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New Britain herald., 1918-11-27
DEATHS AND FUNERALS
Austin NJ. Burroughs,

The death Of Austin NJ. Burroughs,
occurred November 25th, 1918, at his
home in New Haven. He is survived
by his wife, Minnie Smith. formerly
of this city, also a mother and two
sisters of New Haven.
New Britain herald., 1918-11-27

EXPIRES. Taft Fox's theater, Dec 16.
-adVt.
New Britain herald., 1918-11-27

EXPIRES. Taft, Fox's theater, Dec. 16
d Vt
New Britain herald., 1918-11-27

Store open tonight, closed tomor-
row. Besse-Leland Co.-adv.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-17
The English Woman at the Polls

In the peculiar and apathetic cleo
tion which has taken place in Great
Britain, and which is believed to have
returned the Lloyd George government
with large majority, the one outstand-
ing feature upon which all commenta-
tors agree is the whole-hearted partici-
patton Of women voters. More women
than men voted in many districts. Old
and young went to the polls-despite
steady rain that some male Observers evil
IDENTIFY took for granted would be a seri-
GUS obstacle! Husbands and wives often
voted together and often not. Evi-
IDENTIFY the women of England had SIM
did vote, as matter of course, in the
most convenient way.
Our own experience in America has
been much the same, as the voters of
New York know from experience. But
there is something peculiarly impress
sive about whole nation of enfran-
chised women going by the millions to
the polls for the first time, and doing SO
calmly, without hitch or disturbance to
anybody.
There can be no question that the war
speeded up the progress of England in
this respect as in many others. And
there seems equally no question that
had the war lasted year or two more
and the women of America had been
called into direct war service to the ex-
called, we should not now be faced with
such last remnants of opposition as still
obstruct the reform in this country In
England the change was accomplished
in substance before Parliament began to
debate the issue. Women were perform
ing every kind of war labor; they were
in every industry; their entrance into
the public life Of the nation needed the
franchise only as an act of ratification
New-York tribune., 1918-12-17
Hating Wealth

The news that comes from Russia,
that Lenine favors voluntarily giving
up the Bolshevik rule, while Trotzky and
his crew wish to fight on, suggests Curl
Gus reflections. Lenine, although his
regime has permitted the most atrocious
wholesale murders and thieveries, is Of
ten himself described as an idealist and
a dreamer. We have his own descrip-
ton of the Bolshevik movement as con-
sisting, for every genuine believer, of
fifty fools and forty-nine thieves. Pos
sibly, therefore, Lenine has come to the
conclusion that the dilution of patriots,
of understanding, is too great.
In it's essence the Bolshevik idea or
obsession is one of the most widespread
of the human emotions. The core of it
is an instructive antagonism or dislike
toward the relative few who have much
money. This antagonism is to be found
in very curious places. To take very
conspicuous instances, it is evident
alike in the thoughts of President Will
son and Mr.. Bryan, and it becomes al
to possess one of the greatest fortunes in
the world-Henry Ford. Heckled rather
disgracefully at war-work campaign
meeting, he retires to the lobby of the
theatre to give vent to a wild TRADE
about conspiracy of the "bankers." j"
But we need not be superior. Most Of
us have a little touch of the same
feeling.
The curious part is this: A Caruso or
a John Mccormack may make millions
from a golden voice, and no one cries
out at the "injustice" that they should
revel in riches while thousands of poor
luckless singers are near to starvation.
A Doug Fairbanks, Charlie Chaplin
or a Mary Pickford can make fabulous
New-York tribune., 1918-12-17
An Avalanche of Wheat

Almost ironical is the announcement
of record planting of wheat-A9,
100000 acres And there is a record
condition" for December loo per
cent for eight important states. The
forecast is for winter-sown wheat
yield of 765, 100000 bushels, 1O0,O00,000
bushels over the record crop of 1914.
Yet all this does not mean cheap
bread. The government has guaranteed
1926 a bushel for every grain of the
whole wheat crop. Yet let no man cavil
thereat.
The wheat guarantee was made in
almost the blackest hour of the war,
when Germany's power, now low in the
dust, seemed fair to fame through
half the world. Great planting was as
much of patriotic work as any other
in the war, and the price thus fixed
seemed then low, and, compared with
other prices, like cotton, unfair. That
the sudden end of the struggle should
change the view does not alter the spirit
or lessen the wisdom of the deed And
our great surplus of wheat may do, in
works of charity, what it was intended
to do in sustaining the nations arms.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-17

they seldom or never hear q word of
English spoken?"
Yet there are districts in New York
where one may walk blocks upon blocks
and never hear word Of English
spoken, where the signs on the stores
are all In Greek or Italian or German
or Yiddish, and where the newLboys on
the streets sell only Language
newspapers.
Secretary Lanes remedy for these
evils is government aid to the states,
when needed, for the establishment Of
schools. We use government funds to
teach men and boys to be farmers, says
Mr.. Lane, and to build highways, and we
regulate the packer, the canner and the
banker. Surely" he says, without
violation of our fundamental law we can
find way by which the nation can
know that all of its people are able to
talk and read our own language"
The war called sharply to the coun-
try's attention the peril of our old. care
less disregard of our great foreign-born
population. Secretary Lane sounds a
timely warning for the future.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-17
One Language, One Flag

Franklin K. Lane, Secretary of the
Interior, has a reputation as an able
writer of state papers. He never wrote
meatier sentence than this one in his
annual report, just submitted:
"All Americans must be taught to read
and write and think in one language;
this is primary condition to that growth
which all nations expect of US and which
we demand of ourselves"
Secretary Lanes message is not aimed
at the use of the German language
alone, although he comments on the fact
that in America thousands on thousands
of children go to schools where only Ger
man is taught and spoken. His plea is
for one language, and as such it has
special significance to New York.
What" asks Mr.. Lane, Should be
said of democracy which permits men
and women to work in masses where
New-York tribune., 1918-12-17

sums Ca part of them quite fabulous,
possibly, and no one thinks Of the Gin
justice" that long lines Of wretched su-
pers should stand before the movie stu
dio doors anxious for job at two or
three dollars a day. Maxim Gorky has
become multi-millionaire out of the
sale Of his stories, yet few propose to
take away his fortune because, it was
said, he had made it with his own "tal-
ents." And even when a lawyer died
the other day with $15,000,000, there
were few to suggest that his fortune
was "ill-gottcn." But the railroad man,
the manufacturer or the banker with
such riches is expected somehow to
propitiate popular opinion.
Apparently, the feeling is as old as
civilization and property. Yet the
genius for making money, and the still
rarer genius for keeping it. is probably
no less an individual talent than, for ex-
ample, Caruso's voice or Raphaels brush
of Charlie Chaplins feet. (Raphael was
perhaps the richest painter for his age
of any who ever lived.) But from the
beginning of history, apparently, every
age has had it's Boshevik movements.
Such, apparently, was the conspiracy Of
Catiline, or the cause" of the Gracchi,
the risings of Jack Cade and the like,
the French Revolution, our Coxey ar
poies and the rest.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-17
MOTHER NICOTINE

F. +. ": What's the matter with having
few personal experiences with "the real
thing? l am wondering whether anybody
ever found as I did box in the attic con-
tanning very fine-cut pipe tobacco. History
will never reveal the number Of years it
had lain there. With visions of how
WAS to enjoy a real smoke l carefully made
a robust cigar with part of an ancient
newspaper. When "all set" and with the
lighted match at its far tip l gave an early
example Of dependable "induced draft"
pull. The next instant the delicate lining
of my throat from to lizard was lined
with small bits Of tobacco which clung as
though kept in place by brand new sheet
of sticky fly paper. My misery was real.
Let's ring the curtain down.
am wondering, too, whether any other
kids discovered in a secret closet in their
fathers room box of Black Sea cigars.
One of my older brothers discovered it.
He stealthily removed one cigar. In
surprisingly short time the boys OF the
neighborhood were arranged in q circle III
the topmost room Of our house.
A sop Jar was conveniently placed in the
middle of the ring. The Black Sea cigar
was then passed around for every one to
smell. finger and admire A vote WAS taken
and the elected member of the fraternity
lighted the cigar. 1t was passed around
the circle like a pipe of peace. In an
amazingly short time the boys in the circle
began to remember promises each had made
to his mother to come home early tc per-
form some chore. The cigar was never
finished
If the eyes of any one in that circle now
nearly fifty years ago should happen to
fall on these words III bet cooky he will
recall the incident.
Years afterward we learned the cigars
had been presented to my father, and al
though he was an inveterate smoker, they
we're too much for him. He not only
cou dn't smoke them himself, but did not
have the courage to offer them to his
friends. IRISH.
oh, gentle readers, Will not you
Devote on 0risom or t1Uo
To one 1Uho thinks he has the flu?
F. F. V.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-17

One hundred and fifty women en-
ployed on the street railways of Cleve-
land were responsible for three-day
strike there recently. More than two
thousand male conductors and motormen
quit work because the traction president
refused to dismiss the women who had
been at work since September. A settle
ment of the strike resulted when the
president agreed to dismiss the women
before next March. Cleveland offers no
solution of what women wage earners
are to do when men returning from war
want their old jobs back. 1t is dilemma
that every community will have to face.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-17
AhikardersattheFront
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: In paying tribute to the achieve
ments of the armies of the British COM
monwealth almost every colony has re-
ceived its share of praise--Canada, Aus
tralia, New Zealand and the Indian Empire
have all been lauded for work we'll done:
but South Africa, l find, is usually for
gotten.
The splendid response of the South
African colonies and the valor of their
troops at Delville Wood in Flanders,
Mesopotamia and the fever-ridden swamps
of German East Africa forms one of the
most inspiring chapters in the history of
the world war, especially when one re-
members that it is not so long ago since
many Of the men forming the "Sprngbok"
contingents were in arms against the very
empire they have for four years been so
heroically defending. l refer to the thou
sands of Beers in the forces of the British
Empire.
The le-heartedness and the readiness
with which the Dutch soldiers in the South
African colonies have responded to the call
to defend humanity are tribute to the sue
cess Of British rule in Africa and to the
loyalty and high h-mindedness of the whole
Boer nation, which has sent its best sons
to stand in the forefront Of the battle for
democracy.
All honor to British and Dutch Afci
kander alike! A. E, ANSON.
New York, Dec. IS, 1918
New-York tribune., 1918-12-17
Keep German, Colonies
AirpIanes

faces, ''S''' VIC ''l'S''
Makes strangers chat like bosom friends,
like boys;
Lifts from the sidewalk to unbounded
spaces,
To peace from noise,
Feverish crowds Of trudging, jostling Great
Removes all traces
Of fuss and worry from tense, careworn
features.
What an example! Calm, although their
droning
Would drown the hum of Brobdingnagian
bees;
Butterfy-gay, but with poise dsowning
Butterfly ease;
Birds that outveer the swift, outsoar the
eagle;
Engines enthroning
Men that are kings because their pluck is
regal.
They prove the myth or prove the myth
provision;
They are the arrows Of the will to do,
The magic carpet webbed beyond derision,
The dream made true;
They are mans answer to the souls denier,
His grand decision
RICHARD BUTLER GLAENZER-
New-York tribune., 1918-12-17
An End 10 Turkey
Czecho-Sloraks and Jugo-SLars

Now to the Czecho- Sovaks
There has been nothing more brilliant than
the fighting of these people. Their march
through Siberia can find its parallel only
in Xenophon's "retreat of the ten thou
sand" comparatively small body of men,
they made their way across Siberia, over
coming all resistance and breaking up the
Bolshevik government wherever they
passed. They have fought on the Western
front; they have fought in Italy. France
and England recognized the Czecho-Sovaks
who occupied Bohemia, Moravia and what
is called Slovakia, region extending from.
Morava down TO Galca They were rec
cgnized by France and England as bel
ligerent natiorr and we wisely followed
suit. They have declared their indepen-
dence.
Then there are the Jugo- Saws, whose oc-
cupation stretches from the Black Sea to
the Adriatic. They must be made inde-
pendent. We are practically committed to
that. Do you realize that Austria Hun
gary had 100000 Germans, $4,000, 900
Hungarians and 100000 Slavs in it's en-
pire, and that those great Slavic popula-
tions have been forced to fight on the side
New-York tribune., 1918-12-17

Of all the petty, spiteful and in
geniously perverse performances of the
picketing suffragists the burning of the
Presidents speeches takes the prize.
Mr.. Wilson has labored hard for the
passage of the Federal amendment. To
insult him is to insult not only the Pres
ident Of the United States, but a
stanch convert to the cause. 1t would
were it not for the very Stiffness which
they display. AS it is, we do not con-
ceive that they do any serious harm to
a 'ause which must be judged by it's
saro and patriotic millions, not it's blum
dering, unbalanced dozens.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-17
A Garden Of the Brave

That was a beautiful and moving con-
ception of Sir John Fraser's spoken at
the Pilgrims luncheon, that the burial
lands of the war in France should be
made gardens of flowers. In his eloquent
words:
"I would like to see--and do see some
times in my vison---the flowers Of Amer
ca growing over where lie so many Of
your gallant sons.
II know there will be mighty stretches
Of feur- -de-lys marking the sleeping place
of 100000 brave Frenchmen. l would
like to see the blooms of Belgium nodding
over the graves where brave Belgians
sleep, and know that out there | would
like to see a mighty avenue Of maple
trees, all glorious with their crimson and
with their gold, telling the place where
the Canadians rest, and there will be
mighty masses of the wonderful Aus
tralian waffle showing where the Aus
tralians are sleeping; yes, and I know
that out there, too, will be great sheaves
of green, the shamrock cover!et for the
brave Irish; and there will be roses every
where, the white rose and red rose, the
roses of Old England, Of Lancaster and of
York, telling where 10000 brave English
men lie.
"Perhaps out in that Garden of the
Brave I would come across stretches of
heather, beautiful d-purple heather. I
know there were Scotchmen buried there.
There would be playing-l would hear the
sound of the pipes, for the pipes always
play where dead Scotch soldiers lie; that
is the vision that comes to me-"
There would be many American sym
bols to join the pageant-goldenrod Cal
ifornia poppies, the wild rose, among the
rest Certainly no more glorious and fit
ting memorial could be imagined than
such fields of mingled beauty.
Sir John Fraser spoke of his idea as
vision that could never be realized. Per-
haps he is right. Yet more difficult
projects have come to pass when their
appeal was strong. All such plans must
wait upon practical problems, of course.
No one knows as yet just how completely
the ruin Of the farm lands Of France has
been accomplished by shell and trench.
The plan of planting forests in the worst
afflicted areas has already received sup
port in France. Land is too precious in
France to devote large areas to non-pro-
ductive uses Yet, when the survey of
conditions is completed, is it not altogeth-
er possible that certain great battlefelds,
perhaps the major part of that great line
which held against every shock of Hun
attack, might be commemorated in fields
of flowers representative of the countries
that gave their best and youngest there
Certainly, the proposal is too appealing
to be easily yielded. France will be the
shrine of American pilgrimage for gen.
erations. The planting of flowers could
be easily undertaken by our government
or by our garden clubs or by the states.
We shall hope the idea may appeal to
France as both fitting and practicable.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-17
Four Pounds of Sheen
To the Editor of The Tribune

Sir: Some few days ago "a contributor
raised the question why American soldiers
in their parades in New York did not carry
fixed bayonets. I agree with him that much
of the "silvery sheen" and ''warlike glister"
of wars pomp and circumstance is missing.
but having toted bayonet on the end of
the shooting-iron Uncle Sam gives us. 7
know speak for thousands of soldiers when
| say that they are mighty glad the bayonet
is missing To the spectator the bayonet Is
an attractive thing, but when it is placed on
the end of gun the weight of the piece is
Increased about four pounds. On tired
backs that small weight is easily felt.
New York, Dec. II, 1918. DOUGHBOY.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-17

That propagandists' volume known 90
THE Golden Book" might have been called
who's Hun in America"
1t seems to have had a German silvsr
binding.
And to have contained some perfect psms
Which now appear to be mostly Rhine
stones.
Many OF those whose names appear on it's
pages have since turned over new ,eoS
New-York tribune., 1918-12-17
MIR. Burleson at 1t

The latest news Of Mr.. BurleSon'S
management of the telephone and tele-
Graph lines is the announcement of
Great reduction in out of town and long
distance telephone rates for "social and
family purposes" In lieu of the rather
arbitrary tariffs now in vogue, a dis
tance rate is fixed which runs at the
rate of cents for six miles for dis
tances up to twenty-four miles and
5 cents for each eight miles over that.
For the most part the greater reduction
will be in short distance rates and for
those who wish to do their long distance
'phoning between the hours of 8 80 at
night and 4 80 a. m. From $50 to mid
night the rate is to be one-half the day
rate, and from midnight to 43O it is
only one-fourth In the wee hours of
the morning one may now, for example.
phone to San Francisco for about S4,
where the rate was SIG. AS an offset to
these reductions, you are to pay for
your long distance phones now whether
the callee is found or not.
The public has no means of, and
for, determining the wisdom of these
reductions. and how far they are iust-
fed. With the head of the telephone
company sitting at the right hand of
the astute Postmaster General, coun-
selling if not sanctioning, and appar-
emily not protesting, it may be pre-
sumed that the telephone company will
not resist.
The point to which we wish to draw
attention is this: AS a war measure
the telephones and telegraphs were
seized by the government. Not for any
other reason Not for any other reason
would the power have been given by
Congress. Purely as a peace measure,
and a month after the virtual achieve
ment Of peace, the government an
nounces radical change in tariffs For
what reason? Not, surely, for any war
necessity. Not certainly, for any other
than an unwaI ~ented exercise of gov
ernmental powers and tending to fasten
government ownership on the nation,
Willy nilly
Observe what follows: Power is as
sumed by Mr.. Burleson under an act Of
\ war to fix rates in peace times For
D aught the public knows. those rates may
De confiscatory and entail a great loss.
The result might be that the companies
revenues would be SO reduced that they
would not wish to have their properties
back; they might be even ruined, and
so be glad to sell out to the govern
ment. Mr. Mackay, for example, spe-
citically charges that the seizure of the
cables formed part of a plot to force
government purchase
Government control of public utili
ties is one thing. Government purchase
OF properties worth hundreds of mill
ions, and the constant creation of
hundreds of thousands of new govern
ment Jobs, is quite another. The point
which a Republican Congress will
promptly protest is Mr.. Burlesons Of
fenslve usurpation of legislative powers
to put through his particular pet crank
cries, without sanction or action of Con-
gress or the approval of the country.
One clear and definite step toward max
ing such protest effective is to insure
prompt calling of an extra session
of Congress on March or very soon
thereafter.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-17

When William Gibbs McAdoo retired
as Secretary of the Treasury on Decem-
ber 16 his salary of $4,000 ceased. He
is to continue as Director General of
Railroads until January 1. Since no
salary attaches to the latter position, the
man who could not afford to stay at his
government post faces two weeks of pay
less days.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-17
Aqueous Amnities
fFrom The Hog Island Ns,0s

fFrom The Hog Island NesOs) -.
The party was a big success, ana "
only occurrence to mar the afterno0'
pleasure happened when Mrs. Dampnss'
of the records department. fell in'o
small creek.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-17
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usws OF spontaneous origin published herein.
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reserved.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-17

:an purchase merchandise advertised In THE
TRoJnE With bsolute sacb-fcr II dssatlsactlon re-
cuts any THE TRIBUNE guarantees to pay your
n. ney back upon request No red No aulbbins
w~ make good promptly II the advertiser does noS
New-York tribune., 1918-12-17
The Well-Fed Fighting Man

22d Regiment Engineers,
New York Guard,
December 5, 1913
Editor Newton Bee,
Newtown, Conn.
Dear Sir: 1t may be Of interest to your
readers to know that Mr.. Walsh, formerly
of Sherman, who has been member OF this
regiment for several months, has lately re-
ceived a corpulency. The warrant arrived
last drill night and Corporal Walsh was
greeted with an ovation by members of his
squad. Yours truly, SOL. A. PEASE,
Sergeant, 22d Engineers, N. Y. Guard.
-Newtown (Conn.) Bee.
Where is the man avho said the aUar
a0as going to last four gears more? Prob
ably commiserating vith the person apho
so recently and often insisted that the
German, people a0ere absolutely devoted
to their Kaiser.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-17

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New-York tribune., 1918-12-17
SHOES G. SHIPS G.
SEALING WAX
GOLD LYRIC


When Homer soaked his aOeN knoaUn lyre
In those iambic days Of old
No ha,dkerchiefs did he require
TO hide the presence of cold.
When old Timotheus piucked has lutte
And Ale1anders spirits rose,
I'U bet Tim did not haze to shoot
Unholy ungments up his nose.
These singers of that elder day
Into1ed Vith grace their poesy;
But If they ever felt this a0ay
They aOould haze quit-ond so do nUe.
"You are still unbeaten," Ebert is
quoted as informing the Prussian Guard
Boy, page the Marines!