New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 4, 1923, Page 6

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Is a national organization which furuiges newspapers and advor- tisors with a strietly henost analysis of | clreulation, Our cireulation statistiea ore based upon this audit, This insures pro- | toction aguinst fraud in newspapor din. | tribution figures to both nattonal and lo- ~al advertigera, Lo} A JUDGE'S QUALIFICATIONS The discussion published in 'hll; newspaper yesterday taken from the Waterbury stating that Judge Klett of this city might possibly be placed upon the hench of the Su- perior Court to fill one of the places now open, or shortly to be open, is in- | teresting in its comment upon “hy' certain men are being considered. Personal affilliations, party regular- ity, friendship, services rendered thf'( Republican party or some member of | jt—all these and more are mentioned and comprehensively dis- ther interesting ssion—and it is contribution Republican, in detail cussed. But it is a fact that this disc: undoubtedly a valuable to the literature of political gossip of the state—does not seem to take into account the qualifications a man should have for the high position of Jjudge of the Superior court. No veil- .d insinuations are hereby cast upon any of the worthy persons mention- ed—that it quite ‘“another matter matter again.” It scems to make no difference in the discussions, at least, whether the gentlemen in question are possessed of sound legal acumen, free from prejudice which clouds the mind or at least inclines it in some one direction habitually, or, to put it in the old, familiar way, are “learned in the law.” i We hesitate to suggest innovations, but it does seem that there would be eonsiderable interest among lawyers at least, in a discussion of the legal abilitics and previous training of the persons under Not, of| course, that such discussion would do any good or change the plans of the “machine” in any particular. But it might help lawyers of the state work with” more knowledge of their duties to law or the party. discussion. to | o . A LEAGUE C NATIONS Lord Robert Cecil, an idealist, | comes to this country not as a pugna- cious person demanding that the United States do something to prevent future wars, but as one who would seek our reasons for refusing to do the only thing thus far conceived that will at least tend to prevent them. If we have good and sufficient reasons; if we have some plan to offer better than a 1fague of nations bound to- gether by determination to end all| wars, he wants to know of it so that he can throw all his strength to its supvort. But if we have nothing bet- ter to offer, and if we realize as all | intelligent people must realize that a continuation of wars will wipe out our civilization eventually, he would like the chance to hear and answer, | if he can, our objection to joining the one great body where all nations may meet and take steps toward the ban- ishing of war from the face of the earth. In referring to the older civiliza- tions he cites the perishing of that of Rome and says: “Rome perished because the nations and sections which dwelt in the em- pire were unable to refrain from fighting one another Western «civilization will assuredly come to that end if we continue to rely on arma- ments as the ultimatg arbiters of our disputes. Armaments must be reduced if civilization is to survive, for long | @8 nations stand armed to the teeth, peace—permanent peace—is an idle dream.” His emphasizing the similarity be- tween nations rotting because of wars and armaments and the fiihed drug addict presents the picture forcibly. Proudly, yet acknowledging freely all| American has done for Europe, hfig gays he4loes not come to ask a doilar | to help Europe; he comes to tell us what the league is and to ask our ad- | vice as to what it should do, what it should be. And then, after speaking | of America's feeling that she was compelied to enter the war in 1917, he pays us the greatest of all compli- | lents in the words: “Does anyone in this great audience doubt that if the #ame circumstances arose as in 1917 Amerjean would take the same action | she took then? Will anyone say that if another great Iuropean war took place involving, as wars always do, great interests of right and wrong, | ‘that it would be possible in the future | any more than in the past for Amer- fea to stand obutside and take no part?’ And, then, leaving the ideal conception of this coyntry which levidently is his, with his admiration for what we have done and what we anld do under similar circumstances 4" & case of right and wrong, touches and vocates are which now as | clamoring for recognation | terfered upon the practical side of the matter, the selfish side, If you will, and asks: “And If that be so, if it be really true that even on this side of the Atlantie there is no certainty that this nation can aveld the worst of all entungle~ ments—participation in war—is it really so unreasonable to suggest that it 1s an American Interest to erect safeguards against the outhreak of war in any part of the world, for when war once breaks out no one can tell how far It will spread?" That entrance into the league of na- tions is the dream of ideallsts in this country s unquestioned; that even President Harding has gone as far as he dares in that diréction, there is little doubt; that the reason why the practical, selfish side of the case has not been more emphatically argued is because of the very fact that its ad- by id ism know how to inspired which often does not stoop to sordid, selfish arguments, is true, 1t is true algo that, be a man an ideallst or practical, seifish materialist a deep study of the matter will con- vinee him that the safety of the world's modern civilization lies in united action, united abandonment of war, Well may the words of Abraham Lincoln, spoken in regard to the Union, be now quoted as applicable to the nations of the world-—nations are in as close touch were the states of Lincoln's ay. Tt is as true of the nations of the world today as it was of the U'nion in the great President’'s day, that “United we Stand, Divided we Fall." HARTFORD ELLCTION The Hartford election is of interest for only two reason$—it gives con- servatives an opportunity to laud gon- servatism. Politically it tells little, al- though it is declared to be a ‘re- publican victory,” of course, by the mouthpiece of the organization. The republicans elected most of their candidates on the general ticket, for the board of education and the higher school committee, but one republican candidate for constable was not elect- ed. Iive republicans and five demo- crats were elected to the common council. The proposal to consolidate the school districts was defeated. The wife of the secretary to Mayor Kinsella to the board of education. The first interesting point is to try to digeover any political significance in an election im which not half the voters participated. It was a compara- There w the persons executive was elected tivbly unimportant event. evidently no contest on on the “general ticket,” otherwise a greater vote ivould have been brought out, 3 The defeat of the proposition consolidate the school districts is ra- ther interesting at this time in the light of Superintendent of School Holmes' belief that the state should pay more of the school expenses throughout the state. Certainly this Ydea tends toward an approval of con- solidation, rather than the reverse. But as “regular” republicans will see republican triumphs in almost any- thing, so conservatives in Hartford voted to approve the old way rather than in a new, possibly better way. to A Russia by more sound-thinking nations of the world, she gives way to brutal snarling and, in her anger induced by the protests of the world, executes Vicar General Butchkaviteh, of*the Roman Catholic Church, a Polish citizen whose field lay in Russia, A correspondent who heard the testimony at the prelatg's Just at a time when is trial for high treason states that “In | no other country in the world could such a charge be based upon these documents”—the documents read at the trial and upon which he was con- victed. The action is declared to be politi- [ cal, not religious, but it political it has the political significance of emphasiz- ing the Soviet's determination to rid the country of the church. The Rus- sians throw warlike words at Poland, knowing Poland does not want to, nor is she in a position to fight. The Russians use this means of reafirming their stand that they will not be in- | with And meanwhile the Russian people continue to hold ‘re- ligious faith and the world looks on in horror at the government's action, 1t 18 never safe to predict what the result of such action will be, but at least we may say for this country that the execution of this man upon evi- dence that did not warrant belief that he conspired against the Soviet gov- ernment, will more strongly those who have maintained and who still maintain that no action of the Russian government, as distinguished swing public toward the side of | from the feeling of the people, justi- fies any concern that the United States | still refuses to recognize that govern- ment. Another deplorable event has brought another cloud over the hope for universal understanding and uni- versal peace. IDUCATION have oF the CAMPAIGNS In this state railroads made campaigns of education to pre- | vent deaths and injuries on railreads. Of course it is to the advantage of the railroads to try to instruct people as to the dangers to be met with in tres- passing on railroad property, but this is quite beside the point. Possibly in no other state have these educational campalgns been carried to the extent feeling | \ they have in Connecticut, It is interesting, therefore, to note that the deaths from rallroad acels in number in 1922 than in 1921, and the® were but three more people in. Jured, The significance of this condi- tion is seen when there comes from Washington the news that for the whole United States there was an in- crease in the number of such deaths of 4.7 per cent over 1921 and an ine crease nearly 11 per cent in the number injured, The value of such campaigns there- fore, In the case of our own state It 1s cloar they have taken us out of the class of states in which more lives were lost, l\yd placed us among the few where fatal accidents were less numerous, If this can be aceomplished by the railroads which have a special, prac- tical reason for trying to cut down the number of fatalities, certainly a like improvement may be made if at- tention 18 paid to the educational campaigns conducted by the state— conducted, in other words, by all the people—to make walking and driving on the highways more safe, Full ap- preciation of the dangers of life pro- tects life. These campaigns try to emphasize those dangers and educate people how to reduce them to a mini- mum, of is evident, ‘Facts and Fancies BY ROBERT QUILLEN. That 8. O. 8. from European hotels doubtless means Send Over Suckers. Some children have a good time, and some have egperts to teach them how to play. The difference between being a do- mestic servant and being a wife is | about $6 a week. It become increasingly clear that isolation on one side means desola- tion on the other. \ Brotherly love can't hope to become universal while its style is cramped by patriotism. Lots of parents think they are ten- der-hearted when they are simply too yellow to do their duty. Courtesy is the quality that keeps you waiting patiently and sweetly while the man who howls for service { gets all the attention. It may be that idieness encourages crime, but Adam didn't raise Cain until he had to'go to work. A normal woman is one whose bis- cuits turn out to be a flat failure when company stays for dinner. In our modern institutions, a “grind” is one who spends industrious hours developing his batting eye. America's great heart is touched every time she remembers how many goods Europe bought in the old days. Entertaining in the old wet days The host wasn’t mixing wasn't so difficult. expected to spend his time | drinks. As we remember it, this makes thirty-seven consccutive years that | the peach crop has been ruined by late frost. The chap who sifts his ashes with- out regard for the clothes on his | neighbor's line always reminds us of a Congressional bloc, | That explorer may have found pigmies that are related to the apes, but he can’t prove they are related to Mr. Bryan, When a woman dreads dish-wash- v be that her poetic soul yearns for higher things. And it ‘may be laziness. A girl need not leap from stranger’s automobile to protect her honor. A much casier way is to stay out of the automobile. Correct this sentence: “The girls deecided to do without spring hats in | order that mother might have a new suit this time.” When a statesman says civilization | itself is in danger, he means he has | failed to get the advantage of his country desired. Observations on The Weather tain and colder { | For Connecticut: tonight, Thursday rain on the coast; rain or snow in the interior, colder |Thursday: fresh to strong shifting winds. Conditions: Cloudy and unsettled weaher prevails generally this morn- Rocky Mountains. Rain has occurred during the last 24 hours from Texas | northeastward to Maine. The tem- perature continues low over the western and central districts but s high along the Atlantic coast. Conditions for this ‘icinity: Un- settled weather with local showers and slightly lower tetiaperature, dents In Connectiout were eléven less | al ing in nearly all sections east of the | IN THE WHAT’S GOING ON WORLD Events of the Week, Briefly Told By Charles P, Stewart That France will fail to overcome Germany resistance to her Ruhr plans is & thing the Paris government fsn't afraid of a bit, according to Gallic spokesmen, It's acknowledged that the French aren't getting as much coal as before they entered the Ruhr, It isn't dis- puted that the invasion has been ex- pensive, It's conceded that the gov- ernment hag had to overcome consid- crable opposition at home, All that doesn’t bother them, the French leaders say, They declare Germany has suffered so much more acutely than I"rance that,even now she's on the verge of yielding, When she does so, the I'rench expect to get back all they put into the enterprise and more too, That is to say, that's what they ex- pect, provided they're left to affect their own settlement with the Ger- | mans, , What they, fear is that some- body'll try to “butt in." At any rate, so the Paris says, press OUTSIDE HELP WANTED The view expressed by the Irench newspapers is that their country bore |the brunt of the war, won it and then other countries that took part in the peace negotiations euchred her out of a lot of the advantages she’'d have {claimed if she’d made her own terms with Germany. The press is fearful now, France having shouldered all the expense and trouble and taken all the risks of the Ruhr occupation, that outsiders will try again to prevent her from getting the full benefit of that, too. This, some of the papers say quite frankly, is why the French are so {suspicious of mediation. They have an idea the mediators will think more ahout their own interests than they will about France's. They mention this as the main rea- son why a settlement’s delayed. ISN'T BURMA’S WEALTH OF OIL| Just as he was leaving the cabinet ex-Secretary of the Interior Fall charged that a conspiracy, including interests in every important country but this one, exists to gobble up the whole world's oil supply, exhaust Am- crica’s, and then lay the United States under tribute for every gallon she has to have in future, Now, only a few days later, comes England’'s announcement that her government was mistaken awhile ago when it declared everybody but Brit- ons barred from looking for oil in Burma, which is supposed to be very | rich in such deposits. It seems England laid claim to a Burma monopoly under an arrange- ment sald to have been made by Queen Victoria and Lord Sulishuz'y,| in the days when he was her prime minister, But the latest statement is to the effect that the queen's and his lordship’s signatures to the papers this claim was based on, are found to be bogus. So if Americans want to hunt cil in Burma, they're welcome to, so far as England's concerned. In some quarters there’s a disposi- tion to question whether this discov- ery ever would have been made but, for Secretary Fall's accusation. FRESH TURKISH TANGLE There are prospects of another oil | controversy in Asiatic Turkey. | In 1909 an American syndicate, headed by Colby M. Chester, a retired admiral, got a concession from the then sultan covering what's supposed fo be a very sich oil district around Lake Van. | Before this syndicate got to work the war started. Nothing could be| done while it lasted. Then the old: imperial ‘Turkish government was overthrown, The new regime repudi- ated a good many of the old one's acts, but the news comes now that the Angora council of ministers has decid- | ed the Chester concession is all right.| The Turkish parliament seems likely to concur, The British thought they had an oil | monopoly in Asiatic Turkey and | they're almost c-rtain to be more than ].nsnppoiumn if they learn .they haven't. In this dispute with the Brit- ish it's a good guess that Americans will take the Turkish side. NO AMERICAN LEAGUE | North Americans at the Pan Am-| erican conference at Santiago, Chile, made a good start by opposing Uru-| guay's proposed leaguc of "American nations. There chance of the scheme's indorsement by the more important South American countries and before any of them except Chile| had had time to say so, Chairman Kletcher of the North American group declared his country unfavorable to | leagues, thus forestalling, at least on| one ground, the frequently made| |South American complaint that the [United States secks to dominate the | New world. Pan American arms limitation looks | difficult. Chile wants reduction. Argentina | {the status quo, Brazil army and navy increases, These are the three big Latin American countries—the "A, B.| C. group. If they can't agree, the rest can't. The United Sta having leaned experts to build up Brazil's navy, isn't | in a position to urge limitation. U. S. TOASTED BROWN IFor perhaps the most pungent criti. | cism ever published of this souniry methods in South Americ he medal 'goes to Vice-President H. C. Zwetsch of the bond house of A. B. Leach & Co.,, who, just back from a tour of |Argentina, Brazil, Chile, U Paraguay, Bolivia, Peru and E gave out an intérview in among other things, he said: “To South America the Yankece peril looms far more deadly than the Japanese ever did to California. | “South America nevet has had con- fidence in ue, nor reason to have. “We've tried to make South Ameri- cans into our pattern, not adapted ours to suit them. “When our Federal rate was 6 per cent, vasn't a es, which, Reserve bank Engiand was I loaning to South American merchants at 2%, “Instead of fostefing South Amerl- can militarism (a reference to the loan of United States naval experts to Brazil) it would pay us to help finance and Mmdustry, “North American chambers of com- merce in South America are misman- aged and inefficlent, “The English and Itallans send their best men to South America; we haven't sent that kind. “There are exceptions; firms which have sent good men and handled their business with sense have pro- fited,"” e 1 B D - 0 B 25 Years Ago Today (Taken from Herald of that date) e W. E. Wightman, the bookkeeper at H. Dayton Humphrey's dry goods store, is a candidate for city tax col- lector on the republican tickét. Lou Bacon read the Saturday die- patches in both the yellow and white journals. There could be but one con- clusion arrived at and that was that war was -more than probable. Lou promptly made tracks for the State Armory on Arch street and enlisted in his old Company I. Miss Bowen's millinery store will be open Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday evenings during the season, The cellar for Mrs. B‘eckley'u new house on Washington street was staked out today. No one should miss the splendid pictures of the lost Maine being shown at the Opera House next Sat- urday night. They will be given in conjunction with the play *‘Cruiskeen Lawn"” by Dan McCarthy. P. J. Riley, Jr., has pasged the ex- aminations at the post office for let- ter carrier. Mrs. F. J. Forter read an interest- ing paper on “The Tithing Men of Old New England” at a meeting of Esther Stanley Chapter, D. A. R. last evening. In the futur?, the Salvation Army will be at the hand stand in the center only one Sunday out of cvery five and on these occasions, the bass drum will not be used. There will be anly one Main street parade ecach week and the hass drum will also be silent on sVeLy ool yod may semblance to an overseas officer. notice that your letter carrier bears a re- Here is First Assistant Post- ‘ ° master General Bartlett inspecting the new Sam Brown belt for letter carriers which has been designed to cause equal distribution of weight. these occasions. On all other streets, however, the army will have full swing and the bass drum will Loom out in cadence with the rost of the music. HOLD KLAN PALACE Sheriff and Deputies Seize Headquar- ters at Atlanta, Dispossessing Im- perial Wizard, Atlanta, Ga.’ April 4 (By Asso- ciated Press)—Sheriff J. I. Lowery of I"ulton county with a force of depu- ties early today took charge of the impertal palace, headquarters of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan under an order signed by Judge E. D. Thomas, dispossessing W. J. Simmons, imperial emperor, who took charge of the headquarters and the klan yester- day under a temporary injunction se- cured by him against Tmperial Wizard H. W. Evans. The order signed about 2.30 this morning by Judge Thomas directed Emperor Simmons and the other plaintiffs in the actlon to appear for a hearing before him this afternoon at 2 o'clock to show cause why the tem- porary injunction against Imperial Wizard Evans and the other officials of the klan should not be dismissed. FIVE COMMUNICABLE DISEASES. The following communicable dis« ease cases were reported during the | past week to the state department of health by the New Britain health board: Measles, 1; diphtheria, b scarlet fever, 1. GEORGETOWN BEATS AMHERST. + Washington, April 4 —Georgetown and Amherst had a merry. baseball game here yesterday, and when the hits, errors and runs had been care- fully totalled the score was 10 to 9 in favor of Georgetown. First rallway guide was a small pamphlet of six pages containing & collection of monthly time tables i§- sued by seven rallway companies In England. i TABLES Our New Designs of Library and Davenport Tables Are Most At- tractive. The Prices Are Low % & LIBRARY TABLES exactly as shown above $35 00 Others at— $24.00 $32.00 $39.00 LIBRARY TABLES with book ends as shown above $42.50 Others at— GATELEG TABLES at — $49.00 $69.00 $89.00 $19.00 $33.00 $36.00 $39 00 DAVENPORT TABLES at — $19 ALSO \ DAVENPORT TABLES at $24 $25 $29 '$35 $38 $57 $60 END TABLES—-CONSOLE TABLES—TIP TOP TABLES B.C.PORTER SONS “Connecticut’s Best Furniture Store”