Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, June 7, 1922, Page 4

1922 NORWICH BULLETIN and Courier 126 YEARS OLD Trinied ey &3y i e yesr excest Susdss. Buneeriptien price 126 & week: 800 & Bootd; $8.00 * por Baeesd 4t e Postofies 8 Norwich, Cons, wond s Gatier Tetmhone Cate. Bullts Busines Office. 0. Buluis Eaiotal Reems 532 Balletia Job Recm. 358 Tolepbane Coures 8t orwich, Wednesday, June 1, 1022. ———————— e lin o7 Tne awsscares ruiss, |l The Asmelsied Pres U ecluively entited || ® the G for vepublication of 4l uems despaich i or Mot otherwise ase B loeal news | AL dpw o reoade @ ot ca || suiches v are Al Teserrec CIRCULATION | WEEK ENDING JUNE 3w, 1922 || —_ - ———] A SANE POLIOY. Everything indicates that steps in the right direction are being taken to eilm!- nate thé objectionable features the plctures. Conditions became at there were demands for cen- This was not pleasing to the industry and it was e more senstble way was 8 houseoleaning them- upon the production of 4 pass inspection and 1D, rompted the organ- o place Wil H. Hays at he head of their organization. He was ined to direct the cemsorship from % to speak, and from tye orders h he has alreafly given nd the ing of certain movie stars is mak- a favorable impression. If business wnless guch action fs| rs realize the value of o housegleaning and getting ce of the movie fans. The the objectionable needs to ctor Hays ion plcture distributors’ asgociation, three-quarters of the busin that there up in the films it 18 pome that results will '8 office for the pur- ffairy for the welfars is to be expected that 0 per response tiom members. They this reform and es- objected to censorship cent y following the guidance Il win director they red favor: e mo they are anxious to tastes rather than to inéicating the way to obtain the confidence and support of e of lasting benefit cture business. THE TURKISH ATROCITIE s kinds ars pos- Asta Minor ocated in Thus | | are being com-| hum: that e s ed policy | . a mora systematic | shier stians in that part of warl atened ever oc- h % to be made will Britain his_country. Secretary | i to get| bt the stor- e near east ng that 15 too hor- here should e an establishment actual facts £ the - be realized that there are mmtries which wil cipate in the nquiry which are v concerned in sia Minor, and ot all hs means the aughter house trenches. the shment the infus- treatment is sufficient to 'y an energetic search for e serving of notice upon treatment of human- tad n but what the e minority, but that for thelr extermi-| o Turks in the past| Christians as obstacles | infliction of the most hor-| n no reason at all| bie treatme xisted. NO UNWRITTEN LAW. pe some places where te as much needed as In the cltv’ Ys ut thers can be no ques-| phasis which Judge | he fact that there h ny as the unwritten law ly and to the peint calling for capita! punishment agala featured the m as it thoxs who delib-| had a ht to do so ecause he naturs of the crime or| ffense which prompted the act. The Sew York judge well declares that no e has the right to take the law. into! own hands, and that “no man has a to determine whose life should be life should be taken or hotld be subjected to any more mey than is intended by the law.” The judge was not forgetful of the Met that there are repeated instance vhere justice has been swayed because i the claimed existence of the unwrit- wa lmw. IHe was speaking in connec- don with & cass In his own court where I was being brought fo the fremt and here he belleved it was necessary ‘o # It De cleasly understood that delib- rate murder must be regarded as such | should not be impaired, and {an and that the impression ghould not be allowed to become fixed in the mind that there 15 an unwritten law that sane- tions 1t. Such acts are in keeping with the law- lessness that is displayed from time to time, with too great frequency in the Iynching states, and when a judge takes occasion to have it understood that no such idea should prevall in his court he renders a service that is of conspicu- ous value. It 18 not to be supposed that the crime which prompted the other does mot call for punishment. As a matter of fact It calls for full punishment in every re- spect but it should be ‘mposed in keep- ing with the established law and not by a penalty fixed by an Interested indi- vidual under the idéa that it complied with an unwritten law. THE NATION'S LEADER. When President Harding writes to the chairman of the senate appropriation committee and urges that the size of the army as fixed by the upper body of congress be retained, he spoke to the conferees upop that b in behalf of the nation's defemse, Thers have been | matters upon which the opinion of the president has been gought in advance. He has from time to time been asked to indicate what his attitude would be toward certain legislation, but in this 'n- stance he feels called upon to let it te known that the national defense system that s what is to be inferred he belleves would happen should there be a reduction to the figures approved in the house, There has been a demand that the president show that he was the leader of the nation. He has been averse to taking the position of driver of congress because of the opposition that has been manifested to such a policy, but the manner in which congress has flounder- ed about, wasted time, disregarded in certain ways the nation's needs and dis- plaved bad leadership hag shown the necessity for the president to get it into line. stop fts petty bickerings and get it down to that action which he pointed out many months ago was necessary for s welfare of the country. “More atten- tion to t! business before it instead of cs would prove beneficial. a responsibility’ which goes with the presidency. The president has not been disposed to overlook it but he gives indication of the fact that he in- tends to make it manifest in a different manner than he has hitherto. While he didn't believe that the action of con- gress should be dependent upon the say 80 of the president he has been brought by the attitude of congress to the view that there must be exercised that lead- ership which will hold congress to the fixed course and see that {t accom- plishes those things which the adminis- tration set out to do and which ought not to be allowed to suffer from mneg- lect. Experience has taught, however. that advantage was being taken of his attitude and henceforth a different at- titude sesms to be indicated, TRYING TO CHECK RECKLESSNESS Down In Virginia there is a law to the effect that drivers of vehicles ap- proaching a grade crossing outside the corporate limits of a town shall ccme to a stop within 10 to 100 feet of the nearest rail to ascertain if it is safe to proceed’ and those who are convicted of violating the law are subject to a fine of $10 for recklessnes: The observation of the New Haven Register is that “We want no such law n Connecticut.” Without any question we do not want such a law but there are many requirements in behalf of safety which we do not want but which are ex- cellent things for us. It 1s required of trolley cars that they stop at grade and in some instances throw and it is frequently disclosed that if thoss who figure in crossing accl- der fatalities had brought thelr vehicle to & halt to determme whether a tra s coming or mot no collision would have occurred. The climination of the crossing 1s the crossings signals, 1 A True Detective Story, Copyrighted When Hyman and Hess, dealers in cloaks and suits on State street, Albany, IN. Y, sent a check for $38.77 to Rels and Blum, garment manufacturérs in New York city, they didn't have the slightest idea that they were starting a chain of evidence which would land one of the cleverest crooks in America behind the bars. A few days later, before the New York firm had had time to repért the nor rival of the check and thus permit Hrrqnn and Hess to look into the mattar, a young man came into the Natlonal Com- mercial bany in Albany and presented a check for $330, made out to “Bearer.” The date on the check, filled in with a rubber stamp, corresponded to the day on which it Was presented, and the man who hended it to the paying teller men- tioned casually that the check “was t6 cover an option” and that he had to hur- ry back to New York in order to com- plete the transaction. The paying teiler feoling certain that the signature was genuine, cashed the check and the man who had presented it walked out of the bank with $380 in his pocket. ‘When Hyman and Hess had thelr ac- counts balanced they found that they were exactly $380 short—for the original check had never reached its New York destination, but had been lifted out of a mall box by one of a gang of clever criminals, the body of the check erased with an ink eradicator and the date and amount filled in on top of the original signature. “Only one man in the conntry could have done that and gotten away with it,” growled George A. Fuller, assistant sup- erintendent of the Pinkerton Detective agency, when the bank called the tails of the case to his attention. Boland’s work !" “Yes, Boland,” replied Fuller. “Or Gardner, as he sometimes calls himself. He's got a regular organization for this sort of thing. Trains boys to loot the mail boxes, washes the checks with sn acid preparation of his own invention, writes in a higher amount, makes-them payable to ‘Bearer’, and then another of is tools cashes them.” “If you know so much about the man,” asked the amazed banker, “why hasn’t he been arrested long before this?" “It's easy enough to arrest a man,” was Fuller's reuly, “but it is sometimes very difficult to conviet him. So far as the actual check-raising goes, Boland plays a lone hand. What's more, he pays his men well, and takes care of them if they happen to get caught. So far, none of ‘em has turned state’s evidence, and until they do—or until we catch Bo- i land red-handed—there' but be careful. We've got our eves on|! him. He can't move without our knowing. it. ‘Warned by Hyman and Hess check that the Boland outfit was once more conduct- ing operations in New York state, Pink- erfon men kept close watch on all per: sons suspected of bel to the organ- izations, with the result that three men were arrested and sentenced to terms in prison. But all of them s y re- fused to implicate the “man higher up. Finally Boland and three of his assocl- ates were arrested in Boston, after Full- er had shadowed a boy whom he and Devine, another of the organization, drew short terms for petty larceny, bu Boland escaped on account of a technicali- ty, and moved to New York where he tried to continue his operations. But the New York police and particularly Com- missioner George S. Dougherty, made things so difficult that he was soon re- duced to the expedient of securing checks wherever he could—& necessity which led to the fatal slip which Fuller had pre- dicted. N Out of the mall box of an up-town apartment house, one of Boland's appren- tices secured a check for $50, made out to a real estate company in payment of the rental of - one of the apartments. It was child’s play for Boland to wash off the original name and amount and ta write in the words “Bearer” and “Two hundred and Eleven Dollars.” Once that was done, he had a perfectly good check (apparently) and he sent one of his men down to the bank on which the check was drown, with minute instructions as to the cashing of the check. But the cashier, being suspicious of a check of that size being made out to “Bearer’— particularly as he knew that the woman whose signature appeared upon it was very careful in her financial dealings— decliried to cash it, and Boland’s man re- turned with a story of having been watch- ed was very fearful to approach the pay- ing window. Boland, in a spirit of ora- vado, again altered the check, this time making it out in the name of “William Hath” and set forth to cash the check himself, something which he had mevar before attempted. One glance at the odd amount—$211—and the récollection that a check of similar size had been pre- sented that morning payable to “Bearer” was enough to convince the paying teller that something was wrong. The Pinker- tons were immediately notified and Bo- land was caught, red-handed. Fifteen minutes after his case came up in the county court in Brooklyn, Bolgad was on his way to Sing Sing. ispect- ed of robbing a mall box. Dano, the/boy, Great Men’s Love Letters Warren Hastings to Hls Wife, To those who have been interested w the history of Warren Hastings, the dis- tinguished governor general of India, this letter to his wife will be doubly in- teresting, . as showinz the men more in- timately than we can fiad him in any record of his public life a5 we see it through the mist of accudations end de- fense that arises from his infamous trial. made famous by the triple elo- quence of Fox, Burke and Sheridan, all directed acainst him. 5 Hastings' life with his wife, who was alvays his “Beloved Marian,” was a pe- culiarly happy one, and their unioa more perfect than is usual in a world whose best harmony s sure to be full of dis- cords. Mrs. Hastings was divorced from her first husband, Baron Imhoff, to whom she was married ‘when she first met Hastings, who was on his way to India, whence they were aiso bound. The letter following was written to Mrs. Hastings after she nad ieft her husband to go to England in 1784, where he jomed her a vear later to eater upon the “anxieties of a trial that clouded him for so many years with obliquy from which he emerged so completely that the house that impeached him, and from whose decision he appealed to ths lords, rose uncovered to receive him when he appeared before them twenty years la- tr: “Benares, Oct. 1, 1734, ‘My Dearest Marian: I am, indeed, a most forfunate man, and am tempted to adopt the term even to superstition; and no wonder, for the belief has xeized others long ago, and universally. List night Major Sands brought me the news of Pipp's arrival at Caleutta and a short method. but Virginia s conselous|but blessed letter from you written on the fact that the crossings are Mko: board the ‘Atlas’ It tells me that you remain for some time even though | Were safe on board and well, but it tells vearly cing them. progress is made in de- And such being the case sible points, Just how many convictions would be possible under such a law is a question, ut there is little probability that e would be driven through gates, flagmen knocked over, signals broken down and danger was some such restraining placed upon recklessness. for the Virginta 1 probability didn’t want the law but was driven to it. EDITORIAL NOTES. With that $157,000,000 merger the to- bacco men can be said to be rolling their own. There is no one to blame but the Irish for the return of more British troops to Ireland, The man on the corner says: It would be a peculiar election result that would satisfy everyone Bringing 13 elephants into the coun- try in one consignment indicates that the clrcus business is improving. We are now at the season of the year when lcehouses and summer hotels are especlally susceptible to flames. There is much more of a faseination for the home gardener in putting his kitchen patch in shape than there is in keeping it so. It was not long ago that thousands Chinese were facing death from bul- lets, Now six million are facing death {trom starvation. The chance to put Cuba on her feet again teaches that inasmuch as tHe Philippines are on thelr feet the thing to do is to keep them there, There can be no sympathy for those coal operators who are fighting the plan of fixing the price of coal at the mines £0 that the consumer will not de gouged. There seems to be no real bemefit in that race of clergymen to ses which could marry a couple the quickest. Much more important will be the one whose service binds the couple together the longest. Reports from Cuba continue to Inti- mate that this country will have to act financially In that republic at the end of the fiscal year. It would be an un- welcome task but Cuba would have good reason to be thankful for such help, The fact that some American concerns have, sold goods to Mexico doesn't fur- nish ground for recognition any more than it does for the recognition of soviet Russia beeause certain traders disre- gard the economfc vacuum over there. in general dlsregarded if there|;, influence | | enough, and is written .in ths language of cheerfulness and affection. “All my past doubts and the ing on the plains of Suckrow (do, my dear Marian, allow me to talk nonse) and have given place to the con! dent hope that every dreaded obstruc- tion will follow me and that I am cncs more Qestined to happiness. “At what time will you have arrived England? It nothing has huppened between the ‘Surprise’s’ departure. and | your landing to change the public opin- ion of your husband—and I think it is not likely that it will be changsd—you will find him standing in high and uni- varsal credit, and what & welcome it will be to you. I have mow but one wish remaining—to be able to leave the active stage of life while my fortune is in the zenith of its prosperity, and while I have a constitution yet repairabie.” “T must repress myself, for if I writs all that the fullness of my heart s ready to dictate I shall never comse to an end, and I have this to copy. Adieu, my beloved, my lovely and most deserv- ing Marfan. May the God whose good- ness I have so wondérfully experienced bless you with healtf; safety and com- fort, and me with the possession of my sweet Marian! Amen! Amen! I never loved you fo much as I do at this in- stant, and as I have loved since lhe delightful news of last night. “Adleu, my most beloved, adieu!" The lady to whom this letter was ad- @ressed was a divorced baromess. whom he married on August 8, 1777. She was thirty years of age at the time. The marriage does not seem to have caused any scandal Nothing could be more characteristic than the quiet tenacity with which Hast- ings carried on this strange and pro- tracted love affair. Indeed, it only ceased with Wis long life, on August 22, 1818. He was burled near the Dalesford church, which he restoréd in 1816, and Mrs, Hastings was buried by his side o 1837, IN THE PUBLIC EYE Gen. Felix Diaz, who is reported to be planning a new revolt in Mexico, 1s a nephew\ of the late Porfirio Diaz, the iron man of Mexico, who was over- thrown by Madero and forced to seek an asylum in Burope, He was a favcrite of his famous unele, who overlooked no opportunity to advance ths interests cf his nephew. Felix was tiained at the military academy of Chapultepe: and was commissioned & lieutenant of engi- neers in 1889. He was elected to con- gress from Vera Cruz and by 1302 had become - a formidable political figure. Following the overthrow of his wuncle he became a leader of ths disaontented men in the regular army and srganized a revolt against the Madero regime. As a result he was forced to spend some time in exile in Cuba, returning later to again attempt a revolution, this time against the Carranza government. As & revolutionist it must be said that Felix Diaz hag never been even fairly success- ful. His name is associated principally with fiasco and failure. fixed | heek that disregard for per-| gioom which has for so long overspread safety which is too often respom-|my imagination are dissipated, like the tragic accidents at such|darkness before the equinoctial sun ris- — Today’s Anniversaries 632—Mohammed, or founder of the ied at Medina. Nov. 10, 570, 1520—Famous interview between Henry VIIL of England and Francis I of France upon “the field of the cloth of gold.” 1618—Lord Delawarr. whom some writ- ers have called the real founder of Virginia, died at sea. Born in England, July 9, 1577. 1796—Elias Kent Kane, United States senator from Illinofs, born in New York city. Died in Washington, D. C., Dec. 11, 1835, 1801—Thomas F. Marshall, celdprated Kentucky orator and politician, born at Frankfort, Ky. Died at Versailles, Ky., Sept. 22, 1864. 1847—Harvard college received a dona- tion of $50,000 from Abbott Law- Tence to further study of the sclences, 1848—Inauguraton of Governor Nelson Dewey and other of the first state officers of Wisconsin. 1910—Goldwin Smith, famous publicist and historian, died at Toronto. Born in England, Aug. 23, 1823. Mahomet, the slam religion, Born at Mecca, Today’s Birthdays Sir Landon Ronald, the English mausi- clan and conductor who was recently knighted, born 49 years ago today. Peleg Howland, president of the Im- perial Bank of Canada, born at Kleln, burg, Ont., 65 years ago today. Albert S. Burleson, former postmaster general of the United States, born at San Marcos, Texas, 59 years ago today. Andrew_O'Connor, celebrated sculptor, born at Worcester, Mass., 48 years ago today. Carl B. Roden, Wbrarian of the Chica- g0 Publlc Library, born at Kansas City, Mo., 51 years ago today. o LETTERS TO THE EDITOR REPLY TO E. H. K. Mr. Editor: In answer to E. H. Ks inquiry regarding method of obtaining answer to Farmer’s problem. One acre equals 43,580 square feet, therefore the square root équals 207.71 square feet, or the length of each side. One-half acre equals 21,780 square feet, therefore the square root equals ud:vss square feet or the length of each side. One-half this Qifference of the linear dimensions equals the width of the space to be plowed. BACK YARD GARDENER. Norwich, June §, 1922. Dr. Robert's Reply. Mr. Editor: Permit me to express my gratitude to Mr. Willlam Capell, Chris- tlan Selence Committee on Publication for Connecticut, for his friendly help in making clear my point with reference to the popular method of solving one's intellectual difficulties by banishing one set of facts. I simply made the state- ment that Christian Science- gets rid of matter in that way, not as a criticism of the system, but as a simple matter of fact. It is nothing to me if they do that. I gave no illustration. Mr. Capell has done that in his letter in your lssue of Tuestay. He proves my- statement by quotation and exposition so fully that I am his debtor to that extent. You will allow me a word on that in- teresting definition of matter which Mr. Capell gives. He says Matter Is “a false sense of subbstance” That Is, mere impression wigi no reality ber hind it. Yét the paoysical world, the moral body, the food we eat, the ciothes we wear, the granite hills, and roiling seas—all the visible works of God and man are nothing but “a false sense of substance.” They are not even real for experience. Why eat go false and unreal & thing to live? Why dress in such airy nothing? -Surely this mere impression— and false at that — is a marveilous thing. This is a theory of matter more fantastic than “the eminent natural sci- ents” ever imagined. And it is a theory, remember, just as the others. According to this definition a person's hrain is simply “a false sense or sub- stance” and has no reality. The defini- tion lends support to the theory. The mind is simply “a counterfeit of the Divine Mind” Put a counterfeit mind and “a false-sense-of-substance” brain together and you have a source from which anything may be expected. Mr. Capell says natural scientists have only succeeded in producing theories of matter in their efforts to understand and explain it. He carries the assumptin: that it can have no reality on that ac- count. Well, who has vet explained spirits on which he 1avs so much stress? For that matter who has exolained Lif; Yet have these no reality because seeking to understand or explain them we have only produced theories? Mat- ter with all its mystery % surely as well understood and as clearlry explained as i || the san Vet g u’:‘ . in good standing holds mfi" theory. mu.n"‘ s on tb scrap heap. Idealistic philosophers keep their fest on the earth today even if thelr heads do seem to many to be in the clouds. ‘Matter is real for experience, even though its ultimate reality may be traced to mind. Barden P. Bowne 15 a typical new school idealist and that was his position. He would not for a mo- mént agree that matter was “a false sense of substance” as my Christian Selentist friends contend. There are other points in the letter with which I am in total disagreement ‘but will not take your space to mention them. I am mot concetned with the re- ligious aspects of the matter, now, and would not have replied at all if it were a matter of religion, but T have an eagér interest in the philosophical side of the subject and for this alone the matter engaged my attention and trespasses up- on your pattence and space. Very truly yours, R. L. ROBERTS. Norwich, June 6, 1922. we all want? To be cooled ‘and out. - It’s easy with Diamond— Stories Thae Recall Others Not Talking to Husband. There is no testimony in court that is so vehement and pointed as that of & militant housewife who, seeks a aivores from her husband. This fact, it appears is true, especially when the -wife's case is uncontested and the husband is mot at the hearing. During such @ case in cna court, the wife became very loud and vocifsrous in her descriptions of the brutal man- rer in which she sail her rpouse nad tieatéd her. Her tostimony was rapid as loud. In fact her words became jumbled and were !ns. n the noisy din of her own wails. “Now lookere a minute” the judge in- terrupted. “Noboly can get heads or tails of what you are saying as long as you go on that wayv. Now turn here and talk to me and tell me the story. Just tell me 50 T can understand it, but Temember you are not talking to your hushand.” Forty Years—Or More. Mr. T is past 70 and gettiny so ab- sent minded that sometimes he passes his best friends and even members of his family. His daughter in the carly forties will not permit the family o keep him at home, saying that sensble peo- plo_don't mind what an old man says. But the other day she almost changed her mind. She was siiting talking to a very atiractive young bacheior when her father walked into the office. He sp ke to the man and turned to his aughter. “Your face looks very famil- far,” he began. “Let’s see—-n v wait-— Il recognize you in a minute. lHow long have I known you. my dear?” Tae caughter soid tbat embar- rassed passc was evea mora of 3 give- way than an answer to the question| would have been. IN THE DAY’S NEWS _ BELVOIR “Belyoir, Virginia, whers George Washington danced, where Martha Washington was enterfained at week- end parties, and wheré Lord Fairfax rested after his fox hunting, now is popularly known among Washingtoni- ans as a ‘destination’ of interest for the motorist and a luncheon place for the motor boat enthuslast” says a bulletin from the Washington, D, C. headquarters of the National Geogra. phic Soctety. “Though today theve is just a small pile of bricks made in England and a foundation which is almost imagi- nary to tell where the historic man- sion stood, the very spot itself speaks of the romance of which early Vir- ginfa history is redolent. Not a paint- ing nor authentic plan remains to tell what the old house lqoked like, but its location on a high green bank where the Potomac bends gently suthward just below Mount Vernon and within sight of Gunston Hall, the home of George Mason, the father of the Vir- ginia Declaration of Rights, was en- ough to inspire its preservation by transferring it to the United States Army. It is now posted as an animal Teservation and picnic ground. 'he estate stretched in the old days for ten miles along the river, and the house site is a high point which juts out into one of the deepest places in the river channel. “From Washington, it is easly ac- cessible by boat down the Potomac or by an excellent military road lead- ing to Camp Humphreys, built during the World War as a station for en- gineers. “These stately gentlemen of Vir- ginia had, from their front windows or front yard, a magnificent view of the corving banks of the river, and ot the soft biue hills on the Maryland shore. Through the two or three hun- dred vards of land that stretched off on the right toward the intake from the river are now overgrown with trees and brush they must have been cleared out then so the planters might have a good view of the vessels from England that put in at their wharves. “The house was built, evidently in the early eighteenth century, by Wil- liam Fairfax, the cousin and colonial agent of the owner of the land, Lord Fairfax, who at that time having graduated at Oxford was basking in the sunshine of courtly favor and la- dies’ smiles in England, contributing, as fancy pleased him, to Addison's ‘Spectator’, and moving in the inspir- ing and intellectual . atmosphere of London society. “When his Lordship was jilted at the-altar for a suitor with a higher title, he decidad to seek surcease from his chagrin by visiting his cousin Wil- liam who seemed to be enjoying life on his vast holdings il the Colonies. So pleasad was he with what one ear- ly writer terme ‘beautiful prospects and sylvan scenes, transparent rivers, and majestic woods, that he after- wards tooic up his residence on purt of his estate in the Shenandoah Val- ley. it was at Beivoic that Washingtor came under the intluence of the polish of an elegant English household. Most of his sterling virtues and imple mor- rality he had learned under his me- ther's care, but in tas Fairfax home and his long hunting wips with Lord Do You Pay For Your Tires? Come in and we will show you how to lower that cost. It will be worth your while. Alling Rubber Co. NORWICH NEW LONDON, WESTERLY, WILLIMANTIC CHILD TRAINING Fear a Menace to Children. s By Bertha Mason. It is surprising how many children leave their homes to enter into a larger social sphere with fear instilled into their thoughts. If all mothers could realize that fear is a most menacing disease, surely fewer children would enter the kindecgarten with trembling. Most kindergarten or primary téachers have at some time felt the pang of see- Ing a child show fear. Frequently a teach wonders why she does not win the whole-hearted, loving response which most children so readily give to the ef- forts of a sympathetic friend. No child can give his best attention when there is present a dread of what might happen if he makes a mistake. Be that sensation of fear ever so vague. it will check ready expression of thoughts and retard natural, normal, mental development. All teachers and public welfare work- ers will testify that many parents and relatives threaten chiliren with various direful punishments to be administered by policemen, doctors, teachers, goblins and numerous imaginary beings. A five year old boy entered a primary room in Sepiember. His eyes were weak. That, however, did not explain his evi- dent’fear of the teacher. It she ap- proached to help him he invariably crouched to ome side and never once re- sponded with more than a questioning half smile to her efforts to put him at eace. Of course she called upon the child’s mother. Dueing the conversation the mother said: “We want him to mind and we told him you would almost beat him to death if he didn't. I think ne be- lieves us, too” She seemed quite proud that her boy would “obey)” not seeming to consider that submission is not aiways disciplin To the teacher it was pitiful. The child’s effort to see resulted in an inevitable ner- vous strain. Through fear of conse- quences if he answered questions incor- rectly he was no doubt silent at times when he could have responded. And he probably made other mistakes through nervousness. It is ot only teachers who must con- tend with consequences of such a course. A few days ago I saw a child who was 1ll scream and pull the covers over her head as soon as the physician neared the hed. “If you dom’t hush the doctor will grab your tongue,” said the mother. Of course the child’s fear was only increased. Naturally it was impossible to accurately diagnose her case as she had worked herself into @ serious nervous state. Later the same physician remarked to me, “Why won't people teach children that we want to help, not rurt them?” He then cited many instances where adults had threatened children with “‘the.dcctor” if they didn’t obey. For cbvious reasons such a course is very unfair to the phy- slcians and the children who gain such harmful conceptions. Every child should learn that pleasant consequences inevitably follow certain actions. But to teach a child to fear individuals, real or fanciful, is an injustice to the child, to those who are to share the responsibility of guilding him and to the each member of the soclety of which he becomes a part. It is through Xknowledge and not fear that he learns self-control and respect for principals of right and laws of soclety. Fairfax and in his fireside talks with this veteran of experience who could tell him the opinicns of the learned men at Oxford und of the gavety of English society he gleaned much that stood him in good stead in later years. “Lawrence Washington, Georgt's ol- der brother had married Anne Fair- fax, the older daughter of William Fairfax and it was for her that Mount Vernon was originally bullt. Lata when the house was being remodeled for the coming of the bride of George, it was Willilam Fairfax who went over every day to be sure that the carpen- ters were getting everything in ‘apple- pie order.’ “Sjtuated as Belvolr was, so close to Mount Vernon and to Gunston Hall, it was the center of great social ac- tivity. Often whole parties would move from one large colonial mansion to another in a continual round of fes- tivities. One amusing and delightful indication of the affection existing be- tween the Fairfax family at Belvoir and George Washington is & _ note written by William Fairfax to Wash- ington after the campaign against the French at Fort Duquesne begging him to come over on the next Sunday, ‘or else the Lady's will try to get horses to equip our Chair or attempt their strength on Foot to Salute you.' BAPTIST MINISTERS GATHER FOR JUNE MEETING The New London County Baptist Mia isters’ associatibn held its Jube meet. ing at the Montauk Avenus Baptist church in New London M mors- ing. Rev. George H. Strouse Water- ford, presided and cohducted the @evo- tional service. A paper was read by Rev. J. G. Osborne of Mystie on the subject, An Apologetic for the Bighth Commandment. Rev. C. L._Hstherington of Fitchville read the book review, the title of the book being, It Asy Man The women of the church served ner and were thanked in behalf ministers by Rev. B. L. Nield of non. 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