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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-01
How Il Happened

Now is the time to rejoice over the com
ing Of spring and the first robin, but we
find our JOY this year sadly spoiled by the
painful delinquency of an old and trusted
friend. Where is the wide-awake country
boy who used to send up the first TIP
about robin and bluebird?
An excited lady telephoned one morn
ing to say that she thought she had seen
thrush in Washington Square, and couldn't
we make a front page story about It. We
we're skeptical There are so many people
Ground Washington Square who think
they see things that are invisible to the
common eye.
So we waited, and only laughed at the
testimony which came from Dyckman
Street from q Persian cat Of the highest
intelligence. Fiji had turned a deaf ear
all winter to the raucous chirping of the
English sparrows and the starlngs, but
the exquisite trill Of the first song spar
row brought her running to the window,
with her aristocratic nose pressed against
the pane, listening in ecstasy, or was 1t
creediness? However, 1t was question
how much faith could be rested upon the
word of one who had compromised between
country and town by the expedient Of
Dvckman Street. Even the most exquisite
ear can be defled by steam radiators
and cream bottles rafting in the morning.
PRO Bono Pubico" sent in a rapturous
tale from New Jersey of fifty robins on
his front lawn in the snowstOrm of the
Sunday preceding inauguration, but we
suspected the honest soul Of an uncon-
scious desire to boast Of the excellent eli
mate Of his native state as contrasted
with the March madness of Manhattan.
Still confident that if the robins were
really here our farmer lad would have told
US. we persuaded ourselves that the New
Jersey robins were winter residents who
had been hiding in some of those balmy
resorts ever since snow fell, and were, in
deed. a godsend to the real estate agents,
but no fair harbingers of spring.
Winsted and Tarrytown likewise we
snubbed. Warned at last not only by the
almanac, but by the swelling chorus Of
wind and sunshine and circus press agents,
we entertained a doubt about our farmer
boy correspondent, and went forth ourself
in search of spring. No further away
than Washington Heights we found it in
reddening buds of the maple trees, while
in the waterways which cross the vacant
lots were fringes Of green where spring
has stopped to learn the new dances. AT
last, pecking away at a rusty tin can IN
a dump. we found our robin, large red
one, contented and settled in life, as any
proper resident of Washington Heights
should be, and he whispered of a nursery
all fitted out in his tiny fiat in the wild
cherry thicket.
By this we knew that spring had really
been here for some days. We can but
offer our apologies to the gracious lady
for our tardy words Of welcome, and with
this explanation volunteer the promise
that the next time any poet tries to tell
us about the bright-eyed country boy we
shall remember the robin and coldly OBJ
serve that boys aren't what they used to be.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-01
LACQUER Prints
LdNNu OI ! AIIt5
From PoetrD)
STREETS

From PoetrD)
STREETS
Adapted from the poet Yakura sanjin. 1862
As wandered through the eight hundred
and eight streets Of the city
7 saw nothing so beautiful
As the Women Of the Green Houses,
With their eirdles of spun gold,
And their lonS-s!eeved dresses,
Colored like the granting of wood.
As they walk
open,
And the blood-red Innings glow like sharp
toothed maple leaves
IN autumn.
DESOLATI0N
Under the plum blossoms are nightingales;
Rut the sea is hidden in an egg-white mist,
And they are silent.
A YEAR PASSES
Beyond the porcelain fence of the pleasure
hear the frogs in the blue green rice
fields;
But the sword-shaped moon
Has cut my heart in two.
EPHEMERA
branches;
So an old man thinks
OF the loves Of his youth.
ONE OF THE HUNDRED VIEWS OF Full"
BY HOKUSAI
Being thirsty,
| filled n cup with water,
And, behold! -Fuji-yama lay upon the water
Like dropped leaf!
DISILLUSI0N
A scholar,
Weary Of erecting the fragile towers OF
words,
Went on a pilgrimage 20 Asama-Yama;
And seeing the force of the fire
Spouting from this mighty mountain,
Hurled himself into its crater
And persisted. ouv,r
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-01
Patriotism Is Personal

One hundred and forty-two years ago
this month few hundred farmers Of Mid
dlesex County, living in and about the
towns of Lexington and Concord, made the
decision which gave our nation It's exist
ence. They were men whose ancestors had
fought with Cromwell and with Hampden.
Liberty was for them a fact, and the price
of freedom they knew and believed to be
sacrifice.
To-day we are strong; a great nation,
hundred million Of men and women; and
we are asked to make the same decision.
We are asked to decide whether we shall
be faithful TO those traditions which have
come down 70 US from Concord and LeXing-
ton. as they descended to the men Of Mid
dlesex County from the deeds Of the Com
monwealth.
For a century Americans have believed
and declared that the American Republic
was founded upon the rock of democracy
and dedicated 10 the service Of liberty. To-
dav the whole world is convulsed by
struggle in which tyranny is once more
seeking to overthrow that structure, which
represents the gain of man through the
long years in which he has struggled from
barbarism to the comparative civilization
OF our time.
The issue of the present war Is the issue
of the Civil War. 1t is the issue OF the
Revolutionary War. 1t is the issue that
provoked the French Revolution and the
rising of the Dutch. It is the issue which
moved the Greeks 10 take their slender
forces to the Plains Of Marathon and face
the Persian myriads. Il is the simple issue
raised whenever the right Of man TO speak
his own language, to live according to his
own rules Of government, to worship &C
cording TO his own faith, is questioned by
those who are strong in weapons and
rely upon force.
No leader in our country has spoken
clearly and in a voice that has reached
across the continent. Our politicians and
our statesmen have failed US. The ques-
ton that remains to be decided is whether
we shall fail ourselves, or, in the last an
alysis. be true to the faith that is in US and
has come down to US from our fathers.
The time has come when every American
must decide for himself. The time has
passed when it is right to wait upon the
words of President or public official. They
are our servants. They have chosen to
wait for our decision to illuminate their
pathway rather than to light for US the
road which we should take. We shall do
right or do wrong now solely as the great
mass of our people realize that the decision
of the country must be made by them and
recognize what are the issues at stake.
There is left no subterfuge. There IS
left no resource in evasion. We must now
each one of us decide whether that love Of
liberty which we have professed was
sham: whether that faith in democracy
which we have affirmed was lie; whether
that faith in humanity which we asserted
was a faith in phrase and not in fact.
The time has come when America must
speak. The decision is the decision which
each American citizen must make for him
self. Patriotism is, after all, personal
The stream will not rise above the source,
nor the nation above its people. What
America does to-day depends now upon
what we are.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-01
The Food of Love
4 Lyric Of Meaiiess DAYS

(Frort Ptnch
Eat TO me only with thine eyes
And | will munch with mine;
Or let my lips but brush thy locks
And | shall seem 20 dine;
The hollow meath my belt that lies
For flesh of beeyes doth pine;
Yet, might | wolf roasted OK,
would, Of course, decline.
I sent thee once juicy steak
To prove thy troth and see
II in that stern ordeaPs test
Steadfast thou still wouldst be;
And thou thereof one sniff didst take
And post it back TO me,
Since when / wear it next my chest,
Potted, for love Of thee.
OWEN SEAMAN
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-01

You can purchase merchandise advertised
in THE TRIBUNE with absolute saiety-tor
If dissatisfaction results in any case THE
TRIBUNE guarantees TO pay YOUR money back
upon request. No red tape. No Quibbling. We
make good promptly if the advertiser does not
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-01
Woman,s Future in Great Britain

with her colonies, the needs Of Russa-all
give promise of a stimulated marke. for
British products. The task is one OF or
ganizaton devising a machinery for con-
Meeting the worker with the job, safeguard
ing unemployment and maintaining the
standard of living. The new Minister OF
Labor is arranging to breathe life into the
sleepy institution of labor exchanges and to
add 500 to the number. The government has
offered the extension Of compulsory unem-
ployment insurance, which only meets the
needs of some of the war workers, and meets
those needs only in part. Seven shillings
a week amounts to poor relief. and does not
reconstruct the industrial situation OF the
total group.
Certain of the women leaders have Gug-
gested widespread unemployment insur-
ance which shall preserve the standard OF
living, an analysis of the market as to where
workers will be required, with the distri-
button of such information through trade
unions and employment exchanges. and
supply Of blank forms to be filled up by
the workers desiring future employment;
due notice of dismissal to be given by "con-
trolled" establishments, and return railway
fares to be paid to those workers who have
come from a distance, and the use Of gov
crnment factories for a continuing national
work Further, they have suggested sys-
tenn of training in new trades for women
displaced from work. Such is the immedi-
ate programme.
Suffrage Will Decide
But back of it lies d deeper need. The
suggestion has been made for a minimum
wage. This could we'll be made part of the
general policy, which was already beginning
to be formulated before the war, for
minimum wage in agriculture and the under
paid mems trades Other measures OF re-
I construction are being pressed by the lead
ers of working women. investigation is
needed as to what employments are hurtful
TO the woman's organism. Reform OF the
factory laws is included in the changes tnat
are now seen TO be required. The eight-nour
day must be enforced. President wilson, by
his decision in the railway strike, mas en-
forced a principle TO which the trade unions
all over the world must respond. women
officials are required in greatly increased
numbers TO safeguard the position OF wom-
en- in industry. Not only must the numoer
Of women factory inspectors be increased
hut il may prove TO be necessary that the
new profession of welfare workers IN rae
tories shall be appointed by the state rather
than paid for by the empioyer' a"u ''e
Labor Ministry must have among its under
secretaries a representation of women. Inc
trade unions must grant admission TO WON
on in return for monetary contributions, and
the women must have measure OF controi
Of the machinery Of the union. The chill
dren. who by means Of a special certificate
have leaked into industry, must be returned
10 school. This. at one sweep, would relieve
the labor market Of 100000 persons in in
dustry and agriculture. II is probable that
all these reforms are dependent on the WIN
ming OF the suffrage.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-01

Entered Al ths Pr,o-oe at Nes Ycrk ssccod Gas
Nal Matter.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-01
sUNDEY. APRu ,, 1917

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New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1917-02-28
City Items
WOmens SO Boots, $2.25. Damon's

Women's SO Boots, ,$2.25. Damons
Shoe Sale.-adVt.
Beginning tomorrow, Policemen
Gustav Like and Hanford w. Dart,
who have been on center beats days
during this month, return to the
night details. Police Francis J. Moore
and Thomas Heslin are advanced to
the noon to p. m. beats, Policeman
Joseph Kennedy goes on the
Hartford evenue beat days and
Policemen Meddrick Perry and
Thomas Dolan take the a. M to noon
beats in the center of the city.
Go to John A. Andrews & Co.'S. Rug
Sale this week for real bargains.
Hot ashes placed near a barn on
the O. E. Swift property at 25 Lake
street ignited the wood work and
threatened trouble shortly before
noon today. Chief Dame and Engine
Co. No. 1 were summoned by still
alarm at HAS o'clock. Chemicals
were used in checking the flames.
There was little damage.
Members of Stanley Post. G. A. r.
will hold an open meeting in G. A.
r. hall this evening at o'clock
Comrades and their friends have been
invited to attend and after meeting
light lunch will be served.
The John A. Andrews company,
agents for the American Seating COM
pany, has been awarded the con-
tract for furnishing 1,0G5 new desks
for the Flihu Burritt school, now IN
process of construction.
Anthony Dorbuck of IL Wilson
street was again operated on at New
Britain General hospital this morn
ing for lung trouble following an at
tack of pleurisy.
B. C. Pond. international, secretary
of the Y. M. C! A. is to give an IL
Illustrated talk on Border Life" at
the local organization headquarters
tonight. Supper will be served at
GAS.
See us for up-to-date sport hats at
reasonable prices, M, Seibert.-advt.
Two hose MOBILES, valued at $28
each, have been missing from the fire
department equipment since Wednes-
day nights fires. Search is being
made for them. 1t is believed that
they were mislaid during the con-
fusion.
Window Shades zoe, at John a. An
drews & Co.--advt.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1917-02-28
CEDAR HILL FARM
PROPRIETOR dead
Continued from First Page.)

he is survived by a sister, Miss Isabel
Stanley of this city and four brothers,
Robert H. Stanley of Montclair, N j..
a. w. Stanley of Brooklyn, N. Y,
Walter P. Stanley, organist at the
Ponce de Leon Baptist church Of At
lanta, Ga, a leading musician of that
city, and Mortimer D. Stanley of this
city. Two daughters and three sons
also survive. They are Miss Marion
M. Stanley, a student at the Michigan
State Normal school at Ypsilanti,
Mich, who is i'll and will probably not
be able to attend the funeral; Miss
Katherine A. Stanley, at home; Law
renee M. Stanley, connected with the
Stanley Rule and Level Company;
Frederick N, and Theodore M. STAN
ley, now in charge of the Cedar Hill
farm, result of their fathers lifelong
work. There is also a grandson,
Lawrence M. Stanley, If.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1917-02-28
HIGH SCHOOL NEWS,

During the assembly of the fresh
men this morning members of the
Burritt service league elected officers
for the coming yeas. The results were
asIfollows: Presi dent, Kenneth Tut
tiSs vice president, Margaret RUSSELL;
secretary, Minnie Paro: historian, Ed
ward Mag.
sl BY defeating the seniors, the juniors
won the championship Of the school
Ia the girls interclass basketball
league. Tryouts for a school team
were held after school today.
The date for the junior promenade
has been set for March 3. The chair
men for the different. committees in
charge are. Refreshments Cornelius
Prior; program, Harold Slater; dec
Grating, Theodore tshn. The patrons
and patronesses iii probably be: Mr..
and Mrs. Slade, Miss Alma Grove,
Miss Margaret Settler, Miss Harvey.
Miss Winter, Miss Finnegan and Miss
Barry.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1917-02-28
IN SUPERIOR COURT.

Local cases scheduled to come up
for trial at the March term of the
Hartford county superior court, that
opens in Hartford Tuesday include:
Peter Zebeleski, theft; David Gorfain
assault; John Malina, false pretenses;
Philip Gagner, assault; Michael Ger
zeski, carrying concealed weapons;
Leo Skritulsky, assault: Zignlund
Shumsky, assault; Sam Lee. assault;
Bernard Miller violation of city ordi-
nance. Mary Murray, alias Mrs Dora
Belknap of East Hartford is sched-
uled to be tried on charges of mis-
conduct. Harry Kilbourn of this city,
in whose company she was arrested,
died at a Hartford hospital last week
Of pneumonia.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1917-02-28
BERLIN POLICE SYSTEM o. X.
Turkey to Study Methods of Criminal
Catchers.

Berlin, March 2S.-Turkey has be-
come so impressed with the efficiency
of the Berlin police that it has sent
TO Berlin the director of the Constan-
tinople criminal department, Behaed-
din Bey, to, study the methods in vogue
here, SO that on his return he may re-
organize the police of Turkeys capis'
tai and principal cities, and Introduce
German methods there. 4
Behaeddin Bey among other things
plans to introduce in Turkey the Ger
man equivalent of the Bertillion sys-
TEN in vogue in America, and many of
the German detective methods. There
will also be published bi-weekly
police newspaper for the intellectual
enlightenment of Turkish police officials
and the development of police
methods" 49,
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1917-02-28
LIBRARY ASSO. ANNUAL.

Ihe annual meeting of the Con-
nectlcut Library association was held
in parlors of the First Baptist church
today, under the auspices of the New
Britain Institute. The session opened
at 1920 O'Clock with an address by
Mayor G. A. Quigley. Routine bus
mess matters occupied the attention
of the delegates at the session after
which adjournment was taken for
luncheon. The principal speakers at
the afternoon session were DR.. Azar-
iah S. Root, principal of the Library
School Public Library, New York, and
Marcus White. principal of the State
Normal school. The president, Miss
Anna G. Rockwell of this city pre-.
sided at the meeting.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1917-02-28
WOMEN WILL MARCH,
Fair Sex to Appear in Inauguration
Parade.

Washington. Feb. 2s.-The COM
mittee in charge of the Inauguration
today announced a number of wom-
ems delegations which will supply
more than 1000 marchers for the par
ade on Monday, despite the Withdraw
al of a number of women who be-
came angry over the barring of GER
tain floats from the procession.
Among those who will march are a
delegation of Illinois democratic wo-
men headed by Mrs. George Bass of
Chicago, fifty members of the Wo-
mems Wilson League of Philadelphia,
100 members of the Women's Nation
al Trade League of Baltimore, del
egation from California and Wash
ington state, several hundred en-
ployes of the bureau of engraving and
printing, four hundred girls and
more than one hundred Washington
women,
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1917-02-28
PROBING PENNA. WRECK.
Moro Than Fifty Trainmcn Are Ex-
amined Today.

Altoona, Feb. 2S.-Officials of the
Pennsylvania railroad early today
completed their investigation into the
wreck at Mount Union yesterday in
which 20 lives were lost, but an
nounced that no decision to the re-
sponsibility for the accident would
be reached until after mature deliber-
alton. More than fifty trainmen and
other witnesses were examined by the
railroad officials.
Meanwhile representatives of the
Interstate Commerce commission and
the Public Service commission con-
tinucd their Investigations.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1917-02-28
no OPEN RED CROSS ROOMS.

hhe Women's club has responded to
the urgent appeal Of the Red Cross
society by assuming charge of it's
work in this city. 1t now seeks to
mobilize all~patriotic societies and
women to serve in Red Cross work
and also in women's relief commit
tee should the occasion arise. Red
Cross rooms will be opened at room SO
Booths block on March J.. Offers of
assistance will be received by Mrs.
JAmes H. Robinson of 54 Harrison
steet, city chairman of the Red
Eqss work or Mrs. Lawrence Mouat
81 Grove Hill, assistant chairman.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1917-02-28
MORE BLANKS NEEDED.
Workers Have Filed and Recorded All
Names Handed to Them

The local headquarters of the mill
tary census bureau sent out an urgent
call this afternoon for all census
agents in the city to return all blanks
that have been filled in, regardless
whether or not they had canvassed
their entire territory. The office
force has succeeded in recording and
filing all blanks sent in thus far and
more are needed to keep them busy.
1t is desired especially that factory
census agents and others who have
blanks in large volumns make returns
Immediately.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1917-02-28
AMERICAN MISSIONARY DEAD.
Miss A. III. Colby Had Been in Japan
SO Years.

Osaka, Japan, March 2S-Miss A. NJ
Colby, one of the oldest and best
known American missionaries in Ja-
pan, is dead here after a service ex-
tending through SO years. For many
wears she was the principal of the
Baika Girls School Of Osaka, WI a
she herself founded. $50
Miss Colby represented the Amer
lean Board of Commissioners for
Foreign Missions and came to Japan
in 1879. She was born in New Eng
land II years ago, and was the old
est missionary worker in Osaka Sew
eral hundred Japanese women in this
and other cities have been graduated
from her school. Miss Colby was an
excellent musician. She carried on
m usical studies at Boston, Germany
and Belgium, before coming out to
Japan as church worker.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1917-02-28

For the first time in the history Of
American politics woman's bureau
is to be established as permanent
adjunct of the national committee of
one of the big parties. On Tuesday,
March 6, Mrs. George Bass of Chicago
is to be elected by the democratic
national committee as chairman of
the women's bureau. She will have
her headquarters with the rest Of the
committee in Washington. During
last years presidential campaign Mrs.
Bass, who is the wife of a retired law
yer of Chicago, was manager of the
women's campaign committee, with
headquarters in Chicago. She is a
suffragist.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1917-02-28
I'D. LIEUTS WANTED.
College Honor Men to BE Given
Chance to Serve.

Washington, Feb. 2S.-To speed up|
the regular army, Secretary BakerI
in an order made public today Directs
that distinguished colleges desig-I
nate ten honor graduates from the|
1917 class and ten from the 1916
class to be examined for PROVISIONAL
commissions.
Under previous regulations SUCH
colleges designated one honor grad
uate a year. These men, it is speci-|
fed. upon examination are to be ac-|
copied into the service ahead Of any
other candidates for commissions
from civil life.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1917-02-28
SLABS ASSAILANT
WHILE SHOT DOWN
e. G. Tompkins Dies From Knife
Wound After He TerroriZes Ten
neSsee Court Room.

Ashville, Tenn, Feb. 2S.-E. G..
Tompkins was killed, Will Hoffstetter
fatally shot and Jim Hoffstetter and
Mrs. w. A. Bevington, a bystander,
were injured in the Davidson county
court house this morning at thetrial Of
a case in the circuit court in which
Tompkins was suing the Hoffstetters
for alleged alienation of his wifes af-
fections.
After his wife had been granted a
divorce, Tompkins filed suit for $50
900 damages against the Hoffstetter
brothers and their sister, Miss Emma
Hoffstetter, alleging that they had
EN- bittered his wife against him. As
the party was leaving the court room
it is alleged Tompkins drew a pistol
and shot Will Hoffstetter in the alb
domen. Another shot struck Jim
Hoffstetter in the arm. A third
struck Mrs. Bevington, a bystander, in
the leg. Before he fell, Will Hoff-
stetter stabbed Tomplins. The per-
sons involved are farmers and live at
DOnelSOn.