New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 24, 1923, Page 3

COOLIDGE PRAISES RED CROSS AS . GREAT AID TO SUFFERING PEOPLE Discusses Practical Idealism at Annual Convention— Says World Cannot Yet Abandon Armed Force. Washington, Sept. 24.—A deep faith in epiritus! things, tempered by & hard common sense adapted to the needs of the world s the kind of prac- tical idealism that is represented in the history of America, President Coolidge said toduy, in an address be. fore the annual convention of the Amer| Red Cross. The people, he added, are not likely to adopt any other course, The idealism of which he spoke, the president said, was {llustrated by the men who went to the rescue of Furope when their own liberty and the liberty of the world was'in peril, but who after victory was sqeured, re- tired from the field, “unencumbered by spoils, independent, unattached and unbought."” Praises Practical Idealism. President Coolldge's address, his first formal public' utterance, 'was de- vited to praise of the qualities which have made the Red Cross a success. Chief among these, he aald, was its practical {dealism, ! The American Red Croas is a mod- ern application of an ancient prin- ciple, the president said. '"The idea of charity is very old. It is included in the teachings of the eaflieat philoso- phers, It is one of the fundamental doctrines of our Bible. It is a splirit- ual conception of human relationship. It s lite in obedience to the things that are unseen. “Throughout history men have been prone to put their trust in other things and have failed. They have sought for power: through ~material resources alone. They have thought it might be gained by the accumula- tion of great riches. “They have attempted to rely upon the naked force of armies and navies, conquering by the might of the sword. Hut these forces are not the ultimate rulers of mankind. They are neces- sary for security as police and crimi- nal crais, and bolts and bars are necessary. They are adjuncts of peace. But they are negative forces. They do not create, they resist. They are not the ultimate force in the world. They do not make the final determi- nations among men. Over them all is a higher power, Cannot Disregard Force. Mankind has not yet, cannot vet, digcard the use of these forces. It is gignificant, however that the great nations have at last agreed upon their limitation. But it is even more signi- ficant that civilization is coming to rely more and more upon moral force. It is because the Red Cross has been a practical application of that prin- ciple, that it has been such a tremen- dous success. Tt makes its appeal for support directly to the conscience of mankind. It does not attempt to func- tion through the direct action of or- ganized government. It does not have in it any element of compulsion. It is the voluntary offering of the people themselves, whenever and wherever an emergency has resulted in human suffering, to the extent. of its.ability it administers whatever may be neces- ' sary for temporary relief. Hope of Real Progress, “It s in this direction that there lies the hope of real progress. The anclent ideals of human brotherhood, of service, the application of the gold- en rule of peace on earth and good will towards men, ‘are idle dreams unless they can be translated into practical action. It is necessary on the other hand to avoid the'illusions of the visionaries, and on the other hand, the indifference of the selfish. Each individual and each nation owe their first duty to themselves. Beyond that, there is no obligation of the strong to serve the weak, but to administer such service in a way that will not destroy or degrade by making mendi- cants but will restore and strengthen by making character. “It is the policy which help in an emergency but realizes that finally each individual and each nation must work out their own destiny. b ““The constant need of civilization is for a practical idealism of this kind. It does not attempt to perform the impossible. form merely by an act of legislation HOEVER is mot saving money is living in a fool’s paradise. Happiness foundations. ()] needs perity withou pink cloud. e [4 [J) and is open e evening. DOODO e INEw BRITAINN 0o This bank pays four per cent on savings accounts 'Ihllllu that it can unload its bur- den on the government and be re. lieved from further effort, Crisis responsibility for all humanity. It realizes that redemption comes only through sacrifice, When a erisis arises it does not hesitate to go out d make whatever sacrifice it nee. essary to master the oeccasion. It is this kind of practical ideal. iem that is represented in the history of our country, a deep faith in Spiri- tual things, tempered by g hard com. mon sense adapted to the needs of this world, 1t has been illustrated in {the character of the men who plant- |ed colonies in the wilderness and raised up great states around the chureh and schoolhouse, who bought their independence with their blood and cast out slavery by the sacrifice of thelr bravest sons; who offered their lives to give more freedom to oppressed peop! and who went to th scue of Europe with their treas. ure and their when when their own liberty and the liberty of the world was In peril,. but when the victory Was secure, retired from the fiald un. encumbered by spolls, iIndependent, unattached, and unbought, still con- tinuing to contribute lavishly to the relief of the stricken and destitute of the old world; and who but recently being asked for 85,000,000 immediate- ly gave about twice that amount for the afflicted people of Japan. Such has been the moral purpose that has marked the conduct of our country up to the present hour. The Ameri- can people have never adopted and are not likely to adopt any other course. “A contemplation of these prinei- ples and the works which they have wrought both in our country and among the other nations, for this spirit is world-wide, {s helpful and re. assuring. = They are among the con- | vincing evidences that justify our faith In mankind. They reveal the fundamental ‘sgrength of civilization. They demonstrate the supremacy of the spiritual life. ““Here we behold the race struggling up through barbarism, overcoming ig- norance, establishing order, instituting government, painfully working out their own destiny under free institu- tions acknowledging and accepting the truths of religion, gradually cast- ing aslde selfishness, endowing the great charities which heal the body, inform the mind and minister to the soul, making on every hand unending sacrifices that the truth may be su- preme. Such is the strength of the influence of which this organization is one of the representatives. It is in- conceivable that it could have come thus far only to retreat, that it counld have succeeded up to the present time only to fail. Ultimate Success Sure “These are the encouraging, hopeful things of the world. the has been slow that there have been and undoubtedly will be many dis- heartening failures I believe the con- clusion to be ineacapable that there is every warrant for confidence. encouragng feature of these results lies in the fact that they come from the voluntary actions of the people. They are not mandates from privilege. They are not imposed from without, they result from within, they disclose the conquering the victorious struggle of a higher nature. They do not rep- resent a law of man, they reveal a law of God. “It is for these reasons that I take a large satisfaction in extending a welcome to this convention and acting as its presiding officer. I respect it for what it has done and what it is. I am mindful of its purposes and its origin. This organization had its be- ginnings in the day of Abraham Lin- coln. It is representation of the dom- inant influences of his time. It par- takes of his spirit. It shows the way to a larger freedom. Our country could secure no higher commendation, no greater place in history, than to haw it correctly said that the Red Cross is truly American." CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIAL. The Sunshine Girls of the Chil- dren's Home will give their first en- tertainment at the home on Rack- lite’'s Height Friday evening, Sept. 28, at 8 o'clock. The entertainment will consist of songs, recitations and a playlet, the children taking exclusive, part in the performance, which will It does not seek to re-|take place In the new assembly hall| ] a¢ the home. The public is invited. i® ) A e Pros- t thrift is a DR Y 3 4 very Monday Q: LXONOOXO) ATIONALBANK VLo 9.0.00.000.0.0.0.000.00.0.9 While | it is necessary to admit that progress The | GEORGE T. KIMBALL | ADDS HIS APPROVAL (Continued from First Page) d the commitiee re. po that the industries of Vermont were etty much behind him in his stand | Commissioner Hall read a letter trom' Governor Baxter of Maine, in| which he said: g Maine Undecided, “The Storrow commitiee fAndin, are impartial. 1 have not yet de. termined what plan of consolidation would be to the best interests of our state, 1 desire further time and in- formation." Mfg. Assn, Report, E. O, Goss of Waterbury, Conn., representing the Manufacturers' As- socition of Connecticut announced that the 800 members of that body approved the report of the Btorrow ommittes in that it protects New ngland industry both as to rates and service and insures competition. The gsoclation is unaiterably opposed to any trunk line consolidation, G. T, Kimball Also, Willlam 8. Corning, representing the Hartford Chamber of Commerce, George T. Kimball of the manufactur- ers Assoclation of Hartford County and Alpheus Winter of the manufac- turers association of Bridgeport, Conn. presented the views of their bodies which were in general endoresements of the Storrow plan. Conynissioner Hall asked each of | the nesses whether the tentative consolidation plan of the interstate commerce commission had been be. fore their associations as well as the Storrow plan. Each replied in the af. firmative, | Mr. Winter was asked by the com- missioner whether there had been a decrease in the tonnage given by the manufacturers in his section to the rall lines In recent years. He said it had stood about the same. “Has there Leen an increase in tonnage given to |motor truck lines?" asked Mr. Hall. | "Yes a considerable one,” and in reply to another question said the factor that led to this increase was promptness of service and dellvery. Chase Gives Views, | Fred 8. Chase of Waterbury report- | ed approval of the Storrow report's consolidation recommendation by the manufacturers of the Naugatuck val- ley. He said that products of that section have moved somewhat more by motor truck in the last five years. | For less than carload lots he consi- dered the motor truck superior to the railroad. Asked by Prof. Ripley how large an interest Waterbury had in the May- brook gateway, the western outlet of lhq New Haven road, Mr, Chase re- plied, "Very great indeed. We are {afraid more than anything of being bottled up." View From Ansonia Charles F. Bliss an Ansonia, Conn., ‘manufucturer. said that the tendency jof a trunk line consolidation would be 'to have Connecticut freight routed through or near New York city and that this would be "very detrimental.” “Our conditions,” = he - said, ‘‘are short haul. No railway management can possibly compete there with mo- tor truck transportation as now car- ried on. The railroads must rely largely on raw materials and through freight. Almost nobody travels by rall the 13 miles from New Haven to Ansonia.’ That road still' has its bonds but not its passengers.” Thomaston Heard From The declaration that the New Ha- ven road must be financed by New England was made by Ralph L. French, a manufacturer of Thomas- ton, Conn. He thought it could not be done under a trunk line merger, Moore and Poteet E. A, Moore, chairman of the board of the Stanley Works, New Britain, Conn., opposed any consolidation with trunk lines w of the Hudson ‘and also thought a New England consoli- dation unnecessary. He expressed confidence in the board of the New | Haven road. Robert W. Poteet, traf. fic manager of the same company fav- }ored New England consolidation, i OKLAHOMA OUTRAGES i Tale Told of Three Houses Burned | and of Forced Wedding in Open Field By The Associated Press. 1| Tulsa, Okla., Sept. 24.—Testimony | describing the burning of three houses in Tulsa in one night by a party of masked men was heard by Governor J. C. Walton's military committee to- day as investigation into hooded band activities was resumed a high officer | of the commission declared in an in- terview with newspapermen. A wedding ceremony perférmed in the center of a fleld in Creek county, adjoining Tulsa county while the | bridegroom was chained to a gas en- | gine with pistols levelled at his head was another case heard by the mili- tary commission. FIREMEN HAVE EXERCISE. | Smoke pouring from a window in a| | tenement occupied by Vineenzo Arena, | in the rear of Odd Fellows' hall on| Arch street yesterday afternoon called | NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, | stared straight ahead | Agure barely ftted the huge chair | his vots for MeCue on whose broad arms she rested her/nine to nl |on the stand that {a pack of cards in which five good Had been expacted | ern’ Swedish missionary association at | Chiet Noble and Companies 1, 2, 3 and 6 to the scene, where they found | some liquid was being bolled. The| apparatus from the north end was de. | vlayed at the rallroad crossing | three minutes, as a train was passing. | STODDARD FUNERAL TODAY J | | [ Private Services Held in New Haven | This Afterhoon New Haven, fept. 24.—The funeral servicess for Ezeklel G. Stoddard, | banker and man of business affairs, who died in New Mexico last week | were privately held from his late resi- !dem‘e here this afternoon. Rev, Dr. | George W. Douglass, dean of the | Episcopal cathedral in New York, read the service at the house and Rev. W. O. Bcoville of Trinity, | committal service at the grave. The | honorary bearers werq men who had | been closely associated with Mr. Stod- ;dnrd, J It is ascertained that physiclans found no other injury on Mr. Stod- |dard aside from a fractured ankle which came from a fall from his horse and his death was adcribed to ’H-.e;n trouble brought on by the |shock of the fall. He was uncon- | sclous for nearly six hours after the | fall and until death came. fOF | tars chosen wers William Appel and John Olsén, New Britain, Conn s AS MRS, WARD TALKS (Continued From First Page) ahead. Her elbows. Attorney Genera! Sherman was first to question her but his interrogations were brief and were made ebviously for the simple purpose of having her the prosecution might question her after the defense had. After inquiring about the nurse. maid for the Ward children, Mr Sherman turned her over to the de. fense for cross. The attorney if Lulu Beryl, the nursemald, s outside of New York state but still in her employ and she answered yes After Mrs. Ward had said that Mrs, Beryl was a nurse for her children, Mr. Campbell held up a pi: boy and a girl and asked, the children?" Mrs, Ward identified the the jurymen, Weeks on Stand Frederick Weeks, district attorney at the time of Peters' death and in Two American: charge of the first |investigation of Ward was the next witness after Mrs, | Ward, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 192, COURT RODN IN SOBS MURTHA SAYS CASSIDY " ASKED HIN TO FLUN (Continued from Pirst Page) slight | approached. Murtha declin Washington, Sept and cast The vote stoed , MeCue and Walker re. of v and vote be was another to cast an inqury was started to deter. mine whe had not General told the ercised the ager, but veted George Scheyd | would do so, casting a ballot for M | Cue Club held a reception for the players Cassidy broke a precedent when refused to address the gathering coach of t Cassidy later told him that the ele tion of MeCue was responsible for his refusal to speak, Asked today why he did not abide by A statements printed in the | phote. | Plied that he couldn’t because they graphs and then it was passed among | Were all true On the night the Lettermen's he team. Murtha e request of the coach to deny q Ca t week, Murtha re. VICTIMS YOUNG MEN, Killed in Balloon Race Not Very Old. 24.—~Lieuts, Rob. He testified that the defendant came ¢t 5. Olmstead and John W. Chop- to him with his attorney, Mr. Camp- in the affair, talking amiably together about the taw, the two American army officers | bell three days after Peters body had | killed in the destruction of the bal. been found to announce his complicity | '0on §-8 were The group of men were | YOUNE men, kil et Lisut, Olmstead was born in Ehel. both comparatively killing, said Mr. Weeks when sudden- | 4on, Vt, and was single. Iy he asked Ward, "What kind of a plst, " ‘No, a 38 Bava sald Ward replied to him. Mr, Lieut, Choptaw leaves a widow and | 1 do ybu earry, a Colt automatic? 'O children. He was born in Worth- [ Weeks | ington, Ind. C ptain J. P. Balley also assigned | The coroner, who was also presant, | {0 the 8-6 apparently was not in the) then suggested.to Ward that he had | basket at the time of the disaster. a narrow escape, remarking that| Ward was lucky they didn't ‘get" him, went on the former district at- torney. “'Yes, ‘I might not be lucky’ " Mr. Weeks said Ward replied , Then the witness said that the con- | versation with Ward ended as Camp- | bell immediately produced a sheet of paper saying that that was Ward's statement. Trooper Recalled Preceding Mrs. Ward to the stand was Harry Greene, a state trooper who had been ordered recalled by Jus- tice Wagner after the defense had a - | serted Greene and Ralph Collins, | another trooper had violated the court's order after they had testified last week and that the two troopers had been instructed how to testify by the prosecution. Green testified that he had lunch with Mrs. Roy H. Still of Crotonville, a suburb of Ossining, after leaving | the stand on the day he testified and | that he encountered a newspaperman | cit. corridor passed the time of day with him and posed for a photograph. He said that later he met Trooper | Collins and asked for a n\ormng\ newspaper. When Greene took the ! chair Mrs. 8till, with whom he board- | ed was ordered from the court room until his testimony had ended. A Tesson In Cards Then Ernest H. Stolz of New Ro- chelle a friend of the Ward family was called. He said he ‘was at the Ward home on the evening Peters was killed and -played cards. there | from 8 o'clock until 12:30 with | Ward's relatives and friends but that | he did not see Ward himself. He | testified that Ward at no time had | told him of the circumstances of the | death of Peters. | Stolz testified that Ward's repu- | tation was good amd that he did not | know him to have a violent temper. | Defense Attornay Campbell then asked Attorney Gen, Sherman to pro- | duce the pack of playing cards found | on Peters' body. Handing these to Stolz Mr. Campbell asked the witness to see if tMe deck was a complete | one and Stolz replled that six cards were missing. | When after going through the deck | Stolz testified that five of the cards constituted a “straight flush in dia- monds’ in poker and the joker there was a stir in the courtroom. Stolz admitted that the missing hand was “a pretty good one, one that a poker player gets perhaps once in a thous- and times.” “It is well known, fsn't it?" Mr. Campbell asked, that peopls come into a fiilm flam game of poker with cards are missing and that these five cards were in their pocket?” “That would be a good way to flim | flam in poker” tha witness answerad. Before leaving the stand Stolz testi. fled in answer to the prosecution that on the evening of the killing Ward | home about 8§ o'clock to participate in the game. REV. G. E. PIHL ELECTED New Britain Clergyman Heads Swed- ish Missionary Assoeiation Wore r, Mase, Sept. 24-—East. its session here today elected those officers: President, Rev. E. G. Pihl, New Britain, Conn.; vice-presidént, Rev. | David Brunstrom. Worcester; seere- tary, Rev. Carl Peterson, East Orange, N. J.; assistant secretary, Rev. A. G 1.und, New York Emil Hierpe, New Britain, was elected a trustee, Audi- INJURED BY DYNAMITE Danbury, Sept. 24.—Trancis Gat. | the | jowski, 17 is a patient in the hospital here as a result of injuries received | when a stick of dynamite which he‘ waes handling on his father's farm in Newtown exploded, badly lacerating | |the flesh on his face and bedy. A heavy coat that he wore ig believed | [to have saved his life. He is expected | to recover. | MARRIAGE LICENSES, The following marriage licenses | were issued today at the office of the | town clerk: Clarence W. Heller of 16 Day street and Miss Lucq M. 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