New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 2, 1923, Page 6

3 HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY (Issued Dally, SBunday Excepted) At Herald Bldg., 67 Church Street, . BUBSCRIPTION RATES: 00 a Yeer, $2.00 Three Months, 76c & Month. Entered st ths Post Office at New Britain a8 Becond Class Mall Matter. « TELEPHONE CALLS: Offled Editorlal Roome . The only profitable advertising medtum in the City. Circulation books and press roomi always open to advertisers. Member of The Assoctated Press. The Associated Pross is oxclusively entitled to the use for re-publication of all news| eredited to it or not otherwise credited | in_this paper and also local news pub- iished hereln, Stember Audit Burean of Circalation. | The A. B. C. s a national organization which furnishes newspapers and adver- tisers with a strictly honest analysls of efrculation. Our cireulation statlstics are| based upon this audit. This Insures pro-| tection against fraud in newspaper dls-| tribution flgures to both national and local advertis W e e —— THE FRUIT OF TRUST. Some years ago a cowntry youth ob- tained a letter of recommendation to the head of a great New York city| bank. The letter said, in effect, “The| more confidence you place in this| - young man, the the bank will * profit by his services.” It was a flat- tering recommendation. Few such are given, as this one was, by con- servative men. The young chap en- tered the bank at a salary of 85 a week. Recently he died after serving| twenty years in the institution. He had reached a place of high author- ity in the bank. The writer of the| recommendation had been justified. In a lesser degree, but in the same Wway, 38 members of those present at _ the last session of the city meeting board, gave the school committee a *vote of confidence.” This majority did not signify its approval of every- thing the school committee had done, of course. But, whether or not the .manner in which the question at issuc _ was left will lead to another meeting to formally disposc of it, is certain "that the “jury” of the city meeting board did not approve the plan to go counter to the school committee's ar- rangements. A group of “small” men, placed in the school committee's position, might Bloat over a victory. They might be- come autocratic, banking on the sen- timent displayed. We do not believe our school committee is composed of such small men. We believe that committee is big enough to examine the report of the survey committee now on file and see if it may profit by suggestions there made. We be- | lieve ‘the school committee will ap- preciate that “vote of confidence” to the extent of being all the more care- ful to deserve that confidence. If such feeling does not come to the members then the comniittee does not 'delerve the approval it received. The school committee is by no means a ~ youth going to a great city to make good, a fine letter of recommendation in his hand. It is composed of ex- perienced, intelligent men. But nevertheless it should be inspired, just as that youth was inspired, to work all the harder to perform its work economically and well and to deserve all the confidence placed in it. The Eank which the youth was ‘helped because of that young man's| determination to justify the | dence placed in him. The city of New Britajn, its children and its taxpayers| should benefit because of thesappreci- | ation, by the school committee, of the | confidence the city plac * the school committee should remem- ber, as all thinking men are remem- »benng. that the menace to prosperity | and happiness, at the moment, is the mounting burden of taxation. more served confi- s in it. And YES, WE HAVE NO BREECHES. Every person in whose veins| Yankee blood courses must have | been thrilled by the declaration of the | Joint New England Railroad mittee that “New England would like | to wear its own breeches.” It is an utterance that will in tory alongside other patriotic tocsins which stirs to the of hearth and home, Unfortunately, from railroad | standpoint, New England doesn't , seem to have any breeches to wear. | They are hanging in High finance ripped large them Mismanagement did the rest, Com- | g0 down his- one defense a threads. holes in In a few words, the joint committes | recommends that gones be by-gones and pitch in and help the “New Haven" road get back| on its feet. called rehabilitation. The trouble with | rehabilitation is that the person nri thing to be rehabilitated is rehabili-| tated at the expense of someone else. ! " How Is the “New Haven" be rehablilitated? By cooperation, ,,,r‘ course, Everyone | himself down to the humblest citizen| is going to be asked to cooperate. The Federal government will be asked to reduce fts interest 4 everyone let hy-| In ncial circles it is road to from Uncle Sam| rate from 6 to maturities its war loan of $88,500,000. Btockholders will be asked to reach | lnothlng complex or | fact that the NEW BRITAIN DAIL he asked to exchange $75,000,000 in bonds for new five per cent pre- ferred stock. After hypnotizing Uncle Sam, the stockholders and the bondholders into doing the things they are asked to do, the “New Haven" will ask the dear public in Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts to ‘"Elp a pore blind man wot 'as a large family.” How s it to be done? Simple. 1In years when fixed charges eat up too large a proportion of net earnings to insure first-class credit for the road, the people in these three states will be asked to remit taxes. There is involved about that, It works out like this: On Sat- urday night, you go to your butcher and say: “Dear Butcher, I can't pay my bill this week because we spent so much for gasoline and my wife had to have a new hat and the children simply had to have new frocks to attend a birthday party given in hon- or of a neighbor's child 8o you see how I am fixed. Just cross the bill off your hook, that's a nice man.” The present management of the ““New Haven" road is not responsible for the sins of any past management, but it must aecept responsibility for its own sins. If a sincere effort had been made to give \his section of the country honest-to-goodness railroad serviee, it would not be necessary for the management to emit a plaintive wail about being poor. The truth of the matter is that few men in the em- ploy of the “New Haven' system care a whoop whether the shippers get service or the traveling public gets transportation just so long as their own salary checks are delivered on time. BABSON ON AUTOMOBILES This newspaper frequently has used the growth of the automobile indus- try to illustrate the necessity for re- adjusting ourselves to new conditions in many flelds. The weekly letter of Roger Babson, published recently deals entirely with this subject of automobiles and the effect of the in- dustry upon us and upon the next generation. Bankers, manufacturers and -merchants must consider auto- mobiles the most important factor with which they will have to deal in the next twenty years, Mr. Babson asserts. It is not unusual for the parent of today to glance at his child riging by his side and be impressed by xl:@ fact that he, the parent, never covered so much territory ,Jn his young man- hood as his child travels over today. He walked more; he wore out more shoes; he saw much less. Mr. Bab- son notes the fact that the automobile is. changing the fundamental char- acter of our children and that this, in turn, may revolutionize many in- dustries. ““We are raising a genera- tion,” ‘he says, “that will actually work and play on wheels,” for he believes the automobile industry has come to stay. It is obvious that the automobile is helping the building in- dustry at present, as people erect homes in the suburbs because of the private means of travel furnished by the automobile. This cannot last forever. It is equally obvious that people are buying automobiles and refraining from buying other things because of such purchases. How the automobile industry will affect the various lines of business i not as obvious and matter that every man should study for him- self. chant who sells candy, for instance, to realize that the bullding of a great school near his shop will hdlp his candy business,. But it is not so simple for one dealing in fine dress goods to reach a correct con- elusion to what effect upon his business the increasing number of automobiles will have. He knows his own business best, and will figure on | the situation. He may well say that when everyone automobile | fewer delicate gowns will be worn; is a as owns an but going a little further he may say | that the popularity of closed cars may prevent a lessening | of the sale of fine dress goods. He may go even and feel that| closed cars, popular, may have but a short and that | open cars will again come into uni- | He dispute and that the increasing farther growing day now versal may even Mr. use. Babson decide It is simple enough for a mer- | horse drawn vehicle will soon be- come popular for pleasure use. The point to be emphasized is tha give heed and act| ““The auto- the each business man should Mr. accordingly industry” ~conomist, “is largely responsible for The to Babson's remarks look ahead mobile says I‘()!"‘l‘ the condition of business today Babson chart stands at compared | ago in- 1 per cent above normal with 17 is_due largely When the first states per cent below a year to the automobile one considers that of dustry. during 6 months show new | registrations during it is remarkable that not boomed more. The only an will as many of 1 | most as all business has swer is that people have bought automobiles instead of buying that fallen something ¢ thi is sales of other gs have off Is the accordingly.” increased use of the auto- mobile going to hurt or benefit your| business; can your business be a!wrr""li oSG PUBLIO SERVIVE. The fact that Chief of Police Hart has served New Britaln for just fif- teen years as a member and finally chlef of the police department, em- phasizes the difference b#ween vars lous public services rendered. The satisfactory service of former Chief Rawlings and now the service of Chief Hart emphasizes, too, the different characteristics required for this sort of satisfactory service as compared with public service, say, in the com- mon council. Certainly a faithful, thoughtful member of the council deserves credit for all he gives to the people of the city, as a good police executive deserves credit. But a chief of police might well be absolutely un- able to properly parform the duties ag & member of the council, just as some deserving members of the common councii would be utter faflures as a chief of police. New Britain has been fortunate in its Police Chiefs. Chief Rawlings has been followed by a man who was con- sldered a strict diseiplinarian and con- scientious to a degree. If there was any fear that this strictness would make Chief Hart less efficlent than Chief Rawlings had been, the fear has been removed by the former's tactful handling of his position, not because he has lost that sense of the necessity for rigid discipline, but rather be- cause with the coming of additional power he has used that authority with rare discrimination and has recog- nized the fact that intemperance of any sort is not an asset of an execu- tive—and, of course, “intemperance’ is used in the sense of fanaticism. Chief of Police Hart's fifteenth an- niversary is significant as showing more than the personal success of the] Chief himself. It is illustrative of the wisdom of possessing strong convie- tions and yet, in acting on those con- victions, using fine discrimination to the end that the convictions are made the servant, not the master of the man who’ possesses them. Many “re- formers” would do a lot more good and far less harm if they practiced temperance in their work, discarded fanaticism, and tried to lead, not drive those with whom they come in con- tact in the direction of which they approve. On his fifteenth anniversary Chief Hart gives promise of continuing splendid service to the people of the city. Facts and Fancies BY ROBERT OQUILLEN. Correct this sentence: “Let me hold it," said the bachelor; “I enjoy hand- ling infants.” The man who isn't good for any- thing else can always tell you how it should be done. The world's two great sources of trouble just now appear to be dry land and oil land. If only the return of could raise spirits without responding raise in prices. prosperity a cor- The scars of war will heal, but Con- gress never will forget the new sources of revenue discovered. At any rate this bright era peace is teaching the nations a about the gentle art of bluffing. of lot What we can't understand is how anybody can tell when a straw hat| fits. The nations are getting more polite. If an ulMmatum isn't satisfactory, they gladly amend it now. The government at Washington can retaliate by denying Federal troops when some state howls for them. Well extending the limit to twelve miles will at least provide more park- ing space for the rum fleet. Things in Germany have come to such a pass that the poor things can’t build more than one new factory a week. Getting the world to its feet won't depend on the discovery of a theory that will work if the people will. It still is possible to tour FEurope afoot if you will send your expense | money from point to point by freight \, Ttraveler reports that the e At 15 tated area in France Is much Iarger | yioiey has again made & book of his|invincible. than that left by an party. American picnic Every once in a while critic makes a mistak mends something that good reading a literary and recom makes darned Big Business has no faith in the League, of course. That's the reason it over subscribed poor old busted Austria’s loan. That Dempsey-Gibbons affair hasn't been advertised as the battle of a cen- tury, so it may be a battle of several minutes. bAY. New Books at the Institute Rosalie Jones. i ARDS #i582 i CATRO TO KISUMU by Frank George Carpenter, ““This book on Egypt takes in, to- gether with upper Egypt and the thor- oughly modernized cities of Alexan- dria and Cairo, Nubia, the Sudan and Kenya Colony, 1t is complled from notes nfide by the author during sev- eral trips and under all sorts of con- ditions and describes what he saw on a background of the past.” .o CASANOVA: ADVENTURER LOVER by Joseph LeGras. “Mr, LeGras in writing this study of the life of Casanova has given Kng- lish-tpeaking people opportunity to become acquainted with the famous Venetian adventurer, Translations of 'the ‘Memoires’ are rare, and even if read in French they discourage the reader by their very bulk.,” Literary Review. " AND T CORRESPONDENCE OF SIR JOHN MACDONALD by Sir Joseph Pope. . s DICKENS THE IMMORTAL by Xd- ward Basil Lupton. “Dickens, the immortal, {s an mter- esting and important contribution to the literature about Charles Dickens and his perennial works," 4. LITERATURE DOCTOR LOOKS AT by Joseph Collins. “A book about modern novels—and as interesting as a novel, Dr. Col- lins is a distinguished neurologist.” Independent. [ S DOGS OI" CHINA AND JAPAN by V. W. T°. Collier. “Mr. Collier, in his account of east- ern dogs, presents an elaborate and fascinating array of historical and na- tional facts and customs, lore and legend, art and philosophy, of China and Japan.” Boston Transcript. Giaie EDUCATION AND TRAINING FOR BOCTAL, WORK by James Hayden Tufts, . . HUMAN FEFFORT AND HUMAN WANTS by Logan Grant McPher- son. “A study of the great economic laws in simple phraseology suited to the man in the office, the family in the home and the youth' in the schools.” . A LIFE OF ERNEST SHACKLETON by Hugh Robert Mill, “‘'The life of a man of action,’ writes Dr. Hugh Mill in his preface, “may fitly be presented as a continu- ous narrative of his doings from which a reader may gain a clear sense of the personality, and trace the growth of character. The author has carrfed out this ideal to something very near perfection, and his simple and straightforward story of a career of great - adventure is a far finer tri- bute to the character of the explorer Ithan the eulogies and panegyrics, so lapt to be evoked upon similar occa- |stons. Dr. Mill's long and intimate |friendship with the explorer, coupled | with the material intrusted him by Lady Shackleton has enabled him to |write with accuracy upon matters of |detail.” Christlan Science Moniter, AL LIFE OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE | by Joseph Quincy Adams. | . r o |LINE: AN ART STUDY by E. J. Sul- livan. | oo |LITERARY DISCIPLINE by John rskine. ““The Literary Discipline’ is one of Ithe most stimulating contributions which have recently been made to the | discussion of esthetic theory. Tt lies |within the tradition of the little en- | during criticism that has been produc- ed in the United States and it belongs | | with the best of that, with such |books as those of George Santayana and George Edward Woodberry which seem to hold admirable and vital con- |tent of artistic wisdom.” boae [MAKING WOODROW PRESIDENT, by Willlam Combs, “The author was manager of the | national campalgns which resulted in |the nomination and eiection of Wilson |as president in 1912 and was chair- |man of the Democratic National com- | mittee, 1912-1016." . WILSO F. Mec- |INOTES OF A cATHOLIC | GIST, by George Kreidel. |POEMS OF ARTHUR O'SHAUGH- NESSY, edited by William A. Percy “A relssue of the Poems of Arthur O'Shaughnessy, selected and edited by |W. A. Percy, has now after a lapse |of thirty years appeared; it will find favor with those readers who have a foible for Victorian poeiry and who |do not demand the vitality, emotional and artistic, infused into it by mas- ters, O'Shaughnessy is a minor poct but he should not therefore he neglec- |ted. If his verse lacks the perfected blending of meaning and form which constitutes Swinburne's power, that loes not mean it has not a spontaneity |and grace of its own.” Bookman. £v BIOLO- POWDER OF SYMPATHY by Chris- topher Morley. “In “The Powder of Sympathy' Mr. newspaper contributions. TIts title, the second word of which is persistently misprinted ‘Power,’ represcnts a mis- cellany of Morleyan observations with- |drawn both from the books he reads and from the life-about him.” ton Transcript THE PR INT INMENT OF TH PHILIPPINES by Maximo M. | Kalaw SOME ASPECTS OF RARY GREEK THOUGHT by Rev v CONTEMPO- ORTHODOX Frank Gavin. . [STICKFULS: COMPOSITIONS OF A | NEWSPAPER MINION, by Irvin 8. Cobb AMERICAN STANDARD OF LIVING AND WORLD COOPERATION by ART OF EDWIN ALFRED RICH- Bos- | " Rome. Mr. Cobb was (and remains still) a reporter of the first rank. He has a great gift for honest and acute oh- servation, a lack of pose, a flow of good strong English overlaid with the best that native America has added to the language. Mr. Cobb tells as a good reporter would, vividly, inter- estingly, of his experiences as a news- paper man in Paducah, Ky.; in Louis- ville and in New York as a war cor- respondent.” Literary Review, & et THE TAIL OF THE HEMISPHERE: CHILE AND ARGENTINA, by Frank George Carpenter. “Book is based on two journeys made around the South American con- tinent, by boat by rail and by auto- mobile. It describes the ports and citfes, the farming regions, the deserts and the mountains; also the fauna and flora of the two countries, their popu- lation, industries and government,” . . COLORADO by R. . TENDERFOOT IN B. Townshend. “The true story of a pioneer, whose narrative dates back to 1869, when, as a young man of twenty, just out of Cambridge university, he confronted the perils of what was then in truth ‘The Wild West,’ when buffaloes roamed, the plains and Indians were a constant terror.” . s TRUE ADVENTURES OF THE SE- CRET SERVICE by Major Charles Edward Russell. PR THE VEGETABLE by Scott Fitzger- ald. “‘'The Vegetable' is a satire on the current form of democracy where all men, because they are created free and equal, seek to push ahead, and, if possible, to become president, instead (of holding down the jobs they are really fitted for. Jerry Frost was such a man. He had it in him to be a ‘Kond postman, an excellent servant of |the public in a humble capacity., He | was made president and conducted the affalrs of the nation with the intelli- gence that God had allotted him to |use as a postman.” Springfleld Re- | publican. e | Fiction DAY'S JOURNEY by W. B. Maxwell “‘Day's Journey' is an interesting study of the life-long friendships of two men very unlike in character and |build. The story is simply, but very |attractively told.” American. | - |[FOUR STRAGGLERS by Frank Pack- ard. M weaving intricacies of plot and then |solving them all by a brilliantly unex- |pected stroke, He says himself of Ithis story: ‘T have got hold of the greatest plot I ever had in my life— |unusual setting and striking charac- [ters.’ And in this instance, an author |is a good critic of his own work."— ;Hoston Transcript. . . |FRIEND AT COURT by Leon and | Elizabeth Stern. “These stories of experiences in the !work of a New York probation offi- cer are remarkable in thair vivid, | moving pictures of court scenes and in the suggestions of tragedy and suf- | fering behind them. They have fle tlonal value and still more so th reality of human sympathy. In a introductory note Dean Kirchwey truly |says that the hook is not only ‘a |novel or collection of stories of ahb- sorbing interest for the general read- |er but a case-book as weil | student social worker and probation officer.’ " Outlook. PSS HOUSE BY THE WINDMILL | Agnes Edwards Rothery. PR PLACES by John Russell twelve stories in Mr. Rus- |sell’'s latest volume mark a distinct advance over the earlier collection, called ‘“Where the pavement ends.’ The persons of these storles are real he- canse Mr. with keen psychological insight and.a | tolerant understanding. His deft turns of plot and ironic implications are Not the lights is the revelation to the reader |of an entire world outside the lub- | berly consciousness of a central char- acter.” Literary Review. by DARK “These IN |TIRONHEART by William M, Raine, H. Y | MASQUES {MY FRIEND FROM Jean Giraudoux “A satirical story, awarded the Bal- |zac prize, concerning an amusing and |dramatic case of laws of memory.” | . . MYSTERY ROAD by E. Phillips | penheim. by E. ates. . . BE by G. A. Borgese Packard is a_master hand at| Russell has motivated them | least of his de- | for the | | | | LIMOUSIN by Op- | L2 25 Vears Ago Today (Taken irom Herald of that date) ) 0 - o Mrs. Frank Vensel is' on a short visit to relatives and friends in West- fleld. Mr. and Mrs. John Allen and fam- ily will leave tomorrow for Niantic, Becretary C. F. Smith of Landers, Frary & Clark Co. has returned from a business trip to Europe. Peter Frisen of Whiting street will leave town next week for a visit to his former home in Sweden. At the commencement exereises of Moore's_Business college in Hartford, Miss Anna Scheuy of this city showed to the best advantage, having the best average in the commercial de- partment, and William Ramage, also of this city, showed the greatest speed on the typewriter. Mr. Ramage wrote 68 words a minute. Humason & Beckley will shut down for two weeks to permit repairs to the boilers and other apparatus. W. A. Parsons will return to Watch | Hill tomorrow after spending a few days at his home in this city. Miss E. May Young of West Main street is visiting friends in Waterbury. | Manager Barrett's Reds will play in Willimantic tomorrow. The Reds played two good games of ball in the | Thread City on Decoration Day. | W. L. Hatch has purchased two | pleces of land in the southern sec-| tion of the city from W. D. and Eliza | Dwight of Poughkeepsie, N. Y. I The work of tearing down the old| buildings in the rear of the Columbia Hotel to make way for the new rink has been in progress since Tuesday. 0. F. Curtis expects to have the work | completed by September 1. Observations on The Weather Conditions: Pleasant weather con- tinues in the central and castern dis- tricts.. Showers have occurred during the last 24 hours along the coast from Florida to North Carolina and ln‘ Missouri, Michigan and Ohlo. There is no well defined storm area east of the Rocky Mountains, There is a gradual decrease in pressure from New England westward to Utah. The temperature continues about normal in all the northern sections. Conditions favor for this generally fair weather with higher temperature, vicinity | slightly | # y George Julian Zolnay, Washington, D. C., sculptor, is shown heré with the bronze cast of his group commemorating the valor of the American soldier and the devotion of the American moth- er in the World War. The statue, which will be erected in Nashyille, Tenn.,, was completed. in PLAGUE RAGES IN INDIA, | Bubonic Plague Threatens to Becomie Simla, India, July 2.—Bubonio an Epidemic in British Domains, plague is raging throughout British India as it has not raged for five vears. The disease threatens to be- come epidemic, and already has been the cause of panic in several of the larger citles. The rise in this plague year began in December. During the month: of March 36,000 deaths were recorded, against an average for the previous four years for the same month of 14,423, The governmental authorities ascribe the plague to rats getting into the grain, and advise the people to build ‘rat-proof grain warehouses and to destroy the rodents. s Bolshevists have abolished four of the 26 letters of the Russian alphabet. ork will fidl that . 1.00515 LEAF- SECTIONALPOST Al dl r?b%‘lge/; need Leather and Corduroy Canvas and Leather Corners Also in Full Canvas Standard in Quality Moderate in Price COME IN AND SEE US OR PHONE FOR A REPRESENTATIVE ADKINS . NEVER MIND, MISS TAPP, I‘l.l..‘ ANSWER THES 'PHONE . \T'S" PROBABLY An OROGR, NO, THAT'S NOT “ALl’! IN AT THE DEPARTMENT STORE AND stoe QeT T™HOSS CURTAIN FIXTURES | 1 WANT You To AND SEC THAT YOU QET HOME HERE IN DECSVT Tme: QoeD BYE) IT wAS AN ORDER ALL RIQHT (Y . Now that the bandit scare has died | | down, people can resume the saying| “Pathetically few books or stories| “Elaborate anhalysis of the neurotit | that the Chinese are the most honest about newspaper work are to the life. 'intellectual in Italy before, during and | people in the world. AT".II one is; that it is so i8 Mcaus»luler the war.” partially to benefit by this develop- | ment-—or had you better get in some 916,000,000 for a new issue of no par, other business? ammon stock and pondholders wxll‘ i