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New Britain herald., 1914-06-03
STREET FOR PLAYGROUND.

Chicago has evidently come to the conclusion that when it is a choice between allowing children to play in the street and closing it up so that they shall be free from accidents that the street must be closed. 1t has been decided there that one street shall be closed from to z P. M. so that the children may use 1t as a play ground. The children will use the street anyway, but if 1t Is left open they may be injured and sooner than to take any chances in that line traf- fic must cease for the time being. This is something new, but 1t shows what a government will do when driven to it. The public street is no place for children and for that reason every city ought to provide playgrounds. In the Chicago street In question there Is no room for a playground in the schooiEyard and the people came to the conclusion there was nothing else to do but to close the street so that the children might play. Will this action have a tendency to make the drivers of teams and motor vehicles more careful? It might, but 1t is diff ticult to tell in advance. When the conditions are such that people close up a public street so as to prevent their children from being injured or perhaps killed then the situation has become critical. The importance or playgrounds which is the only rem edy. in sight for such conditions, can- not be overestimated. They form Q problem which every city of any size | must meet as 1t would any other. 1 Children must be kept off the street | and the need of this is emphasized
 every day by some little one being crushed to death by passing vehicles
 which are often driven at such a ! high rate of speed as to make escape difficult if not impossible. Chicago seems to have found a way which | will force a settlement of this great | problem.
New Britain herald., 1914-06-03
Style Pirates.
Cleveland Plain Dealer.

Perhaps the rapidity with which the styles in woman's wear are varied. or changed, or modified may be ac- counted for by the recent vigorous protest against fashion pirating, ut tered by the leading style designers of Paris The man who steals an authors story. the man who steals a playwright's drama, can be prosecuted and punished. But how can yom reach the man who steals styles? That is the problem which looms larger and larger before the doorways of the chief dressmaking houses of Paris These leading designers are banding themselves together for pro- tectton against the common foe. They have no settled plan of defense. but they intend to hamper the pirates in every possible manner. They will en- deavor to prevent photographers from selling the amazing fashion pictures made on French race tracks They will proceed against copiers. They | may refuse to deal with cloth and silk
 merchants who supply the copying makers of garments with material. They will try to break up the nefari- l ous scheme of securing a model cos | tune from its designer and then hav- l ing dozen, or many dozens, of copies | made of 1t.
 In short, it Is evident that the lot of
 a fashion designer Is not altogether a ! happy ono. It is evident. too. that legal prohibition for ideas still falls far short of the requirements.
 | Perhaps an unsympathetic public
 mostly men--will not be profoundly moved by the statement of a leading
 creator of Paris fashions that there | will be no great dressmakers left in
 the French capital In ten years, unless
 som ething is done to stop the piratins At the same time, these creators have
 their rights and should be protected
New Britain herald., 1914-06-03
WONENS COLLEGE
 BUILDINGS DEDICATED
New Era of Higher Education
 Opened at COnSlantinOp't

New York, June 3.-According to dispatches received here from Con- stantinople a. new era in higher edu- cation for women in the Near East was marked today by the dedication of the five new buildings on the prop erty of Constantinople College at Ar nautkeuy, on the European shores of the Bosphorus
 Several Americans Participated.
 Americans who participated in the exercises included George A. Plimp- tin and Walter B. Walker of New York, trustees of the college and Dr. Mary Mills Patrick, titular head of the school. Mir. Walker represented Mrs. Helen Miller Gould Shepard, the donor of Gould Hall, one of the group of new buildings.
 The five buildings dedicated today form semi-circle on a hill top over looking the village of Arnautkeuy and the Bosphorus. The campus of fifty- four acres was acquired in 1908 and the construction of the buildings was begun in 1910. The late Mrs. Henry Woods of Boston was the first sub scriber, with gift of $50.000 to the building of the university.
 Other Contributions Received.
 The other contributors were Mrs. Helen Gould Shepard. $2OO.00O for the construction of Gould Hall, the main administration building; Miss Olivia Phelps Stokes. for the cree ton of the Refectory, known as Mitchell Hall and Mrs. Russell Sage for the construction of Russell Sage Hall. dormitory. The two remain ing buildings are the school of edu- cation hall and the general academic building. The total cost of the plant to date approximates about $780,
New Britain herald., 1914-06-03
Not Barnes and Murphy.
(New York world.J


 Making the usual discount for tenn peramental congregations, what Mir. Roosevelt said about the ''two-boss system" in the political life of New York is in the main true But when he appeals to "all right-minded people to act together without regard to their ordinary party differences" he undertakes to make a bad matter very much worse.
 If MT. Roosevelt's advice were fol- lowed "all right-minded" republicans would keep away from the republican primaries, "all right-minded" demo- crats would keep away from the dem ocratic primaries, thus giving Barnes complete domination over the repub- lican ticket and Murphy complete domination over the democratic tick ct.
 To be sure. the virtuous might hud- dle together in the progressive party after MT. Roosevelt's friends had nom- mated his candidates; but there are thousands of right minded" republi- cans who do not believe in many of the main principles of. the progressive party, and there are thousands of 'right-minded" democrats who are equally opposed to those principles. which happen to be antagonistic to their theories of government Mir Roosevelt asks them to abandon their party and stultify themselves in order to give the progressives a temporary victory at the polls and to give the bosses complete control of all the party machinery.
 This appeals to. us, to use one of MT. Roosevelts favorite expressions. as distinctly "anti-social"
 Possibly Mir. Roosevelt's advisers forgot to tell him that since he went to Brazil the New York legislature has adopted direct primary law which gives into the hands of the vot- CTS the power of nominating candl- dates for all state offices. If the re- publican nominations are bad, the blame win not rest upon Barnes. It will rest upon the rank and nle of the republican party. If the democratic nominations are bad. the blame will not rest upon Murphy but upon the rank and file of the democratic party. The "two-boss system Is destroyed so far as law can destroy it. 1t cam not he restored except by an affirma- tive vote of n majority of New York republicans and democrats.
 The only way to clean house in this state is for the voters themselves to clean house at the primaries. If they refuse to do it. 1t is silly to abuse Barnes and Murphy, for their leader ship will be no different in principle from MT. Roosevelts leadership. They will control only because majority of republicans and democrats want them to control or are too indolent and indifferent to throw off the yoke.
 II is not the bosses who will be on trial in the fall campaign, but the people of New York themselves, and they should not he encouraged to shirk their responsibility.
New Britain herald., 1914-06-03
The Kansas Wheat Belt.
(Topeka Letter to Philadelphia Public
 ILedger.)


 A romance of the Kansas wheat belt with a love story woven into 1t, with a setting in Reno and Pratt counties will he shown in motion pie lures. It will tell the story of hard wheat, from the fields of headed grain to the hot rolls on the table. Mean while. 202,00O men are required to harvest the crop and 50,OO0 must come from outside the state.
 The first films are now being made of wheat field scenes in Pratt county. Later, those showing harvesters at work cutting and saving the big wheat crop will be obtained. The grain will be followed to the elevator and finally shown going through one of Hutchinson's mills. Films will be taken at the mill showing the wheat being converted into flour, then shipped to market and finally convert ed into rolls.
 The stofy accompanying the reel Is one of romance. Jack West, a college student, has trouble with his father and leaves home. He obtains job on a wheat farm in Pratt county. The film shows him with harvesting crew. Later he comes to Hutchin- son and is employed as receiving clerk at one of the big mills. Here he saves the life of the daughter of the milling company president. is ad- vanced to n position of responsibility. becomes superintendent of the mill and, of course. falls in love with the president's daughter and eventually wedS her,
New Britain herald., 1914-06-03
INDIAN CLAIMS TO
 BE 12S YEARS OF AGE
Chippewa Says He's John smith Which Is Not So improbable
 Was Once Mighty Chief.

Minneapolis, June 3.-John Smith, or Wa-bc-ne-gew-wes for more than 100 years chief of the once powerful tribe of Chippewa Indians, who is l2S years old, as he reckons it. and whose existence as a boy 116 years ago Is vouched for by government records, Is in Minneapolis. The last of the great Indian chieftains of the counr try, bent and shrunken by age, Is still able to walk about p-
 The lines that cross the old mans face have worn so deep ah cross lines of great age never seen in the ordinary human countenance have intersected, until the face is like the tracing of brown net, and purplish color that fades to deepest brown runs through it. .....
 The chin and nose have drawn to- gether and what must have been the features of an Indian of the highest physical type make but shapeless mass beside which two great ears stand out like fans as age has thinned the back of the head and drawn away the flesh from the high cheekbones. Bpt the eyes are bright the hearing acute and the brain alert.
 Seventy years ago. the old man said, in the great battle at Red Lake between the Sioux and Chippewa In- dians. he fought. and for sixty years he was a warrior for his people in the combat for the hunting grounds. In the fall of 1S45 he led his Chippewas to victory in a dozen bloody fights. but hunger and disease eventually wrecked the Chippewas and they re- treated to near where St. Cloud now stands.
New Britain herald., 1914-06-03
Circus Day at School.
( Newark News. ]

Children who bring written re- quests from their parents may be ex- cused to see the circus parade" the school principal announced. Here are some of the notes that were handed to the teachers:
 Please live Pearl to go to the pa rade 10 OElock out of school"
 '"rhe Teacher of Morris's Classs Kindly allow child to go home time ly from school. SO he should he able to sec the circus parade"
 My Dear Miss-Kindly excuse Bessie at 10 o'clock so as to enable her to sec the parade (circus) as know she will greatly benefit hy it.. and obligc her mother"
 Dear Teacher! Please let Louis Gou to The Parade of the Sircus.'
 "Please let lizzie go to the perade on Monday and Tuesday"
 "Plesa agsus Katie for the PeraS Monday"
 Will you please let Louis out at 10 o'clock to see the Surces for he Is very anxious to see it."
New Britain herald., 1914-06-03
TO HEGIsLATE AGAINST FLIES.

For the first time in its history, New Britain Is to be asked to legislate against the fly. This move Is being made in the swat campaign. The health department Is going to ask the council to pass an ordinance per- hitting it to declare manure piles a nuisance after standing ten days on the ground that such things are breed- to be wiped out if possible. It Is Superintendent Reeks' plan to follow this proposition up with some rules in regard to swatting and he is in hopes that his campaign will result in disposing of the fly or so reduc- ing his activity that he will cease to be the danger and nuisance that he Is at present.
 Up to a few days ago it was said that the fly was less numerous than he used to be, but he has since put in an appearance with his family and Mey have been renewing old acquain4 stances and making some new ones ever since, none of whom, however, are glad to meet them. For the past few years a csmpaign has been waged saafnstaethe fly, but 1t needs to be .leept up and unless 1t Is no permanent relief can be obtained. The fly has become known as a source of dan ger, menace to health. and so long as so much money is being expended for sanitary purposes it seems a bit out of tune with the whole plan not to be making a fight against one of the main causes of the trouble at it's source. r
 It Is reasonable to assume that the commonsseuncil will meet the health department at least half way in all it's efforts toskm off the fly and clean ,p TT eitsIhn every way. It is a new eAture of the campaign in which Fall should do their fair share of the swattfng and cleaning.
New Britain herald., 1914-06-03
Pants and "Baggy Knees"
(Waterbury Republican.l

Out in Kansas City. the police de- spartfnent officers ghave solved the problem of pressing uniforms by es- tablishing cleaning and pressing de- partment where police clothes will be cleaned and pressed free of charge
 The object of this step is to remove all excuses for "baggy knees" and other untidiness about the uniforms
 of the police department
 Commendable as it is to insist upon
 carefully creased trousers, it is hard
 to understand why4those in charge of police and fire departments and those lrvho have liveried employees have always insisted upon the pattern of trousers which require creasing to make them look tidy. Frequent press Ing and creasing of trousers. as all men Know, wears them out rapidly. II any one designs trousers that will look well without creases and will not hag at the knees. he is assured of the admiration and gratitude of all the
 men in the land, particularly of those wearing uniforms, who are now re- Guired to keep their clothes creased and pressed all of the time.
New Britain herald., 1914-06-03
IstElsrA READY TO ourr:-

According tolhe latest advices by
 - of the fiediators Huerta
 ready. to resign, provided that at
 fe time of his abdication Mex
 IS pacpied and the people
 hsrel are agreeable to the selection Of hss government, which seems fair
 nohgh, but Just how that condition
 an gbe brought about is puzzIa.
 'iil With Huerta out of the way the
 emainder of the problem ought to be
 asy of solution. Mexico will never Ae in proper aud peaceful mood
 fhile Huerta and his influence remain
 n the country It will be necessary
 or him and the most pronlinent. at
 east, of his followers to leave the
 ountry and remove themselves from
 III participation In It's government. Rven through suggestion.
 It seems strange remedy to ap- ply to people who now control the Government machinery in that coun- ry but there does not appear to be my help for it,s WhilH the presen, { sii;iiculties can be overcome, there .fo not seem to be any grounds for a belief that peace will be. maintaIsled permanently in Mexico ss3The pe{ssle there are a. turbulent lot, and Nhey hre naturally inclined to be at war with each other, but just now. the Financial conditions are in wretc1ed state. the entire conptry Is in dis ordered condition. axes ares at the highest point and feiief must soon come or business must suffer stil |nlore, and the limit appears to have been about reached. The mediatore have dificuit task on their hands psnd they are proceeding slowly. There should not be any hesitancy in con sidering representation from the rebels. They are running things ir Mexico at present. but while they are not an authority just now they soon will IS unleea ts.e msdiasors. are sabis b brinB About some arniaabie t~rhns of uettlssasnts
New Britain herald., 1914-06-03

We wouldn't give much for twen- ty-two year old republican campaign speaker who couldn't produce as good an attack on the Wilson administra- tion as the one that Colonel Roose- welt issued just before sailing Tor Spain. We would give still less for one who couldn't make out better case for the republican party than the colonel made out for his bull moose. It Is evident that something is the matter with the colonel. That trop- ical fever must have got further into his bones than he pretends. Hc has lost his pep, and pep was the most conspicuous element in his peculiar brand of politics.-Ansonia Sentinel.
New Britain herald., 1914-06-03
URGES COLLEG|ANS TO
 ENTER PUBLIC SERVICE
Supreme Court JEIiGs addresses
 University Graduating Glass.

Boston, June 3.-The participation of college men in public service was urged by Justice Win. RenHick Rid dell, of the supreme court Of Ontario, in an address before thea Erad uating class of Boston University today.
 He who shuns his fellows.'p' said Justice Riddell. May have a high mission. lofty outlook and he may be worthy of all praise. But there must be some to mingle with the people. to know their needs at first hand, to take an immediate and not simply d mediate part in directing their thoughts and their aspirations. Is that function to he left to the ward heeler. to the boss who makes his living by 1t, to the party hack with no thought above the immediate success of some scheme?
 Must Have Leader.
 Some one must lead: who is 1t to be? It should be the glory of a uni- versity that from its walls go forth the leaders of the people The neighboring college which trained q Garfield, the venerable and historic elder sister across the way which gave this land a Roosevelt and that of another state which produced a Taft or a Wilson did not crush in their minds the desire for public ser- vice. "
 All the problems of government have not been solved; many remain for the clearest thinking. the renun- citation of prejudice. honest and sim cere determination to do the thing that is right.
 Settle International Questions.
 How are we to settle international questions? Blood and agony and death cannot be the final argument. War Is unhappily sometimes not only right but even a duty Tn the general case, however, of international disputes war can no more be said to be neces- sary than it Is necessary for two per sons who have aF dispute to fight it out with lance or club as was the custom centuries ago in England.
 We have four thousand miles of international boundary without a sol- dier or fertilization. The example of two such nations us the United States and Canada might we'll be fol- lowed by others and in good time it must and will be followed"
New Britain herald., 1914-06-03
EMPLOYMENT OF CHILDREN.

fheneyer the question of the em-
 ,ment of children Is opened for
 sstigation and people are brought
 o testify the revelations are usu-
 of more than passing interest. A
 eral commission on industrial af-
 is looking into this matter at
 sent and at a hearing in New York
 kerday Edward F. Brown, vice.
 sident of the Child Welfare league.
 de this statement:
 8In the last, three years have
 veled 10000 miles studying the
 sk of children. l have seen chil-
 n years old in the oyster and 8imp canneries of the gulf states;
 ldren of II or 12 on the breakers
 theeAnthracite coal mines; children H5 m the vegetable canneries of New
 gsk Vermont and Delaware, and zlGref under 12 Tn the cotton mills Sthe south Even in this city chil-
 n as young as these are at work
 their homes, preparing dresses and .thes for the factories"
 Another witness, woman connected th similar organization, said that
 had seen child of years at Rrk for six hours at a stretch snucking' oysters and she added 'ht of fifty-one children employed in
 s particular cannery, thirty eight sre under 10 years of age, while the tie ones of from IA months to 1-2 6ars were playing about in the cor |iors while their mothers worked, blending to "shuck" oysters, too.
 This is deplorable condition in |nich to find children and yet there no reason to doubt the truth of le testimony given. Every time |is question is aired the same kind
 testimony Is repeated and there can b no doubt that the conditions fe as represented. Parents must very destitute or do not know their hties when they send children so bung to Work. at an age, too, when does n seem ssif they had even 6s play. such labor can Pt bsykuahle to sny Kind of an nploSar. laws ought to be so ringent that it would bs isnpossibls W them to employ ciiISjref at such shgs and that af they did succeed
 br!heing thesn apto tlstr pj4css of llsir&ss that the senalty " wgotiid beyso ,Ais N one Duplication would. be stsicisnt tsg e cure them of any desire 4n 1t further. Parents esd to be saved from themselves and lsR law and its strict enforcement is i8aMay to do it. N~'y-.
New Britain herald., 1914-06-03

There seems to be no reason why automobiles should be assessed at a higher rate than real estate. That is. why should an automobile be assessed at a higher figure than it will bring In the market? We know. several ex- amples of where automobiles have been advertised for sale at a certain figure, but which could not be moved excepfsef a price fifty per cent. less. Yet theSvAave been taxed nsthe first price. Property of any kind Is worth only what 1t VIII bring.-Bridgepor Fost
New Britain herald., 1914-06-03

An interesting feature of Memo rial day in Boston was the annual work horse parade, where 1,700 work horses in various harness and decora- tions, according to the taste of their drivers, made a line that stretched ten miles and required four hours to pass the reviewing stand, occupied by the governor and mayor of Boston and other dignitaries.-Waterbury American.
New Britain herald., 1914-06-03
ELEcrEn pREsIpENT.

Raleigh. N. C., June 3.-Edward K. Graham. for the past year acting pre- sident of the University of North Carolina. was last night unanimously elected president at n meeting of the trustees. He succeeds Dr. Francu" F. Venable, resigned.
New Britain herald., 1914-06-03

Ansonia and the associated com munities have no reason to be ashamed of the tribute which they paid Saturday to the dead and living veterans of the great war. Every where throughout the valley the eXer- cises were notably successful and u credit to the citizens who had them in charge. There were no discordant notes and even the weather man be- haved-Ansonia Sentinel.
New Britain herald., 1914-06-03
MusICAL AuTHoRrTY nEAp.

Chicaco. June 3.--N. E. Emmanuel. assistant director of the Chicago Grand Opcra company and a musical authority Of international reputation.f died here yesterday. He was S years old. ..
New Britain herald., 1914-06-03

Charles ". Morse says that Charles s. Mellen told only about half the truth In giving evidence before the interstate commerce commission, and he wishes the privilege of telling the other half. If he can unfold the sort of tale that he promises the saving of his life by release from prison to permit him to die on the outside may not have been in vain.-Norwich Rec ord
New Britain herald., 1914-06-03
,. MCMILIAN
lss-2Ol-2os MAIN STREET.

boats to rescue the men of the Karluk.
 When Captain Bartlett left Wrangle Island the party were we'll provisioned and equipped for long stny and no fears are entertained us to the men'a safety,
New Britain herald., 1914-06-03
zRYszKo VICTORIOUS.

Richmond. Va. June s.--stanislaus Zbyszko defeated pr. B. F. Roller of Seattle in two straight falls here last night.
New Britain herald., 1914-06-03
a,ooo YAEps OF t4ACEs.
nL 12Mc AArlK .VnIues to 2sc

--I ub N~ I2N 4WffFNuFF " t'FtaN1H " ~NEs~F Not unde ATgble kinds but .. dainty shadow and asfik lace edges and bandings. sinb. white organdie edg-.
 ings, suitable for rufnings and pieat-
 ings. s
New Britain herald., 1914-06-03
nREss rLouNCINGs.

The beautiful new Embroideries that are now on sale at special prices. IS. 27 and 45 inches wide.
 Embroidered effect on organdieA Swiss and St. Gall Lace effects. Sale price 35c, 3Dc, 5gc. soc and s5c yard. Value soc to s1.So.