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New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1916-10-12
COLUMBUS DAY.

|It was two o'clock on the morning
an October day such as this that
Fristopher Columbus more than four
inbred years ago pointed the bow
his flagship, the. Santa Maria, to-
I'd the shore of Waiting Island San
|vatore, in the Bahamas. He was in
frch of a new trade route to India,
II he did not know that a New
brld lay at his feet, Had he not
|loWed an old superstition of the
and pressed southwark in the
Ike of a flock of birds Columbus
Ight have landed off the coast iof
brida. But no matter where he
kded, he bad struck America and
freby opened up a new land, a
BID land, for those millions Of folk
! 3 were to come after him. From the
Bnta Maria and her sister ships to
submersibles that cross the At
4tic four hundred and twenty years
xSI. Is d. DLS SICp Ill l1ldIlllIuS Illo-
y.
80 today thirty-three states in the
lion celebrate Columbus Day. There
no reason why each and every state
build not join in the jubilee, but
Ene of the commonwealth are slow
joining the procession. Eventual
every state will do honor to the
moose explorer who discovered the
hndation of the greatest nation the
rid ever saw The achievement of
3lumbus looms greater and more
4gnificent today than at any other
be in the nations history. With
Europe engaged in a colossal
Euggle for supremacy, with men at
Fh others Threats, the peaceful
! d that Columbus left as a heritage
1.-THE many millions of his followers
1 o were to come later proves itself
haven for men tired of the rule of
bservience to kings Columbus shall
Der be forgotten while men breath
pure air of freedom
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1916-10-12
BLAME WILSON.

II you're feeling kind of blue and you
don't know what to do,
Blame Wilson.
If your landlord turns You out wit h
a slashing upper clout
Blame Wilson.
l. your wife runs away or the frost
spoils all the hay
If there's any wrong you know Of,
don't hesitate to say
That there's just one man responsible
for all this muss today,
Blame Wilson.
Aren't the foreigners at war? Aren't
the fashions simply raw?
Blame Wilson.
And the Dodgers going bad which
makes Charlie Ebbets sad?
Blame Wilson.
Why, the whole spheres gone insane
and while no one is to blame
We feel we must blame someone so we
here and now declaim:
Blame Wilson.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1916-10-12
College Athletics.
(Boston Post).

The voice which has been raised at
Yale against extravaganza in the'
preparation for intercollegiate COM
tests in athletic sports is by no means
unreasonable. It Is based upon the
alleged "unprof1table scramble TO
raise huge sums of money for the
payment of disproportional salaries
demanded by expert coaches
This is q condition brought abouhl
through the acute rivalry of years
comparatively recent. In the early
period of collegiate meets, the con-
tending athletes, in rowing, upon the
ball field and in other antagonisms,
were confessedly amateurs; what they
knew and what they practiced in the
sports in which they contended, of
skill and of force, they had acquired
by themselves. 1t was a hearty
game of boys, not of semi-profession-.
ais under professional direction.
1t may be seriously questioned
whether recourse to paid expert in
struction has been of advantage. In
fact, the professional trainer is almost
as much as anomaly in amateur sport
as would be, for instance, a crew OF
professional oarsmen in the varsity
boat
The movement which has taken
form at Yale looks to reversion to
better sentiment conditions.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1916-10-12
A DOLLAR FUND.

A casual glance at only one item in
Charity Organization made public yes
terday shows that if this good work is
to continue arrangements must be
made for an increased revenue. The
report of the treasurer shows that the
receipts of the year totalled s2,3O6.51
and that the expenditures for the year
totalled a sum Of $4,000. ST. There is
therefore a deficit of six hundred dol
lars, and this is in the form of a
loan which must be paid. 1t is
planned now to wage a campaign for
the collection Of some two thousand
dollars, this work to be done under
the slogan, A Dollar Fund. All per-
sons who can afford will be asked to
contribute one dollar
In the past the Charity Organiza-
ton Of New Britain has done some
good work. It's past records were no
year. During the terrible winter, one
of the bitterest in years, the organiza-
ton gave succor to the poor and the
needy and in this it took a great
burden off the shoulders of the MANY
housekeepers and business men in the
city. Organized charity as conducted
in New Britain is a success. It Is a
success because the men and women
interested in the work are wrapped
heart and soul in the enterprise and
do not depend solely on what they can
get out of it. The mere fact that the
streets of New Britain are practically
free from beggars and other mendi-
cants may be attributed indirectly to
the charity organization. Having
freed the city from this source Of an
noyance it deserves the support Of all
honest men and women. And it's
Dollar Fund should find no difficulty
in amounting to a sum worth while.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1916-10-12
VINO Cares What Europe Thinks of Us
(San Francisco Bulletin.1

complaints are still being heard
from Tune to time-like the leisurely
Popplng or corn over slow fire
mat the United States is no longer re-
SPected abroad, that it is no longer
any fun to be an American, and that
IL Will take long time to get Ameri-
Call prestige back where it was be-
lore the war. Probably not many
Americans worry over this distressing
POSSIBILITY. Perhaps not more than five
per cent of Americans worry over
~ L ne rest are SO busy earning a liv-
ing mat they hardly have time to
care ABOUT the prestige Of their coun-
try.
Ihere Is comfort ever for the five
per CENT who have leisure in which to
We Concerned about the country's pres
.ise' IL they would stop to think about
~ Tue realization might come to them
that the prestige of the United States
IS not at present at stake, and that
between one-third and one-half of the
civilized world is certain to lose all of
its prestige and a great deal more be-
tore the war is over. The contemptu-
Gus attitude of German or an Eng
llshman toward an American, suppos-
ing that such an attitude exists, is as
nothing compared with the feeling be-
tween Germans and Englishmen. The
bell1gerent world will be mighty glad,
after the war is over, to pick up as
1rany kind, obliging, businesslike
frlends as it can find, and 1T will have
too many rOubles of it's own to ask
questions about the diplomatic record
or the United States. If our country
loses prestige at all 1t will be among
the gang of so-called diplomats who
were too stupid or to greedy or too
bloodthirsty to stop the war, and it
should not be much satisfaction to
enjoy prestige with them, anyhow. Let
them despise peaceful, law abiding,
hard working America. America is too
big to feel their contempt.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1916-10-12

Roosevelt think that mother would
choose, whatever her nationality?
There are more than million mothers
in Europe who wish there was some
one there big enough to have kept
their sons out of war. Yet the entire
continent can be searched from one
end to another and in only a few
instances, Holland, Norway, Sweden,
can there be found men who kept
their countries out of war. AS it
is, all of these countries might enter
the arena of death at any moment.
No! HE kept us out of war is not
a coWardly phrase. 1t is a sensible
one. Viewed in the light of what it
means to get into war it is far more
than that, it is a phrase that carries
belong to those who have experienced
no bloodshed. Up to date it is esti-
mated that there have been killed and
wounded on the battlefe1ds of Europe
way of figuring how many homes are
thus thrown into mourning, how many
mothers whose hearts are broken at
the loss of sons, how many sisters
whose brothers are sacrificed, how
many sweethearts left lonely, how
many wives who are widowed, how
many children made orphans. If all
these mothers and sisters and sweet
hearts and wives and little children
were assembled, they could give some
very good reasons why the phrase HE
has kept us out of war" is not a
cowardly one. If it is, they wish in
their hearts that there was someone
in Europe cowardly enough to have
kept their sons and brothers and
frances and husbands and fathers out
of war. Europe has not been kept
out of war; but America has. And
so an American mother gives thanks
to the man who through all the trials
of the past two years has guided the
ship Of state over the dangerous rocks
and who has kept the nation out of
war when it was such an easy |
thing to go over the falls All the |
mothers in the land, when they |
analyze the situation, when they see !
the difference between Europe and |
America, will feel as this mother in |
New Britain does, that honor and |
gratitude should be shown the man |
who has kept us out of war And that |
man is Woodrow Wilson
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1916-10-12
Not ALI on the Train.
(Philadelphia Record).

Some Of the women are travelling
around in Mr.. Hughes Golden
Special" but many Of them are do
ing nothing of the sort. Mary e.
woolley, president of Mount Holyoke
college, agrees with DR.. Charles w.
Eliot that an extraordinary amount
of good work has been done during
the present administration and that
the man chiefly responsible for the
consummate service to the American
people should be again their chief
servant" Emily G. Balch, professor
Of economics and sociology in Welles-
ley college, believes that 'it would
be most unwise to remove a president
who has done such an extraordinary
amount of good work during his adj
ministratfon." Zona Gale, short story
writer, and Ida TarbeH, biogra pher
of Lincoln and historian of the
Standard Oil are supporting the
president.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1916-10-12
Philippine Names.
(Kansas City Times.)

The Philippines are rapidly becom-
ing Americanized. The 300-year-old
Bridge of Spain" that spans the Pa
sig river at Manila has been renamed
Zones Bridge" in compliment to
Chairman Jones of the insular affairs
committee. But it would be unfortun-
ate if the process should stop there.
There is something anomalous in a
Jones bridge crossing a Pasig river.
The stream ought certainly to be re-
named, and it would be gaceful
tribute to the chairman of the military
affairs committee to call it Hay creek.
It owuId be all right for a Jones bridge
to cross a Hay creek. Somehow, that
Is just what you would expect it to do.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1916-10-12
WHAT OTHERS SAY
Views on all sides of timely
questions "a discussed In exc
changes that come to tho
Herald ONCE.
Why Boys Leave the Farm.
(By Melvin D. Hildreth in Worlds
Work.

(By Melvin D. Hildreth in Worlds
Work.)
-Four or five years ago. said a
candidate for governor of North Da-
kota, "a member of the faculty of
the state university wrote me that
he was preparing paper on how to
keep the boys and girls on the farm
and he asked me to give him some
suggestions.
IT told him that under existing
conditions I saw no reason why the
boys and girls should stay on the
farm and that l. a farmer. would not
blame them If they left 1t. / told
him that we had to work from Ave
O'Clock in the morning until nine
o'clock at night to prepare our pro-
ducts for market and then have the
Chicago Board of Trade and the
Minneapolis Chamber of Commerce
fix the price we were to be paid for
our work I told him that when
farmers got their rights and a fair
share of the prices paid for the things
they produce then / would say to the
boys and girls go back to the farm i
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1916-10-12
Silesian CRY of Gorlltz
Prison Camp for Greeks

nificent view Of the entire region. It
was on this hill that a peasant boy of
the sixteenth century used to tend his
fathers sheep and dream of pals of
gold and Of visits of mysterious
strangers. This boy was Jakob
Boehme (also called BEEN, Behmen
and BehmOnt), who was pursuing his
trade of master in Gorlitz
when he received his first inspiration
to write. This famous mystic, who
was persistently assailed by Pastor
Richter of Gorlitz throughout his ca
reer, is buried in the cemetery Of the
Chapel Of the Holy Cross, and in the
same Gods Acre is the grave of Min
ma Herzlieb, the original of 'Ottilie'
in Goethe's Elective Aff1nities' and
woman who left the imprint of her
personality on some of the finest SON.
nets of Germany's greatest man of let
ters
In the suburbs of Gorlitz Is the
battlefield Of Moys (1757) where the
famous Prussian general Hans Karl
Won Wtnterfeldt, for twenty years
Frederick the Greats most trusted
frlnd and aide, received his first wound
in a long career as a soldier a wound
which proved fatal. Winterfeldt owed
his first important advance in military
service to his extra ordinary height;
he attracted the eye of that eccentric
monarch Frederick William I, and was
made lieutenant in the giants regi-
ment. He was the unfailing friend
of the crown prince CATER Frederick
the Great) during the troublous times
when the old monarch had his son
court martialed on q charge of deser-
ton and, according to some biograph-
ers, stopped short of ordering the in
Fiction of the death penalty only at the
solicitation Of the ambassadors of
foreign powers.
"One of the most highly priced of
Gorlttz's possessions is war monu-
ment whose base contains the first
cannon captured during the Franco
Prussian war of 1870. 1t was taken by
a company of Gorlttz soldiers at Weis-
enburg, an Alsatian town where the
initial major engagement of that
struggle was fought"
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1916-10-12
The Injury to the Spurned Beauty.
New York Times).

The Hartford Courant reprints
disouisition by a Hartford correspond
ent of The Shore Line Times on
New England and wilson,
From the beginning President Will
son has had no use for New England
and no place for it in his single-track
mind.
Therefore New England is cold as
frosty Caucasus fonts and will pun
ish the president for his neglect.
The sad fact is that Mr.. Wilson in
some of his historical appraisements
has ventured to insist upon the past,
so often forgotten by Yankees writer's,
Of Virginia and the south, Of the Mid
lie states. in colonial and national
achieveme Now New England, with
all her gifts and virtues, is a jealous
mistress. Her children have written
and sung a good share of American
history. Her light has never been
hidden under a bushel. She will be
worshipped with no divided heart.
How can ancient and rock-ribbed New
Englanders like DR.. Eliot, Richard
Olney and Simeon E. Baldwin forgive
a man who doesn't habitually put
New England first?
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1916-10-12
A Railroad President Abandons MFR
Hughes.
(New York World. }

Mr.. Hughes failure to get the solid
railroad president vote is foreshadow-
ed in an admirable staten ent bearing
the name of Robert S. Lovett of the
Union Pacific company. While Mr..
Lovett is almost as much disturbed by
the eignt-hour law as the legaMstic
Mr.. Hughes appears to be, he never
theless favors the reelection of Pres
ident Wilson and for a reason which
has not as yet received a great deal of
attention.
Under this administration, it
seems, business has had to deal only
with law and not with executive orders
and voritisn." No special dispen-
sations to form trusts have been
granted and it has not been neces-
sary to consult the White House
rather than counsel before engaging
in extensive enterprises THE statutesf
and not the presidential feelings or
state of mind" have been the guide of
business AS compared with recent
republican distractions" these
conditions appeal to Mr.. Lovett with
such power that he is willing to over
look some things and take his chances
with a president who has given us
business peace and an open field for
fair fight"
At republican headquarters sucht
expressions, of course, will be guard
ed as rank hearsay, not to say BIAS
phemy, and in some sections OF the
financial district there will be an in
clination to hold Mr.. Lovett and the
whole Union Pacific system on a
charge of high treason. We are in
doubt only as to Mr.. Hughes himself
Since he has taken all of his so-called
arguments thus far from the railroad
presidents, how is he to reconcile him
self with the detection of one of the
greatest Of them?
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1916-10-12

Washington, D. c., Oct 12-"The
| Greek troops which fell into the hands
of the German army when the Teu-
tonic allies occupied the Aegean sea-
port of Kavala would, under happier
| auspices than military internment,
find the Silesian city Of Gorlitz, where
they are now held, one of the most
interesting in the German empire"
says a war geography bulletin issued
today by the National Geographic
society on the city selected as a prison
camp for the 400 officers and 5000
men Of King Constantine's army.
SITUATED on the left bank Of the
Neisse river which flows northward
into the Oder, Ctorlitz is, next to Bres-
lau, the largest and most flourishing
city of Silesia. 1t is 1923 miles south
east of Berlin, sixty miles east of
Dresden and fifty miles west of Lieg-
nitz. It's early prosperity, dating back
five or six centuries, was due to It's
location on one Of the important COM
mercial routes to Poland.
1.-THE town received it's civic rights
as early as the twelfth century and it
is famous today for it's edifces of the
Renaissance period, while perhaps the
finest specimen of late Gothic
ecclesiastical architecture in this sec
ton Of Germany is it's Church of St.
Peter and st. Paul, built in the fiji
teenth century. Another religious
building of great interest Is the Chapel
of the Holy Cross which contains
fifteenth century model of the Holy
Sepulchre in Jerusalem.
I'm proportion to its population of
$4,000, Gorlitz enjoys the reputation of
being one Of the wealthiest municipal
tiles of central EUROPE due largely to
the fact that it owns a magnificent
forest Of 10000 acres. The older por-
lions of the town are quaint and pic
turesque, while the industrial section
is thoroughly modern and progressive.
The chief products of it's mum erous
factories are cloth, linens, toys, gold
and silverware, leather goods, chem
icals, machinery and glass.
ION the southwest outskirts of the
city rises the basaltic hill called
Landeskrone, which commands a mag
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1916-10-12
Doc, Dab, Day!
New York SUM


The director Of music study in the
public schools of this town, DR.. Frank
R. Rix, advocates the substitution of
white English for dialect in negro
schools of Asheville, N. c., Willis
G. Cunningham, objects that chang
ing the words would destroy the
rhythm and the melody.
What would DR. Rix do with The
Camptown Races" for example? "Bet
nah money on de bobtail nag, some
body bet on de bay" The "doo dab"
refrain of that old song might be re-
placed with a "Selah." But can the
nimblest tongue pack into the tune
such a paraphrase as 'I am resolved
to favor in my aleatory diversions
that specimen Of the solidungula+e
perissodactyl mammal Of the family
Equidae and genus Equus which has
suffered ompulsory abbreviation of
it's caudal appendage-ia any cullod
gentleman prepared to wager his ]ucre
upon the opposing quadruped distin-
gui1hed individually by the castaneous
complexion O. his cutaneous integu-
ment"? Can DR.. Xix?
The same acknowledged idiosyn-
Grassy that would impel US to oppose
an endeavor to compel all men to
wear dress suits or uncovered union
suits at all times, or all women to let
their browning glory hang In a pig
tail, or all singers to sing in Iotten-
tot only moves us to remark that Di-
rector Cunningham's opposition to Di-
rector RiX's scheme seems moulded of
the substance of reason, mOistened
and made plastic with a drop of the
Juice Of human cussedness.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1916-10-12
New Elgland's Glory.
(Springfeld Republican. }

The managers of such summer no.
tells as have felt able to keep their es-
Establishments open later than usual
this year have found exceptional prof
it in doing SO. Fear of the epilemic
of infantile paralysis has led many
families to remain away whose usual
ome-coming time the advent of Sep
TENDER has brought. In addition to
this automObilists and others are
learning that the country is more at
tractive after Nature has painted her
fall colors upon the trees. Not yet has
the full glory of this autumnal ex-
hibit come in Berkshire and New Eng
and generally. Because of the album
dant rains which produced unusual
luxuriance of foliage, the time for the
transformation from green to gold, red
and brown is belated. Just now be-
cause of the warm days and cool
nights haze broods over fields, hills
and mountains Such a condition
has it's attra ctions but later on will
come the cold, crisp time when the
distant views can be obtained through
an atmosphere like that of Colorado.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1916-10-12
AMERICAN MOTHER AND
OTHERS.

I'm another column on this page
IRE will be found a letter couched in
Blple but eloquent sentiment and
med by an American mother. She
|olores the fact that the mothers Of
bse returning heroes have made no
hcerted action to honor the Presi-
Rat of the United States for seeing
it that these brave lads who
&athered adversely on the Mexican
lrder were saved from the horror of
Eual warfare. Individually, the
others of these boys will be on hand
ben the festive occasion arrives,
ben the entire city Of New Britain
|rns out to see and welcome them
|me. Those boys are the defenders
this country just as much as if
ley had been engaged in actual
life. They are better men for hav-
gone through their bit of service
|der Commander-1n-Ch Chief who
Ees to rush his troops pell nell into
|r on the least pretense. How diff
boswell are the patience and JOY Of
is American woman whose senti-
ents must find a harbor in the bosom
all American mothers. The Colonel
his rabid condemnation of the
Eesident Of the United States and
|ose who honor that President be-
|use HE has kept us out of war"
yes voice to this statement: -"Presi-
|nt Wilson's ignoble Sinking of re-
possibility has been clothed in an
Ferly misleading phrase, the phrase
a coWard-"he has kept us out of
IT."
In the eyes of a bully any man who
fuses to take part in a street brawl
soil his hands by pummelling some
zmmon character, is a coward If
refrains from street embroglios and
kneone praises him for having kept
r. Of the fight, there is always the
Tisterous ballyhoo artist to call that
|he phrase of a coward" Between
e phrase of a coward and the utter
bee of man of judgment these
sys there is very little difference. Be
Feen hero and a fool there is some
mes no great line of demarkation.
here are heroes galore in Europe
ere are few about whom can be Ut
red the cowardly phrase. che
Hpt us out of war" But if a
other had her choice between
listing her sons to the care of Presi-
Int Wilson or Kaiser Wilhelm, or
q Gar of all the Russias, or the
ing of England, or any of the mon
chs Of Europe, whom does Colonel