toy of the few to the useful servant of the many, one-half of Con. necticut's smaller towns havé showed an inorease in population, There were In this state in 1900, 103 towns with & population of less than 3,000, One might suppose from what ene hears of the decay of the smaller towns that' these would be found to be smaller | in 1920, As a matter of fact, 61 of therh or just about 50 per cent showed an inerease, Even the very small towns with a population of less than 1,000 seem to be turning the ecorner for we find that 40' per cent of them showed an increase in those 20 years, “Certainly we ought to do every. thing possible to encourage sueh @& movement and to get people to seat. | ter widely over the attractive hillsides of our state, When we actively dis- courage one-room schoolhouses and | make it necessary for little ehildren to tra%el long distances every day in all kinds of weather, we directly in- terfere with the development of the more remote rural communities, It seems to me that stress should be in Just the opposite direction,~namely, to do everything possible to improve (the one-room schoolhouse; to make |the life of its teacher an attractive one, and to make it possible for people In remote communities to have a schoolhouse suMclently near their yhomes so that children can reach the [school by walking a reasonable dis- tance rather than being conveyed a longer distance to a central school- house, Town Meeting Method of Redress, “If town officers do not perform their functions in a manner to satls- fy the citizens of these towns, we have in Connecticut what is known as the town meeting which enables lo- | cal grievances to be readily redressed. When we pass legislation to take away from the town meeting its power of decision and hand it over to a state bureau because it is composed of ex- perts who are wiser than citizens of the town, it seems to me we are tak- ing a step backwards and not forward. | “There are some people In the state | who do not fully understand the posi- tion which I took at the McKinley dinner in Waterbury and have taken since. My remarks then and now are not to be coftrued as being aimed against any Individual. There is noth- | ing personal in this whatsoever. I am aiming at the prevalent tendency to put more power in the hands of cen- tral authority and take away by man- date or by the bribe of federal aid or state ald the powers of decision in educational matters which should be retained by the local communities. If there is one thing in which every community should be interested it is in the education, health and welfare of its childreny If there is one thing from which independent citizens hate to see local control taken away and| concentrated in the hands of the mem- bers of a state or federal bureau it is education which is one of their dear- est concerns, What I am trying to do is to call attention to the histori- cal fact that the disintegration of governments begins when people see the local control of their dearest con- cerns taken away from them and con- centrated in the hands of a bureau- cracy. In studying the Constitution of the United States it is most inter- esting to notice that the subject of education is not mentioned and that the federal government is not given |authority to direct or control educa- |tion. This was one of the powers re- served by the states. It does not mean that the founders of our government |failed to realize the importance of education; for the history of this country in its colonial days shows that the establishment of schools was one of their first concerns. It does mean, however, that they believed that edu- cation could be earried on with bet- ter regard to the interests of the people concerned and with closer adaptation to the interests of indi- vidual locaMties if left to lotal com- munities than if controlled by fed- eral officers located at the seat of the national government. Evil of Too Many Laws, “The modern tendency to seek to cure every apparent evil by legisla- tion is dangerous and must be | checked if ‘government of the people by the people’ is to be preserved. “Laws should be the expression and crystallization of public opinion. They should not be the power that drives public opinion. Healthy public opin- ion cannot be driven but must be led. ‘Anor it has been led it should then be able to express itself freely in |town meeting, and the communities |should then be able to make on their own initiative such decisions as are necessary. “Liberty is a ver$ precious thing. In a crowded community one must give up much personal liberty in or- der not to interfere with somecone |else's liberty. We should, however, be extremely careful to draw the llnr;‘ between such of our liberties as must | be given up in order not to transgress or interfere with the liberties of our neighbors and such liberties as might be given up to please our neighbors. In other words, in our zeal to have all American citizens as admirable as George Washington we must not in- sist on their giving up any of their liberties which do not actually and seriously interfere with the right of their neighbors to life, liberty and pur- suit of happiness. “The education of American eciti- zens is not completed when they leave school. All that can be taught them |of American history and civies by the best public schools will help them to understand their duties as citizens but will not educate them as citizens nearly as much as the practice of citi- zenship in town meeting and in hold- | ing town offices. Any laws that take away from the citizen the responsibil- ity of making wise decisions in town I’meetlngx or deprive town officers of the necessity for exercising good judg- | {ment, interfere with that practical ilralnlng in citizenship which has been a precious heritage in Connecticut, | Even though all citizens do not re-| gard public questions in the same way, even though some towns are slower than others in adopting the results of modern science and sani- tation, even though some town school | committees are harder to persuade than others in regard to the value of a normal school certificate, it seems to me that the part of wisdom is to exercise patience and use to the fullest extent the force of public opinion rather than to force any town to ady | fance faster than its own eitizegs de- sire merely 4o satisfy the wishes of | persons in other towns that they fol. | low the advice of experts. This earth | was made very slowly. Geologie time has very little to do with daylight saving time, The patient builder I8! mere likely to bulld for all time than the builder whe negleets the founda- tions in order to rush a strueture to completion, The World war peinted to the fundamental danger of an autoeracy. Personally 1 would rather belong to a representative form of government where the people are in.| dependent eitizens even though that demoeracy falved to satisfy the wishes of the wise experts, rather than to je- long ,to an autocracy composed of | subjeets who would be obliged to earry | out the rules and regulations lald down for their obedience by the wisest body of experts the world has ever seen, My study of history leads me to believe in the ultimate success of popular government, however halt. | Ing may be ita progress, and in the |uitimate downfall of autoeratic gov- ernment however wise may be its de- crees," James Sullivan, Mise Kathleen Walsh and Mrs, Mary T. Crean ren- dered solos, accompanied at the piano by John J. Crean, During the even- ing Lynch's orcl ra played old time and popular melodies, and also played for the dancing that followed, | “Ideals of Americanisn Bishop Murray was at his best on the tople assigned him, Americanism,” For necarly half an/ hour the distinguished church dig- nitary spoke on many questions that | bring about true American idealism, During his remarks he spoke of the ecarly life of George his search for education, and h while commander-in-chief of Revolutionary army. Bishop Murray sald that Washington was an example in idealism and he told his auditors that all should strive to emulate him. || The bishop spoke on the benefits| gained through toll in attaining Amer- lcan ideallsm, and he hoped the day| would never come when the people of | this country would find it unnecessary to toil. Bishop Murray scored those | who are. going about spreading in- sidious propaganda, which tends to break down the government. Committees in Charge, The committees in charge of the affalr were as follows: Arratigements, Michael P. Legkarn, chairman; Thomas W. Crowe, James Tynan, Pat- rick J. Riley, Dr. H. R. Lasch, F. J.| | O'Brien, secretary; Joseph F. Ryan| and James J, Welch. Reception com- mittee, Joseph M. Halloran, chair- man; Dr. Henry T. Bray, Andrew J, Colehan, Martin H. Kenney, Edward A. McCarthy, Dr. Henry Martin, Charles Cleveland, Romeo A. Grise, Michael J. Kenney, John O'Leary, and Dr. Daniel W. O'Connell. Michael J. Kenney was master-of-ceremonies. The young women who acted as as- sistants, were: | Mary Leghorn, Mary Welch, Anna | Welch, Elizabeth Walsh, Mary Dona- hue, Catherine Callery, Anna Kiniry, Sadie Andulane, Margaret Crowe, | Katherine McGrath, Katherine Doher- ty, Grace Doherty, Marie Doherty, | Grace Cloughsey, Katherine Darcey, Helen O'Keefe, Irene Walsh, Millie Nuss, Eileen Riley, Rose Riley, Mary Feore, Ruth Barrows, Roslyn Hanra- han, Gertrude Hanrahan, Mary Stack, Eve Giannatta, Leon Homane, Mada- line O'Hear, Katherine Kenney, Win- ifred Kenney, Helen Kenney, Mary McAloon, Elizabeth McAloon, Grace Hanrahan, Ruth Hart, Margaret Hen- | ry, Elizabeth Wasky, Mary Burkarth, Irene Burkarth, Anna Clancy, Mary Monsees, Helen Monsees, Grace Mon- | sees, Carolyn Conlin, Moylan Conlin, | Cecelia Meehan, Helen Bonney, Anna Mae Bonney, Dorothy McCrann, Eliza- beth Smith, Helen Lynch, Katherine | Hart, Louise Skelly. | WILL SING BY WIRELESS City Will be Broadcasted From | Springficld Station Tomorrow Night. Miss Grace Kempton, daughter of | [ Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Kempton of 124 Wooster street, who, during the past season has been a student at the Springfield conservatory of music, can be heard in a song recital by radio | from Springficld, tomorrow evening. Miss Kempton sang once before for radio audiences and has received so | many letters at the Westinghouse broadcasting station that she has de- | cided to sing a second time, Miss Kempton is a soloist at a| Springfield church. She has achieved | great popularity as a vocalist in that | city. Her voice is a rich, dramatic soprano and she is developing a rare | beauty of quality and smoothness, | especially in soft music, which is so | beautiful by radio. She is making a special study of operatic roles and is under the tute- lage of Mrs. Cirles Mackey, head of the voice department. She will be assisted by E!mer Pad- i | conservatory, Tdeals of \gpringfield 1s WHZ. Washington, | whieh were approved by the common | Which was fraught with hardships, of | council last April, have been printed PIrit | for aistribution among milk produc- | newsies forsook shouting their wares the | ers, butchers, etc., dock, buritone, who is a student at the Among the most wonderful articies to b taken 1rom tae Godu year oid tomb of ‘Tut-Ankh- IAmen are three couches, gold-encrusted and bejewelled and supported by carved ivory animals, symbolic of Egyptian gods, Above is shown a gold-encrusted representation of the sacred cow which served as frame-work for one of the couches, at|health departments who are desirous ,'nn old time newsboy on the lower | of copying New Britain's cods of milk | East Side, now governor, Alfred I, |and slaughter house law Smith, When the governor intro- — - duced as just plain every day Al ew ‘Vork he“-sies Greet | 8mith entered the newsboys' home, Al Smith, Old Time “Boy” | | where the youngsters were partak- 23— also, The station HEAUTIL LAWS PUBLISHED The milk ordinances and slaughter house ordinances prepared by Dr, I, I, Lee, superintendent of health, ulul[ ing of the annual Washington's Birth- day dinner, they arose with a cheer that brought a flush to his cheek. 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