New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 11, 1926, Page 13

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD," MINISTER DENOUNCES WAR IN SPEECH TO FATHERS AND SONS Rev. William H. Alderson Says Nations Should Plan for Peace, Not for Strife. ‘ There is no glamor In war for those who actually get into the fight, sald Rev. William H. Alder- son, pastor of Trinity Methodist church and chaplain of the Ameri- can Legion, last evening in an im- passioned plea for a stand for uni- versal, peace at the father and son banquet of the Stanley Memorial Mon’s club meeting. Rev. Mr. Alderson, who was an ambulance driver on the Itallan front and who saw the heaviest of the fighting there, having had sev- eral ambulances shot out from un- der him while going about his du- ties, described the horrors of war in a graphic manner, -s0 much so that prominent men who heard him stated afterwards they had been “waiting eight years for just such a speech.” He referred to the fact that most of the World War veterans return- ed from overseas, reticent and re- luctant to talk about the war, and added: “When I came home from over- REV. W. H. ALDERSON scas, T was like most of the other boys, I did not talk about the things I had seen. But as time went by, I found there was a lot of talk- ing being done and war was being glorified as a playing of bands, blasting of trumpets, sounding of bug'es, flying of flags. There were parades down Fifth avenue; on every side the so-called ‘glorious side of war’ was being painted. “As a matter of fact, that is not & true picture of war. And I de- cided I would do some {alking' on my own account. “In the big push that broke wp the war, I was the first American to move up with an official delega. tion into Austrian territory. I spent a week in one village where for vears the inhabitants had been dally fed from the Austrian com- missary store house. The monthly ration of fresh meat was seven ounces per person. Some of us think it s an awfully hard werld it we cannot have seven ounces at a single meal when we are good and Yungry. “Th» Itallans having no provi- slons tor feeding these villagers, the natural course of events was that they began to starve. In a single week out of a population of 1500, three hundred old men and women Minutes ITH hot breakfasts generally conceded a vital part of the day’s diet— itis ortunate that they no longer take so much time to prepare. H-0 Quick Cooking Oats cook ready to serve in two to three minutes. And there, in almost no time, you have a sleaming dish of the finest nourishment there is. Ms*fl‘“ - HO OATS Quickgsp Hot Cereal and boys and girls dled of starva- tion. Any moment of the day I could look out and ses a small group of boys or girls carrying éne of their playmates to the village burying ground. “In another village of 1600 peo- ple every cat and dog had been eaten weeks before and the equiva- lent of 20 cents was being paid for every rat that could be caught. “On the night of October 28, 1918, the Itallans crossed the Piave river after what was said to be the sharp- est bit of fighting in the war. At daybreak the next morning when I crossed the river the toll of the night's fighting had taken was evi- dent gverywhere. One Shot Kills 400 “One pontoon bridge % the Itallan attempt to cross the river had been shattered by a direct hit from the Austrian artillery and 400 men went down from that one shot. On the fleld bodies lay like sheaves of wheat dropped by the reaper. Every ditch and gully was fllled with bodies three and four deep. Al- ready in that early dawn the great trench rats had begun their work. Lips were gone, ears, eyelids, eye balls eaten away. The lipless faces turned their ghastly grin to the morning sky, a8 we turned over bodies for recognition while the rats scurrled out. Out of the marshes they had come to make their ghastly meal. For what? “That morning there came into my mind a great question mark. I have been asking ever since, ‘Why should all this be, when thess men had as much right to live as you or me?’ “This is not the worst. Only to- day I read a statement from a man high up in the chemical research | department of the government, stat- {ing that we had now developed a poison gas which could be asprayed over the enemy. Two tons of liquid jcarried aloft and sprayed from an |airplane would lay waste a strip of land seven miles wide and 100 feet Tong. This gas in possession of Germany during the war could |within 10 te 12 hours have anni- hilated the entire American Expedi- tionary force. The gas is xo deadly that touching a man’s body any- | where results in death. “My heart was broken when Y saw recently that the American Legion |convention in Philadelphia had fail- ed to go on record as against the use of poison gas in warfare. I do not believe that is the sentiment of the individuals of the American Leglon. “I am chaplain of our local Te- glon post and T know that as In- dividuals those splendid fellows who gave their service in the recent war are not in favor of poison gas. No man who has ever secen blinded men, hands upon each others shoul- ders, stumbling single file out of the ‘linml, can ever sanction the use of such methods. “We are too easily led by mili- tarists ‘who make ringing speeches and before some of those who think deeply on these things move to re- |ply, the mob psychology has done |its work and the word goes out to 11 the world that the American Leglon favors the use of poison gas |in warfare. maintain that as individuals, the members of the Legion are op- posed to this deadly type of com- bat. Plan For Peace, Not War “The way to end war is not to prepare for war, but to plan for Ipeace. As dads and sons it we stand together shoulder to shoulder in the united strength of our man- hood, this thing will cease to be. Tet every father say ‘T did not give my time, my energy, my very life blood for this boy of mine to have him poisoned, maimed or slaugh- tered in modern warfare.” “Manhood was created for some- thing bigger and better than this— the foolishness of it all. We fly at each other's throats for four years, spending 8G0 billions of dollars, maiming, poisoning, destroying 26 million men and then, when it is all |over we sit down around a table and settle the terms of peace. “The question I am asking Is, ‘Why can’t we sit down around the table with those millions still alive?” “We say war develops courage, fortitude and manliness. It re- quires far more of these virtues to |stand out against this thing in an hour like this than it ever requires to follow the crowd. “Lasting peace will come only when fathers and sons stand united- ly against this great modern crime and say: ‘This thing shall not be'.” In opening his address Rev. Mr. | Alderson spoke of the relationship between father and son. “Suppose a man knew as little about his business or his job as he does about his son,” he said. *T would be a good thing for the fathers if they knew their boys better. All men like publicity. Why not climb into the limelight by being the father of an outstanding boy. If |it hadn’t heen for that quiet man |in the White House, the country never would have heard of John Coolidge, yet all these years on that hard rocky hillside farm he was | building into that boy the stuft that made him capable of fiiling the highest office in all the world, that of president of the United States. | Training School For Fathers “Tt would be a good idea to have a tralning school for dads. We train barbers, boiler makers-—why | vou can't even hire a carpenter to| build a chicken coop unless he first | serves an apprenticeship. The only | man we do not train Is the father. “A man must have a speclal tralning to be a horse doctor but any old man can come along nr\d; be a father and make a mess of it. | We go about the most important | task in all the world without nnY} |training for it. he time is coming when men will be able to take a| course in training to fit them to be | the kind of father they ought to be. “Why don't we do a better job oll CAPITOL SUN.—MON.—T ES.—WED. training our boys? Vv tell ourselves we haven't got time. We are so busy doing things of secondary im- portance that we haven't time to do the things of primary importance. “Many boys are in a position where they think they know it all. Your father went through it. Some of us haven't gotten over it. Don't ever_ think you have become big enough to look down on your fath- er. You may work in an office and ‘wear good clothes. Yur father may work in a shop and wear a dirty shirt and come home with soiled hands—but he's been making a liv- ing for you. You never climbed high enough to look down on him. Those Collegiate Trousers. “Maybe he never gets a chance to press his trousers, like these col- legiate trousers you wear should be pressed. I don't know if they ever press colleglate trousers, but they ought to do something with them. Dad is the man who sticks by a fellow who wears collegiate trous- ers, pastes his halr down with| ‘slickem’ and smokes cigarettes buti never contributes anything to the family larder, “Another thing, don’t forget Dad hunted out and wooed and won the finest woman in all the world—the woman you call your mother. If he could do that he earned your re- spect, don't ever look down upon him.” The meeting was in charge of George V. Hamlin, president of the club. In opening the session Mr. Hamlin stated that “many men would like to be the men they hope their sons will be,” George Den- ney, Jr., 16 years old, spoke on be- half of the boys. He stated that all | boys would like to have their fath- ers for pals. He referred to the fact that fathers are apt to consid- er their boys as problems. “Didn’t your father think you were a prob- lem?” he demanded. A Herald representative was call- ed upon to tell something about the national marble championship at Atlantic City. He introduced Dom- inick Cartelli, New Britain’s 1926 city champion, and Tony Attardo, another local marble expert. Tony was substituted at the last minute for Howard “Dutch” Robbins of Springfield, who because of an un- foreseen accident was unable to be present. Robbins was the national champion in 1925. Dominick and Tony demonstrated the game as played on the sands of Atlantic City. A large rug was used as a playing ground, with a ring marked out in crayon. Car- {telli as winner was presented with {a ticket of admission to the Strand theater by Mr. Hamlin. Attardo was invited to be the guest of Rev. R. N. Gilman at an ice cream treat as consolation. JANE ADDAMS 1S MAKING DENTAL Brands Story That Hull House Is Radical Hothed as False | | Chicago, Nov. 11 (P—An attack | on Hull House as a radical and com- munist headquarters by Capt. Ferre Watkins, commander of the Illinois American Legion, has becn called “utterly false, unwarranted and ab- surd” by Miss Jane Addams, founder | of the settlement. Capt. Watkins, who succeeded to the position of Howard P. Savage, new national commander of the legion, charged in an address yester- day to the Illinols Federation of | ‘Women's clubs that “Hull House” is the rallying point of every radical and communistic movement in Chi- cago. | “The leaders of the settlement are | attempting to sell out their country to some international scheme for which they vainly hope to realize great things for themselves.” Miss Addams specifically denied having made statements which Capt. Watkins attributed to her when he safd: “Jane Addams told in a public meeting how she hoped through in- fluence at the White House to strip the uniforms from our cadets at West Point, to deprive our colleges of military training and leave Amer= ica undefended, relying on the good will and tolerance of the rest of mankind for immunity.” i To this the Hull House leader re- plied: “While I have always been op- posed to compulsory military train- ing in our schools, I have never in- tended nor desired to interfere with the government's program of train- ing men for service as officers in the defense of the United States. Frank D. Fenton, Well Known in State, Dies Willimantie, Nov. 11 (P—Frank | Dwight Fenton, 80, father of Town | Clerk Frank P. Fenton, died at the | home of his daughter, Mrs. Anson J. 0Olds, hero today. A considerable per- jod of Mr. Fenton'’s active life was spent in marcantile business. He was selectman in Mansfleld in 1888 and 1889. A native of Mansfield, where he was born on June 10, 1846, he represented that town.in the gen cral assembly in 1577 apd 1878, He | camo to this city 36 years ago and was active in business until 5 ars ago. Ho leaves a second son, Fred, of rence, 8. C., and a sister, Mrs. | Helen C. Bliss of Mansficld, who is | 95 years old. | Mr. Fenton's funcral will be on | Saturday afternoon. | Marshal_Foch Is Almost | Unnoticed in Paris Today Paris, Nov. 11 (#-—Marshal Foch, | leader of the allied forces and th man who laid don the terms to the Germans, passed almost | unrecognized before the armistice | day crowd in the Palace D'Etoile to- ' day. | The lack of demonstration was in marked contrast to the delirious ovation which marked his progress through the Champs Elysees in the great victory parade of July 14, L armistice 1910, jat $1 each, a total increase | cents a room. itery was the heart of the Ameri- | fan | momentary halt THURSDAY, ANNUAL RED GROSS ROLL CALL STARTS Quota This Year Increased $8,200 Over Last Year The annual Red Cross roll call ofticially opened this morning with the establishment of booths in the different banks of the city for the receipt of memberships. These booths are presided over by young women who will accept member- ships any time during business hours. New Britain this year has e quota of 4,000 annual’memberships over last year of 1700. It is hoped to increase $5, $10 and $25 member- ships from the $600 ralsed last year to $2,000. Of the total of $6,000, the local organization retains $3,850 for work in New Britain. The remain- der, $2,150, goes to natlonal head- quarters for national relief. The membership campaign among. the Junior Red Cross opened this morning under exceedingly favor- abl: circumstances. Last year the total members secured during the drive was 8,000. Of these 7,513 automatically renewed their mem- bership today. Junior Red Cross ping were given out in the schools today and the names of members | will be placed on banners and dis- played in the school rooms. Two hundred and one school rooms en- rolled this morning at a cost of 50: WORLD OBSERVING | ARMISTIGE DAY Historical Review of Same Date Back in 1918 Washington, Nov. 11 (#) — The world paused a moment today in the frenzied struggle for existence and aggrandisement to recollect that exactly eight years ago there had come the winging word from France that gripped men’s hearts as no other message could have done. The great war was over — the , destroying guns stilled at An ecstasy of rejoicing and tri- umph had followed. In that first wild burst there was no thought of | the maze of perplexities that was | to beset the pathways of peace. | What mattered it; the boys were | coming home. | They came, and grateful nations | poured out a lavish greeting to gallant sons. The spoils of gl due to valor were showered upon them in every city and hamlet. | The Unknown Soldier Then came one home to Amer- jca — dead and unknown, who could not hear the cheering. About him centered such a majestic tri- bute to all those who lay dead in France as the price of victory that it mave Armistice day a new and solemn meaning to all Americans. Today as always the tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington ceme- | can observance of Armistice day. | In the words of congress and of | the president’s proclamation, it typified “our gratitude for peace| and our desire for the continuance | of friendly relations with all other | people.” Representatives of the dominions | of the British empire, in conference at London, joined in England’s tri- | bute to the day, standing with| members of the cabinet as King | Georgo, the Prince of Wales and | the Duke of York lald wreaths at| the foot of the cenotaph of Eng-| land’s unknown, a wreath of Maple leaves, brought from the Kingmere cottage of Premfer Mac- kenzie King near Ottawa, and in-| terwoven with roses and chrysan- themums, formed Canada’s tribute. | In Poland great ceremonieswere arranged to celebrate both Armis- | tice day, a national holiday, and | the anniversary of the release of | hal Pilsudski from German | ational Observances | Out of the new significance of the day as sacred to those who did not come back living from France has grown the simple observances | over the nation which mark Armistice day. Everywhere it was guided by the desire of each community as in Missourl it centered about the memorial to Missouri's war dead Kansas City where President Cool- fdge went to voice again the will of his countrymen for peace and friendship with all peoples. That duty alone could have drawn him away from his usual Armistice day ourncy to Arlington to lay a wreath in person on the tomb of |the Unknown. Army comrades of the war dead everywhere paid honors with flags at half staff and troops drawn up in silence to stand rigidly for a| minute at 11 o'clock, the hour of the armistice eight years ago. The | national salute of 21 guns followed | from all saluting posts. Throughout | the nation memorial services be- fitting the day marked gatherings in schools and churches and the and silent tribute to the meaning of the day was in- terwoven with prosaic business mc- tivities in many scattered industries Pligrimage to Arlington At the Unknown's tomb there | was the usual gathering of those who always observe the day with | floral tributes. Perhaps a dozen or- ganizations made the pilgrimage to Arlington, among them the little interdominational group of present“ | vears old and Olay three years her |to be or to have been recently a | | of 27 degrees above | itatall NOVEMBER 11, 1926. and former army chaplains who | conducted the religious services at| the tomb when the Unknown five vears ago was laid beneath the great granite slab that covers his| resting place, The president’s aide, Captain Leven C. Allen, placed upon it the wreath from the commander- in-chief and Mrs. Coolidge, not for- gotten in the departure for the Missouri ceremontes. Little else marked the day visibly in Washington. At President Wil- son’s tomb a group of his friends planned to meet to honor the war president and there was prospect of much reverent coming and go- ing in the cathedral where he sleeps. But aside from that special guards around the Un-| known's tomb, the brief military | salute at the Fort Meyer garrison | post, and the school and church services, the elghth anniversary of the end of the great war existed more in the memories it aroused | for all Americans than in formal | observances. | MORE TALK OF ROYAL | ROMANCE IN BELGIUM Little Princess Marie-Jose and Nor- | and the weglan Prince Are Reported In Iove. Brussels, Nov. 11 (#/—Hardly had the ink dried on the marriage res- | ister which Crown Prince Leopold and Princess Astrid of Sweden signed yesterday when there came talk of another possible royal wed- ding—Dbetween Belglum’s little Prin- cess Marie-Jose and Crown Prince Olav of Norway. Marie-Jose is 20 senior. Court officlals, as s their custom, denled that a marriage is contem- plated between the son of King Haakon and King Albert's only daughter, but this recalled that they denied that Prince Leopold and Princess Astrid were to-be married | until & few weeks ago. Aristocratic circles in Brussels were confident that they will get invitations to & second wedding next spring. After a private dinner party at the palace last night, Crown Prince Leo- pold and Princess Astrid left on their honeymoon. Their destination was not announced. | During the wedding reception yes- terday the news that Premier Jas- per’s aged father had died served to cast gloom over the assemblage. Fifteen Story Fall Fatal to Mass. Woman Niagara Falls, N. Y., Nov. 11 (P) —DMrs. Elizabeth Rogers of Brook- line, Mass,, who was killed in a fall or leap from the window of a room on the fifteenth floor of a New York hotel on November 2 bequeathed ap- proximately $300,000 to the medi- cal school of Harvard university, ac- cording to attorneys here who drew up her will a few days before her death. Mrs. Rogers was a native of this city, the daughter of the late Dr. Gardner C. Clark H. P. SHAW WANTED Har(ford, Nov. 11 (P—Any in- formation concerning the where- abouts of Howard P. Shaw, believed resident of Hartford, is earnestly | cesired by authorities of the Hart- ford hospital where Mrs. Catherine Payne, his mother, is a patient. COLD IN PROVIDENCE Providence, R. I, Nov. 11 (A— An officlally recorded temperature | zero at 6: this morning served to make today the coldest November 11 in Provi- dence since the establishment of & weather burcau station here. COURT DRASTIC IN DENYING DEHURRER Says Someone Must Be Re- sponsible for Aafo Crashes Bridgeport, Nov. 11 (#—In an ad- verse ruling upon a demurrer, Judge Arthur F. Ells in the superior court today stresses the need of placing liability upon some one for the grow- ing number of accidents, injuries and deaths arising from incompetent drivers of automobiles hired or loan- ed from individuals or companies. In his decision Judge Ells states that “if persons voluntarily engage in the business of renting to frres- ponsible persons instrumentalities which continually cause injury to large numbers of innocent persons, it is not especially unfair that they should be compelled to make good the damage.” f The judge's remarks were made in over-ruling a demurrer filed by counsel of the Standard Auto Rent- ing System of this city, named in a suit filed by Julia H, Shailer of Flat- bush, N. Y. The amount sought in forchildren effective for every COUGH If the branch should break— EAURED AGAY FROM BRUSES 44D STRA Hurt in bad fall, young woman makes quick recovery A young woman at Bushnell’s Basin, Monroe County, New York, fell and was badly bruised and straimed. “] suffered agony,” she writes, “but T used Sloan’s Liniment and it relieved the pailn”right away. Now I don't feel i i What is the secret of the almost magical powers of this remarkable remedy? Simply the fact that Sloan’s doesn’t merely deaden the nerves so that you don’t feel the pain. It really drives out the pain by helping the conditions that are causing it. Right to the affected spot it brings a healing stream of fresh, revitalizing | blood, driving out conjestion, relaxing contracted muscles. The pain stops as a natural consequence. So clean and easy to use, too. Just pat it on lightly without rubbing, and the liniment will do its work. Get a bottle today and have it on hand. All druggists have it—35 cents. the damage action is $1,000. The plaintiff claimed that on Au- gust 16, 1925, between Saybrook and New London a car operated by her husband, William H. Shailer of Es- sex, Conn., was struck by one oper- ated by Elias L. Segal of this city and owned by the Standard Auto Renting System. The woman receiv- ed injuries which she claims caused her to be the victim of a nervous shock. On Sept. 23 counsel for the defense | filed a demurrer in which he claimed | that no breach of duty had been shown on thc part of the defendant company and that section 21, chap- ter 195 of the public acts of 1925, amending section 61 of chapter 400 of the public acts of 1921 violates the constitutional rights by depriving the defendant of its property without due process of law. The act mentioned provides that whoever shall rent or loan an auto- mobile to any other person is H‘Llr]n" said | for any dai.ages created by persons while driving the operated or loaned car. RHINELANDER WINS Appellate Division of New York Supreme Court Allows Appeal on » | Divorce Ruling. New York, Nov. 11 (P)—Decision of an appeal for a new trial in the Leonard Kip Rhinelander suit for annulment of his marriage to Mrs. Alice Jones Rhinelander, served yesterday by the appellate division of the state supreme court. The decision will cover not only the appeal against Justice Mors- chauser's denial of e new trial, but will consider arguments for and against the payment by Rhineland- | er of $22,000 additional counsel fees asked for appeal services by coun- sel for his wife. Isaac N. Mills, counsel for Rhine- lander, today renewed his attack on was re- | '18 the “exorbitance” of the fees dae manded, but did not attack the monthly alimony granted. R. R. FUNDING PROPOSALS Washington, Nov. 11 UP—Becre- tary Mellon has tentatively sccepted & proposed funding. .settlement by the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul railroad of its wartime loans provided the proposal promptly executed. 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