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New Britain herald., 1915-02-15

clever and interesting play may be, unless it affords the actors ample op- portunity for the exposition of their art, it is worthless for stage purposes.
 Our dramatists write for the story and the punch, but as yet, with very few exceptions, they do not write with the object of giving the actor full scope for his talents. The whole secret of successful playwriting is the possession of a sense of effect. This gift may be inherent Or it may be acquired, but the playwright who hopes to make name and fame must have it. He must know acting values in character line and situation. He must know exactly how every scene is going to work out when acted. The young dramatist as a rule has vast amount to learn in this respect. It is not necessary that he should have a technical knowledge of acting, or be able to act himself, but either he must have the natural dramatic instinct strong in him or he must acquire the knowledge by experience and observa- ton.
 It Is just as important that the pro- ducing manager should have this sense of effect as it is that the dra- matist have it. The power IS very strong in some of our managers. but others do not possess it and never will. Tn Judging of the merits of play the great question of course Is how is 1t going to act?'' This is what every manager asks himself when he heads manuscript and it is what he asks his play readers and his stage direc- tor. The principal cause of the failure of some otherwise very meritorious plays is that they did not act we'll. One thing is certain, no play can act too well, and there never was a play produced on the stage that could not have been improved for the actor.
New Britain herald., 1915-02-15

covering villages and old churches. The city dates back to the time of Sennacherib and contains records in- scribed by Xerxes the Great
 The American board college in Van serves a section as large as the state of Missouri and it's nearest college neiehbor is distant ten or fir eeen days caravan journey over hard and dangerous trails. In addition to college and hospitals. to girls and boys high schools with kindergar- tens and primary departments, and to evangelstic work in city and country round about, the board main tains an industrial department for the help of the widows and orphans of the Armenian massacres of 1905.
New Britain herald., 1915-02-15
Turkish Governors Rendered
 Reception.
(EXchange.)

Press dispatches from Turkey have
 consistently affirmed the friendly feel ing of the Turkish government toward America and toward the American educators and missionaries in that country. The representatives of the American board have repeatedly written to the home office in Boston that for themselves they fear nothing except difficulty of securing money and supplies although they foresee great hardship for the people among whom they work.
 That the missionaries wisely culti- vate the friendly attitude of the au- thorities toward themselves and their work is we'll shown by the following message recently received from Van, the capital of ancient Armenia and the center of the Turkish province whose name it bears. The message reads, "Our good Vali, Tahsin Bey, has been promoted to Erzroom. He leaves today and Jevdet Bey, the brother-in-law of Enver Bey, is his successor here. The missionaries in- Vited them both to an informal re- ception yesterday and pr. Ussher read an address expressing apprecia ton of Tahsin Bey's accomplishment ueIe, gave nun q copy ana Wlll'ScDd a copy to our embassy. He respond ed with an appreciative address,
 Dr. Ussher, who read the addfoSs. is in charge of the American boards hospital in Van. He is of Illinois birth and got his medical training in Kansas Medical college. He has been in Van since 1898 and has made valuable contributions to medical knowledge as to the manner of typhus infection and it's treatment the result to his experiences in typhus epi- denies among the Turkish soldiers stationed at Van.
 Van, the province, joins Persia and the Russian Caucasian pro- vinces The city is on the shores of Lake Van, a beautiful sheet whose surface is $500 fet above tide level 1 Into the lake flow twenty streams, but out of it not one A century and a , half ago it had an outlet through | a tunnel The kurds, in q quarrel | filled LID the outlet with bags of wool ! and now the water is heavy and bitter | and the surface has risen 150 feet,
New Britain herald., 1915-02-15
COMMUNICATED.
Socialists Action Is Repudiated by
 Member of That Party.

As a member of the party of New Britain and of the International So- cialiSt Movement of the World, I re- gret to say that a cOmrade so far forgot himself as to say something in regard to certain religious societies when he had been instructed to talk only on the unemployment question. There are in the socialist movement men of all religious beliefs, but no man is justified in casting slurs upon any organization, be it religious or political, but occasionally a man will slip into any organization which the organiza ton would be better off with out and l think the socialist organi- zation will take action to prevent a recurrence of last Friday nights ac- ton. It would not be fair to judge the socialist party by the actions of a man who did what he was not in structed to do.
 In every organization since the be- ginning of time there have been those who by their actions were denounced and censured The comra des of New Britain regret the occurrence which was unexpected by them, but it would not be fair to the socialist organiza- = tion or any other organization to blame it as a whole for the action of one individual We cannot blame the democratic party for the McNa - maras who were democrats for what condemn all and it does not seem to me as if a fairmnded person would. SOCIALIST
New Britain herald., 1915-02-15
Labor CommiSSioncrship.
Hartford Times. ,

If the general assembly fails to consolidate the labor bureau with the factory inspectorship there Is possi- bility that the labor commits sionership may go to New Britain. The candidate from that city for the position is Orson F. Curtis, q republican. and who is prominent in municipal affairs. MT. Curtis has made an un- successful effort to be elected to the mayoralty of the city. 1t is under stood that his most formidable oppo- nent is William D. Parker of Meri- den, who for years was the chief clerk of the bureau. There is at least the suggestion of coincidence in the fact that he is q native of New Britain, the city of which his rival is a distinguished resident. MT. Parker was first appointed to a posi- tion in the bureau by the late Hon. Robert J. Vance when the latter was labor commissioner during the ad- minstration of Governor Morris MT. Parker was a democrat in politics then and he remained in the demo- cratic faith until the appearance of Bryanism. He could not swallow the spurious democracy that was substi- tuted for true democracy and he be- came an independent Later he joined the republican party and since then he has remained a consistent republican. He identified himself quite prominently with the political interests of Senator George r. Me Lean first in the latters candidacy for governor and later when he ran for the nomination of United States senator In the contest between Mir. Goodwin and MT. Lake the practical sympathies were with the former. Mir
 Curtis favored the nomination of MT. Lake. The republican town com mittee of New Britain is in favor of the appointment of MT. Curtis.
New Britain herald., 1915-02-15
SMOKE NUISANCE SUITS.

The smoke nuisance at Fair Haven has resulted in suits aggregating $75,0o0 being brought against the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad The company in considera- tton of the number of complaints re- ceived on account of the damage caused property by reason of the heavy clouds of dense black smoke removed it's round house close to the Quinnipiac river but this location dces not appear to have eliminated the trouble.
 There is no question but that heavy smoke does much damage, it per meates houses within range of the smoke, it damages the contents and renders such places practically unfit to live in. On wash day clothes hung on line to dry are soiled and taken as a whole the smoke has been rightly termed 8 nuisance. Factories do some damage in this line but it Is inf1ni tesimal compared to the damage caused by locomotives. The legisla- ture has been asked to remedy this evil but it has failed to do so on the ground that there is no known remedy for it. The smoke Is the most dense when train is steaming into city or leaving it and the company's experts have said that this cannot be avoided although it is admitted that it can be done with stationery engines The latter case has been proven.
 The sentiment against the smoke nuisance is increasing every year and it will not be long before the legisla- ture will prohibit 1t by law. It has been claimed in our own city that it can be stopped under the health or dinances, but such contention has never been pressed to court de- cision. The Fair Haven suit will call attention to the case in a general way and should the plaintiffs win the effect would tend to further proceedings along the same line and probably force the company to abate the nuis- ance
New Britain herald., 1915-02-15
Barnes Passes.
(New York Times.)

Goodbye, William Barnes. Some time when men are casting up the lists of organization leaders-other- wise termed "bosses''-they will re- member you, and not unkindly. It is the fashion to think of every man who finds his pleasure, profit, or other emolument in running political ma- chine as an imp of darkness. It can be eoverdone; and if you, William Barnes, are quitting the political game for good, there is a valedictory to be said to you that may be unfashionable and reactionary in these days of social service and applied psychology, but which there may be a few old fash toned Yankees still to hear and. not mislike.
 The New York Republican machine has been run by many bosses Roscoe Conkling was not much of a boss, he was chiefly man of elOuuence in speech and force in character He followed Reuben E. Fenton, a dis tinctly inferior man, though a man of ability, and Thurlow Weed, still abler man. The modern meaning of the word "bOSs' was not understood in those days. Conkling was followed
 by Platt, manipulator and little
 else. He called himself the Easy Boss,' meaning by that title that men who did not oppose him too actively. did not cross his path too offensively, could count themselves safe firm se-
 rious punishment by him. He was, however, a real boss a dictator, and in a not very brutal way tyrant
 In the last three or four years of
 Platt's supremacy, Oden rose and forced the rule from his hands. Odell
 was a man as inferior to Platt as Platt was to Conkling. He was q
 boss who derived his power chiefly from the failings of the man he was superseding and from certain financial influences that, to do him justice, Platt would have encouraged and
 used but never wholly surrendered to.
 It was not Odell. but Hartman, wno
 governed the state republican ma-
 chine.
 Let Us pass over Timothy L. Wood ruff lightly. He was the most human
 of all the leaders, and the least of a boss. His career was as short as Odells, and Barnes succeeded him. The heathen like to rage when the word boss is pronounced, but if we
 are to have any leaders in political oTSaulZdll t1G way mas not yet been devised to get along without them-it might be as we'll to have men like Barnes instead of men like Conkling, Fenton, Weed, Platt, Odell, and Woodruff. His name has been linked with Murphy's, but the difference between the men is deep. Barnes is man of culture, and un- derstands government and politics h ,i,,, tipe. iS- ter of manipulating ward heelers: perhaps he is not above doing that. but it does not represent the whole science of government to him. There are very few politicians, very few ip- decd, even in high office, who have a definite theory of politics and abide bv it. When one of them becomes politically active it is well not to judge him too harshly and, if he de- cides to give up the pursuit, to part from him with regret
New Britain herald., 1915-02-15
,. MCMILLAN 198-2O1- -2O3 Main Street.

by the hair and when she screamed he hit her in the mouth with hiy clinched st. A handful of hair that Anthony had pulled from his wife's head was exhibited in court. After the bed room fracas the nus band broke up some of the furniture. Officer Mercure made the arrest.
 Lsconis only excuse was that when he is a little drunk his wife scolds him. He was sent to jail for thirty days
 Judgment Is Suspended.
 At s:20 Saturday night, OTlcsr John Carlson found John Wright drunk and lying fiat on his back on Park street In court Wright saia he hadn. been arrested for drunkenness before in ninc or ten years. He has wifc and seven chi drcn. Judge MeskiS suspended Judgment and told Wright to go home and behave himself
 Judgment was also suspended on John Peterson, arrested fer drunken ness on Church street Saturday d. f:10 P. M. by officer King.
 Building Inspectors Case.
 Albin Carlson was arrested on cu~i- plaint of Building Inspector A ~. NusItlIRiht tlbllEf3 MlIH Bull131E At No. 454 Church street withoGt a per- init. As Efr. Ruthe-for6 iB confined to his homo by illness tigc case wss continued until Saturday.
 Threw Clothes at Captpin.
 Officer Hart went to I52 Broad street at 9:3o o'clock last night in response to a complaint and arrested Vladesiaw .Slomtnik on a charge of drunkenness and assault. Frank Zunzen, who lives in tho same house, says Slomenik came home from christening last night and made disturbance When he threatened to call tho police to quiet him Slomenik flew at me like rooster" said zunzen. Slomonik blamed Zumzen and said his wife hold him fl he didn't shut up he'd get the came as tho priest got.
 At 11:30 Mrs. Slomenik came to the police station to bail out her spouse. lie wns brought before the clerk and before he could po re- he hnd pulled oil his coat 3hir and undcrshirt and hurled them at the captains face. He was again locked up and did not sober up untf 2:3o A. M. He was fined SIT and costs.
New Britain herald., 1915-02-15
One Policeman to 1,571 Persons.

GA. F. Howe in New York Herald. } The narrative of revolting crime which has carried a New Britain date line for nearly a week has contained | no mention of a significant fact, which should receive consideration in con- nection with the murder of the Rev. Joseph LebriS and his hOusekeeper There is little doubt that the lack of adequate police protection in New Britain facilitated the commission of the atrocious act, operated against the immediate apprehension of the mur- derers and retarded the finding of a tangible cleW. There is, however
 no implication in this that the police
 force in New Britain is not we'll of ficered and alert. The crux of the situation is that too great a task Is imposed continuously upon the de-
 partment, and that, through no fault
 of it's own, it is ill prepared to cope with the extraordinary conditions with which it was confronted last week.
 There is city of 55.OOO people with ! thirtyfive men constituting the en- tire police force. The number of
 policemen is too few for any city of New Britain's population. But New Britain is essentially a manufactur- ing community, with an uncommon ly large foreign population. It is growing rapidly, and the influx is al-
 most exclusively alien. In few cities is there a greater babel of tongues,
 and in none perhaps is there larger proportion of people who do not speak the vernacular. Obvious ly, it is a fine breeding ground for crime, and that the propaganda of dark and deadly deeds has not man. ifested itself more frequently is a tri- bute to a police efficiency which is
 more than commensurate with the demands made upon them.
 The people of New Britain expect too much of Chief William J. Rawl-
 ings and the force when they get the
 relative security which they do. That
 the city has awakened to a sense of
 its insecurity it's determination to get
 the murderers, which it has evinced
 by not counting the cost would seem
 to indicate. But if it does not take
 preventive measures, not only by in
 creasing the number of policemen but
 also by having on-English speaking
 peoples represented on the force it
 will not derive all the profit possible
 from it's recent bitter experience
New Britain herald., 1915-02-15
WHAT OTHERS SAY
Views on all sides of timely questions as discussed in ex- changes that come to Herald office.
Cancer--A Disease of Many Forms. (Journal of American Medical Asso-
 ciatiOn.)

Cancer-A Disease of Many Forms. (JOurnal of American Medical Asso- ciatiOn.)
 People commonly think of cancer as single definite disease, as distinct and uniform in it's nature and symp- toms as appendicitis or typhoid fever. This is misconception. It is nearer the truth to regard "cancer" as the name of q group of quite different diseases which have one feature in common. It has been said that tho layman's conception of cancer is of som ething very indefinite, very DOT tentous, quite hopeless. a disease which always effects someone else than himself, an about which he car ries no imm ediate interest or responsi- bility. If this is a fair statement the layman is wrong on pra ctically every count, and his error and confusion is probably due, in no small part, to the failure to take account of the many forms of cancer. If this were dOne perhaps the patient would not so ire quently yield to despair and throw away the excellent chance of cure that exists when the disease is first dis covered.
 As a matter of fact "cancer', in the light of modern knowledge of human ailments, is almost as general and vague as a term fever" The word covers a number of entirely distinct diseases, differing widely in their orig in symptoms, treatment and cura bil- ity. The varous kinds of tumors have little in common except that they are all forms of new and lawless growths of body cells.
 This false notion of cancer as sin gle disease has probably hindered progress toward the understanding and control of the various diseases which are conveniently grouped under that term. All forms of cancer are aspects of new and lawless cell growth and 1t Is in the inner nature or "causa" Of such growth that we do not yet un- derStand
 The essential point for the man in the street is that each different kind of cancer is a separate disease If he IS so unlucky as to be attac cked by any one of them, it would be we'll before becoming discouraged to go and find out which form he has. If he is taken with a fever and it happens to be German measles his outlook on life Is quite different than it if chances to be vlrulent smallpox. So, also, "ro- dent ulcer on the face is quite differ ent from cancer of the stomach. And lastly while one is a more serious dis ease than the other, there is always hope if 1t is recognized and treated at once. Why not give the surgeon the same chance with cancer as he has with appendicitis? Suppose all symp- toms of that disease were neglect od and hidden until the appendix had burst? Doubtless the surgeon would still save certain percentage of cases, but would the record be any thing like 1t is now? It is the intel hgent cooperation of the patient and the family physician that has con- quered appendicitis, and the same weapons are even more needed in the fight against cancer
New Britain herald., 1915-02-15

other members of the $. thereby which some think had much to do in the jury rendering verdict Of guilty, has made affidavit to that effect. Marshall is said to have made another affidavit contradicting the first one and still another in which he admits certain admissions concerning the other affidavits. The Becker case, it is understood, will be argued next month and the negro's statements are causing considerable excitement among the lawyers connected with the case. It looks as if the revised version of the negro's testimony will figure in the arguments for a new trial.
 An effort is being made to save Becker and every particle of evidence that would help in that direction IS being eagerly seized upon by his counsel. This is quite natural and the feeling that has been engendered by the action of the negro has added to the interest in the case both by the prosecution and the defense. Becker has never taken the stand in his own behalf and this has always been re- garded as suspicious but on the other hand some think that he acted under the advise of counsel. That it is un- doubtedly correct and the reason for it is that if he went on the stand he would be forced to make admissions aside from the killing of Rosenthal that would not help his case with the jury.
New Britain herald., 1915-02-15
Writing for the Actor.
(New York Review. )

The new crop of playwrights have done some very clever work, but the majority of them seem to forget that the principal object of the dramatist should always be to provide "a me- diun" for another art, that of the actor. One of the reasons why "prize 1,lavs" invariably fail is that they arc always judged upon their merit as nroducts of literary and dramatic ability. the judges losing sight of the au-important fact that no matter how
New Britain herald., 1915-02-15

Republicans in Massachusetts are alarmed over a reported political con- sriracy against them involving thte coming primary election. It is said the democrats intend to have only a single candidate for governor, with the understanding that all the democrats will vote for the weakest candidate put forward by the republicans This IS made possible because Massachusetts has no party ment.-Bridgepor Pest.