New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 7, 1927, Page 2

om0 Reinn Do by G “The strictness of public morals and religious worship is relaxing, and“this is due to the war,” eald the head of one of New Britain's leading families. “Misdemeanors are more ‘frequent ‘since the war,” ad- ded .one of the officials charged with keeping the peace. These utterances ring with such tAmfltarity in One's ears that it seems ‘s foregone conclusion that ‘Ghe. war” is the World war, which ig beltg blamed for so many evils snd supposed evils. But it is not; it fa the Revolutionary war to which these worthy gentlemen were referring, and they were deploring the conditions which existed in their time, about 1790. For a crime wave swept over New Britain following the Revolu- tion, an epidemic of thefts and in- toxication and disturbances which was as serfous in those days as the succession of hold-ups and rum rings and shootings, is today. And, just as prominent men are doing today, when the Yankees of 1790 cast about for an explanation they hit upon “the war” as one which no one could refute and which could not in itself refute their statements. It was all very terrifying to the stern, God-fearing Puritans of those days, for they were &till as strict and intolerant as in the days of the tirst settlements in New England. The *“social upheaval” evidenced a changing spirit, but the majority still believed in freedom of religion anly long as you used your free- dom to believe in their particular religlon. Crimes against the church were - unpardonable breaches of secular law in those days, and many an offender was found guilty on charges which sound absurd today. Arrested for ) Church * In the year 1764, for instance, the grand jurors and constables of the parish of New Britain duly noted down the names of those persons who had neglected to attend public worship. The names were handed to one of His Britanic Majesty’s jus- ‘tees of the peace and the scoun- drelly culprits were arrested and fined. ‘Some years later, a grand juror made complaint of a man - who ‘vainly and profanely repeatedly swors and rashly and wickedly spoke and uttered improper words.” At his trial the wretch confessed and was fined $1.50. None of the fines were high, but they were prompt. And a tithingman complained that some ungodly rascal had profaned the Lord’s house by laughing there- in on the Sabbath and by marking on it with a pin. This criminal drew & prompt fine. A tithingman was an official appointed to see that order was kept in church; he it was who tickled those who slept and rapped those who talked in chureh, and such was the connec- tion between church and state that the man generally was a constable or had a constable's authority. ‘This reaction from the forbidding religion of the times seems almost unavoidable today, for the Puritan | church was at once tiresome and fterrifying, with almost no bright alde to it. Yet the people of New Britain, from firm belief—and part- 1y, it is to be suspected, from fear or from lack of anything else to do —were constant in their church attendance. '“Dobbin” Takes Them to Church Going to church in those early days required practically the whole day. At first the only meeting house ‘within a radius of miles was that in Farmington, but later one was es- tablished in Christian Lane. This was divided in 1754 and four years later the First Church of Christ ‘was built on Smaley street. Thither the entire population made its way early every Sunday morning, mak- ing the journey either afoot or on horseback, for not only was the automoblle an undreamt of miracle of the future but the carriage was practically inexistent in this section —=as late as 1800 there were said to be only six carriages in New Brit- ain. The dack of a horse, then, was the most luxurious conveyance to meeting, and a whole family fre- quently rode on its single horse. The churches were bare, unpro- tected from the weather, and con- tained no apparatus for heating, so that worshippers had to bring their own pans and coals or take their chances' with pneumonia. In these | uneorptortable and ugly surround- ings the early residents sat for | hours...The service opened with a | at home, ! corner grocery store. In New Brit- ain the police have been vigilant in | careful were the scttlers in this re- spect that they left their work Saturday in the afternoon or at sunset and made whatever prepara- for attending church the nmext day. They shined tions they could their boots, pressed their clothes, prepared thelr lunches, and did everything possible so that they might not desecrate the Sabbath by any labor. MOONSHINE RANKS CONTINUE FILLED Hope of Profits Springs Eternal in Human Breasts Despite the passing of the years since the sale of alcoholic beverages was prohibited by law, it is very well understood that “men of drink- ing habits” in every part of the country continue to be able to quench their thirst when they wish to, whether they do their drinking at their clubs, or in the enforcing the law and as a result many thousands of dollars have | been received in fines and numerous violators have gone to jail for per- sisting in remaining in the busi- ness after having had a warning in the form of raids. The question naturally arises as to the reasons storekeepers are sO ready and willing to risk prosecu- (tion time after time, and why does not the fate of their acquaintances and themselves tend to keep them away from the forbidden traffic. It has been proven that whereas some bootleggers have found their business highly profitable and no longer fear anything but the prob- ability of & term in jail, others who have tried to do business in a small way have failed miserably and for their trouble have nothing to show oxcept worry, publicity, and in some instances, disgrace. Many Excuses Offered Police department and records supply the answer, or rather andwers, for there are different rea- sons for the persistency shown in different cases. There is, for ex- ample, the case of the woman who that she was unable to clothe and feed her children properly after her husband died, and she felt that her circumstances justified the business she was engaged in. So open was the violation, however, that the po- lice had little trouble obtaining the evidence necessary for conviction and eventually the widow, after having paid a fine and costs amounting to far more than the profits she had realized, Wwas obliged to take other means of ob- taining a livelihood for herself and her dependents. Numerous cases have been heard in local police court, of violators who admit after they were caught, that sickness in their families forced them to assume financtal burdens of such weight that they could not resist the temptation pre- | sented by the chance to sell liquor under cover. As might be expected, | the business went well for a time, but eventually the pelice obtained i the evidence and when the fine and costs were paid, in addition to the attorney’s fees the lesson in eco- nomics was complete. Others “Got Away With It” More than once have the police heard the excuse: “Well, so-and-so got away with it, so I.thought I'd take a chance.” It has often hap- pened that while one place was op- erating with apparent success, oth- ers were being swooped down upon. the ground and found it difficult if not impossible to obtain the re- | quired approach, and rather than { give advance notice of their plans, they had decided to assume the ap- i pearance of ignorance of the activi- ties of the man or woman fn charge of the successful place. Soon- er or later, however, the raid came, and in many instances the visits of tif police have been so numerous after the first successful trip that the nerves of the owner could stand the strain no longer and the place either went out of existence entirely or was taken over by a new owner, Aamusement were permitted on Sun- day, nor was work done. In fact, o court | pleaded for leniency on the ground Probably the police had looked over | - Liquer has ben sold in private ores by wamen whose husbands were unaware of the fact, the po- lice have found. Jealous of the fine clothes of other women, and pos- sessed of the innate desire of wo- man kind to be “as good as the next,” these wives who could not get along on their husbands’ earn- ings have been known to buy alco- hol from bootleggers in)gallon lots and manufacture ‘“hooch” while the head of the family worked in the factory and knew nothing of the use.to which his home was being put, until the palice dropped in. On the other hand, the court rec- ords are filled with cases in which the exact opposite has been true. Many men have shamelessly hidden behind the skirts of their women folks, feeling' reasqnably certain that the judge would not sentence the women to jail for the first of- fense, Excuses Endless Liquor law violators have told the police they were in the business for profit alone; for money with which to educate their children, to buy real estate, to support cripples, to pay for operations, to buy auto- mobiles, and for many other pur- poses. They have resorted to every conceivable ruse to cover their tracks and to deceive the police by concealing the liquor in false par- titions, hiding places in cellars, attics, beneath floors, in walls and hundreds of other places. Through their resourcefulness, they have made the task of tha police charged with enforcement of this particular law, one requiring a greater ability to carry on a battle of wits than is required probably in any other branch of police activity. NOW YOU ASK ONE SOME BIBLE QUESTIONS The answers to today's list of questions can all be found in the Bible. They can also be found on another page of this paper, in case your Bible isn’t handy. 1. Give chapter and verse for this quotation: *“And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there'he put the man whom he had formed?” 2. How old was Adam at his death? 3. Where is the giving of the ten commandments described? 4. How did Elijah reward the widow of Zarephath for the hospi- tality she gave him? 5. Who was Benhadad? 6. Who were the three friends | of Job who came to mourn with him in his affliction? 7. Where did Paul and Barnabas encounter the false prophet Bar- Jesus? 8. Which New Testament chap- ter is known as the “love chapter”? 9. Give chapter and verse for this quotation: “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” FLAGS SHORT LIVED Chicago—A flag last about a month when flown atop a Chicago skyscraper. 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