New Britain herald., 1917-04-26

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 Plainville Realty company have offered the free use of their land for l cultivation to those who aref willing to take care of gardens this summer and stated that other land owners are coming forward with similar offers. MT. Trumbull told the diners that the association proposes to have an- other clean-up-week in the near future and also proposes to start 8 swat-the-fy campaign.
 MT. Trumbull welcomed the guests and closed with an introduction of Rev. W. A. Goodell, the toastmaster of the evening.
 MT. Goodwell handled the after dinner program in excellent fashion.
 He had an inexhaustible fund of amusing stories and anecdotes and prefaced his introduction of the speakers, with very entertaining re- marks.
 Butler Blamcs History.
 '"The Price, was the subject as- signed to MT. Butler. He began his address by saying that every man in the country is now thinking of a solu- tion of the problem as to what causes our unpreparedness to do the worlds work that calls us. They arc won dering." he said, what we will have to do in the war and what tho out come will be. Why are we unpre- pared? is the question every man is asking himself.
 .aThe war of 1872 we entered unpre- pared. Not single solder armed or existence of similar conditions at the |, oF Moxiron Civil and Spanish wars All of which resulted favorably to Uncle Sam.
 s'Now in 1917 we are taking our task in this great war; he continued ''and we are asking ourselves why are we always unready." He gavelas his opinion of one of the causes ''the fact that we have been lying to ourselves all these years. Histories used in our schools,"h he declared, teach the children that the war of 1912 was won by Uncle Sam alone and single handed and that every encounter was g. bril- liant victory for our forces. But that isn't true. England couldn't put ten per cent. of her forces against us. The militia untrained ran like towards from a handful of British regulars and let them burn Washington. Does our history teach you that? No. but it is true nevertheless.
 He described how in the Mexican war roads were lined with dead American soldiers as a result of our unpreparedness and defied his audi ors to show him the fact in a history used in school rooms. The rebellion known as the Civil war, he believed. could be downed in thirty days by 100000 trained soldiers. We know of the typhoid, the embalmed beef and the raft of the Spanish war although school-used histories do not record the facts. ..'
 We have been taught and have permitted our children to be taught that Uncle Sam with one hand tied behind his back could lick the world. That's why we have been and are un- prepared and that is why we must pay the price.
 "Our isolation from other countries has made us believe that we are safe. That was true one hundred years ago. There was no telegraph then. There were no airships. no fast vessels. Now four days separates us from Europe. The telegraph tells us tonight what was done in the capi- tals of Europe his morning. and to- morrow morning we will know what CuSy IlAV0 uOAc SVuA6AIs
 Before 1S14we were not part of the rest of the world politically. Over night by the turn of hand which no man could control we were inevitably and irrevocably projected into this maelstrom and from now on we must walk shoulder to shoulder and heart to heart with every nation in the uni- verse. Nations shall not live unto themselves alone but they shall live together, each for all and all for each. You can't live alone. I can't live alone. We must walk with those who sur round us. Dissociate yourself from your environment and those round !, you and you die, body and soul And so 1t is with the nation. And if this nation has a part to play then every man has part to play. If you are ] to enjoy the pleasures, material and spiritual, which the country has af- forded, you have to pay seele price. You can't let George do it. Nobody else can do it for you"
 The speaker said that he liked to think of the Connecticut of today as the Connecticut of 1776 but the facts give the lie to the thought. When the state can't furnish more recruits than are at present enlisting despite the earnest appeals of the nation then 1t is apparent that things have changed. we haven't walked up to the fact that you are George and I'm George You don't ask someone else to eat your dinner. wear your clothes, pay your taxes or enjoy your pleasures Then in Gods name why should you expect others to fight for you and die for you that this nation of ours might live"
 MT. Butler gave an idea as to what price the men shall have to pay and he appealed to them to pay it with out a whimper. The manufacturer may have to make his goods at a